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Dacha, of course, can please with vegetables and fruits, but even more it should bring aesthetic pleasure. A beautiful, blooming estate now, when many breeding novelties, varieties and hybrids of flowers are available, is organized quickly, simply and easily.
Created beautiful flower beds in the country with their own hands, the photos of which are given below, clearly demonstrate the basics of landscape design. Each grower can bring his own vision, character, zest into them, taking as a basis something specific, especially impressive.
The basic laws of creating a flower bed
A flower bed is a whole part of the living world, including both annuals and perennials, and when creating it, you must strictly follow the laws of botany and adhere to the basic technological laws:
- When choosing a simple floral assortment, you need to consider not only the composition, but also botanical compatibility. It is impossible for lovers of acidic soils (rhododendrons, hydrangeas, bergenia, geykhera) to be planted next to those who prefer alkaline soils (cloves, rudbeckia, phlox, echinacea).
- Lovers of shady places (hostas, geyhers, daisies, violas) will not tolerate the scorching sun, and the beauty of the flower bed will be instantly lost.
- Moisture-loving plants (daisies, violas), are not compatible with drought-resistant flowers (carnations, gazania), and both will immediately show their character.
- When creating a flower bed, you need to take into account that annual plants bloom quickly and will delight for a long time, but they require annual sowing or planting seedlings. Perennials are less demanding, but fade quickly, leaving behind not always decorative foliage.
flowerbed idea
Flowerbeds by their nature can be:
- continuous flowering;
- one season;
- regular;
- mono flower bed;
- mobile;
- decorative leafy.
Continuous flowering
If a dacha is a part of life, a summer vacation is a pleasure, and the owners are frequent guests on it, then the flowerbed should constantly delight with its beauties. It is difficult, but possible, to create such a floral masterpiece without experience and knowledge of plant farming.
For such a flower bed, long flowering plants are needed, which begin their parade in June and end with snow (ageratum, allisum, salvia, petunia). It is not difficult to create such a simple flower garden in the country, it is enough to sow flowers in early spring or plant ready-made seedlings purchased at a specialized center.
You can also create continuous flowering in tiers, using, for example, stones. Their laying can be different, and taking a fragment seen somewhere as an idea, in any case, you get an original flower bed. When creating a stone foundation, you can use any geometric shapes, depending on the location and design of the estate.
For one season
Such a flower bed is created in the case when the cottage is rarely visited, but the vacation season is certainly spent on your favorite estate.
If the flower bed should please in the spring, then you need to take care of it since the fall by planting bulbs that bloom in March, April, May. Bulbs of tulips, crocuses, daffodils, muscari, scilla, hyacinths can be purchased at flower shops from late August to October, and immediately planted in prepared soil. And with the melting snow, the flower bed will please with its beauty.
Such a flower bed in the country with their own hands for beginners is not at all difficult. In the spring, if the bulbs do not winter well for some reason, you can diversify with viola, and the flower garden will sparkle with new colors.
Forget-me-not blooms from biennials in spring. Combining it with tulips, the flower bed will be unforgettable. However, it must be sown in July last year.
If you plan to rest, for example, in the fall, then the crops should not be done too early and give preference to those flowers that adorn the estate in September (asters, dahlias, marigolds, ageratum, perennial asters).
Regular flower beds
Such flower beds are created once, in a well-thought-out place. As a rule, perennials are used for this, which are easy to care for and do not require constant attention.
Looking at the photo of the flower bed, it’s easy to implement ideas for giving with your own hands. To create regular plantings, it is possible to use stones, plastic bottles, wicker fences, and everything that fantasy tells. In such flower beds, garden figurines are also appropriate, using which you can create a thematic flower bed.
If there are few stones, and they are large, they can be placed in the center and beat the design from this angle.
Framing can be not only from stones, but also from logs, and indoor plants are taken as plants, for example, coleus as in the photo.
Mono flowerbed
The word “monotonity” is completely unacceptable to this flower bed. By planting flowers of the same species in the garden, for example, petunias, a bright spot with a very long flowering is easily and simply created. The design in this case is discreet, but very effective.
Such a flower bed can be created from the same type of flowers, but of a different variety. Playing on tones and semitones, contrast and smooth color transition, visual relief, volume, delicacy, airiness are created.
When creating a flower garden in a country house from one plant, you need to understand very well the features of its agricultural technology, since it will no longer be possible to insure one plant with another. When planting perennials, you need to take into account that this plant is decorative from early spring to late autumn.
Beautifully look small flower beds located close, and planted with the same flowers, but in different tones or colors. The use of stones in this embodiment is also appropriate. When choosing flowers, it is better to give preference to very simple plants to care for, which do not need additional feeding, pruning, hilling. So, if petunia seedlings are chosen for the flower garden, then it is better if it is ampelous. Lying on the ground, the shoots will take root on their own and very soon the flower bed will resemble a colored carpet.
Mobile phone
This type of flower beds is preferred by summer residents who always want to see the beauty around them. It is easy to create such a masterpiece, easy to care for, and after the loss of decorativeness, it is removed.
As a “pot” for flowers, any dishes are applicable from beautiful decorative, portable vases, to ordinary, used household bowls, basins, troughs, wheelbarrows, rubber tires. The design can be created intricate, plot, or simple, but pleasing to the eye.
Having planted a container with flowers, you can easily manage it without even knowing agricultural technology. Since, seeing that the flowers lose turgor in the sun (the foliage fades slightly), it immediately becomes clear that this container must be taken away from direct sunlight, to a place with an openwork shadow, or, conversely, substitute the sun.
A mobile flower bed can be created using imitation. A basket is selected as a border as in the photo, and potted crops are placed in the middle. Such a flower bed is appropriate as a decoration for the holiday, and after the celebration, everything is removed.
Planting different flowers in a container, varying the timing of their flowering, you can always see beautifully blooming plantings.
Decorative leafy plants in the flower bed
Flowering plants are certainly pleasing to the eye. However, creating flower beds in the country from decorative leafy plants, a view of unprecedented beauty and effect is achieved. As a rule, most of these plants are perennials.
For such a flower bed successfully use:
- wanted
- tenacious;
- stonecrop;
- coniferous plants;
- ivy;
- fescue.
The variety of varieties of these plants allows you to create not just beautiful flower beds, but turn them into masterpieces of design art.
Deciduous plants go well with flowering ones, but you need to consider not only the colors, but also the texture of the foliage and flowers.
Creating a flower bed is an art that is based on knowledge, inspiration and a sense of beauty, and beauty is the reward for everything.
