Creating beautiful flower beds is a real art, we have to take into account many types of plants, their compatibility, features fit. But an important part of creating a truly interesting and magnificent flower beds plays a scheme according to which flowers are planted. The bright colors of flowers, their height, location in a certain order, form a beautiful pattern, making a bed with a carpet of flowers. To create a flower bed using a complex scheme and a large number of plants, it is not easy, but there are diagrams of the flower beds for beginners where you can use a few plants and a pretty simple pattern – and the result is sure to please.
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The traditional approach to the design of the garden beds for planting flowers in accordance with the scheme, but often plants are planted randomly groups.
Create a bed not too difficult – you need to choose the right place to pick up flowers and to decide on the scheme of planting. If you want to plant the plants so that they formed a certain pattern, you need to draw a diagram on a sheet of paper, then transfer the layout to the flower bed.
The simplest option is a circular flowerbed. You can arrange it in the center put a group of tall flowers, e.g. delphinium, on the edges as a frame for planting one species – Impatiens, flax or pansies (for example), and the distance between the center and the edge to fill in the flowers that bloom all summer, it could be Petunia, pelargonium, marigold, nasturtium, begonia semperflorens.
Drawing largely will help in creating flower beds — you will clearly see how best to arrange the flowers, the color scheme will give a visual representation of the appearance of the flower beds
Spectacular flower bed created by a simple scheme. Elegant curl resembles a question mark, but it can be a circle. Two plant species of a contrasting color in the center of the raised bed, but do not necessarily, you can leave the center of the green or to put it in a tall plant
When you create a schema, you need to think about colors and shades that you want to see in the garden. The combination of colors in the flowerbed can be very diverse.
Possible combinations of plants in the flower bed
Monochrome composition
On a small bed of flowers one shade look very good, you can use one or several types of plants of different heights, placing a high center and lower – closer to the edge.
Such pretty variegated flower bed can be created using just three plants. 1 – Phlox in the background as the most high, 2 — meadow geranium, 3 — Impatiens or pansies
Arrangement of plants of contrasting colors
The use of colors, occupying distant positions of the color spectrum will help to create a spectacular contrast composition. For example, the combination of blue and orange, yellow and purple, Burgundy and green.
Two fairly simple flowerbeds clear form without a border. One looks spectacular with it’s bright colors large-flowered begonias, the other contrasting combination of yellow begonia and a frame of red flowers
Arrangement of flowers with similar colors
Very nice to look at a flower bed, where the colors smoothly change each other. For example, pink, blue and lilac or hot pink, red and Burgundy.
Flowerbed with a predominance of Burgundy, the distance between the areas filled with colored gravel, which can be successfully used in the decoration of flower beds. It also facilitates the care of different areas, since walking on the gravel without damage to plants
Neutral composition
If you are a fan of bright accents, you can make a low-key, eye-pleasing flower bed a neutral palette in green and white, green with pink or green with blue. This bed is able to visually make the space more light or to dilute the bright colors where you want.
Select as primary colors snapdragons white or light yellow color or cornflowers. In combination with tall malucelli smooth you’ll have a very interesting discreet flowerbed.
Four sophisticated design scheme
The simplest scheme of planting flowers in the flowerbed we have already discussed. Now consider the scheme for several more complex flower beds.
Round beds are usually Central. If you have a large free area in front of the house, creating her circular flower bed to allow the site to look nice. Use plants that bloom at the same time, in the spring it may be bulbous, then they can be replaced with summer flowers
Scheme «flower» to create elegant beds. Depending on the size of the Central part can be occupied by lawn grass, groundcover plants, a layer of gravel or decorative coloured sawdust
All schemes have a common point – the middle space is a lawn grass that is quite large beds. If you want to use such a scheme for creating small flower beds, the lawn can be replaced with groundcover that are perfect for creating patterns. As plants for these beds will fit the flowers blooming around the same time – daisies, zinnias, Alpine forget-me-nots, Primula, viola, Wallflowers.
Scheme «pattern» will allow you to create an original flower bed pattern in the form of a wave can be separate flowerbed on the lawn or along the tracks
Oval «Royal» flowerbed. Her scheme is simple, but it will look great as the front flowerbed in front of the house or in the garden centre
When you create a schema, you need to think about colors and shades that you want to see in the garden. The combination of colors in the flowerbed can be very diverse. Clear recommendations on the choice of plants for these schemes, flower beds: no, you can choose where to plant any flowers as it is better to combine them together.
