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28 Flower Bed Ideas Perfect for Big or Small Yards
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Flower beds can completely transform an outdoor space when used correctly. Putting careful thought into how your flower beds will be organized and arranged in addition to what you want to plant in them can make a huge impact on your landscape and curb appeal. Whether you have an expansive yard or a few square feet of space, these flower bed ideas can help you make the most of your garden to wow visitors.
1. Limestone Retaining Wallistockphoto.com
It’s easy to define your flower beds and add some dimension with limestone. Simply lay the limestone out along the edge of the garden, stacking two or three stones on top of one another. You can further define the bed by planting shorter flowers along the inside edge of the stone.
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2. Rose-Covered Trellisesistockphoto.com
If you’ve ever dreamed of growing your very own rose garden, turn that dream into a gorgeous reality by adding some trellises. Plant climbing roses at the base of each trellis and wait for the spectacular and vibrant display that will follow. Sprinkle a few rose bushes in between the trellises or elsewhere in the garden to increase the rosy charm factor.
3. Sensational Succulentsistockphoto.com
Low-growing succulents can add a nice contrast when placed next to taller plants. Not only are succulents attractive and popular, but they’re also easy to care for. With evolutionary adaptations like thick stalks and fleshy leaves, succulents can survive with very little water.
4. Natural Landscapingistockphoto.com
You can easily create a natural-looking flower bed by adding a few large stones and smaller rocks into your garden. No flashy decor is needed; the light colors of the rocks will contrast nicely against the vibrant colors of your garden’s plants.
5. Watermelon Gardenistockphoto.com
Grow your own juicy summer fruits by planting watermelon seeds in your garden. Add in some flowers alongside the melon seeds to bring some extra color to the bed. Then, sit back and wait to enjoy the fruits of your labor.
6. Birdhouse and Bathistockphoto.com
Adding a birdhouse and bird bath to your flower bed is sure to bring colorful songbirds to your garden, but these fixtures can also give your outdoor space a special feel. This can be especially true if you seek out unusual birdhouses or baths that you can’t find just anywhere.
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7. Tree Stump Flower Bedistockphoto.com
If you’re looking to make a DIY raised garden bed that’s one-of-a-kind, why not convert an old tree stump into a flower bed? Carve out the stump a bit (if necessary), add some soil, and plant a few flower seeds to make the most of a stump that would otherwise be expensive or time consuming to remove.
8. Patio Garden Bedsistockphoto. com
Using raised garden bed plans, you can add small splashes of greenery alongside your home’s patio, deck, or porch. A raised garden bed next to an outdoor entertaining or dining space can enhance the area and make it all the more relaxing when you have gorgeous flowers and plants to admire.
9. Rocks and Plantsistockphoto.com
If you’re searching for flower garden ideas to add flair around the base of a tree, consider this attractive method. Planting different flower varieties relatively close to each other and incorporating a few large stones will maximize the available space and serve as a nice backdrop for your tree.
10. Walkway Flowersistockphoto.com
Create a front yard flower bed along the walkway to your home for a classic and timeless option. Lining a sidewalk or stone path with small flowers and plants helps guide visitors to your front door. To illuminate the path after dark, consider also adding a few solar lights.
11. Cheerful Picketsistockphoto.com
Add some springtime cheer by planting flowers along the perimeter of a white picket fence. The bright pinks, yellows, and purples will stand out nicely against the backdrop of the fence. As a plus, lining your fence with flowers further defines your yard and makes a welcoming impression.
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12. Flowery Lawnistockphoto.com
Place your flower bed alongside your lawn where it can benefit from getting watered by your sprinkler system. This will keep your garden healthy while also mixing some extra beauty and color into your turf. Time your sprinklers to water in the early morning to give your grass and flowers the water’s maximum benefit.
