Designing a flower bed

My garden has gone thru a lot of transformations..

 

I don't know if you can see this very good.

This is Strawberry fields area of the garden.....I know the topic is designing a flower garden I will get there.

now to let you know what is planted in each bed of this drawing.

 

1. in bed one is planted mainly mint, sweet, chocolate apple
2. in this bed are tulips, Easter lilies,
3. mums, onions, iris, garlic, marigold
4. mums
5. crepe myrtle, iris, tiger lily
6. herb/flower bed( this is one of the bed I will be talking about later)
7. herb/flower bed( this bed as well)
8. Toilet. didn't have anything planted in yet
9. Easter lilies
10. Red/pink bed, peonies, pink peace rose,cannas
11. Yellow/orange Cl piñata rose, marigolds
12. orange/orange Piñata climbing rose
13. veggies,
14. veggies
15. veggies
16. rose of Sharon, Easter lilies

now to the designing the beds

 

First off I have a black canvas so to speak. A empty bed. When I first started my garden area was simple like the above picture, except for all the rocks and glass and other things I have dug up

these are the two beds I am talking about in this post

 

I started looking thru books with different flower bed designs, checked out some at the library. Then I decided on 2 designs I had seen in a book my mom had...Sunset Herbs, An Illustrated guide.

 

 

.I know I have the picture but I still draw it out.

Here are a list of the plants that go along with the numbers and alittle about each

Herbs

1. Rue, ( I have never heard of this)....might make a blog post about this one later
2. Purple Coneflower, have heard of this
3. Lavender, English
4. Feverfew( another one never heard of)
5. Orris root ( iris) have heard of iris but have ner heard it called orris root before
6. Germander ( another one never heard of)
7. Oregano, heard of this
8. Catmint
9. Betony , Wooly, never heard of
10. Cottage pink ( dianthus)
11. Thyme, silver
12. Thyme, lemon
13. Hysopp, never heard of
14. Anise hyssop, never heard of
15. Tansy, never heard of
16. Fennel, Bronze, never heard of
17. Wormwoood, never heard
18. Sage, purple
19. Rose, Apotlecary

Non-herbs

 

22. Peony Festivia Maxima

23. Daylily, stella de oro

24. Daylily, Catherine Woodbery

25. Sedum, autumn joy

26. ladys mantle

27. coneflower

28. Spirea, Anthony water

29. spirea, limemound

30. Rose, the fairy ( trained as standard)

31. Boxwood, dwarf

 

Some of these herbs in this design I have never heard of and couldn't find. If I found then they way to expensive for me to get. I did happen to find some seeds to some of them but they didn't come up or even sprout...I have learned alittle since then, I might try again with these seeds I came across. But I have decided I want these 2 beds mainly perennials in so I don't have to keep replanting them

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are what the beds look like now

 and here is the map

 

I also have some irises and daffodils plant in bed B , but just haven't put them on my map yet...

 

 

This is what my map looks like today

 

now I will try the next post about the veggie beds.

 

These are the beds I am talking about....I have a map that I used last year for them or rather a design

                                                                         ENJOY !