Living in a country house or having a summer residence, each landlady wants to allocate a small piece of land for a flower garden. If the main area is occupied by garden crops, beautifully decorated flower beds are most often located near the entrance to the site and near gazebos for rest.
Decoration of flower beds in the country is an occupation that requires some skills, and many people turn to a landscape designer for help, which is not always justified. After all, every person, if reasonably suitable for planning space and selecting plants, can independently handle flower beds on his plot.
Ideas for the design of beds
Flowerbeds are very diverse, and the task of the florist is to decide what exactly he wants to see on his site. It is advisable to follow the general concept for decorating the site. If it is, for example, modern style, then the flower beds should be appropriate. If, on the contrary, it is a village one, then the flowerbed with the decoration of an old bicycle or a multi-leveled bed of tires colored with bright colors will harmoniously fit here.
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Very popular due to its exquisite appearance flower beds, consisting of coniferous shrubs and ornamental trees. What else is so attractive about them? Of course, their year-round decorativeness - both in winter and summer they look great and do not require special care. But in order to begin the design of the flowerbed with coniferous plants, it is necessary to carefully prepare the soil, because such plants like the acidic habitat. For this, sod land and fallen pine needles are harvested from the forest, as well as a small part of the peat. Place under the bed should be deepened to half a meter, and then to fill in this pit prepared soil mixture.
Plants for coniferous flower beds should not be planted very close, because they grow, they will lose their decorativeness. Nearby you can plant and other plants that are suitable for such soil - rhododendron, boxwood, Erica, zhivichku. It is necessary to beautifully decorate the edges of the flowerbed, so that it has a finished look.
Decoration of the flower bed with stones
A solid view of the plot is attached to a decorative or natural stone. It is often used to create and decorate flower beds and decorative shrubs. These can be ordinary round or arbitrary forms of planting with edges sprinkled with a small fraction stone. The flower bed itself can be made of stone with the help of cement mortar or earth with the addition of seeds of decorative grass. Such beds can have different geometric shapes and occupy a large space on the site, while serving as a kind of fence. Planting coniferous plants are often covered with pebbles or rubble of various shades, which greatly transforms the country plot.
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