Peonies in the landscape design of a summer cottage, garden, photos, successful combinations and compositions

Content

1 Features of the use of peonies in landscape design of a garden or plot
2 What can you plant next to peonies?
3 How to design flower beds with peonies
- 3.1 Rules for designing flower beds with peonies
- 3.2 Mixed flower beds with peonies in landscape design
  - 3.2.1 Examples of flower beds and flower beds with peonies
4 A few ideas on how to plant peonies beautifully
5 Design tips
6 Conclusion

Peonies are used very widely in landscape design, since they are beautiful and at the same time undemanding perennial plants. Large bushes, as a rule, are planted separately - mainly in open spaces. And shorter ones are used in compositions with other plants, selecting them by color and height.

Features of the use of peonies in landscape design of a garden or plot

For a thoughtful design of a flower bed with peonies, it is recommended to make maximum use of the decorative properties of this plant.Peonies are valued not only for their bright and lush flowers, but also for the shape of the bush, leaves and the color of the petioles (some are bright red). Therefore, the gardener first needs to select several varieties, focusing on color, height, strength of stems and flowering time.

How to choose varieties of peonies for decorating a garden or plot

When choosing varieties of peonies, first of all, pay attention to the shades, shape and size of the flowers. Also, peonies in the landscape must have fairly strong stems so that they can reliably hold even a large number of flowers.

Therefore, to decorate the garden we can recommend the following varieties:

White Sands – white with yellow stamens;
My Love – white and soft pink;
Karl Rosenfield – fuchsia shade;
Feather Top – also a fuchsia shade, with lilac tones;
Old Faithful – red;
John Howard Wiegell and Kevin – soft pink.

It is also worth considering the timing of flowering. For example, among the early flowering varieties, the following are especially attractive:

Dutch Dwarf – pink, Japanese shape;
Tiny Tim – a miniature bush in the shape of a cap;
Merry Mayshine – a bush with graceful narrow leaves;
Fairy Princess – large buds, rich pink shade;
Eaglet - a variety with an interesting decorative bush in the shape of a vase and small but very bright flowers.

Recently, Ito hybrids are often used in landscape design: these are peonies obtained from crossing tree and herbaceous varieties:

Garden Treasure – light yellow, quite large;
Bartzella – terry, yellow;
Viking Full Moon – light yellow with an orange core;
Julia Rose – pink, light yellow, cream shade, grows in a compact bush.

Important! Some varieties are used in landscape design due to the beauty of their leaves - they have red stems and petioles that contrast well against a green background. These are, for example: Akron, Karl Rosenfield, Bev, Midnight Sun.

Garden decoration with peonies

Peonies are very bright, often large flowers growing on lush, compact or spreading bushes. They serve as a full-fledged decoration of the garden, so they can be used both in independent plantings and in compositions.

Here are some photos of the design of the area with peonies in the garden:

Planting in rows along a path is a great way to define a path and also to separate one area of the garden from another.
A hedge of peonies is one of the classic techniques in landscape design. It looks especially good against the backdrop of a well-groomed lawn - bright flowers harmonize with the green tint.
Single planting against a background of bushes of approximately the same height.
Central flower bed on an open lawn.
Planting peonies next to a bench, gazebo and other seating areas is often used for decoration in landscape design.

Attention! Most varieties of peonies are light-loving. Therefore, they should be planted in open, bright spaces. However, weak shading is allowed - for example, from a bench or decorative bushes.

Design of a site with peonies

To decorate a site, flower growers strive to follow the classic rules of design, that is, correctly combine color shades, sizes and shapes of bushes. Since many peonies have attractive colors, they can be safely used in the landscape design of any flower bed and garden, for example:

Classic round flower beds.
A zigzag row of peonies is used in landscape design for zoning a garden.
A unique hedge of different varieties of flowers.
Flowers combined with perennial shrubs.
Also, rocky flower beds are often used in landscape design, where these flowering shrubs also look appropriate.

What can you plant next to peonies?

You can plant both flowers and perennial green plants - herbaceous, coniferous and other crops - next to peonies in a flower bed, in a hedge or along paths. It is important to choose them so that they are harmoniously combined both in color and height.

What ornamental plants can be planted next to peonies?

Peonies go well with decorative perennials:

With various types of hosta, against which the lush flowers will look especially beautiful.
With various conifers (arborvita, dwarf spruce) - they look especially beautiful in rocky flowerbeds, rock gardens and on the coast of reservoirs.
With herbaceous perennials that can be used in carpet plantings to decorate empty spaces in the garden.

Advice! When planting, it is important to take into account that shrubs or other large plants do not cast a strong shadow on the peonies - otherwise they will not bloom so luxuriantly.

