How to grow a flower garden
How to Grow a Successful Flower Garden
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Marie Iannotti
Marie Iannotti
Marie Iannotti is a life-long gardener and a veteran Master Gardener with nearly three decades of experience. She's also an author of three gardening books, a plant photographer, public speaker, and a former Cornell Cooperative Extension Horticulture Educator. Marie's garden writing has been featured in newspapers and magazines nationwide and she has been interviewed for Martha Stewart Radio, National Public Radio, and numerous articles.
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Updated on 01/13/22
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Flower gardening can become a much-loved passion, but it can also be overwhelming, especially when you're first starting out. There are millions of plants to choose from and even more ways to combine them, and inexperienced gardeners may not know where to start.
Your best bet is to start small your first year, and don't worry about making mistakes. As time goes on, you can adjust your garden, digging up what didn't work on year and embracing what did well. You'll find a garden style and plants that make you happy, and the discovery of what exactly that is can be an unexpected pleasure. For more tips on perfecting your own flower garden, start with the advice below.
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Starting Your Garden
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When first starting your garden, creating good soil should be your primary focus—after all, it will serve as the foundation of growth for everything you add to your garden. Start with a soil test in the area you've chosen for your garden—depending on those results (like whether the soil leans more acidic or alkaline) you'll have a better idea about what you need to add to your soil mixture to make it the best blend possible.
Choosing the right location is another key to a successful flower garden. Most flowers thrive in full to partial sun, so it's important to choose a spot that boasts ample light to help boost your blooms. Additionally, you'll want to select a spot that's out of the way from other activities in your yard—there's nothing worse than your hard-won blooms getting trampled during a backyard BBQ.
If this is your first garden, it's probably best to start small. Taking on a large garden plot can quickly become overwhelming, and it may even turn you off from the idea altogether. Likewise, if space is an issue, consider starting a container garden instead. This is a workable option, even if you live in an apartment or condo where breaking ground is not an option.
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Selecting Annual Blooms
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Many of the most beautiful flowers in the garden are annuals, meaning they need to be planted every year. These include fan favorites such as pansies, petunias, impatiens, and marigolds, which are all prized for the brilliant color they add to the landscape.
Thankfully, some annuals are self-sowing, or what professional gardeners like to call "volunteers." Most of the time, these blooms will seed themselves (sometimes with a little help from the wind or nearby birds) and produce beautiful plants year after year.
Then, there are biennial flowers, such as foxglove and black-eyed Susans. These plants have two growing seasons in their life cycle, one year focused on leaves and food production and the next focused on flowers and seeds. After this time, they will seed out so that the process can start all over again.
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Choosing Perennial Plants
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Perennial plants and flowers make a garden look better and better with age because they come back every year (though some are limited to just a few years). Additionally, there are always new perennials to try and new techniques to learn, so the opportunities for growth are truly endless for the home gardener.
Choosing the right plants for your garden and keeping them growing year after year is what makes perennial gardening such an enjoyable journey for the gardener. Their care includes dividing them to produce larger crops, and knowing when to cut them back after their growing season ends. With careful attention, perennials will be a mainstay in your flower beds.
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Growing Successful Roses
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Somehow roses got a bad rap for being difficult to grow, but the opposite is actually true. While you may never grow an award-winning tea rose, most rose bushes will thrive in almost any garden environment.
The key to a successful rose garden lies in choosing varieties that will flourish in your area and giving them plenty of sunshine. Additionally, a few maintenance tips will help you along the way. Knowing how and when to prune your roses will keep your plants healthy, happy, and producing bountiful blooms.
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Adding Grasses for Winter Texture
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It's hard to remember a time when ornamental grasses weren't a fixture in every backyard garden. Even if you can't tell the various types apart, you can still appreciate the necessary texture, contrast, and visual interest they bring to a garden. The best news: No plant could be easier to grow. Many ornamental types of grass need little-to-no care beyond a bit of occasional watering, making them a great option for even the most novice growers.
