Design flower beds in the country

When all large-scale work is done on the site - the house was built, fence built, trees planted, paths were laid, and the area paved, there comes a time to think about design flower beds in the country, to give his own country ownership finished appearance. Habitable, comfortable hacienda is unthinkable without the beautiful flower beds, creating a mood and a feeling of joyful country life.

Variety of summer flower beds

Flowerbed - the common name of the flower or ornamental plantings, or enclosed with a clear form.

• Varieties beds: free (landscape), regular (severe forms, symmetrically formed) from annuals, perennials, including ornamental trees, shrubs, various coniferous species.
• Mixborders - flowerbed elongated along the tracks, walling, where the plants are selected from the height lower to higher, but in terms of flowering, so that look spectacular most of the autonomic period.

• Ground floor - a vast flower garden rigorous shapes (square, rectangle), which occupies a central place in the garden, where the plants are planted contrasting patterns.
• Rabatki - strip bordering the track, where relatively low flowering plants produce a distinct pattern.
• Making the front garden - involves planning flower beds from the gate to the entrance group home, with tapeworms (single presence plants that attract attention) to create the beautiful appearance of the cottage, view from access ways.

When choosing plants for flower beds, consider the timing of flowering, so that some flowers are replaced by others, and the bed was not empty. Keep in mind that each species of plant has its own "early birds" and "owls", ie varieties that bloom later than the difference in 2-3 weeks.

An important point with flower beds breakdown, which must take into account - it is possible to see. Some flower beds assume a circular view, ie they are equally spectacular from multiple view points. Planar type beds look better with elevations of interest to application in areas with slopes and terraces. Vertically and horizontally oriented beds stresses the need for a dominant, visually expand the space or add dacha corner of intimacy.

Where to begin

Having decided to create on your backyard decorative corner - a flower bed, you must perform several successive operations:

• Collect illustrative material (this will help magazines with schemes of flower beds, landscape design sites, gardening forums on the Internet).
• To determine the wishes and possibilities (like what plants that will survive in a particular climate, what are the material resources allocated for the purchase of planting material).

Reduce financial costs will autograph copies of the necessary number of growing from seed. This process takes more time, but it does not hit on the family purse, especially if the area is large beds, and the number of plants selected to a hundred or more.

• Split flowerbed, consider its guard (stone, wood, concrete, plastic, earthy groove separating the flower garden from the lawn).
• Prepare the land for planting (add the necessary components of the soil, add fertilizer required).
• Create a chart (own design), taking into account the size (height and width) of plants.
• Decide how to planting a flower bed - with room for growth and that it looked good on the first day. Calculate the density of plants landing.
• Dotting the square pots with plants in order to verify the correctness and harmony of their placement is not on paper, but visually.
• To board, watering. Zamulchirovat open land between plants, leaving a clean ground at 10-15 cm from the stems (Stalks).
• Support the survival of plants (to provide the necessary irrigation, shading, if there is a very hot weather).
• Enjoy the results and start to make new plans.

What plants to choose

To flower garden fascinated guests and pleased the family for a long time (such as peonies and clematis growing on one place for several decades), pick only the climate resilience, unpretentious plants. After dropping an extremely pleasant, but demanding to care and shelter, bad carrying Russian winter items you will carefully take care of them.

However, after 3-5 years, in the spring cleaning does not survive the winter dead bushes, you will realize that the forces to care for no more capricious. At this point, you will come to replace all "yuzhanok" zoned ornamental plants. So why not just pay attention to the colors that are doing well in your climate?

The initial selection of suitable beds for planting material, varieties and species that are resistant to the climatic conditions of the region, has many advantages:

• Easier maintenance (does not require the construction of severe winter shelters).
• To retain ownership of the nervous system (the lack of experience of poorly sheltered or open at the wrong time plants, damping off fear, waterlogging, damage, moles or mice, loving host the winter under shelters).
• Lower financial costs (absent the purchase of new plants for the replacement costs).
• Reduced labor costs (no annual digging "dead" specimens and planting in their place new ones).
• More neat appearance flowerbeds in winter (snow equal spaces with bushes covered with frost or snow caps look much more presentable than wooden boxes or design arc around section).

