There are not many flowers in the garden! Until recently it seemed that creating a charming flowerbed, mixboarder, gravel flower garden or a hill, it is better to think of nothing. But time passes, new fresh ideas come to you, interesting varieties appear, and your flower garden does not seem to you as perfect as before. You have a desire to add something to it, reconstruct it, correct some strokes and mistakes. Spring is a good time to plan and plan for the next season the necessary changes. Creation of flower beds on the site is a long and complicated business.
Design: Let's start with the rules
It is necessary to take into account many factors in order that itbecame harmonious. And this does not always happen right away. One of the main rules for creating a flower arrangement is the selection of plants in height. In the rabbit or mixborder, low species should be planted closer to the lawn or the path, and near the flower bed along the edge. The seniors are located in the middle, the highest occupy a place in the background, and in the flowerbed - in the center. In the flower bed, plants are planted most often, observing the geometric pattern. In the mixborder, in order for the flower garden to look natural, plants of the required height must be assembled not "along the line", but by shifting a few of them. Either whole groups of plants shift toward lower or higher. There are other important factors in the formation of the flower garden, for example, the coloring of leaves or flowers. Only your taste, desire or mood matters here. But in addition, there are certain laws of harmony that dictate what colors are combined with each other and which are not. You can create a composition in one color - it will be interesting to look: white, pink, blue flower beds and even the whole garden. It will look great composition, which used different shades of the same color: two or three color or polychrome, variegated. No less important is the time of flowering of various plants and its duration. For beds, curbs, cottages, it is necessary to select either long flowering plants or decorative plants or, as they are called by flower growers, stably decorative. In mixborders, the rule is different: here, plants are picked up so that they alternate, bloom at different times and that from early spring until late autumn, the compositions consistently had flowering plants. Such a harmonious flower garden is not so easy to create. Therefore, achieving the desired result, the plants have to change more than once. 
Annuals: add brightness
Add color, brightness, and also every yearChange the appearance of your flower garden with annuals or annuals. Most often they are used to decorate flower beds, curbs, flower beds and carpet flower beds. In rockeries and mixborders they are left with special "pockets" or use places that are freed after digging out bulbous flowers and some types of biennials. Annuals are presented in a very wide range - from miniature lobelia and lobularia to such "large-sized", as kohii, castor-beans, clover and perilla. There are so many kinds that you can pick them for any style and type of flower beds, whether it's a mixboarder in natural, natural style or a ground flowerbed. And the endless variety of plants in color, external structure, the shape of flowers and inflorescences, as well as leaves, will give you the opportunity to change the appearance of your flower garden every year, adding new colors to it. Annual plants are planted in a flower garden in summer or in the spring, but the place under them can and should be prepared from autumn. In October, clean the flower gardens from the lost decorative or dead annuals. In the soil add compost or humus, a little potassium and phosphorus fertilizers, and if the soil is acidic, then dolomite flour or lime. The earth needs to be dug up on the entire bayonet of the shovel, turning the fertilizer down. To break and cultivate lumps is not necessary - the ground for the winter should leave with a lumpy uneven surface. In spring, when the soil is sufficiently dry and warmed up, it must be digested again, introducing complex or nitrogen fertilizers. Now the land needs to be cultivated, and when the necessary time, suitable for planting a particular plant, the annuals begin to plant.
Curbs: five reasons to create them
Around the flower beds you need curbs. There are several reasons for this:
- border prevents the penetration of grass into the flower garden from the lawn and weeds from the site;
- thanks to the curb from the flower beds will not "run away" decorative quickly growing plants, growing into a bush or into the lawn;
- when loosening the ground and watering the flower bed, the border prevents the soil from falling onto the paths;
- with the help of a curb you can effectively change the relief and shape of the flower garden;
- well, and most importantly: neatly edged crocheted flower beds look much more attractive and tidy.
