The photo was taken at the Missouri Botanic Garden.
Flower garden planner series#
The photo on the right shows a series of small island beds that use mailboxes as their anchor.
In the center is a butterfly wing shaped bed taken at the Michigan State Children's Garden. The photo was taken at the Boerner Botanic Garden in Hales Corner, Wisconsin a great garden if you get a chance to visit. The photo on the left shows an island bed with a tree as the anchor, the structure on the right is open so you can see this bed from all sides. Since island beds can be reached from all sides only beds larger than 6 to 8 feet across will need access for maintenance. Island beds can be small, a mailbox planting for instance, but are more often large. As with borders, their length and width needs to be somewhat proportional, so longer beds need to also be wider. Island beds tend to be more round, square, rectangular or amorphous.
Center anchors can be anything from a tree, shrub or large perennial to a piece of statuary or a large container, even a bench or trellis/arbor can work as a center anchor. It can be offset to one side for an asymmetrical look. This anchor isn't necessarily right in the middle. Island beds, on the other hand, are not anchored by a backdrop and can be viewed from all sides. The photo on the left shows a narrow border at the Missouri Botanic Garden, in the center is a border along my front porch, and on the right is a great orange-toned border. Paths or stepping stones are common ways to provide access. Any bed that is deeper than 4 feet (you can only reach so far) will need to have access to the interior of the bed for weeding and other maintenance purposes. In this case depth should range between 3 and 6 to 8 feet deep. Most home gardens are more likely to have beds that fall between 5 and 50 feet long. A 12 foot by 100 foot bed will look proportional. A longer bed will need more depth, if possible. A short bed doesn't need to be as deep, a 3 foot by 8 foot bed will look right at home. The proportions of the bed are important. How deep your bed needs to be will partially depend on how long the bed is. Borders are viewed from only one side.Ī flower border is generally, but not always, long and narrow.
The backdrop might be a house, a hedge row, a fence, or anything else that gives you a fairly solid background. We will start by covering the two types of beds and then move onto the two styles.Ī border is anchored by a backdrop and I think these beds are easier to visualize than island beds, at least for me, since the background will help define the size of your new bed. There are two basic types of garden beds island beds and borders and two basic styles of gardens formal and informal. However, in the end the only thing that really matters is that you love your garden - your opinion is the most important one.
Second, it helps give you a comfort level that what you design won't be a complete disaster. First, if you know the rules you can break them in an intelligent way. I think understanding basic design principles, is important for two reasons. As in any kind of art, taste will vary greatly with every person having a different opinion of what constitutes beauty. Gardens should always be considered highly personal works of art.
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