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Eye-Catching Raised Flower Bed Ideas
Raised flower beds are a great option, no matter what your outdoor space looks like. Raised bed gardening is not only an easy way to add color to your landscaping, but it can be a fun way to try out new plants. Here are 10 eye-catching raised flower bed ideas to consider.
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Don’t Be Square
Raised bed gardening boxes don’t have to be square. When it comes to raised flower bed ideas, try working with the space you have. These round, tiered flower beds allows you to work with whatever space you have and give you the opportunity to try a layered look.
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Incorporate a Bench
Consider incorporating a bench for seating. This flower bed design is tucked in a corner, along a wall with a bench that invites onlookers to take a seat and enjoy the greenery.
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Sunburst Flower Bed
Looking for a unique, eye-catching shape for your flower bed without the work of building one? This raised garden bed kit offers endless design options, just add on or reconfigure your garden bed at any time. It’s made from recycled plastic and natural fibers, so there are no toxic chemicals. “This planter surpassed my expectations in terms of quality and ease of assembly. About an hour of assembly time and it’s ready for planting! I love it,” said one buyer of these raised flower bed kits. The slightly elevated sides make weed prevention a snap. It’s no wonder a simple raised garden bed is one of the top trending DIY projects of 2022.
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Use Rock
This rough-cut, stone flower bed works perfectly with any landscape.
Try building this type of flower bed next to a patio to create a sophisticated-looking garden that can be enjoyed while relaxing in your outdoor space.
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Keep it Narrow
This urban rooftop flower bed runs along a railing and is narrow, leaving plenty of space for entertaining. A narrow flower bed still allows you plenty of space to grow flowers without taking up too much space—a win-win when it comes to raised flower garden ideas! Arrange the planters vertically for an eye-catching flower tower.
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Use Shrubs
Shrubs can be used in raised flower beds, as they give it more texture and can be used as shelter for small birds, lizards and other animals that feast on some insects that may damage your plants. Plant a low-growing shrub in your raised flower bed and plant your flowers around it.
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Mix it Up
There’s no rule that says you can’t grow vegetables with your flowers. These raised flower beds feature both flowers and early spring vegetables.
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Be Thoughtful About Sunlight
If you’re getting ready to build raised flower beds, be conscious about where you place them. Some flowers will need full sun while others prefer shade. These boxes are out in the open, which will help sun-loving plants thrive.
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Make the Most of a Small Space
If you’re limited on space, a raised flower bed can be used to your advantage. These raised beds are on an urban garden patio, and incorporate both flowers and vegetables. A raised flower bed can be as large or as small as you want, allowing you to make the most of your space.
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Brick and Mortar
This style of raised flower bed is made from brick or stone pavers secured with mortar. Simple and very attractive.
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Originally Published: July 19, 2019
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10 Raised Bed Garden Ideas
From DIY projects to store-bought kits, use these raised bed garden ideas to take your garden to a new height!
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Copper Raised Garden Bed
A copper raised garden bed would be elegant, but copper is prohibitively expensive.
Instead, try this trick from @thekiwihome. She purchased a galvanized steel tub, then gave it a makeover with copper spray paint. Now it looks the part without the steep price tag! She also added drainage holes and casters so the bed can be moved as needed.
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Wood Raised Garden Bed
A professional woodworker crated these raised beds from @tohavetohost. But you can build a wood raised garden bed yourself. Cedar or redwood work best because both are naturally rot resistant. Or purchase a wood raised garden bed kit to make it even easier.
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Cinder Block Raised Garden Bed
Make a raised bed garden like this one from @myfirstbackyard with concrete cinder blocks. Cheap, easy and no digging required — just build it on top of the ground.
This is a great choice if you’ve got hard soil you don’t want to dig up. Decorate the blocks with outdoor paint to give your raised garden bed an artistic finish!
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Galvanized Steel Raised Garden Bed
Galvanized steel works because it’s resistant to rust and extremely durable. The steel also reflects heat, making your soil the ideal temperature for growing. These garden beds from @metalgardenbeds come with 26-gauge steel walls, corners and all the hardware you need to put them together.
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Tiered Raised Garden Bed
A raised garden on different levels, like this one from Plow & Hearth, lets you separate your plants for visual interest and easy identification. The tiers offer three planting depths to accommodate different root needs.
And if your flowers or vegetables have different soil requirements, fill each box with the appropriate type of soil.
