Nice ideas for a creative island bed

The most beautiful ideas for the round bed

Depending on the size of the round bed, there are various options for planting. You can use smaller round beds, the center of which you can reach from the outside, for B .:

• plant with herbs
• build up as a hill bed and plant vegetables
• a round raised bed or Create bunk beds and z. B. To grow vegetables

For larger round beds, the classic solution with small trees, shrubs and flowers is more suitable.

The classic round bed with a tree or bush

Especially with larger round beds, it makes sense to put a larger tree or bush in the middle. You can now place shrubs, flowers or trees of different sizes around them in a ring, whereby care must be taken that the inner rings should always accommodate larger plants than the ones outer.
Alternatively, you can plant small plants of the same size around the trunk of the tree or bush in the middle.

Plant the round bed geometrically precisely

If you like it neat, you can plant the plants in the round bed at exactly the same intervals. To do this, proceed as follows:

• Plant the tree or shrub in the center
• Now attach four, six or eight strings to the foot of the trunk, depending on the size of the round bed, and pull these straight away in all directions from the trunk, so that four, six or eight equally sized quadrants are created.
• Draw the lines with a hoe or spade after. If you want to keep the division, you can also use gravel, Mulch(€ 239.00 at Amazon *) or even mark plants.
• Now plant the same number of plants in each quadrant.
• If you want to be even more precise, you can also divide the individual quadrants into several parts with the help of strings.

The border of the round bed

Various materials are available for the edging of the round bed:

• Plants, e.g. B. low shrubs as a natural demarcation
• Natural stones
• Cobblestones
• Plant stones
• Palisades
• Pebbles

You can also do without the containment completely, but then have to cut the lawn edges every now and then so that the round bed is not overgrown by grass.