13. Purples and Greensistockphoto.com
A green-and-purple garden can attract butterflies and other beneficial insects to your flowers. Butterflies love pretty purple prairie flowers, making them more likely to frequent your garden when it’s in bloom. Add some brown mulch to help define the plants and enhance the overall appearance of the garden next to a stone walkway or sidewalk.
14. Repurposed Tinistockphoto.com
If you’re looking for an unconventional and inexpensive raised garden bed idea, you may have the supplies to make your own sitting around in the basement, garage, or attic. Old tin tubs, buckets, and milk pails can easily be converted to large flower pots or raised flower beds. Before filling the containers with soil, drill a few drainage holes into the bottom of each one to prevent diseases like root rot.
15. Weathered Bedsistockphoto.com
Another DIY raised bed garden can be built using weathered or rusted sheet metal. When planning your raised garden bed, measure the available space and make a plan. Then, you can create a custom piece for your backyard. Once your beds are laid out and assembled, add soil and seeds or your choice of live plants.
16. Nature’s Finestistockphoto. com
Incorporating different plants and natural elements into a flower bed can really make an impression. In the pictured example, the large fern, Japanese maple, dwarf bamboo plant, golden koi statue, and slate mulch all work together to create a peaceful and inviting atmosphere. You could even add in a bird bath to encourage birds to visit your garden and further add to the natural elegance.
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17. Retaining Wall Flower Bedistockphoto.com
If you have a sloped backyard, you may already have a retaining wall in place to prevent erosion. Put this necessary structure to good use by converting the grassy area above the wall into a flower bed. Planting some flowering plants can turn a retaining wall into a your outdoor space’s focal point.
18. Bathtub Planteristockphoto.com
Bathtubs of all kinds can make for striking raised flower beds. If you’re in the process of a bathroom remodel, consider saving your old tub for this purpose. If you aren’t remodeling, you may even be able to find a vintage bathtub from a local antique shop. When converting a bathtub to a flower bed, drill holes in the base to allow for proper drainage. Once your tub is ready, add soil and plant your favorite flower seeds or bulbs.
19. Wooden Raised Garden Bedamazon.com
Classic wooden raised garden beds next to your patio or deck allow you to watch your flowers bloom and keep homegrown veggies nearby. This elevated planter, the best patio option in our guide to the best raised garden beds, is constructed from rot-resistant red cedar wood. The taller design makes it ideal for those with back, joint, or muscle pain, all while adding a lovely touch to any outdoor space.
20. Rock Gardenistockphoto.com
A flower bed doesn’t have to be filled with greenery, flowers, and mulch to be attractive. There are plenty of ways to introduce a gorgeous rock garden to your space while still improving the overall aesthetics. In addition to possessing a simple beauty, rock gardens tend to be easy to maintain with fewer plants and flowers to tend to.
21. Tantalizing Tulipsistockphoto.com
Strolling through your yard or garden can bring a lot of joy if you plant colorful tulips and other flowers along the edges of a walkway. The bright and happy colors of tulips on a warm and sunny spring day are enough to bring a smile to anyone’s face.
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22. Butterfly Gardenistockphoto.com
Entice beautiful butterflies to visit your flower garden by planting some of their favorite flowers. Some of the top plants that attract butterflies include goldenrod, coneflowers, ironweed, lantana, and asters. If you’re serious about convincing butterflies to stick around, grow host plants where the insects can lay their eggs. Milkweed, violets, asters, and dill are host plant examples, but check with a local garden center to find the preferred flower varieties of your area’s butterfly species.
23. Rubber Landscape Edginghomedepot.com
Create a custom border around your flower bed without digging using EcoBorder rubber landscaping edging available at The Home Depot. This brown border, made of recycled tires, is easy to install in straight or curved lines to match the shape of any garden bed. Conveniently, the necessary hardware needed to install these 4-foot pieces of rubber edging is included with purchase.
