Tips for decorating a flower garden and a flower bed in front of the house

How to create an unpretentious flower paradise: tips from the master

Getting a guarantee of an unpretentious flower garden is not a guarantee of a beautiful garden. An important point is the correct planting and design of flowering plants.

1. Blooming carpet

Fans of bright lawns and lawns that do not require thorough maintenance can be offered to create a lawn-type flower garden in the country. To do this, you just need to sow the allocated area with wildflowers. The most successful flowers for such a lawn can be poppies, clovers, daisies, cornflowers and other similar varieties.

Make a Moorish poppy lawn - it will require minimal attention, but it will look very, very presentable

Such a "carpet" does not need constant watering or cutting. A picnic or meeting with friends on such a home meadow will give you a feeling of closeness to nature and real relaxation.

2. Colorful arches and gazebos

If you have or are planning a gazebo in the country, think in advance how to make it bloom. To implement this idea, we advise you to grow unpretentious flowering vines:

Unpretentious climbing plants will also perfectly fit into the overall landscape in your garden or cottage.

• Clematis. This vine can be called the most unpretentious of all. That is why it has become the most grown around the porch and gazebos.
• The grapes are maiden. It is also very popular in our regions. Bright leaves and ornamental fruits of this plant cannot but please the eye.
• The campsis is treelike. Decorate arches, gazebos, fences and any awnings around the house. Its bright flowers give the garden an oriental mood.
• Climbing roses. This flower is sure to make your gazebo or archway truly royal. A cup of early morning tea in a pink scent is the best start to a new summer day.
• Twisting one-year-olds. A simpler option is decorative beans, peas, or morning glory. Having planted them once, you will definitely want to see them in your garden the next year.

3. Unpretentious flower bed

Forget-me-nots and daisies - just look at these beauties and immediately raise the mood

To create a fresh and unusual flower bed, experts advise combining flowers of one year of life with perennials. So, perennial flowers should be planted at the base of the flower garden, and annuals should be changed every year, refreshing the flower bed.

Viola and Turkish carnation are a vivid example of the infinity of the imagination of our mother nature.

Summing up, we note that for the constant bright flowering of unpretentious flowers for the garden, you need to pay maximum attention to them immediately, so that you can then rest and admire the result. It is advisable to fertilize the soil, fluff it up and prepare the flowers for planting, taking into account the characteristics of each variety

You will not have to wait long, and soon your hardy flowers will become a decoration of your summer cottage or garden. We wish you true blooming masterpieces!

Flowerbed in the "shadow" zone

In this case, you have a wider choice. Variegated hosts join the above-listed shade-loving plants. In addition to huge multi-colored leaves, blooming arrows, which the plant releases in summer, are waiting for you.

Variegated hosts need at least a rare sun in order not to lose their decorative effect.

For a flower bed, periwinkle is suitable, covering the ground with a scattering of blue, white, red and purple flowers. Perennial flowers can be planted in such a carpet;

In the photo there is a "carpet" from the "Vinca minor" variety. Photo: klumba.guru

Not afraid of the shade of the dicenter, which will decorate the flower bed with bright pink heart-shaped flowers.This plant can easily become the center of the composition, but be careful, the "baby" is capable of reaching 1 m in height;

It is better to plant the dicenter in the center of the flower bed and build the composition around the spreading bush. Photo: 1decor.org

If you have identified a place for a flower garden under trees that cast an openwork shadow, take a closer look at the ephemeroid plants. I liked crocuses, anemone, muscari and woodlands. The period of their active flowering occurs in the spring, when there is no dense foliage on the trees;

The lady's slipper or garden orchid is a demanding plant, but very beautiful.

A garden orchid is able to put up with the openwork sliding shadow of trees. But this plant is demanding on the quality of the soil and neighbors. The earth should be nutritious, loose and moist, and it can only coexist with hosts, astilba and tiarella;

Tiarella is a fairly sprawling plant, but it keeps its shape, so plant it closer to the edge of the flower bed.

