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Separate kitchen garden or useful plants in the ornamental garden?

Due to the rather small gardens in today's residential areas (and the associated lack of space), there are no longer any real kitchen gardens in many places. Instead, the crops are integrated into the ornamental garden. Of course, this garden design has its charm, it looks individual and varied. However, it also makes targeted maintenance more difficult and more complex. Therefore, separate areas are very advantageous for growing vegetables, strawberries and larger quantities of herbs. An exception, however, are fruit trees, which can also be integrated very well in the ornamental garden - provided they have enough space there.

Creative forms for the kitchen garden

For the kitchen garden, flowerbeds with rectangular or square layouts have proven themselves. If that's too boring for you, you might find your favorites among the following design ideas. An irregular, imaginatively chosen shape of the kitchen garden has its charms and can look very harmonious in a natural garden, for example. An attractive variant are circular or semicircular vegetable gardens, in which the individual beds are presented as pointed triangles. However, these forms make it difficult to sow and plant in the usual parallel rows.

In addition, the utility part can be visually separated from the rest of the garden in various ways. Low hedges are suitable for this, Fences or walls. If, on the other hand, the usable area borders on a lawn, simple edging with slabs or curbs laid at ground level make it easier to mow the edge of the lawn. Of course, hedges or fences placed behind it can also provide a more conspicuous frame.

Cottage gardens as a stylish template

Those who like it rustic and romantic, on the other hand, can take the various cottage gardens as an example and use the useful part with borders with summer flowers, low perennials or roses or delimit higher ornamental shrubs. For the Border these flowers are particularly suitable: marigolds (marigolds), marigolds, carnations, Nasturtiums, Jewelry basket, Hollyhocks, lupine, Peony, delphinium, Yarrow and Turkish poppy seeds. Furthermore, decorative elements such as wooden fences, scoop wells can be used in a cottage garden. old wagon wheels u. ä. even underline the nostalgic touch.