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These front yard flower bed ideas are a surefire way to get your garden noticed for all the right reasons and bring serious curb appeal to your front yard.
Not only can a fresh bunch of blooms work nicely with any size and style of yard, but they’re also bound to put a smile on you and your guests’ faces.
Our curated choice of the best flower bed ideas for your front yard – from manicured lawns to whimsical arrangements – will be sure to spark inspiration if you've been pouring over front yard landscaping ideas.
Front yard flower bed ideas
There’s more than one way to add the best front yard flower bed ideas to your space.
To help, we’ve gathered fresh front yard flower bed ideas to ensure your front yard is in bloom all year round.
1. Vary the height of your plantings
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Just like when you're decorating a coffee table or bookshelf inside, creating an impactful flower display means ensuring that each element not only works together, but also gets a chance to shine. Choosing plants in different heights allows each flower to be seen, while also filling in vertical space.
'It's important to think about the height of your plants,' says Jeanine Standard of Proven Winners , one of the top plant brands in the U.S. 'If you're planting a flower bed along the front of your house, you want to make sure the taller plants are towards the back, near the house, and then add the perennials and annual plants as you come towards the front of the garden.'
2. Plant for year round color
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To get the most out of your garden beds throughout the year, choose a variety of plants that will each shine in a different season, or opt for perennial varieties that offer year round color.
'What you want to do is plan for year round color,' says Standard. 'Plant some perennials that bring in spring color, others that bring summer color, and some for fall. It takes some planning, so that everything isn’t in bloom at once, but it's worth it. On our website we have an information page for each plant we sell, and the bloom time is there for each one.'
Mixing in flowers that bloom in the early spring, with the best late summer flowers and fall bloomers will ensure your home exterior shines in all seasons.
3. Add structure with shrubs
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Start your front yard flower bed planning with shrubs, flowering bushes, and evergreens. These not only help define the boundaries of your garden, but they'll ensure your front yard has some interest no matter what the season.
Once you've planted the best evergreen shrubs for your yard, you can fill in the rest of the flower bed with smaller annuals and perennials.
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Scale plays a big role in the plants you chose for your flower beds. Just like you wouldn't put an oversized sofa in a studio apartment, you don't want to plant four-foot wide shrubs in a six-foot wide flower bed.
'If you have a small flower bed, go for a smaller-sized plant. You don’t want something like a Denim-n Lace plant, which reaches 4’ wide, so adjust your plant size to the size of the bed,' Standard says.
Another common mistake? Not understanding how big your plants will get. 'The worst thing to do is not anticipate that the plant will reach the full size,' says Standard.
5. Know your exposure
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Exposure, or how many hours a day your plants receive sun, is a key factor in deciding what garden ideas to choose for your flower beds.
'If your flowers beds get 6-8 hours a day of sun, you can go for full-sun shrubs, perennials and annuals that can take the heat of the day,' says Standard.
'The only way to know how much sun your front yard is getting is by watching that area - looking at it every two hours and recording how much time it’s actually in the sun.'
6. Introduce a gated flower bed in your front yard
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Contrary to popular belief, a beautiful, blooming garden shouldn’t be confined to your backyard.
Landscape architect and designer Carson McElheney injected beautiful garden design into her front yard by placing the gated flower bed near the front of the home.
A brick wall, iron gate, and statement-making planters round out the look, adding a 'wow' factor to these front yard flower bed ideas.
7. Add raised flower beds
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Take your front yard to new heights with raised front flower beds – just as blogger Janelle Rendon has done by incorporating raised beds into her front yard walkway.
'We love how our front yard landscaping project with Buds and Blossoms Cypress turned out,' she explains.
'We used both a retaining wall and a boulder to draw the eye to this flower bed lining our driveway.'
Rendon filled the raised garden bed ideas with blue plumbago and white vinca, which brought beautiful spring and summertime color to the front yard.
8. Raise your home’s facade
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William Hefner , on the other hand, prefers to place his raised front yard flower beds against a home’s facade.
Here, the designer opted for raised front yard flower beds that matched the home’s color and material, creating the illusion of a larger, more grandiose space. For a stately finishing touch, Hefner added two thin hedges to right next to the front door.
9. Follow the straight and narrow
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Looking for front yard flower bed ideas that are stylish and soothing in equal measure? Take a cue from Maydan Architects .
