How to select a place for flower beds
Place the flower bed in front of a window or near the entryway to your home, where you can enjoy everything the time.
If there is a construction beside your house, maybe the best choice for you, at least for the first year, till the construction is done, will be "flower garden in containers."
As the containers you can use any box (ideally not less than 30 cm tall, 20-30 cm broad and any length). The container needs to have drain holes. Plant seeds or seedlings to plant in them - a portable flower garden is ready. Above all, don't forget to water the garden regularly.
It is necessary 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.
Pick flowers for flower beds
How to make a flower bed bloom as early as May?
The first way - quickly 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 - enjoyable and economical. Grow the seedlings on their own unpretentious flowers, buy the seeds of annuals, which can be planted straight into the soil, select in the shop 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 up until 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 interesting. In the first season, make certain to buy dahlia bulbs, bulbs, gladioli and lilies - you will not be sorry for! Plant them in May at your site, you will enjoy the blooming plants whole summertime. Do not forget, dahlias and gladioli should be removed for the winter season. Lily is without a transplant can grow for several 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 bought 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 enough time in spring, you can constantly complete the job during the summer.
Seasonal plants have a great deal of advantages over the yearly 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 seasonal. Caring for them is just in weeding (specifically while the plants are little, not grown), cutting off the faded blooms (if you wish to re-bloom), the winter season pruning or elimination of dry stalks in spring.
When choosing plants for your website, do not neglect ornamental and flowering shrubs. Hydrangea, Japanese spirea and gray, bloodroot, barberry, dogwood, snowberry - those magnificent plain shrubs can be planted on the far right in the flower bed strategy.
How to prepare a flower bed
You can simply buy the seeds and roots are popular or favorite flowers to plant, provided the high - high 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 intriguing way. Develop a concept, for instance, country-style flower garden and pick 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 searches in nature - just how much area the plant will take and other. The bags normally shown the picture of the flower, how much space plant will take, etc. Based on that info plant you flower bed
Show the borders of a flower bed.
The simplest way to dig around the flower bed borders, flower bed location separated from the lawn. Fenced flower gardens look a lot more remarkable, giving the garden cool and sort of charm. Specify the borders of a flower bed can be purchased fences or rocks, churbachkami of logs, low fence, dug bricks, and so on
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