Ornamental grasses can function as a backdrop for your flowers, serve as a decorative privacy barrier for your backyard, and can even bring color to the garden throughout the year. Using them extends your garden into the fall when many kinds of grasses will peak—and some even can bring you joy well into the winter.
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Finishing With Flowering Trees and Shrubs
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Few flower gardens are made up of just flowers alone. Trees, shrubs, and vines are all necessary additions to help give a garden architecture and good bones. In addition, many varietals available also flower themselves or add color and texture to the scene with their foliage.
You can also attract birds and butterflies with the right shrub selection (like hydrangea or dogwood), which will in turn help pollinate and seed your flower selections, improving the overall health of your garden. Groundcovers are another amazing resource—they can carpet or edge a garden as well as lead you along a path. Ultimately, it's very easy to combine any or all of these elements to create a mixed garden that holds your interest all year long.
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This terraced flower garden features layers of vibrant color.
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A splash of bright orange poppies brightens up a flower border.
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Color, size and shape variations work together to enliven a flower bed without being overwhelming.
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The repetition of purple throughout this flower garden brings unity to the design.
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Subtly layering flowers from low-growers to tall spires keeps sight lines intact and creates a more natural look.
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If you’ve always dreamed of having a gorgeous flower garden, now is the time to make it happen. Starting a flower garden is both fun and rewarding. Follow these guidelines for beginners and you’ll be off to a great start.
Step 1 - Know Your Garden
- Know your site: The first step in creating the perfect flower garden is to familiarize yourself with the area you want to plant. Landscape architect, Mary Ellen Cowan suggests, “Really know your site. Listen to Mother Nature to learn about your land’s traits. Be honest with light, moisture conditions, and the topography.”
- Know your soil: An important tip to ensure a successful flower garden is to do a soil test. Erin Benzakein, owner of Floret Flower Farm, explains, “To collect soil samples, dig a hole 1 foot deep, gather a few tablespoons, then repeat throughout your garden until a quart-sized jar is full. You can send your soil to a testing lab like the UMass Soil and Plant Nutrient Testing Laboratory (soiltest.
umass.edu) and use the result to amend your soil before planting.” - Know your flowers: Cowan also says, “Learn what plants grow well in your soil. From there, you can figure out what to do design-wise.” Carol Bornstein, horticulturist at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, recommends “visiting nearby natural areas that mimic your conditions in the wild to discover the flowers that you like.” Not sure where to start? Check out this list: 21 Easiest Flowers for Beginners.
- Know your frost cycle: To make sure your newly planted garden will survive the seasons, you will need to know your area’s average last and first frost dates. Benzakein notes this will affect when you start seeds and will allow you to plant varieties that will grow into autumn. Starting your seeds about 4 to 6 weeks before the average last frost date will give your plants a jump start. The plants will fill in faster and cut down on weeds. If you don’t have a greenhouse to start your seeds in, a covered seed tray indoors under growing lights will work.
Step 2 - Create Your Color Palette
- Create unity: When choosing a color scheme, Bornstein suggests picking one that will “help unify the landscape.” Using variations and different tones of the same color can make an impact without dominating.
- Create excitement: While sticking to a few similar hues can create a feeling of harmony, complimentary colors—opposites on the color wheel—create juxtaposition. For example, the combination of blue and yellow is fresh, lively, and summery. “In a sunny spot, warm tones like yellows, oranges, and reds make the most of the light, especially during the ‘golden hours,’ when the sun rises or sets. However, on their own, hot colors can appear rather flat. Blues compliment the yellows, creating harmony and vibrancy. Occasional splashes of hot orange and red add a little thrill,” says Keith Wiley of Wildside, his garden in Devon, England.
- Create peaceful areas: Wiley adds that it is prudent to practice restraint, as too much variety can feel tiring.
“You can’t have everything screaming at you in the garden. Separate areas with intense color or high drama with neutrals,” says Bill Thomas of Chanticleer. Above all, landscape designer and author of Heaven is a Garden, Jan Johnsen encourages the use of colors you personally enjoy in your garden.