So, if you do not have flower beds aroundcurbs, it's not too late to fix it. And autumn or spring is the best time for this. When creating a curb, you can use a variety of materials - paving slabs, bricks, asbestos strips. But in the garden centers special plastic strips are sold, which are most convenient for these purposes. They can be of different sizes, thickness, color, smooth or corrugated, in general, for every taste and necessity. Such strips should be dug vertically along the perimeter of landings. The upper edge should slightly, a couple of centimeters, protrude above the surface of the soil. With the help of these bands, you can also divide the flower garden into sectors in which different kinds of plants are planted. In addition, the curbs will help to effectively change the relief of the flower garden, raising various sectors relative to others. You can create a natural border. For this purpose, there are special types of plants. Most suitable for this are stably decorative cultures, low- and medium-sized, which grow weakly. Curb plants should be planted, given their requirements for lighting. Suitable for these purposes are both annuals and perennials. Very good looking curb, which is made up of one compact low-growing species. Properly selected border is capable of giving the flower garden a finished look. The flower frame will decorate even a far from perfect composition. 
Restrict the spread of aggressive plants
When creating a flower garden, you need to know how muchdifferent types of plants can exist together. Aggressive, rapidly growing annuals, for mixborders to use do not recommend: they clog other cultures, often not for the better, changing the flower garden. There are plants that have long roots spreading in all directions, so it's not enough to cut off shoots. Very quickly they grow back again. Digging up the sprouts is also not so easy. Often they grow into other plants, and it can be very difficult to separate them. And therefore, when planting cypress dribbler, pinworm, pinewood, reed grass, forest anemone, Miscanthus saharotsvetkovogo, mannik large and others like plants, it is necessary to limit the area of their growth. This can be done by digging a metal or plastic tape on the perimeter into the soil to a depth of at least thirty centimeters. It is even easier to plant plants in a spacious container with large openings in it or without any bottom, digging it in the necessary place of the flower bed so that the top edge protrudes slightly above the surface of the soil.
Bulbous: a change of scenery
Creation of an onion flower garden starts from the middleAugust, planting small-bulbous and bulbous plants from this time until the middle of October. Such ones as daffodils, muscari, hazel grouses, and spruce can grow without a graft and for many years. For four or five years, they do not dig out the varieties of tulips from Greig's groups, Botanical and Kaufman. Such species are planted in rows or groups among perennials. Sorts of tulips, which require an annual excavation, can be planted in special cassettes, which have large holes in the bottom. This facilitates the process of excavating plants. Such dug cassettes with bulbous to yellowing foliage are buried in the garden, getting quality bulbs that can bloom as early as next year. 
Different sides of the same flower garden
When creating a flower garden, you need to focus onplants that are decorative throughout the season: summer-to-autumn annuals, grasses and coniferous plants that flower the structure. You can add small architectural forms - vases or statues that will create a character composition or a certain mood. Such a flower garden can become a link that will unite the different parts of the garden. Let's consider some methods of flower decoration when creating flower beds of various compositions. "Angelic white" In this composition the flower garden is performed in spectacular white. In the spring you will be pleased with the "foaming" blossoming curb from the creeping and croquant vines, and a little later the "horned violet" that blossoms all the summer. This is a rare variety, so it can be replaced, depending on the desire, by others. A little later will open its snow-white inflorescences astilba simple-leaved. Then a blooming white wave is picked up by petunia. After that, the white caps of the inflorescences will spread a luxurious hydrangea. "Gold of Nuance" Such a composition is constructed, as the name suggests, on the nuance of yellow-golden tones. In it, from June until frosts, long-term coreopsis will please you with long flowering. The bright yellow flowers are echoed by tagetes. Adds a spectacular color barberry - strokes on or light spots on the green leaves. It is good because it tolerates unfavorable conditions. To decorate the composition, the bush should be cut, giving it a rounded shape. Well, the main accent of the composition, which will incredibly decorate it, will be a juniper medium (Old Gold). "Changes" A can be used abundantly for the composition along with perennials of annuals, which gives wide scope for renewal of the flower garden annually. This includes the koleus, the ampel form of the petunia garden, and the kohia. All these plants are unpretentious except that the hybrid koleus requires a sunny place for the brightness of its color, so under this part of the flower garden, take the open place.
Recommendations
Planning and redevelopment of the flower garden requires a careful approach. It is important to consider a variety of factors, both aesthetic and botanical, to correct mistakes made and not to make new ones.
- Make a list of all the shortcomings that you would like to change in the flower garden and analyze the reasons why it was not decorative enough.
- Mark the dead plants in the list and identify possible causes of their death.
- Write a list of plants that you would like to see in your flower garden, taking into account the ecology of your site.
- Analyze how new plants fit into the existing flower garden, based on the size, the flowering period and the type of foliage.
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