Landscaping: necessity and benefits
Like additional decor, a beautiful flower bed plays an aesthetic and practical role, decorates the site and attracts pollinating insects.
Using flower beds, you can carry out practical and objective zoning of the territory, highlighting the garden and recreation area with bright accents, defining and setting the boundaries of free and occupied areas for useful plantings.
Large and spacious flower beds require careful and careful care, time and money to maintain their attractiveness.
Landscape design specialists offer various options and solutions for arranging a site in a modern style, using new designs and original, unusual flowerbed designs.
Basic rules for arranging flower beds and their types
Extensive flower beds provide a riot of colors and a variety of options for applying landscaping principles that help decorate the area.
To arrange the local area with green spaces and flower beds, it is recommended to use the following rules to help complement the landscape design concept:
- the preparation of flower beds is carried out in early spring, for which the site should be properly zoned;
- when choosing plants and flowers, you should take into account the period of their active growth and maximum flowering;
- for green flower beds and plantings, you should select varieties of flowers that grow well in these climatic conditions;
- When planting several types of plants, it is important to take into account the sequence of their flowering, which will increase the attractiveness of the flower bed.
When choosing plants and a place for arranging a flower bed or several flower beds, it is important to correctly distribute the free and occupied space of the site.
Spectacular compositions of flowers and green plants, replacing each other during periods of active growth, help maintain a stylish and attractive appearance of the site.
Flowerbed chameleon
The main idea of this model is to plant plants in a certain order according to the changing flowering periods. With the right approach to creating a flower bed, the color scheme of the palisade changes throughout the summer-autumn season.
Making such a flower bed with your own hands is quite difficult, so it is better to get advice from a landscape design specialist.
Vertical flower beds: general description and characteristics
An important feature of vertical flower beds is their location, while the owners of the plot retain all the advantages of horizontal structures.
Such solutions have certain characteristics that act as advantages and general characteristics, which allows you to make a choice in favor of such flower beds:
- elongated flower beds can differ in different shapes and configurations, be voluminous and flat;
- For such structures, familiar plants and flowers, upright and climbing, succulents and lawn grass are suitable;
- The use of vertical flower beds helps to save free space in front of the house or country house.
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Various ideas and unique solutions for making a vertical flower bed are simple technologies that do not require large financial investments for implementation.
Thrifty owners can use purchased ready-made structures or improvised materials, which helps reduce the cost of the project and will help give such a flowerbed a special originality.
Decorative finishing of flower beds
To give the flowerbed a beautiful and original look, you may need to use auxiliary decorative elements. Such devices are:
- Original curbs or fences.
- Garden figurines.
- Miniature stairs, beautiful boulders or stumps.
The arrangement of such decorative elements favorably emphasizes the appearance of the flower bed.
Types of vertical flower beds and ideas for their arrangement
In order for a vertical flower bed made by yourself to become a real decoration for the site, you should choose a unique idea for its arrangement in advance.
It will not be difficult for home craftsmen to build the simplest structure, which can be part of an outbuilding or fencing structure, or installed separately.
For work, you may need not only available materials, but also additional accessories, tools and devices.
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Special attention should be paid to the selection of seed material that will be needed for landscaping the site and the final decoration of finished structures of vertical flower beds and flower beds.
High flower bed made of concrete blocks
This is what a flowerbed looks like, which you can make yourself.
To do this, first of all, we outline the contours of the future flower bed on the ground and dig a ditch.
We install the concrete blocks evenly and carefully, checking from time to time for correct installation.
We concrete around the installed blocks and level them well.
We wait for the concrete to dry completely and fill in the prepared soil.
The high flower bed is ready, you can plant suitable plants. Due to the fact that it is tall, the flowerbed will be a clearly visible, bright decoration of the site.
Purchased containers
In specialized country stores and large supermarkets you can purchase hinged and attached containers and full-fledged modular structures.
Special containers are made of wear-resistant materials and are intended for the construction of vertical flower beds of different configurations.
Green screen
Boring and monumental fencing structures can be turned into an original green screen using simple and affordable materials.
Various containers are fixed on a sheer wall; for this you can use long and narrow wooden boxes, flower slides or tea cups, cut plastic bottles.
Flowerbed fencing
Almost any flower bed (except for border options and alpine slides) requires a decent frame designed to complete the image of the flower garden.
A flower bed made of stones looks solid and modern, wood will add a special aesthetic, old tires and plastic bottles will add notes of joy and bright colors.
