All flower lovers try to create a constantly blooming garden, but if the land is not very large, then a chic flower bed is quite enough. For her, you can pick up decorative crops that bloom alternately during the warm period, from early spring to late autumn. The choice can be stopped both on annual and perennial crops, as well as textured conifers or unusual cereal plants.

Flowers for a bed of continuous flowering

The flower bed will be full of flowers already in early spring, if primroses are planted on it: blueberry, chionodox, muscari, fragrant hyacinths and a variety of crocuses, as well as bright hellebore. These first flowers will be very welcome after the winter and will decorate the first days of spring with their colors.

Primroses will be replaced by anemones, primroses and blue periwinkle.

As well as beautiful, diverse and very spectacular petunias and violas.

Not a single flower bed can do without daffodils and tulips, the choice of which is so great that it will satisfy the tastes of even the most picky grower.

Recently, more and more free corners of the garden are decorated with miniature botanical tulips. The most popular varieties are Urumi, Heger "Little Princess", Tarda. It should be noted that the tulip is excellent, which produces 3 flowers of bright red color with pointed petals from one stem.

Be sure to provide a place for a bush of fragrant peony, root or tree. Both representatives are famous for their huge double flowers.

At the same time, imperial hazel grouse and bearded irises begin to show off.

Closer to hot summer days, poppies, snapdragons and dicentra with its broken heart-flowers will bloom.

Neat islands of the Gargan bell, which can be planted at the very foot, near stones, a border or other fence of a flower oasis, will also look good on a flowering flower bed. For the same purposes, you can use all kinds of stonecrops, shaving, rocky alissum and awl-shaped phlox.

The flowering mats of these ground cover plants make a great backdrop for any large plant, giving the soil a fabulous look.

And, of course, you can not ignore the queen of flower beds - a rose. Decorating a limited plot of land, you can opt for standard representatives or spectacular climbing roses.

You can use a not so common shriveled rose, better known as a variety of large-fruited wild rose. Its flowers, up to 8 cm in diameter, are not only beautiful, but also have a wonderful aroma.

And in the fall, this bush will also please with huge fruits, up to 3 cm, very noticeable against the background of fading crimson foliage.

Lilies are no less original. Currently, breeders can please both complex specimens with huge fragrant flowers up to 20 cm in diameter, and completely unpretentious oriental or Asian hybrids.

The flower garden will not fade if phloxes, mattiola, are planted on it. Their rich colors and pleasant smells fill the air until autumn.

On cooler days, asters, autumn marigolds, dahlias and chrysanthemums, which bloom until the first frost, will begin to delight.

Having planted several unusual plants in the flower garden, such as cylindrical emperor, Chinese miscanthus, evergreen oatmeal or sedge, in combination with juniper or western thuja, you can admire the flower bed in winter, when the first snow or frost decorates these plants.

Perennial spring flowers for flower beds

Snowdrop (Galanthus)

This flower is popular with flower growers due to flowering when there is still snow around. The plant is distinguished by a small height of 12-15 centimeters with two leaves. The wild species blooms early in April, as soon as the snow melts and even against the backdrop of snow. There are also garden species that can be successfully grown. The plant loves areas that do not receive direct sunlight.

It is not whimsical to soils, but does not like excessively moistened places. Since garden snowdrop species originated from wild plants, they are very hardy plants.

Reproduction occurs in two ways:

• Seeds that are sown in the summer without pre-treatment after they are collected from plants. But this path is long, due to the fact that the first shoots will appear only in the spring of next year. After strengthening the young plants, they are transplanted to a permanent place.
• Bulbs: they are dug up in the second half of summer, the baby is separated, dried and planted in a permanent place in early autumn. The distance when planting for large bulbs is 7-10 centimeters from each other, and small bulbs are planted at a distance of 3-5 centimeters from each other.

Scylla (blue snowdrop)

A plant of the lily family, for earlier flowering and blue flowers and got its name. The plant has bright green and wide leaves, which are arranged in rosettes of 3-4 pieces and several beautiful blue flowers.

Flowers prefer loose and semi-dark soils. They tolerate winter well, multiply like a snowdrop (by seeds and bulbs). When sowing seeds, seedlings appear only in the 3-5th year. Excellent for forcing for early flowering in the middle of winter.

Muscari (Mouse Hyacinth)

A beautiful plant from the lily family. Flowers of different colors: blue, white, lilac-blue. Frost-resistant, grows in one place for 4-5 years. It propagates like all bulbous plants by a baby, less often by seeds, since seedlings appear only after a few years.

Bulbs are planted at the end of summer, flowers appear on plants the next year. Widely used in distillation.

Crocus

It is one of the most common early flowering plants. There are crocuses that bloom in early spring, and there are those that bloom late in autumn. Plants are small up to 14 centimeters, flowers have a different color (from white to yellow).

A rare feature of the plant is the leaves that grow only after flowering has ended. For propagation, corms, baby and seeds are used. It lends itself very well to distillation and blooms profusely in winter.

To obtain fresh and beautiful flowers in winter, late autumn into a prepared mixture consisting of two parts of soddy land and one part of leaf humus and river sand. After about two months, the crocus blooms.

daffodils

Widespread among flower lovers for early flowering and beautiful, pleasantly smelling flowers. For these flowers, a richly fertilized and well-loosened soil is prepared. Bulbs should be planted in autumn (September-October) at a shallow depth (about 10 cm) and mulched with humus. Bulbs overwinter and bloom profusely in spring.

