Beautiful DIY perennial flowerbeds for your dacha, photos

It's hard to imagine a yard without flowers, so flowerbeds are given pride of place in any property, as they are the main attraction of any landscape design. However, not everyone wants to renew their flowerbeds every year and replant them, so many gardeners and summer residents use perennials. Everyone wants a beautiful garden, but not everyone can afford to hire an experienced designer. This is why inexperienced gardeners and summer residents search online for photos of how to create beautiful perennial flowerbeds at their dacha. A professional can be expensive, even if you only need to create one. After reading this article, you'll learn how to create flowerbeds and choose the right perennials for them. So, let's get started creating our flowerbed.

 

1) Decorate the flowerbed

Unused household items, plumbing fixtures, old teapots, or boots are all great for creating flowerbed decorations. The key is to arrange them in the right place and paint them beautifully. For example, paint a used toilet brightly, fill it with soil, and then plant flowers. Place two or three toilets, adding discarded cisterns to them. This creates a rather interesting composition.

 

Flower beds made from car tires are considered the most original. Gardeners carve swans and carriages out of them and plant their own flowers in them. Many even carve a tire into the shape of a flower bud.

Others use tree framing. That is, they plant flowers in pots and hang them around a tree trunk without branches, making it appear as if they're twining around the trunk.

 

Flower beds that appear to grow out of old furniture look very beautiful. For example, take an old chair, cut a hole in it for a flower pot, paint it, and insert the pot with a flower.

 

Some gardeners don't even bother. They line a designated area with bricks or stones, paint them, and plant flowers. This is the easiest way to create a flowerbed.

 

2) Now we need to choose perennial flowers, for example, short.

Try to select flowers according to three criteria:

The first of these is the plant's blooming period. If you plant flowers that fade by midsummer, your flowerbed will be bare and unattractive for the rest of the year.

 

The second criterion is plant height. If you plan to plant 5-6 plants in a flowerbed, you need to consider their height. The tallest plant should be in the center, followed by a shorter one, and low-growing perennials should be placed along the edges.

The third criterion is the plant's color. It's essential to choose a color scheme, but if you prefer solid colors, you can choose flowers of a single color.

 

Let's start creating our flowerbed and choosing flowers. We'll use a simple brick-lined flowerbed as an example, with a mallow planted in the center.

 

Hollyhock, also known as mallow, is one of the tallest garden plants, with stems reaching up to 250 cm. Hollyhock is a biennial plant, forming a rosette of leaves in the first year and blooming in the second. The buds resemble bells and can reach up to 12 cm in diameter. Hollyhock leaves are hairy, palmately lobed, and come in a wide variety of colors. The buds are collected on the central stem in an elongated inflorescence. In the third and fourth years, flowering will be weaker, and the plant will shrink in size. In our flowerbed, it will be pink.

 

Now we're looking for medium-sized plants. You can even use shrub-like flowers. We'll choose the purple tricyrtis flower.

This plant is quite easy to care for, but many compare tricyrtis to an orchid. There are about 20 different varieties, each with a very attractive appearance. The stem reaches up to 80 cm in height, and the bell-shaped buds reach 4 cm in diameter. The bushes grow up to a meter in length. It doesn't like windy areas or high humidity. Plant tricyrtis in fertile, black soil, and keep the soil slightly moist during drought.

 

We'll plant a low-growing pansy at the edge of the flowerbed, choosing a blue variety. They're typically planted as seedlings in February, which are then planted in the flowerbed. There are about 400 varieties of pansies. They grow no taller than 40 cm. They need watering about twice a week, or daily during dry spells. To ensure this plant blooms all summer, remove faded flowers. This plant appreciates frequent loosening of the soil. The result is a colorful flowerbed that won't need any flowers for a couple of years.