Beautiful and well-groomed flowerbed - worthy decoration any plot, and a flower garden continuous flowering– also evidence of the talent of its organizer.
To ensure that the plants bloom, replacing one another during one season or all year round, requires considerable work, in particular, knowledge of the characteristics of the growing season of the plants being planted and the presence of artistic taste in the gardener.
For those who want to create such a flower bed, we suggest using advice and experience experienced agronomists from this article.
Forms of flower beds: artistic solution
Fantasy regarding the shape of flower beds can be limited only by the size and characteristics of the plot of land on which the flower bed is to be planted.
There are no restrictions in either horizontal or vertical arrangement: circle or square, rectangle or oval, alpine slide or a green wall - whatever the owner likes.
Let's take a closer look at horizontal flower beds and try to decide not only on the shape, but also on the restrictions imposed on the selection of plants.
How to create a continuous flowering garden from perennials:
Circle and oval
This geometry of flower beds is perhaps the most common due to the perfection of forms and simplicity of arrangement of plants.
Concentric circles or ovals defining group boundaries flowering plants, allow you to create an amazingly beautiful composition when flowering, starting from the outer perimeter, gains strength and reaches a peak in the center.
These same shapes make it possible to group plants so that flowering periods alternate, creating the impression of iridescence.
Such figures are also good because radial paths for caring for the flower garden naturally fit into them. There are no restrictions on the choice of plants, since shrubs and tree species, and the edges are grassy.
Square and rectangle
These simple shapes, are of interest for creating original and colorful ornaments inside the perimeter: broken polyhedrons or rounded compositions create the unique appearance of a flower bed.
In addition, the simple external geometry allows you to literally paint pictures or lay out a mosaic of low plants.
In this case, there are no obstacles to choosing perennials and annuals: 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 regular graphic shapes, for example, stars. Such a flower garden will not leave anyone indifferent.
True, it’s worth tinkering with the selection of plants here: the most optimal and effective will be herbaceous species of perennials (oak anemone, mountain arena, astilbe, etc.).
Irregularly shaped flower beds
But still, the most advantageous option for addition and decoration will be flower beds irregular shape.
The reasons for their success are that they fit perfectly into an inconvenient landscape and help to avoid “bald patches” formed by plants that do not flower for a certain period.
Let's consider the features of constructing an asymmetrical flower bed of continuous flowering:
First of all, the viewing points of the flower bed are determined, and based on this, the problem of grouping plants is solved. Plants are planted so that low plants are in the foreground, tall plants are in the background, which should not cover general form for a flower arrangement.
Note: The planting height in an asymmetrical flower garden should be 2 times shorter than the distance to the place from which the view opens.
Plants are selected and combined into groups in accordance with the optimal conditions for their growth: lighting, soil composition, need for watering. Within the group, zones are formed in accordance with the flowering period. Uniformity in the volume of plants blooming at different times is maintained.
When forming the geometry of space, the speed of vegetation is taken into account different types. The selection of species is carried out in accordance with a certain color scheme. In one case it will be a contrasting combination, in another - a color gradient, and in the third - similar shades.
Places from which it will be convenient to maintain and replace plantings are determined. Faded plants often lose their attractive appearance.
Selection of plants for flower arrangements
To reduce the time spent on updating groups of plants in a flower garden, predominantly long-flowering plants, i.e., perennials, are selected. These include shrubs, trees and some herbaceous plants.
In the center of the flower garden, where access is usually limited, tall perennials are planted, the care of which should not be frequent.
Note: Conifers, evergreen viburnum and barberry play the role of a compositional center perfectly, which require rare pruning and at the same time retain their green pores all year round.
In the middle part of the flower bed, those plants are planted that are replaced every 2-3 years or less often, and along the perimeter of the flower beds are placed low-growing perennials or annuals. Any plant species used must have a relatively long time flowering.
As a rule, when selecting plants for flower arrangements, special attention is paid to those that have interesting leaf colors and colorful original fruits: they will also play their role in giving the flowerbed color and originality. This type of flower includes, for example, physalis, and among the shrubs, beautiful fruit and snowberry stand out.