It mainly reproduces by baby (small bulbs), they are selected from large ones at the end of summer, dried and planted in September. Also, like crocuses, they are suitable for winter forcing, it is important not to forget to constantly keep the ground moist.

Tulip

Bulbous plant of the lily family. Currently, more than 120 wild flower species have been studied and several thousand varieties and hybrids have been bred as garden flowers. Tulips are divided into 4 groups: early-blooming, medium-blooming, late-blooming and wild-growing.

Propagated by seeds or vegetatively. But in practice, they use reproduction by bulbs and baby, for this, at the end of summer, when the leaves of the plant are already dry, they dig out the bulbs. They are well dried and separated small from large.

Bulbs larger than 2 centimeters in diameter can already be used for flowering, smaller ones require one or two years of growing.

Tulips love loose, well-fertilized soils with normal light. These flowers do not like dimly lit places and acidic soils, on which plants will develop poorly and often get sick.

Tulips are the best indoor forcing flowers. At the end of September, the best bulbs are taken and planted in pots, one bulb each. A soil mixture is prepared from soddy soil mixed with humus and sand.

The earth in pots is watered abundantly, and sprinkled with sawdust to preserve moisture. Then put for 1.5-2 months in a room with a temperature of no more than 3-7 degrees. After that, the pots are placed on a warm windowsill, and after 25-30 days the plants bloom. Cut flowers of tulips are stored in fresh cold water for a long time, for which they are especially popular in the flower industry.

These flowers for a flower bed are unpretentious both to the soil and to care, so even a novice amateur grower can handle their cultivation.

Iris perennial for flower beds

This flower has a special grace. It is impossible to look away from his regal beauty and amazingly refined form. Translated from Greek, "iris" means rainbow. According to legend, the goddess Irida descended to earth to people precisely by the rainbow. These flowers received this name back in the 4th century BC.

There is a very interesting legend about how the flower spread throughout the earth. Initially, irises grew only in ancient Asia, but the birds that inhabited the forests and gardens there spread the seeds of this plant all over the world.

The well-known city of Florence got its name only because all its borders were planted with blooming irises.

Today there are more than 250 types of irises. They grow on all continents. Only in the latitudes of modern Russia can be counted about 60 species of this flower. Iris distant, and more ancient relative of gladiolus.

Among the variety of irises, the most popular are: Siberian, bearded and Japanese species. Also very popular marsh species of iris bright yellow.

The bearded iris is a very interesting flower. Along the edge of its petal are delicate, colored hairs, which in their appearance are very reminiscent of a beard.

A feature of Siberian irises is their special resistance to low temperatures and unpretentiousness to growing conditions.

Japanese longest retain their decorative appearance and flowering. You can separate them once every seven years, in early autumn or spring.

Swamp iris is a wild plant, but it is very attractive to people with its bright yellow color. The swamp iris propagates by seeds, which, falling into the water, are easily localized in new places of growth.

Peony perennial for flower beds

This amazingly beautiful flower can rightfully be called the king among plants. In addition to its bright color, peony has a special, very delicate aroma. It cannot be confused with other colors.

Few people know that the peony is endowed with a deep philosophical meaning. According to the oldest records of Chinese scientists, peonies symbolize the fundamental positions of any person - love and family.

These light, seemingly weightless plants attract with their bright and large flowers. Some types of poppy have different color buds. Shades range from pure white to rich tones of magenta and violet.

Feature poppy - quickly falling flower petals. Also, a poppy box produces the largest number of very small seeds. Their number can reach more than 300 thousand pieces in one flower.

Poppy is widely used both for medicinal purposes and in cooking. Therefore, poppies can often be seen in home gardens, gardens, orchards. Due to their unique beauty, poppies are planted in flowerbeds with a purely decorative function.

Poppies make wonderful compositions with other flowers. Flower arrangements of poppies of various color shades look interesting.

Poppy has become widespread not only due to its decorative, medicinal and practical properties. Poppies are very unpretentious in care. It can be planted in any soil, it will delight you with bright flowers for more than one year.

This perennial, herbaceous plant is not often found in flower beds or in the garden. However, with their colors they are able to decorate any area. Anemones look especially impressive against the background of stones in combination with other plants.

The anemone belongs to the buttercup family and has more than 120 different species. As a rule, this heat-loving plant grows well in the southern temperature zone.

The ancient Greeks called anemones the "daughter of the winds". They believed that the wind helps the flower bud open or close. But, of course, it is not. In fact, anemone flowers are so delicate that under the influence of the wind, large, but rather fragile petals fold.

Anemones are rather long plants. Thin stems reach up to 50 cm in height. Depending on the type of flower, the color of the petals and sepals of the plant changes.

Anemones gained popularity due to their long flowering. All summer and autumn they will delight with their color. Anemones make beautiful compositions with shrubs and trees.

Approaching creatively, with love and knowledge of the matter, you can turn any piece of land into a piece of paradise, which will delight with its unfading beauty, color change and lively texture. The main thing to remember is that you should not plant everything, choose only what is closer in spirit and mood.

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Photo gallery of flowers for flower beds

Leafing through glossy landscape design magazines, you, sighing more than once, asked yourself the question: “How can you create such beauty with your own hands?” Naturally, in order to create landscape compositions, whether it be a flower bed, an alpine hill or a stream, certain knowledge is needed.

