A summer cottage is a place where you can start laying out a garden and creating beautiful flower beds and flower beds. When creating flower arrangements, one should correctly approach not only the choice of plants, but also its design. Today, landscape designers offer a lot of forms and types of flower beds.

Design features of flower beds in the country

Before you start decorating country flower beds, you should carefully consider its appearance. The flower arrangement should harmoniously fit into the overall design of the site, correspond to its stylistic solution.

Flower beds in the country

There are a lot of varieties of flower beds, each is interesting in its own way:

  1. Floral border. This is a flower bed, which is located in a narrow strip near paths or fences. In this case, it is best to use low flowers that form beautiful bright flowering bushes.
  2. Rabatka. This is a rectangular flower garden on which you can plant a variety of plants. Compositions of flowers of the same height look beautiful, but multi-tiered flower beds in the country house look no less original.
  3. Mixborder. This fashionable name hides a customary flower garden of arbitrary shape. Very often, such compositions are used in the design of gardens of country houses. This composition combines different cultures in color, height. Experienced gardeners recommend combining about 20-30 different plants in such compositions; they should be grouped by flowering time and color palette so that the flower bed blooms for the whole season.
  4. Flowerbed-mono-flower. Such a structure can be of arbitrary shape, its peculiarity is that the same type of plants is planted on it. The use of different colors is allowed. Despite its simplicity, such a flower garden looks very beautiful and original.
  5. Vertical flower beds. Very popular buildings that amaze with their beauty. It is quite simple to build such a structure - you will need to install a pyramid of flower beds of different diameters. Each of them contains plants of various heights and colors.

Materials at hand to help

An experienced gardener knows how to create unprecedented beauty out of nothing. When decorating a flower bed in the country, you can use the most unpredictable materials.

DIY flower beds

As fences and borders for flower beds, you can use the following things that can be found in every household and do not require any costs:

  • tree stumps and cuts;
  • brick;
  • old tires from cars;
  • a natural stone;
  • broken furniture;
  • unnecessary household and kitchen utensils.

If you have a little imagination and certain building skills, then it will not be difficult to arrange a beautiful flower bed in your summer cottage.

Council. Very interesting compositions are obtained from car tires.

Design options for flower beds

Flowerbeds with phlox

Thanks to modern possibilities, you can easily arrange beautiful flower beds and flower beds in your country house. With the right choice of colors, you can create beautiful compositions. Here are some simple ideas that can decorate any summer cottage.

Central flower bed

The simplest project, which is represented by a round flower garden. Plants are also planted in it in a circle.

For example, you can plant plants as follows:

  1. The central part in the form of a circle is filled with dark-leaved cannes, which will act as the soloists of this composition.
  2. The second circle from the center is placed green-leafed cannes.
  3. Ornamental deciduous gnafalium is planted in the third circle.
  4. The final row, which will act as an edging, will be a snapdragon.

Vienna flower

More complex composition, which involves the use of a large number of colors and the creation of complex lines and groups. The six-leaved flower from flowering plants looks very beautiful, therefore it is recommended to make it a central composition.

Vienna flower

The central part of the core of the plant is made from a small group of white levkolei, around which Alpine forget-me-not is planted. Six petals are made from lawn grass. The outer contour of the petals is made of viols. The free edges of the flower bed are filled with alternater and achirastas. Small groups of primroses can be placed in the grooves of the petals, in the center of which zinnias should be planted.

Flower beds on stumps

To decorate flower beds, you can use various elements, for example, wide stumps of old trees. To implement such a flower bed, a tree is cut down, leaving a stump up to 70 cm high. A depression of such a size is chosen in it so that the flowers can develop the root system necessary for their growth. On the one hand, a through hole is drilled, which will remove excess moisture.

Important! The walls of the stump should remain thick enough so that moisture does not rot.

For the construction of flower beds, trees that have died due to diseases cannot be used. For such purposes, only old trees and broken by winds and other disasters of nature are suitable. The prepared stump should be filled with fertile soil. When choosing plants, you should take into account the height of the improvised flower bed. Daffodil or tulip bulbs can be placed in the center. Perennials are located nearby. The composition can be supplemented with ampelous crops or low-growing vines.

Making a simple flower garden step by step

Making a stone flower bed with your own hands in the country for beginners will be within their power.

Unusual flower beds

To decorate flower beds in the country you will need:

  • stones for the border;
  • cement mortar;
  • shovel;
  • crushed stone;
  • black earth or nutrient composition.

The sequence of actions when building a flower garden from stones is as follows:

  1. Choosing a place. This is the most crucial moment, since the location of the flower bed depends on the plants that will be located in it. For light-loving plants, choose a well-lit place, shade-loving - it is important to provide appropriate conditions. For example, beautiful shade-loving plants will look at the entrance to a house or a Russian bathhouse.
  2. Markup. Initially, it is required to mark the flower bed, depending on the shape. The perimeter is marked with a stretched string. If the soil is soft, contours can be drawn.
  3. Pit preparation. A hole is dug inside the perimeter, the depth of which should be approximately 20-30 cm. Initially, the drainage layer is poured with broken brick, gravel, and so on.
  4. Border decoration. Stones are laid along the perimeter of the pit. They should be bonded with cement mortar.
  5. Planting plants. This is the final stage. First, the flower garden is filled with fertile soil. To compact the soil, the flower bed should be left for 1-2 weeks, after which black soil is poured. Now you can plant flowers. First, the selected perennials are distributed, then they are engaged in planting annuals.

On a note. The border can be made not only of stone or brick. You can make a border from bottles dug down with the neck down. Wooden planks dug into the ground are also suitable. When creating several flower beds, it is advisable to make a fence made of the same material, such a composition will look harmonious.

Planting rules

Before planting plants, prepare the soil in advance. It is allowed to use fertile soil from other places or purchase ready-made soil compositions. Before planting flowers, remove all weeds and their roots.

Flowers that will be planted in a flower bed should be chosen in accordance with each other. They must form a single composition. It is also important to correctly arrange the plants according to their life cycle and flowering period. A competent combination will help the flowerbed look harmonious and delight flower owners throughout the season.

Before planting, you can additionally fertilize the soil so that the crops take root more quickly.

On a note. You can also build the flower beds in reverse order. First, organize an elevation from the ground, and only then - a fence.

Flower bed care

Planting a flower bed is not the only action that will help create beautiful blooming islands on the site. It is important to properly and timely care for flower beds.

Flower bed care

Among the main activities that will need to be carried out regularly, one should highlight:

  • timely and regular watering, its frequency depends on the requirements of plants and the type of soil;
  • weed removal with regular loosening;
  • it is also advisable to carry out mulching;
  • fertilization (most often the flower beds are fed twice: the first time - in early spring, the second - before flowering);
  • removal of dry and faded buds (for many flowering crops, this is a way to prolong flowering).

These activities will help keep the flower bed in a beautiful blooming state all summer long. Also, when carrying out agrotechnical measures, one should take into account the characteristics of each crop used, especially the timing of flowering.

On a note. More often than not, quality care prevents disease and pest infestations. If, nevertheless, such problems have appeared, then it is worth fighting with them at the first sign. There are a lot of chemicals and products on store shelves.

If you have creative thinking, imagination and a little time, then as a result you can get beautiful lush flower gardens that will delight their owners throughout the season. To equip flower beds and flower beds with your own hands in the country is a very interesting and exciting activity. Which of the options to choose is everyone's business, but a beginner in garden design should not start with complex compositions.