If you planned to reflect your site, it is not necessary to raise the plants and try to come up with an original design, without making sure that the selected options for combining plants are really good and will delight you for a long time.
It is better to take advantage of ready-made ideas that belong to European landscape design. We are talking about mixlers for the summer cottage, combining different types of vegetation and capable of emphasizing the beauty of the site for a whole year.
We invite you to familiarize yourself with the photos of mixtores with your own hands and plants selection schemes.
What is a mixture for flowers? Many confuse him with borders, ramids and flower beds. The substantial difference between the mixboarder is that the flowers and plants are located dense groups gradually moving into each other.
Mixborls in landscape design, photo With the right choice of plants and care for the mixborror, this zone of your site will look exquisite even when a piece of them will flash.
It is easy to implement the ideas of the mixboarder with your own hands, but it will have to learn, and start better with the most simple options. Moreover, the complexity of care will depend on the quantity and diversity of plants.
At a minimum, you will need to transplanted timely, water and cut some types of plants, fertilize the soil and engage in oculting. All this takes a lot of time and requires effort.
Mixborls along the fence, photos
Flood-free blossoming zones in the country can be created on the sun well-lit sites or where there is a shadow. Shadow mixtures can be closed from the Sun and partly, but it is important to guess with combinations of plants so that each grow in acceptable conditions.
See the diagrams of the mixboarder for a half with the names of the plants to select the most appropriate option for your landscape design.
Tip: If there is enough free space on the country site, you will be suitable for combined type mixtures: part of the colors and plants will be under the sun, part - in a half, and part - in a fully shaded zone.
If you decide to make coniferous-drown mixtures with hens, rhododendons, conifers, erica and other vegetation, it is better to land them along the living hedge, the borders of the terrace or facades of buildings.
Coniferous mixtures, photos
Today, English mixtures are popular: Garden and wildering perennials are basic in such compositions. Such mixtures are better to land in parallel paths and along the walls and continue with a well-kept lawn.
Near the house and other buildings, you can land the composition of shrubs. A shrub mixture along the fence will create a charming atmosphere due to bright flowering or decorative leaves. In case you do not consider it necessary to plant perennial plants, you can form a seasonal mixtore.
Mixboron from perennials at the fence: photo, schemes Before making a mixture with your own hands, decide on the sedimentation of seating. Wherever you have decided to create such a composition, the mixtore is planted with rows. Low plants and flowers with a height of forty centimeters will be located ahead, then it is medium with a height of sixty centimeters, and on the back background - high, exceeding the meter.
As for the forms of such a green zone, it all depends on your imagination and style of the design of the entire site. Mixborls can be elongated, form a circle, rectangle and even triangles. You can give them and arbitrary shape or plant plants in the form of crumbs with smooth bends.
For large mixtures, it is better to provide for narrow paths so that you can easily get to all plants.
Mixborror at the cottage, photo Short review-instructions on landing mixtures and landscape design options with them - in the video below:
As you can see, there are many options for the seating of such compositions. Therefore, it should be started with the preparation of the Mixle Plan, which you will adhere to when performing work.
Beautiful mixtures from perennials can be done, both inside and on the external borders of the site, next to the paths and tracks in the garden, buildings and other elements.
When drawing up a plan, pay attention to such important points:
Mixborror in the country, do it yourself, photo 
Host Astilba Geichera in Mixboro, photo Depending on the viewing angle, one-sided and bilateral mixtures are distinguished. The first option is popular when designing zones near the walls and hedges. It includes high vegetation and does not require a review from all sides. The second type includes and medium with low plants and is visible immediately from several angles.
No less important factors that should be taken into account when planning design and landing mixtures is the nature of the soil, air humidity and lighting brightness.
If we correctly plan the combinations of plants, the mixtore will remain a bright accent of landscape design even in the winter season and will stand out against white snow.
The entire planting process can be divided into three main stages. The first is planting the so-called "skeletal" vegetation. Often these are handicraft plants that make a mixture high and fill in greens. Busting should be planted not too far from each other, but it is not necessary to observe the same distances: leave enough free space in some zones to fill them with other plants and flowers. It is also important to carry them in a timely manner and rejuvenate.
Tip: To ensure an attractive appearance of a mixboarder, when planting plants, immediately focus on what height and volume they will have when they grow up.
What plants are suitable for these purposes? One of the most popular "skeletal" shrubs - evergreen Samsit. You will also be suitable small coniferous plants, such as conic spruce, scaly juniper, Lavson cypress.
Mixboron from conifers, photo During the blossom of the charm, your site will give such plants like Lilac Meyer, Chubuschnik, Spirea. There are many interesting schemes of mixtures with hydrangea, as well as disembarking of a red-hearted plum, jasmine, hibiscus.
Attention! These plants should be disembodied close, as they quickly grow.
The second stage is landing perennial plants for mixboraders. Do not forget about the principle of Liar and plant such plants, focusing on their height. For example, the low zones of mixboraders from perennials with their own hands can be made by Echinacea, multilayer, wormwood, Koreopsis. As a contrast, together with bright blooming plants, you can land tunbregia and geihers with beautiful burgundy leaves.
For a mixboard, you can pick up perennial cereals. They allow you to supplement the composition of the natural palette of yellowish-bronze color, and some are even cast violet and burgundy paints. Decorative role will play such cereals as Kovyl, South, Town & Many others.
Beautiful mixtures, photos In the third stage, mixboraders from annual and bulbous plants will be formed. The textures will become a bright flowering decoration of such a plot, its elegance and variety will emphasize. For example, at the beginning of the spring will begin to bloom the proleski, snowdrops, crocuses, muscari. Next, the beauty of tulips, primulous, daffodils will be revealed behind them. In the summer and autumn, they will replace other no less charming plants.
Tip: Sit down such flowers with groups to create bright transitions in the mixtore. This also applies to bulbous plants.
Please note that some plants of this type can be aggressive. They will gradually displace the plants located next door, and will increase the green mass. If you do not have enough knowledge, use ready-made schemes and focus on successful landing examples that experts recommend.
Before choosing ready-made schemes of mysteries from shrubs, conifers and other plants, decide in what color you want to decorate your site. Combined mixtures often include several bright shades, and it is important that they all look harmoniously against the background of the remaining elements of landscape design and buildings.
Here are some successful combinations of shades that can be decorated with a green zone;
If you want to play in contrasts, do not use a lot of shades for making a mixture, as well as small contrasting flowers (such as purple alissa). It is better to choose larger varieties and use the entire couple of shades.
Also popular was the practice of making a mixboarder in one bright color. Therefore, you can choose only one type of colors, and the rest of the space is filled with greens. As an option, stylish and brightly will look a mixture in the orange range, pink or blue.
Beautiful mixtures in summer gardens, photos We now turn from the theory to practice - and let's see how you can decorate this zone on your site. Below is an example of landscape decorating using a mixboarder with roses and cereals.
A mixture of thai looks gently and well, but to maintain such an appearance, you will have to take care of this site.
But an example of the successful use of clematis in a mixturist in combination with other colors to impart brightness with a natural landscape.
In the following photo, you will see the option of a long-tier mixleter with hosts, which simultaneously play the role of free space aggregate due to wide leaves.
