Appetizing flower beds: how to plant a small area with edible crops

Appetizing flower beds: how to plant a small area with edible cropsEvery summer resident gets a part of the land first for the sake of rest through the vain city life. However, evenly the soil becomes an additional source of new vitamins, it is illogical to go to the village, buying a trunk trunk of vegetables and greens. All this is allowed to educate steadily near sideways. The only"but"is a small part. It is necessary to give or beds, or flower beds, and the young summer residents, usually give importance to the beautiful landscape. In fact, any fruit can be excellent in the taste of the site, if you show your imagination. For example, ordinary potato was once considered a decorative crop, and it was grown only for affectionate plants. For no reason who in the flower garden is allowed to find a room for him, and cucumber, and even pumpkins. We'll see, it's kind of true to make an appetizing flower bed,
The best garden crops for a flower garden
Landscape designers have to eat a scale of decorative plants. Some crops can be planted in any type of flower beds, and they will look beautiful full season. Others - are calculated only for a known kind of a flower bed and are decorative kutsee time.
Let's take a closer look at the finest between the plants commonly used in food, but which are great for your new vegetable beds.
Decorative cabbage Cabbage is used like a frame, the main culture of the lower tier and in pottery compositions. Plus the decorative cabbage in the book, which it before the deep autumn keeps a brilliant visibility, even if you agree in the arrows. Decorative cabbage loves to grow close with marigolds that scare butterflies through it and secrete substances, antiseptic soil
In longish shoots, the varieties of red, savoy and cauliflower look great. Blue with violet color of cabbage is brilliant opposite to the burgeoning plants, however, this place requires a lot of space for this vegetable
Decorative varieties of curvature
Again, the phrase"decorative"does not mean"inedible."Three of the finest varieties - chive-onion, aflatun and slizun have beautiful taste properties. This shnitt-onion increases speech in the early spring, if ordinary onions again begin to sprout.
It is necessary to consider the development of a flower bed with a bow that this plant can not be planted for the front row, because the moment will come if the foliage turns yellow and wilts, and probably the flower bed is exposed.
Onions most ideally feel themselves"behind the back"of plants that will bloom in summer or autumn and cover the leaves with empty land. Plant an onion continuous with a strip or mix with semicircular shrubs. Excellent looks the speech curvature in the alpine hill. 1 - chives, 2 - aflatun bow, 3 - onion slug. Any of their own is not bad in the flower garden
Aflatun onions are valued because of the juiciness and light-weight flavor of garlic. His fleshy leaves are beautiful just in the spring, but then comes the time for the shooting of the luxurious flower stalks for the highest stem, and speech at this time flows for loss. Consequently, the Aflatun onion is planted, or for the flower garden background, so that it creates a curdled young field in the spring, or in the center of the flower bed. In summer, the trifle room will cover the grown crops from the edge.
Longer than others, the greenish foliage retains the onion slug, because it blooms by July. Therefore, the spots of greenery in the flower garden can be made specifically from it.
Artichoke and rhubarb
These garden crops can walk in the landscape with solitary plants. Powerful figured foliage and a beautiful view of the bushes look at themselves from afar. They are comfortably combined with flowers, the trunk of which needs support: skewers, large-flowered irises, daylilies , because massive trunks in windy weather will restrain and"neighbor." 1 - artichoke, 2 - rhubarb. Massive leaves of plants are scattered for a place more than a meter, and a well-developed root order makes it possible to grow successfully in the shadows
The artichoke swells in front of 2 meters and uses a kind of central plant in a multi-tiered flower bed. If you do not eat his buds, then over time they will blossom with unusual balls with a purple corolla for the end. Consistent with the shape of an ordinary thistle.
The foliage of rhubarb and artichokes is used in new salads, because they are rich in medicinal qualities. For no reason that all landladies dreaming of a slender figure should be planted for a site of these giants.
Greenish salads
Probably the best form of foliage is salads. Their juicy grass can begin to decorate not only the dining table, and the central flower beds. Predominantly effective of salads are curbs and edging of caterpillars. Salad cultures lively increase the greenish mass and look beautiful before the middle of the age, until the flower arrows are released
Lettuce, freeze, spinach, chard and iceberg form a dense ball-shaped foliage, which looks great for alpine slides, in containers and wide pots. Planting salads is allowed around the blind area of ​​the building, because they do not fear shady places and adore the water.
Radicchio, lollo-rosso and red-headed oaky red should be inserted in the flower garden for a bright purple or reddish-brown color. They add paints to the lower tier of the flower bed. It's just that ordinary beetroot has the same rich coloring of foliage, therefore in flowerbeds it is allowed to plant 3-4 close.
Tea grass and herbs
This plant society in the design of the site is now used quite often. Spicy and tea flower beds are now in trend. From spices for the sake of the central flower beds are suitable:
parsley (mostly curly varieties)
basil (prized because of the violet color of foliage)
marjoram (allocated in flower beds in golden color)
rosemary (attracts needle-like leaves and beautiful blue flowers)
hyssop (unusually beautiful purple or blue panicles during flowering)
Sage (high profits and large blue inflorescences)
Examples: 1 - sage, 2 - hyssop, 3 - rosemary, 4 - basil. Any grass can be used in a flower garden like a plant of the upper tier
And again from these herbs it is allowed to perform a"monastic garden":

