A multi-tiered flowerbed - an overview of the main types and stylish design ideas (120 photos)
The flower garden in the country involves the use of green spaces in order to ennoble the site. A multi-tier flowerbed with your own hands is a beautiful composition with various sizes, a summer resident decides how much space he needs to allocate for it.
A large multi-level design looks bulky, which is undesirable from the point of view of landscape design. Give preference to a few small compositions that can be placed around the entire perimeter of the site.
It is important to choose the right flowers for planting, the appearance of the composition depends on this.
Professional Designer Tips:
- Plant seedlings of flowers with the same size on one tier, think over a palette of shades in advance.
- Large inflorescences organically look on the lower tier, and small flowers on the upper tier.
- The flowerbed can be completely planted with flowers of the same size - it will look great.
Another flower garden, which should be given enough attention, is the rock garden. It is quite unusual, among many flowers and beautiful trees, we see large stones of a bizarre shape, but, despite their bulkiness, they look harmonious. They look especially interesting in a frame of various artificial reservoirs. So they look the most natural. Let's hope that you use some of our tips and your garden will find new colors.
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How to choose the right flowers?
The flowerbed with several levels of flowers should have a special design, usually water flows from the upper levels to the lower during irrigation. When choosing plants, a summer resident should take this circumstance into account in order to create optimal conditions for green spaces.
In spring, primroses, buttercups, forget-me-nots and violets are a suitable choice for a level with high humidity, and in summer irises with geraniums grow well here, in August astilbe can replace them.
On the upper tiers you will need to plant flowers that are resistant to drought: cosmea, Iberis, marigolds, nasturtium or aster. You need to know that without watering these plants will not be able to survive, at least water them once a week once.
Perennials for a multi-level flowerbed for a summer residence is far from the best option, plants will have to be disturbed all the time to make a transplant.
What materials can be used?
In the photo of a multi-tiered flowerbed there are many interesting designs made of boxes, pallets or tires that have served their purpose. You can use factory materials and everything at hand, the structure is built in the form of a pyramid, tower or staircase. The greater the height of the structure, the more reliable the fastenings should be.
It is easy to make flowerbeds in the country in the form of ladders, any beginner can take up its production. The set of necessary tools includes a planer, a hacksaw and a hammer, nails are used as fasteners, and such homemade products are made of boards. Put together a simple staircase of 3-4 tiers, lean it against the support and proceed to planting flowers.
It’s good when there is an opportunity to hide beautiful flowerbeds from the rain under a canopy, otherwise you will need to cover certain structural elements with a special paintwork material or primer with water-repellent properties.
A multi-level structure can be quickly built from old tires, which can vary in diameter and height, the largest should be placed below.
Pour soil into the tires and plant flowers for a flower bed, if you wish, then paint the tires using paintwork materials for outdoor work.
Beginners may be interested in information on how to make a flower bed without any "props" on their own. This is easy to do if a large earthen embankment with a shovel to give a stepped shape.
The use of natural stone for the arrangement of a summer cottage
Many summer residents create a multi-level construction for flowers with the help of stone, which is distinguished by enviable durability and unpretentiousness.
The material has an attractive appearance and is not at all afraid of atmospheric precipitation. Feel free to fantasize and implement any design ideas to create an original floral arrangement near the house.
You can see in advance on the Internet the scheme of flower beds, but this is not necessary, it all depends on the desires of the owner himself. You can make a design plan yourself, for its construction, use fragments, smooth stones, large and small, you can specially buy a decorative stone.
The following algorithm of actions is to be performed:
- Choose a place for the future flowerbed, dig a hole with a depth equal to 25 cm.
- Pour a layer of sand 10 cm thick at the bottom of the pit.
- Lay stones to give strength to the structure; use a cement slurry.
- Lay out a layer of drainage 2 or 4 cm, pour fertilized soil on top.
Important! It is necessary to allow each layer of stones filled with cement mortar to dry well.
You can give a flower bed almost any geometric shape: a circle, a semicircle, a square, a rectangle, an oval and a polygon with numerous bends.
A simple option of building blocks
The design feature is that the flowers are planted in a recess inside the building block. Such a flower garden looks interesting, decorating a summer cottage.
First you need to determine the shape of the flowerbed, then prepare a recess for the structure, pour a layer of rubble into the dug hole. The tiers of the structure are laid out with the help of blocks, into which the earth is poured and flowers are planted.
Tiered flower beds can be made to order in specialized companies, the sizes, the materials used and the complexity of the design are negotiated.
Raised flower bed
A flower bed, which rises above the ground at a distance of 15 cm to 1 m, came to us from the UK. The boundaries of the structure are designated with bricks, boards or stones, inside they make a drainage layer.
