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You should ask yourself these questions when planning your perennial bed

Before you start laying out your perennial bed, you should measure, record and plan carefully. To do this, you should ask yourself the following questions:

• What are the local conditions on the bed? Is it in the sun or in the shade? What about the soil quality?
• How should she Border look?
• Do you want a colorful flowering bed or do you want one or two colors to dominate?
• How should the plants be distributed on the bed? This is especially important when they are of different sizes.
• Do you want your Perennial bed with other plants such as B. Beautify trees or grasses?
• Should decorative elements adorn the bed? If yes, which?
• Do you want to cover the soil of your perennial bed?

1. Site conditions

The site conditions on site indicate which plants can be planted and which cannot. Three factors are important:

• Sun exposure: sunny, partially shaded or shaded
• Nutrients in the soil: low in nutrients or rich in nutrients
• Humidity: damp, normal or dry

While there is usually not much that can be changed when the sun is shining, you can enrich nutrient-poor soil with compost and water dry soil frequently. B. On the other hand, it is difficult to dry near the lake.

With these criteria in mind, you can make your plant choices.

2. Border

A bed should be separated from the rest of the garden - for visual reasons and so that the plants do not spread beyond the bed. For the bed demarcation z. B. Field stones, bricks or wooden elements are possible.

3. Colors in the bed

Perennial beds can be designed with motley colors or you can let one or two colors dominate. In a noble rose garden z. B. a perennial bed in pink or white tones is very pretty. You can find an overview of different perennials and their flower colors in our instructions for creating a perennial bed.

4. Plan the arrangement of the perennials

Large perennials or larger companion plants such as B. Shrubs should be placed in the middle of the bed or be planted at the rear edge if the bed is bordered by a wall or fence at the rear. In front of this are medium-sized plants and in the front area smaller perennials or ground cover are planted. When planning, be sure to consider the final size of your perennials.

5. Companion plants for perennials

Perennials are perennial, but usually not evergreen. Most perennials retreat into the ground in winter and the foliage dies. If you want something green on your bed in winter too, you can use evergreen woody plants on the perennial bed like Boxwood or evergreen barberry or evergreen grasses such as Chinese reed or evergreen Sedge species plant.

6. Decoration elements

Colorful windmills, funny clay figures or stone figures, roots or zinc figures are often placed in the colorful shrub bed. Particularly beautiful, albeit unfortunately a bit expensive, are water elements such as small fountains or even one Watercourse.

7. Cover the earth

It is advisable to cover the soil at the end to prevent weeds and reduce moisture loss. Mulch(€ 239.00 at Amazon *) or gravel are popular materials for this.