A flowerbed is a piece of land with flowers or ornamental plants growing on it. Usually it is placed on the viewing area of the garden. The flower garden is fenced to give it a certain shape. Today, there are many specialized stores that offer summer residents ready-made forms for arranging and ennobling flower beds. But the pride of each owner is considered to be their own made fences. How to make a flowerbed at the cottage with your own hands, read the article.
The functions of the flower garden in the country
- First of all, he adorns the whole territory of the country with his colorfulness.
- It hides the unattractive view of individual sections of the garden.
- The persistent smell of flowers prevents the spread of diseases and insects.
- Uneven hilly sections of soil in the country can be used to equip a flower bed. You can break it down in no man's land, for example, from a residential building to a road or river.
- The flowerbeds decorated with fences and borders divide the site into several functional zones, which prevents the uncontrolled spread of not only flowers, but also weeds.
- For arranging flower beds, lands unsuitable for the growth of vegetable crops are usually used. Such a flowerbed can be planted with unpretentious flowers.
Choosing a place for a flower garden
First you need to observe the garden throughout the year. This is done in order to determine the place of choice for a future flower bed where your favorite flowers will grow. It should be borne in mind that the built flower garden, if necessary, is difficult to move to another place. A careful study of the territory of the cottage will help to clarify where there is more light and moisture, what time of the day the territory of the future flower bed is shaded, what soil composition is on the plot for the flower garden. The information obtained as a result of observation will tell you how to make a flowerbed at the cottage with your own hands.
Spring work on preparing flower beds
No matter what size and shape the future flower bed will be, preparatory work will be required to design it. They are held not only at home, but also on the street. With the onset of spring, earth under a flower bed is dug up and composted. Throughout the month, flowers are planted in the country. DIY flower beds look good if you put gladioli, freesia, chrysanthemum on them. In the spring, the main care is the destruction of weeds. If the early plants have bloomed, they also need to be removed.
What if the flowerbed itself and the surrounding area are densely dotted with grass and weeds? Digging a plot, you need to take out weeds with roots, put them in a bucket and take them out of the garden. To prevent weeds from creeping into the flowerbed, a border tape or plastic is dug in near the border of the flower garden. So you can protect the flower beds with your own hands in the country. The photo presented above demonstrates the planting of flowers in the prepared soil.
Flower propagation
Spring is the time of the awakening of nature: the sun shines brighter, the earth gradually warms up. Already in March, you should sow the seeds of flowers to obtain seedlings. And at the end of April or in the early days of May, drop her off in the garden. If there is no time, you can not bother with growing seedlings, but immediately sow the seeds in the ground. This work should be done in May, when the soil warms up well. Seedlings sprouted immediately on the bed are stronger than plants grown at home. They do not need to be transported to the landing site, so they will not be damaged.
If you use the seedling method and plant finished seedlings in open ground, they will quickly grow. Soon, a flower bed will appear from them in the country with their own hands. For beginning gardeners, you need to know that already in March, seeds of sweet peas and tobacco, asters and verbena, dahlias and pansies, cloves and petunias are sown in pre-prepared boxes. Some flowers grow from bulbs. Therefore, after wintering, they are checked for integrity. If spots appear, they should be cleaned with a knife and grease this place with hydrogen peroxide or brilliant green.
Arrangement options for flower beds
People buy a vacation cottage, which is unthinkable without a flower bed. But to make it look more attractive, it needs to be further ennobled. There are different options for flower beds in the country. With your own hands, without investing, you can equip a flower garden using improvised tools. As a material, large stones having different shapes are used. They are surrounded by a flower bed around the perimeter. Depending on the desire, the stones can be painted in any color. The flower garden is also fenced with fragments of marble slabs.
You can another way to ennoble the flower beds with your own hands in the country. A photo of one of them is brought to your attention. It clearly shows that plastic bottles were used as a fence. Usually they accumulate in large quantities and take up a lot of space. It is very easy to free up space and arrange a flower garden from this material. One bottle size is selected and filled with small stones of various shapes and colors. Then they dig into the soil along the edges of the flower beds down with their necks. Bottles can be placed at a certain distance from each other or dug side by side.
How to arrange a flower garden?
It is necessary to take into account the types of flowers and the variety of leaf shapes. To make the flower garden original, decorative leaves are often used. Of these, compositions are made that complement the design and decorate the flower garden at a time when the plants have not yet blossomed. At registration it is better to use only several types of flowers, otherwise an imbalance occurs. In this case, a lot - not good. Typically, plants are selected by color and flowering time. One shade should smoothly transition into another. Emphasis is placed with the help of flowers in which the leaves are painted in a warm tone: red, yellow, orange.
To create the background, cold shades are used: blue, green or purple. When combined with orange, red or yellow, the shade is warmer and more harmonious. To highlight a certain part of the flower bed, you need to plant flowers of only one shade there. Get the original flower beds. With your own hands in the country, you can plant flowers of your favorite tone.
Original flower garden fences
Unusual flower beds in the country, created with their own hands, can be ennobled by low fences. But first you need to make them. To do this, you need lumber. Small boards of the same length are cut from it. A fence is built from them, which is then installed around the flower garden.
A similar fence of the flowerbed can be made of willow twigs, which have an amazing property - flexibility. Sticks are dug into the ground along the perimeter of the flowerbed, between which rods are intertwined. This option is very interesting, it creates an amazing effect of the period of ancient times. If you are not satisfied with the options described, choose a different design for the flowerbed at the cottage. Do it yourself, for example, can do fence made of metal rods with figured ornament. Such a fence indicates the wealth of the owner of the cottage and will last for many years.