Fertile soil can be poured into the flower bed and annual plants can be planted, so summer residents create favorable conditions for the growth of any plants. The flowers here have more space compared to those that are planted in containers.
Plants should be watered often: they are on a hill; wildflowers look beautiful on it, especially when the background is a green lawn.
New life
It often happens that a container or other large capacity is no longer used, then for such objects there is always a place in the flower garden.A plastic flowerbed will become an integral part of landscape design, and a wooden barrel with flowers successfully fits into the country style.
An old chest of drawers, inherited from your grandmother, does not fit with the Art Nouveau style, of which you are a fan. However, for this furniture, covered with dust in a closet, you can come up with a more interesting purpose - put lavender and rosemary in its drawers.
Any unexpected options are welcome, use the old stuff in a new role.
Advice from an experienced gardener: A multi-level flowerbed looks most impressive when all the flowers bloom in it at the same time.
A flower garden made by yourself can please you with original combinations of contrasting shades. No less attractive will be the color resolution with transitions from one tone to another: for example, a red tint first in orange, and then yellow.
To completely transform the site, you will need a minimum of materials at hand. Connect your imagination and focus on your own taste preferences, turning a summer house into a flowering garden is a feasible task if you use all the recommendations mentioned in the article.
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Join the discussion:
I really liked the little ideas with multi-tiered flower beds in the form of a ladder and a tall narrow shelf on the wall of the house. This summer I will definitely try out these options in my country house. It looks very beautiful and original, and many places are not taken from the garden.
Last summer, at the dacha, I also made a similar flowerbed, though I have a small slide there, so I attached it to the flowers.
The beauty. So far I have only grown up to mixing black-browers) it would be cool if you would give some ready-made solutions for the selection of colors for such flower beds. And as for the flowerbed itself - for those who lean toward a tree - my husband made of DBK. This is a mixture of sawdust with something polymer - it looks like a tree (it was thought up as a terrace board), but without any chemistry it will be like a new couple of decades (I hope this is true, but not advertising ... we have been standing like 3 years old).
No doubt, multi-tier flower beds look very impressive, they will decorate any garden or site. You can make them from anything, the photo above is a confirmation of this. The scope for imagination is unlimited, as they say. We in the country house made multi-tiered flower beds from old boxes, it turned out great, during the flowering period and beauty at all. I recommend to try.
Some options for such a multi-tiered club are very beautiful! And the original ones. And sometimes it happens that a bunch of flowers just turns out, they are not compatible with each other, not in height, but in general ... maybe they just plant different types of flowers very closely together. And such a picture looks untidy, as if a flower bed needs to be weeded. This is me to the fact that it is very important to seriously approach the creation of multi-tiered.
Given the limited site space, everything that I would like to see is not included. Yes, I want something more interesting. A multi-tiered flowerbed is just what I need, compact, beautiful, interesting. I am very grateful for the detailed information on the choice of plants for the composition.As a beginner gardener, I did not have enough information about the characteristics of plants. It helps to determine the choice of examples in the photo. Great simple ideas. I look forward to the opportunity to translate them.
And I do not like multi-tiered flower beds. If on the basis of saving space, then it is not saved. And in such flower beds perennials do not overwinter. They are well suited for those who have a terraced view of the site and there is no other way out. Well, about the old tires for the flowerbed - I'm sorry, but this is not an idea at all. There are still swans to cut from these tires and greetings from the last century. In general, there are interesting photos.
A great option for a summer residence. Do it yourself is not so difficult, my husband makes them himself. Such a flower bed takes up much less space on the earth, it is not difficult to take care of it. Also in such flower beds you can grow berries, cucumbers, vegetables, and not just flowers. For the elderly, this is just a find, since they are tall, caring for them is easier than for beds. I recommend!
Of course I like such ventures with multi-tiered flower beds, but I especially admire mobile flower beds, since they are quite practical. And besides, they can be placed where you just want to admire them, and at the same time you can choose the optimal place so that the plants feel comfortable and we are not disturbed by the movement and look after such a flower bed.
I liked the flower beds in the “broken” pots, it looks very nice and besides, such a design will fit both a large area and a small, in my opinion, super idea) There are some fantasies to play out and experiment with both colors and decor. In general, I really like tall flower beds, somehow they look more lively and immediately look at the eye, like the one with stones, a two-story one)
In general, I would have forced the entire summer cottage with flower beds, it is a pity that there are not so many places for flowers :) By the way, many-tiered flower beds have never been done, although it looks very cool! Most of all I liked the option where steps made of stones made of flowers fit very nicely to the track. Now the idea came up to do something like this and furnish the whole veranda in the country)