It is difficult to imagine your yard without flowers, so flower beds are given an honorable place on any site, because it is the main decoration of landscape design. True, not everyone wants to renew their flowerbed every year and re-plant flowers, so many gardeners and summer residents use perennial plants. Since everyone wants to have beauty on their site, and not everyone can invite an experienced designer, finances. It is because of this that inexperienced gardeners and summer residents on the Internet are interested in how to make beautiful flower beds from perennials with their own hands in the country, photo. After all, a specialist costs decent money, even if you need to make only one flower bed. After reading this article, you will learn how to make flower beds and choose the right perennial flowers for it. So, let's start making our flowerbed.
1) We make the decor of the flower beds
Unnecessary improvised means, plumbing, old kettles or boots are suitable for creating decorations for flower beds. The main thing is to arrange them in the right place and paint them beautifully. For example, an old toilet, we paint in bright colors and pour soil into it, and then plant flowers. We put two or three toilets, and add tanks to them, which are also unnecessary. Thus, a rather interesting composition is obtained.
The most original are flower beds from car tires. Summer residents cut out swans, carriages from them and plant their flowers in them. Many carve a tire in the shape of a flower bud.
Others use a frame of trees. That is, they plant flowers in pots and hang them with a tree trunk, on which there are no branches. And they weigh it up as if they were wrapping it around this trunk.
Flower beds look very beautiful, which grow out of old furniture. For example, they take an old chair, cut a hole in it under a flower pot. Stain it and insert a flower pot.
Some gardeners do not freeze at all. They cover a certain area with bricks or stones, paint them and plant flowers. This is the easiest way to make a flower bed.
2) Now we need to choose perennial flowers, for example, undersized.
Try to pick flowers according to three criteria:
And the first of which is the flowering period of the plant. If you plant flowers that bloom all in the middle of summer, then for the remaining time, your flower bed will be empty and not beautiful.
The second criterion is plant growth. If you want to plant about 5-6 plants on a flower bed, then you need to take into account their growth. Since in the middle it will be necessary to plant the tallest plant, then which is lower, and plant low-growing perennials on the edges.
The third criterion is the color of the plant. Be sure to choose a color scheme, but if you like solid colors, you can choose flowers of the same color.
Start creating our flowerbed and picking flowers. An example will be on the simplest flowerbed lined with bricks, in the middle of which we will plant a mallow.
Mallow, or as it is also called the stem rose, is one of the highest garden plants, the stem of which reaches up to 250 cm.The stem rose is a two-year-old plant, since it forms a rosette of leaves in the first year and blooms in the second year. The buds resemble bells, which in diameter can reach up to 12 cm. The leaves of the mallow are fleecy, palmate-lobed and have a very different color. The buds are collected on a central stem in an elongated inflorescence. In the third and fourth year, flowering will be weaker, and the size of the plant will decrease.In our flowerbed it will be pink.
Now we are looking for plants of medium growth. You can even use shrubby flowers. And we will stop our choice on the flower tritsirtis, which will be purple.
Caring for this plant is quite straightforward, but many compare tricirtis with orchid. He has about 20 species of varieties and a very attractive appearance in each of these species. The stem reaches a height of up to 80 cm, and the bell-shaped buds reach 4 cm in diameter. In length, the bushes grow to a meter. He does not like windy places and high humidity. Plant tricyptis on fertile, chernozem soil and, in case of drought, keep the soil slightly moist.
And at the edge of the flower bed we plant a stunted plant of pansies, for this we take a variety of blue. Basically they are planted on seedlings, which are planted in February, and then on a flower bed. There are about 400 varieties of pansies. It grows no higher than 40 cm. They need to be watered about two times a week, and in drought every day. And for this plant to bloom all summer, remove the flowers that have bloomed. This type of plant loves the frequent cultivation of the earth. The result was a colorful flowerbed, on which for a couple of years it would definitely not be necessary to plant any flowers.
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