For the convenience of selecting perennial plants when planning a flower bed, the following table will be given:
| Name | Color spectrum | Height | Flowering period |
| spirea | white | medium-sized shrub | summer |
| hydrangea | purple-pink shades | summer | |
| viburnum | white | tall bush | spring Summer |
| barberry | white | low and medium-sized shrub | late spring |
| chaenomelis | deep pink | medium and tall shrub | early spring |
| forsythia | yellow | medium and tall shrub | early spring |
| juniper | shades of green | creeping perennial | all year round |
| honeysuckle | White yellow | liana or tall shrub | summer |
| mock orange | white | tall bush | summer |
Stages of creating a flower bed
Planting a flower bed has a strict sequence of actions, where each structural component has important ultimately the process.
There is no need to rush into creating a flower garden. It is better to back up your knowledge in floriculture with imagination and a clear list of actions.
By following the algorithm below you can create an original and long-flowering flower bed:
- Planning location and form. Before you begin to implement a plan to create a flower bed of continuous flowering on the ground, it will be useful to create a project on paper, made with paints to understand what the flower garden will look like in reality. When developing a project, you should take into account the period during which the plants will bloom. If you want aesthetic pleasure to last for whole year(if such a possibility exists in specific climatic conditions), then in addition to flowers and herbs, use shrubs and trees with evergreen cover or with long flowering. The shape of the flower bed is chosen based on the landscape of the occupied area and the style of the building. The choice of plants for planting is also made at the design stage. The site is selected in such a way that the plants feel comfortable and receive at least five hours of sunlight per day.
- Marking the perimeter and preparing the base. Having decided on the shapes, sizes and composition of flowering plants, the project is transferred to the area. The base is prepared accordingly:
- Markings are applied to the ground surface using pegs and cords;
- part of the underlying cover is also removed;
- drainage of sand and pebbles is arranged;
- a fertile enriched layer of soil is poured.
- Creating relief and preparing the soil. If the flowerbed is located not only in a vertical plane, but also in a horizontal one, then its levels are formed from pebbles and large stones, which are sprinkled with soil on top, forming tiers for planting low-growing 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 and large inclusions, and enriched with fertilizers and compost.
- 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.
- Planting is the final stage of the process of forming a flower bed of continuous flowering. Plants are planted from the center to the perimeter, taking into account the subsequent growing season. Tall species are planted singly, smaller ones in groups.
How to ensure continuous flowering?
Continuity of flowering is ensured by precise selection of plants and variety of species. Bulbs are the first to bloom, so we plant, muscari, etc., not forgetting that some of them require separating the bulbs and replanting them every few years.
From shrubs we pay attention to chaenomeles, forsythia, from trees - decorative forms plums, magnolias, almonds. Next, later perennials enter the flowering phase: geranium, viola, daisies. We add to them felt cherry, roses, hydrangea and spirea.
All summer long, rudbeckia, monarda, zinnia, etc. bloom and delight the eye. At the end of summer, asters bloom. Autumn is the time for chrysanthemums to bloom, the varied color palette of which never ceases to please the eye for a long time.
How to properly care for a flowerbed?
Loosening and weeding of the soil - important stage in flower garden care
A garden plot is a haven for a beginning florist. In order to diversify your landscape, it is not necessary to hire professional landscapers. It is quite possible to cope on your own. The most popular option for how to improve the landscape is to lay out flower beds. Experienced gardeners It is recommended to plant perennials so that the flowers will delight you for more than one season. You will learn from the article how to properly lay out flower beds, what flowers and patterns to use, and colorful photos can easily visualize any option.
Types of flower beds
What are flower beds? These are areas that combine decorative deciduous, flowering, herbaceous and shrub plantings. These also include garden paths and architectural buildings. The sizes of flower beds are very diverse - from small to huge. They also distinguish the proportional relationship between plants and the forms surrounding them.
Attention! The “golden ratio” is an ideal ratio in which the first number should be greater than the second, and their sum should be equal to the third.
There is a classification of flower beds depending on their types:
- Modular. Combination of plants with garden tiles and small architectural forms(fountains, flowerpots, etc.).
- Mixborders. Combination various colors in one composition. They are usually located along a house, paved path or fence in the form of an oblong strip.
Mixborder
- Solitaires. Types of flower beds that are divided according to the same principle: color shades, height, foliage shape, etc.
- Discounts. Narrow plantings of flowers with predominantly one tone. Or decorated in the form of a geometric ornament. Often, flower beds are part of a flower bed of perennials.
- Curbs. Strips of small plants. Used as decoration individual elements flower garden of perennials.