Step 3 - Design Like a Pro
- Design with shape: When designing a flower garden, world-renowned Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf suggests that shape is a good place to start. Perennials have several basic shapes: spires, plumes, daisies, buttons, globes, umbels, and screens. Try putting different shapes together and see if they spark off each other. Some combinations will be vibrant and dynamic, others may clash. Planting similar flower shapes together can reinforce an idea.
- Design with repetition: The repetition of key shapes or colors provides a sense of calm and visual unity. Ideally, advises Wiley, plants you repeat should have a long season, not look untidy after flowering, and flourish in the garden’s conditions.
Strategic repetition of flowers offers continuity when moving from one area of the garden to another. - Design in layers: Matt James, in his book, How to Plant a Garden, states, “When planting, try to pull one layer subtly into another — and vice versa — to create a more natural look, rather than simply arrange the layers like a staircase.” Oudolf warns that you can “lose plants in the back,” so it is important to make sure sight lines remain to see flowers at the rear of a border.
- Design in combinations: “Think in terms of plant combinations rather than individual species,” suggests Sean Hogan of Cistus Nursery near Portland, Oregon. Mixing plant heights, sizes, colors, scale, and textures keeps the garden engaging in all seasons. Relaxed plantings will provide color, movement and a meadow-like feel.
- Design with fragrance and movement: Dan Hinkley, plant hunter and author, has discovered what he enjoys most in his garden — fragrance and movement.
“These elements of a garden aren’t included in the design often enough.” He advises to take advantage of natural breeze patterns to allow the scents of flowers to waft toward your home or patio areas.
Bonus Flower Garden Tips
- For a more productive flower garden and to encourage longer stems (better for cut flowers and floral design), Benzakein advises to plant flowers close together. “This will reduce weeds and increase the number of flowers you produce.”
- If you are growing flowers for cutting, “Don’t forget to grow foliage and filler plants for arrangements,” says Benzakein.
- Donna Hackman, retired garden designer, recommends that if you want your flowers to spill over in a natural way, but don’t want them within reach of the mower’s blades, install rectangles of flagstone around the beds. Also, keep paths between flower beds wide, so flowers won’t be trampled underfoot when walking through the garden.
- Hackman also suggests choosing smaller cultivars to reduce pruning work and planting shrubs at the center of your flower beds to provide year-round structure and height.
With seemingly endless design options, these tips will guide you in making the best choices when starting a flower garden, allowing you to sit back on a nice afternoon and enjoy the fruits—or blossoms—of your labor.
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With what impatience do gardeners wait for summer, when they can enjoy not only delicious vegetables and fruits, but also bright colors of fragrant garden flowers! And indeed, a rare garden or garden plot does without flower beds. Whatever they are - chic designer flowerbeds or "calico" rustic compositions - everything is pleasing to the eye, turning places of rest into paradises. We will tell you in this article how to create a beautiful flower garden from annuals and achieve their lush long-term flowering with the help of modern products from the Buisky Fertilizers company.
Creating a flower garden - where to start?
Arranging a flower garden begins with a plan. This must be done in order to understand what shape the flower garden will be, what size, and what flowers will grow there. Whether it will be a flower bed with an emphasis on the center, an asymmetric composition, or a ribbon one with a parterre and an amphitheater - in any case, everything needs to be thought out in advance.
A specific plan will also help in the future when buying seedlings or flower seeds. And what is important - do not forget about the "zest", otherwise the flower garden will turn out, so to speak, ordinary. And anything can be a “highlight” - a neat little Christmas tree in the background or in the center, a tall flowerpot with a cascade of ampelous flowers, or a cute garden figurine.
An important issue is the place of the flower garden in the garden. Most flyers love the sun, so a sunny location is optimal for a flowerbed of flyers.
It’s great if a prominent area turns out to be brightly lit, because flowers are an ornament, and they should be in plain sight. The convenience of watering and caring for the flower garden is also taken into account.
You can use anything to designate the shape and size of the flower bed - from beautiful masonry to plastic fences, it all depends on the imagination and availability of materials. But a raised outline will greatly facilitate the care of flowers, and give the picture a finished look, so it's better to be puzzled by this in time.