Here, the firm opted for straight lines of manicured leafy greens.
But, in order to give their front yard flower bed ideas a pop of welcome color, Maydan Architects peppered sweet, purple flowers near the walkway.
The result: A sleek yard with an unexpected twist.
10. Keep it simple
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As this yard from KAA Design Group proves, less can be more when it comes to front yard flower bed ideas, especially if you opt for the best trees for front yards, combined with the best shrubs for the front of the house.
Instead of featuring an eclectic mélange of blooms, this space keeps it simple with a predominately green yard and subtle pops of yellow. The pared-back front yard flower bed highlights the clean lines of the home’s facade, placing the property’s sleek architecture front and center.
11. Think beyond the privacy gate
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When it comes to making your front yard design shine, a privacy gate can serve as a double-edged sword.
On the one hand, having a barrier between your home and the street will keep wandering eyes out of sight; however, it feels virtually impossible to show off your front yard.
California-based designer Mindy Gayer found the perfect balance with this chic garden gate idea, where a flower bed is planted in front of the privacy gate.
When considering how to plant a flower bed, take inspiration from the full, white blooms Mindy has selected. They offer a jolt of curb appeal while bringing a welcoming spirit to the gate.
12. Incorporate hedges in your front yard flower bed ideas
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Bring some decorum to your front yard flower bed ideas by surrounding each bed with short, manicured hedges.
Not only can this design trick create a structurally soothing front yard, but it can also promote a logical transition from the flat, green grass to the buoyant blooms.
Designer Fernando Wong gave this space a stately edge, thanks to the organized assortment of white blooms.
13. Take 'the more, the merrier' approach when it comes to front yard flower bed ideas
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If a few rows of flower beds aren’t enough to satisfy your blooming dreams, why not add a few potted plants to the mix.
Adding a few spare pots to the edge of your front yard flower beds can draw the eye upward, creating the illusion of a dimensional yard or even highlighting creative mailbox landscaping ideas. Let this space from Grace Design Associates show you how it’s done.
14. Defy gravity with hanging planters
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Looking for a way to incorporate flowers into your designs and front porch ideas? Juxtapose your flower beds with hanging planters, as seen in this setup from CLB Architects .
The eclectic array of blooms seen here creates plenty of visual intrigue – not to mention gives this wooden barn a beautiful view from every angle.
15. Beautify with blooms
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We love a manicured flower bed as much as the next design enthusiast, but there’s something about a wild, unkempt arrangement that transports us to the idyllic countryside.
If you want to recreate this look in your own front yard flower bed ideas, variety is key. Here, American firm Ike Kilgerman Barkley juxtaposed a colorful assortment of blooms with a pretty stone walkway.
How do I start a flower bed in my front yard?
Generous flower beds that can accommodate a good depth of planing will also allow you to think outside the box and have fun. For example, you could plant a lake of blue salvias and verbenas to create a safe ‘water’ feature and arrange stainless steel obelisks so they resemble fountains spurting up from fluttering depths.
Sunlight should be the first consideration when positioning flower beds. It changes throughout the day and can have a dramatic effect on the way a border is seen.
Ideally, this showpiece planting should be backlit with the sun filtering through the plants for a magical effect. To find which places are special can only be learnt by watching the light moving through the yard – taking photos and noting the time will help when planning.
'Improving your plant knowledge, namely the shape and form a plant makes as well as the seasonal changes it undergoes, will be an asset, but to plant like a pro you also need to develop a keen eye for picking and mixing plants,' says Adrienne Wild, owner of Wild About Gardening.
'You’ll only learn this skill by trial and error, and even the most experienced gardeners will tell you that great plant association often just happens. Don’t worry if you struggle with learning plant names, as choosing them for their form and color is more important.'
Kelsey Mulvey is a New York-born, San Francisco-based freelance journalist who covers lifestyle and design content. She started her writing career while studying magazine journalism at Boston University, where her work was syndicated by top digital publications like USA Today and MSN. Upon graduation, Kelsey covered lifestyle content The Wall Street Journal, Off Duty and Business Insider. In 2017, Kelsey started her freelance journalism career, where she contributes to design publications like AD PRO, Elle Decor, Wallpaper*, and more.