- Rockeries. A combination of living and dead. Namely plants and stones. Another name for rockeries is stone gardens.
- Rock gardens. Flower beds combining alpine plants, growing on a small hill.
Creating a perennial pattern for beginners
A beautiful and well-groomed flower garden is the dream of many gardeners. But before you start creating it, you need to carefully study and choose a suitable scheme. You can do this yourself, but it is much easier to use ready-made visual diagrams. Time-tested perennial projects are sure to please.
Scheme No. 1: a simple option for long flowering
An interesting composition made up of unpretentious perennial plants. Her distinguishing feature– flowering duration.
- Pink paniculate phlox. The ideal period for planting is early autumn or spring. This plant thrives in sandy and well-drained soils. Flowering continues from mid-summer until autumn.
- Soft pink astilbe. Bloom various types usually lasts from the end of June to August. Astilbe loves regular fertilization and periodic loosening of the soil.
- Purple with a silvery tint daylily. Planting is carried out in spring in soil that is thoroughly fertilized and drained. The plant prefers loam with an acidity ranging from 6 to 6.5 pH.
An example of designing a flower bed of perennials
- Heuchera with lavender foliage. Grows in non-stagnant soils. Flowering occurs from May to July.
- Geranium. Flowering from July to autumn. During the flowering period, the bushes of the plant acquire magnificent shapes. It blooms from mid-summer until the end of the season, forming lush bushes with pale purple flowers.
Scheme No. 2: figured flowerbed “Heart”
To create a shaped flower bed, it is best to use low plants. One interesting option is the heart.
- The external outlines of the heart can be made using peonies. A composition made in pink and burgundy tones will look especially interesting. To do this, you need to plant pink and burgundy peonies alternately.
Advice. To decorate the “Heart” flower bed, use plants in pink shades.
- Roses are suitable as internal space filling.
Scheme No. 3: border flower bed “Sky in the clouds”
A romantic name and an unusually delicate flowerbed. To create it you will need only three types of flowers.
- The first row is a composition of Transcarpathian bellflower and gentian.
- The second row is snow-white phlox.
Scheme No. 4: perennial plants blooming in the first year
This option is suitable for those who do not want to wait a whole year before the first flowering of their flowerbed. To do this, you need to select plants that will delight you with their flowering immediately after planting in the ground.
- Plant two-year-old hollyhocks in yellow and white shades in the background of the flower bed.
- Sunflower is a good complement to mallow.
- The bright spots of the flower garden will be St. John's wort and Irish poppy.
- Lobelia cardinalis will occupy a central location in the flowerbed. This perennial has lush bushes.
- Fassin's catnip, Poskharsky's bellflower, and Kalanchoe will be small blue accents along the edges of the flower bed.
- Gravilat is suitable for decorating a flower garden in the summer, and chitok - in the fall.
Land preparation and planting
Once you have decided on the location and type of future flower bed, you need to prepare the soil for planting. Preparatory work have a separate list:
- Removing rocks, leaves and debris.
- Removing bugs and other pests.
- Digging the soil to a depth of about 50 cm.
- Removing weeds.
Whatever plants you choose, prepare the soil properly before planting.
Next important step– soil preparation. It can be loamy, chernozem, sandy, clayey, sandy loam and light.
Clay soil. To improve its quality, peat, humus sand and organic matter should be added to it. You will also need to make a drainage layer. To do this you will need crushed stone, sand, gravel and broken brick. The drainage height is usually about 15 cm.
Sandy soil. For such soil, drainage is absolutely not needed, because the water leaves too quickly, which can lead to the death of plants. However, soil preparation consists of lining the bottom with humus, manure, peat, clay composition and organic fertilizers. Layer height is about 10 cm.
Attention! Do not forget to take into account the acidity of the soil before planting flowers.
After you decide on the shape of the flower bed, fertilizer is added to the soil. It's a mixture organic fertilizers And mineral fertilizers. If necessary, drainage is done. Then the soil is leveled with a rake.
The finished soil for the flower garden should be 10–15 cm above ground level. This is done so that water does not linger in the soil. Yes, for many bulbous plants excess moisture is destructive.
Flower beds of perennials are a decoration for the garden. It is not necessary to have professional skills in the part landscape design to improve your personal plot. It is enough to have the desire to create a flowerbed with your own hands. It is worth noting that there are a huge number of schemes on how to make a flower garden with your own hands. Advantage finished projects flowerbeds is that you will know in advance what result awaits you. And choosing perennials, you get the opportunity to admire your creation for more than one year.
