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A round flower bed of perennials of continuous flowering is a classic decoration of a garden space. It is difficult to imagine a personal plot without such a bright spot. The flower bed either already exists, or is planned in the very near future. However, in order to do it correctly, you need to know some tricks and follow simple rules.
The location of the round flower garden
As a rule, round flower beds are located in front of the house, near the main entrance. Such a flower garden next to the lawn looks most advantageous. It is against a green background that the colors of flowers play especially brightly, the whole view of the garden becomes elegant, festive.
However, you should choose a place for such a flower garden, adhering to the design of existing buildings and plantings. The flower bed should complement or even complete the general view of the entire panorama, but not destroy it.
It is important to:
- Landings did not interfere with the passage of people.
- The flower garden was clearly visible.
- The plants had enough light.
The dimensions of the flower bed are based on the size of the space in front of the house. If there is not enough space, it is ridiculous to “push” a huge flower bed there, which will occupy the entire area. If there is too much space, then the small flower bed will simply be lost. This does not mean at all that a hefty flower garden should be erected on a large perimeter. Such a decision would be too boring. It is much more interesting, for example, to place a round flower garden in the middle of square or triangular plantings. In any case, fantasy combined with taste is always welcome.
Features of the design of a round flower bed
Flower beds come in various forms, and each of them has its own characteristics. Round flower beds are no exception.
When applying, you should adhere to the following rules:
- The brightest plants – soloists – are planted in the center. There shouldn’t be many of them. Not a single plant in these plantings should be higher than the soloist. And already, based on this main plant, the rest of the flowers are selected.
- Some design solutions allow a flower garden without soloist plants. However, the middle of the flower bed should be highlighted and decorated in a special way.
- It is not at all necessary to plant everything that you managed to buy in a flower garden. A skillful play of two or three colors is an indicator of taste. If there is little hope for him, you can consider options on the Internet. For example, design ideas for a semicircular flower bed can give interesting ideas about the design. Schemes for planting round flower beds from annuals are also worth considering.
- Plants along the edges should be the same height, they usually cover the ground, it should not be visible along the edge of the flower bed.
- The drawing of the flower garden is desirable to be symmetrical, that is, the plants are evenly distributed throughout the flower garden.
- Whatever the size, nobody canceled the improvement of a round flower bed, that is, it is necessary that it be convenient to process it.
- The best form of a round flower garden is the shape of a hemisphere. All plantings are so perfectly visible, and the shape will wonderfully fit into the design of any site.
Schemes of round flower beds from perennials
In order to truly decorate the front seat in front of the house, you should familiarize yourself with many examples. Even if the fantasy of the garden owner is too rich, getting to know someone else’s experience will not be superfluous. Moreover, you can consider the design of round flower beds with a description.
The diagram shows how plants can be placed in a flower bed.
Round flowerbed with conifers and perennials. This flower garden consists of plants with beautiful, unusual foliage. It is good not only because it can withstand shading, but also because it always remains in the same state. Flowers do not fade, here the leaves of the hosta, iris, barberry and other plants “respond for beauty”. He does not play with colors, but his appearance is noble, serious. A flower garden will decorate any mansion with dignity.
This is a flower garden scheme where five types of flowers are used. Plants in the same scale and wonderfully combined. Such a flower bed is remarkable in that quite common flowers are selected here, which easily winter even in cool climatic zones.
Separately, it is worth talking about the aster. It is not a perennial (although you can pick up perennial varieties of asters), but this can be considered a plus. Asters are allowed to be planted every year in different shades, and the flower bed will be updated.
An interesting pattern of bulbous perennials. It turns out a round high flower bed. It is interesting in that this scheme can be “imposed” on a bed of flowers of late flowering.
Flower bed for lazy gardeners. Here you can once plant phloxes of one color in the center of a round flower bed, another color along the edges, and the rest of the time just admire the beautiful flowering.
The perennial flower garden is round. Scheme where boxwood (1) looks luxurious in a flowerpot. At number 3 – lavender, 2 – roses, 1 – stonecrop.
A wonderful combination of perennials and a flowerpot creates an unusually solemn composition.
