Brighten your home garden with an unpretentious beauty: vertical flower beds for petunia

Many homeowners try to make them beautiful and attractive, breaking flower beds and flower beds.

The most unpretentious and at the same time attractive culture is petunia. This plant is able to decorate any suburban area.

From the article you will learn how to make flowerbeds for petunias with your own hands, and you can also see them in the photo.

Plant concept

Petunia is an unpretentious, frost-resistant, long-flowering plant. Gardeners are very fond of this flower, and breeders are constantly working on new hybrids and species of petunia.

Petunia is an annual plant, but recently perennial varieties have appeared that do not require special care and annual spring sowing (read about this perennial and annual petunia in this material). Any gardener or gardener can create a magnificent flowerbed on his plot of these flowers, which will delight with its magnificent bloom until late autumn. In more detail about such a beautiful plant we wrote here.

Prerequisites for Growth

Petunia is an unpretentious plant, but for good growth and lush flowering, you need to adhere to some rules of planting and agricultural technology:

1. Lighting. The culture responds well to the abundance of heat and light, so it is better to build a flowerbed in an open, well-lit place. Large-flowered petunia requires more sun and heat, and in shaded places it may simply not bloom.
2. Watering. The culture calmly tolerates a lack of moisture, but in dry weather requires watering. It grows well in humid places, but does not tolerate stagnation of water. When planting in moist soil, good drainage must be provided.
3. The soil. It grows on almost all types of soils, but prefers loams and sandy loams. It responds well to fertilizers such as compost and humus. Do not feed the plant with fresh manure, as the plant can become infected with fungal diseases (find out about diseases and pests here). It does not tolerate acidic soils, therefore, when digging such land, lime should be added to it.
4. Fertilizers In spring and summer, mineral fertilizers and organic matter should be applied to the soil at least 2 times a month.

With proper care, petunia will be well clustered and give a large number of large inflorescences for a long time.

Varieties

Recently, breeders have bred many varieties that are distinguished by: resistance to cold, abundant flowering and decorativeness. Often this plant is grown as an annual, but in fact there are a lot of hybrids on sale that tolerate adverse weather conditions and can easily survive the harsh winter. These varieties are perennial, among them there are:

• ampelous;
• bush;
• large-flowered;
• terry;
• small flowered.

These hybrids can be grown in flower beds, while they can be propagated both by seeds and by cuttings (all details about reproduction can be found here). Due to the wide variety of species of petunias, you can recreate a unique composition that will decorate any garden plot.

You can read about the types of petunias in this article.

Types of flower beds and their photos

Flower beds for flowering plants are divided into the following types:

1. cascade;
2. border;
3. classic flower bed;
4. vertical flower bed;
5. rockery and others.

Many beginner gardeners are wondering: how to build a vertical flower bed for the garden queen - petunias?

Photo of a vertical flower bed:

Vertical

This type of flower garden is very popular among landscape designers, as it is able to decorate not only country and household plots, but also any city courtyard. Do-it-yourself vertical flower beds made of petuniaswithout resorting to the help of specialists.

There are several types of vertical flower beds that differ in the type of supports and the method of attachment - these are:

• ground vertical structures;
• hanging flower beds;
• compositions based on the wall - wall;
• constructions mounted on the wall - wall flower beds.

For vertical flower beds, an ampel variety of petunia is ideal.

Advantages and disadvantages

Vertical flower beds have many advantages, which determines their popularity:

1. They take up a bit of space - they are equipped in small areas, arbors, terraces and courtyards, where there is no way to build a full-fledged flowerbed.
2. Quick and easy watering - no need to pull out a long water hose.
3. Ergonomics - quickly disassembled for storage, and do not take up much space.
4. Reusable.
5. Can be moved to another location, if necessary.
6. Beautiful and spectacular look.

But despite the large number of positive aspects, these flower beds have disadvantages:

• Fast drying earthen coma.
• A small amount of soil that is rapidly depleted.

Important! when arranging a vertical flower garden, you need to water and feed the petunia twice as often as the one that is planted on a classic flower bed.

Instructions for arrangement

Vertical flower beds look very impressive and attractive, consider the most common options for these flower beds that you can make yourself.

From the net

There are many ways to create designs from a grid for planting petunias, consider the most common and popular.

