Content
- Creating a beautiful flower garden - that's what matters
- Conclusive motto demonstrates style - an overview of creative options
- Leitstauden, companion and fill plants - tips for more planning security
- Tips
Large flowering, tall perennials are accompanied by smaller, less visible plants
Creating a beautiful flower garden - that's what matters
Creating a stylish flower garden is considered the supreme discipline of creative garden design. Great is the temptation, without further ado, to plant all your favorite flowers as a colorful hodgepodge. Anyone who works with disciplined planning gets admiring glances over the garden fence. This guide illuminates the practical way in which you design a tasteful flower garden.
Conclusive motto demonstrates style - an overview of creative options
Garden architects of rank and name plead for the stylistic unity of home and garden. By putting your flower garden under a motto, you take the guiding principle into account. The following options for a successful combination of architectural style and flower garden have proven successful in practice:
Finally, the site conditions determine the plants, with the help of which you implement the motto in the flower garden. In the front garden on the north side you can not plant a Mediterranean-style flower garden, but will prefer the more flexible plant arrangement for the Japanese garden. Conversely, mossy hills of a Zen garden on the full sun south side have a hard time.
Leitstauden, companion and fill plants - tips for more planning security
Theoreticians among the hobby gardeners concretize the motto of the garden design in a true to scale plan sketch. Count among the practitioners, position the selected plants in advance at the intended location to allow the appearance to take effect. Whatever you do, we would like to recommend these premises to you for the plant composition:
The proportion of Leitstauden ranges between 10 and 15 percent. In contrast, companion plants and perennials each account for about half of the remaining plant community in the flower garden.
Tips
Did you know that you can simulate spatial depth with the right color combination? For background shrubs, choose darker shades in the background than for companion and fill plants. Bright pastel colors in the foreground of the floral arrangements suggest to the viewer more spaciousness than the small garden has to offer.