Video piggy bank of ideas for creating a flower paradise in the country

How to break a flower garden: options for resolving the issue

If you do not have sufficient knowledge about how to set up a flower garden in a summer cottage, but you nevertheless take up its creation with enthusiasm, the result may not meet your expectations. What is the way out of the situation?

Spring riot of colors

There are several options:

- enroll in landscape design courses, pay a tidy sum for them, spend several months and gain basic knowledge about plants, soil and flower beds. But you still have to create flower beds on your own, making annoying mistakes and mistakes.

- choose a simpler method that will give a guaranteed result - use ready-made flower garden schemes suitable for the conditions of your summer cottage.

Do you have a desire to create? Then I advise you to choose the second, more affordable option. This option is not as complicated as it seems at first glance, if you have ready-made schemes and designs for flower beds. After studying them, you can do “drawing flowers” ​​- create a flower bed of your dreams with your own hands.

Choosing a place for a flower bed

First of all, on the plan of the summer cottage, it is necessary to determine the place for the flower bed. A flower bed can be different: a rabatka or a mixborder along the path, an arabesque flower bed against the backdrop of a lawn, a rustic or romantic flower bed in a shady corner of the garden.

The forms of flower beds are also different: geometric and free. Which flower garden to choose - it all depends on the landscape design of the site and your preferences.

Flower garden-mixborder

On the plan of the flower garden, it is necessary to note the illuminated and shady places. This is very important for choosing the right assortment of plants and creating optimal conditions for their development and flowering.

These rules must be followed when forming a flower garden of continuous flowering, or, as it is also called, the “flower garden of four seasons”. These flower beds look beautiful all year round.

Flower garden of four seasons - the dream of any summer resident

The right combination of perennials makes it possible to contemplate the blooming splendor of plants for a whole season - from spring to late autumn. If you supplement the flower garden with conifers and some types of tall grasses, as well as a periwinkle or tenacious border, the flower bed will remain elegant even in winter.

When choosing plants for a continuous flowering flower bed, it must be remembered that the number of plant species depends on the size of the flower bed. If the flower garden is small, and there are too many perennials, instead of a sense of harmony, we get the completely opposite effect - a feeling of disorder and discomfort.

Low-growing perennials reveal their beauty in large groups. Their correct placement in the flower bed will appear during flowering. Undersized perennials blooming in spring (snowdrops, primroses, muscari, hyacinths) are placed in the foreground.

Four Seasons Flower Garden

Plants of medium height (tulips, pyrethrums, digitalis) will occupy the middle part of the flower bed. The background will remain behind the high summer and autumn perennials - stonecrops, chrysanthemums, septembers. Herbs are planted between them - a cuff and a gray fescue.

Naturally, you should not count on the fact that in one season you will be able to create an ideal flower garden project. Therefore, if there is no experience, it is better to start with simpler flower beds.
Mistakes can be corrected by planting annual flowers between perennials.

Do-it-yourself flower beds according to ready-made schemes - you can’t imagine easier

Here are examples of decorating a garden with your own hands, using ready-made flower garden schemes.

"Piece of cake" in the corner of the garden

The shape of the flower garden resembles a piece of cake with a diameter of 2 meters. This flower garden will find a place in any corner of your garden. The color scheme of the flower bed is red-crimson and silver.

Sketch of the flower garden "Piece of Cake"

Scheme of the flower garden "piece of cake"

1. In the corner of the flower bed we plant a daylily of dark red color "Ed Murray" - 3 bushes.

2. Silvery leaves of wormwood "Silver Queen" will emphasize the beauty of velvet daylily flowers and create a favorable background for geyhera - 4 copies.

3. Macedonian corostavnik, variety "Mars Midget" dark red - 6 copies.

4. Geichera with burgundy leaves - 6 bushes.

5. The wide part of the flower bed will be decorated with silver leaves of the chistets. We plant 5 copies.

Flower garden layout for the impatient

If you really want to see the fruits of your labors this year, I propose a flower bed scheme for the impatient. Its peculiarity is that all plants require a lot of sun. The background for this flower bed will be a fence, a blank wall or a group of coniferous plants.

Sketch of a "flower garden for the impatient"

Scheme "Flower garden for the impatient"

1. In the background of the flower garden, we plant stock-roses of white, red and yellow.
2. Decorative sunflower, with bright yellow inflorescences-baskets, will complement the background.
3. Icelandic poppy will make the flower bed even brighter with its flowers.
4. Cardinal lobelia will lie in a red ribbon in the flower garden.

Blue-blue accents in the flower garden will place:
6. Kotovnik.
7. Poskharsky's bell.
8. Blue katananhe.

Bright red spots will create:
9. Feuerbal gravel.
10. Stonecrop "Matrona" will please with its splendor in the fall.
11. Blood red geyhera leaves will decorate the flower bed until frost.

Mixed flower beds

A flower garden of continuous flowering can be made more vivid and expressive if perennial and annual plants are planted in it. When planning the creation of such a flower garden, we take all the same perennials as a basis, we plant annuals in the free places between them, which will decorate the flower bed with abundant and long flowering.

The use of annuals is ideal when you need to cover unsightly places in the flower bed after perennials, for example, bulbs, have faded.