Mixborcils from perennials, photo For those who prefer coniferous vegetation, we collected several options for ready-made coniferous mixtures.
Not one season will please you with a variety of shades of mixborads from perennials: schemes and names of plants suitable for such a landing, look in pictures below.
Mixtures from perennials: schemes and names, photos 
Mixborons from Perennials: Photo, Schemes Another scheme of landing of continuous flowering mixtures:
Focusing on the photo of mixtures, it will be easy to make your plot even more beautiful and better, even if you are doing such work for the first time. But do not forget about the rest of the plants, otherwise all plants and flowers will have to transplant.
Other realization ideas according to types, styles and various color solutions when creating beautiful mixtures, see this video:
Before grabbing a shovel and develop a new bed, we will deal with the definition of what a mixture is a mandatory element of the European landscape design and a relatively new kind of complex flowering flowering flowering. If you correctly pick up plants and carefully care for them, beautiful mixtures remain those throughout the year. Improve the art of creating a flower bed-mixboard can be infinity, but it is better to start with the easiest and most affordable schemes.
Almost everything can learn the art of combining plants. For example, after reading this article, each second reader will be able to create with your own hands (without resorting to the help of landscape designers) such a complex element of garden design like a mixture.
Let's just say that to care for such a flower bed, which is most often drawn up with perennial and annual plants, cereals and potted flowers, decorative shrubs and even small coniferous trees, extremely hard. To provide different types of plants as correct care, a systematic care is needed:
And if you were not frightened upcoming difficulties, and you dream of mixing the mysborers to make your garden or a cottage even more picturesque, then it's time to familiarize yourself with the most important rules for creating continuous flowering mixtures.
The mixture in the garden differs from the curb and the discounts by the fact that the flowers in it are placed by free dense groups that smoothly flow into each other. At the same time, there should be plants in any mixborror that will create a "winter effect", set the height and shape of the fragrant island. In landscape design, they are called "skeletal" or main islands of the composition.
Prepare the soil and dividing the site into three unequal parts, first (on the back plan of the front mixleter) plant plants with leaves of interesting forms are planted. The following row is discharged for tall colors with straight stems. Then placed the average plants without lush foliage. Next, low, soil plants are planted, and already for them - annuals.
Such a long-term placement is done in order to "disguise" the stretched stems of the mid-plan colors.
Flower beds are free outlines (so more called gardeners) are located in open solar sections or (if it is "wood mysteries") in a slightly pronounced places.
Coniferous perest perennial compositions made up of a mixture of various plants: hereski, Eric, rhododendrons and dwarf sorts of conifers, especially spectacularly look along the live swelling, a small slide, the facade of the house or on the edge of the terrace.
"English Mixborror", the basis of which is the garden and wild perennial plants most often have on the background of lawn parallel to the tracks leading to buildings along the walls of the house. Mixbororder along the fence or fence will emphasize and complete the composition of the landscape design of the site.
Prefabricated compositions or "combined mixboards" are divided into large areas. The length of such an elongated flower garden is practically not limited - it can take the entire perimeter of the site or only its inner part. In this case, a part of the flower garden is in the open sun, a part in the half and a part in the shade.
Organically next to the country house or with a luxurious cottage, "shrub mixtures" - compositions collected from beautiful-flowering and decorative shrubs.
And if the "shrub mixborror" is a relatively new element, then "seasonal" - a long time-tested option for another garden building, where the landing of perennial plants is irrational.
It is beautifully supplemented with a shady garden composition, using a decorative floral strip, formed from shadowish shrubs and colors.
Regardless of location, mixtores need to plant rows. At the same time, the landing of low participants in the plant composition (up to 40 cm) are produced on the forefront, medium (up to 60 cm) and high (100 cm or more) - to the rear.
Words that came to us from a foggy albion "Mix" (with English) and Border (from English, border, border) became an integral part of the gardens in any style. And at the same time, only at first glance it seems that plants on the mixtore are planted chaotic. Of course, this is not. But many novice amateur gardeners, little, knowing about the compatibility of plants and their demands, land near all in a row. As a result, instead of a pictorial band, something running and neakkurat occurs.
For example, it is not necessary to plant a mixed mixture with a very large planting density of quickly smaller perennial plants, with a creeping view of rhizomes (for example, Louis wormwood). Yes, they really suppress the growth of annoying weeds, but on the growth of some capricious plants, like the valley and other bulbous, affect the extremely negative.
That is, ready-made mixtures that we most often see on the colorful pictures are at the same time a fascinating and incredibly difficult project, the success of which entirely depends on the right choice of plants.
Flower garden Mixboro in the garden will attract attention from early spring until October-November, if the plants pick up so that some flourishing, and replaced others. At the same time, green foliage will play an important role in the design of this kind of flower garden, which during the battleflinking period of certain species will not give a mixleretary to lose pomp and decorativeness.
No. 5 "Laptop Shrub". Phackle flowers from July to August. In the fall, the plant is dressed in a fascinating golden "dress". And in the winter period, its reddish branches are noticeably stand out on the white snow.
№4 "Koreopsis Stunt". The larger plant blooms long and abundantly. From the end of June and to the most frosts, Koreopsis pleases with yellow flowers with a different shade: purple, pink or brown.
№3 "Geran Majestic". Flowers bush in July 30-40 days. Brick-red or yellow-orange tint geranium acquires in autumn.
№2 "Soft cuff". It blooms a perennial herbaceous plant with small yellow flowers similar to the cloud, from June to July. But the gardeners plan the cuff into the mixture of perennials not because of her cute inflorescences, but for her luxurious, with the wavy edge of the leaves.
№1 "Geran Endress". Abundantly blooms all summer. Late in the fall and winter decorates a flower garden with dark green, palpal leaves. The frost-resistant ball-like bush does not frighten the temperature even in - 40c.
No. 5 "Laptop Shrub" (In this diagram of the mixboard, it is located on the right in the lower row and on the left in the middle row).
№6 "Milestone Parts. The flowering of this perennial plant falls in July and lasts until the end of the summer.
№7 "Decorative onions". Willingly Beauty Plant Landscape Designers often include perennial mixtures. And that's why. The fact is that the decorative onion brings a certain charm to any flower combination of a mixboarder. Even fat on the first day of summer (the main flowering falls on May-June), dried balls of inflorescences please the garden to late autumn.
№8 "Multicolarship Fennelhelian". The plant with a column of a whisk from a purple to dark purple reaches a height of 1 m. Flowers from July to August.
№ 9 "Verbena Bonar". Elegant verbena, covered with small purple asterisks, easily fits into any flower bed, even in such a difficultly designated as a mixture with roses. The resistant plant blooms from June to strong frosts.
No. 10 "Samshet". This slow-growing shrub does not represent much difficulty in care. It is appreciated not for fine bloom, which is rare, but it happens in early spring, and for the spectacular evergreen crown.
№11 "Decorative wormwood". Filigree, lace leaves of this deciduous plant make it unlike any other garden culture. On his background, the usual field flower seems mysterious.
Note that this mixtore is best placed, along the fence or wall of the house.