The flowerbed is round, here is a scheme with the names of flowers. Irises bring a bright note. They do not bloom for too long, but their arrow leaves will decorate the flower bed until frost. And, of course, there are roses.
A bright flower garden of perennials, decorated only with flowerpots with annuals. It will be an elegant composition in front of any, even the most expensive house.
What to plant in a round flower bed
An important point is what to plant in a round flower bed. Planting plants depends on many reasons. This is the preference of the owner of the garden, and the style of the house and the entire site, and the ideas of the designers, and some other factors.
Let’s say a flower bed is laid out in front of a large stone house in the old style. Plants such as English roses, peonies of lilac tones, beautiful-leaved plants, conifers, clematis will be appropriate here. A flower bed using sculptures, fountains in the center of the flower garden would be very appropriate. Much attention should be paid to the frame. Bricks “teeth” will obviously disfigure the whole composition.
If the flower garden is broken in the depths of the garden, you can use plants such as aquilegia, lavender, pansies, dog rose. These flowers are not so solemn, but they are no less beautiful, but they require less sophisticated care.
A flower bed in front of a small house may consist of flowers such as phloxes, lilies, there may be bells in the center, and a woolly cleaner will be good along the edges.
For a perennial flower garden, the following plants can be offered:
- Alpine aster is a perennial that blooms up to 3 months, grows up to 10-30 cm in height, has various color shades.
- Carnation – grass, perfectly acts as a frame for a flower garden. Its purple flowers are small, but bloom so profusely that they look like a solid carpet.
- Begonia ever-flowering – just a fountain of colors. She has decorative not only the flowers themselves, but also the foliage – dark, saturated color, interesting, pointed shape. Begonia has many varieties. You can find both undersized and with an average stem, and the colors of the buds themselves are very diverse. A flower bed is allowed to be made up of only one begonia, and it will amaze with its beauty. True, she does not endure the cold, but she can be brought into the house during the cold months of the year.
- Phlox subulate – a flower that creates whole hats of lilac, white or lilac.
- Stonecrops – their versatility allows you to make any flower arrangements.
- It should be mentioned woolly cleaner. It winters superbly even in the most frosty regions. Its leaves are very decorative, almost white, with pubescence, they not only have an attractive appearance, but also emphasize the beauty of any other plant.
How to make a round flower bed in the country with your own hands
Making a round flower bed with your own hands, as in the photo, is not difficult, but you need to start planning it back in the winter.
First you need to decide on a place, choose a sunny space that will be clearly visible, immediately outline the desired dimensions.
Next is to “walk” on the Internet and see how you can arrange your flower garden.
You can consider a round flower bed of annuals, diagrams, photos, and then just pick up perennials that are similar in appearance. The landscape design of a semicircular flower bed is also suitable, you can also find interesting ideas there. You should not get hung up only on plants, garden sculpture, a beautiful flowerpot in the center of the composition, plaster figurines, decorative lanterns, fountains, etc. will become an interesting highlight.
Next, you need to think about which flowers to place in a round flower bed. It is important that the flower garden pleases all summer, which means that you need to pick up plants with different flowering periods.
The selection of flowers in a round flower bed should be made taking into account the fact that plants with the same soil requirements should grow in one place. Suppose the need for soil acidity should be approximately the same, the need for sunlight and moisture should also be the same.
Considering that smaller flowers should be placed along the edges, and their height should increase towards the middle, you should consider the location of each flower.
Having decided on the flowers, even in autumn and winter, you can buy seeds and plant plants for seedlings. Flowers such as aquilegia, alissum, iberis, gypsophila, saxifrage, phlox, young, aster, poppy, violet, primrose can bloom in the first year if they are planted in January-February.
Plants such as hosta, roses, peonies, geyhera, clematis require more time to bloom, but they can be ordered from flower companies.
After that, you need to think about what the border of the flower bed will be made of. You should either buy it ready-made, or consider how to make it yourself.
After the plants are selected, planted and ordered, in the spring you can begin to form a circular flower garden.
First you need to free the right place and dig it. Then they take two pegs, to one of which they tie a rope. A distance equal to the radius of the flower bed is measured on it, and a second peg is tied at this place. It turns out a “compass”, with the help of which they draw a circle.
