Flower Bed Designs and Ideas (3195)

 

Memorize the words:

 

1) stroll – бродить, прогуливаться

2) shrub – кустарник, куст

3) bush – кустарник, куст

4) spot – место,участок

5) square – квадрат

6) rectangle – прямоугольник

7) circle – круг

8) prevent – предотвращать

9) sapling – побег, отводок; молодое деревцо

10) pruning – обрезка

11) grooming – уход

12) trailing – стелющийся, ползучий

13) SweetWilliam – гвоздикатурецкая

 

Strolling in a garden with many colorful and vibrant flowers is always a pleasure. A bed full of varied blooms adds amazing beauty to a garden. Most people think that making a perfect garden bed is difficult. On the contrary this article will show you that it is the easiest thing to do.

Flower beds can give the garden a new life, making it look interesting and beautiful. Creating a garden is an art, an art that requires forethought and good planning. There are no hard and fast rules about how a flower garden should look, but it should have an aesthetic appeal, and must be easily manageable.

Designs for Garden Flower Beds

When flowers are planted in a bed, they give the garden a neat, clean and pleasing appearance. The beds are an excellent way of segregating perennials from annuals and bi-annuals. The use of shrubs or small flowering trees can be used to mark the borders. Following a few tips can help one design garden flower beds.

Building a flower bed requires planning. The first thing that needs to be done is to asses yourself as a gardener. Are you ready to get your hands dirty, whether you plan to hire help, or your interest in flowers is a passing thing? Once you are clear, it would be easy to decide the number of beds, and the kind and the variety of flower plants you want. Make a rough sketch of the flower bed, which should contain its length and width size, and visualize the arrangement and the type of flowers you are planning to plant. Choose a sunny spot which has a good drainage system.

Outline the boundary of the flower bed using nylon ropes. Decide on the shape, it could be a square, rectangle, circle, or any other design. Using a small shovel, dig up the entire bed at least 10–15 inches deep, and level and demarcate the soil as per the design. If you plan to include designs that have layers, provide adequate support to the soil to prevent soil erosion while watering. One also needs to take precautionary measures to prevent disease and pests in the soil from damaging the seeds or saplings.

Use a good measure of organic composite and pesticide while preparing the soil.

Whether sowing seeds or planting saplings, tall plants should be placed at the back of the bed near the fence, while smaller ones should be planted in the front. For beds that have no fences as their borders, bushes, or small plants can be grown as border edgings, with smaller plants inside. Plants that require frequent attention, like pruning, mulching, grooming or spraying, must be always grown where they can be easily accessed. Watering a flower bed should be done carefully. Water should be sprayed equally from all sides, and excess water should have place to drain out.

Flower Bed Ideas

A traditional flower bed uses roses that are planted in borders, and also mixed with small flowering trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals. Another rose bed design includes the use of the same variety of roses in different colors, or vice versa.

While deciding flower colors, make an impact with vibrant colors, and never group dull or light colors with each other. However, this requires a good understanding of the type, size and colors of different flowers. One can even grow different colored foliage to create a dramatic effect, or to subdue too many dark-colored flowers.

A raised garden bed with layers of trailing varieties of flower plants, like deep purple petunias, followed by sunny yellows, or a spread of blue Viola with yellow and orange Sweet Williams on the borders will have a mesmerizing visual effect. Try growing trailers like nasturtium or morning glory on the fences as the

background.

There are many ways one can add beauty to the flower beds. While creating a number of flower beds in a garden, one must take care to create a harmonious flow between them. This is essential to give the whole landscape an aesthetic visual appeal.

 

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BeddingPlants (2878)

 

Memorize the words:

 

1) patio – патио, внутреннийдворик

2) decking – палуба, настил

3) greenhouse – теплица

4) conservatory – оранжерея

5) shelter – укрытие

6) breed (bread, bread) – разводить

7) discard – удалять, выбрасывать (за ненадобностью)

8) flowering – цветение

9) hardy – стойкий, выносливый

10) stock – маттиола, левкой

11) dianthus – гвоздика

12) tender – нежный

13) treat – обрабатывать

14) harden-off – закалять

15) pansy – фиалка трёхцветная (анютины глазки)

16) bulb – луковица

17) tuber – клубень

18) cultivar – культивар, сорт культурного растения

 

Bedding, in horticulture, refers to the temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter. Plants used for bedding are generally annuals, biennials or tender perennials; succulents are gaining in popularity.

Some bedding plants are also referred to as “patio plants” because they are widely used in pots and other containers positioned on patios, terraces, decking and other areas around houses.

Larger tender “conservatory plants” may also be moved out from greenhouses or conservatories and planted out in borders (or stood in their pots in sheltered positions) for the warmer months, then returned to shelter for the winter.

The modern bedding plant industry breeds and produces plants with a neat, dwarf habit, which flower uniformly and reliably. They are bred primarily for use in large-scale bedding schemes where uniformity and predictability is of paramount importance, but this is often achieved by losing the plants’ individual character, and has been criticized by such notable plants man as the late Christopher Lloyd, who championed an informal style of bedding.

Bedding plants

There exists a huge range of plants specifically grown to produce a period of flower colour throughout the spring and summer, and (usually) discarded after flowering. They may conveniently be divided into four groups:

Hardy annuals sown directly into the ground early in the season (poppy, stock, sunflower, godetia, eschscholzia, dianthus)

Tender annual or perennial plants treated as half-hardy annuals sown under glass in late winter in heat, or purchased as young plants, and hardened-off outdoors when all danger of frost has passed (begonia, lobelia, petunia, cosmos, fuchsia).

Hardy biennial plants, or perennials, treated as biennial, sown in one year to flower the next, and discarded after flowering (daisy, delphinium, cornflower, and pansy).

Bulbs and tubers, planted each year and lifted after the plant has died down and stored in winter, or discarded (tulip, narcissus, gladiolus, canna). Types of bedding:

Spring bedding

Plants used for spring bedding are often biennials, or hardy, but short-lived, perennials. Spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips are often used, typically with forget-me-nots, winter pansies and polyanthus.

Summer bedding

Plants used for summer bedding are generally annuals or tender perennials. They are planted out around the time that the last frosts are expected.

Experienced gardeners keep an eye on the weather forecasts at that time of year and are on standby to protect their bedding displays overnight with horticultural fleece if frost threatens.

Winter bedding

Planted in autumn to give a display until early spring, the plants used for winter bedding are mainly hardy perennials. Winter bedding tends to be less commonly seen, except in containers such as window boxes.

Some are short-lived and will be discarded after their first display; others may be used as a source of cuttings for the next year. Winter-hardy ornamental vegetables such as cabbage with coloured or variegated foliage are increasingly common.

Carpet bedding

Carpet bedding employs two or more contrasting plant cultivars with a neat, dwarf habit and distinct colouring (of flower or foliage) to create geometric displays. It is often used to form such things as lettering, logos, or floral clocks.

 

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