Car Tire Beds
There was a time when car tires were used to ennoble flower beds. They also decorated playgrounds. But, the thought of man is directed forward. The efforts of summer residents and their incredible fantasies exceeded all expectations. Used car tires in a short time turn into original flowerpots for flower beds or bordering their rims. Do-it-yourself flowerbeds for tires in the country - it's stylish, beautiful, easy, fast and completely free.
To start, we select the old wheel from the car. It is better if it is absolutely bald and with tires for the winter. Such a wheel turns out easier. Rubber should be from an imported car. It is thinner and softer, so it will not take much effort to process it. Car tire must be taken with the disc.
After choosing the starting material, you need to cut the rubber, but so that the upper part is deeper than the lower. Like pots with a lid. But making a cut with a simple line is not interesting. You should think about which edge you want to cut: jagged, wavy or with a fringe. Having decided on the choice, draw with chalk the desired line on the rubber, and boldly cut the tire around its entire circumference without removing it from the disk. Then the deep part is turned inside out. It needs strength and dexterity.
To do this, turn the rubber downside down, step with your foot on the edge and pull. It turns out a vase on the leg, which can be dug into the ground. If you do not, if necessary, a small flower garden can be moved to any other place. A flower bed at the cottage with your own hands for beginners is ready. Do not rush to part with the top cut off part of rubber. Several transverse cuts can be made from the inside of the ring and deepened into the ground. Quickly and tastefully got a chic frame for the flower garden.
Varieties of flower beds
- Alpine hill. This flower garden is arranged as follows: a large-sized stone is installed in the center, it is the top of the whole composition. Small stones are laid around it, and flowers are planted between them.
- The flower bed is water. Its main decoration is a small pond or a waterfall. For this flower garden, aquatic plants are selected. To clearly identify the body of water, its borders are surrounded by stone.
- The garden is decorative. When arranging a flower garden, the entire site is divided into ridges of a certain shape. A symmetrically located pattern is formed from them.
- Mixborder is an elongated flower garden resembling a hedge. Here plants with a different flowering period are planted. So the mixborder looks “alive” for a long time.
- The front garden is a fenced flower garden separating the house from the road. Such flower beds and flower beds, made with their own hands in the country, are very common.
- Parterre. Its peculiarity is that when planting plants, a certain ornament or pattern is immediately formed.
- Rabatka is a kind of stalls. But plants are planted in a strip up to one and a half meters wide and a length exceeding the first dimension three times.
- Clock is floral. Such a flower garden is difficult in its arrangement. The idea is that plants need to be selected so that their flowers close and open at a specific time every day.
Flowerbeds with seasonal and continuous flowering plants
In summer cottages with large areas, flowerbeds are very popular in which plants bloom at certain times of the year. They are called seasonal. Such flower beds do not long delight with their decorativeness, but they bloom lushly and look unusually attractive. This is achieved due to the simultaneous flowering, after which such flower beds are superfluous in the country.
Many gardeners are fond of flowers that multiply by bulbs. The plants grown from them adorn flower beds in the country. DIY photo such flower beds can be done right at home. Bulb crops are characterized by an early flowering period, which is why people love them. As soon as the March rays of the sun begin to warm, the planting of crocuses, hyacinths, snowdrops, daffodils, tulips begins. They get along well, growing together. You can diversify the spring flowerbed with perennial primroses: hellebore, backache, anemone. Some gardeners decorate the central part with conifers: juniper, yew.
An example of flower beds with continuous flowering are summer flower beds. They are distinguished by saturated colors of perennial and annual plants, many of which prefer to bloom in the summer heat. Plants such as viola, ageratum, iris, marigolds, calendula, planted in flower beds in the country with their own hands (see photo below), will delight continuous flowering throughout the season.
But to create a composition of such a flower garden is not easy. The difficulty lies in the selection of plants, the flowering of which should take place in an avalanche-like manner: some have already faded, others are just starting. Plants need to be arranged so that new plants always cover the wilted yellow leaves of their faded predecessors.
What are the flower beds?
- A variety of flower garden is a regular flowerbed in the country. With your own hands, it is better for beginners to plant flowering plants at the same time. They need to be arranged symmetrically on the flowerbed. Planted flowers will resemble the correct geometric shapes. Such flower beds are not popular, as caring for them is time-consuming, and the joy of flowering is short-lived.
- An irregular flowerbed in a summer house with your own hands is easier for beginners to equip, since planting plants does not require the correct geometric shapes of the flower garden. The advantage of such a flowerbed is that it blooms throughout the season. This is achieved thanks to perennial plants.
- A multi-level flowerbed is considered to be more non-standard. This is because of its rise to a certain height. The advantage of such a flowerbed is that it is clearly visible from anywhere.
- A vertical flowerbed is widely used in summer cottages with small areas where there is no room for arranging a regular flowerbed. Such flower beds are created using trellises, screens or walls on which flowers are placed in vases. This is a very time consuming process. But such a flowerbed looks very effective.
- A monoclumba is the most optimal option: the costs are small, the appearance is excellent. Flowers in the flower beds are plants of the same species, for example, peonies, asters, dahlias. Flower beds have a round or square shape, their size is small.
- Arabesque. Its creation on the site requires certain efforts and means. This is a flower garden whose shape resembles an animal or an insect. The flowerbed is elegant.