This circle should be overlaid with a border.
After that, fertile soil is introduced into this circle (the thickness of the fertile layer is 40-50 cm), raked with a rake so that the middle is slightly higher and the edges are lower. However, the edges should rise above the lawn by 10-15 cm.
After the flower bed is ready, it can be planted with flowers from the center to the edges.
Site selection and soil preparation
It is reasonable that a round flower bed is placed in front of the main entrance to the house, which means that you no longer have to choose a site. However, there may be several flower beds, and they may not be located in the main place at all. Moreover, such a flower bed may not be on the sunny side at all.
They select the place that you want to decorate with a round flower garden. It can be in the center of the garden, and in a shady corner, and completely in an unexpected perimeter. For this, it is only important to choose the right plants.
The soil is chosen taking into account the flowers that they plan to plant. And it’s even smarter to choose flowers that would match the soil. For example, you should not plant plants that love rich soil in sandy areas. Or it would be absurd to plant a hydrangea in alkaline soil when it should be planted in acidic.
However, fertilizing before planting is the right decision. It is better to fertilize the soil with complex additives.
Filling the flower bed with flowers
When choosing flowers, it is important to follow some rules that will not allow you to make a “garbage of flowers” out of a flower bed.
It is believed that the height of plants in a flower bed should not exceed 80 cm. However, if conifers or flowering shrubs are located in the flower garden, as well as climbing plants with special supports (such as clematis), then the height may be greater.
Particular attention should be paid to the color scheme. Here, the types of round flower beds can be different:
- Monochrome, where there is one color, but the shape and height of the flowers are different (a white flower bed of various flowers).
- Contrasting – polar-different colors.
- The game of shades – smooth transitions from one color to another, for example, from soft pink to deep purple.
- Neutral – greenery and small color strokes predominate here (for example, thuja and white roses).
How to fence a round flower bed
Properly plant flowers in a round flower bed. Fencing is not the last thing. With a beautiful fence and chamomile will be the queen, but the wrong design of the flower garden can ruin the whole idea.
Here are suggestions for such fences that will not harm the main decoration of the garden:
- Natural stone – from it the framing of plantings will be very beautiful, long-term and organic. The stone can be chosen both more expensive (granite, marble), and cheaper (ordinary cobblestone).
- Wooden frames. These can be small fences (painted and unpainted), just dug-in chocks, tree trunks cut with pancakes, etc.
- Hedge – an option made of boxwood or other low-growing shrubs looks unimaginably solemn.
- A round-shaped flowerbed is surrounded by purchased fences along the edge (they are in a large assortment in every flower shop).
- Creative ideas (for example, a fence from plates of the same color or from unnecessary disks), a flight of fancy is welcome.
Summer residents often make frames from tires or plastic bottles. No one forbids doing this, but this can no longer be called the peak of style.
Original photo ideas for decorating round flower beds
The design of a round flower bed sometimes leads to indescribable delight and admiration. Below are some of these masterpieces.
I would like to note right away that here are most examples of the design of a round flower bed by annuals, but in these situations I want to emphasize not a set of colors, but a zest.
A small bridge invites you to walk along it and stop in the middle of a sea of flowers:
Such a carriage will be the pride of any owner of the cottage:
Not a single fashionista will refuse such a hat on her site. And to make a round flower bed of this shape is not at all difficult:
Flower clocks are no longer a rarity in garden design. However, this combination of colors especially attracts attention:
The flower bed would be rather nondescript if it were not for such an interesting structure:
The usual cut of a stump, and against its background a stylish flower bed:
Another interesting decor is a round flower bed. An example of how you can beat a flower garden with decorative wood chips:
An example of how you can decorate a space around a round flower bed with a stone:
And here is the design of a round flower bed of perennials. Lavender, euonymus, stone and infinity of taste:
A hedge for framing – a classic parterre gardens:
Conclusion
A round flower bed of perennials of continuous flowering is a real gem for any site. To design it, you only need to know how to choose the right soil and place for flowers, be able to correctly choose a frame and read about how to arrange flowers in a round flower bed. The rest will be prompted by fantasy and creativity.