Perennials for the garden: video
Flower beds with perennials: photos
Leafing through glossy magazines on landscape design, you sighed more than once and asked yourself the question: “How can I create such beauty? with my own hands? Naturally, in order to create landscape compositions, be it a flowerbed, an alpine hill or a stream, certain knowledge is required.
Video collection of ideas for creating a flower paradise in the country
How to properly plant a flower garden: options for solving the problem
If you do not have sufficient knowledge of how to plant a flower garden at your summer cottage, but you still enthusiastically take on creating it, the result may not meet your expectations. What is the way out of the situation?
Spring riot of colors
There are several options:
- sign up for courses landscape designers, pay a tidy sum for them, spend several months and gain basic knowledge about plants, soil and flower beds. But you will still have to create flower beds yourself, making annoying mistakes and mistakes.
- choose a simpler method that will give a guaranteed result - use ready-made flower bed schemes suitable for the conditions of your summer cottage.
Do you have a desire to create? Then I advise you to choose the second one, 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 start “painting with flowers” - create the flowerbed of your dreams with your own hands.
Choosing a place for a flower bed
First of all, on the plan of the dacha plot it is necessary to determine the place for the flower bed. A flowerbed can be different: a ridge or mixborder along a path, an arabesque flowerbed against the backdrop of a lawn, a rustic or romantic flowerbed in a shady corner of the garden.
The shapes 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 mark the illuminated and shady places. This is very important for the right choice assortment of plants and creation for them optimal conditions development and flowering.
These rules must be adhered to when forming a flower garden of continuous flowering or, as it is also called, a “flower garden of four seasons.” These flower beds look beautiful all year round.
A four-season flower garden is the dream of every summer resident
The right combination of perennials makes it possible to contemplate the blooming splendor of plants throughout the entire season - from spring to late autumn. If you supplement the flower garden with conifers and some types of tall grasses, as well as a border of periwinkle or tenacious, the flowerbed will remain elegant even in winter.
When choosing plants for a continuous flowering bed, you must remember that the number of plant species depends on the size of the flowerbed. If the flower garden is small and there are too many perennials, instead of a feeling 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 flowerbed will become evident during flowering. Blooming in spring low-growing perennials (snowdrops, primroses, muscari, hyacinths) are placed in the foreground.
Flower garden of four seasons
Plants medium height(tulips, pyrethrums, foxgloves) will occupy the middle part of the flowerbed. The background will remain behind tall summer and autumn perennials - sedums, chrysanthemums, September flowers. Between them, grasses are planted - mantle and blue fescue.
Naturally, you can expect that in one season you will be able to create ideal project flower garden, not worth it. Therefore, if you have no experience, it is better to start with simpler flower bed designs.
Mistakes made can be corrected by planting annual flowers between perennials.
DIY flower beds using ready-made patterns - it couldn’t be simpler
Here are examples of decorating a garden with your own hands, using ready-made flower bed designs.
A “piece of cake” in a corner of the garden
The shape of the flower bed resembles a piece of cake with a diameter of 2 meters. There is a place for such a flower garden in any corner of your garden. The color scheme of the flower bed is red-crimson and silver.
Sketch of a flower garden “Piece of Cake”
Flower garden scheme “piece of cake”
1. In the corner of the flower bed we plant a dark red daylily “Ed Murray” - 3 bushes.
2. Silvery leaves of wormwood “Silver Queen” will emphasize the beauty of velvety daylily flowers and create an advantageous background for heuchera – 4 copies.
3. Macedonian barkweed, variety “Mars Midget”, dark red – 6 specimens.
4. Heuchera with burgundy leaves - 6 bushes.
5. The wide part of the flowerbed will be decorated silver leaves clean. We plant 5 copies.
Flower garden layout for the impatient
If you really want to see the fruits of your labors this year, I offer a flowerbed diagram for the impatient. Its peculiarity is that all plants will require a lot of sun. The background for this flowerbed 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 white, red and yellow stock roses.
