Want to create a beautiful decor for your site? The scheme of flower beds from annuals will help to correctly implement any interesting idea. If you are not very good at inventing yourself or are not sure of your knowledge in the field of floriculture, use the ready-made templates provided in the article. Choose the option you like and do it yourself.
Types of flower beds
Very often a flowerbed is associated with this concept. In fact, it is only one type. The following also exist:
- rabatki;
- mixborders (mixed continuous flowering);
- single and group landings;
- color spots;
- modular options.
There are more complex compositions. They are usually created by professionals in gardens and parks. The article will consider the simplest options, such as a mixed flower garden, a modular flower bed and annuals. The outline, photograph and brief description of the plants will help you realize what you see yourself. Focusing on these types of plants, you can get them of the shade that suits you more if you didn’t really like what you saw on the template.
In specialized books, magazines, on the Internet, you can find many ready-made templates of different configurations, combinations of shades, types and varieties of decorative flower plants. The simplest scheme for implementation will be the annual flowerbed. Each year in the same space you can create different compositions. Annual bushes grow faster and produce many buds. In addition, the seedlings of these flower plants will cost less.
Perennials are usually planted at a sufficiently large distance, since after a few years the number of shoots and shoots increases significantly. If initially planted too close, the plants will interfere with each other. Creating a flower garden from perennials is more time-consuming. In addition, in the first season, some plants may not bloom at all or produce few buds, and there will be a lot of empty space between the bushes, which will still have to be filled with annuals.
How to design a flower garden: basic principles
If you have a ready-made scheme of annual flower beds, or you want to create your own design, in both cases you will have to evaluate the space you have, the size of the territory, and from which sides it will be viewed. Low-growing plants are planted in the foreground, tall ones in the background, if the view is only on one side, and in the center - in the case of a circular inspection.
Be sure to consider how harmoniously the types of plants and shades of flowers will be combined. If you are new to this business, it is worthwhile to limit yourself to a small number of both types and tones. For a spectacular bed of annuals (diagrams and photos below), just two different types of plants or even one with bright contrasting or similar in color flowers will suffice.
The following illustration provides an example of such a solution. The shape of the flowerbed is standard round, the height of the plants is about the same, which allows you to make an original drawing by planting salvia and tagetes according to the corresponding scheme.
In order for you to get everything exactly as in the picture, you need to carefully mark the territory. It is better to plant seedlings. It is worth buying plants with blooming buds in order to accurately see the color.
Of course, such a flower bed will require a lot of seedlings. If you liked the design or a combination of shades, but you won’t have that much planting material, simply reduce the pattern to the scale of your flower bed, for example, to 1 meter, and instead of a star in the center, take a second, smaller circle with four strips diverging to the edge . Lines are easy to make even one or two plants wide. Simplifying any option is always easy.
Classifications of flower plants
Group planting material according to several criteria:
- in height;
- on the color of inflorescences;
- by flowering period.
Since here we are talking about annual flower beds, the above symptoms are the most relevant. By height, plants are carpeted (up to 15 cm), curb or undersized (up to 40 cm), as well as screen or tall, which reach 2-3 meters.
As for the color, it can be different not only in inflorescences, but also in leaves. The following photo shows an unusual flowerbed from different varieties of coleus. In the middle lane, this plant is cultivated as an annual.
This version of the flower garden looks very impressive, made even without any complex patterns with a pattern. By the way, the height of plants in the flowerbed plays an important role. You have two options:
- Run a flat surface from the same height plants, as in the previous illustration.
- Use contrast by planting low ones around tall ones.
By the way, if you are not at all confident in your abilities, use tagetes (marigolds). It has established itself as a very unpretentious plant, and its height ranges from 15 - 20 cm to meter tall varieties.
How to choose a combination of shades
If you decide to create flower beds from annuals, their schemes can be the simplest, in the form of any geometric shape from one species or plant variety and a border (contour) from another. The following photo shows a spectacular contrast option with a coleus. Bright red-brown shade creates a concise completion of the flower garden.
