A flower bed is an accessory at home, with its help it is possible to create a certain style in a home territory, or, for example, with a flower bed you can divert views from a long time unreported house repairs.

To create a flower bed, you can hire special designers, gardeners, and you can, by studying a couple of tips to make it yourself.

Content

• 1 What are the options for registration of flowerbeds?
• 2 What is needed for making flower beds?
• 3 Soil preparation
• 4 General rules for planting
• 5 What are some unusual bedding options?
• 6 Conclusion

What are the options for registration of flowerbeds?

There are many options for creating flower beds, and you should start with simple, but no less beautiful options for flower beds.

1. The most common option - the usual round flower bed, located in the center of the site. The color scheme is usually the following: plants, starting from the most central point, are planted from dark to light. This form of flower beds is still convenient there, that inside it you can practice creating different patterns, be it waves, geometric shapes or inscriptions.
2. If the plot is free angle you can easily decorate it by arranging a small flowerbed there. Again, choose flowers for such an “angular” flower bed from the amount of sunlight coming to a given place.
3. One of the options how to make a round flowerbed is to create flower-shaped composition. Flowerbed, decorated in the form of a multi-leaf flower, looks very presentable, therefore, it is good if it is located in the center of the site.
4. Now in stores for sale great amount ready-made plastic, ceramic, iron bowls, on a stand and without, in which you can easily make a flower bed and put even in the narrowest place.
5. Use old tires they can easily be turned into comfortable beds, if desired, even in multi-tiered, painting their suitable color.
6. If your site is deprived of sunlight, then do not despair. Small beds will look good under the trees состоящие их тенелюбивых растений, например ландыш или фиалка. Однако следует придерживаться некоторых правил при высадке растений under the trees например под хвойными деревьями цветочные растения расти не будут, под ними лучше высаживать, к примеру, вересковые растения. «Неуживчивой» к цветам considered birch. Under it you can plant lilies of the valley, carnations and medunitsu.
7. Cost-effective and not causing much hassle perennial flowers It is convenient to use them also, if, having invented a specific color scheme, you are not going to change anything in the near future. Shadow or partial shade is suitable for growing asters, peonies, irises and delphiniums.
8. If there is a pond on the plot, you can plant flowers next to it, loving moisture for example, primrose and catchment will easily take root in this area.
9. It is also not necessary to think narrowly and plant only flower plants on a bed, there is many options on filling and arranging various plants of tree and leaf species. It can also be interesting to add a bed of stones, figures etc.
10. Sometimes the right decision will be creation of mono flowerbeds, on which colors of only one color and size land. This option is suitable for a classic and elegant plot, where the diversity of it will be superfluous and inappropriate.

What is needed for making flower beds?

Making a flower bed is not as easy as it seems at first glance. Creating a flower bed is a job that requires certain skills. Becoming a professional gardener is not at all necessary, but it is better to follow certain tips. First you need to understand what you would like a flower bed, how it should look.

Then you have to come up and develop a scheme. You need to pick such flowers that really take root and will grow in your area, so you do not get upset. It is also necessary to remember when planting plants that are, as shade-loving, and those who love the light. It is necessary to choose the soil in which the flowers will grow better and, of course, you need to pick flowers, which would be combined in color and size.

First, better master the creation of simple flower beds, You should not bother with complex geometry. Simple rectangular, triangular, round or square flower beds look very neat and beautiful. Well, if the flowerbed will repeat the shape of the gazebo, or porch, then on the site will create a pleasant symmetry.

Soil preparation

Having come up with a flower bed scheme, you can proceed prepare the soil. You can start training in the spring.

Soil preparation происходит в следующем порядке:

• using a shovel, remove the turf from the soil;
• remove weeds from the ground by removing them along with the roots;
• if the soil is light, then add the necessary amount of clay to it, and if the soil is clay, then it should be diluted with sand;
• fertilize the soil with compost;
• chop or fork make a small depression in the ground and add fertilizer and minerals to it.

If no seed is needed grow seedlings then you can safely plant them in the ground. Seedlings do not necessarily grow independently, it can be purchased at markets and shops.

During planting, keep the scheme in front of your eyes, then you will not make mistakes and, in the future, you will not have to correct anything.

Seedlings need to be treated very carefully and carefully Be sure to look at specific flowers, at what distance from each other should they be planted, otherwise the “stronger” ones will destroy the “weak” ones and the flowerbed will look like an overflowing basin.

General rules for planting

• the most stunted, barely rising above the soil flowers can be planted up to 10 pieces nearby;
• a little higher - up to 8 pieces;
• srednerosly up to 5 pieces;
• the highest plant 2−3 pieces.

To flower bed looked "lush", higher plants are planted in the center, and lower already, respectively, further along the edges. Thus, a visual is created bulk effect. The effect of volume can also be achieved by making small mounds.

Well, of course, it is necessary to weed the flower beds, getting rid of weeds.

What are some unusual bedding options?

Showing imagination, on the site you can create all sorts of garden masterpieces.

For example, if there is an old stump on the plot, then you can make a neat flower bed in it. For landing fit any unpretentious plants small size, such as "pansies", "snapdragon" and others. The advantage of this flower bed is that due to its growth, it will not be able to reach it by small children or animals and the flowers will remain whole.

A beautiful addition to the site will be flower bedswhich also play a practical function. The height of the border can be adjusted by growing flowers, you can use low plants of the "lawn" type, or you can use high ones.

A good solution would be to land roses of several colors after they take root in a given place, they will not cause much trouble and it will only be necessary to trim them and feed them.

You can make a bed near the wall or under the window. To plant flowers on such beds should be small and neat rows overlaid on the edges of the tiles to match either stones. By choosing bright flowers you will “revive” the image of the house, and also give yourself a daily wonderful view from the window.

Tiered flower beds are well obtained from climbers. Each tier should be filled with plants of different colors, you can also play with color, creating rainbow transitions.

An alpine slide will be an interesting option for the site. It is small in height, has a natural and relaxed look. Make it simple, and it looks like it was created by the will of nature, without the efforts of man. In the care of the hill is not whimsical, you only need to occasionally plant new plants and fix the stones. You can not use flowering plants, the hill looks decent, even if it consists only of grass.

Interesting and unusual look old things and objects entwined with flowers. If the area is completely useless car, then you can safely decorate its body with curly flowers. Look beautiful:

• old pots;
• vases;
• spindle or wheel.

Conclusion

Creating a flower bed is a great solution to decorate, "revive" and to equip the territory. To make it you do not need to be a professional gardener and know all the names of flowers in Latin, moreover, this process is not expensive, as you will need basic items such as a shovel or chopper. Therefore, using only some rules, you can create a bed of your favorite flowers, which for a long time will please the eye and lift your spirits.