Content
- How do I design a flowering bed all year round?
- The right choice of plants
- Suggestions for every season:
- How do I combine plants with different flowering times?
- Which colors match?
- Tips
Cleverly combined, the bed flowers even in winter
How do I design a flowering bed all year round?
There are countless variants and approaches to create a garden or a variety of beds, one of which refers to the flowering period. In addition to flowering flowerbeds, you can make those that bloom almost all year round.
The right choice of plants
In order for their bed to be in full bloom at all times of the year, you need plants with different flowering periods, but also those that bloom for a particularly long time. The latter provide more harmony in the bed.
In specialized shops or on the Internet you will find complete plant packages and instructions for a flowering bed all year round. With a little skill and planning, you can easily create such a bed yourself. You have even chosen a very easy-care bed. However, it is important to coordinate the light and nutrient needs of the individual plants and not to plant sun and shadow loving plants.
Suggestions for every season:
How do I combine plants with different flowering times?
As far as possible, ensure that your bed is planted evenly, so that no unsightly "holes" are created. You avoid such bald spots with a combination of bulbous plants, whose leaves pass over the summer and perennials, which then become green and big. A few pretty grasses in between have a harmonizing effect and are a nice winter decoration for your bed.
Which colors match?
Even if you like it colorful, you should not put too many different plant species and colors in a bed. That is quickly restless and chaotic. Planting clay-in-clay, ie only blue or red flowering perennials, is just one variation.
If they limit themselves to two or three colors, then they have almost countless design options. For a romantic garden you may combine pink, light blue and white. On the other hand, bright colors like yellow, red and bright blue are cheerful.
Tips
Many plants, such as roses, larkspur and steppe sage, can stimulate them to bud again by pruning after flowering, significantly prolonging the flowering period.