It is better to start the process of creating a mixed flower bed, armed with a sheet of paper and colored pencils. On the plan of the flower garden, which is based on perennials, between faded plants or in their place, taking into account the color scheme and flowering time, we “write” annuals with pencils. Thus, you can perfectly match the combination of colors in a mixed flower bed.

Scheme of a bright flower bed of annuals and perennials

Do you love everything bright? I offer you a project of a flower garden, which will become a real decoration of your dacha. It is so simple that even a "teapot" can create it. The color scheme is red, orange, pink and purple tones, and, of course, the bright green of the leaves.

Bright summer flowerbed

In the background of the flower beds we plant a perennial heliotrope tree (1), the middle tier of the flower bed forms Sander's tobacco with scarlet flowers (2) and terry bright orange marigolds (3). In the parterre, the flowerbeds gave place to the pink New Guinean balsam (4).

Floral arrangement with dahlias

Although dahlias are perennials that require special care: digging up in the fall and storing in the basement in the winter, many gardeners really like them. Bright and expressive, dahlias will perfectly fit into a summer flower bed. The peak of flowering of these beauties falls on July-September.

In our flower garden scheme, a bright yellow dahlia (1) is located in the center of the flower bed, next to it is a blue delphinium hybrid (2) and a monard (3). The lower part of the flower bed is reserved for the common dubrovnik (4).

To make this flower bed look well-groomed, it is necessary to regularly remove wilted flowers of monarda and dahlias. If, after the first flowering, all flower stalks are removed from the delphinium, at the end of summer it will bloom again.

A flower bed in white and green tones: a scheme of a flower garden from annuals

If you need to lighten up a dark corner of the garden, or bright flowers annoy you, you can use the ready-made annual flower garden scheme, which looks very noble and sophisticated.

Green and white flower bed

Only three plants were planted at the club: smooth mollucella (1), tailed amaranth (2), large snapdragon (3), but they created a stunning effect.

Create an illusion with a flower garden

If your site has a dry stream, plants are planted on its banks. You will probably be wondering: how to properly break a flower garden around a dry stream to create the illusion of cool murmuring water? Here is one of the possible options.

The stream bed is filled with large round pebbles. The stones in the center are painted blue. You can use blue glass balls for decoration. All these design "tricks" together with plants of cold colors will create a feeling of dynamics and coolness.

From the blue stream...

Bamboo leaf (1) will give the composition a sense of volume. If there is no bamboo, we can replace it with an ostrich. Bearded iris hybrids (2) will find their place on the bank of the stream, next to them lobelia (3) and creeping tenacious (4) will feel good. Downstream, between the boulders, lush bushes of the Poskharsky bluebell (5), hybrids of obrieta (6) and large-leaved bruner (7) will grow. Bright greenery will be added by awl-leaved bryozoan (8). The whole composition will be completed by a tenacious creeping red (9).

Every summer resident would dream that his garden would be fragrant and delight with a beautiful view for as long as possible. The scheme of a flower bed of perennials of continuous flowering will make this idea a reality and enjoy the beauty and smell of planted flowers throughout the summer.

Basic moments

For a novice gardener, the question of how to create a flower bed of continuous flowering can lead to a dead end, but experienced summer residents know that the secret of creating it is very simple. When compiling such a flower garden and selecting plants, you only need to know exactly in what period they will bloom. By planting several varieties on the same bed, which will gradually replace each other, you can not worry that the site will look untidy or empty.

Some may think that this is a fairly simple job. Indeed, there is nothing easier - to plant flowers with different flowering periods and just enjoy the work done. But at this moment it is important to take into account all the nuances of such flower beds. First of all, take into account that each planting needs different care, excellent watering levels, illumination, soil conditions, and much, much more. Therefore, when planning a mixborder, you need to select all those varieties that have similar care requirements.

Plants for a flower bed of continuous flowering, as it has already become known, are selected carefully, but even with 5-6 different types of plantings, you can create an amazing and unique mixborder. The main rule, which is important to observe both in the preparation of small beds and large lawns, is considered to be a more or less accurate calculation of flowering periods. Usually it does not exceed a couple of weeks. In order to somewhat smooth out the moment of withering of some buds and the blooming of others, some deciduous plants with a high decorative effect should also be placed on the garden bed.

In order to make it easier to navigate, it is better to draw a rough plan on a sheet with a mark on the types of flowers that will grow. So, if it is planned to create a flower garden in a vast open area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe summer cottage, then the scheme of a flower bed of continuous flowering perennials should look like this:

• The center of the whole composition should be higher varieties of plantations. Here it is also permissible to place plants that do not bloom, but create a decorative effect. However, it is not recommended to concentrate them in one place. It is better to place them in the garden evenly so that they grow in bouquets of flowers.
• The closer to the edge, the shorter the plantings should be. At the end of the garden, you can even plant small plants creeping along the ground that can hide the outlines and add visual naturalness.
• When choosing different shades, be sure to observe some compatibility of shades with each other. But at the same time, do not forget about bright spots that can attract attention and thus place accents, making even a simple flower bed unusual and bright.

If the placement of the flower garden is supposed to be done near any fence or fence, then tall plantings should be planted closer to it. Their length should also decrease in accordance with how far the mixborder will go to the site.

Types of plants used

There are a variety of examples of continuous flowering flower beds, depending on what effect you want to give to the site.

