Flower beds in the country do it yourself
Having bought a cottage, leave at least a small plot for flower beds. Flowering flower beds will make the atmosphere of your country residence much more pleasant and will leave a positive impression
Russia’s summer residents are more busy with breeding vegetables, preferring in this way to solve their financial problems. However, it is worth paying attention to and planning a flower bed in the country, since luxury flower beds will not only create an attractive appearance, but will allow them to hold holidays on the country area with maximum benefit.
How to plan landing
If a person has never been engaged in creating a flower at the cottage with his own hands, it is worth going to the case with patience and stock paper and pencil to pose an approximate drawing. Also worth thinking, flower beds or flower beds will fit the plot. It’s almost the same. Flowerbed differs from the flower garden only with the right geometric shapes.
Planning should include such highlights:
- allocation of a suitable land plot;
- Creating borders with decorative elements;
- marking paths;
- Planting flowers.
It would seem that all these items are easy. In fact, the amateur gardener will have to pick up the most suitable area for placing flower beds and flower beds in the country that should be well covered.
It is necessary to take care of the boundaries that will not allow landings to grow. It is here that creative ideas will be useful, with the help of which each flowerba will be fraught with taste.
But the main task is to choose flowers so that the flower beds look at harmonious and attractive. It is necessary to take into account not only the color of each plant, as well as their individual traits, deposit methods, flowering time.
Nuances of decoration
To create colorful neat flower beds, you need to learn how to choose the color gamut. Only in this case the flower garden will look presentable.
There are only 4 rules capable of facilitating the work and suggest how to arrange flower beds in the country:
- If desired, emphasize the attention of acquaintances for some part of the flower beds, should be planted on this site of the plant, the flowers of which are painted with the same tone;
- Do not seek too much diversity. The flower garden must contain no more than 5 different plants;
- Do not need summer beds to create, mixing together warm and cold color shades;
- You can get a great design, harmoniously connecting soft and bright colors.
Of course, each gardener decides on their own, how to make a flower bed. First of all, a person focuses on his own creative gust. However, it is worth listening to the advice of professionals, so that the cottage looks well-groomed and caused delight from the neighbors.
Strongly flooded landings with an abundance of flowering plants look not too neat and beautiful. Better decorate the composition with decorative leaves. By the way, even in the absence of flowering, they will attract attention.
We use landscape landscape design. It is not necessary to build a pond and slides. Enough to take note of the idea of multi-tiered flower beds. If, on the contrary, a person wants to preserve the natural beauty of the site, it is worth taking care that the transition from a flower bed to a path was smooth. For this you need to plant low plants away from the center of the flower bed.
In order for the garden throughout the summer, pleased with the eye, it is necessary to take care of changing flowing plants. It is enough to place a flower leaf so that flowers producing buds at different times. It is possible to significantly reduce the time spent on caring for flowers, if you stop the choice on perennial plants.
Beautifully arrange a flowering flowering calendar. True, it should be taken into account, in which region there is a garden plot, as flowering in Siberia begins for 1-1.5 months later than in the central part.
Since March, plants such as crocuses, hyacinths, muscari and frozen begin to bloom. In April, you are happy forget-me-not and golden doronicums. In May, it comes to Lilan, Iris and Lily.
In July, they are activated by Petunia, Maks, Natrestyanki and Nasturtia. July – month of lilies, velvetsev, lavender, fragrant peas and phloxes. For August, Hydrangees, Georgina, Chrysanthemums and Astra are characterized.
Gladiolus and zinnia wake up with the arrival of autumn. October is rich in blooming crocuses and decorative cabbage.
In addition to the flowering period, it is necessary to take into account the compatibility of plants. Some species are very bad at close cultivation.
How to be if decorative or berry bushes are already planted on the selected site, really have to destroy landing? Unfortunately, the preservation of previous landings is often caused by a tasteless approach to the design. Therefore, it is desirable to choose an empty section for a flower garden or planted by plants that can be transplant to another zone.
Almost from the first spring month and before the onset of cold weather, the garden may look unusually bright if the owner will not regret the time and will carefully care for landings.
Some home landlords are confident that such concepts like a country garden and landscape design are incompatible. In their opinion, the garden and garden must bring practical benefit. However, creating a small flowerbed, a person brings a special mood to the atmosphere of the garden, with whom the work arises much faster.
Types of decorative landing
What ideas are easiest to embody in the country? Rice clubs are very popular with gardeners. This is a rectangular land planted by low plants. Using various species, you can create a stunning multicolored pattern.
It should be noted that this particular type of landing is considered to be the most difficult, as it requires to take into account the compatibility of colors and the disclosure timing. Also, carpet flower beds need careful care.
It is much easier to make an irregular flower garden, in which plants during flowering overlap each other. The simplest idea is a flower bed, which smeared one type of plants. A similar idea will be an excellent start in difficult design art.
If it is decided to plant annual plants, it is worth taking care of the borders of the flower bed, since the resulting flowers will break the landing line. To limit their distribution, special inexpensive plastic borders are used, which are bought in the soil by 10-13 cm.
Carpets are needed in a monthly haircut, only in this way you can save the original pattern. Perennial cultures periodically thinning and cut.
Do not stop there. Starting with a flower bed, a small flower garden in the country with their own hands, you can try your strength and creating a luxurious rosary. Who knows, perhaps, a few years later, the usual cottage will turn into a magical flowering garden?