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26 Front Yard Flower Bed Ideas You Can Easily Pull Off
Tyler Karu
Your front yard is your home’s first chance to make an impression. It’s the first thing someone will see when they visit—and likely, the last thing they’ll see when they leave. So, your yard deserves just as much time and attention as the inside of your home.
Thankfully, landscaping your yard isn’t quite as tough as furnishing your home—at least, it doesn’t have to be. Plant just a few flower beds and invest in some pretty plants, and you’ll be well on your way to a gorgeous yard.
To help you see just how easy front yard landscaping can be, we’ve rounded up some of the most creative front yard flower bed ideas we could find. These clever ideas will help you make the most of your space—and they’re delightfully easy to replicate at home.
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Finding Lovely
Not sure where to put a flower bed? Use the structural elements in your yard as a starting point.
By planting a flower bed along a sidewalk, pathway, or fence, you can add a pop of greenery and color that feels natural in your yard.
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Mindy Gayer Design
Vine-covered walls are one of the prettiest sights around. And flowering-vine-covered walls? Well, they’re even prettier. To recreate the look, fill your beds with creeping plants, and let them climb your walls. Shape the vines to free up windows and doors, and prune them to keep them under control.
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Katie Leclercq
One easy way to design eye-catching flower beds? Pair small plants with big ones. There are classic ways to do this, like planting short flowers next to tall trees. But, there are also playful ways to do this, like planting tall flowers next to short trees.
Both methods create pretty flower beds, but by inverting expectations, the second method creates flower beds that are both pretty and playful.
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Calimia Home
Mulch isn’t always the best option for flower beds.
If you live somewhere hot or your beds drain poorly, your plants may prefer rocks to dirt or mulch. Sure, the swap won’t work in every situation, but it’s a striking choice when it makes sense.
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Bespoke Only
Tons of flowers can add a pop of color to your yard. But hydrangeas are a particularly fun pick. Why? A hydrangea’s color is determined by the pH of your soil—more acidic soil creates bluer hydrangeas, and more basic soil creates pinker hydrangeas. So anywhere you plant the flowers, a surprising pop of color is in store.
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Julian Porcino
A wall may seem like a strange place for a flower bed. But if you’re low on grassy areas and have a wall wide enough to accommodate a garden, you can build a raised bed on top of that wall to make room for flowers and trailing vines.
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Katie Leclercq
Flowers aren’t the only thing to plant in your flower beds. Bushes, grasses, and trees are other great options.
And by alternating between just a few different plants, you can add texture to your beds while keeping them orderly.
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Julian Porcino
If your front yard is grass-free, you’re not out of luck. By snagging a large planter and filling it with flowering plants, you can create a flower bed that rivals more traditional gardens.
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Finding Lovely
It’s tempting to fill every inch of your flower bed with plants. But leave some soil visible. By embracing negative space and giving your plants room to breathe, you can draw more attention to each flower you’ve planted.
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Mindy Gayer Design
One easy way to make sure your flower beds look great? Commit to just one flower color. By streamlining your palette, you can mix and match tons of plants while keeping your flower beds tidy.
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Devon Grace Interiors
There are many ways to layout a flower bed. But, one easy approach is to plant your flower bed in rows.
Work your way from back to front, putting your tallest plants in the back row and your shortest plants in the front row. With this method, you can keep your beds organized and make sure everything you’ve planted is visible.
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Mindy Gayer Design
It takes a lot of flowers to fill a big flower bed, but it only takes a handful of bushes. Supplement your classic flowers with some sprawling shrubs, or ditch the flowers entirely and fill your beds with flowering bushes, instead.
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Julian Porcino
Most flower beds are either sleekly rectangular or organically curved. But your flower beds don’t have to stick to this norm. By planting flower beds that look like parallelograms, trapezoids, or even circles, you can make an unexpected statement in your front yard.
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Mary Patton Design
A flower bed doesn’t have to be big to make an impact. By lining your patio with a narrow flower bed, you can make space for pretty plants without sacrificing precious lawn space.
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Pure Salt Interiors
When filling your flower beds, consider what your space needs. Shorter plants will open up your yard, while taller ones will create pockets of privacy.
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Julian Porcino
Hills are tough places for flower beds. But by terracing a slope, you can create a series of steps for your flower beds to live on. This approach involves a lot of landscaping, but it can turn a hill into a haven for flower beds, and it can make it easier to access your plants the next time you need to water them.
