Considering that you can design your garden however you want and that everyone has different tastes, you can of course create a bed with shrubs alone. How attractive this is depends on your selection.
How do I create a shrub bed correctly?
To create a shrub bed, you should combine different shapes, sizes and colors, consider native shrubs for animals, adhere to the recommended planting distance and bring together similar growth needs. Avoid mixtures that are too colorful and handle poisonous plants carefully.
How do I plan a shrub bed?
So that your bed doesn't look boring, you should play a little with shapes, sizes and colors. For example, choose different foliage or flower colors and combine small and larger shrubs of different types. You can also loosen up your shrub bed with a few perennials and/or bulb flowers.
When you plant them, your freshly purchased shrubs will probably still be quite small and not fully grown. Nevertheless, pay attention to the recommended distance between the individual bushes, as many do not tolerate subsequent transplanting particularly well. It is better to fill any gaps in the fresh bed with some summer flowers.
What should I consider when choosing?
It is best to use shrubs that not only harmonize well with each other visually, but also have similar requirements in terms of location, soil and care. This makes it easier for you to work on the bed and trim the bushes. Poisonous bushes should not be placed where small children might play alone. Whether you decide to forego it entirely is at your own discretion.
When planning your garden and flowerbeds, also think about the animals. Birds and insects need native plants for living and food. They often can't do much with exotic shrubs.
How do I design a useful bed with shrubs?
A bed with berry bushes should be designed so that you have enough space between the bushes for harvesting. The useful plants among the shrubs include not only berry bushes and nuts but also some herbs that grow like bushes, such as rosemary or sage.
The most important things in brief:
- Plant poisonous bushes only out of the reach of children
- Native shrubs as pasture for insects and breeding places for birds
- Observe plant spacing
- Combine shrubs with similar needs
- don't plant too colorfully together
Tip
Treat poisonous bushes very carefully.
