Flower Beds for Beginners
How to pick a place for flower beds
Place the flower bed in front of a window or near the entrance to your home, where you can enjoy it all the time.
If there is a building next to your house, perhaps the very best option for you, at least for the first year, till the building and construction is done, will be "flower garden in containers."
As the containers you can use any box (preferably not less than 30 cm tall, 20-30 cm broad and any length). The container must have drainage holes. Plant seeds or seedlings to plant in them - a portable flower garden is ready. Above all, do not forget to water the garden frequently.
It is very important to inspect that flower bed will be places on the south side (south-west, south-east will work too). Otherwise, the flowers will turn away most of the day.
Select flowers for flower beds
How to make a flower bed blossom as early as May?
The very first way - fast and cheap. Buy ready-made seedlings of annuals and perennials grown flowers with closed root system. Plants according to the height of plants - flower bed ready.
Another way - fun and cost-effective. Grow the seedlings by themselves plain flowers, buy the seeds of annuals, which can be sown directly into the soil, pick in the store roots of the preferred perennials and tubercle of bulbaceous. In May, a flower bed planted with this collection of green - and the end of June we have a blooming flower garden till frost.
Tips for beginners: Sowing and planting flowers is much better to do not in rows, but as a group, in this way flower bed will look much more fascinating. In the very first season, be sure to buy dahlia roots, bulbs, gladioli and lilies - you will not regret! Plant them in May at your website, you will enjoy the flowering plants entire summertime. Do not forget, dahlias and gladioli ought to be dug out for the winter. Lily lacks a transplant can grow for numerous years. Choosing the bulbs of lilies, consider the bigger the bulb, the bigger will be the plant and flower.
Perennial plants could be grown from seed or purchased in the shop. Also you can find grown plants with closed root system (in a pot). These plants are easy to use and they could be plant in the flower bed throughout the season. If you do not have adequate time in spring, you can constantly complete the task throughout the summer.
Perennial plants have a lot of benefits over the annual ones. They need to grow and/ or plant only as soon as. And with proper care, these plants, will grow every year, and will enjoy their flowers for a long time.
Peony, Astilbe, campion, day-lily, liatris, saxifrage, phlox, become part of the more steady perennial. Caring for them is just in weeding (specifically while the plants are small, not grown), cutting off the faded blossoms (if you want to re-bloom), the winter pruning or removal of dry stalks in spring.
When selecting plants for your website, do not neglect decorative and flowering shrubs. Hydrangea, Japanese spirea and gray, bloodroot, barberry, dogwood, snowberry - those amazing plain shrubs can be planted on the far ideal in the flower bed plan.
How to plan a flower bed
You can just buy the seeds and roots are widely known or favorite flowers to plant, given the high - high up on the back burner, low-growing ground cover and the front. Or, if the bed is viewed from all sides, in the center - the high and lower plants - closer to the edge of the flowerbed.
But there is a more interesting way. Create an idea, for instance, country-style flower garden and choose flowers that are appropriate for the subject, adding a fence and a number of irons with the pitcher. Or give a bed called "Moonlight" and gather flowers with white flowers and silvery foliage.
At the same time it's insufficient just to understand the height of the plants; it would be nice to know how the plant looks in nature - just how much area the plant will take and other. The bags typically revealed the picture of the flower, how much space plant will take, etc. Based upon that information plant you flower bed
Indicate the limits of a flower bed.
The most convenient way to dig around the flower bed borders, flower bed area separated from the lawn. Fenced flower gardens look a lot more outstanding, providing the garden neat and type of beauty. Specify the boundaries of a flower bed can be bought fences or rocks, churbachkami of logs, low fence, dug bricks, etc
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