Often, owners of country houses leave small strips of land near fences, along hedges or walls, not planted with any vegetation. Areas hidden from prying eyes are not given special importance. As a rule, only regular lawn grass is grown in these narrow areas. However, such a problematic and, at first glance, inconspicuous garden area can be easily decorated and thereby ennoble the usual landscape design of the backyard territory. An excellent option for using this empty strip of land would be to plant flower beds not all over the garden, but along the line of borders and buildings. Such a non-standard method of planting flowers will allow ergonomically landscaping different areas and objects in the garden or around the house. Such ribbon flower beds will become a worthy replacement for the ordinary framing of the main elements, create a unique garden composition that will delight the owners with a variegated variety of numerous plants, and also make your landscape original and unforgettable.
Any structures located on the personal plot and performing practical and protective functions, including various demarcation lines and empty walls of the house, can be effortlessly turned into pleasant, cozy corners, harmoniously combined with the entire territory of the personal plot. The design of ribbon flower beds in remote and unremarkable places in the garden will not only fill the voids of the available free space, but also give it a single and complete image. In this case, the dependence of the location of the hedge, fence or garden path has absolutely no meaning. Plants planted in this way in flower beds will create a smooth transition, and colorful and lush bushes will fill empty strips of land with the help of this stylistic planting technique and line up into a holistic ensemble that can completely transform the site into a real magical kingdom of plants.
To break a ribbon flower garden on empty areas, you do not need to spend a lot of time and effort. The planting process takes only a few hours if you have ready-made seedlings of decorative flowers at hand. In order for the plants to feel good and take root quickly, it is worth paying special attention to the soil at the planting site. In the event that it is not too nutritious, then it would be better to completely remove its upper part and replace it with earth mixed with peat and compost. Before planting plants in open ground, you need to dig it up several times. Planting must be done carefully so as not to damage the roots.
To start decorating flower beds in empty areas of the site, you should take a responsible approach to the choice of plants. Some of their species are very demanding for sunlight. Due to the lack of light after landing, they can quickly die. Such plants cannot be used for growing in ribbon beds. All plant crops for the future flower garden must be selected taking into account the peculiarities of the lighting of this area. Hedges, fences, walls of the house - all these objects make the area around them shady.The illumination of a striped flower bed is determined primarily by the location and height of the fence located near it, and also depends on the material from which the adjacent structure is made.
High walls or a solid stone fence can create unfavorable conditions for the growth of varieties of plants with large and delicate leaves, the bases of which form vortex currents. For planting flower beds along hedges on the south side of the site, it is better to give preference to plants that will be resistant to dry, hot weather and bright sunlight. A strip of soil on one side of the fence will always lack moisture, so such a flower garden will need to be watered periodically, and the opposite side of the fence will be constantly exposed to atmospheric precipitation. All these nuances must be taken into account before proceeding with planting. The design of a ribbon flower garden should be started only after a thorough examination of an empty plot of land and taking into account all the features of the growing conditions of plants that will flaunt in your flower bed.
Ribbon flower beds can be decorated in absolutely any style. Combinations of flowering plants are completely different. The selection of suitable plant combinations of flower beds depends on the available free land area. As a rule, up to three varieties of the same plant species are grown on ordinary ribbon flower beds located near the outer and inner borders of walls or hedges, which can differ from each other not only in the color of leaves, flowers, but also in height. If the strip of soil intended for planting has an insignificant width, then an uncomplicated flower bed can be broken on it, which will consist of only one type of plant. Low hardy varieties are planted in narrow flower beds. They allow you to create a beautiful lush composition that grows over time and fills all the empty space. Such plants can be ferns, sedges, and species of various heights. hosts.
If the strip of soil has a width within the limit of one meter, then on such an area you can safely plant different flower variations. However, in any case, when decorating a flower bed, it is worth observing the principle of ornamentation, namely, it is necessary to adhere to a certain repetition of the pattern along the entire length of the flower garden in order to achieve a beautiful decorative effect. Such a wide flower garden, planted along a hedge or wall, can include both perennial and biennial plants, occasionally annual species are used. Their number can vary from 5 to 7 types, but not more, so as not to disturb the visual effect. These can be various classic varieties, for example, roses, jasmine, peony, as well as herbaceous perennial plants: lavender, heuchera or sage. Other unusual "green" pets will also look great: Rogers, Volzhanka or astilba.