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Katie Leclercq
If your home is surrounded by a fence or wall, flower beds may seem like a lost cause. If no one can see them from the street, what’s the point? But by favoring tall plants that peek out from behind your walls, you can offer a sidewalk-friendly glimpse of your flower beds that makes visitors want to see more.
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Mary Patton Design
Your home’s facade probably isn’t symmetrical, so there’s no need for your flower beds to be.
In fact, you can use asymmetrical flower beds to complement your home’s facade—creating balance where it’s desperately needed.
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Pure Salt Interiors
Most flower beds have a set width and length. But few have a set height. And this third dimension is worth taking advantage of. By planting flowering vines, you can let your beds grow tall. Just make sure the vines have a surface to climb—otherwise, they’ll creep onto your lawn.
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Lucy Gleeson Interiors
Manicured flower beds are perfectly beautiful. But overflowing flower beds? They’re the stuff of fairytales. If you’re cultivating a bit of a jungle in your front yard, let your flower beds get unkempt. You don’t want them overrun with weeds or pests. But what’s the harm of letting them spill into your yard?
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White Sands
Make the entrance to your home even grander by framing it with flower beds. This is easy to do on a standard front porch: Plant flower beds in pots, and flank your front door with them.
And if your front gate is bordered by walls or fences, sneak flower beds onto those structures: Hang flower boxes over your fences, or build raised beds onto your walls.
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Arbor & Co.
Flower petals are so coveted that we buy them for weddings and romantic nights. But when they naturally appear in our yards, we throw them out. This makes sense in pristinely manicured beds. But, since residential beds often have a home-grown feel, fallen petals can add to their beauty—rather than detract from it.
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Tyler Karu
If you’d prefer flower beds you can fill and forget about, consider trading flowers for flowering trees. Since trees are so robust, they won’t demand much care or upkeep. And you won’t have to remember to replant them every year.
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Tyler Karu
There are obvious places to put flower beds—like along patios, pathways, and your home’s facade. But these aren’t your only options. By planting beds in otherwise-unused spaces—like the space next to a stairway or the corner of a fence—you can brighten up your yard in a surprising and space-efficient way.
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Pure Salt Interiors
Flower beds aren’t just aesthetic—they’re also structural. So you can use them to do the work of architectural elements, like fences and walls. Instead of lining an outdoor staircase with two metal railings, line one side with a metal railing and the other side with tall flowering plants. This unexpected choice will cozy up your staircase, creating harmony between the man-made and natural elements in your yard.
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Michelle Berwick Design
If neat and orderly isn’t your style, take a casual approach to your flower beds. Plant some flowers here, a bush there, and some trees over there—and leave the boundaries of your flower beds undefined. This nonchalant approach isn’t for fans of neat, manicured beds. But it’s a great option for those who want a flower-filled yard without the fuss of traditional landscaping.
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Decorating flower beds in the yard, tips and examples
Flower beds are the highlight of the garden.
A carefully planned and thoughtful composition of flowers and ornamental plants when decorating the courtyard of a private house or the entrance of a high-rise building with flower beds will allow you to achieve continuous decorativeness and avoid ordinary decisions in the design of a flower garden.
Contents
- Types of flower bed layouts
- Landscaping
- Regular layout of flower beds
The layout of flower beds is landscape and regular.
Landscaping
Landscaping includes:
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- Group plantings is a type of flower garden, which provides for the placement of plants in close proximity to each other. There is a simple group planting, in which flowers of the same species are planted, and mixed, when specimens of different species are located nearby.
- Mixborder is a very common way to design flower beds in the yard. This is a complex composition of shrubs and flowers that complement each other.
Its characteristic feature is long flowering from spring to late autumn. It is necessary to choose the right specimens that bloom at the same time so that their groups are harmoniously combined.
- Group landings
- Mixborder
Various species and varieties of plants are planted in small groups, individual spots or irregular geometric shapes. Groups of plants can be repeated at certain intervals. A mixborder can be contrasting, multicolored or with smooth transitions from one color group to another.
A mixed flower garden should look good from several points. Typically, the maximum plant height is half the nearest observation point.
When planting, the volume of flowers and shrubs is also taken into account, which will increase over time. The free space around the young, not overgrown specimen is filled with annuals. Perennials usually do not bloom for a very long time and when choosing them, they pay more attention to decorative foliage.
