Decoration of garden flower beds with their own hands - the occupation is quite fascinating. If at first it may seem too complicated and ornate, in time you will become so involved in the process that you can not stop. And the reward will be your site, decorated with original flower beds to envy all neighbors.
Flower beds with own hands
Before you start creating flowerbeds on the site, you need to familiarize yourself with the basics of landscape design. Then, apart from a purely aesthetic function, your flower beds will become a symbol of cosiness and harmony. In such a garden it will be very pleasant to spend time with family and friends.
The rules of the flower bed arrangement with their own hands
And the first rule concerns the integrity of the picture. That is, your garden should be a single picture, composed of different compositions. And if you do not have the opportunity to immediately landslide all the available territory, you do not need to plant plants seedlessly. Take a small area and bring it to the ideal. Only after that, take care of the design of the next piece.
Another unavoidable rule of decorating flowerbeds is the location of plants by growth. As a result, you get magnificent multi-tiered compositions.
Before you start creating a flowerbed, draw it on paper: make a plan, think through all the details. This will help you to organize ideas, choose the most suitable ones and successfully compose them, thus achieving the same harmony.
Flowerbed - workshop
Flowerbeds, depending on the landscape features of the site and on its size, can be decorated both in the form of flat compositions, and multi-tiered or slightly elevated. Also, flower beds can be decorated with stones or tiles both on the contour and inside the composition.
The forms of the flower beds can be very diverse. It can be a free flower garden, with wavy borders or beds of clear geometric shapes. Very original look triangular flower beds.
Flower Arrangement Patterns
Neutral simple flowerbed, which is one of the most common. The shape of this flower garden has a regular round shape. Its center is occupied by dark-colored cannon (1), greenish cannon (2) is planted around the circle, followed by a layer of decorative gnafalium (3) and the lion's eye is the most extreme flower (4).
One of the most beautiful flower bed design options is creating it in the shape of a flower. In the center of it there are white gillyflowers (1), they are surrounded by alpine forget-me-nots (2), located on the background of the usual lawn grass (3). The next layer - violas (4,) primroses (5) and zinnias (6). Framing the whole composition are variegated alternate (7) and Akhirantes (8).
Such a bizarre pattern is created on the basis of a circle decorated with undulating elements filled with perennials, which creates an excellent composition on a sunny glade.
In the center of such a composition are placed low hamerops (1), in the shadow of which dahliascent zinnias (2) are concealed, and for them the contrasting background is the koleus (3). A whimsical pattern of curls is created with the help of solitary dracaena plantings (4) in combination with groups of pelargonium (5) and begonias (6). All this looks very impressive against the background of lawn grass (7).
The corner flower bed is filled in the following way: the upper corner is 3 bushes of a daylily with a dark maroon flowering (1), and a silvery polynya (2) becomes a contrasting background for them. In the center of the composition there are bright red geychers (3), and lateral corners are formed by bushes of the Macedonian carpet (4). The silvery edge of the chist (5) completes the picture.
A few more ideas for creating flowerbeds by yourself you can see in the gallery.