Given the fact that you can design your garden as you wish and everyone has different tastes, you can of course design a bed with shrubs alone. How attractive this is depends on your selection.
A garden bed with shrubs is attractive and easy to maintain
How do I plan a shrub bed?
So that your bed doesn't look boring, you should play with shapes, sizes and colors. For example, choose different foliage or flower colors and combine small and larger shrubs of different types. You can also loosen up your shrub bed with a few perennials and/or bulbs.
When planting, your freshly bought shrubs are probably still quite small and not fully grown. Nevertheless, pay attention to the recommended distance between the individual shrubs, because many do not tolerate later transplanting very well. It is better to fill any gaps in the fresh bed with some summer flowers.
What should I consider when choosing?
It is best to use shrubs that not only harmonize well with each other visually, but also have similar requirements in terms of location, soil and care. This makes it easier for you to work on the bed and cut the shrubs. Poisonous shrubs should not be placed where small children may play alone. It is up to you to decide whether you want to do without it entirely.
When planning the garden and bed, also think about the animals. Birds and insects need native plants to live and eat. They often can't do much with exotic shrubs.
How do I design a bed with shrubs?
A bed with berry bushes should be laid out in such a way that you have enough space between the bushes for harvesting. The useful plants among the shrubs include not only berry bushes and nuts, but also some herbs that grow like shrubs, such as rosemary or sage.
The essentials in brief:
- Plant poisonous shrubs out of the reach of children
- native shrubs as insect pasture and breeding grounds for birds
- Observe planting distance
- Combine shrubs with similar needs
- don't plant too colorfully
tips
Be very careful with poison bushes.