The flowerbed of annuals for beginners with a description of flowers

Want to create a beautiful decor for your site? The scheme of a flower bed from annuals will help to realize correctly any interesting idea. If you are not very good at inventing yourself or are not sure of your knowledge of floriculture, use the ready-made templates given in the article. Choose your favorite option and do it yourself.

Types of flower beds

Very often, this concept is associated with the flower bed. In fact, it is only one of the species. There are also the following:

• The missals;
• Mixborders (mixed continuous flowering);
• Single and group plantings;
• Color spots;
• Modular options.

There are also more complex compositions. They are usually created by professionals in gardens and parks. The article will consider the simplest variants, such as a mixed flower bed, a modular flower bed and an annual flower bed. A diagram, a picture and a brief description of the plants will help you realize what you saw with your own hands. Focusing on these types of plants, you can buy them the shade that suits you best, if seen on the template is not very much.

In specialized books, magazines, on the Internet, you can find many ready-made templates of different configurations, combinations of shades, species and varieties of ornamental floral plants. The easiest to implement is a flowerbed scheme from annuals. Every year on the same space you can create different compositions. The annual bushes grow faster and give many buds. In addition, seedlings of these flower plants will be cheaper.

Perennials are usually planted at a sufficiently large distance, since in a few years the number of shoots and shoots increases significantly. If initially planted too close, the plants will interfere with each other. The creation of a flower garden from perennials is a more laborious task. In addition, in the first season, some plants may not bloom at all or give little buds, and between the bushes there will be a lot of empty space, which will still have to be filled with annuals.

How to design a flower garden: basic principles

If you have a ready-made scheme of flowerbeds from annuals, or you want to create your own design, in both cases you will have to estimate your available space, the size of the territory, and from which sides it will be viewed. Low-growing plants are planted in the foreground, tall ones - on the back, if the survey is only on one side, and in the center - in the case of a circular survey.

Be sure to consider how harmoniously will blend plant species and shades of colors. If you are new to this business, it is worth to limit oneself to a small number of both species and tones. For an effective flowerbed of annuals (schemes and photos below), only two different types of plants or even one with bright contrast or close in color shade will suffice.

The following illustration shows an example of such a solution. The shape of the flower bed is standard round, the height of the plants is approximately the same, which makes it possible to make the original pattern, planting salvia and tagetes according to the corresponding scheme.

To ensure that everything has turned out exactly as in the picture, you need to carefully make the markup of the territory. Plant better seedlings. Buying plants costs with blossoming buds to see exactly the color.

Of course, a lot of seedlings will be needed for such a flowerbed. If you liked the design or the combination of shades, but you do not have such a quantity of planting material, just reduce the template to the scale of your flower bed, for example, up to 1 meter, and instead of the star in the center, take a second, smaller diameter circle with four strips . Lines can easily be made wide even in one or two plants. Simplifying any option is always easy.

Classification of flower plants

The planting material can be grouped according to several features:

• Height;
• On the color of the inflorescence;
• For the period of flowering.

Since here we are talking about flower beds from annuals, the above listed signs are the most relevant. On the height of the plant are carpeted (up to 15 cm), curb or low (up to 40 cm), as well as screen or tall, which reach 2-3 meters.

As for coloring, it can be different not only in inflorescences, but also in leaves. The following photo shows an unusual flower bed from different grades of the wheel. In the middle band this plant is cultivated as an annual one.

It looks very impressive this version of the flower garden, even without any complicated patterns with a pattern. By the way, the height of the plants on the flowerbed plays an important role. You have two options:

1. Perform a flat surface of the same height of plants, as in the previous illustration.
2. Use contrast, planting around high specimens low.

By the way, if you are not completely sure of your abilities, use tagetes (marigolds). It has established itself as a very unpretentious plant, and its height varies from 15 to 20 cm to one meter tall varieties.

How to choose the combination of shades

If you decide to create flower beds from annuals, their patterns can be the simplest, in the form of any geometric figure from one species or plant variety and a border from another. The next photo shows a spectacular contrast version with a wheel. A bright red-brown shade creates a laconic finish to the flower garden.