Growing seedlings of flowers for a flower garden
If you grow seedlings on your own, then you need to decide on the choice of plants for a flower garden long before spring, because many annual flowers are sown in February. Petunia, lobelia, eustoma, fragrant tobacco and other annuals are easy to grow even for a beginner. But they grow slowly, and in order to get flowering specimens by the beginning of summer, they must be sown early.
With flowers, as with other crops, you need to start with the preparation of seeds. Not all seeds need to be soaked - granular and very small, dusty seeds are sown without treatment. But large ones, such as the seeds of nasturtium, balsam, climbing kobe, morning glory and many others, preliminary preparation will benefit.
For seed soaking before sowing, Buyskiye Udobreniya recommends using Aquamix vitamins for plants, a liquid complex of microelements. This tool will not only increase the germination of seeds, but will also serve as an excellent prevention in case of nutrient deficiencies and chlorosis. Seeds are soaked for 8-12 hours in a solution of 1 ml of the drug per 150 ml of water.
Sowing and growing seedlings of different flowers is somewhat different, but all plants will need top dressing after some time. For root and foliar dressing of seedlings of flowers, you can use the water-soluble complex mineral fertilizer Aquarin Flower.
A balanced composition of the elements necessary for flowers in the most favorable way will affect the development of seedlings and increase the resistance of plants to diseases and difficult weather conditions.
The trace elements that make up the preparation are in the form of chelates and are most fully absorbed by plants. Root and leaf top dressing is carried out, alternating once every 7-10 days, with a solution of 7-15 g of Aquarin per 10 liters of water.
Preparing the soil for planting flowers
Soil preparation is an important point in the arrangement of a flower garden. Despite the fact that, according to experts, “fed” flowers give a lot of greenery and few inflorescences, no one will argue that the soil should be fertile.
If the flower bed has not been prepared since the autumn, then in the spring the earth must be dug up and the roots of the weeds carefully selected. For digging, you can apply the organic-mineral fertilizer "OMU for flowers" at the rate of 50 g per 1 m² of planting. To enrich the soil for seedlings with nutrients, 30-50 g of the drug is mixed with 10 liters of soil and mixed well.
The preparation contains a fully balanced composition of micro and macro elements and is enriched with humic acids.
Granules can also be applied during planting seedlings - 20 g directly into the hole. "WMD for flowers" has a prolonged action and will help seedlings to take root faster after planting in the ground, serve as a growth stimulator at the beginning of the growing season and prepare plants for flowering.
Planting letniki on the flower garden correctly
So, we have a plan, the flower bed is “filled”, we choose flowers. Each grower is an artist at heart and will choose flowers, combining colors to his taste. And it is right! But this is not the only thing you need to pay attention to when creating a composition.
It is important to consider the height and size of mature plants so that large bushes do not hide the beauty of miniature flowers from our eyes. We also pay attention to the periods of flowering - in order to create a long-blooming picture, it is necessary that the flowering of some is replaced by the flowering of others.
This is quite difficult to do, and often bald spots appear in the flower garden.
Not all bushes retain their decorative effect after flowering, and sometimes they have to be removed. A similar situation can be saved by flowers planted in a flowerpot. Petunia, verbena, nasturtium, lobelia, viola and many others grow beautifully and bloom in pots all summer, and at the right time they can easily “repair” the composition.
When planting flowers in a flower bed, it is necessary to adhere to the recommended distances for plants. A rare planting will not give a bright effect during flowering, but thickened is also bad - in crowded plants bloom worse and get sick more often.
Garden care
In the early days after planting, it is very important to keep the soil moist and water the plants as needed. In the future, when the flowers take root and, growing, cover the soil with foliage, watering can be reduced.
2-3 weeks after planting, you can start feeding flowers. For the first top dressing, use the liquid complex fertilizer "Flower Paradise" for flowering plants.
The drug is easy to use, and the unique formula perfectly combines all the necessary substances for plant nutrition. All proportions of the elements are physiologically adjusted, and the risk of overdose is reduced to zero.