Flower arrangements usually have names that are consonant with the seasons.

Spring tenderness

As you know, many people associate spring time with the growth of the most delicate flowers. Therefore, it is imperative to provide flowers such as daisies, primroses, pansies, daffodils, crocuses, tulips, lungworts. These plants bloom almost the very first and delight all gardeners for at least a month. Gradually by May they are being replaced peonies, late types of tulips and daffodils, aquilegia, forsythia, lupins and aquilegia. By the end of this month, hyacinths, imperial hazel grouse, sweet peas, as well as other types of flowers are gaining strength.

summer chic

Gradually, one season is replaced by another, and in the flower beds you can already find many more species of a wide variety of flowers. For example, You can plant the following plants:

1. Amaranth;
2. Marigold;
3. Hibiscus;
4. Levkoi;
5. Zinnias;
6. roses;
7. Hydrangeas;
8. Liatris;
9. Delphiniums.

At the same time, a flower bed of continuous flowering perennials should also be made up of different types. daylilies and lilies, rudbeckia, monards, echinacea,. The buds of these plants are able to smell fragrant almost all summer, if, of course, they are properly cared for. By the way, the empty places that appear between them in the spring can be sown with annuals. So the usual riot of colors can be diluted with new types of plantings and create more interesting compositions.

autumn nobility

As the range of summer colors subsides and autumn arrives, it's time for new types of flowers. As you might guess, they already need more coolness than summer heat, so they adapt perfectly to this time.

In flower beds gradually begin to bloom buds of phloxes, lobelia, chrysanthemums, cannes, colchicum. At the same time, it is possible to achieve re-blooming in some flowers. For example, repairing plants are able to please again with beautiful fresh buds. roses, ageratum, carnations, delphinium, begoni I. To do this, it is important to remove the faded petals immediately after the flowers wither, cutting them off with garden shears.

If you want to return the garden to its former bright colors, then you need to find a place for planting seeds of sage, coreopsis, gelenium, asters and sedum. At the same time, plantings of ornamental onions can grow in the garden almost to the very frost, yarrow, craspedia.

Ready schemes and ideas

There are quite a few different types of flower beds of this kind. It is worth talking about the most spectacular. By the way, a flowerbed of continuous flowering with your own hands can turn out to be unique if you develop it yourself.

Create an illusion

For those summer residents who dreamed of decorating their site with the construction of a fountain or a stream, but for some reason could not do it, it is possible to build a fake, but very natural "dry" source.
It is important to take into account all the nuances when working, so that it visually seems that the water is really running.

First of all, you should lay out the channel with the help of oblong pebbles of various sizes. For greater naturalness, it can be painted blue, so that from afar it really seems that it is a liquid. Along with this, you can fill the "bed" of our stream with transparent blue beads.

1. Leaves-bamboo. This is not a flowering plant, but in this composition it plays one of the key roles, as it gives the stream a natural look. If you think about it, you will remember that near many springs such types of herbaceous plantings grow. If there are no seeds of this plant, you can replace it with an ostrich. Both of them have the ability to add volume to the flower garden.
2. Bearded irises are planted near him at the mouth of a stream.
3. Opposite these types of flowers, lobelia is planted.
4. A creeping tenacious similar to the required care is located next to the irises.
5. Next, you should provide for a very small distance, at which there will be only pebbles. Immediately after them, on the right side, Poskharsky's bell can be planted. It is not too high and will fit perfectly into the "channel" of our stream.
6. Shaver hybrids can be placed right next to them to ensure a smooth transition of shades.
7. On the left edge, directly opposite the shaving, a plant should be planted, which, in addition to bright flowers, will also have lush greenery. For example, large-leaved brunner will be the best choice in this case.
8. On the opposite bank of this plant, you will need to plant an awl-leaved bryozoan. Its soft greens add the desired shade and naturalness.
9. The composition should be completed with a red creeping tenacious. This is a ground cover planting that fits perfectly into the whole composition.
10. The last plant will not bloom. It can be, as in the first case, a bamboo leaf grate or any other green planting of this kind.

Composition "for the impatient"

Every summer resident would dream of seeing the fruits of his labors as soon as possible. Of course, with perennials it is quite difficult to achieve violent flowering in the year of planting, but this is possible. The most important rule when planting this mixborder will be the obligatory choice of a well-lit side in order to provide the plantings with a need for constant heat. This mixborder is best planted near fences. The background, among other things, can also be coniferous plantations or a wall.

The scheme of a flower bed of continuous flowering perennials in this case will look like this:

1. The background is decorated with different types of stock roses. Here you can make a mix of different shades;
2. A decorative sunflower is planted near them;
3. Icelandic poppies are capable of giving great brightness;
4. Gaillardia are located not far from them;
5. A bright accent is cardinal lobelia. It will run across most of the garden like a red ribbon;
6. Blue shades will add depth. This will require three varieties of flowers. The first of them is a catnip;
7. Next, Poskharsky's bell is planted;
8. On the edge, you will need to place a blue katananhe;
9. Red spots will be gravilate;
10. Stonecrop is able to please until the very autumn;
11. Also, right up to frost, the geyher summer resident will be pleased.

All these flowers are matched to each other as well as possible and need general care. Despite the ease of cultivation, you can get a really beautiful flower bed. If there is a blank wall or an ugly structure on the site, then with the help of this composition it can be quite easily hidden.

