You will have the best design of flower beds in the country if you take advantage of new ideas. List of unpretentious annuals and perennials with flowering dates. Making a dacha with your own hands is a fascinating experience. You can decorate the piece of land as you like, turning it into a wonderful corner of nature.
Unpretentious flowers for the garden
Of course, you can't do without flowers here, and you don't need to. These plants add bright colors to household plots, delight the eye.
Decide:
- where will this oasis be;
- whether the area is well illuminated by the sun;
- perennial or annual flowers will grow there;
- with the shape of a flower bed.
It is important to plant the flowers correctly, with the tall ones in the background and the low ones in the foreground. It is also important to consider whether a particular plant likes bright light or prefers partial shade. If you are looking for unpretentious flowers that bloom all summer and part of autumn, take a look at the following.
Marigold. Now there are many types, shapes and shades of this plant. These are terry, semi-double, spherical, petal. If you want to plant flowers of different colors, you can use yellow, orange, red shades. There are many types of marigolds, in which the blossoming buds have several similar shades at once.
Petunias are striking in their beauty and splendor. There are plants that have huge blossoming buds. Others have quirky patterns. There are cascading shapes that look great in hanging planters. You need to plant petunia at the end of February or at the beginning of March, first for seedlings, and already in May - for a permanent place in the country.
The varieties of nasturtium are also now very diverse. There are not only low ones, but also those in which the shoots covered with flowers reach almost 3 meters. Unlike petunias, you need to plant nasturtium directly into the soil, and its seeds are larger.
Calendula is another unpretentious flower for a flower bed that blooms almost all summer. It is not only decorative, but is used in folk medicine, is a component for creating cosmetics, for example, hand-made soap.
These plants are annuals, each year they need to be renewed from seeds. If you want to sow seeds once and admire flowers for several years in a row, then plant perennials.
You can pick up varieties of cornflowers of both types, since there are annuals and perennials. This unpretentious plant will allow you to admire the inflorescences of blue, blue, pink, white and even lilac for a long time.
If tall flowers are your thing, then plant a delphinium. You can buy a rhizome or grow a plant from seeds. Then they need to be sown superficially, only slightly tied with earth, in a container at the end of February, put it in the refrigerator for 2-3 weeks for stratification. In mid-March, you will take out a bowl, put it on the windowsill.
Buy a mixture of delphinium seeds, then you will have blue, white, purple plants in your garden. Here are some other unpretentious perennial flowers for giving you can recommend:
- primrose that blooms in early spring;
- aquilegia will show itself in all its splendor in May-June, and muscari in May;
- spring plant belotsvetnik and spring plant are low plants whose flowers bloom in April and May;
- anemone is also an early bird, which will delight you with its flowers from May to July;
- gypsophila beautifully decorates bouquets, blooms from June to August;
- a tall bell will delight you with its blossoming buds in July and August;
- perennial asters bloom for a long time, from June to October;
- Gaillardia barely lasted until this date, blooming from the beginning of summer to September.
After you have chosen which flowers to plant in the flowerbed, it's time to move on to its device.
How to make a flower bed in the country with a geometric shape?
Decide what shape to make the flower bed. It can be strict geometric: rectangular, triangular, trapezoidal, rhombus. For romantic natures, a wavy edge, original shapes are suitable.
The photo will certainly help you to make the correct design of flower beds.
This two-tiered flower garden consists of two triangles, the lower one is large, the upper one is smaller. For such a structure, the following are used:
- boards;
- antiseptic or paint;
- brush;
- nails or screws;
- corners;
- screwdriver or hammer.
Connect three large boards in a triangle, do the same with small ones. Cover this structure with an antiseptic or paint, wait until the layers dry. Attach a small triangle to a large one for a wonderful flower bed.
- Rectangular also looks great. Use the same list of materials and accessories.
- First, make a box of two rows of boards, placing bars in the corners where you will attach them, you can use metal corners.
- The second volumetric quadrangle consists of one row of boards. If you will not change the location of the rectangular elements of the flower garden, then you can make details on only three sides, attach this blank using corners to the first.
