Mixborder of perennials

A mixed flower garden consisting of either annual plants or perennials is a mixboarder. The main task of the mixborder in the garden is its long decorative. It can include bushes, and a vine and even some trees. Form it can have any, but the best looks mixboxer with soft outlines. Can consist of several flower beds with paths between them. A distinctive feature of the mixborder - in the background grow the tallest plants, gradually their height drops to the lowest in the foreground.

How to create a mixboarder?

This type of registration area is considered the most difficult to create and care for it. After all, he consists of many different plants. Each of these plants has its own requirements for growing. Planting mixborders begin with shrubs, which form a skeleton of the entire flower garden. Beautifully look chubushnik, shrubby shrubby, lilac, evergreen boxwood. Then the herbaceous perennials are planted in the mixborder: coropopsis, echinacea, lavatera. They will bloom from July to October. It is important to choose plants with beautiful leaves, especially if the flowers are not very durable, for example, wormwood with its silvery leaves, or dark-red leaves of Geicher.

The mixboxer scheme from perennials

Here is an approximate scheme of a continuous mixer blender mixer: on the edge of the flower garden in the foreground grow geranium, soft cuff, geranium majestic, korepsis whorled, cinquefoil. Then yarrow, ornamental onion, fennel, and verbena were planted. In the center there is a cone-shaped evergreen boxwood. In the background grow Korean mint, echinacea, hathma. And on the support in the background white and red clematis are twisted.

Especially beautiful mixer with roses. Groups of roses in it are isolated by other plants, which means that for the mixborder it is necessary to choose the type of roses that best fit in this flower garden. Wonderful floribunda and varieties of tea-hybrid roses will look great in the mixborder. This method of partnership will help to hide the shortcomings of roses at a time when they do not blossom. You can not plant companions very close to roses, as this can oppress roses, and they will cease to bloom. One of the main rules of planting: half the plants should blend well with each other and bloom at the same time. If the non-flowering plants are very much - all the beauty and beauty of the mixboarder is lost.

If you choose the right flowers for the mixboarder and withstand the correct scheme of planting, then a wonderful flower garden will delight you from spring until late autumn with its beauty and harmony.