№ 12 "Lofant". The versatility of this plant is the ability to blossom from July and to deep autumn. The bush quickly grows and looks incredibly effectively in the background of the mixboarder.
№ 13 "Echinacea Purple". Beautiful flower with bright petals has a completely unattractive foliage. Therefore, Echinacea always has between other plants to create the illusion of a magnifying shrub.
№14 "Hatma". Shrub, which sometimes reaches two meters of height, blooms abundantly from July to the first frost.
№ 15 "Clematis". Velvet gentle flowers of white, pink, blue and red are pleased with early spring to late autumn. Their amazing bloom can only interrupt sustainable freezes.
Strengthen the decorative effect of the longline flower garden can be if perennial plants land with groups, as on a detailed mixture diagram below:
It is very important that the group of plants that you are going to make up a mixborror, have similar needs: soil acidity requirements and its fertility, to ensure moisture and light level. So, all the flowers in the diagram presented above grow well and in full sun, and in a rare shadow. They are not too capricious in care, which means to feed and water them can be in the complex.
Even the most beautiful flowers that are dissected among themselves in color can create chaos in the flower arrangement and completely destroy it. The color solution, carefully and competently thoughtful, is important for any flower bed, and for a complex mixboarder especially.
An indelible impression produces a flower garden built in contrasts. It seems incredibly bright and sets the rhythm to the entire preservation site. For example, impressive contrasts create a combination of purple and canary yellow, saturated green and red, celestial and orange. At the same time, planting the plants of contrasting shades is not chaotic. Visually colors are mixed and become dirty. The optimal option is as an emphasis to choose plants with large colors and already among them to plant small-bedroom individuals of another color with small spots.
It is elegant and deeply looks the monochrome mixture (which is presented below). It relaxes and adds the heaters of the whole garden. The perfect monochrome in the flower bed is three colors, with smooth transitions from one color range to another. To revitalize in the monochrome composition, plants with white flowers are often included.
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№ 1 "Small-shock geranium". Large bushes of this catchy and very bright plants, flower beds decorate most often. And that's why. Geranium can grow without transplanting more than 10 years. Flowers from mid-June to August.
№ 2 "Anhusa Dropmore". A beautiful plant with blue and sky-blue flowers blooms in May and decorates the mixtore in July-August.
№ 3 "Lupine multi-heded". A completely trouble-free plant. The first time blooms in May, after which the second and third wave of blooming should be followed.
№4 "Dolphinium" Blue Bird ". This charming perennial will even grow even a novice gardener. Large seminal flowers for the first time appear at the beginning of summer, the second - at the end.
№5 "Hibiscus Syrian". He does not like shadow and pleases with lush flowering from June to October only with sufficient ultraviolet.
№6 "Kotovnik". Magnificent Blue Brushes and Summer Decorate Garden.
№7 "Mordovnik". The flowering period of blue-blue colors falls on June, July. He loves the sun, but it is cold-resistant to frosts.
№8 "Dolphinium" Blue Lace ". Gorgeous flowers highly raise their inflorescences (up to 2 m), enchanting everyone around.
№9 "Veronika Lengnoloy". Small, blue flowers with white spots appear in a plant in July, and decorate the mixtore to the first frosts.
№10 "Veronika". The fragile and gentle flower seems only at first glance. In fact, it easily tolerates the sun, and drought, and shadow. Flowers from May to the end of summer.
№11 "Iris". Unusually beauty flower is simply created for garden accents. Blossom continues for about a month in June-July.
№12 "Len". Blooming flax is similar to the carpet of heavenly blue. New buddes of the sky-blue plants appear for three months - from June to September.
Including additional decorative elements in the design of the mixboarder, which is unbelievable ones, and self-sufficient, you need to be particularly careful. The absence of a feeling of taste and measures can lead to a beautiful mixture to turn into a ridiculous exhibition of mushrooms and dwarves.
So that this does not happen, landscape designers recommend adding major stones into a large mixture with conifer and shrubs as if without accident. Cobblestones do not need to lay out in a flat line. It is better if the boulders will be chaotic to look out from under plants.
If the dacha is planned to design a bilateral wide mixboarder, then inside it you can think about a slightly noticeable tracks from large flat stones or tiles.
Large and dwarf shrubs in the mixtore provide constancy and determine the structure of the flower bed. With competent trimming, shrub plants can grow years, without requiring special attention to themselves.
So to the most popular shrubs blooming at different times of the year include: Filization, Rowan, Kalina, Irga Canadian, Rhododendron, Camellia, Magnolia, Hydrangea, Barbaris, Krasnokorennik, Henomelles and others. Beautiful leaves pleases: Holo, Loch narrow, laurel noble, male, holly, Pieris, Magonia and many others.
After adding coniferous trees to shrubs and several lush, large perennials, we will get a mixed mixture.
№1 "Spruce dwarf pillow". The decorativeness of the needles and the compact dimensions of this coniferous shrub make it an incredibly popular element in garden landscaping. (1 PC.)
№2 "Astra and Tulips". Feed the plants from different classes and groups, you can get colorful compositions blooming from the middle of spring to the summer. (60 pcs.)
№3 "Cleanie Vizantine". Unpretentious and charmingly plant with fluffy leaves blooms all summer and often becomes a decoration of mixed fit. (7 pcs.)
№4 "Flox". A long-term flower is striking with its diversity. In this scheme, the mixture with shrubs and conifers is recommended to use phlox pink or purple, which do not lose their decorative relevance from spring to the autumn itself. (10 pieces.)
№5 "Sage Dubravny". Sage spikelets bloom from June to September, reaching a height of 30-70 cm. (8 pcs.)
№6 "Clamp prominent". Starry hour of a beautiful clock with large, oval sisovato-green leaves occurs in August and lasts until the first frosts. During this period, the plant blooms beautiful pink-lilac flowers. (6 pcs.)
№7 "Astilba". The gentle inflorescences of this perennial appear in July and do not lose their charm for a whole month. (10 pieces.)
№8 "Peonies". On the decorativeness of the foliage and beauty of flowers, peonies rightfully belong to one of the first places among garden plants for mixboraders and other flower beds. Very early groups of bushes with a luxurious aroma begin their bloom in early June, the latest - at the end. The bright beauty of peonies retain until the autumn. (3 pcs.)
№9 "Dolphinium". When the delphinium blooms a bright spot in the garden, it instantly becomes the center of the composition of the mixboarder, because At one fine trunk of this wonderful plant, 80 large colors are located at once. (7 pcs.)
№10 "Rhododendron". The pillow-shaped crown of this evergreen shrub Flowers decorate from May to June, then at the very end of summer. (3 pcs.)
№11 "Tuya Western Danika". The maximum diameter of the crown of this spherical conifer plant does not exceed 1 meter. (1 PC.)
In the first years, until the plants have gained full strength, intervals and emptiness in the coniferous or shrub mixture, it is necessary to fill in annual plants - flowers that live only one year.