• Tiarella is easily recognizable by its creamy flowers swaying on long legs. The older the plant, the more beautiful it is, so I do not recommend replanting and dividing the bush often. Give it the freedom to grow on its own;
• Tiarella's closest relative is Heuchera. The plant has triangular leaves of white, red and purple colors, pleases with white and pink flowers.

I advise you to use these two plants as a border for a future flower bed.

Heuchera can be planted next to tiarella, which is also not demanding on conditions.

Composition selection

For a flower bed of marigolds, different flowers are suitable. But in order for the planting to make sense, it is necessary to correctly choose the height and color range of the inflorescences. So, you can create a live image. If you think over the duration of flowering and the period of changing different colors, you can create several pictures in a flower bed in one season.

Marigolds go well with these colors:

• asters;
• phlox;
• zinnias;
• petunias;
• dahlias;
• calendula;
• lobelia.

To get a great picture, you should always plant tall plants in the background. For example, the background is pink lavater and kosmeya, the foreground is low plants of white and pink zinnias. Annual blue cornflowers can be planted around the edges.

What flowers are combined with marigolds is clear, now you need to plan a place for a flower bed. Depending on the location, you need to select certain varieties of flowers. For example, if the flower bed is located in the northern part of the yard, the inflorescences will stretch towards the sun. Therefore, in such flower beds, you need to plant plants that do not really like sunlight and warmth. For example, delphinium, irises and buzulnik or marigolds should be supplemented with zinnias.

The design of flower beds includes not only the selection of the composition, but also the distance between the beds. If the flowers are planted very close, when the inflorescences open, the pattern may become blurry, as the petals will overlap. An interesting idea is to create a flower bed that will change color and pattern in different weather or time of day. There are flowers that bloom only on a bright sunny day (tricolor bindweed) or only in the evening.

Rules for creating flower beds from petunias

Plants love light, with abundant watering, they tolerate heat well. Therefore, place the flower bed in the sunny parts of the site. It's good if they shade a little at noon. Please note that the culture does not grow well in the shade; flowers become pale under the crowns of trees.

Petunias will become a decoration of the garden if they are planted in well-visible places:

• at the entrances to buildings;
• near access roads;
• along the tracks;
• by and on the terraces;
• on extensive lawns;
• near benches, other places of rest;
• as a design for gazebos;
• between large landscape elements.

Petunia between landscape elements

The soil should be neutral (with a pH of 6-7), fertile, water and air permeable. Use sandy or loamy soil. Loosen clay and heavy soils with ash (0.7-1.5 kg per 1 sq.m), lime (300-500 g per 1 sq. m), peat (300 g per 1 sq. m), compost (300-400 g per 1 sq. m), perlite or vermiculite (400 g per 1 sq. m.) m).

Planting flowers

Please note that petunias, especially ampelous ones, grow strongly, have developed roots. Therefore, do not plant them close to each other. Please note that planting density leads to the appearance of fungus. Basic recommendations for planting petunias, depending on the variety:

• small-flowered bush - at a distance of 15–20 cm from each other;
• large-flowered - with an interval of 20-25;
• ampelous - at a distance of 25-30;
• especially high-growth varieties like Typhoon - plant them at intervals of 40–70 cm.

Small flower bed with petunia

Think about a combination of shades. Avoid many contrasts in a small flower bed. Dilute a bed that is too bright with white, gray and silver shades. Win-win color combinations:

• pink + blue;
• white + blue + cyan;
• white + green;
• yellow + blue;
• purple + white + pink + red.

Plant petunias alone or combine with other types of plants. Choose crops that retain their attractive appearance for a long time:

• calendula;
• woolly scum;
• lobelia;
• coleus;
• cineraria;
• balsam;
• viola;
• pelargonium or geranium;
• verbena;
• white alyssum;
• levkoy;
• Iberis;
• phlox subulate;
• splinter;
• gypsophila;
• bell;
• lobularia;
• clarke;
• marigold;
• ageratum.