Gate decoration

If your site has a gate with an arch above it, then you can decorate it with flowers so that the building looks elegant and beautiful throughout the warm season. In this flower garden, all plantings are selected in such a way, so there will be no problems with this.

For the best understanding, you should divide the entire garden into tiers.

• The first will be located at the very bottom, which will allow the formation of a curtain that creeps densely along the soil. You can achieve this effect if you use Pozharsky's bell (20), cushion aster (3), foxtail featherwort (19), oak sage (9), rock stonecrop (2), stonecrop creaker (5).
• The middle level is based on yellow yarrows arranged symmetrically opposite each other (16 and 8). In the center on the left, you will already need to arrange longer flowers compared to the first types of plantings. Long-leaved speedwell (7), spikelet liatris (1) and rod millet (6) are well suited here. On the right in the center it will be necessary to place plantings related to chamomile-like flowers. These can be brilliant rudbeckia (17), New Belgian (15) and cushion (18) asters.
• The background will already be made up of giant plants that are able to hide the fence and rise above it if it is small. Sunflower (10) will decorate the flower bed with bright shades, stock-rose (9) will dilute the summer riot of colors with delicate burgundy buds. On the right, glossy rudbeckia (14) and David's budley (13) will look best.
• The plants that will braid the arch should be of two colors to give zest to the whole composition. An excellent solution in this case would be to use a climbing rose (12) on one side and Jacquemann's clematis (11) on the other.

The main difference of such a flower bed will be its versatility. It is perfectly capable of decorating both stone and wooden, forged and other types of fences.

For partial shade

Not every summer resident has the opportunity to place a flower garden in a sunny area. The next option is suitable just in the event that partial shade is constantly present in the garden.

The main idea of ​​this composition is to dilute the dull landscape and a spectacular combination of bright plantings with lush greenery. An unusual combination of shades on the leaves has a function (1). She will delight throughout the warm period of time. Already in May, a magnificent dicentra blooms magnificent (2), which in any case will look spectacular. In early June, bright yellow-red leaves of red epimedium (3) begin to appear above the flower bed, and next to it is one of the brightest accents - muscarine liriope (4).

Starting from May and almost until October, geraniums will create a special mesh pattern (5). The gentle lungwort dilutes these shades (6). In the spring, the main accent of the mixborder is the spring navel (7), and it will gradually be replaced by no less soft and delicate shades of violet (8).

Based on the diagrams and material from this article, and you can form a beautiful composition of perennial flowers in the country, which will delight with its flowering throughout the summer. Most importantly, follow all the necessary recommendations and adhere to the landing rules. Indeed, when compiling such a flower bed, it is very important to select those plantings that can get along well next to each other. published

A flowerbed of continuous flowering of perennials is a beauty that does not require serious sacrifices and is ready to delight with itself every year during the warm period. Perennial beds have advantages over flower arrangements with plants that bloom only one season.

If you create a bright spot in the landscape with perennial flora, you can not worry about the design for several years. The flowering process will be renewed annually. It is only necessary to provide the plants with proper care in order to preserve the beauty of the flower bed.

All flowers suitable for creating compositions can be divided into three categories. The first is undersized. Their height usually does not exceed thirty centimeters, and they are suitable for the formation of multi-colored carpets, as well as for "drawing" on the ground. A list of beautiful undersized perennials is in front of you:

• dwarf aster;
• shaving;
• phlox;
• aquilegia;
• gentian;
• soapwort;
• Carpathian bell.

Before planting undersized flowers, you need to take into account a small set of rules:

1. Do not place undersized flowers in shady areas. If you ignore the condition, you can not expect gorgeous flowering.
2. Use not nitrogen, but flower fertilizers. The first category of dressings has a positive effect on the increase in green mass, and not on the quantity and quality of flowers.
3. Plant low-growing perennials tightly. Large gaps are acceptable only when planting tall and medium-sized plants, and in this case they will not make the overall picture unaesthetic.
4. Remove weeds promptly. They will not only introduce unattractive notes into the floral canvas, but will have an extremely negative effect on undersized flowers.

The second category is medium. The approximate height of plants is from thirty to eighty centimeters. Such flowers will be useful for those who want to diversify a boring landscape with tiered island or mono-compositions. Here are some options for medium-sized flowering perennials:

• day-lily;
• peony;
• rose flower;
• radiola pink;
• yarrow.

The third category should include tall plants. Their height exceeds eighty centimeters. A chic island flower bed will not do without them. Here are a few plants that fall into this category:

• mallow;
• stock-rose;
• window sill;
• basilisk;
• winding sunflower.

Basic principles for creating any continuous flowering flower bed

A perennial flower bed is not just a collection of flowers planted in a chaotic manner. You need to think over the scheme, take into account all the recommendations and, of course, provide the flowers with proper care. Check out the list of tips:

1. Tall flowers should be in the middle, and undersized - along the contour. This applies to island compositions. This principle of placement will allow small flowers not to remain in the shade of long plants.
2. When creating a multi-colored flower bed, it is better to combine bright tall and pale undersized flowers. Expressive spots will look great on a faded background.
3. Near the curbs you need to plant tall plants, and then short ones. A row of long flowers will favorably decorate the border, and the subsequent strip of undersized perennials will complete the composition, giving it neatness.
4. Give each component of the flower bed the required care. If each flower needs a specific watering regimen, you must either arrange plants that are similar in requirements, or prefer varieties that need to be cared for in the same way.
5. If you decide to use seasonal flowers, i.e. irises, tulips, etc., do not plant them in the foreground. After withering, they will spoil the "face" of the flower bed. It is advisable to separate a site for them near the lush and bright flowers, so that they obscure the withered buds.

