Designs for Garden Flower BedsFlower Bed IdeasThese designs for garden flower beds,includes roses and other flower bed ideas.Unless you intend to have a bed consisting of roses only, you will want to combine other flowers such as perennials, or annual plants. The selection of these plants is quite limitless. It is easy to find companion plants with the same needs as your roses-sun-and well drained soil. These companion plants will promote a more natural, relaxed look to your garden. Formal Designs for Garden Flower Beds
Traditionally, formal rose gardening, consisted of the beds being outlined with sheared, neat boxwood or santolina, and the beds would contain high maintenance Hybrid Tea roses. This type of bed requires a lot of care, and work, keeping up with all the trimming of the hedges. Try these flower garden ideas to easily get a similar look with much less effort, by choosing gardening roses that are disease free, and edging that require less maintenance. Good Edging choices might be: Silver Mound Dusty Miller Sage Hosta (sun tolerant type) Low ornamental grasses
Cottage Garden DesignTo create designs for garden flower beds in a Cottage Garden Design you would make irregular, free-form beds that contain both roses and flowers. This is a less stuctured look that gives you more freedom to choose companion flowers
Flowers will reseed to give you more flowers each year. Try to use many different colors. Choose flowers and foliage with different textures, and heights to add everchanging interest to the garden.
Don't forget the grasses, both tall and smaller varieties. They add interest all season, even in the winter.
These gardens make great cutting gardens, supplying you with endless bouquets all season!
Plant in DriftsFor a dramatic mass of color, plant several roses of the same variety together. Landscape roses are excellent choices to achieve this. If you plant them a bit closer than recommended, you will create a lovely drift of color.Planting the annual or perennial companion flowers in clumps of three, offer a stunning effect. Picture several pink roses,with clumps of silver Dusty Miller in front of them, and some blue or purple delphinium planted directly behind them. Use color combinations that appeal to you.
Colorful HeightFill your vertical space with color. plant climbing roses on a fence or pillar. By planting a few of the same cultivar,they will bloom simultaneously, for a stunning effect.Intertwine some clematis with them. Use colors that will stand out for best effect. Use your imagination! Any trellis, or free standing object (lampost, etc.) in the garden can become a support for any climbing plant. Keep the Color Coming
A well planned garden has an ever-changing display of color, and flower florm. These flowers should complement your roses. So plan to have something in bloom throughout the season. Plants that grow from
bulbs
are very useful for adding additional needed color. Spring bulbs bloom when the roses are just starting to leaf out, and summer bulbs bloom when the roses are at their peak, making them great for adding color.
Always try to plant in groups or clumps of the same plant. And never plant in single rows!
Tulips can be breath-taking when you have many planted together in clumps, but the same amount planted in a long row would not be very impressive.
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