Foliar and root dressing (10 ml per 1 liter of water) promotes the development of shoots, the growth of juicy foliage and prepares flowers for abundant and long flowering. After such top dressing, your flowers are not afraid of diseases caused by nutrient deficiencies. The second feeding is recommended during the budding period.
Buiskiye Fertilizers offers another effective complex remedy for feeding annual flowers — Flower Fertilizer. Top dressing with an interval of 15-20 days can be applied under the root or alternated with spraying on the leaf throughout the entire growing season. Such top dressing will provide flowers with a balanced diet, increase resistance to disease, and make flowering brighter, more abundant and longer.
Garden care is not limited to watering and fertilizing.
To make the flower garden happy, you need to pay attention to it - remove weeds, cut off broken leaves and branches, if necessary (and many flowers really need it), pinch the shoots and, of course, remove wilted inflorescences. The last point contributes not only to long, but also to more lush flowering.
Prevention of boron deficiency
When examining a flower garden, you need to pay attention to the leaves, as the condition of the leaf blade will also tell about the condition of the plant as a whole. Very often, flowering plants lack boron, and this manifests itself in leaf curl, edge burn, wilting of leaves and buds, yellowing of the interveinal space, and death of sprouts.
To compensate for the deficiency of this element, boric acid is often used, but there is an effective modern replacement for this ancient remedy - Potassium Metaborate. The content of boron in a form available to plants and the excellent solubility of this microfertilizer make the drug indispensable for the prevention and elimination of boron deficiency, and the high content of potassium in the fertilizer promotes faster absorption of the microelement, because potassium is responsible for the opening of the stomata and the absorption mechanism through the leaves.
Top dressing is carried out during the period of budding and flowering 1 time in 14-21 days. For spraying (until the leaf is completely wetted), prepare a solution of 1-2 g per 2 liters of water, for irrigation 1-5 g per 10 liters of water.
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Contents
- 1 How to create a flower garden: plant care
- 2 How to make a beautiful flower garden in the dacha with your own hands (with photo)
- 3 How to decorate a themed flower garden in the dacha (with photo)
- 4 How to arrange and decorate a flower garden in the style of a mono-garden
how to properly break a flower garden in your country house - this material is especially for you.
Here you will get a lot of original ideas for decorating mixborders and themed flower beds, find out which plants need to be planted at what time, and how to provide crops with optimal care. Recommendations on how to achieve continuous flowering of a self-created flower bed by selecting appropriate crops will not be out of place.0003
How to create a flower garden: plant care
Spring is the best time to make a flower bed. How to make flower beds with your own hands so that it becomes a real decoration of the garden?
Before planting the flower garden, all weeds must be removed by roots. If the flower beds will be located on a lawn or lawn, you must first remove the sod from the selected area with a shovel.
Even knowing how to arrange a flower garden, you still cannot be sure that the plants in it are comfortable. In order to make life easier for crops, you will need the products of the "humus factory". Compost is a miraculous tool for creating healthy soil, increasing its fertility: it retains water, improves air exchange and equally well affects the structure and properties of both heavy and light soils.
Before creating a flower bed, you need to apply a complex mineral fertilizer in accordance with the instructions on the package. In addition, sand should be added to heavy clay soils, and clay soil should be added to sandy soils.
The site chosen for the flower garden is dug up on a spade bayonet, carefully choosing the rhizomes of perennial weeds. After applying compost, fertilizers, sand or clay, the soil is thoroughly loosened again with garden pitchforks, which creates the most favorable conditions for the development of the root system of plants.
What else do you need to know about how to make a flower garden in the country with your own hands so that the planted plants take root well? To do this, you need to follow a number of rules. Before planting, seedlings in pots are watered abundantly, or a container with plants is immersed in water and held until air bubbles stop rising. Then the seedlings are carefully removed from the pots along with a clod of earth.
If necessary, plastic cups can be cut. Immediately before planting, densely intertwined roots are carefully straightened by hand.
For each plant, make a hole with a shovel, loosen the earth at the bottom well. Planted so that the surface of the earthy coma was at the level of the edges of the landing hole. The first 7-10 days after planting, the flower garden is watered daily. The earth should never dry out completely. Then watering is carried out depending on weather conditions.