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DIY Stacked-Stone Raised Garden Bed
The natural edges of this rough-cut stone raised garden bed gives it an organic look that blends seamlessly into the rest of the yard. This project doesn’t require any special skills, just some muscle to lift the stones. The only specialty tool you’ll need is a diamond blade in your circular saw.
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DIY Corrugated Metal and Wood Raised Garden Bed
Here’s another raised garden bed you can build yourself with corrugated metal sheets and pressure-treated wood. Keep in mind, filling this planter requires almost a cubic yard of soil. To save money, fill the lower half with another material, like plastic milk jugs (with caps screwed on tight) or plastic buckets placed upside down.
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PVC Raised Garden Bed
For a raised garden bed you can put together in minutes, check out this Deluxe Raised PVC Garden Bed. It features an easy snap-in-place assembly system, with no tools required! The high walls (15-1/2-inches), made of durable, maintenance-free UV-resistant polymer plastic, allow for deep-soil gardening.
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Brick Raised Garden Bed
A raised garden bed or path made from bricks or pavers is sturdy and long-lasting. As the bricks age with time, the material takes on more character, giving your garden space old world charm. The octagon shape makes an eye-catching statement and provides plenty of angles to tend to your plants.
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Woven Willow Raised Garden Bed
Woven willow garden beds and fences (AKA wattle) transform your basic garden into an enchanting English one.
Aesthetically, the organic material blends seamlessly with the rest of the landscape. And it’s great for your plants because the woven branches insulate the soil and allow good drainage and airflow.
Originally Published: May 24, 2022
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Multi-level flower beds - types, features of creation
Flower beds with multi-level compositions - a complex but interesting landscape design technique. They create an additional vertical on flat areas and help to cope with height differences in relief areas. We tell you how to use multi-level flower beds in garden design.
An example of a multi-level flower bed on the slope of a plot
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What is a multi-level flower bed and what landscape tasks does it solve
A multi-level flowerbed is a flower garden consisting of several tiers or stepped terraces. They are created with a strict geometric or arbitrary shape. An obligatory structural element is pockets in which ornamental plants are planted.
Multi-tiered flowerbeds will solve at least five landscaping challenges.
- Make volumetric smooth horizontal surfaces: lawn, paved area.
- You can zone the garden. nine0015 Hide the unevenness of the terrain, solving both functional (strengthening the soil on the slopes) and decorative tasks.
- Establish a compositional center and focal points by making the raised flower beds visible from all sides.
- Save space in a small area.
Multi-level flower beds beautifully frame the recreation area, separating it from the rest of the garden
Types of multi-level flower beds
Consider the features of building four types of multi-level flower beds and flower beds.
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Raised flowerbed
This is the name given to a small geometrically shaped flower garden rising above ground level. Its optimal height is 50-100 cm, diameter - no more than 150 cm. If you do more, it will be inconvenient to take care of the flowers.
In a raised flower bed, from 1 to 3 tiers are made, but more can be done.
Most often, raised flower beds are laid out in front of the main entrance or on the sides of it. Compositions look advantageous against the background of a green lawn or a carpet of ground cover plants. If dimensions allow, a multi-tiered flower garden can be arranged in the compositional center of the recreation area. nine0003
Original raised flower bed in the form of a snail
The walls of the raised flower bed are made of different materials: wood, brick, concrete blocks, natural stone. Gabions look interesting as a fence - wire structures filled with large pebbles.
Gabion flower bed railing
To make this decorative element of the garden look harmonious and the plants feel comfortable, three rules are recommended when designing a flower bed:
- arrange flowers of the same size on the same level;
- plant moisture-loving plants and perennials with large inflorescences at the bottom, on the upper tiers - drought-resistant and with small flowers;
- select plants with different flowering periods so that the flower bed remains blooming all season.
A three-tiered flower bed, partially overlapping a brick wall, creates a beautiful vertical
If the flower bed is single-tiered, tall plants are used as a compositional dominant in the center, decorative perennials are planted between them. Creeping plants are allowed along the edge, the hanging shoots of which will partially overlap the fence. nine0003
One-tier raised flower bed, nature style
Retaining wall
Initially, retaining walls were created solely for the practical purpose of preventing soil from sliding down the slope and creating a terrace suitable for agriculture. But nowadays they are used as a decorative element and part of multi-level flower beds.