Seedlings with red, yellow, bluish or variegated leaves actively participate in the color scheme of the mixborder. The mixborder can be up to four meters wide. And the length is arbitrary, if necessary, breaks are allowed. Such a composition is appropriate near the walls, along garden paths, ponds and lawns. The decor of the yard will be more effective if you use the framing of the outer border with decorative stone or sea pebbles, as well as crushed stone. The background, emphasizing the beauty of the flower garden, will be a retaining wall made of stone or a hedge.
- Stony areas usually occupy under rockery or rock garden , and often, when thinking about how to decorate the yard, they choose exactly one of these original types of planning.
Rockery
Rockery - a rocky garden in which the composition is placed on a flat surface. At the same time, stones are the main element of the composition, plants only decorate it, enhancing the impression and placing accents.
The rock garden reproduces an element of the mountain landscape, so this version of the rocky garden is located on a hill. To decorate this flower garden, unpretentious, but very decorative plants are used. Depending on the size of the slide, mountain pine and Japanese maple, miniature forms of juniper, spruce and other conifers can be used. Fern, rocky alissum, bergenia and herbaceous periwinkle are also appropriate. Successfully located stones give a special beauty to plants, and those, in turn, emphasize the texture of natural stone.
Regular arrangement of flower beds
Regular style includes:
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- Rabatki are such narrow flower beds with a flat surface, which are usually located along the fence, fence or wall of the house. Long ribs look better with a gap. Flower beds of this type are often filled with homogeneous plants, arranging along the edge with undersized specimens of another flowering. In bilateral discounts, the following color combinations are willingly used: blue - yellow, purple - yellow, white - red, blue - orange.
- Flower beds are flower beds in the form of simple or complex geometric shapes. Such a flower garden usually has an elevation in the center and is clearly visible from different sides. A flower bed can be flowering - with annuals that have a long flowering period, carpet - filled with carpet-deciduous plants and carpet-flowering, combining beautifully flowering specimens and seedlings with spectacular foliage. In this case, the selection of colors is important. It can be plain, variegated or a combination of several colors. Plants are planted in rows or groups.
- Rabatki are such narrow flower beds with a flat surface, which are usually located along the fence, fence or wall of the house. Long ribs look better with a gap. Flower beds of this type are often filled with homogeneous plants, arranging along the edge with undersized specimens of another flowering. In bilateral discounts, the following color combinations are willingly used: blue - yellow, purple - yellow, white - red, blue - orange.
- Rabatka
- Flowerbed
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- Solitaire - this is the name of the planting of a single decorative leafy or flowering plant. Usually such a flower garden is arranged against the backdrop of a lawn or lawn.
- Border - translated from French means "border".
This low and dense band of ornamental plants, 10 to 50 centimeters wide, is often included in garden floral decor.
- Tapeworm
- Border
Types of flower beds
Regular flower bed
Ideally, all plants in a regular garden bed should bloom at the same time. This is easier to achieve in an open sunny area, because if part of the flower garden is shaded by buildings or trees, this can adversely affect the flowering of specimens that fall into the shade.
Another distinguishing feature of a regular flower bed is a strict geometric pattern of plants. When planted in simple figures, the pattern is easily distinguishable, but when reproduced in abstract figures, the pattern may be less obvious.
Regular flower bed
An important feature of this type of flower bed is clear boundaries between plantings. Usually plants are planted in a row along the edge, but it is better to plant in blocks rather than rows.
Spacing between rows or blocks of plants breaks the effect of regularity. The resulting voids are recommended to be filled with new specimens. For regular flower beds and flower beds, F1 hybrids are well suited, as they are characterized by uniform growth and friendly flowering. It will be useful to read:
Irregular flower bed
An irregular flower bed looks more natural if the planting areas of different plants overlap each other, since this type of flower bed does not have straight, clear lines and geometric shapes of flowers. In addition, flowering should not be simultaneous, on the contrary, it is better if the flowering waves replace one another.
Mono-flower
The simplest type of flower garden is a mono-flower bed, which is filled with plants of the same variety. The difficulty in creating such a flower garden is only to pick up seedlings that will be decorative for a long time, preferably before the onset of cold weather. Cannes, petunias, marigolds are suitable for this.
