A bed can be designed in many different ways. You can create purely ornamental and well-planned vegetable beds, but you can also mix both forms and thus ensure a he althy mixed culture.
How can I design a bed creatively?
To make a bed attractive, combine ornamental and vegetable plants, consider colors and textures, and choose plants for year-round appeal. Design the bed in different shapes and styles to express personal preferences.
Discount design in the ornamental garden
Purely ornamental beds can be designed in very different ways and can be planted with summer flowers, perennials, grasses, ground covers, shrubs and even small trees. The species can be selected so that the bed looks attractive all year round or only shines in full bloom at a certain time of year. The shape of the bed and style depend on the size of the garden and your personal ideas. Strictly planned gardens are usually based on a central axis with several transverse axes that run at right angles and divide the garden. Gardens without planned symmetry, on the other hand, have many curves and look very natural. Within these basic styles there are many different options: romantic, wild and exotic garden beds fit well in natural gardens, while tiny front garden beds require more careful planning.
Attractive kitchen gardens
With the right choice of plants, vegetable beds can look as colorful and visually attractive as a flower bed. So there is no reason why you have to banish your vegetables to a hidden place in the garden.
Attractive vegetable beds
A decorative vegetable garden, for example, can consist of orderly rows of vegetables, each separated by low hedges or brick or gravel paths. However, vegetables do not need to be cultivated like this. Raised beds surrounded by brick paths also look very pretty. The beds can be square or rectangular, but can also have completely different shapes. Here, dwarf tomatoes stand next to dwarf beans, leeks next to ornamental cabbage, while artichokes placed in the middle of the bed give the bed height and structure. By the way, strawberry plants make a pretty border for many beds. A vegetable bed can also be arranged in a round shape and divided by radial paths. You can highlight this pattern with stone surrounds.
Vegetables in mixed plantings
You don't have to strictly separate useful and ornamental beds, because vegetables can also be placed in a mixed border alongside herbs, perennials and shrubs. This is how you put plants in the bed that add color and fill gaps. In addition, such a discount also offers the advantage that the greater variety of plants prevents the concentrated spread of pests and diseases that are attracted to certain plants. Marigolds (Tagetes) and marigolds (Calendula) attract beneficial insects and keep harmful ones away. So it's a good idea if you plant vegetables in a mixed border right next to these flowers.
Examples of mixed beds
Ruby chard is a coarse, spinach-like vegetable with deep purple leaves and impressive stems and veins. Planted in the front row of a perennial border, chard looks simply spectacular. Ornamental kale remains impressive even in winter with its bright purple and blue-green leaves, sometimes with cream markings, and its firm, rounded and symmetrical shapes. Ornamental cabbage works best in winter and can brighten up a dormant border during the cold season. Another interesting idea is the combined planting of jewelweed and lettuce, in which red and white jewelweed surround a tall lettuce protruding from the center.
Tip
When selecting plants, always make sure to select the species according to the location in the bed. Only then will you get vigorous and he althy plants.
