For многих country house associated with a place of rest from the city bustle and “communication” with nature. Lie down in the garden, listen to the birds singing and enjoy the delicate aromas of flowers ... A wonderful break from business life. Well, how to enjoy the scents without a flower bed?

Flower beds on the suburban areas are not only pleasing to the eye, but are also an element of landscape design. Therefore, you can create a flower bed of any configuration with different plants. The main thing is to choose the plants correctly depending on the height and color of the variety, the requirements for lighting, the intensity of their growth and the duration of flowering. But when choosing floristics, it is worth avoiding plants that require careful maintenance, because not every day you are in the country.

Content

• 1 Flower arrangement rules
• 2 Types of flower beds
• 3 Tips for creating flowerbeds
• 4 Flowerbed form

Rules for the arrangement of flower beds

Flowerbed, as an element of the dacha landscapeshould not violate the integrity of the overall picture. This should be taken into account when choosing a configuration, as well as a place that is not only suitable for planting selected plants, but also a beautiful one that fits into the general view of the site. In addition, the flower bed must be positioned so that it is not in the draft during the day and in direct sunlight.

For create beds the best option is the combined planting of perennial and annual plants. With the first you don’t have to break the flower bed every year again, and the one-year-olds will allow to make fresh notes into the general flower composition every year. It is better to plant the plants with different flowering periods, then the decorative look of the flowerbed will delight “from beginning to end”.

Plants в клумбе высаживаются по такому принципу. В центре располагаются наиболее высокие и интенсивно окрашенные растения, к периферии яркость цветов и growth самих растений уменьшаются. With choosing окраски цветов и листьев ландшафтные дизайнеры рекомендуют растениями с лепестками теплых тонов, таких как красный, оранжевый, желтый, акцентировать внимание на элементах клумбы. В то время как синий, зеленый, фиолетовый — холодные окрасы цветов — используются в качестве фона. Черные цветы делают акцент на яркости основной композиции, а белые — смягчают переходы. Гармоничные контрасты, например, оранжевый-синий или желтый-фиолетовый, позволят создать эффектную клумбу.

Another rule is careful preparation. soil before planting: cleaning weeds, fertilizing the soil with the addition of sand and chernozem, loosening, drainage of the plot.

Types of flower beds

Depending on the size of the site and its landscape features, options registration There may be several beds:

• Irregular цветник строгими формами не ограничен, расположение цветов не подчинено геометрическим правилам и поэтому выглядит он очень естественно. For его create предпочтительно использовать многолетние морозоустойчивые растения, высаженные небольшими группами.
• Layered raised flowerbed looks very beautiful. Since the flower bed is located at a height, it attracts the eye from any point of the plot, and it is difficult not to notice. In this embodiment, several small flower beds are located at different levels.
• Monoclumbaba created from plants of the same species, for example, asters, dahlias, peonies, roses. However, the plants within the species are sometimes very diverse, so you can create a small miracle. To create such beds, plants are planted in an unusual pot or shape (square, star, circle). This flower garden requires little labor and material costs.
• Vertical цветники выполняются в виде ширм, стены или объемной фигуры. Plants высаживаются в вазоны, предварительно закрепленные в каркасе. Этот очень эффектный цветник позволяет разбить клумбу, когда места для нее катастрофически мало. Однако процесс create такого цветника весьма трудоемкий и требует значительных денежных вложений.
• Arabesku called the pinnacle of floral design. It is a bed of complex shapes - like flowers, animals or insects. The process of shaping the flowerbed is laborious and laborious, but the result is worth the effort.
• Regular flower garden is in the form of symmetrically arranged geometric shapes, in which plants bloom simultaneously. This is usually a short period of time, so this kind of flower beds rarely decorate cottages.
• Carpet Flowerbeds with dwarf plants planted in a specific sequence due to the laborious and laborious process of flowerbed maintenance have also not gained popularity for decorating the dacha.

Tips for creating flower beds

Before you proceed directly to creating flower bed, you need to decide on its size, shape and plants that will grow there. It is much easier to do this by drawing a detailed plan reflecting all these characteristics. For a schematic representation of point and group plantings, it is desirable to use colored pencils or felt-tip pens. Besides the fact that this creative work will help to correctly distribute plants with different colors, it, as a result, will allow to visualize the flower composition and select the most successful combinations of colors.

Coloristics requires the most attention. To combine colors successfully, and the flower garden looked spectacular, you just need to follow a few rules:

• the maximum number of colors used is no more than 5. This will avoid imbalance and frivolity;
• soft colors are combined with bright ones, creating harmony of the whole composition;
• warm tones are mixed with warm, and cold - with cold;
• To create an emphasis on any part of the flower bed, it is highlighted in color, located only in this part.

With choosing flowers need to focus not only on the colors, but also on the color and shape of the leaves, the height of the stem. Do not forget that a beautiful flowerbed is not only well-groomed with harmoniously selected plants, but a flowering flowerbed. Therefore, the periods of flowering plants should replace each other.

Flower bed form

Creating a flower bed in the country firstYou should not choose a complex shape - a square, a circle or a rhombus will fit and look no less sophisticated. The marking of a square or a rhombus is performed with the help of an ordinary centimeter. And for a circle, it is necessary to drive a peg into the center of the future flower bed, attach a rope of length equal to the radius of the intended flower garden to it, and attach a sharp stick or knife to the end of the rope, which marks the circle. The rope at the same time has the maximum stretch and does not allow to deviate from the form.

After boundaries future flower beds are marked, work is being carried out according to this plan:

1. The top 10 cm of soil must be removed with a shovel.
2. tamp the surface, put crushed stone or crushed brick on it.
3. draw a contour, for example, dig bricks, facing down with plastic bottles, branches, twined with willow twigs. You can make a side of concrete or wooden plates. Flight of fancy is not limited to anything.
4. the extracted soil must be loosened and sifted to remove the weed roots.
5. fill the soil in such a way that the edges are 10 cm higher than the ground, increasing to the center by an additional 30 cm. After that, the flowerbed is left for 2 weeks, during which the earth will drain.

This time can be productively used to combat weedFor what the soil is treated with herbicides. In the case of weeds, the treatment is repeated. Upon completion of these works, you can plant plants. It can be both seeds and seedlings. Each of these methods has both advantages and disadvantages.

Fast growth flowers and the early flowering period are the advantages of a seedling method of growing plants, while sowing seeds somewhat delays this period. However, the likelihood that the plant will take root, the seed is higher than that of seedlings. Some species may not undergo a transplant at all and will die almost immediately. But the seeds may not germinate in dry soil.

A flower garden in the country is not only a way to occupy free space. Its function is to deliver aesthetic pleasure. It is like an island of positive in everyday life!