Retaining walls are built close to a natural slope or artificial earth embankment to provide an elevated platform on which plants are planted. nine0003
Flower bed with retaining wall
The wall can frame a raised arrangement on one or more sides. Be rectangular, semicircular, curly configuration, repeat the natural line of the relief.
Unlike a raised flower bed, retaining walled flower beds are not limited in size and can be located anywhere in the garden.
The height of the retaining walls varies from 30 to 200 cm. The walls are built of rectangular stone, brick, concrete blocks, garden posts. Use masonry on mortar or dry. nine0003
A retaining wall made of porous blocks encloses a two-tier flower garden and separates one step from another
On retaining walls above 1 m, conifers, ornamental shrubs, tall perennials look good, on lower structures - creeping conifers, dwarf trees with a weeping crown, evergreen shrubs, ground cover plants.
Walls in the sunny corners of the garden will be decorated with phlox, alyssum, carnation, shaving, in shady places - bluebells, arabis, ferns, hostas. nine0003
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Terraced flower garden
Terraced flower garden can be arranged in areas with difficult terrain. This is a complex multi-level composition with small narrow terraces located one above the other.
Slope designed as a terraced flower garden
All terraces can be planted with the same plants or add a twist to each, but stylistically the terraces must be combined. To make it convenient to take care of the plants, a system of stairs and stone paths is organically included in the composition. Simplifies the care of dumping from decorative gravel. nine0003
A terraced flower bed follows the path of a garden path, making both elements look like a single entity.
Terraced flower beds look harmonious on large areas when they are correctly integrated into the natural landscape. If the size of the garden does not allow, but you want to do something similar, you can arrange a small composition as in the photo below.
Small pockets in the steps of the stairs made it possible to create an original terraced flower garden
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Architectural rockery
Another type of multilevel landscape composition is architectural rockery.
It looks like a terraced flower garden, but has a more complex design. It combines the garden and architectural elements into one whole: retaining walls, terraces, stairs, water features.
An obligatory element of rockeries is earthen pockets filled with plants and natural stone to imitate mountain relief. In architectural rockeries, low ornamental shrubs, dwarf and creeping conifers, alpine-type perennials, cereals, ground cover plants are planted. nine0003
In an architectural rockery, natural beauty is organically combined with man-made elements
We introduced you to the main types of multi-level flower beds and landscape compositions, but the human imagination is limitless. Search, experiment, be inspired by new ideas. We will be glad if our advice will help you decorate the garden with original flower beds.
Original flower beds and flower beds with your own hands - 27 photos of country design ideas nine0003
Any flowerbed made with love and attention absorbs the owner's energy, embodies her care and is in tune 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. Flower bed of long-flowering plants
This flower bed has several main color lines, low-growing in the foreground, medium-sized flowers in the middle. In the background are shrubs and tall plants. Gamma flower beds can be three-color. nine0003
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. nine0003
4. Flower bed in the stump of a sawn tree
If a large tree used to grow on your site, and now a stump stands lonely 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 shape of a flower - can decorate a summer cottage. Agree, this composition looks quite fresh and pretty. nine0003
6. A flower bed 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 flower bed for several seasons.
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. Flower bed along the walls of the house or veranda
There are countless options for such flowerbeds, 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, 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. nine0003
11. Combination of flower bed and gravel backfill around the patio
The flower bed can also be in the form of a half composition, a combination of gravel and plants.
12. Temporary flower bed of potted plants
Variant of interchangeable potted bed, the exposure can be changed regularly, depending on the flowering of the plants.
13. Accent flowerbed with decorative wheelbarrow
Nice solution - accent flowerbed with decorative elements: a wheelbarrow and a lantern. Even the simplest flowers in this composition look impressive.
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14. Vintage flowerbed 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. Timber raised bed
If you are interested in the use of wood in the design of flower beds, or maybe there are pieces of timber 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 woven in layers 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 the dacha! Now there are many hybrids that bloom almost all summer. Of course, care for roses is required, but what a beauty!!! nine0003
19. Fairy landscaping with gravel path
An inspiring example of pretty countryside design, the idea of freestyle is really tricky even though it seems like a simple enough solution. Such is the deceptiveness...
20. An old bed as a flower bed
Another example of the ambiguous idea of a flower bed. 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. nine0003
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. Vertical flowerbed idea
A beautiful idea for a vertical flower bed made from a wooden honeycomb base with earth. The idea is somewhat complex and possibly short-lived. However, why not?
25. Decorative flower beds
Decorative flower beds can be used to create 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.