Kumbu can be built on a combination of close on the spectrum of shades. The following scheme and a photo shows just such an option.

The main part of the flower bed is occupied by pink flowers (3). It will look good an ageratum, petunia or begonia. As a curb, an ageratum of a gentle purple hue (4) is chosen. The center is decorated with taller plants: one-year lavender (1), the color of which is in harmony with the previous ones, and red salvia (2).

Such a flowerbed will be spectacular even a small size. The flowering period for selected plant species is long, so your masterpiece will delight you all summer.

How to choose the right plants for a flower garden

If you yourself decided to develop your own schemes of flower beds from annuals, for beginners it is necessary to choose unpretentious plants of a small assortment. For the middle band of Russia the following are suitable:

• Tagetes (marigolds);
• Petunia (it is better to plant seedlings, since it is difficult to grow from seeds independently);
• Angeratum;
• Salvia;
• cineraria;
• begonia;
• Lavender is annual.

Even one kind of plant can have so many varieties and variety of coloring. Below is an option, as from one tagetes it is easy to perform a beautiful flower bed.

The same applies to any of the listed plants.

Simple schemes of flower beds from annuals for beginners

If you already had an unfortunate experience in organizing a flowerbed, when everything turned out completely differently than you intended, and using marigolds seems too simple for you, you want to prove yourself that you can do something more, use the following template.

There is nothing complicated here. Mark on the ground a rectangle, an oval, a circle or another shape with a contour and the main part. Plant in these two elements different varieties of begonia (petunia, ageratum).

Buy a strong, quality seedling from a reliable supplier, place the plants at the required distance and properly take care. Do not hesitate to ask the sellers the necessary information on caring for the seedlings.

Annual Capsules

This flower garden is a strip (usually more than 40 cm wide), which is located along the building, lawn, path. An uncomplicated version of organizing such decor is shown in the following diagram and photo.

If you want to perform a more budgetary option, make a curb. It is usually made with a width of less than 40 cm, and, accordingly, will require less planting material.

With such a fringing, any, even the simplest flowerbed of annuals will look good. Schemes of continuous curbs or design that form the perimeter of a lawn or other platform can be performed not only in the form of strips, but also divided into squares, rectangles, diagonal guides. The choice depends on your ability.

The simplest and most reliable method is to carefully plant plants of one variety in a line (in one or more rows). So you definitely will not mix the sorts of planting material and spend less time. The result will please you.

Flowerbed of continuous flowering from annuals: scheme

Organizing the territory of the site and decorating it with a variegated decor, I want the beauty to please you as much as possible. The next photo shows a spectacular mixer or mixed flower bed. Organized in May-June, it will decorate your site before frost.

It is very convenient to use flowerbed schemes from annuals with a description of the flowers, although you should not confine yourself to the sorts and varieties that you saw.

You can pick up a specific color scheme, as on a template, and plants use those that you prefer or are cheaper.

In the photo above, an embodiment of the part of the previous scheme is shown, although it is possible to perform a completely different decor, for example, from different varieties of ageratum or petunia, salvia and lavender.

Modular flower garden

Ready-made schemes of flower beds from annuals are convenient in that you roughly imagine the result. If you think that complicated compositions are beyond your power, use the idea of a modular flower garden. An example is shown in the following illustration.

The meaning of such a flowerbed is that any geometric figure of a certain size (module) is taken as a basis. The simplest thing is to choose a square. All elements can be the same, for example 40x40cm, and be a certain number of times larger (respectively 80x80). These modules are filled not only with flowers, but some can consist of decorative tiles, gravel, lawn grass. Such a flower garden is easy to organize in a small area with minimal costs and the best result.

As you can see, the scheme of the flowerbed of annuals can be the simplest, and the flower garden will be quite spectacular. The main thing is to correctly determine the height of plants, the combination of shades, as well as the timing of flowering. Choose any option you like and embody it on your site.