- The right choice of plants
- How do I combine plants with different flowering times?
- Which colors go together?
There are countless variations and approaches to creating a garden or various beds, one of which relates to the flowering period. In addition to seasonal flowering beds, you can create those that bloom almost all year round.
Cleverly combined, the bed even blooms in winter
The right choice of plants
So that your bed is in full bloom at any time of the year, you need plants with different flowering times, but also those that flower for a particularly long time. The latter ensure more harmony in the bed.
In specialist shops or on the Internet you will find complete plant packages and instructions for a bed that blooms all year round. With a little skill and planning, you can easily create such a bed yourself. You even chose a bed that is very easy to care for. However, it is important to coordinate the light and nutrient requirements of the individual plants and not to mix up sun and shade-loving plants.
Suggestions for each season:
- Spring: snowdrops, crocuses, winterlings, daffodils, tulips, lungwort, hyacinths
- Summer: roses, sage, larkspur
- Autumn: Chinese reed, stonecrop, cushion aster, coneflower
How do I combine plants with different flowering times?
As far as possible, ensure that your bed is planted evenly so that no unsightly "holes" form. You can avoid such bare spots with a combination of bulbous plants, whose leaves die off over the course of the summer, and perennials, which only then become green and large. A few pretty grasses in between have a harmonizing effect and are a beautiful winter decoration for your bed.
Which colors go together?
Even if you like it colourful, you should not put too many different types and colors of plants together in one bed. It quickly becomes restless and chaotic. Planting tone-in-tone, i.e. only blue or red flowering perennials, is only one variant.
If you limit yourself to two or three colors, you have almost countless design options. For a romantic garden, maybe combine pink, light blue and white. Strong colors such as yellow, red and bright blue, on the other hand, look cheerful.
tips
Many plants such as roses, delphiniums and steppe sage can stimulate renewed bud formation by pruning after flowering and thus significantly prolong the flowering period.