Vertical flower beds - ideas for creating beautiful flower gardens with your own hands (90 photos)
Not every owner can boast of an extensive suburban area. Most often, the most necessary buildings and a garden are located on it, and places for flower beds are rarely provided. In such small areas, the original and constructive solution would be the placement of vertical flower beds. They take up little space, can hide poorly crafted walls of buildings, gazebos and just look unusual and interesting in any design of a country house.
In such an unusual way, you can not only decorate beautiful flower beds, but also grow fruit crops.
The design of the flower beds can be very diverse, it all depends on the materials available for their construction and the preferences of the owner.
For regular flower beds, it is important to arrange the plants so that one color is not found on the other, and also that the figures are separated from each other by a small distance. But, there are also disadvantages, this decorative element of the garden is not too long-term, it will delight you only during that time until the planted flowers wither. But, at the same time, there is a significant plus, with such decorative panels you can decorate events and theme nights, arrange sections of the city for the holiday.
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Accommodation
Such flower beds can be located either directly on the ground, or suspended or attached to a wall. The indisputable advantage of this plant placement is the complete absence of the need for weeding the flower garden and protection from pests. When caring for a vertical flower bed, the selection of soil and plants and high-quality constant watering are important.
Plants
To make a vertical flowerbed made by yourself do more than one month, you should choose the right plants and soil for it. Since the soil on which the base will be filled will be of the same composition, the plants for the flower garden should be approximately the same in the requirements for soil, watering and sunlight.
For planting, use bright, lush plants that will hide with flowers and leaves the structure in which they grow. Well suited for vertical flower beds of petunia, morning glory, clematis, begonia, violets, geranium, dichondra, marigolds, lobelia and nasturtium.
Plants with an extensive root system are categorically not suitable for vertical flower beds. Give preference to small or weaving plants: honeysuckle, ivy or wild grapes.
Experienced gardeners create vertical flower beds for strawberries, while obtaining high yields. Also a beautiful and useful decoration will be a flowerbed in which spices are planted: basil, rosemary, oregano or mint.
Varieties and materials
These flower beds have many shapes and come in different sizes. Flower beds made of plastic pipes, plastic containers, wooden pallets are popular. Gardens in the form of hanging panels or rolled up from a metal mesh are easily created and look beautiful.
For vertical beds, any materials are suitable, depending on the author’s ideas. You can use purchased clay and plastic pots and containers, as well as home-made structures made of wood, plastic and metal pipes, old tires, plastic bottles, and the remains of the netting.
Purchased Designs
In large garden stores, you can buy special flowerpots with mounts that create pyramidal hanging flower beds. Also on sale are metal stands for flowerpots.
Such coasters are usually used in city parks, but they can harmoniously blend into the design of a private garden plot.
Homemade designs
To make a vertical flowerbed with your own hands from improvised materials, you will not need a lot of skills or money. Despite the apparent complexity of compiling such flower beds, they are very easy to create, install and maintain.
Flower towers
Despite its name, such a design does not necessarily have a conical shape. It can be either a ball or a cube, or an animal figurine. To build a flowerbed of this type is as simple as possible - you need to vertically install 4 wooden or metal rods of the length you need and wrap them around the perimeter with geotextiles.
Lutrasil is also suitable for this purpose. Immediately take care of drip irrigation of plants - install irrigation pipes with punched holes in them. After installing the irrigation, you need to fill the form with soil with baking powder. Perlite is commonly used as a disintegrant.
You also need to add moss-sphagnum, it will serve as a natural hygroscopic material. In geotextile, holes are made for planting selected plants for composition.
It is not necessary to plant flowering plants - a repair strawberry is suitable here, which will not only look original on the site, but also bear fruit abundantly throughout the season.
You can also use PVC pipes of different diameters. The outer one should be much thicker than the inside and have holes for planting, and the inner thin one is used for watering. Before filling the pipes with soil, first a layer of expanded clay is laid out on the bottom.
A tower in the form of a simple figure can be made using a shape of steel wire. To make a small frame, you can use a thin wire, which braids an object of the desired shape (ball, big soft toy, animal figure).
After you need to carefully cut the wire and remove the frame made. Then you can connect the halves, fill with a substrate and fasten together. After you can plant in the cells of the plant.
Hanging flower beds
Most often, hanging flower beds are mounted on walls or to the ceiling. You can create a cascade of hanging pots on chains.
Looks great panels of succulents. To do this, you need a wooden frame, on the back of which a grid is attached. Then the soil is poured into the frames and covered with geotextiles, after which they are fixed with plywood.
Succulents are planted in the grooves made on the front side of the frame. Before hanging the panel, you must let the plant take root. This usually takes two to three weeks. Only after the plants have solidified in the soil can they be installed vertically.
You can also create a hanging flowerbed from simple plastic bottles. Clean bottles without labels should be cut in 2 equal parts across. A fastener is made in the upper part of the lower half of the bottle, and the part with the cap is designed for soil and flowers. The upper part is placed in the part of the bottle with the bottom and the improvised flower pot is fixed in the chosen place.
On the Internet you can often see magnificent photos of vertical flower beds - balls for petunias. The design looks unusual and complex, but in reality it is easy to manufacture.
A sphere is created from the wire, which is filled with soil with the addition of peat and moss - sphagnum to prevent spillage of the mixture. After the mount is mounted and petunias are planted.
Often, in order to make a vertical flowerbed, old car tires are used. They can be staggered or in several layers. The shape of the flowerbed of tires depends only on the imagination of the owner of the site. The advantage of this design is the budget and the absence of the need for drip irrigation.
Care
In addition to good watering, vertical flower beds require frequent top dressing. If perennial plants are used in the flower garden, then in winter they should be protected from freezing of the soil. Pots and pallets must either be brought into the room or covered with sawdust and burlap.
Vertical flowerbeds - an original, inexpensive and elegant solution for decorating small plots of land, which many will like.
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I have long been staring at such vertical flower beds. They look very unusual and stylish. This year I decided to make a vertical bookcase in my garden with drawers and plant something very green there, but without flowers. Flowers, as for me, look too bright, but green leaves are fresh and natural. It's great that there are so many different ideas for designing flower beds, most of them look just wonderful.
This design always surprised me. It looks very unusual in an original and functional way. It does not take up a lot of space, especially true, who does not allow the site. Definitely need to try to organize as well. True, I do not know how difficult it will be to look after such flower beds, but time will tell, but for now it remains to look and envy.
This seems to be one of the most original ways to bring beauty anywhere. Boring flower beds are already boring, but vertical ones are just a huge flight for imagination! Wedding ceremonies, decorating arches in this way are a very common idea. Recently, vertical flowerbeds have become in demand as photowalls for various events, well, or for photos on Instagram))
Such a variety and beauty, I don’t even know where to start! My garden plot is not large, vertical flower beds will look great. Like and fully floral wall. The main thing now is to consider all this without fanaticism and not to overdo it. Although, there are not many flowers. But the idea with strawberries instead of flowers is generally super. By the way, in the apartment on the balcony you can also arrange a floral vertical row. As I came to you at the light in time, after all, preparations are already beginning for planting seedlings. Thanks for the ideas!
When she showed her mother this selection of flower beds, she was in complete awe. And you don’t need to rack your brains what next masterpiece to create in the spring to please all of us on those rare days visiting our parents. And for myself I took a life hack with wooden shelves full of flowers, I will certainly sell it on the balcony) Now, if there was even less advertising on the site, then he wouldn’t have a price!
I also really like the idea of vertical flower beds and beds. Unfortunately, my land is very small, I plant the most necessary vegetables there. But I also want to admire the colors. Here for them, then I use vertical flower beds. When such an idea came to plant flowers vertically, then for a long time I was looking for options in what can be planted. I have no man’s hands to help, so all sorts of cool structures such as boxes of wood, bricks, stone I myself can’t do. But I came up with a couple of solutions! And your article also helped)) I decided to try to plant the most unpretentious flowers - marigolds, zinnia, alissum in multi-tiered flower beds from… More details »
Indeed, it looks beautiful. But work so hard that at one moment it wilts, crumbles, dies ... It will be insulting. Could you try to make these very vertical flower beds of artificial flowers. I know that now they are made so that they cannot be distinguished from the real ones, you just need to search. Of course, it will be expensive, but it will last longer. Worth a try!!!
The summer cottage inherited from my father-in-law. Running and overgrown with grass "from and to." When I marked out to plant and equip everything that the soul wanted, with horror I realized that there was no place left for the beauty. Vertical flowerbeds became salvation. Placed them between the areas of planting, recreation and business buildings. Familiar flower growers suggested a combination of colors. Now our site looks like a fairy-tale labyrinth, blooming from early spring to autumn.
Make a room according to the preferences of the child? How can you take into account the opinion of the child, if he has not yet learned to speak. I believe that the room should be functional. I would definitely make a sport complex for my child: all kinds of horizontal bars, exercise machines, balls. And all these stickers, dolls and toys will be bought already when the child himself decides what he needs.
In my area, the flower beds are still the most primitive: in the old tires, forget-me-nots and bells are planted (these are perennials) and in the spring I plant marigolds. But as soon as the outside of the house is ready, I’ll take care of the flower beds. I really like vertical flower beds, by the way we still have unused cinder blocks (I saw in the article an option for using them under a flower bed). I will put petunias in them. They look especially impressive on vertical flower beds.
Finally I bought my plot with a house. Naturally I wanted to beautifully decorate with flowers, because all the girls love flowers. This article has a great selection of flower beds. I will consult with my household, we will select together the design of flower beds, flowers and their placement. I really liked the hanging flower beds, I’ll definitely put this on my site. Take care tips also take note.
For some reason, I didn’t think about vertical flower beds before. But how beautiful and ergonomic it is at the same time! Decorating an ordinary arbor with flowers in hanging tubs is a completely different matter, as in a fairy tale! And if, along the wall of the house, for example, instead of the usual and familiar ivy, one can hold such a vertical "lawn" .. almost Hobbits! 😀
And it’s very curious: in such vertical beds will any strawberries or carrots grow there? .. how much space can be saved!
Great ideas, I also looked after a couple of interesting ones for myself.Even when land and a large, still vertical beds seems necessary to me, they look very nice, near the pavilions or in the center as a separate composition. Very interesting ideas ampelnye petunias and green ivy. In such beds can even strawberry planting and space-saving and beautiful.