Continuous flowering bed of perennials: diagrams

Content

1 Categories of perennials
2 Advantages and features of continuous flowering beds
3 Selection of plants by season
4 Development of a flower garden scheme
5 Selection of colors
6 Ready-made schemes
7 Conclusion

A flowerbed that blooms throughout the warm season is perhaps the dream of every gardener. Flower beds formed from perennials have a number of advantages over their counterparts on which annuals are planted. The flowering process in flowerbeds where perennial flora is planted will be renewed annually. In this case, all the gardener will need to do is water, prune and feed the plants on time.

This article will discuss how to form a continuous flowering bed from perennials, will provide diagrams of flower beds, and will also describe the nuances that need to be taken into account when planting flowers. But first, we suggest you find out what perennial flowers can be planted in a flower bed.

Categories of perennials

All flowering plants from which landscape compositions are created are divided into 3 categories: low-growing, medium-growing and tall. Let's look at each category separately.

short

The first category includes flowers whose height does not exceed 30 cm. They are most often used to create colored carpets. Among the short ones flowering perennials includes:

phlox;
dwarf asters;
aquilegia;
aubriet;
gentians;
Carpathian bells;
soapworts.

When planting low-growing perennials, it is important to follow some rules:

Low-growing flowers are best planted on the sunny side. If you ignore this moment, then you should not expect lush flowering.
In order for plants to bloom well, they need to be fed with floral fertilizers, while the application of nitrogen fertilizers should be kept to a minimum. The fact is that the latter promote an increase in green mass, and not flowering.
To flowerbed with low-growing flowers looked attractive, the plants should be planted close to each other.
Low-growing representatives of the flora require careful care and timely weeding weed. And the point here is not only the aesthetic appeal of the flowerbed, but also the fact that weeds are destructive to low-growing perennial flowers.

Medium height

The category of medium-sized flowers includes flowers whose height reaches 30–80 cm. With their help you can decorate a tiered flower bed or mono composition. Among the medium-sized perennials are the following:

peonies;
pink radiols;
day-lily;
roses;
yarrow.

When planting medium-sized plants, you need to leave some distance between them, since they grow more than their short-growing counterparts.

Tall

All flowers with a height of more than 80 cm are called tall representatives of the flora or giants. When designing an island flowerbed, you cannot do without tall perennials.This category includes the following flowers:

basilisks;
mallow;
twisty sunflowers;
window sills;
stock roses.

Advantages and features of continuous flowering beds

In order for a flower garden of this type to always look good and make you happy, it is important to take into account some nuances when planting plants. A bright and dense flower bed can only be obtained in an area filled with sunny colors. Therefore, the first thing to do is to choose the sunny side of the landscape for the flowerbed. After this, distribute the flower beds into zones with the names of the plants that you will plant in each of them. This way, you can ensure constant flowering of the flower bed.

Important! Before planting a flowerbed of continuous flowering perennials, you need to fertilize the soil and add disintegrants, for example, river sand, expanded clay or brick chips.

Flowerbeds and gardens of continuous flowering perennials have a number of advantages:

The first and, perhaps, main advantage of such a flower bed or garden is durability.
Easy care, which consists of weeding, watering and fertilizing the plants.
Long flowering - throughout the warm season.
Seeds or seedlings of annuals need to be purchased annually, while funds are invested in perennials once.
Usually perennials are unpretentious and can grow both in the sun and in partial shade or even shade.
Perennials do not deplete the soil.

Selection of plants by season

Flower bed schemes are created depending on what effect you want to achieve. This is clearly visible in the photos provided in the following subsections of the article. Flower arrangements are usually named after the seasons.

Tenderness of spring

The most delicate flowers bloom first after winter.The spring flower bed must include primroses, crocuses, daisies, pansies, tulips, daffodils and lungworts. These perennials usually bloom in early spring and are pleasing to the eye throughout the month. They are replaced in May by late varieties of tulips, peonies, lupins and aquilegias. By the end of May, imperial hazel grouse, hyacinths and others are gradually beginning to bloom.