Every enthusiastic cottagers, you feel a landscape designer of a single site, you need a vacation. Without time to admiring their own achievements would not the pleasure of accomplishing the objectives and country life in general. Therefore Planted more hearty plants, they allow longer enjoy the surrounding beauty.

Fashion trends and innovative solutions

Modern landscape design offers a great variety of compositions flowerbeds suburban area. The basic direction - is "harmony in simplicity." To implement it in several ways.

Type of registration	Decision
Monochrome (using single colors)	Greens in different shades: silver, green, blue-green, dark green, lime green
Green-white: hydrangea tree, dogwood, Astilbe, white peonies, primrose with white flowers, chickweed, host with mottled leaves, vangutta spirea, mock orange
Green and pink peony, roses, clematis, Astilbe, Heuchera, chrysanthemum, saxifrage
Red: krasnolistnyh maples, ornamental barberry, Heuchera
Monoformnost (selection of plants planted single form)	Compound in one flowerbed plants with round crown: globose willow, thuja spherical, round spiraea, bush Hydrangea macrophylla, roses shtambe, rounded shape grasses (Festuca sizaya)
Contrast (choice of plants with flowers of saturated colors)	Blue and yellow (delphinium, irises, Viola suitable grade marigold, nasturtium, yellow Hemerocallis)
Blue and pink (rose and framing lavender, verbena, Mattioli bicornuate)

Another interesting technique is to create a vertical flower beds. Strengthening the walls of buildings and flower containers landing in their bright annuals allow boring to decorate corners of the garden, and the creation of columns placed with the entire height of petunias add originality and rich flavor, turning the flat area in a luxury surround the flower bed. Planted near the old tree Clematis (species can be used as a more resistant adverse conditions) shielding barrel floral wave, delighting the ongoing flowering summer resident on for 3 months.

The decoration of flower beds at their summer cottage

Rules allow landscaping to decorate flower beds varied scenery. Almost any of them, with some effort, it is possible to make their own hands. Particularly pertinent similar course when the central device beds where a decorative element is surveyed with all parties, as well as "hidden corners" to relax, hidden from direct sight and full of intimate charm.

As a base around which the composition is formed beds are often used:

• mosaic balls, drinking bowls for birds, a sundial;
• wooden driftwood, carts, logs, stumps, wheels;
• sculpture;
• mirrors;
• trellis, arch shaped structure;
• plants with dense foliage, clipped in a variety of shapes (topiary art).

Each of these elements soloist in flowerbed. Plants of different sizes create a common background, and some items (for example, climbing roses) often perform a duet with decorations.

In addition to the central element, a greater role in the decoration of flower beds are playing:

• fences;
• Lamps with solar batteries;
• mulching color chips, different shades of gravel.

In the latter case, the alternation of colored wavy bands capable to emphasize an interesting shape flowerbeds or advantageous to apply a bright plant.

The combination of beautiful and useful

In landscape design in recent years it has become fashionable to use in place of flower beds ornamental beds in regular style. Placing artistically broken garden near the house allows you to enjoy beautiful views, concentrated scents of herbs and save time (all you need is for salad nearby).

In the original (French royal garden) framing the beds is made of a sheared boxwood. In our climate, this plant requires a shelter for the winter, but even that does not guarantee survival. And his "deputy" - privet take a long time for a haircut to maintain a curb in a perfect form.

Therefore, in the flower beds by type "decorative garden" is better to restrict the creation of raised beds timber, thick boards treated with the trim or on the upper perimeter or wall slab from lay stone.

Laying the beds inside the earthen structure, there will be only in neat rows or geometric patterns to plant vegetable plants. Contrast image can be obtained by arranging the different varieties of lettuce (green, red, lemon yellow), purple and green basil, varieties of ornamental cabbage (you can eat), dividing the space into cells, using as radish lines or borders dill.