Cascading flower bed in the garden using ordinary flower pots

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• We collect the necessary materials
• Getting started preparing the pot
• We are planting plants
• Let’s take care of the flower bed

Renovating your garden is difficult and often expensive. If you hurry, you can knock down the entire pre-planned layout. With a gradual change, more dirt is created, which clearly does not make the garden look prettier. We want to give you a couple of ideas on how to gradually modify the adjoining plot with the help of cascading flower beds..

We collect the necessary materials

We offer you an option with the organization of a cascading flower bed with the planting of several types of ornamental plants. For this we need:

1. Clay pots, medium to large.
2. Prepared substrate.
3. A bag of garden pebbles or other drainage.
4. Tall flowering plant for the formation of the upper row of the cascade.
5. 5-6 flowers of medium height, such as sage.
6. 12 small flowers, any simplest annuals will do.
7. Several curly flowers to create transitions from cascade to cascade.

It is advisable to imagine the final picture of the flower bed in advance and calculate the approximate number of plants so as not to go to the store several times.

Getting started preparing the pot

At the bottom of the pot should be poured about 3-5 cm of gravel or expanded clay, which will act as drainage. This will create favorable conditions for the growth of plant roots and prevent excess water from stagnating in the soil..

Next, fill in the prepared substrate, the soil for your plants. Especially it should not be compacted, but it should not be left too loose. You can equip yourself with a garden spray gun and slightly moisten the soil layers as they fill, so that they take on the optimal density.

Make sure there is not too much soil covered. It is advisable to leave 4-5 cm of free space from the substrate to the edge of the pot.

We are planting plants

It is important to properly free the plant roots from the substrate in which they grew in the shipping containers. Proceed gently by gently squeezing the lumps of soil and intertwined roots. The ground will eventually crumble, and the roots will remain intact.

In a pot, one tall plant should be cascaded from the center, for example millet, several medium-sized flowers and 3-4 low-growing ones. Climbing plants are distributed along the edges, for example ivy, which will hide the transition from pot to flower bed.

Let’s take care of the flower bed

Now it’s the turn for the flower bed. It is necessary to prepare the soil in it for planting plants. You can immediately set the pot to the far edge or define it in the center depending on the arrangement of the plants in it..

Under the installation of the pot, a small depression should be dug so that it sinks in it by two-thirds of its height. Next, dig semicircular grooves around the pot to plant the rest of the plants..

Each plant is identified individually depending on its color and size. Always keep spacing between colors so they don’t clump together.

That’s all, actually. Now in your garden there is a magnificent flower bed, the arrangement of which will hardly take more than three or four hours. The video shows in more detail the process of preparing the pot and the secrets of plant distribution.