Planning a perennial bed is about more than just selecting the perennials. Bed edging, decorative elements and companion plants need to be planned and of course the color of the flowers has to be considered. You can find out how to plan your perennial bed correctly below.

You should ask yourself these questions when planning the perennial bed
Before you start laying out your perennial bed, you should measure, draw and plan it carefully. To do this, you should ask yourself the following questions:
- What are the site conditions on the bed? Is it in the sun or rather in the shade? What about the soil quality?
- What should the bed border look like?
- Do you want a motley flower bed or do you want one or two colors to dominate?
- How should the plants be distributed on the bed? This is especially important if they are different sizes.
- Would you like to embellish your perennial bed with other plants such as shrubs or grasses?
- Should decorative elements adorn the bed? If yes, which?
- Do you want to cover the soil of your perennial border?
1. Site Conditions
Local site conditions will dictate which plants can and cannot be planted. Three factors are important here:
- Sun exposure: sunny, semi-shady or shady
- Nutrients in the soil: Nutrient-poor or nutrient-rich
- Humidity: wet, normal or dry
While not much can usually be changed in terms of solar radiation, you can enrich nutrient-poor soil with compost and water dry soil frequently, but moist soil, e.g. near the lake, is difficult to dry.
With these criteria in mind, you can make your plant selection.
2. Bed border
A bed should be separated from the rest of the garden - for visual reasons and so that the plants do not spread beyond the bed. Fieldstones, bricks or even wooden elements can be used to delimit the bed.
3. Colors in the bed
Perennial beds can be designed in a colorful way or you can let one or two colors dominate. In an elegant rose garden, for example, a border of perennials in shades of pink or white looks very pretty. You can find an overview of different perennials and their flower colors in our instructions for creating a perennial bed.
4. Plan the arrangement of the perennials
Large perennials or larger accompanying plants such as shrubs should be planted in the middle of the bed or at the rear edge if the bed is bordered by a wall or a fence at the rear. Medium-sized plants come in front and smaller perennials or ground covers are planted in the front area. When planning, be sure to consider the final size of your perennials.
5. Companion plants for perennials
Perennials are perennial, but usually not wintergreen. Most perennials retreat into the ground in winter and the foliage dies back. If you want to have something green on the bed in winter, you can plant wintergreen shrubs such as boxwood or evergreen barberry or wintergreen grasses such as Chinese reed or evergreen sedge species on the perennial bed.
6. Decoration elements
Colorful windmills, funny clay figures or stone structures, roots or zinc figures are often placed in the colorful perennial bed. Water elements such as small fountains or even a watercourse are particularly beautiful, albeit unfortunately a bit expensive.
7. Cover the earth
It is advisable to cover the soil at the end to prevent weeds and reduce moisture loss. Mulch (€239.00) or gravel are popular materials for this.