Schemes for creating carpet beds from perennials

In order to form a living carpet on the landscape, you need a scheme and undersized flowers. They will create the illusion of a three-dimensional colorful pattern. It is advisable to look for plants of the same variety so that there are no prominent areas on the flower carpet in terms of height and other parameters. Another important condition is that the flowering must be thick, otherwise the effect of a dense picture will not work.

One of the most simple carpet patterns is a flower. It will take only four components to get the coveted three-dimensional image. One of the most suitable flowers is phlox. Their lush flowering hats will cover the ground and foliage. The number 1 in the scheme means white phloxes, the number 2 - purple, and the number 3 - pink. But, in place of the number 4, you can plant a yellow aquilegia.

Schemes for creating figured flower beds from perennials

To create this type of flower bed, it is best to use either undersized or medium-sized flowers. Due to the length of the tall flowering plants, the splendor of the image can only be seen from above. Simple in execution, but attractive and versatile picture of flowers - a heart.

The contours of the heart are easy to form with peonies. Such lush and luxurious borders will be worthy of attention. To fill the space of the figure, the queens of flowers - roses - are perfect. As for tones, you can give preference to a single tint range, for example, pink. Arrange majestic pink peonies along the contours, alternating them with burgundy ones, and plant deep pink, pale pink and bright pink roses inside the composition.

Schemes for creating island flower beds from perennials

Island compositions do not require clarity, time-consuming and special care for them. Given that the flower bed will be created from perennials, you can forget about planting seeds and collecting them.

Flowerbeds-islands can be either one-color or multi-colored. The second option looks more attractive and natural. It seems as if nature itself decided to create a small corner of paradise.

In such a composition, flowers of different heights must be present, otherwise it will lose its charm. The image below is an example of a flower island layout.

The smallest figures inside the left side are undersized bright perennials. Their role can be played by pink soapwort bushes. Instead of small figures on the right side of the image, it is recommended to place gentian on the site. Two medium-sized identical figures on the right would be nice to replace with daylily bushes, and instead of what is between them, several rose bushes should be planted. The two similar images on the left are great places to plant stock roses. The area of ​​the large remaining image can be filled with a bright decorative sunflower.

Schemes for creating curb beds

Are there many paths and fences on the territory of your dacha that you just want to revive with beautiful flowering? Your attention is presented with a plate with variations of living bright contours from perennial plants.

Video - Continuous flowering flower garden

A beautiful and well-groomed flower bed is a worthy decoration of any site, and a flower garden of continuous flowering is also evidence of the talent of its organizer.

To ensure that the plants bloom, replacing one another during one season or all year round, is worth considerable effort, in particular, knowledge of the vegetation characteristics of the planted plants and the gardener's artistic taste.

For those who want to create such a flower bed, we suggest using the advice and experience of experienced agronomists from this article.

Forms of flower beds: artistic solution

The fantasy regarding the shape of the flower beds can be limited only by the size and characteristics of the plot of land on which the flower garden is to be laid.

There are no restrictions either in a horizontal or vertical arrangement: a circle or a square, a rectangle or an oval, an alpine hill or a green wall - everything that the owner likes.

Let us dwell in more detail on the consideration of horizontal flower beds and try to decide not only on the form, but also on the restrictions imposed on the selection of plants.

How to create a continuous flowering flower garden from perennials:

Circle and oval

This geometry of flower beds, perhaps, is the most common due to the perfection of forms and the simplicity of the arrangement of plants.

Concentric circles or ovals that define the boundaries of groups of flowering plants make it possible to create compositions of amazing beauty when flowering, starting from the outer perimeter, gains strength and reaches a peak in the center.

The same forms allow plants to be grouped so that the flowering periods change in turn, giving the impression of iridescence.

Such figures are also good because radial paths naturally fit into them for caring for a flower garden. There are no restrictions on the choice of plants, since shrubs and trees can be planted in the center, and herbaceous at the edges.

Square and Rectangle

These simple forms are of interest for creating original and colorful ornaments inside the perimeter: broken polyhedrons or rounded compositions create a unique look for a flower bed.

In addition, the simple external geometry allows you to literally draw pictures or lay out a mosaic of low plants.

In this case, there are no obstacles to choosing perennial and annual plants: they can be placed in the center of the composition, and along the perimeter

triangle and star

By themselves, single flowering triangles look less impressive than if you combine their shapes into groups of irregular geometry or, conversely, give them the correct graphic outlines, for example, stars. Such a flower garden will not leave anyone indifferent.

True, it’s worth tinkering with the selection of plants here: herbaceous perennial species (oak anemone, mountain arenaria, astilba, etc.) will become the most optimal and spectacular.

Irregular flower beds

But still, irregularly shaped flower beds will be the most advantageous option for complementing and decorating.

The reasons for their success are that they fit perfectly into an uncomfortable landscape, help to avoid the "bald patches" formed by plants that do not bloom at some time.

