Floristry is, of course, creativity. If desired, the owner of the site can create in his garden magnificent classic flower beds, broccoli or luxurious mixborders from perennials. Knowing the basic methods of improving the territory and actively searching for original solutions will help turn the countryside site into an ideal place for recreation.
Today on the site "House of Dreams" we will talk about mixborders - what these flower beds represent and what plants can be used for mixboarders. And, of course, we will gladden the readers with beautiful photos of mixed flower beds.
Flowerbed mixer: features and typical features
Mixer of perennials attracts many gardeners in that it does not require an annual new flowerbed planning, is considered a natural flower garden, needs only care for growing plants. But at the beginning of creative and routine work, a considerable amount of perseverance and strength will be required to create an original multi-year composition.
A mixed flower garden can stretch along garden paths or emphasize the severity and beauty of hedges, but it is always an independent planting of several plant varieties. Perennial flower beds mixborders are made from various perennial plants, taking into account their decorativeness, height, lighting requirements. Selection of plants for mixborders is done so that the flowerbed does not stop flowering of various groups of flowers from spring to autumn frosts.
MixBoard plants: choice of material for mixed flower garden
Creation of a composition begins with planting in the background of garden bushes or stunted conifers. Particularly well in the perennial flower garden will look like boxwood, chubushnik, Chinese dwarf lilac. These plants will take a little, they will only serve as a backdrop for undersized blooming perennials.
When choosing plants for a small mixborder, you should pay attention to the multicolumn, fescue, goldenrod hybrid, lagovod turfy, silver wormwood. They retain their decorativeness throughout the season.
Next, the central row is filled with plants reaching a height of 0.5-0.7 m. It can be peonies - in beauty and ornamentality of leaves they keep the palm of primacy. Next to them they plant astilba( for it you can hide delphiniums), daylilies, a great dicentre( a broken heart).Here, according to the logic, bulbous plants should grow. They are planted in dense small groups, which after flowering will be invisible behind the first row of plants and will not spoil the general appearance of the mixed flower garden.
Perennial stunted asters, chrysanthemums, hosts with different leaves, purifiers, cinquefoil, phloqs awl-shaped will occupy a worthy place in the first row of mixborders from perennials. Immediately, you can plant the smallest alpine bugle, thyme.
Features of MixBoard Planting and Plant Care
Planting plants, it is important to remember that they will grow over time. For comfortable coexistence perennials are planted at a distance from each other, and in the early years, until they have gained full strength, emptiness is planted with annual plants.
Care for the mixer-flower garden consists of alternating propolok, irrigation, loosening. Mineral top dressing is carried out in accordance with the requirements of each individual plant species. You also need to act when forming the landing holes for perennials.
Beautiful mixborders from perennials on the site will please the owner for many years, if in the process of creation he will be guided by the love of wildlife and his own house.