Peonies harmonize very well with hosts, creating pleasant partial shade for them.

What flowers can be planted next to peonies?

These plants harmonize well with many flowers, for example:

chrysanthemum;
yellow daylily;
delphinium;
honeysuckle;
astilbe;
daisy;
tulip;
poppies

Advice! At the edge of the flowerbed you can plant annual flowers - for example, marigolds, cornflowers, coleus. They frame the flower row well, so they are often used in landscape design.

Is it possible to plant peonies next to trees?

It is not a good idea to plant peonies next to tall, lush and spreading trees, as they provide shade for a significant part of the day.This is, for example, apple tree, maple, pine and others. And even if a large tree does not shade the area (for example, a compact spruce), it will take away a significant part of the water and nutrients, which will have a bad effect on the development of the main crop.

Important! Fallen needles acidify the soil, and flowers generally prefer an alkaline environment.

Compatibility of peonies and thujas in landscape design

Thuja fits perfectly into almost any flower garden thanks to its beautiful greenery and graceful shape. Therefore, it is also used in planting with peonies, especially pink, bright yellow and red ones.

Compatibility of irises and peonies in landscape design

Irises are especially beautifully emphasized by white peonies. Both crops prefer bright sunlight, so they are suitable for placement in an open lawn.

The combination of light yellow and blue shades is one of the most harmonious

What not to plant next to peonies

It is not recommended to plant next to these flowers:

Lush shrubs creating strong shade.
Garden trees - they not only provide shade, but also take away moisture and nutrients.
Any plants from the Buttercup family - they actively fill the area and compete with the main crop, sometimes inhibiting its development.
Small flowers (pansies, petunias, marigolds), which, against the background of peonies, look bad in landscape design because they disappear from the general background.

How to design flower beds with peonies

To beautifully design a flowerbed, it is important to consider:

combination of colors (contrast of red against green, blue with yellow, bright with darker);
tiering - large ones in the center, smaller ones in the foreground;
general shape - for example, a circle can be visually highlighted with the help of low flowers or perennials (hostas, blue fescue, wild oats).

Rules for designing flower beds with peonies

If you are combining different varieties, it is better to plant them at the same time so that they grow synchronously. In addition, they must approximately match in height and bloom at the same time, otherwise the desired effect will not be achieved. Color combinations can be different - for example, red and white, yellow and red, pink and white.

It is better to choose bushes of the same height or plant tall ones in the center and low ones at the edges

Mixed flower beds with peonies in landscape design

These plants can be combined with different flowers, taking into account the color scheme and their height. They are planted in mixborders, hedges along the road, in various compositions (rock gardens, on the coast, rocky flowerbeds).

Mixborders decorate a flower garden well, so they are often used in landscape design.

Examples of flower beds and flower beds with peonies

When creating a flower bed, you can take the proven diagrams shown below as a basis.

Proper placement will allow you to achieve alternate lush flowering

1-delphinium, 2-peonies, 3-any lilac flowers, such as catmint, 4-azorella three-forked

Another option is to make a round flowerbed of perennial flowering plants:

silver iris;
phlox;
peonies (pink and lilac varieties are better suited here);
chrysanthemum;
asters.

A few ideas on how to plant peonies beautifully

And a few more ideas for using these bright shrubs in landscape design with photos for inspiration:

Multi-tiered flower beds.
Works along the house. In design they are used for zoning and forming visual boundaries of the entire flower garden.
In single plantings. This technique in landscape design is used in cases where it is necessary to highlight the center of the garden or simply cover empty, ugly places.
In the flowerbeds.

Design tips

Each garden has its own characteristics, and truly beautiful flower arrangements can be created taking into account the advice of professional designers. Therefore, it is recommended to pay attention to some landscape tricks that will make peonies in the garden look truly impressive:

The brightest, most luxurious flowers are used in single plantings in the center of the garden.
When creating multi-tiered compositions, smaller plants are planted in the foreground, and the tallest plants are planted in the background.
When selecting plants for a flower bed, color combinations are taken into account: for example, light yellow peonies look good against the background of yellow-green grass.
Bright flowers look good against the lush green background of the lawn. If the bush is quite tall, it is better to form it on a trunk, that is, give it the shape of a tree by removing all the lower shoots.
Along the edges of the path and in the hedge, it is advisable to use peonies of approximately the same height, as well as the same flowering period. It is optimal to plant them in the same year so that they grow synchronously.

Conclusion

Peonies are used very widely in landscape design. And this is explained not only by their natural beauty, but also by their practicality. Many varieties (including exotic ones, which are not yet widespread) are characterized by high winter hardiness and low maintenance requirements. This allows them to be cultivated in almost any region of Russia - both in the Central part and in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East.