Create a flowering bed all year round

The right choice of plants

So that your bed is in full bloom in every season, you need plants with different blooming times, but also plants that bloom particularly long. The latter ensure more harmony in the bed.

You can find complete plant packages and instructions for a year-round flowering bed in specialist shops or on the Internet. With a little skill and planning, you can easily create such a bed yourself. You have even chosen a very wise one easy-care bed. However, it is important to coordinate the light and nutrient requirements of the individual plants with one another and not sun and shade-loving plants to mess up.

Suggestions for each season:

• Spring: snowdrop, Crocuses, Winterlings, Daffodils, Tulips, lungwort, hyacinths
• Summer: roses, steppe sage, delphinium
• Autumn: Chinese reed, Sedum plant, Pillow-aster, Sun bride

How do I combine plants with different flowering times?

As far as possible, ensure that your bed is planted evenly so that there are no unsightly "holes". You can avoid such bald spots with a combination of bulbous plants, whose foliage expires in the course of the summer, and perennials, which only then become green and large. A few pretty grasses in between have a harmonizing effect and are a beautiful winter decoration for your bed.

Which colors match each other?

Even if you like things colorful, you should not put too many different types and colors of plants together in one bed. It quickly appears restless and chaotic. Planting tone-on-tone, i.e. only blue or red flowering perennials, is just one option.

If you limit yourself to two or three colors, you have almost innumerable design options. For a romantic garden, maybe combine pink, light blue and white. On the other hand, strong colors such as yellow, red and bright blue appear cheerful.