24. Half-Log Edginghomedepot.com
The staggered 5- and 7-inch heights of this wood log edging available at The Home Depot helps create an intriguing flower bed border. Edging also helps to keep soil and mulch in the flower bed, reducing runoff and waste. The half-logs, finished with an attractive cedar stain, are attached to a flexible plastic backing, allowing for installation around curved and straight garden beds alike.
25. Lush Greeneryistockphoto.com
Fill your garden beds with verdant green plants and bushes to enjoy stunning spring and summer views. Adding in a few flowering plants can help craft focal points and increase the space’s overall beauty. You may also want to consider adding darker mulch or rocks to the beds to really make the vibrant greens pop.
26. Curved Stone Wallistockphoto.com
Clearly define your garden beds by building a curved stone wall to separate them from the rest of your yard. Bends in the border make the view more interesting and attractive, drawing attention to the flowers growing in the garden. As an example, look at how the white and pink petunias along this curved wall enhance the yard’s appearance overall.
27. Garden Walkwayistockphoto.com
An excellent raised garden bed idea is to incorporate them into your backyard landscaping and hardscaping design. Adding raised beds along the sides of the steps between higher and lower elevations on your property can add a nice touch and draw attention to the space’s flow. Planting taller flowers along the beds can also help accentuate natural slopes.
28. Wheelbarrow Garden Bedistockphoto.com
When you’re thinking about adding elevated garden beds to your outdoor space, there are a number of creative ways to make your own. One timeless idea is to convert an old wheelbarrow into a raised bed. Drill a hole in the base of the wheelbarrow, add soil, and plant some flowers for a decorative accent bed.
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25 Best Flower Bed Ideas
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Create Gentle Curves
Elenathewise//Getty ImagesThis flower bed uses gentle curves to create a shape that naturally draws the eye to the entryway and makes the space feel more welcoming. To achieve this look, lay out a garden hose to outline the pattern first before digging the bed.
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Use Edging to Define a Space
JenniferPhotographyImaging//Getty ImagesGarden beds should have some definition to stand out. This one uses hardscape pavers to create a curving form for a perennial bed. You also could use bricks or stones or pound-in edging.
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Incorporate Natural Stone Accents
Elenathewise//Getty ImagesThis bed is accented with stacks of natural stone, which provide texture and structure. You don't necessarily have to build a wall; one or two well-placed rocks our small boulders add interest to any bed when artistically placed.
Read more: Why You Should Be Using More Stones In Your Garden
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Mix Annuals, Perennials and Shrubs in Flower Beds
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Add Containers to Flower Beds
Darrell Gulin//Getty ImagesPlacing containers in planting beds not only offers a splash of color, it provides height. The containers shown here overflow with annuals that can be changed out seasonally, such as pansies for spring or mums for fall.
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Create Whimsical Accents
Darrell Gulin//Getty ImagesA brightly-colored section of fence contrasts beautifully with these annuals, including geraniums and zinnias, and perennials, including heuchera and lilies.
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Add Raised Beds
Johner Images//Getty ImagesRaised beds allow you to plant in what may be otherwise unsuitable conditions, such as sandy, rocky or clay soil. They can be a few inches to a few feet tall, which make gardening easier on the back, too.
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Plant Edibles and Ornamentals Together
BasieB//Getty ImagesYou don't have to have a dedicated vegetable garden; combine edibles and ornamentals in the same bed for a pretty and practical garden. Here, tomatoes tumble alongside annuals such as flossflower. Flowers also attract and support pollinators, which is essential for some crops such as squash to form fruit. You even can incorporate edible flowers in your garden design!
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Add Pollinator Plants
Philippe Gerber//Getty ImagesTall flowering plants, like those found in meadows, are beautiful and support pollinator insects. While it's not practical to transform your entire yard into a meadow, you can convert a small portion, such as a narrow strip along the driveway or a small border area along your property line.
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Make a Statement
Darrell Gulin//Getty ImagesYour flower garden is already colorful, but adding an accent piece in an eye-catching hue, such as this sunny-yellow Adirondack chair, puts your personal stamp on it.
