Pick up unpretentious plants or flowers that will replace each other and bloom the whole season - we consider these and other options for arranging the lazy flower beds.
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1 pick up plants that do not need complex care
The first thing that is worth thinking, picking up plants for flower beds - the number and degree of complexity of the departure that they will need are. Try to consider the options for the most unpretentious colors, herbs and shrubs.
The minimum of your attention will require such plants:
- Perennial herbs.
- Cereal.
- Wild colors and herbs.
- Shrubs, such as juniper or barberry.
The charm of these plants is that they do not particularly suffer from the neighborhood with other plants, even weeds, do not require daily irrigation and take root in almost any soil.
2 Pick up the plants that will replace each other
Plant your flower in such a way that the plants bloom as long as possible, the whole season, or replaced each other. As a rule, such varieties include easily breeding plants that will gradually grow, which is convenient if you need a big magnificent flower bed or a blooming lawn in front of the house.To blooming all summer long-term colors include:
- Petunia.
- Calendula.
- Armeria Primorskaya.
- Marigold.
- Astilba.
- Astrantia.
- Helopsis.
- Blue Dolphinium.
If you choose perennials, you get rid of the need to remove the stunned grades in the fall and plant something in the spring to replace them.
3 Hurry up the land with garde geotextiles from weeds
If you do not suit the idea of creating a very natural flower beds and you want something more minimalist, use geotextiles. This is the material with which you are covering the flower bed, and then cut through the right places for plants that plan to plant. It is very convenient to plant shrubs in this way, as you need only a few holes.
After the end of the plant disembarking, geotextiles are fixed along the edges of the flower beds with pegs or stones and sprinkle with rubble, earth or sawdust to hide.
4 Fall asleep earth between plants
Another way to create flowerbeds without weeds is to sprinkle the earth as something that will not give the extent of weeds. This process is called mulching.Sprinkle options:
- Bark of coniferous plants.
- Small gravel.
- Sand.
- Chips.
- Bevelish grass.
- Bumps.
Each material has its own characteristics. For example, the bark of coniferous plants is well suited, shrubs. Also, there are no mice under it, which is important to take into account if before that you come across such a problem.
5 Use plants in containers
An easy way to arrange a flowerbed without complex transfers and care is to place containers with already adult plants in the garden. This can be done openly, picking up beautiful caspo and arranging flowers everywhere, including solid surfaces.
Also, the containers can be buried to the ground. It is simpler than a transplant, and the roots of colors will be protected from diseases and parasites. If necessary, the containers are easy to dig and move to another part of the garden - with conventional plants in the ground you will not succeed.
If you are used to cooking at home floral seedlings and then replant it into open ground, you still should be thought about the containers. There are options made of compressed cardboard, which, when lowering to the ground, will gradually soften and decompose. It ecoly and simplifies the transplanting process.
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