The diagram of the mixboarder in which the plants are incentive bloom from early spring to late autumn:
№1 "Dolphinium". Perhaps the most popular flower in mix bears. (Perennial)
№2 "Cosmos twiceperous". A high openwork plant is distinguished by abundant bloom, but, according to some gardeners, it looks not very sophisticated. (annual)
№3 "Velhets Persons". Powerful plants reaching 50-100 cm in height have amazing semi-world inflorescences of orange, light yellow or bright yellow. (annual)
№4 "Ageratum Houston". Purple-pink, white and bright blue baskets of the infloresception-basket of this plant deserve to grow in the most prominent place of the mixboarder. (annual)
№5 "Begonia Emerctive". In the flower mixture, this semi-staple is good with its large smooth wide leaves, and the loose inflorescence of the most tempting colors. (annual)
№6 "Verbena". With all his unpretentiousness, Verben is able to delight with elegant inflorescences from summer to September. (annual)
№7 "Petunia". In the photo of mixboraders, it is very often possible to see the flowers of all shades of rainbow - petunia. Fragrant cascades of gentle flowers decorate the plant from June to the first frost. (annual who can always be annual, if desired)
№8 "Tabak Sander". Large flowers without smell remain open only during the day. (monkey)
№9 "Georgin". Majestic flower with terry petals look well and published, and near. Abundantly blooms in a sunny place with sufficient moisture.
The gardener, which constitutes the Mixle project, is akin to the artist, drawing a picture. Using varieties of different plants and colors, it creates a solemnly bright or, on the contrary, a peaceful and calm flower garden, who, with the end of the summer, does not lose its paints, but simply acquires new ones.
Spectacular horizontals and verticals of coniferous trees and shrubs, whose haircut emphasizes and enhances the contrast of plants in shape, help the coniferous mixlery to maintain the decorativeness of 365 days a year.
For landing in mix elevations, high spruce and pines are hardly suitable. But small copies of conifers, such as dwarf varieties of fir trees, fir, pines, as well as compact car and juniper, will be very by the way.
To give a large composition of coniferous and rhythm shrubs, its elements must be repeated 3-5 times.
The conifer mixture in the garden or on the countryside will not be boring and ascetic, if you add it to the design of beautiful herase and blooming perennials.
Multi-flower flowering device
No. 1 Pine Fastigiat. When you need to add a narrow vertical in the landscape design project - choose discreet blue pines. (3 pcs.)
№2 "Rhododendron". In this mixture scheme, evergreen shrubs with flowers are yellow. Rhododendrons bloom in the late summer or early June. Little, but incredibly beautiful. (3 pcs.)
№3 pine "Pumil". There is always a place in the garden landscape to this prostrated coniferous shrub. (4 things.)
№4 Deren "Elegatissima". Flowers on the crown of this deciduous shrub appear in May. The rest of the days of the year, the deresses decorate the leaves of a dark green color with whiten border. (1 PC.)
№5 pine "Mugus". Alpine tree shrubs do not need to cut to restrain in growth. But it is necessary to plant in a sunny place - in the shadow, the plant will quickly die. (3 pcs.)
№6 Barbaris Ottavsky "Superba". Beautiful shrub with dark purple leaves blooms in May, and with the arrival of autumn changes its "dress" on the "coat" of the cubberbear-purple tones. (1 PC)
№7 "Kiznicker horizontal". This flutter shrub is good for the design of walls, elements of the garden and spaces between large plants. (5 pieces.)
№8 dend "Siberian Variagat". The rounded crown of a decorative shrub with a rich-red bark is remarkably combined with coniferous and woody plants. (1 PC.)
Composing the composition of the mixboarder on their own, you need to understand that there are slow-growing and fast-growing plants. If you are not ready to wait for the plants (in our case, shrubs) will grow up, you will have to immediately acquire large copies.
You still doubt that the motherboard in the garden is the most popular and spectacular intake of gardening? Then read the blooming compositions that look great on both sides.
If you are not a supporter of strict forms and do not want to limit your fantasy compliance with the rules and principles of the construction of flower beds, the best option for you will be the composition of one-sided review. When creating a mixboarder, in the country, it is allowed to embody the most daring ideas. You can make an original composition where beautiful plants and a variety of shrubs will be successfully combined.
The traditional English garden at a certain stage awakened interest in one of the most common elements - mixboarder. Until now, the inhabitants of the foggy Albion create the most exquisite and spectacular mixtures in their gardens. Explain this phenomenon is simple.
Opportunities to create a harmonious garden composition usually interferes with excessive range of plants. The British are so passionate about the botany (they use its motifs everywhere - from cutlery to the curtains), which cannot be about any minimalism in the garden of speech. The only solution is mixboro, uniting the collections of a wide variety of plants - of course, subject to the very careful selection of plants in color, size, flowering timing.
Compared to the British, we are limited in the choice of plants, but we have a very relevant problem with the overaffect of species. Therefore, it makes sense to rely on their experience and take some elements of creating flower beds to a note.
Compositions made of decorative plants in the design of mixboraders should not look like in the garden as alien islets. They are part of a whole, imbued with a common idea.
On this page you will learn how to make a mixture with your own hands and how correctly.
What is a mixture in landscape design?
Mixborror - This is a linear composition of one-way view, where plants are selected in height, color, seasonal variability, form and other characteristics. Mixborists are good at any time of the year.
There is no dispute, the living fence is beautiful, but as a background for the composition, and not by itself. In fact, a live fence is the same wall, only from branches and leaves. It can perform the functions of a noise insulator, a screen closing an unpleasant form, an element forming the garden structure. But admire the hedge as ridiculous as to look at the wall.
Quite often in Russian gardens there are hedges from plants with various coloring leaves. Thinking something similar, be careful. If a monophotional hedge can be made interesting. For example, by splitting on its background a mixture of decorative shrubs and perennial flowers, it is very difficult to fix the flush elevation.
Compositions of one-way review are very important elements of the garden, since in most cases they are considered with certain species points. To their design it is necessary to take seriously. Before buying and planting plants, sketch the composition on the paper. At least in general terms. Knowing what a mixtore is for flowers and shrubs, and how to create it correctly, easy preparation will save from the extra labor associated with transfers, alterations and additional care events.
See how beautiful mixtures are of perennials on these photos:
Analogue of the wall of a house or fence in nature is a forest wall. The height of plants on the edge decreases as the forest is removed from the wall and goes into the meadow. The same in the garden. In the wall at home or at the fence, we plant large shrubs (or even trees), then medium in height and end with low grassy plants or shrubs that "flow" into the lawn plane.
The edge as analogue allows you to discuss and some errors that we admit when creating one-sided compositions. After all, in our work we must take into account the laws of this community.
Here is one example of a beautiful mixboarder in the garden composition. In nature, you are unlikely to see a pathway passing exactly around the perimeter of the edge. She eludes it into the forest, it goes to the clearing.
And in the gardens, the track almost always becomes a border element between the plane of the lawn and the linear composition of one-sided review. It is quite acceptable, but not particularly interesting.
By creating mixboraders, try to play with the situation when the track axis and the line of the lawn border - the mixture do not match. Let the track enters the composition, passing between perennials, then goes back to the lawn. This decision may be particularly spectacular in small areas.
Looping track, awakening curiosity, much better stacked in the presentation of a Russian man about what the garden should be. European "gardens on the palm", which are easy to evaluate, looked around, usually seem to be boring us.