Petunia with marigolds

• coleus;
• cineraria;
• chlorophytum;
• irezine.

In spring, petunia looks good with:

• daffodils;
• tulips;
• hazel grouses and crocuses;
• muscari;
• hyacinths.

Petunias in a flowerbed with tulips and other flowers

After the bulbs have faded, dig up and replace them with other plants. In addition, dried plants can be covered with decorative leaves, creeping crops - stonecrop, palm, corydalis, carnation herb or a highlander related.
Add a flower bed under a tree:

• host;
• garden yucca;
• begonia;
• daylily;
• decorative cereals.

How to care for petunia flower beds

Flowers can dry out early, wither, become small. To prevent this from happening, follow the recommendations for care:

1. Watering. When it's hot - watering daily. Moisten the soil in the morning or evening, in the absence of the scorching sun. Daytime watering is possible if the flower bed is shaded. Do not overmoisten the soil, otherwise the roots will rot.
2. Fertilizers. Application every 10-14 days. Use ready-made mineral compositions - "Kemira Lux", "Agricola", "Bona Forte", "Garden of Miracles", "Uniflor", "Superphosphate", "Ideal", organic - solution with mullein (1:15), with wood ash (1 tbsp. L. Per 1 l), infusion with bird droppings (10 g per 2 l). At the stage of active growth, apply nitrogen fertilizing, during budding, flowering - phosphorus, potassium mixtures.
3. Topping. Count 3-5 leaves from the bottom of the stem, pinch off the top shoot above them. So the plant will develop to the sides, subsequently it will give many buds.
4. Removal of faded flowers is necessary for long-term attractive flowering.
5. Loosening the soil after each watering, top dressing.
6. Weed control.

Petunia care

The color wheel will tell you how to correctly combine colors

A circle divided into 8 parts (7 basic colors + magenta) is the simplest system that will help you create a harmonious flower bed.

You can also use color wheels with 10, 12, 24 or more parts. All of them "work" in the same way and differ only in the degree of detail of the shades.

Monochrome flower garden

Currently, flower beds are popular in which various shades of the same color prevail. In this case, it is better to use pastel and not very bright colors: pale pink, lavender, blue, white, golden.

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Two-color flower bed

To create such a flower garden, you need to use either adjacent shades (yellow and orange, blue and purple), or opposite (red and cyan, orange and blue). In this case, plants of brighter shades (yellow, red, orange) should occupy a smaller area than blue-green specimens.

Tricolor mixborder

There are three ways to create such a flower bed:

1. Use colors that are evenly spaced in the circle (for example, red, yellow, and blue).
2. First choose the dominant color, and then two minor ones - they should be on the circle next to (on both sides) with a shade opposite to the dominant color. So, if purple is chosen predominant, then green is contrasting to it. And next to green are blue and yellow. Thus, purple, blue and yellow colors will be present in the flowerbed.
3. Select three colors that are within 90 degrees on the circle. For example, magenta, red and orange, or blue, cyan and green.

Multicolored mixborder

Lovers of colorful flower beds will also come in handy with the color wheel. There are two ways to organize a multicolor mixborder:

1. Choose contrasting colors (on the circle, the angle between them should be 30-60 degrees).
2. Use one dominant color (for example, blue), match it with the opposite (orange) and complement the adjacent shades (yellow and red).

