Types of flower beds
Looking at photographs of flower beds, you can’t help but notice that there are a great many varieties of flower beds.
We will present you the main and most popular types of flower beds:
- Flowerbed made of stones.
- Flowerbed made of bricks.
- Flowerbed made of concrete.
We will tell you about each type in more detail.
Flower bed made of stones
This flower bed is quite decorative and is suitable for improving the landscape design of your dacha or vegetable garden.
It is worth noting that to properly execute a stone flower bed you need to have some skill and be very careful. But, if you do everything right, you will end up with a very impressive and beautiful piece of decor.
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As you already understand, the main feature of this flower bed is that you need to use stones as a fence for the flowers. We will describe to you the basic steps for making a flower bed from stones.
Choose the correct depth to lay your stones. It is important to ensure that the stones do not fall underground and do not protrude much above the surface.
Choose stones of the same size so that there is not much contrast. As for the shape, here you can experiment and fantasize with the design of your flower bed.
Place the stones tightly so that nothing wobbles. If you get any cracks, you can fill them with a special cement mortar.
We advise you to choose durable stones that do not form cracks, but if this happens, then lubricate the damage with sealant.
As for the choice of stones, here we will advise you to use basalt, slate and pebbles.
Victorian flower garden
A Victorian-style flower garden at the entrance
A Victorian-style flower garden is nostalgic for sophisticated antiquity. A low fence in light colors is set off by a background of lilies and daylilies and lined with clumps of simple annuals: nasturtium and lobelia. Nothing superfluous, but it looks so impressive...
Flower garden along a Victorian fence
On one site you can use different styles of flower beds if you divide the site into zones and decorate each zone in its own style. It all depends on the landscape plan and creative ideas.
Brick flowerbed
The design of this flower bed is quite unusual. The main manufacturing tool is brick. You do not need to select any special type of bricks; ordinary bricks will do just fine.
So, first you need to mark the location of your flowerbed and dig a trench there on which you will lay bricks for the fence. Then, lay a certain number of bricks.
It is advisable to select bricks of the same shape so that your flowerbed looks aesthetically pleasing.
Then, the bricks should be firmly pressed so that they are tightly held together and do not move. After this, wait a few days and secure the bricks with a special cement mortar.
Ready! Your brick flowerbed is ready.
Regular style flower garden
Flower garden in a regular style: strict adherence to form and filling
In a regular style, the entrance part of a suburban area is usually designed. Perhaps because the entrance part is the business card of the area and you want it to be neat, clear and strict. Maybe because in the entrance part there are many elements of some geometric shape, which is typical for the regular style:
- rectangular car park
- pedestrian path stretched in a straight line and emphasized by stone curbs
- entrance staircase of a simple house
- clear fence line
- and so on.
Maybe because the entrance area should, in the opinion of many, be formally solemn and elegant.
Of course, in large parks in a regular style there are many decorative trimmed shrubs that form entire labyrinths: thoughtful and extremely neat. But on a small private plot you can’t do this, so it’s enough to emphasize the regularity with individual elements.
Even if the entrance area is not large in area, it will still look good in a regular style, you just need to reduce the elements in size, do everything in miniature.
- you can emphasize the linearity of the path with a living border of long-flowering annuals (marigolds)
- decorate the fence with a clear line of conifers with a lower tier lined with contrasting low-growing shrubs (Japanese spirea) or perennial flowers (hostas)
- concentrate attention on the central point of the entrance zone, which can be a small rectangular or round flowerbed, bordered by some low-growing decorative, well-trimmed shrub. The composition of a flower garden can be quite simple, but it must have a specific pattern, for example in the form of multi-colored circles or other geometric shapes that are repeated and combined with each other...
Flowerbed made of concrete
This flowerbed is also unusual. Its peculiarity is that the shape of this flower bed can be completely different.
Also, concrete is a very strong and durable material. Therefore, if you want to install a flowerbed for a long time that is not afraid of rain, then concrete will be the best choice for you.
But concrete also has its pros and cons. One of the main ones is that such a flower bed is quite heavy and takes up a lot of space. So, if you want to constantly change the location of your flower bed, this option is not suitable for you.
In addition, the design of this flower bed is rather faceless and inconspicuous. It is not suitable for bright gardens with bright and contrasting colors.
We do not recommend that you make professional concrete flower beds with your own hands, as this can cause complete failure.
It’s better to entrust this work to professionals who will make you a high-quality and good flower bed that will serve you for a long time.
Here are the main types of flower beds. We hope that you will make the right choice and determine which flower bed will look perfect at your dacha.
Flower garden in a rustic style (rural)
A rustic-style flower garden next to a picket fence.
A rustic-style flower garden is perfect for a vegetable garden area. Such a flower garden can be placed on the border separating different zones of the site and, in particular, the entrance to the garden can be decorated in a rustic style. This style is clearly expressed by the following characteristic attributes of antiquity:
- wattle fence
- clay pots
- scarecrow
- cart
- barrels
- cart wheels
- wicker baskets
- rocker
- tree stumps
The composition of this style must include flowers such as mallow, sunflowers, daisies, hydrangea, marigolds, calendula, bluebells, sweet peas and many others, which our grandmothers loved to plant in their front gardens.