As can be seen in the photo, the mixtures in landscape design look very organic:
Height. How does the composition of one-sided review build up with their own hands when creating a mixboarder?
The height of its elements we select, taking into account the line of the upper edge turns out beautiful. At the same time, we do not always manage to evaluate the created beauty. The fact is that we see the composition not entirely, but partly (only the bottom or upper part), since we are too close to it.
For a holistic perception of a beautiful mixboarder, it is necessary that the distance from the point of view to the composition is at least two of its heights. Of course, you can even use very large trees, but note that "work" they will be exclusively as a background. To see everything as a whole can only the owner of the neighboring area, which is from the composition at a greater distance.
In addition, when the device, the mixtore is not always taken into account in the calculation of the height of the fence or wall, in front of which the composition is built. If the top edge of the wall does not enter the angle of view, you can build a composition of any height, but if it is visible, then the edge (for example, the upper edge of the fence) must be considered.
Before making a mixture, to facilitate the design, take the pictures of the garden from those points from where you are going to admire the composition of one-way review. This does not need to use the approximation function or removal. The shooting is best to spend when there are no leaves on the trees: it is immediately visible that it turns out if some plant is removed.
We will analyze the case when a person creates a mixture of shrubs, trees and perennials against the background of a long fence. Often they do with the sole purpose - get rid of monotony. But monotony in most cases is just preserved, because the plants and other elements of the composition have not intersect the upper edge of the fence. At the same time, it is worth any plant to cross the edge, as a sense of monotony disappear, since we will see not one long line, but two short.
ImportantSo that the top edge of the composition of the one-sided review when creating a mixleboard from decorative shrubs was not straight. Remember again what the forest edge looks like.
The tops of the plants are located at different heights, they form a beautiful line. In garden compositions having a small depth, it is difficult to play with changes in the height from the fence to the front edge of the composition.
Therefore, picking up plants for the mixboarder, you should work linearly, that is, to create a graphically interesting contour on a specific background.
Remember the Mixer Creation Rule: The less depth, the more Other than the height oscillations along the wall should be. Otherwise, it will turn out to be "brick", that is, the eye will not be hooked for, there is nothing to put out. In other words, we will not beat the wall, and we will create one more, only from plants, and the same monotonous one.
Depth. It is clear that the height of the composition elements should decrease as the observer approaches the observer. But many gardeners are consistent with mathematically calculating the heights. Enclosed plants in piles: high, medium, low. Then alternately plant these handhes along the fence: high row, medium row, low row. This is a wrong approach.
As can be seen in the photo, in the mixturore from shrubs and perennials, the composition will look natural and spectacular if some rear plan plants fall into the middle, and the middle - will come to the fore:
It is very good when individual low plants turn out to be among the soil, translating the composition into the plane of the lawn.
Another rule: Rows of plants should not be parallel. After all, in nature there are no direct lines. Even in the case when the composition of one-way view is built between parallel to each other by the fence and the track, it should not repeat these lines. It is also important to avoid parallel inside the composition itself.
By the way, there is also a dependence between the width of lines and the height of the composition of the decorative mixboarder. With an increase in the width of the strip, the height of plants should increase (and vice versa). In nature, this dependence is visible to the naked eye, it is absolutely natural. But when designing flowes, this condition is not always observed. But when high plants are planted in a narrow part of the composition, and in wide - low, it looks unnatural.
Width. The width of the one-sided composition of the composition may be small and fit into the horizontal angle of view of 30 °. But more often it has a greater length. It is difficult to imagine, for example, a mixture, which would fully fit in the 30-degree angle of view. After all, the mixtore is a composition consisting of a number of consecutive paintings.
The problem is that many are too literally belong to the theory of building a long-term mixboarder. And it is not at all about to create several songs and put them together. No, we build one linear composition, but depending on what part of the person it looks, it has several, let's say, people are several complete, well-balanced parts. Note that when reviewing accents can shift. For example, in one part of the composition, a certain element plays a subordinate role, and in the neighboring - becomes an emphasis.
And experienced flowers, and beginners when creating a mixboarder it is very important to accurately build a hierarchy of elements. Always one must dominate, the other is to obey. The absence in the composition of the main and subordinate elements is a gross mistake that reduces all efforts to build a mixboarder.
If there are main and subordinate elements, a person sitting on the bench translates the look right-left, up-down, hides pictures (corresponding to a horizontal angle of view of 30 °) and admire.
Well, when accents, and accordingly, the pictures change from the season to the season.
Look at the photo - in the mixture in the garden, flowering bulbors attract the spring:
In the fall, the focus is on the bright color of shrubs, in the winter - on an expressive drawing of the bark of trees. Nature itself tells us that it is necessary to maximize the possibility of changing something to change, and not create static, for example, purely coniferous, compositions that "in winter and in summer in one color."
Color. The overwhelming majority of modern flower beds sin of excessive varnish. A huge amount of small smears that do not fold into color spots, spill the composition. In fact, because of this, we perceive it as one large color stain. There is no rhythm, there is no interconnection, the eye is nothing to catch.
When carefully consider the pictorial canvas, it can be seen that they consist of small color smears. But the smears are not scattered through the canvas, but clearly interact with each other, forming larger color spots, color transitions, contrasts. Try using a similar principle in a flower bed, working with plants like with paints.
Another common error is the excessive color tension in the composition of the mixboarder. Imagine a bright flower garden at the subway. After the working day, in the context of the gray urban building it is so impressive that I want to create something similar on the site. Do not. Russian people are not so temperament to feel comfortable in such a surrounding. It became necessary to take into account the duration of the perception of a particular composition.
It's one thing to go past a bright flower garden in the city square, and quite another - contemplate it for a month in its own area. However, if such a composition on the site is already there and it is difficult to part with it, try to reduce the color contrast by introducing elements with bright achromatic colors (white, light gray) into the composition.
By the way, silver mixtures are often underestimated. Perhaps they are really not always good by themselves, but as elements in the composition of bright plants - are indispensable.
The list of silvery plants is not as small as it may seem at first glance. And if herbaceous plants are more or less on hearing, then we often forget about wood.
Pay attention to the photo - Lohas silver and narrow-walled, sea buckthorn, Shepherdia, Many Willow, Pears, Ivoliste and Loholic, Rowan Aria and Intermediate, look in the design of mixboraders.
Rhythm. Imagine: You planted any plant, sat on the bench, admiring the works of the hands of our hands, and suddenly understand: everything is fine, but I would still put the same plant there, right. It is nothing but the desire to streamline space, give the composition rhythm.
What can be set rhythm into mixboraders from perennials and decorative shrubs?
Partly changes in the height of the upper edge of the composition. Also, the rhythm creates lumens between the plants, when fragments of the fence or wall are visible in the lumeks. Rhythm can also be specified by the form of the crown, color, surface texture. At the same time, it is not necessary to use the same types of plants, enough for them to be in something similar. For example, disembarking plants at a certain distance with high, medium and low accommodation inflorescences, you will specify the rhythm not only by the shape (spike), but also a height.
In order for the rhythm to feel, there must be at least two or three repeating elements in the composition. The sustainable sense of the rhythm occurs when the four or five elements are repeated.