Consider the features of the device of an asymmetric flower bed of continuous flowering:

First of all, the viewpoints of the flowerbed are determined, and based on this, the problem of plant grouping is solved. Planting is done in such a way that low plants are in the foreground, tall ones are in the background, which should not block the general view of the flower arrangement.

Note: planting height in an asymmetric flower garden should be 2 times shorter than the distance to the place where the view opens.

Plants are selected and combined into groups in accordance with the optimal conditions for their growth: illumination, soil composition, watering needs. Within the group, zones are formed in accordance with the flowering period. Uniformity in the volume of plants blooming at different times is observed.

When forming the geometry of space, the speed of vegetation of different species is taken into account. Selection of species is carried out in accordance with a certain color scheme. In one case, it will be a contrasting combination, in the other - a color gradient, and in the third - similar shades.

Places are determined from which it will be convenient to maintain and replace plantings. Faded plants often lose their attractive appearance.

Selection of plants for flower arrangements

To reduce the time spent on updating groups of plants in the flower garden, mainly long-flowering plants, i.e. perennials, are selected. These include shrubs, woody and part of herbaceous plants.

In the center of the flower garden, where access is usually limited, tall perennials are planted, care for which should not be frequent.

Note: conifers, evergreen viburnum and barberry perfectly play the role of a compositional center, which require rare pruning and at the same time retain their green pores throughout the year.

In the middle part of the flower bed, those plants are planted that are replaced every 2-3 years or less, and undersized perennials or annuals are placed around the perimeter of the flower beds. Any of the plant species used should have a relatively long flowering time.

As a rule, when selecting plants for flower arrangements, special attention is paid to those that have an interesting leaf color and colorful original fruits: they will also play a role in giving color and originality to the flower bed. This type of flowers includes, for example, physalis, and among the shrubs, the beautiful and snowberry stand out.

For the convenience of selecting perennial plants when planning a flower bed, the following table will be given:

Stages of creating a flower bed

The laying of a flower bed has a strict sequence of actions, where each structural component is important in the final process.

Haste in the matter of creating a flower garden is not needed. It is better to reinforce your knowledge in floriculture with fantasy and a clear list of actions.
Following the algorithm below, you can create an original and long-flowering flower bed:

1. Planning of place and form. Before proceeding with the implementation of the plan for creating a continuous flowering flower bed on the ground, it will be useful to create a project made with paints on paper to understand how the flower garden will look like in reality. In designing the project, the period during which the plants will bloom should be taken into account. If you want aesthetic pleasure to last for a whole year (if such a possibility exists in specific climatic conditions), then in addition to flowers and herbs, use shrubs and trees with an evergreen cover or with long flowering. The shape of the flower bed is chosen based on the landscape of the occupied site and the style of the building. The choice of plants for planting is also done at the design stage. The site is chosen so that the plants feel comfortable and receive at least five hours of sunlight per day.
2. Perimeter marking and base preparation. Having decided on the shapes, sizes and composition of flowering plants, the project is transferred to the area. The basis is prepared accordingly:
   • markings are applied to the surface of the earth using pegs and cords;
   • part of the underlying cover is also removed;
   • drainage from sand and pebbles is arranged;
   • a fertile enriched layer of soil is poured.
3. Creation of a relief and preparation of the soil. If the flower bed is located not only in the vertical plane, but also in the horizontal one, then its levels are formed from pebbles, large stones that are sprinkled on top of the earth, forming tiers for planting not tall flowers. The composition of the soil depends on the composition of the plants. Each section provides the most optimal soil composition for each specific group of flowering plants. But in general, the soil should be sifted, devoid of rhizomes, large inclusions, enriched with fertilizers and compost.
4. The marking of the pattern is carried out using a flexible wide tape or strips, which are buried in the soil with a small protrusion above the surface, strictly limiting the planting area of ​​a particular group of flowers.
5. Planting plants is the final stage in the process of forming a flower bed of continuous flowering. Plants are planted from the center to the perimeter, taking into account the subsequent vegetation. Tall species are planted singly, smaller ones in groups.

How to ensure continuous flowering?

The continuity of flowering is ensured by the exact selection of plants and the diversity of species. The bulbs bloom first, so we plant, muscari, etc., not forgetting that some of them require the separation of the bulbs and replanting every few years.

From shrubs, we pay attention to chaenomeles, forsythia, from trees - decorative forms of plums, magnolias, almonds. Further, later perennials enter the flowering phase: geranium, viola, daisies. We add felt cherries, roses, hydrangea and spirea to them.

All summer long, rudbeckia, monarda, zinnia, etc. bloom and delight the eye. At the end of summer, asters bloom. Autumn is the time for the flowering of chrysanthemums, the varied color palette of which does not tire of pleasing the eye for a long time.

How to properly care for a flower bed?

In order for the flower bed to constantly please the eye, competent care of the plants is necessary. Planned work includes:

• Regular watering.
• Plant pruning.
• Soil loosening.
• Removal of faded parts.
• Garter.
• Planting and updating.
• Feeding and spraying.
• Shelter for the winter.

With proper and planned care for flowers, ornamental bushes, and ground cover species of perennials, a flower bed of continuous flowering is ready to delight others with its bright colors for most of the year.

To avoid mistakes when choosing plants, you must first draw up a flowering schedule for all species of interest to you and form groups from them with the same growing conditions.

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