How to make vertical flower beds for petunias

Such flower beds are formed from plastic pipes, nets, bottles, boxes, pallets, pots, bags, tires. Before proceeding, familiarize yourself with the features of vertical compositions:

Vertical flower bed for petunias

From the grid

For such a decor, they take a strong metal mesh. The finished version is suitable for landscape design with ponds, rockeries, parapets, steps from any kind of stone. A vertical flower bed of petunias with your own hands is created as follows:

Flowerbed made of mesh and stones

From a plastic pipe

There are 2 ways to create flower beds. One uses one PVC pipe, the other uses two:

Petunias in pipes

From flower pots or flowerpots

Not only special pots / flowerpots are suitable, but also pots, buckets with drainage holes. Stages of work:

1. Choose a container that is in harmony with the design of the garden, of different sizes.
2. Prepare a metal rod longer than the height of the future flower bed.
3. Take the largest container, make a hole in its bottom.
4. Insert a metal rod into the hole.
5. Stick the rod into the ground to secure it.
6. Make holes in the bottom of the remaining pots. String the containers onto the rod, assembling a structure like a child's pyramid.
7. Fill the pots with soil and plant long-stemmed petunias.

Petunia in a flowerpot

From wooden crates or pallets

Wooden boxes with a flower cascade look original. Before planting, treat the tree with a solution against rot, mold. The construction is created like this:

1. Make holes in the walls of the wooden box for the subsequent planting of petunias. Remember to drill holes in the bottom for drainage.
2. Fill the container with fertile soil.
3. Plant flowers on top and in the side holes.

Petunias in wooden boxes

From bags

The stronger the bags, the longer they will last, and the more easily they will survive showers. Make burlap pockets and secure them to a fence, patio, porch, wall of a house or barn. Plant flowers in the top hole. Additionally, make holes on the sides, plant petunias in them.

From car tires

Arrange the tires in a pyramid staggered pattern. The size and shape of the upper flower bed depends on individual preferences. Cover the tires with acrylic paint. For planting, both ampelous varieties and ordinary petunias are suitable. The main advantage of a flower bed made of tires is the convenience of caring for plants; there is no need to install a drip irrigation system.

Petunias in tire beds

Features of petunia

Few people know that petunia belongs to the category of nightshade plants, and potatoes also belong to them. For a long time, petunia grew as a wild plant and had no decorative effect, and only in the 19th century was it noticed by breeders who made hybrid ornamental varieties based on it.

There are more and more of them every year, gardeners love both old and new types of petunias. The most popular for growing in gardens are petunias of ampelous varieties. In the photo you can see how they look, their description is as follows:

• long shoots, lowered to the ground;
• on the shoots there are flowers with a diameter of about 5 cm;
• predominantly petunias have simple flowers in the form of a funnel, but there are also double varieties with corrugated or wavy edges of the petals;
• flowers in some varieties resemble stars.

The variety of colors of petunias is striking. So, their flowers are:

• white;
• red;
• purple;
• cream;
• coral.

Due to the presence of a huge number of varieties, many hobbyists often use them to decorate the garden. For example, they arrange beautiful flower beds based on them. In the photo you can see examples of creating such compositions.

Suitable types of petunias

Petunias are so adorable that from any species in the garden you can make a real masterpiece composition. To make it easier to choose a plant for your site, you need to familiarize yourself with their varieties.

By flower size, they are divided into groups of varietal series.

1. Floribunda and multiflora. These types of petunias include multi-colored varieties with a flower diameter of up to 7 centimeters. They tolerate weather conditions well, even after prolonged precipitation, they fully recover in 2-3 days.
2. Milliflora - miniature varieties of petunias with small cute flowers up to 4 centimeters in diameter. These crumbs also react steadily to precipitation, quickly recover and delight with their wonderful appearance.
3. Grandiflora are real giants among their relatives, the diameter of their inflorescences reaches from 10 to 15 centimeters. The rains do not tolerate well - there is a fall and decay of the flower cover, and they need at least a week to recover.

Using petunias in your garden, it should be remembered that grandiflora varieties are not suitable for open ground, it is better to plant them in pots and containers, on balconies and verandas on the sunny side, and for flower beds it is better to use small and medium plant varieties.

The difference between plants occurs in the type of growth and height. In this case, they are divided into cascading, cluster and ampelous. Including petunia in the design of the garden, you should take into account the peculiarities of its growth.