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Create Height
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Construct a Gravel Path...
Jon Lovette//Getty ImagesPaths don't have to be expensive; even a simple gravel path adds personality to any flower garden setting. It's also a way to encourage visitors to wander through the flowers to enjoy the experience.
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... Or Make a Natural Stone Path
Nuture//Getty ImagesDon't want to bother with gravel? This path is even simpler to construct: Natural stones are sunk into mulch or lawn to create an attractive and wending path that makes you want to explore the garden.
Read more: 18 Stone Walkways That Will Beautify Your Yard
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Shrink Your Lawn
BasieB//Getty ImagesInstead of a large lawn with a small edge of flowers, consider expanding your beds and leaving just a small portion of lawn to serve as a grass pathway. It looks beautiful, helps pollinators, and with the right blend of plants will actually reduce work: Perennial beds also don't need to be mowed like grass does!
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Mount Window Boxes
Victoria Pearson//Getty ImagesWindow boxes are another way to enhance your flower garden. They're also a great alternative if you don't have the space to plant in-ground. Match them to your home's style, as shown here with this picket fence-styled window box on a cottage window.
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Plant in Patterns
Douglas Keister//Getty ImagesThe repetition of plants provides continuous color and flow, which is far more appealing to the eye than one or two plants placed here and there in garden beds.
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Use Unexpected Containers
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Grow a Cut-Flower Garden
Ignacio Ferrandiz Roig//Getty ImagesPart of the joy of gardening is adding flowers you can snip and bring indoors. Even a single stem makes a difference! You don't have to create a separate space; just plant many different types of flowers, especially those with nice long stems for cutting, such as peonies, coneflowers, zinnias, and cosmos.
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Add Hanging Baskets
Thinkstock//Getty ImagesHanging baskets are another way to provide vertical interest in your garden. They can be mounted to walls, off of decks, or on posts in the garden. Or use a shepherd's hook so you can hang them anywhere you like.
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Provide Water and Shelter
KenWiedemann//Getty ImagesThese garden accents are not only adorable, but they also support local wildlife, including pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and birds. The idea isn't to clutter up the garden, but to use these as practical objects of beauty.
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Original flowerbeds and flower beds with your own hands - 27 photos of country design ideas - My Ideas for Dacha and Garden
Every flower bed, made with love and attention, absorbs the energy of the hostess, embodies her care and is consonant with the owner in all respects.
This can be seen from the outside, let's look at interesting examples of dacha design and take note of something!
1. Flowerbed of long-flowering plants
Such a flower bed has several main color lines, in the foreground undersized, in the middle medium-sized flowers. In the background are shrubs and tall plants. Gamma flower beds can be three-color.
Refers to a garden bed or plant arrangement that has a long flowering period. The presence of plants that bloom for a long time in one place gives the garden visual interest and color. Some popular long flowering plants include roses, peonies, daylilies and Shasta daisies. These plants usually bloom from a few weeks to a couple of months and offer a succession of flowers throughout the growing season.
2. A flower bed in the trunk circle
The original idea of a flower bed in the trunk circle, decorated with a stone border. It can be both mobile, for one season, and stationary, with the expectation of a long-term stay under a tree.
3. The idea of a flower bed near the house
The idea orients us on how to arrange the north side of the house, or the one that receives insufficient sunlight. In such places, it would be most rational to land hosts.
4. A flowerbed in a stump of a sawn tree
If a large tree used to grow on your site, and now a stump stands forlornly in its place, then do not rush to uproot it. I propose to use it as an original raised flower bed. You can also plant low flowers in the root zone.
5. Flowerbed - drawing
A flowerbed - a drawing, for example, in the form of a flower, can decorate a summer cottage. Agree, this composition looks quite fresh and pretty.
6. A flowerbed made from sawn wood
By the way, going back to sawn trees, not only the stump, but also the trunk can serve as an authentic flowerbed for several seasons.
