hi and welcome back to garden ninja now a number of you online have been asking
me to give you helpful hints and tips when it comes to designing your
flowerbeds so today's video is going to give you all my insider hints tips and
tricks to make your garden borders and flowerbeds absolutely beautiful so come
on let's get cracking
so this flower bed garden design guide really is universal
no matter what plant species you're working with whereabouts in the world
you live or what kind of colors you're working with this guide is gonna help
turn your flower beds from average into amazing so come on let's have a look
the first tip I'm going to give you is about layering when you look at all
those award-winning garden designs and there's amazing plants women and men
that are putting on incredible displays they're pretty much all using some form
of layering to one degree or another and it's kind of like the best-kept secret
in the garden design and plant world behind me you'll see a really strong
example of layering and what layering does is it will take your eye from lower
parts of the border through to mid sections and then to the higher parts so
we're literally layering up the plants and what that does is it slows down your
focus and it slows down what we call the journey through the garden so by
layering up your borders carefully you can help bring more focus and slow with
your visitor down so no matter what size garden you've got layering is an
excellent way to bring real vitality and vibrancy to your borders
so layering works really well with formal and informal planting designs I
tend to prefer a more informal planting design because it's just my preference
if you like the formality of having things in almost like linear regimented
rows you can still use layering to take your ground cover up to your higher
specimens so laving is a really good trick to ensure that you're helping to
guide the visitor through your garden and make your flower beds look
absolutely cracking
so the next top tip is all about color and this is a real key design feature
any successful flower bed or garden design but may be really tempting just
to go out and to buy loads of plants you just really like the individual colors
of but it's worthwhile spending some time thinking about how all those colors
are going to interact with each other and how vibrant or dull they're going to
become when you mix them together now this is a prime example of how you can
take what we call a monochromatic garden planting scheme but basically that's all
within one color so this is all about purples and some dusty pinks
if we have a closer look you'll see that all these colors work really well
together because they're all within the same section of that color wheel so a
monochromatic border like this can help bring a sense of unity and calm to a
garden border whereas if we did just scatter the loads of colors in here it
may look nice but it's gonna look a bit chaotic and it's not going to help slow
you down and draw your interest throughout the garden bed
and my final tip would be to use repetition as its flower bed with garden
design what that petition does is it allows you to repeat the same patterns
of pumps through outer border and it brings it together it unifies it more
often than not I see people that just sort of pick and mix plants and they
want one of everything alas it's lovely that you're introducing all these
different species it can feel disjointed so in repetition like the border behind
me you can really bring cohesion to that bed so if you hire me we've got things
like fennel we've got the achillea and alchemy la mala she's bulletproof plants
and with all in repetition down the border and it brings it together
whereas if I'd have gone for one of every single plant species in this
border it would look a little bit fragmented so repetition is all about
taking the plants that you've chosen and then repeating them throughout the
garden
so there we have it my top three tips to help take your flower beds from average
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