On the other hand, the monotonous repetition of the elements (a number of vertical conifers along the fence) tires, makes the composition boring. It is possible to level the monotonicity using various inclusions that weaken the rhythm will do it not so intrusive.
On these photos - the best mixtures created by their own hands:
When the mixing device is a little creating a composition. It is important that she fit into the garden environment both stylistically and structurally.
The composition of one-way review has its own specificity - it is almost always built on the background of the fence, the walls of the house, living hedges. And the composition is usually the plane of lawn, lawn.
If you want, for example, install a bench for loving the mixtore, you need to think well about how to position it. Sit face to the wall, having an open space behind, extremely uncomfortable. It is necessary that the back is protected. Of course, it is best when the bench is behind the back to the wall of the house, but if this option is impossible, put on a bench or install a support with curly plants.
Imagine: You are standing in the glade and look around the surroundings. The pubescence that on the right is very beautiful, and the frontal looks flat and unbroken. The plants are the same, the location structure is similar, but the effect is different.
It turns out that perception varies depending on how the object is oriented on the sides of the light. It is very important to take into account when making mixborings with one-sided compositions. Of course, wanting to break the flower garden at the wall at home or fence, we will be limited to circumstances, because we will not transfer the wall or fence. However, given the nature of the illumination, you can adjust even the easiest mixture, to make it more expressive.
Became a bench, but the feeling of discomfort is a person who encompasses with reservoir and landings, in this case there will be no testimony, since it is also an open space.
As can be seen in the photo, in beautiful mixlers, the compositions oriented oriented compositions are best described:
Unusually beautiful relief, both individual plants and compositions in general.
The southern exposition is dangerous in that the flower garden can turn out to be flat, similar to the applique. Pastel tones look inexpressive, but bright red and orange, on the contrary, extremely spectacular. Making a bet on the texture of leaves or relief of the crown, it is difficult to achieve success, but you can successfully work with the color of the plants and beat the openwork crown.
The north-oriented composition is in the shade all the time. Usually such places are afraid. Nevertheless, plants, perfectly feeling at the northern wall, a lot. In such a mixborror, excellent options are grassy perennials (, clopogonic, rogers, hosts) and some woody plants (, pachizandra and others). What is interesting, many plants in shaded places look even better than the sun.
Remember that groups located in the shade must certainly be "highlighted" by plants with white or cream leaves. Do not believe the stories that in the shadow all the copper plants are green. Deres, sick, hosts do not change coloring.
In addition, keep in mind that the flowers of many plants are addressed to the rising sun. The same applies to some fruit plants. For example, the Evrest Apple tree fruit is much more decorative with the illuminated side. On young shoots of some shrubs, let's say separate varieties of dend, the color of the bark from the illuminated side is also much brighter. To admire such a bush better when the sun shines in your back.
The most beautiful mixtures in the country are shown on these photos:
Often we forget that the night's nightlife is no less interesting than the day. However, it is possible to fully enjoy it only after artificial lighting is installed.
In the meantime, it should be noted that it is necessary to use all of the above elements in the mixing formulation with caution. As for the lanterns, they are more "influential" in the afternoon than at night.
At night, the space organizes the light that they distribute, and in the afternoon - the lanterns themselves. Do not hurry to immediately buy likelled lights. Well think over the composition, try to imagine how lighting devices will fit into it.
As shown in the photo, when making a mixboarder is very important to position the lights correctly:
Agree, a number of lamps along the track separating the lawn and mixtore, it looks sad. Whether the case is hidden illumination or point lamps with rotating plates.
You can select several vertical elements and illuminate several planes - and a night garden, full of secrets and mysteries, ready. Fed up picture? Just expand the plaffones - and you are in the new garden.
It should be noted that a one-sided composition and a floral mixture as its particular case is amenable to stylization, perhaps better than any other garden element.
How to create mixtores in different styles? If you want to show Japan, select an alternative to bamboo, Japanese maples, MCham. Want to show Italy - look for plants similar to cypress trees, olives, drink.
The same with the walls: Implement the association with a country wall, a wall in the Japanese garden or a wall, on the background of which is the English mixture.
However, do not forget that, engaged in stylization when creating a garden mixboarder, it will be easy to play and ride in Kitch. When the "rustic" composition complement plastic geese, and on the fence, like on a fire shield, wheels and grasp, it looks vulgar.
Perhaps the listed accessories would quite fit for the design of the courtyard cafe, but for a small garden they are unlikely to fit. Of course, we can use small architectural forms - sculpture, lanterns, etc., but extremely careful. Nevertheless, it is better when the natural component is prevailed in the stylized landscape, and the architecture obeys it.
It is very important to take into account the context in which the composition is built. Pay attention to the environment, see what grows behind the fence, on the right, on the left. No matter how cool, the spruce forest under the Mediterranean does not stylize, but on the hot sun it will not be possible a romantic white garden.
We cannot ignore the conditions of our site, nor what is located beyond. Suppose, behind the fence is a neighbor fruit garden with high old apple trees or a gardens, and for her forest. The fence is solid, and at its foot, you begin to create a one-sided review composition, without connecting it with the views on the other side of the fence. Even if the view is completely hidden, the virtual border between the polar, on its aesthetics, compositions before the fence and does not disappear.
It is not about to put in your garden Christmas trees from the forest or an apple tree, like a neighbor. But the smooth transition is necessary, and it is possible to provide it through non-hard action.
An excellent idea when creating a mixboarder is to divide herbaceous and woody plants into a group of physiomic type. Some can be boldly attributed to the "rustic", others - to the "forest", third - to "exotic", etc.
To make a mixborror as harmonious as possible, use this advice. If you want to create an exotic flower garden against the background of the neutral middle Russian forest, take advantage of shrubs or trees falling in their physiognomic type into the forest group.
Take not species, but exotic varieties, such as cutting or goldistant. Unusual "Forest" plant will smooth contrast.
Naturally, in this case, the fence is not going anywhere. But he will no longer share two alien media.
The impression will be as if the fence is attached to a piece of a piece of forest, which is visible behind him, and flower beds - a natural continuation of the edge. As a rule, such a picture is natural and harmonious.
Check out the video "Creating Mix Carders", where the best ideas for designing such flower beds are shown:
Solving what to put in the mixturore, and choosing plants for the garden composition of one-way view, remember that you can combine a huge number of species.
But this does not in any way relieves us from the need to select plants, taking into account the laws of color and proprocate, seasonal variability and stylistics, biology and ecology. When taking into account all these factors in the mixturore, you can place full-fledged garden collections.
And in this exposure part, everything should be aesthetically thoughtfully. The word "collection" is not always true interpreted. For example, no one says that he collects things at home. You can collect pictures, cup holders, books, but not things. So, probably, in the garden.
Is it possible to collect plants at all? Of course not, ferns or succulents, dwarf coniferous or alpine rarities, but not plants in principle. On the other hand, not from all groups of plants you can create a complete composition. In many cases, still will have to resort to the help of species outside the collection group.
How to find out if the composition for a mixboarder can be created from a certain plant group? First of all, determine if there are species or varieties in this group that can play dominant and subordinate roles, as well as neutral, background plants.