Between cultures that are added to home teas, for flower beds you often see:
Melissa and mint (the carved foliage resembles nettles, the bush is sublime, but it keeps the shape perfectly);
thyme, 2-nd name - creeping thyme (a good ground-covering plant that will braid as much land as it is taken, successfully mixed for beds with alissum)
The monarch (An exalted flower, who looks great in the center of the flower bed, according to the edge of the lawn, the path, Izza can freely hide the ugly old rambling city, can be combined with hosts, astilbes, cereals)
Echinacea (it has spectacular colorful flowers resembling a large chamomile.The color palette is huge, it forms an elevated bush with stiff trunks not afraid of the wind). 1 - thyme, 2 - mint. From thyme it is allowed to make"carpets"for alpine hills, and mint to plant a dominant in the center of the flower bed
From green leaves, monads make teas that help to cure colds, and are also added for the sake of the smell of salads and fish dishes.
Prestigious forms of"edible"flower beds
Because the custom for garden flower beds enveloped the full light, landscape designers began to look for unusual forms of flower beds, in which comfortable and garden, and decorative crops. We look at the most noteworthy decisions.
Variation #1 - chess through Marjorie Harris
The experienced gardener from the Canadian city of Toronto, Marjorie Harris, invented the shape of a chessboard, in which the greenish cells alternate with snow-white ones. Young paint is made by plants, and snow-white squares are locked with concrete tiles. Usually, in the form of chess, paths are made, squaring squares with grass, but Marjorie Harris uses this form for the sake of savory flower beds
What is the profit:
The tiles accumulate heat from day to day and give it evenly to the soil at night, thereby maintaining the constant temperature of the plant's root system.
Taking care of plants is simple, because standing for the tile, you can not pat your legs.
The weeding area has been reduced by half, and probably will not overwork, well, there is practically no weed in the flower bed.
The light-colored tile paint perfectly reflects the sun's rays, and they better illuminate the whole plant species, and probably the crop of crops is also better.
It is permissible to use shady places, because reflective rays are sufficient for the usual development of cultures.
Grass and beet grow more successfully in chess beds.
Variation #2 - strict geometry through the Androue du Cerco
It is impossible to call this French designer contemporary, because he created in the sixteenth century. However, his opinion of geometric flower beds is now experiencing the 2nd beginning.
The essence of Andruje's idea in the book, in order to win the site of the site, set aside near the flower beds, for equal squares, any of which is limited by a border of boxwood or another shrub. The monotonous place of flower beds will order the place, make it symmetrical. Boxwood for the sake of curb beds should be grown for years, so you can change them for kohii or marigolds that are free to clip in front of a suitable shape
But inside each flower bed rather own image. For one plant, it is allowed to plant according to the circle, for the other - in rows, for the third - in the form of the sun, etc. The agreement is one: apogee - 3 crops for a separate square, with different coloring of foliage and inflorescences.
Specially fun colors + strict geometry and make that brilliant appearance, who amazes tourists in the garden of the ancient castle of Villandry. And if you for a site create similar - all the neighbors and guests will be in cultural shock.
Variation #3 - multi-level spicy park through Nan Sterman
The designer from California, Nan Sterman, called her idea"a multi-level garden of lazy spices."The essence of the flower bed in the book is to gather together fruit-bearing and herbaceous cultures, resistant to drought and plant them with tiers, like the gardens of Semiramis. Each level has its own level, so that it's comfortable to type culture for breakfast. Being an organization of a"lazy"flowerbed is proud to correctly arrange the irrigation system and combine plants with similar soil requirements
Lazy park Nan was named therefore, which the irrigation operation there is automatic, by the method of drip irrigation, and the whole bottom is covered with a thick layer of mulch. Consequently, the owner just remains, who sees the flowerbed, of course, to collect from it a collection. No additional work.

In such beds Nan Sterman uses a container landing to lift a known layer above the ground.
Variation #4 - garden-crescent through the Deborah Principe
Again, one South American florist invented for the organization of garden flower beds a crescent shape. Release into the courtyard from the house begins with a semi-circular patio, the form of which is covered with tiles or other decorative material. Three sectors-beams spread across the patio, any of which is the share of design. In the latter sectors, flowerbeds of herbs and garden crops mixed with flowers are created, in the central one - a dwarf fruit garden + berry fruit. This breakdown makes the terrain intact, because all the beams"flock"to the resting place. A greater aesthetic effect through the garden-crescent is obtained by the hosts, standing for the balcony of the top floor of the house, from where the whole place is viewed
Deborah Principa propagandizes the idea: all the way for a site is suitable for the sake of a bouquet. I went out into the park and cut it off - a sprig of peas, a bunch of basil, a daisy flower ... Without a break, cultures have the privilege of painting the building and sticking out in beautiful vases.
Variation #5 - vertical flower beds through Amy Stewart
The recognizable South American biologist Amy Stewart made a book"Drunken Botanist", where she offered readers a drink - floral cocktails. By the method of research works, she justified that homemade refreshing drinks are not worse than unwound pops and low-alcoholic consistencies. In addition, a separate flower to be added to alcohol brings its own incense and style, and such drinks are akin to an expensive perfume for the sake of the elect.
For the sake of research, she needed a large flower garden with spicy and fragrant herbs, and there was no place for the site. It was necessary to use the city and a narrow strip of land along it. All cultures were planted in containers for various levels. So the park came out vertical.
If you are fenced off through the neighbors by a blind fence - make steadily for him a park of spices, adding for the sake of colors curly strawberries and petunias. Amy Stewart's flower bed is distinguished through vertical beds to those combining blooming and spicy cultures, and for the sake of beauty added mirrors
In the development of"edible"flowerbeds it is necessary to take into account a single aspect: the plants are not alone together. Before you combine beetroot and hydrangeas, parsley and roses - compare the conditions of their feeding. After all, that height of acidity and water, who loves one education, can exist disastrous for another.