How to make a flower bed is up to you, and photos of decorating flower beds with your own hands will help you choose the best option.
flower tower
The narrow and upward-pointing structure will become an original decoration of any territory, and can be a real flowering tower or pillar.
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To build a tower, a support with containers attached to it or a plastic pipe with a certain radius and drilled holes, or a post made of chain-link mesh are used.
What can you use to build a vertical flower garden?
It’s quite easy to build a vertical flowerbed with your own hands from scrap materials.
- Plastic drink bottles.
- Polyethylene pipes.
- Chain-link mesh or other types of rigid metal mesh.
- Pallets and boxes.
- Pots, flowerpots, buckets and other containers assembled into a single composition.
- Car tires.
- Boards and logs.
Tunnel of flowers
If there is sufficient free space on the site, you can build a full-fledged green tunnel from flowers and greenery.
Such tunnels perfectly replace tents or open gazebos, canopies of various types, creating cozy coolness and protecting from scorching heat, and for them it is better to choose plants that are accustomed to the heat.
Balls of flowers
The use of volumetric structures remains quite relevant for the arrangement, decoration, and landscaping of local areas.
A welded ball made of metal structures or formed from wire is installed on a certain support; a polymer bag with soil and planted seeds of climbing flowers is placed in it.
Decorative umbrellas
It’s very easy to create beautiful and original vertical flower beds with your own hands from scrap materials; just choose the idea you like.
A metal structure in the form of an umbrella, installed on a pipe filled with soil, will be covered with a green and bright carpet during the period of plant growth and flowering, fully simulating the appearance of a protective accessory.
Raised flower beds in landscape design - photo
If you are still in doubt about whether it is worth setting up a tall flower garden near your home, we suggest looking at the selection of photos presented on this page. Perhaps, among the already implemented projects, there are several ideas that will interest you and help you find inspiration for creating an unusual raised flower bed with your own hands in a special, unique style.
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How can you decorate vertical flower beds on your site?
You can uniquely design a flower bed by using different plants and flowers, additional decorations and decor.
When choosing planting material, it is recommended to take into account several parameters that will help maintain the external and aesthetic appeal of the finished structure throughout its service life:
- period of growth and flowering of selected plants;
- required conditions and agricultural techniques for caring for flowers;
- external climatic and weather conditions.
The most original and interesting decoration of a vertical flower bed remains greenery and flowers, which will transform the entire area before construction.
With the correct selection of planting material, any type of flower garden will bloom throughout the warm season, and in winter it will delight you with rich green flowers.
Types of flower beds
There are several types of flower beds. Each of them has a number of features that will help make the flowerbed a full-fledged element of the garden.
Photos of flowerbeds with your own hands will help you choose the right option.
A regular or geometric flower bed has strict lines. All plants in it must be planted according to a pre-designed scheme. Such a flower bed is quite difficult to care for and requires a lot of space.
An irregular flower bed is simpler to implement; it does not require strict selection of colors and creation of precise geometry. Different varieties of plants look good here, which also bloom at different times.
A carpet flowerbed will require maximum effort when planting and maintaining. It is an imitation of an oriental rug and is usually used on very large areas.
A vertical flower bed will help save space in the garden and will delight you with its unusual shape. It is made from a frame on which flower pots are attached.
A ring flower bed encircles an object. It could be a tree, a gazebo, a sculpture, a pond.
An island flower bed is a flower bed located in the center of the lawn. The size can be any, but you should still stick to the size of the grass cover.
A monoflower consists of plants of the same species.
Borders, ridges or mixborders are decorative fencing.
Evergreens
Succulents and evergreens envelop the entire territory allocated to them with an original carpet, limited only by the structural features of the flowerbed.
Such plants are great for decorating the local area during the cool season, and these flower beds can be decorated for the New Year holidays using garlands and lighting.
climbing flowers
Traditional petunias for vertical flower beds can be replaced or combined with other plants that produce climbing shoots and stems.
Thanks to this property, the flowerbed will be decorated not only with bright and beautiful flowers, but also covered with lush greenery, noticeable from afar, which makes it possible to increase the decorativeness and aesthetics of the area and landscape.
Strawberries and greens
Habitual flower beds for strawberries or wild strawberries can be successfully replaced with unusual vertical-type structures, with the possibility of saving free space.
To obtain a rich harvest of tasty and healthy berries or herbs used in cooking, you can use flower beds of different types and designs.