You can create a mono-flower garden from indoor plants - geraniums, coleus or begonias. Often a rose garden becomes a monoklumba, seedlings of the Floribunda group of varieties, which are known for long and abundant flowering, are especially successfully used. Best of all, such flower beds look in large spaces, in squares and parks. - Monoclubs
Carpet bed
As a result of carpet planting of low-growing plants with colored foliage, complex ornaments are formed, reminiscent of a carpet pattern. Hence the name of the flower bed - carpet. Such flower beds were popular in Europe in the 19th century, with plants with bright foliage filled small flower beds near houses and huge spaces in gardens. Carpet beds remain decorative throughout the season and are not afraid of bad weather. Another point that distinguishes this type of flower garden is foliage, which, unlike flowers, creates more muted shades. However, due to the high complexity of creating and maintaining, carpet beds are now very rare.
Flowerbed panel
Panel flowerbeds are used to create any image. At the same time, a wider palette is needed than for decorating a carpet flower bed, so plants with bright foliage and flowering plants are also used. For the first time, a flower painting depicting butterflies was widely known. This happened at the end of the 19th century in a London park. Over the years, what kind of panels have been created by skillful gardeners - bright dials, birds, floral motifs, inscriptions, stars, animals ... To create such flower arrangements, lobelia, sapling, perennial daisies, echeveria are often used. Panels are perhaps the most spectacular design of flowerbeds, but, of course, a lot of effort is needed to create such a flower picture.
Raised flower bed
- Raised flower beds
The raised flower bed fits well into the decor of the yard. It is easier to care for such a flower garden, it is easier to get rid of weeds, structures of this type have good drainage.
The walls are decorated with various materials, they must correspond to the general style of the site. It can be brick, natural or artificial stone, concrete or wood. In addition, decor with pebbles, mosaics or colored glass will help to decorate any material beautifully.
Vertical flower bed
With a shortage of space in the garden, a vertical flower bed can be an excellent option. In addition, it is often a budget option, since when creating you can use unnecessary things - old buckets, pipes, bags, remnants of a chain-link mesh. The method of lateral gardening is used, in which flowers are planted in a pot (bag, container ...) not only from above, but also from the side. The walls of arbors, arches and screens are also decorated.
Even vertically perforated PVC pipes can be turned into a spectacular cascade of flowering plants. At the same time, the pipes are filled with earth mixture, and seedlings are placed in the holes.
- Vertical flower beds
Often for vertical flower beds in the yard, flower pots of various sizes are used, fixing them vertically on top of each other.
Much less common are such grandiose works of garden art as vertical flower beds in the form of garden sculptures. Such flower beds are real decorations of the landscape. In this case, the frame is made of a metal mesh in the form of a sculpture, then it is filled with earth mixture and the surface is planted with dwarf plants. Of course, such a flower bed is extremely spectacular and spectacular, but only a true master of garden design can create it.
Screen
Screen
In principle, the screen can also be considered as a variant of the vertical flower bed, but with its own characteristics. Often such a flower bed is used to cover some object from prying eyes, or if necessary, zoning the site. For light screens intended for decorating beds, annual vines are used - morning glory, nasturtium or multi-flowered beans. For permanent cover, perennials are used - clematis, climbing roses. Evergreen woody plants are added to the screen - yew and boxwood. Plants for hedges are planted at the base of the support and then tied up or left to curl freely.
Containers
Ornamental plant containers can be grouped or placed individually. For a group, containers are usually selected from the same material, but they can be of different sizes and shapes. High containers are surrounded by smaller ones. Beautiful flower beds in containers are often placed along steps or paths, or decorate patios with them.
The advantages of container floriculture are that it is easier to care for plants, while you can grow specimens that require a special soil mixture, not the same as the land in the garden.
The containers make up spectacular compositions that can be quickly changed, moreover, if the plants have faded in a container, it is replaced with another one. With the help of container flower beds, you can easily and quickly disguise a compost pit or well hatches.
- Containers
The most common types of containers are:
- Pot or vase;
- Box, usually rectangular or cubic;
- Urn - a container having a pedestal and handles;
- Bowl - low drawer, tray;
- Tub - cylindrical container;
- A basket with a metal frame lined on the inside.
Baskets are either mounted on a support or hung on prepared fixtures.