2. Decorative sunflower, with bright yellow basket-shaped inflorescences, will complement the background.
3. The Icelandic poppy will make the flower bed even brighter with its flowers.
4. Lobelia cardinalis will lie like a red ribbon in the flower garden.
Blue-blue accents in the flower garden will be placed by:
6. Catnip.
7. Poskharsky's bell.
8. Blue catananche.
Bright red spots will create:
9. Gravilate “Feuerbal”.
10. Sedum “Matrona” will delight you with its splendor in the fall.
11. Blood-red heuchera leaves will decorate the flowerbed until frost.
Mixed flower beds
You can make a continuously flowering flower garden more vibrant and expressive if you plant perennial and annual plants in it. When planning to create such a flower garden, we take the same perennials as a basis, free places Between them we plant annuals that will decorate the flowerbed with abundant and long-lasting flowering.
Usage annual plants – perfect option when it is necessary to cover unsightly places in the flowerbed after perennials, for example, bulbous ones, have bloomed.
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, the basis of which is perennials, between faded plants or in their place, taking into account the color scheme and flowering time, we “write in” annuals with pencils. This way you can choose the perfect 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 flower garden project that will become a real decoration for your dacha. It is so simple that even a “teapot” can create it. The color scheme is red, orange, pink and purple tones, and, naturally, bright green leaves.
Bright summer flower bed
In the background of the flower bed we plant the perennial heliotrope tree (1), the middle tier of the flower bed is formed by Sander tobacco with scarlet flowers (2) and terry bright orange marigolds (3). In the parterre flower beds a place was given to pink New Guinea balsam (4).
Flower arrangement with dahlias
Although dahlias are perennials that require special care: Digged up in the fall and stored in the basement in the winter, many gardeners really like them. Bright and expressive, dahlias will fit perfectly into a summer flower bed. The peak flowering period for these beauties is July-September.
In our flower garden scheme, a bright yellow dahlia (1) is in the center of the flowerbed, next to it are blue hybrid delphinium (2) and monarda (3). The lower part of the flowerbed is allocated to Common Dubrovnik (4).
To make this flowerbed look well-groomed, it is necessary to regularly remove wilted monarda and dahlia flowers. If after the first flowering of the delphinium you remove all the flower stalks, at the end of summer it will bloom again.
Flowerbed in white and green tones: diagram of a flower bed made of annuals
If you need to brighten up a dark corner of your garden or are getting irritated bright flowers, you can use a ready-made flower garden scheme made from annuals, which looks very noble and elegant.
Green and white flower bed
Only three plants were planted at the club: smooth molucella (1), caudate amaranth (2), snapdragon (3), but they created a stunning effect.
Create an illusion with a flower garden
If there is a dry stream on your site, plants are planted on its banks. You might be wondering: how to properly plant a flower garden around a dry stream to create the illusion of cool, babbling water? Here is one of possible options.
We fill the stream bed with large round pebbles. We paint the stones in the center blue. You can use glass beads for decoration. of blue color. All these design “tricks”, together with plants of cool colors, will create a feeling of dynamics and coolness.
From the blue stream...
Leafy bamboo (1) will give the composition a sense of volume. If there is no bamboo, we can replace it with ostrich. Hybrids of bearded iris (2) will find their place on the bank of the stream; lobelia (3) and creeping tenacious (4) will feel good next to them. Downstream, between the boulders, will grow lush bushes of Poskharsky bellflower (5), hybrids of aubrieta (6) and large-leaved brunera (7). The awl-leaved bryozoan will add bright greenery (8). The whole composition will be completed by the creeping red tenacious (9).
Creating a beautiful flower bed is akin to art. By combining plants and flowers, you can bring to life intricate patterns and designs that will become original decoration your his garden plot. There are various forms of flower beds, thanks to which the flower garden will always look beautiful and neat.
From our article today on “Dream House” you will learn what forms of flower beds there are, as well as how to recreate this or that flower garden yourself.
Geometric flower beds
The classic approach to landscape design involves creating the right flower bed geometric shape. It can be a circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle, etc. Geometric flower beds are good because they are easy to make yourself and, moreover, they look harmonious in any landscape.
Flower bed shaped like a rectangle
Beautiful flower bed rectangular shape
Before choosing the shape and size of the flower bed, you need to determine in which area it will be located. As a rule, geometric flower beds look best on a flat, well-kept lawn. However, the geometry of the flower bed must be clearly visible from all sides, otherwise the object will look sloppy. To do this, experts recommend paying attention to two important details:
- diagram of the future flower bed;
- planting density of plants and flowers.
