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- For a lush all-year flowering - plan flowerbed optimally
- Criteria for bed planning
- Mixed flowerbeds
- Attractive flower beds all year round
- Harmonious arrangement
- Tips
A well-planned flowerbed will bloom longer
For a lush all-year flowering - plan flowerbed optimally
A visually attractive and easily maintained flowerbed is rarely created by simply driving into the garden center and buying the most beautiful shrubs there. Instead, careful planning is required to make the overall result look harmonious and not leave any unsightly gaps throughout the year.
Criteria for bed planning
Of course, most flowers bloom during the summer months, so you have the widest selection here. However, such a summer flowerbed can quickly become boring if the plants are not blooming. For this reason, criteria such as the stature height and width and the flowering time of a plant are so important. Cleverly assemble different species and you will enjoy a green and flowering bed all year round.
Mixed flowerbeds
This includes, for example, not only sowing one or two-year-old summer flowers, but to put together a colorful mix of different high and wide perennials, one and two-year-old flowers, bulb flowers and shrubs. The whole thing is rounded off by grasses, evergreen ground cover and leaf ornamental plants with broad, colored leaves. Such a bed offers an exciting sight in every season and also changes its character depending on the season.
Attractive flower beds all year round
In spring, typical spring flowers such as tulips, daffodils, blue stars or ranunculus compete - if the space in the bed is sufficient - for small fruit trees, rock pear or cornelian for attention. After they have faded, the summer flowers gradually open their calyx and then leave a lush flowerbed at the height of the season. Towards the end of the summer, this flow of flowers is reduced, so that autumn blooms, such as chrysanthemum, autumn aster and stonecrop, come to the fore together with leaf ornamental plants. In winter, the bed provides a welcome splash of color in the dark season with typical winter bloomers such as Winterling, Winter Jasmine and Duftschneeball in combination with evergreen plants.
Harmonious arrangement
But not only after the flowering season, the flowers and perennials are selected. Weighty criteria for a harmonious arrangement are, for example, too
High-growing perennials such as larkspur, peony or phlox are always in the center of the bed and are planted to the rear. They are flanked by medium-sized perennials such as the cranesbill, which are supposed to close gaps. These two species should have similar flowering times and should also harmonize with each other in color. Do not plant single specimens but rather small groups of three to seven plants. At the Beetrand put compact, as long as possible flowering plants. In addition, combine different plant heights and widths: in addition to a slender shrub, there should always be a bushy plant.
Tips
The center of a round flower bed is often a small tree or a shrub very attractive: Small fruit or ornamental fruit trees are particularly well suited for it.