Beautifully issued bed draws attention, decorates any design, is pleasing to the eye of the owner and passersby. That plants long kept brightness, splendor of greens and blossomed for a long time, it is necessary to choose correctly landed cultures, to pave the way and to competently equip flower bed.
Instruction
1. Choose the place suitable for the bed device. Consider the structure of landscape and beat features of heights, hills and hollows. Create vertical flower bed near the house in the front garden, at garden gate, and give horizontally extended orientation to beds on flat surfaces and slopes, for example, along park paths. Favourably flower beds in flowerpots and boxes on verandahs, terraces, about ladders and garden reservoirs look. Study territory illumination sunshine, for blossoming of many plants it is very important to receive enough light and heat. Provide watering of plants: prepare tanks for upholding of water, watering can. Equip the system of automatic water supply to the soil and for spraying. When choosing the place for flower bed consider need of removal of excess water. For low platforms develop drainage system that roots of plants always kept freshness and were not exposed to rotting.
2. Correlate form of the created bed to the general design of the adjacent territory. There is huge set of variations on outlines: circles, ovals, equal rectangles and polyhedrons, stars and the extended spots.
3. Issue bed borders. Lay wooden billets of wood, natural stones, halves of bricks along flower bed perimeter, establish paling, grid or grid, use various ready small fences. It will give to your bed the accurate finished look and will not allow plants to creep away on the surrounding soil.
4. Before planting of flowers prepare the earth. Remove by means of shovel or chopper top layer of the turf with roots and greens of weeds. According to requirements to structure of the soil for the chosen plants enrich it with sand, peat, wood bark, stone powder, clay. Introduce mineral and organic fertilizers. If necessary disinfect the soil solution of chloric lime.
5. Choosing flowers for future bed, follow several important rules: - small inflorescences place on the foreground, and high have behind; - choose plants with different time frames of blossoming; - land in one bed of plant with similar requirements to the soil, illumination, humidity, etc.; - combine coloring, without allowing bed to turn into coarse tasteless spot; - plant flowers, observing between them intervals.
6. After jumping carefully look after plants on your flower bed: water, delete weeds and faded leaves, feed up the soil and you watch lack of insects wreckers.