- If you plan to rearrange the structure, then the second workpiece should also consist of four boards.
The photo also shows what else can be the design of flower beds in the country.
As you can see, such a flower garden consists of four tiers. Connect boards of sufficient thickness at the corners, you get a rectangular flower bed.
Lovers of strict geometric shapes can decorate it not only with wood, but also with brick.
To make this type of flower garden, take:
- bricks;
- rope;
- roulette;
- pegs;
- sand;
- cement;
- water.
Follow the instructions:
- Mark with a tape measure, a peg and ropes the outlines of the future flower bed.
- Mix cement with sand (1: 4), separate one portion, gradually add water here to get a mass similar in consistency to thick sour cream.
- Lay the first row of bricks horizontally, and connect these elements with cement. Then apply it to the top, also place the bricks horizontally, stacking in relation to the original row in a checkerboard pattern.
- On top, lay the bricks on their narrow edge, also connect with cement mortar.
Round flower beds can also be created using bricks, and even without using sand and cement.
Do not fill the entire cement mixture with water at once, take such portions so that it is enough to put the solution at one time, since the rest can quickly harden.
Making flower beds in the country from waste material
If, on the contrary, you have sand and cement, but no bricks, use stones. Pre-mark the circle, lay out stones here, connecting them to each other with cement mortar.
If there is no such building mixture, then use the following idea. For her you will need:
- metal grid;
- wire;
- pliers;
- stones.
Mark out a flower bed of a suitable shape. As you can see, there are round, curved, triangular elements here. Lay the bottom row of the trimmed strip of mesh, secure the sides on one side with wire. Place a layer of stones close to the inside. Pour earth into the depression, it will at the same time hold the stones.
If you want to make a high flower bed in several tiers, then for each subsequent one you need to cut a canvas of the desired shape from a metal mesh, put pieces of roofing material or geotextile on the bottom here. Stones are also installed on the side, pour earth inside.
If you lay the cuts of trees in a checkerboard pattern, then you will also get an interesting design of flower beds.
New ideas will help you complete an interesting flower garden design.
To make one in the shape of a cup and teapot, take:
- two large and two small wheels;
- a piece of drainpipe;
- plastic cups or bottles;
- paint.
Follow this manufacturing order:
- Cut off the top of the tire, it will become a saucer. Place two small wheels on it. From the top, it is better to pre-cut the rim so that the flower bed has a larger diameter. Color these details.
- Insert the plastic cup or cut tops of the plastic bottles one by one. Glue the resulting handle to the side of the makeshift cup and paint it.
- The kettle is made in much the same way; make its spout from a piece of downpipe, which also needs to be painted.
If there are empty glass bottles left on the farm, they also make a wonderful flower garden.
You could already familiarize yourself with some ideas for decorating original flower beds, Explore new ones. If the umbrella is out of fashion, the mechanism is broken, here's what you can do with it if you want.
To do this, you just need to turn it over, pour soil on top, plant low flowers here, for example, pansies.
You can fix it not only completely open, but also in a half-closed position, so that a very original flower garden design is obtained.
A composition of several umbrellas will decorate even a virgin land, and petunias will look amazing here and grow well.
If there are too many hats on the farm, then make holes in them, put them on the pots in which the flowers are planted. You don't have to make a hole in the baseball cap, as it already exists.
Thrifty owners do not even throw away an old baby carriage, it is waiting in the wings in the barn. You can make a lot of useful things out of it. See what an interesting design of flower beds in the country this thing offers.
It is better to remove the upper part, because it is made of fabric. Put a rectangular flower box here, decorate it.
See what kind of giant bouquet you can make if you like. Unlike usual, it will not fade for a long time, since these flowers bloom for a long time.
This is how unusual and interesting the design of flower beds in the country can be. For more inspiration, you can watch a fascinating story with a selection of photos on the topic.
The second mini-film will tell you what can be used to make a fence for flower beds and beds.
