Creating a stylish flower garden is considered the supreme discipline of creative garden design. The temptation to plant all your favorite flowers as a motley hodgepodge is great. Disciplined planning will bring admiring looks over the garden fence. This guide gives a practical look at how to create a tasteful flower garden.

Large flowering, tall perennials are accompanied by smaller, more inconspicuous plants

Coherent motto demonstrates stylistic confidence - creative options at a glance

Well-known garden architects advocate the stylistic unity of house and garden. By giving your flower garden a motto, you honor the guiding principle. The following options for a successful combination of architectural style and flower garden have proven themselves in practice:

  • Modern construction: Japanese garden style or strictly formal flower garden with spartan planting
  • Country house style: Mediterranean flower garden with warm tones
  • Classic house construction or half-timbered style: cottage garden as a liaison of vegetables and historical flowers

Ultimately, the site conditions decide on the plants, with the help of which you implement the motto in the flower garden. In the front yard on the north side, you cannot create a Mediterranean-style flower garden, but will give preference to the more flexible plant arrangement for the Japanese garden. Conversely, moss-covered hills of a Zen garden have a hard time on the south side in full sun.

Lead perennials, companion and filler plants - tips for more planning security

Theoreticians among hobby gardeners specify the motto of garden design in a true-to-scale sketch. Count yourself among the practitioners, position the chosen plants in advance at the intended location to let the appearance work on you. However you proceed, we would like to recommend these premises for the plant composition:

  • Majestic leading perennials as a backdrop or eye-catcher in the center
  • Accompanying plants matched to the color and growth form of the main perennials
  • Flowery ground cover and annual perennials as gap fillers

The proportion of leading perennials is between 10 and 15 percent. In contrast, companion plants and perennials each make up about half of the remaining plant community in the flower garden.

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Did you know that you can simulate spatial depth with the right color combination? Choose darker tones for guide perennials in the background than for companion and filler plants. Light pastel colors in the foreground of the flower arrangement suggest more spaciousness than the small garden actually has to offer.

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