The flower garden at the dacha is not just a beautiful addition to the design of the general dacha facade, it is a very troublesome and painstaking business. But once you decide to create a mixboard with your own hands, you can not stop. The design and planting of mixborders require not just a flight of fantasy and infinite love for plants. A number of conditions that you need to consider when planting a flower garden will help eventually plant a work of art.
How to make a mixboarder
It is very important not only to mentally design your lawn, but also to competently approach it. Here are a few points to consider when planting a flower garden:
- Your mixboarder should match the general style of the house and garden. If your house is built in the style of country, then in the design mixborder should not be pompous and expensive varieties, it will look just ridiculous.
- You need to study the conditions of your site. Lighting, soil type - all this should be taken into account when choosing plants for the flower garden. For a sun-loving plant, its landing in a shady corner of the yard will be detrimental, most likely your mixboarder will look groomed and depressed.
- Carefully select the types of plants. Pay special attention to the selection of root systems. To avoid problems, it is best to use the so-called longline landing. When choosing a plant for mixborders, the depth of the root system and the rate of growth must be taken into account. The plants with a loose root system will get along well, and plants with a shallow root system will get along with the onion plants. Those kinds of plants that need to be sheltered for the winter, try to place closer to the edge of the mixborder.
- Try to avoid aggressive plant species. They will displace the weaker neighbors due to rapid growth and development.
- Note whether among the selected plants there are species with sprawling rhizomes. This will make it more difficult in the future to weed and care for the flowerbed.
- If you want to have as long as possible a flower bed and a beautiful design, try to choose plants with different flowering times.
- Count on your time and experience in gardening. If you come only on weekends or just begin to get acquainted with the art of growing plants, do not buy very whimsical. Preferences are best given to simple species.
Mixborder from shrubs
If you are going to create a mixboard from shrubs, the most important factor in selecting plants for you should be their compactness and predisposition to cutting. Tall and sparse species are unsuitable for such a composition, it is better to give preference to dwarf flowering plants, mixboxers from evergreen bushes (magnolia, boxwood) look good. Very spectacular will look species with variegated leaves: barberry, golden spirea. In places between shrubs you can plant undersized perennials: primulas, violets, fescue. Groundcover very nicely decorate the foreground of the mixboarder.
Mixborder of perennials
For such mixborders it is necessary to select plants of different heights: the highest to plant in the background (if the flower garden can be viewed only on one side), or to the center (if the flower garden is located in the center of the lawn). The transition must be smooth. The most important art of creating mixborders from perennials is to achieve constant flowering. For an average location, you can use the host, daylilies, and astilba.
Creating a mixborder with your own hands will bring you a lot of joy and most likely will inflame the excitement of creating more and more new tracks. Carefully study the soil and movement of the sun on your site, give enough time to choose plants for the flower garden and then you will definitely succeed!