Usually, newcomers, with the intention to plant a flower bed, simply buy the seeds of their favorite or attracted flowers and plant them without thinking about how they will look next to when they bloom. Very often, the expectations do not coincide with the result - the flower bed turns out lurid, chaotic, sloppy. After all, when planting a mixborder, it is necessary to take into account many nuances: the timing and duration of flowering, the necessary care and the need for light, moisture, color harmony. If you simply do not have enough time and knowledge for such an analysis, you can use ready-made planting schemes for flower beds. We will tell you how to plant flower beds of perennials with your own hands and give the most successful planting schemes.
How to create a flower garden: the choice of perennial plants
If you have not chosen the exact place under the flower bed, then we suggest you take advantage of several tips.
First of all, you need to know that spring, summer, autumn and flower beds of continuous flowering emit at the time of flowering.
Flower beds come in different shapes: round, oval, square, rectangular, figured.
They can be horizontal and vertical. They can be planted in vases and containers. They can be located in any places where you want, but the location of the flowerbeds will directly affect the choice of plants, given their preferences in the presence of light and shade, the composition of the soil.
Big beds are always big problems and inconvenient care. If you want to use a considerable territory for a flower garden, it is better to split it into several flower beds. For a bed of a round form the optimum size will be up to 2 m.
Also distinguish such types of beds:
- regular (with flowers that bloom at the same time, planted in a certain order);
- irregular (with flowers blooming at different times, planted chaotically);
- raised;
- monoclumbus (with flowers of the same species).
It is necessary to understand that not only flower plants are planted in the flowerbed, but decorative and deciduous plants or their combination. It is most difficult to make a flower bed of continuous flowering from perennials, since in this case it will be necessary to take into account the time frame for the preservation of the decorative nature of a flower. In order for the flowerbed to look attractive throughout the season, it is necessary to make calculations so that flowering or lush deciduous plants can cover those that have already bloomed and have an unattractive appearance so that there are no gaping black holes in the flower garden.
Another factor that you need to pay attention to when making beautiful flowerbeds from perennials with your own hands is the compatibility of plants, since, for example, the root system of some can clog the roots of others. In this case, they simply do not get along close.
And, of course, plants should be coordinated in size and color. In the center or in the background, usually tall people are planted, closer to the edge are lower ones, and groundcovers are near the edge.
Thus, in order to properly select perennials for a flower bed, it is necessary to take into account such factors:
- flower beds location - shady and light areas;
- terms and duration of flowering plants;
- flower color;
- the size;
- flower bed form;
- type of flower bed.
Perennials in the bulk - light-loving plants. However, there are instances that are suitable for landing in the shade. These are, for example, astilba, wrestler, brunner, dicentre, doronicum, gubastik, saberjack, lily of the valley, lupine, rogeria, cyanosis, host.
Pay attention to the composition of the soil - usually perennial crops prefer fertilized loam. On clay soils will feel good host, daylily, peony. In the sand like to grow yarrow, Kermek, eryngium.
If you do not have the opportunity to take care of the flowerbed often and are looking for the answer to the question of planting in a country house with a minimum of care, then look at the nemophile, catchment, astilbe, host, peony, primula, rudbeckia.
In regular flowerbeds, hosts, astilbeas, lilies, gladioli, daffodils, etc. are usually planted. In addition, these plants bloom at the same time, they are also about the same height. In irregular place a variety of plants: annuals and perennials, trees and shrubs. In the raised flower beds look great daffodils, tulips, delphiniums, violets, lilies of the valley.
For spring beds, choose lupine, badan, primula, lily of the valley. For summer fit stonecrop, daylily, chistets, tiarella. In autumn, plant chrysanthemums, asters, eryngium, lightning. Throughout the season, the yarrow, craspedia, decorative onion bloom.
A flower bed with perennials can please the eye within a couple of months after planting.
How to choose a range for a flower bed, planting perennials
When selecting colors, you need to pay attention to the fact that the same color at each time of day and when changing lighting will look different. For example, in sunlight, a completely monochrome white flower bed looks completely faded - a flower garden consisting only of white petunias will look like a sheet of foam plastic or snow cover from afar. There can not do without bright inclusions of other shades.
The red and yellow flowers planted in one place will tire the eyes with their variegation. They are also best diluted with plants, painted in a calmer range.