Taste of summer in the flowerbed

In the summer, you can find many more flower arrangements in flower beds. These include amaranths, hibiscus, marigolds, roses, gillyflowers, hydrangeas, zinnias, delphiniums and liatris.

When creating a flowerbed of continuous flowering from perennials, you can add to the list of plants lilies, echinacea, rudbeckia, monarda and clasp. With proper care, you can not only enjoy the pleasant appearance of these flowers, but also smell their wonderful aromas throughout the summer.

Advice! If there are gaps in your flowerbed in spring or summer, you can fill them with annuals.

Autumn colors in a flowerbed

The flower arrangement will not be complete if you do not plant autumn flowers in the flowerbed, which replace summer ones. In autumn, autumn perennials of continuous flowering, such as carnations, ageratum, begonia and remontant roses, bloom in the flower beds. To bring back the bright colors of summer to your flowerbed, you should find a place to plant coreopsis, asters, sage, helenium and sedum. Yarrow, decorative onions and craspedia can withstand almost frosts.

Development of a flower garden scheme

If you have to make a flowerbed in an open summer cottage and you have a fairly large area at your disposal, then the flowerbed design scheme may look like this:

Tall perennials are planted in the center of the composition.
Further from the center there are medium-sized flowers.
Closer to the edge is a mat of low-growing perennials.

When choosing the shades of plants that will grow in the flowerbed, it is important that their compatibility with each other is not disturbed. Even on the most ordinary flower bed you can add bright accents.

If your flowerbed is located near a fence or fence, then the tallest plants can be planted closer to it. The height of the composition in this case will decrease as the flower bed spreads into the area near the house.

Before you make a flower garden, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the basic design schemes for flower beds, thanks to which you will create your own unique masterpiece. These diagrams can become a base or starting point for beginning gardeners.

Selection of colors

Before creating a continuous flowering bed, it is also important to determine the predominant colors. As a rule, warm and bright shades are found in flower beds. The background for such a palette is often blue or purple.

So, we suggest you familiarize yourself with several rules for choosing a color palette for a flower bed:

To make perennials pleasing to the eye, it is important to choose contrasting colors, for example, yellow with blue/violet or red with green. If you have a large flower bed, then the plants should be planted in large groups. Otherwise, the flowerbed will look ugly from afar.
If the flower garden is part of the recreation area, then make it more neutral, for example, plant blue with purple or red flowers. Thus, compositions that are calm and do not excite unnecessary emotions are created.
Gray, black and white shades match any color palette. Variegated and bright compositions of constant flowering can be diluted white flowers. To emphasize the shades, you can plant black flowers in the flowerbed. As a background, you can plant plants with grayish foliage.
Plants in pastel shades will help you create a dreamy and romantic atmosphere on your territory.
They look very interesting single-color flower beds of different shades.
It is worth noting that warm shades, as is known, visually reduce, and cold, on the contrary, they increase.
To decorate a flowerbed before flowering begins and after it ends, you can plant plants with beautiful leaves.

Ready-made schemes

The best flower bed is the one for which you designed it yourself, however, it is important to adhere to some basic rules. Next, standard schemes for planting plants for decorating a dry stream will be considered, you will also learn about decorating a gate with flowers, a flower bed in partial shade and a flower garden of fast-growing plants.

Creek illusion

If for some reason you cannot make a fountain or stream on your property, but you really want to create something similar, then as an option you can make a dry spring. If you do all the work on making and decorating a dry stream, you will create the illusion of a living spring.

The bed is made of oblong pebbles of different sizes. Transparent blue beads will create the illusion of a stream and from a distance it will seem that water is really running in it.

To make a dry stream attractive, you can decorate it with a continuous flowering garden. Landing is carried out according to the diagram shown in the photo:

The bamboo plant gives a natural appearance to the stream, although it is not a flowering plant.This plant is found near many water sources. You can replace it with ostrich.
Bearded irises are planted at the mouth of the stream.
Lobelia looks good opposite irises.
You can plant a creeping plant next to the irises.
Poskharsky's bell will fit perfectly into the bed of a dry stream.
Aubrieta hybrids will help create a beautiful and smooth transition from one shade to another.
Opposite the aubrieta, on the left edge, you can plant any large-leaved plant with bright flowers. It could be macrophylla brunnera.
Opposite the Brunnera, the awl-leaved bryozoan will look great.
The red creeper will be an excellent completion of a flower arrangement intended for the design of a dry stream.
The final plant should also be non-flowering, for example, the same bamboo plant or ostrich plant.

