When the first color spots begin to appear after the winter black-and-white landscape, life is again filled with colors and dynamics. Beautifully arrange a piece of yard in front of the house you can with the help of a spring flower bed. This seasonal flower garden looks spectacular and attracts attention.
How to create a spring flower bed?
If you decide to create a flower bed from the first spring flowers on your site, you will have to work hard. There are several basic points that should be considered when choosing a place for a flower bed.
- First of all, we correctly choose the place of disembarkation. Never place a spring in an open area where the wind wanders and there are no additional protective plantations. The fact is that before the onset of heat, frosts can strike more than once, and strong spring winds with ease will ruin plants. The best option if you place the spring in a place framed by bushes. It can be trimmed evergreen or beautifully flowering plantations. After the spring tree blossom, it will be covered with flowering crowns of shrubs. As such a live fence suitable barberry , different varieties and types of lilac, winter-hardy roses or honeysuckle, you can use Japanese quince or spirea.
- Choose the most contrasting colors of different types of flowers, so that the flower bed is bright and dynamic.
- When choosing plant species for a spring tree, it is necessary to take into account not only the location, but also the conditions of care. Before planting, ask about the necessary soil, watering and feeding.
- Spring beds, as a rule, make small. For planting, plants with approximately the same flowering period are used.
- Remember that the period from April to May is quite raw and you will have to take care of the correct selection of tracks. Best if they are with a steep profile or made of decorative plates.
Ideas of spring beds
To create a composition using bulbous, tuberous and rhizome perennials. For bulbous perennials, you can plant two-year-old daisies, pansies or forget-me-nots.
The first to dissolve: snowdrops, scylls, crocuses and Kandyk.
A little later, they bloom with their flowering: Hionodoxes , hyacinths, muscari, narcissuses and tulips.
You can also land: daisies, forget-me-nots and two-year-old violas.
As for the color solution, then here are the options. It looks great monocolor, where only representatives of one species and even variety are present. Sorts are selected according to the shape and richness of the hue, so that the composition is harmonious, with smooth color transitions.
For fans of more diverse options for creating a flowerbed, there are several classic combinations. For example, a combination of pink tulips and hyacinths with white daffodils.
It looks beautiful combination of different species of about the same shade. You can plant yellow-orange tulips next to daffodils of similar color. The most colorful option is a combination of blue, red and yellow. Plant the spring red tulips, yellow daffodils and add the blue muscari. You can drop white daffodils instead of yellow daffodils.
It looks great combination of colorful pieces with monosadics and primulas. A gentle landscape garden with primroses is planted in the form of small groups of ornaments. The most suitable place for primulas under trees, where there is a lot of light and only occasionally falls shadow on disembarkation. Such conditions contribute to long flowering. Due to the variety of shapes and shades of flowers and foliage, colorful compositions of primulas are created that perfectly fit into any landscape design.
And by autumn you can prepare a beautiful autumnaly, which will please you with its flowering and take your thoughts away from the approaching cold.