Original flower beds
Dog house flowerbed
A flower bed placed on its roof will become an original decoration of a doghouse or outbuilding. In addition to the fact that the dog house takes on a beautiful and stylish look, the flower garden on the roof also has a practical function - the ground regulates the temperature effect. In winter, it retains heat, and in summer it protects from excessive heat.
- Flower bed on a dog house
How can such a structure be created? The roof of the kennel is made in the form of a box, and you need to take care of good moisture insulation by covering the bottom with a dense film in several layers, or by installing a plastic or metal container. The container is filled with a soil mixture (a drainage layer is required at the bottom) and plants with a superficial root system are planted.
Most often these are ground cover specimens, you can also use some potted crops. Another option - pots with flowers are placed on the surface of the box-roof, and the gaps between the containers are covered with peat.
Alpine garden in a concrete pot
Creating an alpine slide requires a lot of free space, but lovers of mountain plants will always find a way out of a difficult situation. A miniature alpine flower garden will help to decorate the yard with your own hands. To create an alpine mini-garden, you can make a concrete container from hypertufa - concrete with peat filler, or purchase a ready-made container made of concrete or stone. The height of the container is small, the height of the soil does not exceed 15 cm. At the bottom there should be holes for excess moisture to escape and a drainage layer. After planting the plants, the surface of the earth is covered with multi-colored gravel, which prevents the soil from drying out and gives the composition a decorative effect.
There are also many other types of concrete flower beds. Similar articles
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Raised flower bed is one of the ways to change the landscape of the site, make it more original and memorable.
In addition to the design side, there are several practical advantages to creating a tall flower garden.
The size of the flower garden depends on the availability of free space in the yard, and the design can be changed at the request of the owner of the house, you just need to plant different plants every season.
Clean Yard
Raised flowerbed with high sides keeps soil from washing out during rain or irrigation. Thanks to this, the earth does not fall outside the fence, and the paving of the yard always remains clean.
So that the soil does not actually fall behind the parapet, its level inside the flower bed must not reach the edges by at least 7 cm.
The higher the fence, the more difference can be made between the edge of the parapet and the surface of the flower bed. Hence, it is easier to keep the yard clean, so it looks more tidy.
Easy maintenance of the flower garden
Since the surface inside the fence is at least 30 cm above the paving level of the yard, the flower garden is easier to care for. You can perform weeding and loosening the soil without leaning too low to the ground. This is especially true for older people suffering from hypertension and heart disease.
The frequency of weeding also decreases, as weeds settle less frequently inside the flower bed.
Raised bed reduces water consumption as the number of irrigations is reduced. This is due to the fact that all the moisture remains inside the bowl, and only decorative plantings receive it.
Expressiveness of the landscape
One of the main advantages of a high flower bed is to create a stylish design. A tall flower garden is visible from afar, therefore it dominates the landscape of the garden.
If an ordinary flower bed, laid out in the back of the yard, is visually lost, then a raised flower bed attracts attention, being at a great distance. It makes the site more expressive, it is easier to view.
Depending on the area of the yard, you can arrange a small flower bed, only 1 m2, or take up a large space by building a multi-tiered flower garden.
Any vegetation is planted inside the bowl, from annual flowers to shrubs and trees: spruces, junipers, arborvitae.
Do-it-yourself stone flower bed
To create a flower garden, you do not need to invite specialists: it is not difficult to make it yourself from improvised materials. If bricks, blocks or stone remain after the construction of the house, a high curb is laid out of them, and the internal space is filled with fertile soil.
For the construction of parapet walls, processed wood remaining after construction, such as planed boards, round timber trimmings, is also suitable. As a result, excess materials do not litter the yard, but serve to improve it.
Zoning of the yard
With the help of a high flower garden it is easy to separate areas of different functionality. Most often, a recreation area is separated from outbuildings or a garden. You can also separate a children's or sports ground with a high curb.
A bowl of the required length is laid out of stone, tall plants are planted in it and cover part of the yard.
In this way, you can not only zone the site, but also disguise an old fence or a building in need of repair.
Flower bed on a retaining wall
On a site with uneven terrain, a flower bed is arranged on a retaining wall. In this case, its height is determined by the degree of difference in soil levels.
The high wall is a protection from the wind, so you can arrange a cozy summer patio near it.
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