A lot of colorful flowers will give a flowerbed a sense of confusion and lack of thought.
Did you know? With an unsuccessful selection of flowers plants that do not fit into the color range, you can dig. And in their place to plant suitable color.
When choosing colors for the perennial flower beds, it is also important to know that the color of the plants will look different depending on the structure of the petals and leaves. So, shiny, glossy will reflect the light and at a distance seem somewhat lighter than it actually is. Matte will be darker.
If you want to visually enlarge a small flower garden, then avoid contrasts and use only a small amount of flowers. Also, a flowerbed will appear more, where blue flowers are planted in the background, and yellow and red in the foreground.
There is one more recommendation on how to arrange a flower bed of perennials: the more colorful the flowers in the foreground, the calmer should be the color scheme of the backdrop. Plants with dark flowers and leaves are best planted in the center. When laying several beds, only one can be with a strongly contrasting combination of colors.
Important! When selecting the colors of the flower bed, you can adhere to this proportion: one color - 70%, the second - 25%, the third - 5%.
If the choice of perennial plants for flower beds makes you difficult, you can use ready-made schemes.
White and blue gamma
As we noted above, a flower garden, made only in a white range, does not always look good and requires dilution with other colors. You can, for example, add blue accents to it.
The choice of perennials with blue flowers is huge: anemone, aquilegia, astilbe, bluebells, clematis, delphinium. White color are asters, roses, peonies, tulips, daffodils. Green color flower garden decorate the leaves of the hosts, lungwort, Brunner.
Here is one of Oval flower garden schemes do-it-yourself for beginners in white and blue tones with splashes of yellow and pale orange:
- in the center: the mountaineer changeable and echinacea;
- closer to the edge: cattle Fassen, phlox paniculata, host, delphinium hybrid, Moliniya Variyegata, hare cabbage, anafalis pearl.
Did you know? If in the finished blooming flower bed of white color you thought it was not enough, you can add it by placing white vases, a bench, an arch, and sculptures next to it.
Pink-purple gamma
Flower beds in pink and purple colors are able to create a romantic mood.
Pink is pleasing to the eye, attracts attention, goes well with any shades of green. It visually increases the size of the flower bed, blurring its boundaries. It looks very good combination of pink flowers with lilac, with the addition of plants with grayish leaves.
Here is an example of a pink-purple flower bed and approximate scheme of its landing (oval, size 3 × 4 m):
- closer to the center: mountaineer changeable, phlox paniculate ("Dragon");
- in the frame: hybrid hybrid, astrantia ("Claret"), bergenia, hybrid geykher ("Obsidian"), red geranium ("Compactum"), telephium center-head ("Matrona"), bell-bell-flower ("Loddon Anna").
Clematis, carnations, astilbeas, peonies, phloxes, rhododendrons, badan, tulips, hydrangeas, spireas, etc., bloom from perennials in pink.
Important! It is not necessary to adhere to the exact execution of the scheme. If a plant cannot be bought, you can replace it with another one, with the same timing of flowering and flower color.
Red-orange gamma
Red color is one of the most difficult in the preparation of flower arrangements, because it is he who first of all attracts attention, and it is difficult to choose plants that also look good against his background.
Therefore, red should always occupy the main accent. If you plan a few accents, it is better to use its shades. Planted next to red and white will visually form a pink color, when added to red yellow - we get an orange gamut, with blue splashes of flower garden will play purple.
Red and orange will not look very good, but if you dilute it with white and yellow, you get an interesting combination. You can try to combine dahlias, rudbeckia, yellow and orange marigolds, knofofii, gelenium, lychnis. And all this magnificence emphasize a hedge of yew.
Creating a bright flower garden
Here are two options for creating a motley flowerbed of perennials for beginners.
Option 1.
Background: biennial yellow, red and white mallow, sunflower ten-petalous, Icelandic poppy, St. John's wort odorless. Center: purple lobelia cardinal. In the spread across the flowerbed: cattle Fassena, bell Poskharsky, Kalanchoe, gravilat, stonecrop.
Option 2 (in combination with annuals).
The background: heliotrope tree; Center: Sander tobacco with scarlet flowers, bright orange marsh terry. On the ground: Pink New Guinea Balsam. 
Flower garden for shaded area
For the shade, a flower garden from a combination of such plants will be suitable: funky, a wonderful bleaching center, red epimetium, muskariform liriope, geranium, melluna, spring umbilical, violets.
