Flowers in the country: 100+ landscape design photos [Best Ideas 2019]

For many, a summer residence is not only a garden and work, but also a great place to relax in a beautiful garden. Even a novice gardener can plant flowers, but it is very important to approach the process with taste and understanding, because the flower garden should really decorate the site, and not make it too artsy and variegated.

Dahlia

Marigold

Giant allium

But planting flowers is only half the battle. They need to be properly looked after. Today we will talk about the most successful types of plants and show vivid examples of stunning floral arrangements in the country.

Irises

Flower types

Before planting plants, you need to study the features of landscape design, choose a suitable place and choose harmoniously combined elements of a flower garden.

Flower bed in the form of a lawn

A flowering carpet looks very impressive in the garden. A certain part of the lawn can be sown with wildflowers - daisies, cornflowers, poppies, clover, etc. Such a flower garden does not require watering and will serve as a picturesque meadow for wonderful picnics.

Flower bed discount

It is a narrow strip of flowering plants that will look great around the terrace or along the garden path. Several varieties of annual stunted flowers (you can add mid-sized) are calculatedly planted in stripes, most often alternating colors. A stunning effect is created by simple ornaments made of flowers.

Daisies and Salvia

Flower beds

They can be of very different shapes - typical round, geometric square, diamond-shaped, rectangular and even intricate, but very elegant curly. In addition to the usual low flower beds, you can build a little more raised (10-15 cm), decorating them around the perimeter with a stone, brick, wood or plastic border.

Hydrangea

Lumpin

Arches

Even the simplest gazebo or wooden arch can be decorated and freshened with vines. For these purposes, clematis, climbing rose, girl's grapes, decorative beans and other weaving plants are perfect.

Climbing rose

Clematis

Mixborder

A wide strip of flowers of different heights. Such a flower garden suggests a certain background. Mixborders look beautiful near boardwalks or brick walls. The appearance of such flower beds changes throughout the season - some plants that have faded are replaced by others. They may consist of annual, perennial flowers, or combinations thereof.

Creating a thoughtful and balanced mixborder takes a lot of time, so in this case it will be more rational to use perennial flowers. They are also perfect for decorating rabatok or flower beds.

Perennial flowers in the country

Undersized

Charming unpretentious plant - pansies. This is a wonderful choice for an elegant flowerbed or mixborder. Dwarf varieties of phlox, geranium, large-flowered flax, gentian, oak sage, cinquefoil, panicled gypsophila are bright luxurious perennials that are often used to decorate a garden site.

Medium

Plants with a height of 40-80 cm are considered medium-tall. Gardeners use them in many types of flower beds. An excellent choice - daylily varieties that are easy to care for and incredibly beautiful; yarrow, pleasing the eye with its lush flowering; or the original pink radiola, characterized by juicy leaves. Late-flowering varieties of cornflower, peony, panicled phlox, double monard, astilbe are beautiful and peculiar in their own way.

Flowerbed with delicate peonies

Yellow yarrow

Tall

Pay attention to a very spectacular flower - a stem rose, about 1.5 m high and inflorescences very similar to the color of peonies. Luxurious stock roses can be found from pale pink to deep burgundy.

Rose stock

Tritsirtis resembles an orchid or a lily; the spotted window sill is original with its changing shades. Hybrid hybrid, sunflower loosestrife, cornflower will look no less impressive in the garden.

Tricirtis

Flower care

Every amateur and beginner can grow garden flowers, but still it is important to highlight a few points.

Remove regularly wilted flowers and plant particles. This is convenient to do when watering or weeding the flower beds. Faded flowers turn into fruits or buds that require strength to ripen. And this significantly slows down the germination of other flowers on the plant, and the appearance of your flower garden will be much more aesthetic without wilted plants.

Blue hydrangea and white balsam

Some varieties of plants bloom twice a year if they are pruned after the first flowering. The cut is done at a height of up to 10 cm from the soil for such flowers as lupine, balsam tansy, swimsuit, chalcedony lichen, terry ruff, catnip, sage, liveliness. It is better to prune the small petal by only a third, and then fertilize the plant.

Plants with large flowers and leaves need support. Suitable bamboo, metal or wooden poles, planted in the ground. The stems of plants are tied to them with a garden cord. Some types are actively growing, they also need additional poles. Around the plant, several supports are driven in and the cords are pulled horizontally. Experienced flower growers use special rings for support with an adjustable diameter. They are sold in many gardening stores.

And for those who do not like long and scrupulous work, we suggest choosing unpretentious plants for their flower garden: lilies of the valley, tulips, clematis, tenacious, snowdrops, fern, kirkazon.