A flowerbed can be built on a combination of close in spectrum shades. The following diagram and photo show just such an option.
The main part of the flower bed is occupied by pink flowers (3). Ageratum, petunia or begonia will look good. An ageratum of a delicate purple hue was chosen as a border (4). The center is decorated with higher plants: an annual lavender (1), the color of which is in harmony with the previous ones, and red salvia (2).
Such a flower bed will be spectacular even of a small size. The flowering period of the selected plant species is long, so your masterpiece will delight you all summer.
How to choose the right plants for the flower garden
If you decide to develop your own schemes of flower beds from annuals, for beginners it is worth choosing unpretentious plants of a small assortment. For Central Russia, the following are suitable:
- tagetes (marigolds);
- petunia (it is better to plant seedlings, since it is difficult to grow from seeds on your own);
- ageratum;
- salvia;
- cineraria;
- begonia;
- lavender annual.
Even one type of plant can have a lot of varieties and a variety of colors. Below is shown the option of how to make a beautiful flowerbed from one tagetes.
The same applies to any of these plants.
Simple annual flowerbeds for beginners
If you already had an unsuccessful experience in organizing flower beds, when everything turned out completely different from what you intended, and using marigolds seems too simple for you, you want to prove to yourself that you can accomplish something more, use the following template.
Nothing complicated here. Mark a rectangle, oval, circle, or other shape on the ground with a path and body. Plant different varieties of begonia (petunias, ageratum) in these two elements.
Buy strong, high-quality seedlings from a reliable supplier, place the plants at the required distance and take proper care. Feel free to ask the sellers for the necessary seedling care information.
Annual workers
This flower garden is a strip (usually more than 40 cm wide), which is located along the building, lawn, paths. A simple option for organizing such a decor is shown in the following diagram and photo.
If you want to make a more budget option, make a border. It is usually made with a width of less than 40 cm, and accordingly, it will require less planting material.
With such a border, any, even the most simple flowerbed of annuals will look good. Schemes of a continuous curb or slab forming the perimeter of a lawn or other site can be made not only in the form of strips, but also divided into squares, rectangles, diagonal guides. The choice depends on your capabilities.
The simplest and most reliable method is to carefully plant plants of one variety in a line (in one or more rows). So you definitely will not mix up the varieties of planting material and spend less time. In this case, the result will please you.
A bed of continuous flowering from annuals: a scheme
Organizing the territory of the site and decorating it with colorful decor, I want the beauty to please you as much as possible. The following photo shows a spectacular mixborder or mixed flower garden. Organized in May and June, it will decorate your site until frost.
It is very convenient to use the schemes of flower beds from annuals with a description of the flowers, although you should not limit yourself to those varieties and options that you saw.
You can choose a specific color scheme, as on a template, and use plants that you like more or are cheaper.
The photo above shows an embodiment of a part of the previous scheme, although it can be used to perform a completely different decor, for example, from different varieties of ageratum or petunia, salvia and lavender.
Modular flower garden
Ready-made schemes of annual flower beds are convenient in that you roughly imagine the result. If you think you can’t afford complex compositions, use the idea of a modular flower garden. An example is shown in the following illustration.
The meaning of such a flowerbed is that some geometric shape of a certain size (module) is taken as the basis. The simplest thing is to choose a square. All elements can be either the same, for example 40x40cm, or be a certain number of times larger (respectively 80x80). These modules are filled not only with flowers, but some may consist of decorative tiles, gravel, lawn grass. This flower garden is easy to organize in a small area with minimal cost and the best result.
As you can see, the scheme of flower beds from annuals can be the simplest, while the flower garden will turn out quite spectacular. The main thing is to correctly determine the height of plants, a combination of shades, as well as the timing of flowering. Choose any option you like and embody it on your site.