Features vertical beds and the growth of petunias in them. How to decorate the site with your own hands?

Vertical flowerbed is the ideal solution for decorating a garden plot or a summer house.

Flower arrangement will allow everyone to find on his site a quiet, cozy place for solitude or get-togethers with friends.

And from the flowers of petunia, which is most often chosen when making flowering areas, it is simply impossible to take your eyes off if you correctly arrange a flower bed.

Growth features

Petunia very quickly fills the space where it growsand possesses powerful roots. Therefore, when planting plants, it is necessary to observe some distance between them. The fact is that the thickening between plantings will lead to a struggle for living space, and as a result the oppression of plants.

In addition, closeness can provoke infection and death of petunias. Gardeners recommend planting flowers according to this scheme: finely flowering species are planted at a distance of 15 cm, large-colored flowers - 20 cm, and ampel — 30 cm. Otherwise, the petunia begins to grow upwards and loses its decorative qualities.

What varieties are suitable?

In order for the vertical composition to look more interesting and more accurate, Petunia varieties should be selected that will cover the base of the flower bed and hide the disadvantages of its frame. You can consider such varieties of petunia as:

• Fantasy;
• Placrystals;
• Pikoti;
• Purp pirouette;
• Sonia.

Varieties

Vertical Color Arrangement

Kinds

By type of construction and method of attachment can be identified:

• Ground - These are vertical compositions that are placed directly on the ground. The most popular example of such a flower bed is the alpine slide. Such a flower bed is built with stones and earth. Stones are stacked in the shape of a pyramid.
• Lashes - These are structures that rest on the walls. These beds can be attributed to the composition in the form of a screen. It is made out with the help of climbing plants and decorates a fence, a porch, an arbor.
• Suspended - These are songs that are suspended from above. A vivid example of such a design is a raised flowerbed. It is made of various scrap materials (buckets, vases, etc.).
• Wall mounted - These are compositions that are fixed on the surfaces of the walls. In such flowerbeds can only be grown petunias, designed specifically for flowerpots, which can bloom in a small amount of land.

Advantages and disadvantages

Benefits:

• To create a flower bed requires a minimum amount of space.
• It is quite easy to care for such beds. For example, having built a compact flower bed, for its watering it is not required to pull a long hose, you can simply leave it close to the flower bed.
• Flowerbeds are easy to store, they do not take up much space, are easy to assemble and disassemble.
• Vertical compositions can use multiple seasons.
• Flowerbeds collected by their own hands look creative and unusual, because each gardener sees the composition in his own way.
• Vertical flower beds are easy to transport around the site.

disadvantages: vertical compositions do not allow the use of a sufficient amount of soil necessary for long-term moistening; therefore, beds should be watered and fed frequently.

Step-by-step instruction: description and photo

How to make your own hands from the grid?

An excellent solution for the improvement of the local area or garden will be a vertical flowerbed with a blooming petunia. To build such a composition can be entrusted not only to the landscape designer, but also to create independently from scrap materials. To accomplish this goal, there are many ways, one of which will definitely be to your liking, and everyone will be able to choose for themselves something special, suitable only for him.

This creative lesson does not require much time and effort., you only need a little imagination and imagination. In addition, you can create such a composition from scrap materials, without investing money.

We offer a visual video about making a vertical flowerbed from the grid with your own hands:

With rocks

A vertical flowerbed will be much more interesting to look at if you complement it with an alpine slide or build parapets, create the illusion of mountain peaks with natural stones, or dig up various reservoirs, which then decorate with cobblestones.

A vertical flowerbed of mesh and stones is constructed like this.:

1. The mesh is curved in the shape of a snail.

   Important! The snail should be assembled from two layers. They should consist of a galvanized grid and be located parallel to each other at a small distance.

2. Place decorative stones between layers of a snail. Both pebbles and larger stones are suitable, the most important thing is that they do not fall out of the grid cells.
3. Free space forms between the nets, it should be filled with soil, in which you should plant seeds or seedlings of petunias.

