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The dacha, of course, can delight with vegetables and fruits, but even more it should bring aesthetic pleasure. A beautiful, blooming estate now, when many breeding novelties, varieties and hybrids are available flowers, organized quickly, simply and easily.
The beautiful flower beds created in the country with their own hands, the photos of which are given below, clearly demonstrate the basics of landscape design. Each florist can bring his vision, character, zest to 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, which includes both annual plants and perennials, and when creating it, it is necessary to 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 the botanical compatibility. Lovers of acidic soils (rhododendrons, hydrangeas, bergenia, heuchera) should not be planted next to those that prefer alkaline soils (cloves, rudbeckia, phlox, echinacea).
- Lovers of shady places (hosts, heucheras, daisies, viols) will not tolerate the scorching sun, and the beauty of the flower bed will be instantly lost.
- Moisture-loving plants (daisies, viols), not compatible with drought-resistant flowers (carnations, gazanias), 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 they quickly fade, leaving behind not always decorative foliage.
Flower bed idea
Flower beds by their nature can be:
- continuous flowering;
- one season;
- regular;
- mono flower bed;
- mobile;
- decorative deciduous.
Continuous flowering
If a summer cottage is a part of life, a summer vacation is a pleasure, and the owners are frequent guests on it, then the flower bed should constantly delight with its beauties. It is difficult, but possible, to create such a floral masterpiece without experience and knowledge of plant agrotechnics.
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 bought in a specialized center.
You can create continuous flowering in layers, using, for example, stones. Laying them can be different, and taking a fragment seen somewhere as an idea, in any case, you will get an original flower bed. When creating a stone foundation, you can use any geometric shapes, depending on the terrain and design of the estate.
For one season
Such a flower bed is created when the dacha is rarely visited, but the holiday season is certainly spent on the beloved estate.
If the flower bed should delight in the spring, then you need to take care of it from the fall by planting bulbous, blooming in March, April, May. Bulbs of tulips, crocuses, daffodils, muscari, scilla, hyacinths can be purchased in flower shops from late August to October, and immediately planted in prepared soil. And when the snow melts, the flower bed will delight you 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 overwinter badly 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 turn out to be unforgettable. However, it must be sown back in July last year.
If you plan to have a rest, for example, in the fall, then crops should not be carried out 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.
Considering a photo of a flower bed, it is not difficult to implement ideas for a summer residence with your own hands. To create regular plantings, it is possible to use stones, plastic bottles, wicker fences, and everything that your imagination tells you. On such flower beds, garden figures are also appropriate, using which you can create a themed flower bed.
If there are few stones, and they are large, they can be placed in the center and from this angle to play around the design.
Framing can be not only from stones, but also from logs, and indoor plants, for example, coleus as in the photo, can be taken as plants.
Mono flower bed
The word "monotony" is completely unacceptable to this flower bed. Having planted flowers of the same type, for example, petunias, in a garden bed, it is easy and simple to create a bright spot with a very long flowering. The design in this case turns out to be restrained, but very effective.
Such a flower bed can be created from one type of flowers, but of a different variety. Playing on tones and midtones, contrast and a smooth transition of color, visual relief, volume, delicacy, and airiness are created.
When creating a flower garden in the country 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, it is necessary to take into account that this plant is decorative from early spring to late autumn.
Small flower beds located close and planted with the same flowers, but in different tones or colors, look beautiful. The use of stones in this version 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 for a flower garden seedling petunia, it is better if it is ampelous. Lying on the ground, the shoots will take root on their own and very soon the flowerbed will resemble a colored carpet.
Mobile
This type of flower bed is preferred by summer residents who always want to see beauty around them. To create such a masterpiece is simple, easy to care for, and after the loss of decorativeness, it is removed.
As a "pot" for flowers, we can use any vessels from beautiful decorative, portable vases, to ordinary, used household bowls, basins, troughs, wheelbarrows, rubber tires. Design can be intricate, narrative, or simple but pleasing to the eye.
Having planted a container with flowers, you can easily manage it without even knowing agricultural techniques. Since seeing that the flowers in the sun lose their turgor (foliage withers slightly), it immediately becomes clear that this container needs to be removed from direct sunlight, to a place with an openwork shadow, or, conversely, to substitute the sun.
A mobile flower bed can be created using simulation. As a border, a basket is selected as in the photo, and pot crops are placed in the middle. Such a flower bed is appropriate as a decoration for a holiday, and after the celebration, everything is removed.
Planting different flowers in containers, varying the timing of their flowering, you can always contemplate beautifully flowering plantings.
Ornamental foliage plants in the flowerbed
Flowering plants are certainly pleasing to the eye. However, creating flower beds in the country from decorative deciduous plants, a view of unprecedented beauty and effect is achieved.As a rule, most of these plants are perennials.
For such a flower bed, they successfully use:
- host;
- tenacity;
- sedum;
- conifers;
- 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 plants, but you need to consider not only the color, but also the texture of the foliage and flowers.
The creation of a flower bed is an art that is based on knowledge, inspiration and a sense of beauty, and the reward for everything is beauty.
