Creating a flower garden is one of the forms of creative self-expression

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A successfully created, original, beautifully blooming flower bed is almost always the embodiment of creative ideas on a certain piece of land. To get the desired result, you should realistically assess the available space, financial and physical capabilities. Experts recommend starting with planning and taking into account your own wishes, choosing a flower bed design, creating a floral masterpiece with your own hands.

Beautiful pink flowers for decoration

Very beautiful flower garden

A flower bed in the country

The landscape design of the flower bed combines not only a variegated flower garden of flowers planted in a row, but also curbs, garden paths, front gardens, mixborders formed around them with appropriate planting boundaries and the ability to organize vertical gardening.

Having free space and the desire to create a masterpiece with their own hands, many summer residents strive not only to break the central flower bed on their site, but to build a rose garden or alpine slide, to create a garden of continuous flowering. Depending on the exterior of the house and the chosen style, an appropriate design of flower beds is created..

Beautiful decoration with flowers and trees

Beautiful flowers for decoration

Get inspired to create a flower garden with your own hands

It has long been observed that what gives pleasure is the best inspiration. To build a flower bed in the country with your own hands, and then admire the result, you need to draw up a site plan for laying the future flower garden. Armed with a pencil and a piece of paper, draw a schematic plan based on the actual dimensions of the future flower bed. It is necessary to plan a place for a flower garden with the most favorable sunlight. Many plants need shade or partial shade, this should be taken into account when planting plants and flowers. If the site is located on level ground, then you should protect the plantings from strong winds by erecting a fence or planting resistant plants on the leeward side..

A fascinating activity – decorating a flower garden on a site with a strong slope. There is a place for imagination, the implementation of the most daring ideas, from creating a patio, platforms at different levels, to decorating a terrace.

Red flowers in the design of the cottage

Curly flowers in the design of the cottage

Beautiful flowers and trees in the design of the cottage

Classic rose garden or decorative perennial flower bed

Before you break a flower bed with your own hands, focus on three points: the location of the site;
its size and shape;
soil condition.

In the process of creativity, people often act spontaneously, using their own intuition, but sometimes it will not be superfluous to take into account the advice of experienced florists. The flower bed should be placed in a place that will often catch your eye and create a good mood every day. The design option for a front flower garden is an effective way to show off to neighbors, passers-by, created by a creative creation.

Decorating a summer cottage with flowers

Flowers in pots for decoration

There are the following types of flower garden:

a flower bed arranged along the perimeter of a plot with a fence as the main background;
option in the form of a rectangular bed;
an island flower garden located in the middle of the lawn;
flower bed-peninsula;
a flower garden located directly under the wall of the house.

Each person has their own preferences in choosing flowers for a flower bed. Someone cannot imagine a flower garden without roses, but someone likes lilies, peonies, tulips, irises or gladioli. Focusing on your taste and preferences, create a stylish monoclumba of roses or a colorful mixborder.

Drawing up the general layout, I want to create a continuous flowering flower bed with my own hands in order to admire the flowers from early spring to the first autumn frosts. Developing your own design of a flower bed, first on paper, and then in kind, involves planting perennials and annual plants.

Elegant decoration with flowers of a summer cottage

Flower bed with beautiful flowers

Color options for decorating a summer cottage

The use of various decor by practical hosts

Ideas for decorating flower beds with your own hands involve the use of improvised means. Old baskets, household utensils and even old galoshes, rubber boots, in which blooming petunia, other annual or bulbous flowers look organically, are used. The harmonious design of the flower beds is complemented by paving slabs, framed with concrete borders, as well as an inexpensive, interesting solution – decoration with old car tires and plastic bottles. In the garden, old stumps, decks, overturned wooden barrels, ceramic jugs in which climbing vines and ampel varieties of plants will grow are used as containers for a flower garden.

Flowers for a summer residence

Beautiful bouquet of flowers in the country

You can create beauty from improvised materials; natural stone and brick left over from the construction site, broken furniture and unnecessary things in the household are used to equip a flower garden. For the environment, hedges, green shrubs are used. All kinds of vases, figurines become an excellent addition to the created composition.

It is not enough just to plant plants randomly, you need to monitor the appearance of weeds and weed them in time, and also not to let annual plants grow strongly, occupying the space between perennials.

Flower arch

Flowers in pots for decorating a summer cottage

Path with flowers

Various colors or monochrome flower garden

The site does not have to be a riot of color, the planted plants in the same color scheme will become a beautiful oasis. By combining colors and styles, experienced gardeners create a constant flowering mixborder. It is recommended to use more than two dozen varieties of plants, grouping them by plant height and by the timing of future flowering..

Having compiled a list and determined the location of perennials, they select flowers with similar needs for moisture, light and watering frequency.

Roses on the fence

Conifers in the landscape design of summer cottages

List of seasonality of perennial flowering:

muscari, daisies, anemones, saffron, crocuses, snowdrops, hyacinths, tulips and daffodils bloom in spring;
lilies, chamomiles, daylilies, gladioli, hosts, peonies, irises, echinacea delight in summer;
autumn gives chrysanthemums, dahlias, coreopsis.

Having dealt with perennials, planting them in the ground in a permanent place, in the resulting voids, they sow or plant seedlings of unpretentious annuals.

Tall and low-growing marigolds, asters of various varieties, nasturtiums, surfinia, petunias, balsam, and other flowers with a long flowering period will perfectly complement the design of the flower bed. All-season plants, such as conifers or shrubs with beautiful foliage, look attractive. In the design of flower beds, boxwood is often used, forming evenly trimmed borders of bushes, green foliage of ferns.

Decorative cereals (reed grass, sheep, miscanthus, millet, foxtail pennisetum) perfectly complement flower arrangements.

Option for decorating a suburban area with flowers

Flowers for a summer residence

Big beautiful white flowers

Installation and other extraordinary methods in the design of a flower garden

To create interesting thematic installations, they use several containers with planted flowers, ceramic figurines of animals, birds, fairy-tale characters, add a solar flashlight, a scattering of large and small stones of different colors and other stylish decor elements that complement the composition. A small artificial reservoir looks stylish from a container filled with water and a pair of green “frogs” surrounded by creeping flowers and sedges. An impromptu trickle is obtained from a jug lying horizontally, from which flower water flows.

Making the most of the natural landscape, they create original alpine slides. Placing all the elements correctly, they begin to plant the plants from top to bottom, choosing the central element. An artificial reservoir is often installed to decorate the flower bed..

Option of flowers for giving

Beautiful flowers in the flowerbed

A hit in landscape design is the rockery created by your own hands, which combines succulents, stone and other plants. The original flower beds have non-standard shapes from a triangle to an ellipse, a polygon to a star, a moth flower bed, a clock face. When creating a flower garden with their own hands, decorate flower beds, streams, compositions in the form of butterflies.

The aesthetically complete version of the flowerbed design and the design of the entire summer cottage combines a tastefully decorated flower garden with garden furniture and other decorative elements: lanterns, lamps, wrought iron elements, figurines.

A self-made vertical flower garden combines one or more climbing and ampelous plants on a support. All varieties of clematis and morning glory are perfect for vertical gardening. Do not be afraid to fantasize and arrange plants to create the perfect flower garden arrangement. Go for it and you will succeed!

Expert opinion Alina Kvileva.