“My parents told me I’d point to a bed of flowers and say ‘Pink. Pretty,’ before I knew any other words.” – Joni Mitchell

Adding a flower bed to your front yard landscaping, to your backyard, or to your balcony is the perfect way to add color and make your home more inviting. Creating a successful flower bed is about more than just throwing some plants in the ground. You need to create the ideal growing environment for your flowering plants while also creating a beautiful display for people to enjoy.

These flower bed ideas will get you inspired to upgrade your landscaping with a flowerbed or to. Isn’t it time you said goodbye to those boring bushes and gave them an upgrade with some flowering plants?

1. Flower Bed Design Ideas

Designing a flower bed is about creating the right shape and placing the flowers in the bed in a beautiful arrangement. The first step is choosing the shape of your flower garden. Basic shapes are easy to achieve and require simple planning. You’ll make a square, rectangle, or circle. However, you can create a more creative and free-flowing edge to your garden by making a curved edge that bends and flexes to follow the shape of the land or your home.

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The next step is to arrange your flower plants. A traditional and formal approach is to create a pattern by using several of the same plants to make a quilt-like pattern. A more casual approach is to randomly scatter your plants with no plan. One rule applies to both, don’t let the taller and bigger plants overpower the smaller ones by blocking the sunlight or sucking up all of the nutrients.