Mediterranean aura
Every year more and more Poles go on holidays abroad, also to the countries of southern Europe. Your own discount, designed and decorated in a Mediterranean style, can be a reflection of the pilgrimage across the Apennine Peninsula or France.Plants from that climate zone also grow well here, provided that we provide them with a sunny sheltered position with dry, well-drained soil.
If the soil in our garden is too wet, a large amount of sand or gravel mixed with the soil to a depth of two spades will help. In addition, gravel stores heat well and drowns out weeds, which is why it is successfully used to cover the surface of a flowerbed.
Few plants are as characteristic of Mediterranean flower beds as lavender. Anyone who finds a blooming lavender field stretching to the horizon in Provence and feels its wonderful scent will certainly not give up planting lavender in their own garden.In bedding arrangements, lavender bushes are perfectly matched by Centranthus, Euphorbia spurge and Helianthemum.
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Santolina Santolina rosmarinifolia (Photo: Fotolia.com) |
Silvery gray leaves are a common feature of many Mediterranean plants. There are also beautiful bedding perennials, such as santolina, mugwort Artemisia,ruta ordinaryRuta graveolens andkocankicurryHelichrysum italicum.Magnificent rosettes of stiff, silvery green leaves spread widelyyucca fibrousYucca filamentosa.
Aromatic herbs are an indispensable addition to many dishes in Mediterranean cuisine. Planted in the right place, they beautifully decorate the garden and fill the air with strong exotic scents. Some of them have been well-known for a long time, including: basil,lebiodka(oregano),thyme , sage and rosemary,of which new varieties, such as 'Boule' and 'Hill Hardy', are already more resistant to freezing than the older ones.
Discount ideal for sheltered places
This combination of plants on a sunny bed (about 3 x 1.5 m) will bring the smells of the South to our garden. A calm, harmonious background is created bybylicaArtemisia 'Powis Castle' with very fragrant, silvery-gray leaves. Next to it there aresage omszonaSalvia nemorosa 'Vesuvio' and white catnip Nepeta x faassenii 'Walker's Low'.
Brzeg rebates beautifully flowering plants have taken over:purgatoryCalamintha nepeta 'Gottfried Kühn',santolinaSantolina rosmarinifolia ilavender narrow-leavedLavandula angustifolia. All perennials in the flowerbed are represented by three of each species.
Japanese patterns
The East Asian garden is distinguished by the purity of colors and forms.Arrangements limited to a few elements emanate an extraordinary, blissful peace.Basic compositional principles on a smaller scale can also be transferred to a perennial bed in our garden.
The greatest color value of the Japanese discount is fresh green with all its nuances. That is why various perennials with decorative leaves, such as funkies, bergens, ferns and ornamental grasses, grow here.The colorful addition is the cool blue or white of the elegant flowers of the Siberian iris.Other colors are used very sparingly, e.g.orange-red colorkuklikGeum, as well as light pink tawułkiChineseAstilbe andfunkiiHosta.
The perfect surroundings of a Japanese-style rebate are created by a carefully raked gravel surface. The impression of tranquility in the garden is emphasized by surfaces with regular shapes made of white or light gray stone.A characteristic feature of the Japanese garden are stone lamps or bamboo drinkers for birds placed here and there.
If we have a sufficiently large area, let's try to include the water element in the arrangement of the discount. The water, flowing briskly from the spring in the stone and immediately spilling into a miniature pond, fits perfectly in a small Far Eastern landscape.
A small oasis of peace
Even in a small area of 2.5 x 1.5 m, you can perfectly highlight the most important features of a Japanese-style discount.A shady place under the bushes is the most suitable for such a bed. The highlight of the discount is the clump ofkosaćców SiberianIris sibirica. In front of them, on the left, there is a hairy triple, Tricyrtis hirta, and next to it, in front, the Japanese sedge, Carex morrowii.
The edge of the rebate createsfunkie'Francee', bergenie and lowtawułki ChineseAstilbe chinensis var. pumila. In the discount, each species is represented by three specimens.
Indian summer
For many travelers in the United States, Indian Summer, the American Indian Summer, is the most beautiful time of the year. In the northern states of the USA, in late summer the deciduous forests change their color and the entire landscape is drowning in fiery autumn colors. At the end of summer, the same bright, warm colors can beautifully decorate a perennial bed in our garden.
Rabata Indian summer is distinguished by strong shades of red, yellow and orange These colors enliven the surroundings, put us in a good mood and give us a will to live. Such colors are decorated with flowers of tall perennials, incl.rudbekii ,pysznogłówkiMonarda, shared Helenium and perennialsunflowerHelianthus. Perfect partners for them are lower perennials with a compact habit and a long flowering period, such asslopeCoreopsis,yellow chamomileAnthemis tinctoria andyarrowAchillea. The bright colors of the flowers make the clump of perennials perfectly visible also from a greater distance, especially when it is placed against a green hedge.
A place suitable for a sunny-colored flowerbed can be easily found in the garden.We can place it as a flowering ribbon along the border of the garden or against the wall of the house.Tall perennials on the bed placed next to the rest corner will create a multi-colored screen, separating us from the outside world.
Bright colors of flowers
Indian Summer discount (2.5 x 1.5 m) can be set up in a dry and sunny place. We plant three copies of each perennial here. The high background of the discounts is created by: dzielHelenium 'Kugelsonne',pysznogłówkaMonarda irudbekiaRudbeckia 'Goldrausch'. The middle of the discounts is occupied by Penstemon penstemon and ornamentalmilletPanicum. The edge of the rebate decorates the Coreopsis slope.
