How to create a flower garden

It is a pleasure to look after flowers, and if, beginning with the seeding of seeds, they give them maximum attention and time, they will thank you.

The flower garden will become a favorite place for observation, it will please you and your loved ones.



You can smash a small flower bed, drop it offa whole lawn of flowers, create a rock garden or rockeries - there are plenty of options for a flower garden. You can plant such types of plants that will color your garden in all colors of the rainbow, and fill it with fragrances from early spring to late autumn.



Few people know that first flower beds were created back in the days of French classicism and it has since been mandatory elements of any garden and park areas.



Like other components of landscape design, a flower garden needs to be planned in advance, think about how it fits into the overall look of yourgarden, from which points will be seen best. Before planting of ornamental plants, it is necessary not only to determine the place for them, but also to prepare the soil qualitatively.



Choosing an area for a flower garden, in the first place, it is necessary to pay attention to the illumination. Well, if the summer site is in the sun for 12 hours.

In a shaded place, fewer plants can grow and develop than in a well-lit one.

Flower compositions can be planted not only horizontally, but also vertically (it can be mixborders, tapeworms, grouplanding). The distance from the path to such a flower garden should be twice the height of the largest plant. The flower beds and the cuttings are broken in the horizontal plane. Here, the most spectacular plants should be planted at a distance of 50-60 to 250 cm from the point of perception.



Required You need to consider the types of plants that you will plant: in order that they bloom all the warm season, you need to consider the periods of their flowering.

Then the plants will change each other, and your site will long be bright and colorful.

In the spring flowers of tulips, daffodils, crocuses, anemones, liverworts. At the beginning of summer you will be pleased with peonies, irises, forget-me-nots, daisies, violets. Since the middle of July the rose, petunia, calendula and some other annual plants blossom. Dahlias and asters - guests autumn.



Many gardeners wonder: how best to plant flowers - with the help of seeds or seedlings?

It all depends on the plants you choose. In general, from seedlings it is much easier to obtain the desired result in a shorter time - a flower bed. But sometimes, if the species propagates well with seeds, this is not justified. So, rapidly growing annuals are recommended to propagate by seeds.



Planting perennials that will bloom with the firstThe warm rays of the sun (plants that bloom in the spring, as well as bulbous species), is held in late summer and September. The remaining perennials can be rooted in spring or autumn. Remember that plants planted in the spring, get better. Bulbous plants (tulip, crocus, narcissus) are planted by the group, considering how fast and in what direction their underground part will grow. At the same time, for each plant species, different depth of bulb plantation is characteristic.



How many plants are needed to fill the flower garden? In general, for 1 square. 1 to 3 large and tall plants, 5-7 to medium height, 7 to 11 small ones.



That the flower garden looked natural, in one group it is customary to plant an odd numberplants and preferably asymmetrically. Even rows or circles should not be viewed. Plants are planted at such a distance from each other so that there is room for their growth.



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