Creating a design for a triangular, rectangular or any other geometric flower bed is not at all difficult. You just need to prepare the area by drawing the outline of the future object on it. As for the density of planting flowers, much depends on the characteristics of their growth, as well as on how many varieties you use in the flower garden. For example, if the flower bed consists of identical plants of the same color, then they need to be planted like a “carpet”, as close to each other as possible. If there are free areas left in the flower garden, this will disrupt the beauty of the shape and visually spoil the geometry of the figure.
Flowerbed shape photo
If the flower bed includes plants of different shades and sizes, then their planting scheme requires careful planning. Most often, the tallest plants are planted in the center of the flower garden, and the brightest ones are planted around the office, which allows you to emphasize the shape of the object.
Shapes of flower beds photo
Shapes of flower beds photo
Flowerbeds of square, round or rectangular shape can be made multi-tiered. To do this, the tallest plants are placed in the center, and each subsequent row is filled with lower flowers. Ultimately, the flowerbed will resemble a pyramid or a multi-tiered cake. However, to create beautiful shape It is important that plants in the same row have the same height.
To emphasize the geometric correctness of the flower bed, you can use auxiliary elements, namely, edging. For example, a round flowerbed can be decorated with a fence made of stones, and a flowerbed in the form of a square or rectangle can be decorated with a border of wooden beams or pegs.
Round flower bed with stone border photo
Irregularly shaped flower beds
Irregularly shaped flower beds look no less impressive. The phrase “irregular shape” should be understood as the absence of classical geometry. For example, such a flower garden can be planted in the form of wavy lines, arcs, abstract patterns, etc.
Shapes of flower beds photo
Shapes of flower beds photo
Irregular shaped flower bed
DIY flower bed shapes photo
An irregularly shaped flower bed can also be created as a combination of different flower beds. For example, in one area there are small round flower beds, which are connected by a wave-like covering of bright flowers and plants. To make the composition look harmonious and complete, the areas between the flower beds are filled with gravel, fine or. To create a flowerbed of an unusual and multifaceted shape, you must first develop a diagram by drawing its outline on the soil.
Flower beds - shape, size, color, patterns and ornaments
Flower beds of unusual shapes
Please note than more complex form flower beds, the more varied its filling should be. Therefore, select plants so that they bloom either simultaneously or alternately.
In addition, in order for the original shapes of the flower beds to look neat and beautiful, you need to take care of the combination of plant shades. The filling of the flower bed can be either contrasting or similar color scheme, but in the second case it is important that the shades of the plants do not merge with each other, otherwise the flowerbed will lose its expressiveness.
Beautiful flower bed shape
Original flower beds of different shapes
Figured flower beds
Figured flower beds, also called “arabesques,” resemble paintings painted by nature itself. Arabesques can be made in any form, but most often preference is given to floral ornaments and patterns.
For example, the shape of such a flower bed may resemble the outline of a butterfly, flower, insect, etc. Creating such a beautiful flower garden is complex and labor-intensive process. First, you need to draw a diagram of the future flower bed on paper, thinking through not only its outlines, but also the filling patterns. For example, a flower-shaped flowerbed may consist of multi-colored petals, and the wings of a “butterfly” may be decorated with intricate wave-like patterns. Typically, figured beds are a continuous flowering type, so it is important that all plants mature and bloom at the same time.
Shapes of flower beds and flower beds photo
Flowerbed in the shape of a butterfly
To create contours and patterns inside arabesques, it is recommended to use the brightest flowers, planting them in dense rows.
If you don’t know what shape to make a flowerbed, start from the characteristics of the plants. For example, if a flowerbed is filled with roses, you can design it in the shape of a heart. Yellow flowers will look good in flowerbeds shaped like the sun, and blue ones in a flowerbed shaped like a river or clouds.
Flowerbed in the shape of a heart
Flowerbeds of geometric shapes
Flowerbed in the form of a "stream"
A bright flower “stream” flowing through your site will become an expressive decoration of your landscape design. Despite such an original shape, there is nothing difficult in creating such a flower bed.
First of all, it is necessary to select low-growing creeping plants, for example, agetarum, sedum, petunia, etc. Plants are planted in a dense row in the form of a wavy line, which will subsequently imitate a raging “stream”. For the best visual effect a flowerbed-stream must have its own “source” - a container from which “water” flows. As such a “source” you can use a large flowerpot, a decorative barrel, a jug, etc. To make the composition look like a harmonious element, start planting flowers inside the container.