Take this scheme as a basis and do something unique in your garden.

Decorating the gate with perennials

If you have an arched gate on your site, then you can plant perennials near it, organizing everything so that the arch is entwined with flowering plants. By choosing the right flowers, you can enjoy a blooming arch throughout the warm season.

To begin with, perennials for a continuous flowering bed should be divided into tiers, as shown in the photo.

The first tier will consist of low-growing plantings. These can be Pozharsky's bells (20), creaking sedum (5), cushion aster (3), oak sage (9), foxtail pinnate bristle (19), rock sedum (2).
The middle tier consists of yellow yarrows (8 and 16). Next, closer to the gate on the left side, you need to plant taller flowers, for example, spikelet liatris (1), long-leaved speedwell (7) and switchgrass (6).On the right side, closer to the gate, daisy-shaped flowers will be planted - cushion aster (18), novobelgian rudbeckia (15) and brilliant (17).
Tall plants are planted on the last tier, with which you can close a low fence. So, to create a beautiful composition in the background, you should plant a hollyhock (9), sunflower (10), David's buddleia (13) and glossy rudbeckia (14).

And this composition will be completed by planting weaving plants that will braid the arch. To do this, you can plant clematis Jacquemman (11) on one side, and a climbing rose (12) on the other. You can create a flowerbed of continuous flowering next to a fence from any material, since such a composition is universal and will harmoniously fit into any exterior.

Flowerbed of fast-growing plants

If you’ve already started a business, you want to see the fruit of your labor as early as possible. This is also true in the case of planting a beautiful flower bed. Of course, perennials are unlikely to bloom magnificently in the first year after planting, but this can still be achieved. But in this case, it is important to create a flower bed on the bright side of the site so that the plants are warm. This mixborder looks great next to a fence, coniferous plantings or a wall.

The scheme for planting perennials will be somewhat different from the previous one, although, as can be seen in the photo, it is in no way inferior to other flower beds in beauty:

The top tier can be planted with holly roses of different colors.
A decorative sunflower can be placed near the holly roses.
Icelandic poppies will look good on the middle tier.
Gaillardias can be planted near poppies.
Lobelia cardinal will help you make a bright accent, running like a red ribbon across the entire flowerbed.
To make the composition deeper, you need to add blue shades.To do this, you can plant catnip.
Next will be Poskharsky's bell.
And a blue catananche will be planted on the edge.
The composition can be supplemented with low-growing plants, for example, gravilate.
The sedum will delight the eye with its beauty until autumn.
And the final note of the composition is made of perennials - heuchera.

The care required for these plants is the same, which will allow you to keep your flowerbed in order without much effort. So, you can hide an ugly structure or a blank wall.

Designing a flower bed in partial shade

If you don’t have a sunny area to plant a flowerbed, then don’t despair, you can also form it in partial shade. The following diagram will help you come up with a beautiful flower garden from perennials in partial shade.

The concept of this scheme is to effectively combine bright flowering plants with lush greenery. So, you can brighten up a dull landscape. As a green space against the background of a flower bed, you can plant funkia (1). You can also complement the flowerbed with background flowers using Dicentra splendid (2), it blooms in May and looks quite impressive. And the final background plant is red epimedium (3), which has bright yellow-red leaves. Closer to the middle tier is the muscariform liriope (4).

From the beginning of May until October, your flowerbed will sparkle with special colors if you plant geranium on it (5), and lungwort (6) will help dilute the composition. The spring navel (7) will look good in the foreground, and violets (8) will replace it.

Conclusion

Instructions for planting plants to form a flower bed of perennials and the diagrams proposed in the article will help you create your own masterpiece that will delight you and your friends throughout the warm season.And in conclusion, we invite you to watch a video on the topic of planting perennials when forming a flower bed of continuous flowering: