A simple scheme of a flower bed with peonies in the country is a good choice of a flower garden
Large flowers, light scent of peonies - like a small miracle that occurs every year. A simple, but at the same time original scheme of a flower bed with peonies is suitable for decorating a summer cottage of any size. The popular flower culture requires minimal care and pleases the eye for almost the entire warm season. Let's figure out which peony flower beds are easy to create, but they will look like the best examples of landscape art.
The scheme of a flower bed with peonies in the country: mixborder
Well-planned flower beds make it easier to care for plants, especially tall, spreading ones. It turns out beautiful flower beds with peonies in the country from simple, semi-double, double varieties of different flowering periods. Bright fragrant bushes in the garden, mixborder along the path, in a round flowerbed next to the gazebo will delight for many years.
Fragrant buds bloom in May-June, and if you cut off wilted petals and ovaries, they will last even longer.
A mixborder is usually created along the path as in the diagram of a flower bed with peonies (hybrid peonies are indicated by the number 3).
Combinations of spring, summer, autumn perennials and annuals allow you to maintain a beautiful view of the flower garden for a long time. Bright peonies in early summer look great next to the bushes of false jasmine or mock orange (1), variegated "stars" of a tiger lily (4). July – September is phlox time (2). The green leaves of the flower bed with peonies set off the summer riot of colors. Turkish carnation, ageratums, lobularia bloom for a long time in the foreground of the mixborder (5, 6, 7).
There is a circumstance that is a little depressing for those who care for their beautiful flower beds with peonies in the country - the decorative look is lost due to the collapsed bushes. Dense green nets, as well as other artificial supports will help out. Medium-sized perennials planted next to annual flowers will help the peony flowerbed not to lose its shape.
Peony flower beds in the country: round, long, tiered
A round flower garden should resemble a dome or umbrella in shape. The point is not only that tall peonies in the flowerbed grow in the center, but undersized decorative crops frame the bushes. The height of the soil is also different: the edges are raised above the lawn by 15 cm, and the height of the central part is 25–30 cm. In landscape design, it is customary to complement the flower beds with peonies with other flower crops (photo is presented in the article).
Long flower beds - a rabatka, a border - are suitable for a flat area. They will look smart before structure and fence, if you pick up varieties of the same height, but differently colored for a flower bed.
Often flower crops of different heights are chosen for the ridges and borders, tall plants are placed in the background. A peony flower bed in front of the house in the form of a flat ribbon 0.5–1.5 m wide is easy to care for, which is very important when there is a lot of other work in the garden. If the rabatka is located near a brick house, then along the outer edge the flower garden is decorated with a strip of ceramic battlements, bricks.
Beautiful flower beds with peonies in the country will decorate not only paths, lawns, areas in front of the fence. The optimal solution for rugged terrain is a tiered flower garden. The basis of the flower bed in the photo below is made up of popular varieties:
- Sarah Bernhardt;
- "Peony pink (Pink)";
- Duchesse de Nemours;
- Shirley Temple;
- "White peony (White)";
- Paul M. Wilde;
- "Black Beauty" and other cultivars.
Flower beds with peonies - space for the fantasy of a summer resident
Thanks to the tireless work of breeders, the traditional varieties of pink, red, white peonies have successfully complemented yellow and lilac hybrids. Cultivars differ in bush height, flowering time, shape. A variety of varieties at the same time complicates and simplifies the study of the assortment of plants for a flower bed with peonies (photo is presented below).
Recall that 5 groups of peonies are distinguished in shape:
- simple;
- semi-double;
- terry;
- anemone;
- Japanese.
It is important to choose cultivars that bloom at different times so that they delight the gaze of the owner of the cottage and guests for a longer time. Different flower beds of peonies should harmoniously fit into the general appearance of the site so that the garden looks like a fairy tale all summer long.
In addition to decorating a summer cottage, flower beds with peonies are an excellent material for cutting, making gift baskets with flowers, fruit and vegetable compositions.
A large fragrant flower always attracts attention; it does not need special advertising. In terms of durability and popularity, peony flower beds are comparable to a rose garden. The queen of the garden is the rose, and the peony is the eternally young prince among the flowering perennials.