Modern Garden Flower Beds

Meet some other interesting flowers.

Modern garden flower beds.

New modern plants have also entered the arena ornamental grasses and garden varieties of american natives such as rudbeckia. It s a small investment for big returns. With basic diy skills plus a couple of spare weekends you ll soon have a 2 2m x 1 4m raised bed that will provide space for ornamental and edible plants for years to come. It s joined by easy growing annuals calibrachoa zinnia salvia euphorbia marigold and cleome.

Use our kitchen garden planner s square foot gardening technique for fantastic results in your raised bed garden. Neatness pays dividends in these narrow spaces and putting edging around the flower beds really lifts the garden. It features some perennials flowers including some perennials that bloom all summer in general anchoring a flower garden with perennials will help form the structure of the garden and over time they will fill in and gradually reduce the planting chores of. New ideas unexpected combinations of textures shapes and colors create amazing flower beds that make a statement.

Raised tiered flower beds are one of the best flower bed ideas for the front of house. To start look for edging that works with the style of your house. Wooden raised beds can be tiered making them easier to reach for gardeners with mobility issues. A playful group of golden ray stands at one corner near a fern frond.

They re space saving provide an interesting focal point and are easy to maintain. Adding edging to your garden beds full of annual flowers and perennial flowers makes them look more polished helps keep mulch in place and boosts curb appeal. Understanding the principles of modernist design makes it possible to fill out the contemporary plant list with species and cultivars that weren t available 50 years ago yet are still appropriate to the philosophy. A piece of unexpected garden art in the form of a large red box makes its presence felt in garden flower beds.

That s why we ve rounded up the best gardening edging ideas here. Above ground beds also produce bigger better yields in a smaller space than traditional garden rows. This garden bed has a headboard draped with white gold and purple flowers pillows made of small privets a mattress is made of grasses violets or flax a footboard of a white flowered shrub. Raised garden boxes are easier to plant weed water and harvest than in ground beds.

Most diy shops sell edging try wickes and it needn t be expensive it s the. The flower bed is a very sunny location calling for sun plants planning for a shady garden would obviously call for different choices.