Cascading

The name speaks for itself. These varieties of petunias have long, thin shoots (up to 150 cm), which, falling from the flowerpots, give the impression of a flower cascade. They are often decorated with balconies, verandas, terraces. It is also possible to use this type of plant in landscaping by raising the pots higher above the ground. The following cascading varieties are suitable as a decoration for the site:

• "Tornado" - grows with long shoots with flowers up to 5 centimeters in diameter. The plant is unpretentious and resistant to weather conditions.
• Fortunia is an excellent hybrid with abundant flowering. Well suited for growing in tall garden beds.
• "Typhoon" - throws out giant stems up to one and a half meters long, only frost can stop its flowering.

Ampelny

These varieties are difficult to distinguish from cascading ones, but there is still a difference. The maximum length of shoots of ampel petunias reaches 120 centimeters, and of cascading ones - 150. The stems of ampel varieties grow immediately downward, they can envelop a flower pot. Cascading shoots move up, and then fall to the sides, have flowers of the same size. Inflorescences of ampel varieties differ in different diameters, even on the same bush.

The following varieties are well suited for terraces, verandas and elevated areas around the house.

• "Wonder Wave" - ​​has strong branchy shoots up to 1 meter long. The maximum flower size is 7 centimeters. The variety is not afraid of rain and wind. After difficult weather conditions it quickly regains its original appearance.
• "Ramblin" is a favorite variety of gardeners, the plant is heterogeneous, it can produce shoots up to 1 meter in length. Has ten varieties of color.

Bush

Bush varieties of petunias behave more compactly, they get along well with neighbors and form beautiful flower beds.

In landscape design, you can use the following bush varieties.

• "Fantasy" - belong to the milliflora group. Forms very beautiful bushes up to 20 centimeters high with a scattering of delicate uniform flowers.
• "Triumph" - incredibly beautiful double flowers of different colors, reaching a size of 16 centimeters in diameter. They react poorly to difficult climatic conditions. The garden can be placed in semi-enclosed spaces, under awnings, but with sufficient lighting.

Flowerbeds that do not require maintenance

For gardeners who do not have a lot of time and energy, lazy flower beds are the ideal solution. This option involves planting plants that almost do not need care, feeding and other special conditions. They can delight with their flowering from the very beginning of spring to the end of autumn.

Peonies, sedum, geranium, astilba, host and badan are perfect for a lazy flower bed. The addition of aster and phlox will brighten the flower bed with bright colors.

Stores often offer sprouts and a ready-made scheme for planting them. Such a flower bed will delight its owners with flowering from early spring to late autumn.

In addition to the plants listed above, clematis, daylily, daisy, daffodils, lupines and irises are ideal for organizing a lazy flower bed.

Photos of perennial beds are striking in their beauty and variety. They must certainly be present in the personal plot.

Principles for choosing plants for a flower garden

If you are a beginner lover of garden flowers with little experience, then for a flower garden in the country with your own hands, you should pay attention to perennial plants. In most cases, they are unpretentious in care and do not need an annual transplant.

Almost all perennials winter safely in the soil and tolerate frosts without problems. Another indisputable advantage of perennial flowers is significant cost and time savings. Over time, you will learn how to select suitable annual flowers for perennial beds.

The best options for perennials for a garden flower garden are daylilies of different colors, peonies, phloxes, delphiniums, bells, roses, almost all types of bulbous flowers, etc. It is best to make your first flower bed of 7-10 species of perennials blooming at different times.

Uninterrupted flowering in your flower bed will be ensured by the following flowers:

• in spring - crocuses, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, early peonies;
• in summer - irises, Turkish carnations, lilies and daylilies, late peonies, bells, roses, poppies, dahlias and many others;
• in the fall - gladioli, chrysanthemums, asters.

From summer to mid-September, marigolds, phloxes, amaranths, stonecrop, etc., bloom.

