Flowerbeds and flower beds in the country: spring flower beds, photo flowers

How to beautify the open space of the suburban area to make the landscape design as cozy, bright and pleasing to the eye? Colorize it with all the colors of the rainbow will help flower beds - thoughtful compositions of diverse plants will surprise you with a pleasant appearance, so that visual pleasure will be provided from May to November inclusive! And how to properly decorate flower beds and flower gardens in the country, we'll tell you now.

Determine the size and shape of the flower bed

The dimensions of the flower kingdom are in direct proportion to the size of the country plot itself. The diameter of the flower beds can be either one-meter or several tens of meters - it is clear that the larger the plot area, the more land you can give under the power of greenery and flowers.

There are no restrictions on the shape of the flower beds - these can be traditional circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, rhombuses.

To the unusual arrangement of the flower bed in the country house, you can refer to the "spring" arrangement of flowering flowers - when a brook of bright colors "flows" from an inverted decorative bucket or wooden barrel. In this case, it is better to plant plants with wriggling bands( as water flows out of the barrel) alternating their color range, especially a game of contrasts, for example, a strip of bright red flowers, and a strip of yellow or blue flowers. But sometimes such contrasts are not needed if you plant, for example, beautiful white flowers in the form of a stream, as in the photo below.

If there is where to go for a walk and build a flower garden in the country house with your own hands, then it's fine, but what about the owners of tiny country plots where there is no place for chic and sprawling flower beds? In this case, you need to pay attention to planting flowers in the pots. They can be placed not only along the tracks, but also suspended in the pots on the porch, and also make a kind of decorative shelving with shelves and arrange on them pots of flowers.

Today, many craftsmen practice non-standard and very original solutions - plant flowers in shoes, for example, in an old boot, rubber boots, slippers or shoes on a hairpin.

An original way of this kind of flower beds is to use a flower bed in a cart on wheels, which can be moved to any place in the villa.

Highlights of creating a flower garden

It's easy to create flowerbeds on the cottage with your own hands, the main thing is to observe some simple recommendations. It is better if all the flowers are arranged in groups, random flowering will not bring the desired visual effect. It is necessary not just to plant the plants next to each other, but to think about some logical arrangement for them.

For example, a circular flower bed can be made of thin rings of various colors, or focus on the center of the flower bed and place a circle of bright colors from which the "rays" of other colors depart. Rectangular bed can be decorated with soft colored waves, and in a square flower garden symmetrical geometry will look great.

As a rule, beautiful flower beds and flower beds in the country are obtained if the plant height is taken into account. Flowers with long stems are located in the background, and low plants are planted in front. This is a perfectly logical explanation - if you plant high flowers in front, then all the beauty that blooms behind them, no one will see and appreciate.

In addition, take into account and still such an important moment as the arrangement of the flower bed in relation to the sides of the world. As a rule, the heads of flowers are drawn to the sun and turn to where they can be caressed by the abundance of sun rays. The least beautiful spectacle will come from the north side, since the flower heads can be turned completely out of your way.

In spring, when planting seeds, be sure to leave free space between groups of colors. Whatever the desire to sow flowers every centimeter of the earth, you must always leave a free space between them, otherwise the whole composition will be like a forest lawn where there is no place for orderly beauty.

And how to make a flower bed in a beautiful country house? To prevent the flowers from growing, between planting gardeners make a kind of boundary of sand or gravel.

Below is an example of a planting on a flower bed of a private manor of a square from zinnia and black marigolds( marigolds) in the spring.

As a result, such magnificent flowers have grown.

Peonies often plant a bush behind the bush along the garden paths, so that in the future thick foliage formed a green corridor or the so-called living hedge. A very beautiful path turns out from the pi-pine bushes from the gate to the porch.

Spring works on the bed

Regardless of the size of the future flowerbed, decorating the flower garden at the dacha will require some preparatory work. So, what can you do in the beginning of spring, namely in March-April? These months are characterized by the awakening of nature from winter hibernation, the sun is warming the sun and the earth starts to warm up.

In March, you need to plant flowers for seedlings and then in April or May they can be planted in the open ground. Many gardeners prefer not to mess around with seedlings, but to sow seeds immediately into the ground when the earth warms up( this is May-month).They argue their decision by the weakness of seedlings - the saplings grown at home are indeed much weaker than those that germinated, if not in the open ground, then at least in the greenhouse. If you add to this long transportation to the dacha, the survival of young seedlings is low.

But if you still decided to grow seedlings in order to please yourself with early flowering in the country, then in March you can sow sweet peas, fragrant tobacco, cinnamon, astra, snapdragon, petunia, verbena, dahlias, cloves, kisses, pansies, salvia, and glue.

In addition, it is advisable to check for the integrity of the gladiolus bulb, cull the diseased, and if you find specks on them, you can simply clean them and anoint with greenery.

In addition to the "home" care in warmth and comfort, you will have to go out and do earthwork, especially since the spring sweet sun invites you to go out into the fresh air. In March-April, you need to dig up the flower bed and fertilize the soil with compost.

In early May, you can plant gladiolus bulbs, in mid-May it's time to plant freesia bulbs, and in late May you can plant chrysanthemums.

In May, the main care for the flowerbed will be to weed out weeds and harvest already faded early flowers, for example, tulips, daffodils.

If there are curly and tall flowers in the garden, then they should be tied up.

At this time, you can sow seeds of annual and biennial flowers in the open ground.

Flower bed from the scratch

And how to break the flower garden in the country, if the grass and weeds are growing in this area? Approximately in April-May, you can already do these types of work. To do this, you need to dig a site with a shovel in 1.5 bayonets, while removing each weed from the root. You can lay the grass, for example, in a bucket and then take it far beyond the future flowerbed.

In order to prevent the weeds from crawling into the flowerbed from a nearby area, it is advisable to dig in plastic or curbstones at the border of the flower garden. And before planting seeds or seedlings, do not forget to fertilize the soil with compost and humus.

So, step by step, flowerbeds and flower beds are created at the dacha. Do not be afraid to experiment with the combination of plants of different species, height and size of heads( eg carpet with ornamental foliage plants) on the same flower bed.