When caring for plants in the flower bed, the soil between the rows is regularly loosened, which allows you to retain moisture in the soil and fight weeds. Until the overgrown flowers cover all the empty spaces in the flower garden, weeds must be regularly weeded.
In damp weather, they are fairly easy to remove along with the roots. Over the years, the main efforts will have to be directed to keeping "in check" the most violently growing perennials.
If you have already decided which flowers to plant in the flower garden, remember the correct sowing dates.
Bulbs are planted in autumn, better later, when there is enough moisture in the soil, and the vital activity of pathogens is significantly weakened. Soil temperature 5-7 ° C promotes root growth. The planting depth is usually equal to three times the height of the bulb, which prevents overheating in the spring and summer, and the susceptibility of tulips to the variegation virus also decreases.
Before planting, tulip bulbs are freed from covering scales, since the roots cannot always break through it.
In addition, it allows you to detect the first signs of gray rot - a disease that can quickly spread to healthy specimens. If tulips are supposed to be grown without annual digging, then they need to be planted deeper to suppress reproduction.
Hyacinths, on the other hand, must be dug up annually, otherwise they will not bloom well. They are planted a little later than other bulbs.
Daffodils and hazel grouse are given a place in the flower garden immediately for 4-6 years, and small-bulbous ones can be grown for a longer time without transplantation.
How to make a beautiful flower garden in the country with your own hands (with photo)
What else to plant in a flower garden to make it look attractive? Tulips, daffodils, grouse and small bulbs will immediately decorate your flower garden, but at first their small number is not as impressive as we would like.
Yes, and daisies, primroses, too, will not immediately occupy all the space allotted to them. Before you make a flower garden in the country, you need to be patient, because the flower bed can cause admiration only after 2-3 years.
And how can you beautifully arrange a flower garden in the country to brighten up the expectation? To do this, they use a long-tested technique - beautiful bowls, pots or vases with indoor flowers are placed on the flower bed. By changing them, you can add variety to stationary landings.
Look at the photo of how to arrange a flower garden with decorative figures:
It is advisable to select plants in such a way that the flower garden is decorative from early spring to late autumn.
For example, in a flower bed, where a forsythia bush and early-flowering bulbs will open the season, letniki will pick up the baton, and asters will become a farewell chord before the winter cold.
If the flower stalks of delphiniums and phloxes are cut off after the first flowering near the ground, then they will bloom at the end of summer.
If you do not know how to decorate a flower garden, it is recommended to plant hyacinths. These plants look great in flowerbeds and borders, alpine hills, small spots under trees, among paving slabs.
Creating a hyacinth ridge is not difficult. Plant several varieties of hyacinths in compact groups, choosing a combination of pastel colors (for example, soft pink, white and blue) or, conversely, contrasting ones.
For the lower tier, it is good to use low-growing plants that cover the ground with a continuous carpet (daisies, Balkan anemones). But to create such a flower garden, you will need a lot of planting material, and amateur flower growers, as a rule, have a dozen plants of 4-5 varieties.
This is not enough to create color spots.
By randomly placing hyacinths of different colors, but of the same flowering period, on the discount, you will get a cheerful variety of colors.
And how to arrange a beautiful flower garden, combinations of different shades of plants? Almost classic is the combination of blue and purple hyacinths with delicate tulips and yellow daffodils.
If you only have one type of hyacinth, such as the white Carnegie or Innosance, plant it next to the red tulips. To create a small flower bed, it is good to use hyacinths with pink, white and blue inflorescences in combination with blue irises and white Carpathian bells
The flower bed looks very elegant, where imperial hazel grouses rise in the center, bright tulips and white daffodils are arranged around them, and blue hyacinths arranged in 3-4 rows complete the composition.
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In addition to the usual flower beds, rabatok and mixborders, thematic flower beds are becoming more common.
These can be mono-gardens, where one culture dominates. There are many lovers of creating flower beds in the same range - all shades of yellow, red or blue.