Flower garden bookmark - step by step instructions

• First of all, you need to draw up a project, make a breakdown, lay the landing. And of course, provide constant care.
• You can make a planting drawing yourself on a piece of paper, or you can use computer programs for landscape design.
• Here is a list of some computer programs for creating flower garden projects.
• After creating a flower garden, it is necessary to write a statement in which there will be information about the varieties, hybrids we plant the plants, the number, and the frequency of planting.
• Before planting plants, it is a good idea to familiarize yourself with the biology and agricultural technology of growing certain crops.
• Arrange flowers according to their size so that they do not obstruct the plants behind them. Consider flowering time.
• If you follow all these rules, then the flower garden will look beautiful and attractive from early spring to late autumn.
• Near the bulbous plants that will bloom early, tall perennials can be foreseen to cover the bald spots.
• After you have finished laying out all the elements in your flower bed, work the soil.
• Do not go beyond the boundaries set by you.
• Remove the roots of weeds, especially the rhizomes of creeping grass, stones, and other debris.
• In case of severe soil contamination, you need to bring in imported soil. Remove the top layer of soil 25 cm, fill the vacant space with a specially prepared soil mixture of humus and rotted foliage.
• You can start planting cold-resistant plants in early spring, do not be afraid of frost.
• Start planting heat-loving plants in the last days of May.
• In order for you not to trample the ground, use boards, stands.
• Planting should be done starting from the center of the flower bed and gradually approaching the edges.
• Do not forget that there should be constant care for the flower garden, only in this case it will look aesthetically pleasing.
• Provide timely weeding, loosening.
• Faded inflorescences, dry leaves must be removed.

Provide timely watering and the plants will reward you with lush flowering

• If the summer is especially dry, watering should be done in the morning and in the evening; you should not water during the time.
• Feed the plants with fertilizers three times: in early spring, during the budding period, during flowering.
• Apply ammonium nitrate, phosphate and potash fertilizers.

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Composition decoration

A beautiful design of a flower bed is impossible without observing the rules for organizing a flower garden. Recommendations for beginners are as follows:

It is easier to care for a small flower bed. It is better to make several small flower beds than a single large arrangement.

Visually voluminous flower beds are perceived worse. It is recommended to make a round, square or not very elongated rectangular version.

The flowerbed on the lawn does not need additional framing. Separation is best done with low spreading annuals.

Plants do not need to be planted overcrowded. They will stretch out, bloom weakly. In dense plantations, the likelihood of developing diseases is higher.

General rules for the formation of a flower garden or flower bed

There are a lot of rules and secrets of forming a harmonious flower garden in landscape design.

Here, the requirements of the plants themselves are taken into account - you need to try to pick flowers with the same requirements for illumination, soil composition and watering frequency, so as not to cause them discomfort in the process of growth and development.

It is important to take into account the size and shape of both the flowers themselves and the plant as a whole - so that they do not interfere with each other, for example, strongly shading or interfering with the root system of the "neighbor". It would be nice to know the timing of flowering - regardless of whether you are planning a flower bed of continuous flowering, where some flowers would replace others, or a variant with bright colors only in a certain period of time and lush greenery - the rest of the time period

It would be nice to know the timing of flowering - regardless of whether you are planning a flower bed of continuous flowering, where some flowers would replace others, or a variant with bright colors only in a certain period of time and lush greenery - the rest of the time period.

Here you need to remember that some plants can oppress others due to their size or active consumption of resources, or, conversely, protect them from some pests and help them develop actively.

Here the question of successful color combinations and avoiding both unnecessary, eye-straining variegation and boring, boring options is certainly raised.

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In addition to all this knowledge, it would be nice for a novice gardener to know that in landscape design there are whole schemes of the most successful plantings, each of which has its own organization rules. For example, according to their location on the site, the flower beds can be lateral, vertical or central; in shape - normal and raised; by colors - monochrome, contrasting and tint, etc. The density of planting, the height of the plants, the color of their leaves are also taken into account - just planting the first seeds and bulbs nearby will not be the best idea, believe me.

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