For the penumbra, the design of a bed of perennials with a primula planted in the center is also suitable. Her harmonious neighborhood can make ferns, cereals, irises.
An interesting option with astilba in combination with funky and thyroid.
Important! When making a flower bed is better to avoid symmetrical plantings. Blurry outlines look more interesting.
Such, for example, can be approximate scheme of planting a shadow flower garden 3 × 4 sizes:
- In the center: Filipalend Kamchatka; a little distance from her: astilba Thunberg;
- in a circle in a frame: hakonehloa, rogersa pinnate (in front of it can be placed pakhizandra), host, badan, blackbird.
Flower Garden (flowerbed) do-it-yourself: layout features
At the initial stage of laying a flower bed you need to decide on its location, size and shape.
We have already noted that it is necessary to have a flower bed on a sunny place where the rays fall for 12 hours. There is only a small list of perennials that retain their decorativeness in light shade.
In order for the flowerbed to look good and attract attention, it must be placed at a distance of 60-250 cm from the place from which you plan to admire it.
Next, it is advisable to sketch out the arrangement of flowers on paper (preferably millimeter), painting over the areas with colored pencils in accordance with the color of the flowers of the plants. So you can better imagine what a blooming flower bed will look like, and ideally choose a combination of colors. In this way it is not difficult to create a flower bed with a specific pattern.
As a rule, beautiful flower beds of perennials are complemented with annual plants, deciduous and decorative conifers. Too much of them should not be planted, it will not give beauty to the flower garden. On 1 square. m flower beds can be placed on average 2-3 large plants with a height of 100-120 cm, 4-6 medium - with a height of 40-90 cm, 7-9 low by 20-40 cm and 16-20 dwarf by 5-20 cm high, bulbous plants - 20-25 pieces.
In order to explain the available, on what principle should be planted plants, let us give an example of the design of the most simple round flower bed. In its center should plant the highest plants. Take, for example, the delphinium. Along the edges as a frame to plant low-growing flowers of one species. This may be, for example, balsam, pansies, flax. The hollows between the center and the edge should be filled with plants that bloom throughout the summer period: petunia, marigolds, begonia, and pelargonium.
Did you know? To protect the flower bed from pests will help planted on the edge of marigolds and lavender.
A flower bed of perennials, how to achieve continuous flowering
A flower bed of continuous flowering or "four seasons" allows you to admire the beauty of flowering plants throughout the season.
In order to make it, you need to know the timing and duration of flowering perennials. So, spring perennials for a bed of continuous flowering will be muscari, daffodils, lilac, oriental wintera, aquilegia, arabis. In the summer of decorative are: rose, lavender, delphinium, mallow, foxglove, kosmeya, erngium, marjoram. In the autumn of the beauty of the flower garden will give deciduous plants and cereals. Also decorative at this time are sedum, Hubeysky anemone, Siberian chrysanthemum, kosmeya, erngium. Before winter, dried flowers from stonecrop, a wintry, an eryngium and a molin can decorate a flower bed. 
When planning the flowerbeds of continuous flowering of perennials and its schemes will help you a few tips.
In the foreground should be placed undersized plants, for example, primroses, muscari, hyacinths, snowdrops. Srednerosly planted in the middle. This category includes tulips, digitalis, feverfews. In the background should take place high perennial plants - chrysanthemums, sepyabrinki, stonecrop. Between them, you can land a cuff and fescue sizuyu.
More interesting flower beds will be those in which perennials and annuals will be combined.
Important! Since the duration of flowering of perennial plants averages one month, at least seven species of plants should be planted in a flower bed. It is desirable that three of them bloom at the same time.
Here is one of the simple flower beds of continuous flowering perennialsthat is suitable for landing near the fence.
Background: stock roses of various shades, decorative sunflower. In front of them are Icelandic poppies and gaillards. Through a large part of the flower bed, use a line to start up the cardinal lobelia. Before her, plant three varieties of blue flowers, for example, catnip, Poskharsky's bell, katananha. As well as red accents in the form of gravilat. Add sedum and geyheru.
Everything that you can do with your own hands, always brings more pleasure than what is purchased in the finished form or made by someone. Try making your own flower bed, make it different from everyone, experiment with your favorite plants and different flowers. And as a hint how best to arrange a flower garden, you can use ready-made schemes with a description.
