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A dacha, of course, can delight you with vegetables and fruits, but even more so it should bring aesthetic pleasure. A beautiful, blooming estate now, when many new breeding products, varieties and hybrids are available colors, organized quickly, simply and easily.
The beautiful flower beds you created at your dacha with your own hands, photos of which are given below, clearly demonstrate the basics of landscape design. Each gardener can add his own vision, character, zest to them, taking something specific and especially impressive as a basis.
Basic laws of creating a flower bed
A flowerbed is an entire part of the living world, including both annual plants and perennials, and when creating it, it is necessary to strictly follow the laws of botany and adhere to basic technological principles:
- When choosing a simple floral assortment, you need to take into account not only the composition, but also botanical compatibility. Those who prefer acidic soils (rhododendrons, hydrangeas, bergenia, heuchera) should not be planted next to those who prefer alkaline soils (cloves, rudbeckia, phlox, echinacea).
- Lovers of shady places (hostas, heucheras, daisies, violas) will not tolerate the scorching sun, and the beauty of the flowerbed will be instantly lost.
- Moisture-loving plants (daisies, violas) are not compatible with drought-resistant flowers (carnations, gazanias), both will immediately show their character.
- When creating a flowerbed, you need to take into account that annual plants bloom quickly and will delight you for a long time, but they require annual sowing or planting with seedlings. Perennials are less demanding, but quickly fade, leaving behind not always decorative foliage.
Flowerbed idea
Flowerbeds by their nature can be:
- continuous flowering;
- one season;
- regular;
- mono flower bed;
- mobile;
- decorative deciduous.
Continuous flowering
If a dacha is a part of life, a dacha holiday is a pleasure, and the owners are frequent guests, then the flowerbed should constantly delight with its beauty. It is difficult, but possible, to create such a floral masterpiece without experience and knowledge of plant agricultural technology.
For such a flower bed you need long-flowering plants that begin their parade in June and end with snow (ageratum, allisum, salvia, petunia). It’s not difficult to create such a simple flower garden at your dacha; it’s enough to sow flowers in early spring or plant ready-made seedlings purchased at a specialized center.
You can create continuous flowering in layers, using, for example, stones. Their arrangement can be different, but taking a fragment seen somewhere as an idea, in any case you will get an original flowerbed. When creating a stone foundation, you can use any geometric shapes depending on the terrain and design of the estate.
For one season
Such a flowerbed is created when the dacha is rarely visited, but the holiday season is certainly spent at your favorite estate.
If the flowerbed should please you in the spring, then you need to take care of it in the fall by planting bulbs that bloom in March, April, and May. Bulbs of tulips, crocuses, daffodils, muscari, scilla, hyacinths can be purchased in flower shops from late August to October, and immediately planted in prepared soil. And as the snow melts, the flowerbed will delight you with its beauty.
Such a flowerbed at the dacha with your own hands is not at all difficult for beginners. In the spring, if for some reason the bulbs do not overwinter well, you can diversify them with viola, and the flower garden will sparkle with new colors.
Forget-me-not blooms from biennials in spring. Combining it with tulips, the flowerbed will turn out unforgettable. However, it must be sown in July last year.
If you are planning a vacation, for example, in the fall, then sowing should not be done too early and preference should be given to those flowers that decorate the estate in September (asters, dahlias, marigolds, ageratum, perennial asters).
Regular flower beds
Such flower beds are created once, in a well-thought-out place. As a rule, perennials are used for this, which are easy to care for and do not require constant attention.
Looking at the photo of the flower bed, it is not difficult to implement ideas for a garden with your own hands. To create regular plantings, you can use stones, plastic bottles, wicker fences, and anything that your imagination suggests. Garden figurines are also appropriate in such flower beds, using which you can create a thematic flower bed.
If there are few stones and they are large, you can put them in the center and play with the design from this angle.
The frame can be made not only of stones, but also of logs, and indoor plants are taken as plants, for example, coleus as in the photo.
Mono flower bed
The word “monotony” is completely unacceptable for this flowerbed. By planting flowers of one type in a garden bed, for example, petunias, you can easily and simply create a bright spot with a very long flowering period. The design in this case is discreet, but very effective.
Such a flower bed can be created from the same type of flowers, but of different varieties. By playing on tones and halftones, contrast and smooth transitions of color, visual relief, volume, delicacy, and airiness are created.
When creating a flower garden at the dacha from one plant, you need to understand very well the peculiarities of its agricultural technology, since it will no longer be possible to secure one plant with another. When planting perennials, you need to take into account that this plant is decorative from early spring until late autumn.
Small flower beds located close together and planted with the same flowers, but in different tones or colors, look beautiful. The use of stones in this option is also appropriate. When choosing flowers, it is better to give preference to very simple plants to care for, which do not require additional feeding, pruning, or hilling. So, if you choose for a flower garden petunia seedlings, then it’s better if it’s ampelous. Lying on the ground, the shoots will take root on their own and very soon the flowerbed will resemble a colored carpet.
Mobile
This type of flower bed is preferred by summer residents who always want to see the beauty around them. It is simple to create such a masterpiece, easy to care for, and after losing its decorative effect, it is removed.
Any vessel can be used as a “pot” for flowers, from beautiful decorative, portable vases to ordinary, used household bowls, basins, troughs, wheelbarrows, rubber tires. The design can be intricate, plot-driven, or simple but pleasing to the eye.
Having planted a container with flowers, you can easily manage it even without knowing agricultural technology. Because seeing that flowers lose turgor in the sun (the foliage fades slightly), it immediately becomes clear that this container needs to be taken away from direct sunlight, to a place with openwork shade, or, conversely, exposed to the sun.
A mobile flowerbed can be created using imitation. A basket as in the photo is selected as an edging, and potted crops are placed in the middle. Such a flowerbed is appropriate as a decoration for a holiday, and after the celebration, everything is cleaned up.
By planting different flowers in containers, varying the timing of their flowering, you can always see beautifully blooming plantings.
Decorative foliage plants in a flowerbed
Flowering plants are certainly pleasing to the eye. However, by creating flower beds at the dacha from decorative foliage plants, a look of unprecedented beauty and effect is achieved. As a rule, most of these plants are perennials.
For such a flower bed they successfully use:
- host;
- tenacious;
- sedum;
- coniferous plants;
- ivy;
- fescue
The variety of varieties of these plants allows you to create not just beautiful flower beds, but turn them into masterpieces of design art.
Deciduous plants also go well with flowering ones, but you need to take into account not only the colors, but also the texture of the foliage and flowers.
Creating a flower bed is an art that is based on knowledge, inspiration and a sense of beauty, and the reward for everything is beauty.
