Decorative garden: we make beautiful beds - 60 photos
Everyone who has a summer cottage or a personal plot tries to make it beautiful. But to have land, and not to plant cucumbers, tomatoes, parsley, very few people manage to do this: they want not only to admire the flowers, but also to enjoy their own harvest. Yours is tastier. So they bashfully hide a vegetable garden somewhere behind the garden, on the edge of the site. But in vain. A properly designed and planned vegetable garden can be a decoration. There is even such a thing as garden landscaping, and it can be French or English. Like this. What's interesting is that it's easy to make beautiful beds with your own hands. Only for self-registration, you only need to know a couple of secrets and rules.
Evenly planted leafy vegetables of different varieties is already beautiful
Decorative vegetable garden
You've probably noticed that vegetables and aromatic crops are beautiful both during flowering and during fruiting. Even potatoes bloom with cute flowers, and some flowers can envy the rich color of their tops. Beautiful multi-colored shiny peppers on a bush, red-green tomatoes, even a cucumber garden, with plants climbing along an arch, and that look good. There are also colorful salads, different types of cabbage, all sorts of parsley, dill and other healthy and fragrant herbs. Aesthetes noticed this and began to decorate the beds beautifully. There are even two different types of ornamental gardens.
French vegetable garden
In the classical version, these are symmetrical beds, in the center of which there is a sculptural group, a fountain, and another recreation area is organized. Such gardens were made near castles, and they were also a place of rest. The strict geometry of the planned plot further emphasized the splendor of the castle. It was he who has always been a priority.
Intermittent colors are the basis of the decorative effect of the French garden
In the modern version, the beds can be square, rectangular, in the form of a sector of a circle. All of them are separated by clear paths, border plants are planted along the edge of the beds. It is clear that you cannot stick a French vegetable garden in its pure form on your 6-10 acres, but it is very possible to do something similar.
In general, there are two types of beds - flush with the soil and raised. It is easier to organize a garden at one level, but raised beds are more convenient to handle. For their fencing, you can use boards, slate can be cut into strips, if desired, the fence can be made of stone, woven from a vine. This is someone who can or wants to aim at. For a few examples of how to make a fence for beautiful beds, see the photo.
The fence for the beds is made of limestone - sawn natural stone Fence made of boards is quick and easy, you just need to saturate the boards with a bio-protective compound, otherwise they will turn black and be unattractive
For beds that are flush with the ground, plants can be used instead of curbs. For example, parsley, regular or curly, salad of different colors. It is clear that the plants will gradually be cut off, but you can first plant densely, gradually thinning the planting. If space permits, marigolds or calendula can be planted along the edge of the beds, only a low curb, other plants that give dense greenery and grow small in height.
Curly parsley - beautiful and healthy Vegetable beds, edged with flowers - beautiful
The main focus of the French vegetable garden is in layout and evenly planted rows. The second is in the alternation of colors. The third is in, which set off the greenery.
To make everything look beautiful, it is necessary to alternate the shades of plants, and to imagine how everything will look, it is better to draw in color. They draw as much as they can: on a computer in a program for designers or on an album sheet. There you can also develop the layout of the beds yourself, if you draw everything to scale. Then the ideas will need to be transferred to the site. There are several options for the layouts of the beds in the photo.
Clear plantings and paths are the basis of any ornamental garden
And so that you don’t think that it’s impossible to create anything like this in our conditions, below are some amateur photos from real summer cottages and personal plots, where French beds have been living for more than one year.
Even at the entrance there will be an arch ... And again boards, the layout is mixed - rectangular and radial
We hope that the examples of decorating the beds have inspired you, and we will tell you how to make fences for them below.
English vegetable garden
It is not as symmetrical as the French and is dominated not by a castle or a house, but by a lawn. Vegetables are interspersed with flowers and all the plantings emphasize the attractiveness. The house itself is also rather a vertical bed: ivy often winds along the wall, pots and flowerpots are standing, hanging. Everything is well-groomed and does not smell "wild".
Actually, the English vegetable garden is difficult to separate from the garden or flower garden. The principle "all together" works here. But somehow they manage to combine everything, and very harmoniously.
We make beautiful beds with our own hands
How to plan a vegetable garden, you probably understand. It remains to know how to make raised or high beds. The fence for them can be made of boards, slate, remnants of roofing iron, and other similar materials.
A little about the size. You can raise the bed to a height of 20 cm, and no one will do it above 1 meter - it is difficult and inconvenient. The width of the ridge depends on whether it can be approached from one side or from two. Think about how far from the edge it will be convenient for you to handle plants. Sit down and try to reach out with your hands, given that you will have to stay in this position for a while. This will be the optimal width for you. The length of the beds often depends on the site or on the area that you plan to allocate for this crop.
Having decided on the dimensions, you can calculate how much material is needed. When deciding what to fence the garden with, conduct an inspection in the shed. Perhaps some materials remained from the construction, from which you can make a fence. If materials of one type are not enough, you can make several from one, several from another. To make everything look beautiful (we are making a beautiful vegetable garden), make different fences through one. This will also add a spice to your garden.
Unconventional approach: unusual shape and / or materials
People make beautiful beds with their own hands in unexpected places and from unexpected materials. Many people know that the curbs are made of stone, but concrete is used to hold them together. And this is long and dreary. But if you make a fence from a metal mesh, and fill in stones inside, you get an original fence. It is called "gabion" and has been quite popular lately. To prevent the earth from spilling out, the inner part of the grid (from the side of the bulk soil) is closed.
You can make a beautiful garden from the branches. Ordinary, clumsy. The main thing is not to forget to treat them with biosecurity, so that they do not become a source of diseases for plants.
A fence made of branches - there are almost no costs, except for time
Even plastic pipes can be used to make a vertical bed. The rack is also assembled, by the way, from PVC pipes, but of a smaller diameter. Holes are made in the pipes, into which the plants are planted. Occupied only a couple of meters of the area, and a decent vegetable garden.
Believe it or not, you can plant a vegetable garden ... on the wall of a house. It's just that long narrow boxes are attached to the wall, one below the other. There is enough illumination for everyone, it is convenient to look after, it almost does not take up space at all.
A slope plot is always a little more difficult than a flat one. But how many non-standard ideas can be implemented. For example, such a bed for greenery or aromatic herbs.
Are you thinking of what to make paths between the beds? Is there an old carpet? Cut into strips and place in vegetable garden. When watering, the water passes, then it does not evaporate, weeds do not grow. Beauty in the garden without cost - it is possible ...
And a few more interesting beds for aromatic herbs or greenery.
Do-it-yourself vertical garden bed ... Different types of salad - beautiful, healthy, tasty. You can make beautiful do-it-yourself beds even from an old wheel. A collection of aromatic herbs has been planted here - this is a fragrant garden, or you can also make a similar spicy one - with spicy plants