A good composition will work out. Acrossments - Barbaris Ottavsky or Tunberg ('Erecta'), medium plan - umbrella Tunberg and ordinary, the fore - the sharpening forms of Barbaris Tunberg ('Green Carpet').
A similar situation with spirits, where the variety of species is as large. Perhaps this is with Lianami. Let's say a collection of clematis, which does not have the variability of crown forms, is easy to diversify, changing the form of support.
But can we do the same with deresses, hasty, hosts with all their colossal diversity? Most probably not. Agree, in the mass the same hosts will be mass. In such cases, two or three collectible groups are often held in Europe, which perfectly complement each other.
As can be seen in the photo, when selecting plants for a mixboarder, representatives of one collection act as accents, the other is played by a subordinate role, the third - "work" as background:
However, everything is much easier, if you do not set the task of originating a specific group of plants. In this case, we simply choose species that meet the environmental conditions of the site, of which are those that arrange us in size, and from the remaining are suitable for stylistics and color.
Of the selected species we build a composition, given the seasonal variability of plants, we determine the accents and subordinate elements, looking for rhythm, we work with the background.
Capricious, requiring serious leaving the plant should not claim the role of dominant. The composition of the composition can only be consistently decorative, winter-hardy, corresponding to the ecology of the site species.
A business is a garden in which special conditions have been created for the content of a specific collection. Such a garden requires constant attention. This is a huge work, as nature always seeks to return everything to its place.
Very often in the compositions of one-way review. Liana use, because these compositions are usually placed on the background of the wall of the house or the fence. Lianas are extremely diverse. They differ according to the requirements for growing conditions, stylistics (physiognomic type), sustainability.
Some types of shades, but at the same time demanding to fertility and moisture content of soils (aristology), other light-loving and drought-resistant (). As for the physiognomic type, then among Lian there are both "rustic" (HSMEL) and aristocratic (Kleslematis, Lagenarium) plants.
Many, for example, the sodogues, are very stable, literally "impenetrable", and others, like actinidia sharp, gentle and demanding. With a competent selection and landing, you can visually break the upper edge of the fence just like with the help of trees or high grassy plants.
Correctly subscribed Liana perfectly combine the landscape on the other side of the fence with the composition in front of it.
And finally, once again enjoy the charm of the most beautiful mixtures in dacha gardens on these photos:
Scheme: 1 - Bamboo-leaflets; 2 - Hybrids of Iris Bearded; 3 - Lobelia; 4 - Creeping Bow; 5 - Bells of Predarch; 6 - hybrids of optic; 7 - Bruner large-scale; 8 - Msanka Shiloliste; 9 - the luggage creeping is virtual; 10 - Arundo Reed
Mixboron from shrubs and perennials is full of colors, textures and shapes. The multiple mixed flower garden, elongated in shape, is designed for frontal review. Mixboro, in addition to trees and shrubs, includes islands of grassy and flower plants.
Planning mixboraders, take into account environmental factors - the characteristics of the soil, the degree of illumination.
The most common forms:
In the foreground, tiers are located grassy plants. In the back - shrubs or low trees that create a constant base of the flower bed.
From where the flower bed will be located, the method of laying plants in height will depend.
On each site there will be a place from which the mixtore will be visible better and from which it will be possible to admire the compositions created by their own hands. This species point is a bench, terrace, gazebo. The tallest plant should be at a distance of two or three of its heights from the species point.
Landing at a permanent place starts with the highest plants and end with soils. For medium and distant plans, plants are used, painted more intensively. The foreflames more often occupy more modest low colors.
All elements of the flower bed must meet the style requirements.
The main styles of the mixboarder:
The device takes into account the approximate distance from the view point to the flower bed. In order for the bulging plants to look harmoniously, they should be carefully chosen in height.
| Classification | Plant names |
| Soil or burgundy (up to 25 cm) | Ayuga, Barwin, Viola, Carnish Carnish, Camery, Crocus, Molded, Spring Primulat, Flox |
| Low (25-50 cm) | Astra Alpine, Herbal Carnation, Medicarian, Chess, Tulips, Chrysanthemum Korean |
| Average (50-100 cm) | Acronite, Achillei, Iris Hybrid and Siberian, Lilia, Lupine, Nyurist, Peony, Echinacea Purple |
| Tall (100-200 cm) | Georgine Cultural, Dolphinium, Ninexil High, Dweader, Giant Onions, Rudbeck "Golden Ball", Flox |
| Giants (more than 200 cm) | Malva or Storm, Highlander Sakhalinsky (up to 3 m), phytolacca |
| Miscantus (up to 2 m) |
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| Shrubs, low forms (from 25 cm to 2.5 m) | Heather, Arundinaria, Camellia, Cariopteris, Ceanotus, Heb, St. John's wort, Lavender, Rhododendron, Rose, Hydrangea |
| Coniferous, dwarf molds (from 30 cm to 2 m) | Cypressian. Juniper, Scaudopitis, Thuja, Microbiota |
The choice of assortment depends on the illumination of the site, the style of the mixboder, the height of plants and the intended color gamut.
The effect of prolonged flowering is achieved by selecting plants that will bloom one by one from the early spring to the first snow. To create a continuously blooming composition, a perennial flowering calendar is used.
| Duration of blossom | Name |
| SpringnetsTerous (April, May) | Astilba, Oakwood Windpiece, Geran. Iris Bearded, Bolotnaya Kalumen, Hybrid Lily |
| Springnetworving (May, June) | Watercolor, Carnation, Iberis, Iris Siberian, Tulips, Peonies, Easy, Floxo Shiloid, Clear |
| Summer-wearing (June, July, August) | Astra pillow, aconite, watersor ordinary, bell, lilies, echinacea, sprack, roses, hydrangea |
| OssennetsNews (September, October) | Astilba, Astra, St. John's wort Cashechki, Cups, Rudbeckia Sullive, Yarrow |
Careful prepare the soil in 2-3 weeks before plant landing: Remove weeds, hamper and make fertilizers. On the perimeter, the flower bed is digging a border tape so that its upper edge spoke a little over the ground level. Such a reception will not allow weeds to drive onto a flower garden.
Do drawing, applying scale - for small flower beds 1:10, for large 1:50. The contours of the flower garden are applied to the sheet of paper and place places of planting selected plants in the form of incorrect ovals and circles.
Place flowers in the evening or in cloudy weather.
Plants are located on the principle of amphitheater in a unilateral mixborror located near the wall or fence - from tall to low and soil.
High plants are planted in the center, low on the periphery:
The height of the largest plant must be no more than the width of the flower bed. On unilateral borders this rule does not apply.
Design uses decorative mulching materials - gravel, wood chip or bark, than emphasize the aesthetics of the flower garden and reduce the cost of care time.
Medicinal plants possess not only therapeutic, but also decorative qualities. The range of medicinal plants is so diverse that you can create a flower bed both monochrome and in any color scheme.
Located at some distance from groups of trees and shrubs. Meadow flowers are used - bells, Rudbecki, yarrow, Derbennik. Abundant blooming annuals are introduced into the assortment to create bright accents - lion zev, petunia, ameratum, lobularia.