But gardeners love spring bulb gardens the most. In early spring, the garden is still cold and uncomfortable. But as soon as the sun warms up, the first grass begins to break through and primroses bloom - snowdrops, scillas, crocuses. Spring finally comes into its own, when hyacinths fill the garden with an exotic aroma, and tulips color it with fireworks of colors.
Spring flower gardens are based on the "magnificent four" of early-flowering bulbs - tulips, hyacinths, daffodils, crocuses. How to decorate flower beds with your own hands using these four plants?
Daffodils and tulips can be placed along the paths in 2-3 rows. But plantings in the form of rabatok look more impressive, which can be placed not only along the paths of the garden, but also on lawns, on the shore of a reservoir, at the base of an alpine hill.
Rabatka is divided into several sections and varieties of different colors alternate. Daffodils or tulips on the discount can also be planted in circles or diamonds at some distance from each other. The gaps between them are filled with herbaceous plants. The edging of the rabatka with a border of daisies, pansies, forget-me-nots looks good. After the leaves wither, beautifully flowering letniki are planted in the intervals between the bulbs. Particularly liked varieties of spring bulbs can be planted separately - near the stump or among the plates.
In a landscaped garden, hyacinths, tulips and daffodils are arranged in groups between trees and shrubs to create a natural feeling.
Crocuses will look good in a small array. With the help of spring flowers, you can solve the problem of empty space under the trees. For this, a snowdrop, a white flower, a kandyk, a blueberry are suitable.
And how to set up a flower garden in a country house with a modest size of the plot? Often, on the lawns in front of the windows of a country house, groups of daffodils, tulips and hyacinths are planted with indefinite, picturesque contours.
This form of landscaping is often used for small areas.
If you have not yet decided how to make a beautiful flower garden in your country house, try to arrange a tulip garden - it is very attractive! For example, on a rectangular area measuring 2 x 3 m, you can place 5-6 varieties of Darwin hybrids, 4 varieties of Triumph class tulips and 2-3 varieties of simple late ones, and along the perimeter - Kaufman, Greig and Foster tulips.
Unlike garden tulips, they can grow in one place for several years in a row. In natural gardens, they have long occupied a strong position. Planted on lawns between shrubs, over time, due to daughter bulbs, they form continuous motley carpets that require almost no maintenance. Tulip "Tarda" is perfect for these purposes.
If you don't want to create complicated arrangements, you can use tulips as a bright bright spot on the lawn. You can combine tulips 2-3 colors.
The combination of 'Greig' tulips with forget-me-nots or scillas looks good.
No one will be indifferent to the blue "river" of muscari framed by red early-flowering tulips "Kaufman".
Here you can see a photo of how to make a flower garden in the country, using tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and crocuses:
How to set up and decorate a mono-garden style flower garden
Here you can get ideas on how to make a beautiful DIY flower garden using irises. This is an ideal culture for creating a flower bed in the style of a mono-garden. However, when planning a composition, one must remember the weak competitiveness of bearded irises.
Well-growing perennials easily overwhelm them. When selecting neighbors, the superficial location of the roots of bearded irises and their love of light are taken into account. If you grow irises in a lawn, they will quickly be overwhelmed by grass roots and stop blooming.
Having planned a complex and beautiful combination of perennials, in practice you can fail if you do not take into account the biological contradictions between plants.
In complex multi-species plantings, bearded irises are a weak link and need constant help from a gardener.
Care must be taken that the leaf fans develop freely, at least 7-9 leaves are laid, which guarantees abundant flowering next year. Marsh irises do not require special care, they can stand up for themselves.
Pay attention to the photo how to make a beautiful flower garden - in compositions irises are combined with a wide variety of plants: the leaves of which have a silver tint.
Iris is perfect for single planting - tapeworm. Against the background of a lawn or shrub, a lush bush of any variety of bearded irises looks great. During flowering, 20-25 flowers are simultaneously opened on 10-15 peduncles.
You can make a group of several plants of different varieties. Of interest is the combination of a two-color variety with one-color, repeating the colors of its petals. For example, two-tone white and blue (Webash), white (Russian snow) and blue (Blue Monarch).
