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- Build flower beds yourself - the most beautiful ideas
- Raised beds and planters for flowers
- Various bed surrounds
- Tips
Flower beds can be bounded with wooden pegs or wooden slats
Build flower beds yourself - the most beautiful ideas
For a lush flowerbed you do not need a large garden - a small corner is sufficient, even on the terrace or balcony can be a plant box with colorful flowers easily integrate. We have collected some nice and practical ideas for self-construction.
Raised beds and planters for flowers
Raised beds or slightly raised planters are extremely practical, as they allow back-friendly working in the flowerbed, many design options for the garden and the planting of colorful perennials even where the corresponding soil conditions are actually not present. Such a raised bed does not necessarily have to be rectangular, you can also choose oval, curved, round or beds in L or U shape as a terrace border. The advantage of just the latter forms is that you can easily install a flowering screen with the help of a raised bed and some taller perennials. The raised planters can be constructed as desired from a variety of materials: wooden slats, europallets, concrete and natural stone, metal, plastic or woven willow branches. Homebrewing is quite easy if you use Euro pallets or manhole rings, for example. However, when using a raised bed for flowers, the following instructions should be observed:
Another clever idea is to simply let the planting surface for the flowerbed into the terrace by not tiling a part or otherwise covering it with a floor, instead planting planters in the cave created there.
Various bed surrounds
A raised bed in the garden can be limited with different materials. This not only looks neater, but also has a very practical purpose: the planted perennials remain thanks to the limitation in the bed and do not proliferate beyond. As bedding editions, very different materials as well as certain hedge plants have proven successful:
Tips
If you do not want to do it yourself, you can buy finished raised beds or kits instead. These are also specially tailored to the needs of balcony and terrace gardeners.