A shrub planted along the fence, near the narrow strip of the earth, partially shaded. Hosts, Badan, Tiada, Astilba, plants with picturesque colored leaves are planted on the shady area. In the front, better illuminated plan grows petunia, ameratum, phlox. The next tier is placed fragrant annuals - Levko and Lobularia.
In the spring, beautiful coloring has some species of trees - an apple tree, cherry, plum. Even the needles of coniferous trees painted diverse.
Compact forms of coniferous and heather trees placed in a shady spot form the basis. Perekniky perennials complement the composition. Complete the flower bed structure. Such mixtures need well-drained soils. Mulch pine or spruce needles.
Choose compact and suitable shrubs - Almond, Kuril tea, Japanese quince. Drazing shrubs - hydrangea, tree peonies, roses are decorating the composition. (Magonia, Samshet, Iberis) and shrubs with fancy colored leaves (, Barbaris, Spirea Gray, Japanese Spiray) Effectively complement the flower garden. Conifer breeds are used in moderate quantities. At the front edge place the soil plants - the luggage, carpet phlox, cocheps, stamps. It is impossible to do without blooming perennials - primulous, violets, daisies, and compact annuals - Lobelia, Pump, Portulaks.
When designing the design of his site, they strive for the fact that new compositions complement the existing landings and harmonized with each other.
The art of landscape design offers a universal solution, in which any site, cottage or garden will look well-kept and pleasing eyes. This decision is called the art of combining plants, in other words - mixtore.
In the landscape design, the concept of "Mixborder" is known since the XVII century. He received widespread in the Gardens of England, but the Word itself came from French. This concept can be translated as "borders". In other words, the mixture is complexly composed of flower bed, which can include annuals, perennial landings, shrubs, herbs. It is distinguished by the connection of several types of green plantings, different in size, shape, color, texture of leaves. It is still popular in the summer sections of the XXI century.
From the usual curb, that is, burgreous plants that border club, or the maladks mixboro differs in the fact that the planting is produced in free natural style, as if this design element grows on the site itself. At the same time, the elements are planted on a strictly thought out plan and taking into account many complex nuances, which will be discussed next.
Flower garden of free combinations - it is also called this element of landscape design, varies on styles and color schemes.
Before placing the mixborror on the site, it is necessary to decide which style it will be.
Styles can be a variety of:
For beginners, the smallest hassle will deliver a shrub or conifer mixture. For example, honeysuckle, cypress, juniper, fir, tees, samshet, ivy. Roughs will look elegantly all year round and does not require much care.
Mixborists are divided into species as well as in color decision. Any entrance to the house will delight the eye if the flower garden is broken nearby, which takes into account the shades of landings and their combination of each other. Therefore, at the first stage, it is necessary to draw up a project in which you need to specify the color palette of the Flora representatives, the time of their flowering:
With a polychrome mixborror, the main part must be calm shades, and the green should be the background. It is important to consider that at twilight, the last of the shades "goes out" white.
Experienced gardeners note that the most favorable place for the location of a flower bed of free compositions is hidden from the scorching rays of the sun. Designers most often planned plantations:
The mixture, landed along the facade of the house, requires metering the height of the windows so that the upper tier does not cover them.On the perimeter of the fence, green landings need to be planted at a distance from each other. It will give them the opportunity to grow.
Mix of landings along fences meet most often. This allows you to hide the often unsightly type of fence, as well as visually remove the boundaries. A retaining wall appears at the landscape element, which forms the upper floor of the landing.
A small flower garden is appropriate to split on the slope. It will help to hide landscape flaws and make them pleasant to the eye. And along the track, the open mixtore viewed from all sides will fit.
With the help of an angular element, you can solve the problem of such places on the site, as a compost or angle of the fence. In other words, magnificent plantings will be able to disguise what should not be made to the universal review.
If the plot mostly falls on the shadow side - this is not a reason to abandon the landscape element. A bright mixture will be in a half of the florawhich transfers the lack of light. It may be: Barbaris, Rhododendron, Lily of the Lily, Host.
After the style is selected, and the planning plan is planned, it is important to choose an assortment. The selection occurs in several categories:
Here are some examples. When creating a mix from perennials, it is appropriate to land on the background shrubs of Clematis, whose inflorescences also have a gentle pink color and a number of green coniferous shrubs. On average, the Barbaris bushes will look good, which retain dark red berries even in winter. Good combination of Barbaris will give high loyers. The compositions of the naturalness of cereal, meadow varnish will be the framing to the curb.
Rose lovers can form a composition of the queen of flowers, for example, in this way: with roses with plenty, which are planted on the top tier, harmoniously look at peonies, hydrangee bushes, phlox, characterized by gentle shades suitable for the middle row. Petunia will also fit to create fragrant cascades of the lower tier. Yellow velvets you can give the composition of joyful solar mood.
Along the tracks, a flower garden of vegetables will be appropriate. Cabbage, onions, salad, sunflower, medicinal herbs - all this can be combined with varietal flowers.
Designers often create mixtores only from one species. For example, hosts or penisette. Pennets as perennials reaching heights up to 130 cm can be both plants for the upper tier and for the average. The decorative qualities of them are quite high due to inflorescences with fluffy bulbs of different shades.
The main rules for landing in the mixtore are reduced to the principle of the golden section. It can be clearly described:
Calculation of the root section is made according to the scheme:
a: B \u003d C: D.
Where a is a form that is divided into proportional parts: b, s, d.
The top row should be filled with elements with large leaves or inflorescences. For example, long blooming lupins, Malva, internshot or Rudbeckia, Kickl. Moreover, gardeners and designers advise mixing plants in time of flowering so that the back plan does not look naked.
The middle row is the basis of a mixboarder that creates pomp and volume. Therefore, it is important for this level to plant a flora that will look and after wondering. For example, Astra, Chrysanthemum. It is appropriate to alternate landings with more low-core species, such as Cataractus, Pinttle, Lavender, Host, Heather.
The lower row or border completes the entire composition. For him, Spiray Japanese, Boltony, Edelweiss.
When building a mixboard, it is important to consider that Its foundation should be "skeletal" landings.With their help, the height and contour of the future flower garden is created. Skeletal elements should be clearly visible from the main point of the review, that is, all plants in the mixturore must be viewed and not to create a feeling of the jet.
It is not necessary to make a mixture too long and with sharp corners. Let it be a streamlined form. For the curb, landscape design specialists advise you to choose soil perennials and copies with curly leaves.
The newcomer is not easy enough to make a mixture from scratch with her own hands, and therefore there are ready-made schemes, following which without much effort, you can create a beautiful landscape element.
For example, such a scheme is suitable for a plot with shadow territory:
Refuse the wide floral borders, which will have to come to reach the plants in the background.
In order to remove the corners of the site and fill them out, it is recommended to act according to such a scheme:
If the site has a fountain or other small architectural form, the height of the third tier should not be above the facilities and overave objects. In order for the cultivation of flowers and plants in large mixleurs, it is convenient, you can make small tracks from the type "goose step" inside the element.
If the mixboro remains "cutters", they can be filled with raging short perennials.
Landing that do not require careful care will certainly save gardener forces