Grid, flowerpot, geotextiles

For this option of a vertical flower bed, you must select a grid with small cells. A vertical flowerbed of mesh and stones is constructed like this.:

1. Grid twist in the form of a cylinder. In order that the form did not collapse, it is necessary to use plastic collars or a wire.
2. Form placed in a pot of larger diameter, you can use the pot.
3. Take a piece of geotextile or similar material in black and lining it with the inside of the cylinder.
4. In the resulting structure to fill the ground, and in the remaining empty space to fill the substrate.
5. In the textile through the mesh cut holes. The holes made in staggered order look original.
6. Seedlings planted in the soil, pre-recessed finger through the holes.
7. Over time, the plant will fill all the free space, and the cylinder will look like a flowering pillar.

If the petunia is planted with seeds, then for planting the seeds must be mixed with the soil.

From plastic pipe

A vertical bed of plastic pipe may look different, or hang on a wall or fence, or stand on any surface. The choice of the place will help to elevate.

First way

You can decorate the unsightly wall of the farm building or fence. For this fit a pipe cut lengthwise. You can use plumbing or sewage pipes made of plastic.

To implement this method you need:

1. Cut the pipe into the required number of parts of different lengths, cut each part lengthwise into two halves.
2. On the sides of the pipes to make plugs.
3. Place the pipes on a vertical surface according to the composition. They can be hung on hooks or fastened with screws.
4. Pour soil into the pipe and sow petunia.

Second way

For the implementation of this option will need two pipes of different diameters.
To implement this method you need:

1. Drill several holes in the pipes. In a pipe of smaller diameter, holes are needed for water, in a pipe of larger diameter - for petunia.
2. Drop a large pipe into the soil, or fix it in any other way so that it stands upright.
3. Wrap a smaller pipe with a sacking or other cloth, it is necessary so that the water during irrigation does not erode the ground around the roots of the plants.
4. A second pipe of smaller diameter is inserted into the large pipe, and the substrate mixed with the seeds of petunia is poured.

From flower pots

Very often it happens that a large number of different containers accumulate in the garden, which have not been used for a long time, but it is a pity to throw out. It may be old dishes, pots or pails. They can be used to create a bed for petunias. And of course, you can use for the implementation of this option, new flower pots. The most important thing is to reflect on the creation of a single landscape style.

To implement this method you need:

1. Pick up a place for flower beds and put there the biggest pot.
2. Make a hole at the bottom of the pot and put a rod there. The rod must enter the ground as far as possible so that the structure is firmly on the ground.
3. In the remaining pots, make holes at the bottom and alternately from larger to smaller string on the core one by one.
4. All pots fill the ground and plant a petunia.

From improvised means

In addition to all these methods, there are many other options on how to create flowerbeds for petunias. You can use any materials that are lying around in the garden. and are not used. It can be:

• tires of cars;
• old furniture;
• clothes;
• footwear;
• plastic and glass bottles;
• hats;
• bags or bags.

You can experiment with everything that is enough imagination.

Can be used to create a flower arrangement plastic bottles. For this you need:

1. Cut all the bottles along and attach them to the wall or fence.
2. Fill them with soil and plant seedlings of petunias.

Care

It is much easier to care for a petunia planted in a flower bed than for a flower growing on a balcony. It is only necessary to follow a few simple rules.

• Seedlings should be planted at a certain distance from each other. Depending on the type of petunia, the distance can be from 15 to 30 centimeters.
• It is better to have petunia on the flowerbed along its edges, as it is a short-growing plant.
• Petunia needs to constantly feed, weed, water and loosen the soil. On hot summer days, the bed should be watered at least once a day, preferably in the morning or evening hours. It is not recommended to water at noon, as the sun's rays can burn petunia, because at this time they are very aggressive.

Important! In the midday hours you can water the petunia only on the condition that the flower bed will be shaded at this time.

If during irrigation direct sunlight will fall on a flower bed, then burns may appear on it.

During the flowering petunia requires intensive feeding fertilizers. Suitable organic and mineral fertilizers. As organics used ash, mullein and other. During planting and at the stage of seedlings, that is, when the plant grows greens, preference is given to nitrogenous fertilizers, and during flowering - potassium and phosphorus.

To make a vertical flowerbed is not difficult, it is enough to turn on the fantasy and show obstinacy. Special skills are not required, and everyone will like the result, because it is always pleasant to relax around a beautiful and pleasant-smelling flower arrangement.

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