Plus stones

The use of mesh and natural stones to create a vertical flowerbed for petunias will help to decorate and emphasize the harmony of landscape design. To create a flower garden you will need:

• Galvanized wire mesh.
• Pebbles or stones - are selected in accordance with the grid cells.
• Soil for seedlings.

Performance of work:

1. To create a vertical flowerbed in the shape of a snail, you need to bend the grid and secure it with pegs driven into the ground.
2. Then take another piece of stainless material and at a distance of 20-30 cm install the second wall of the netting.
3. In the interval between the grids, fill the stones in such a way that in the middle a small depression is obtained under the ground.
4. Fill the soil and sow the seeds of flowers. The flower garden is ready.

Add a flowerpot, geotextile

This is a very spectacular structure, for the manufacture of which does not require much time and money. From the materials you will need:

• Large flowerpot.
• Mesh with large cells.
• Geotextiles, or any other black material.
• Fixing clamps.

A vertical flowerbed is arranged as follows:

1. Take a large flowerpot and build a pole from the grid of the desired height, connecting it with clamps.
2. Pull the geotextile inside the column and fix it in the upper part of the structure.
3. Pour prepared soil into the vertical flower garden.
4. Cut the textiles at the places of planting of petunias, make a small depression in the soil with your finger and plant seedlings.

Advice! For planting, you can use seeds that are placed in pre-prepared holes of 2-4 pcs.

From plastic pipe

Consider two options for the construction of vertical flower beds from this material.

Option One:

1. Cut a plastic pipe with a diameter of 100 mm into the desired segments.
2. Saw each piece along.
3. Fix the halves on the wall to be decorated.
4. Install a cap at the bottom of a future flower bed.
5. Pour soil and plant petunia seedlings.

The second option:

1. Take two pipes - 100mm and 28mm.
2. Make holes in the pipes, in a small one for water, and in a large one for planting petunias.
3. Dig a large pipe into the ground so that it stands upright.
4. Insert a smaller pipe in the middle, and fill the gap between them with earth.
5. In the holes to plant seedlings of ampelous petunia.

Before installing the water pipe, you need to wrap it with any cloth, this will not allow water to wash the soil during irrigation.

Flower pots

This is not a complicated, but quite effective way to create a vertical flowerbed. For the construction you will need a large metal rod, the length of which should be 10-20 cm greater than the height of the flower bed and the required number of flower pots is small to large.

1. Make holes in each pot in the bottom exactly in the middle, equal to the diameter of the iron rod.
2. Set the largest flowerpot in the place where it is supposed to break the vertical flower garden.
3. Drive a rod into the ground, which will be the basis for holding the entire structure.
4. Pour the prepared soil into the pot.
5. Install a smaller flower pot by putting it on the metal axle and fill it with earth.

So all prepared pots are installed. After that, seeds are sown in the soil or seedlings are planted. The vertical flowerbed is ready.

DIY from improvised means

For the manufacture of such structures, you can use any material at hand:

• bags;
• old bags;
• worn boots;
• plastic containers;
• glass bottles;
• old dishes or furniture;
• car tires that have served their term.

Consider the most affordable and easiest way to create a vertical flowerbed is car tires, for this:

1. The material must be well washed, dried and painted with acrylic paints of different colors.
2. Build an improvised pyramid or tower from the tires.
3. Fill the structure with special soil and plant flowers.

Further flower care

Petunia is not a whimsical plant, but in order for it to grow well and to please its flowering in a vertical flower bed, you need to properly care for it:

1. Increase the number of fertilizing plants with various fertilizers that should be diluted in water before watering.
2. The flowerbed should be installed in an open sunny place.
3. Frequent watering. Do not forget that the soil in the flower bed is small, so it will quickly dry out.
4. Correctly shape the bushes by pinching.
5. During heavy rainfall, protect the flower bed from waterlogging the soil. This can be done by installing good drainage.

You will find all the details about petunia care in this article.

Interesting video

Watch the video on how to make a vertical flowerbed for petunias with your own hands:

Conclusion

You can decorate your personal garden with vertical flower beds yourself. To do this, you do not need to make much effort, and if you use improvised materials, then you will not have to spend money. Petunia is a magnificent plant that will decorate your house territory.

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