Often in the garden there are unexploited and bare spots. To avoid leaving these empty and deserted spaces, you can create a beautiful flower bed with colorful and fragrant plants. If there is a part of the garden that is particularly exposed to the sun, it is necessary to take pebbles and cover the ground. Just plant the Ophiopogon nigrescens, a black grass together with echeveria spots. These are plants that love sun, heat and moderate watering. It is also an elegant and nice solution.

Generally the most beautiful bedding plants are: verbena, marigold, purslane, centauree, zinnia. Verbena is a not very resistant plant, for this reason it is grown all year round because due to the cold and frost, it rarely survives. It is good to know that it should be sown in April and will flower in July. The marigold, on the other hand, is very robust, it only needs water, fertilizer and sun. It develops very quickly and is very afraid of the cold. Portucola, on the other hand, is an annual plant that is sown in late March. The centauree are plants of a thousand colors, purple, red, white, among these the most beautiful is the particularly fragrant and robust cornflower. Finally, the zinna is a fast-growing plant, it should be sown in April and it only takes a few months to flower.

Lately, aromatic plants are spreading more and more in flower beds because they are very easy to care for and do not require care. Aromatic plants need a soil full of organic matter. To form the flower bed, just dig the soil of the area and free it from stones, then add sand, peat and compost. You can create eight rectangles and delimit the perimeter with bricks placed one on top of the other.

To divide the rectangles, it is good to place the bricks vertically. Let’s start with thyme, which needs calcareous and well-drained soil. Gravel, sand and cultivated soil must be added to the soil of the flowerbed. On the other hand, oregano needs sun and heat and a drained soil. It is necessary to place the seedlings at home spaced at least 30 cm apart. The angular stems bear small, opposite bright pink leaves. Chilli and shallots need more care. Chilli peppers need a warm climate, fertile soil, rich in organic matter. It must always be watered at the foot, keeping the soil fresh and never soaking it. Instead the shallot, should be buried around March in the form of bulbils, possibly in regions with a mild climate. This plant should be watered often especially as soon as planted, when the plant is well developed, just reduce the amount of water. Parsley and basil are seedlings to be grown starting from the seed. Parsley needs fresh, humus-rich soil, while basil needs to be exposed to the sun and protected from the wind.

It is very easy to make a flower bed of succulents. Succulents also adapt well to any type of environment, from the garden to the flower bed. Among the most common, I found: agave, which does not fear the cold and should be displayed in a sunny spot. It is only necessary to avoid watering from October to March and plant them in well-drained soil. Aloe is also in great demand in gardens and flower beds. It is a very showy succulent plant with many advantages. Aloe is a particularly difficult plant to grow, so it needs a stony and drained soil.

Among the many types of flower beds that can be created in the garden, the aromatic flower beds are undoubtedly among the most popular. In fact, flower beds with aromatic plants have many positive aspects and many valid reasons for being placed in the garden.

First of all, they are flower beds that are easy to manage and that allow you to give volume and color throughout the year. Aromatic plants require nothing more than an energetic pruning at the beginning of the season to eliminate the dryness and to stimulate new shoots and an abundant fertilization always at the beginning of the season, to give a little organic substance essential to face all the physiological processes of the plant. Furthermore, the herbs grow well and if they are healthy they always give color to the flowerbed. In addition to these “ornamental” and managerial reasons, the main reason that drives to install a flowerbed of herbs is obviously the need to have fresh aromas season and enrich your recipes. Rosemary, thyme, sage, oregano and parsley are just some of the most used aromas in the kitchen, aromas that are indispensable for many recipes and that when fresh give a whole other flavor to our dishes. scrupulous. In fact, it is almost always rustic or Mediterranean species that do not require attention or large quantities of water and this aspect is certainly to be taken into consideration if you do not have a plant and not even the time to give the plants to drink and water.