When setting up a garden or even a single flowerbed, many gardeners have to deal with one fundamental problem: what plants to choose to make the whole arrangement look really interesting?
For many professionals, as well as amateur gardeners, the secret of compositional success lies in the neatly exposed various contrasts.Thanks to the combinations of opposing colors of flowers, as well as the tasteful variability of the shapes of flowers and leaves, a garden or a part of it can amaze and delight with its appearance.
The trick is to keep your balance.If the elements of the arrangement are too delicate, the flowerbed will not look very interesting.On the other hand, different pairs of intensely colored plants placed too close together create an incoherent whole, giving a disturbing impression of disorder, chaos.
Experiments pay off!
The right mix of harmonious and contrasting colors can be found through trial and error. It is a good thing that most plants can be repotted frequently without any problems until you find the best partner. If you want to try out a lot of plants, let's first look at the annuals, which should be planted anew each season.
Valuable solutions can be seen in botanical and hobby gardens open to visitors.Let's try, for example, to set up a small pergola made of golden eaves, similar to those that can be seen in many English gardens, surrounded by purple balls of ornamental garlic.A large bed, covered with a purple carpet of mossy sage flowers, interspersed with bright orange flowers of kuklik, looks very impressive.
In a sunny bed, the tone of which is set by the yellow and orange flowers of slopes, sunflowers and divisions, the slender blue inflorescences of Agastache will be a beautiful and bold addition.
Plants with decorative leaves
The unique appearance of the flowerbed is given not only by well-chosen flowers, but also by beautiful and variously shaped leaves of perennials and grasses.
If we carefully plan the arrangement of plants with decorative leaves, the bed will be eye-catching even in periods with poor flowers.The grasses are perfect for many combinations with various perennialsFor example, narrow leaves and straight, stiff stalks of Miscanthus sinensis Chinese Miscanthus are perfect for dense clumps of Aster dumosus.
Ligularia tongue with large, round leaves can be safely planted next to the yellow iris with delicate sunny flowers and narrow, sword-shaped leaves. In shaded areas, the large, slightly lobed Kirengeshoma leaves in combination with fern plumes, as well as funkies planted next to delicate tawules look attractive.
A more experienced gardener also uses various forms of flowers in his arrangement.In the bed, large bowls of red poppy flowers are most beautifully accompanied by the yellow panicles of dotted Lysimachia punctata. On the other hand, tall Echinops with inflorescences in the shape of blue spheres will present themselves most effectively in the surroundings of the sumptuous shoots of the white-flowering Campanula persicifolia peach.