A cut tree flower bed is a unique landscape design element that can serve as a central point of interest in your garden. Solid saw cut surfaces can be used to grow multicolor plants, while saw cut surfaces can be used to install decorative accessories such as potted flowers or garden figurines. Using a cut tree as a flower bed can also be an environmentally friendly option, as it uses material that might otherwise go to waste.
7. Flowerbeds in the patio area
When paving the patio area, allocate several cells for planting. In the future, by planting flowers in them, you will get nice plant inclusions in the middle of a stone or concrete canvas.
8. A flower bed along the walls of a house or a veranda
There are countless variants of such flower beds, here is another example from real life. A flower bed near the veranda of one of the houses.
9. Raised flower bed in the middle of the lawn
A beautiful raised flower bed in the middle of the lawn, in the middle of the lawn, as an accent to attract attention. The walls of the flower bed are made of facing stone.
10. Wild flower bed in a tree circle
An example of a simple wild stone flower bed formed near a tree.
11. Combination of flower bed and gravel backfill near the patio
The flower bed can also be a half composition, a combination of gravel and plants.
12. Temporary potted plant bed
Variant of interchangeable potted bed, the exposure can be changed regularly, depending on the flowering of the plants.
13. Accent flower bed with decorative wheelbarrow
Nice solution - accent flower bed with decorative elements: a wheelbarrow and a lantern. Even the simplest flowers in this composition look spectacular.
14. Vintage flower bed from an old suitcase
I am somewhat surprised by the tendency to use garbage in Western countries. There it is considered aerobatics to bring some things from the landfill into landscape design. But, nevertheless, I suggest that you also admire the solution.
15. A beautiful flower bed with a border made of river stone
A nice flower bed, organically complemented by a border of river stones - pellets.
16. Raised flower bed made of wooden beams
If you are interested in using wood in the design of flower beds, or maybe there are trimmings of the beam left, then decorate them with a similar flower bed.
17. A round flower bed around a conifer
An interesting solution to the design of a round flower bed, radially planted flowers are layered into the outline of the ornament of the composition, logically converging on the central conifer.
18. Romantic rose garden
My dream is a rose garden at their summer cottage! Now there are many hybrids that bloom almost all summer. Of course, care for roses is required, but what a beauty!!!
19. Fairy landscaping with gravel path
An inspiring example of cute country design, the idea of freestyle is really tricky, although it seems like a simple enough solution. Such deceptiveness...
20. An old bed as a flower bed
Another example of the controversial flower bed idea. Reminds me a little... Let's not talk about sad things...
21. Hydrangea flower bed
Nice idea of a flower bed along the hydrangea fence. In general, I dare to recommend hydrangea for use in your country compositions. There are many adapted hybrids specifically for our latitudes.
22. Vertical tower
Nice idea for a flower bed - a vertical tower. The base is metal racks into which small flower pots are inserted.
23. The idea of a flower bed and trays on the windows
A set of trays on the windows and flower beds under them can be considered as a single composition. For a better perception, it is recommended to raise the plants by creating walls of brick or paving stones.
24. The idea of a vertical flower bed
Beautiful idea of a vertical flower bed made of a wooden honeycomb base with soil. The idea is somewhat complex and possibly short-lived. However, why not?
25. Decorative flower beds
With the help of decorative flowerbeds, you can beat interesting scenes. If you make a flower bed, for example, in the form of a fire with a bowler hat, then this composition will definitely not be deprived of attention.
26. Flower bed made of cut wood
A sawn tree can be used to decorate a raised flower bed. The decorativeness of the composition will be given by the varied texture of wood saw cuts.
27. Bright peonies along the house
Well, in conclusion of the selection, I want to wish you the embodiment of all your ideas, even the simplest, budget ones. After all, the main beauty of our dachas is given not by the cost of investments, but by our care and attention to space!