Wild shrub beds as flowered areas
Flower beds are magical with their vibrant blooms and colours. Changing plants and using annual garden plants can be very time-consuming. It’s better to plant perennial, cold-hardy shrubs and native wild plants. This promotes biodiversity, is low-maintenance and still colourful.
Tip: Add bulbous plants to your shrub bed. After all, seeing flowers pop up in early spring is wonderful.
The following collection of Internet links was selected as an example and does not claim to be complete.
MA22 Mikocki Josh
Set-up:
- General information on how to set up shrub beds; combining colours, growth habits, flower shapes, succession of flowers, suitable types of plants:
Natur im Garten: Staudenbeete richtig anlegen (PDF) - Instructions on how to set up wild shrub beds, suitable types of plants, planting distance, and flowering period:
NABU: Wildstaudenbeet anlegen (nabu.de) - How to set up a wild shrub bed: Preparation, planting and design suitable to the location; moist locations, gravel margins:
Margrit Gähler: Wildpflanzenbeet anlegen (naturimgarten.ch) - Alternatives for lifeless gravel gardens: Natural gravel and crushed rock beds:
LWG Bayern: Kies und Schotterbeete (PDF)
Choice of plants:
- Drought-tolerant wild plants for low-nutrient soils and natural gravel beds; plant profile sorted according to flowering period:
Margrit Gähler: Wildpflanzen für Trockenrabatte (naturimgarten.ch) - Wild plants for flower beds in high-nutrient soils, plant profiles according to flowering period:
Margrit Gähler: Wildpflanzen für nährstoffreiche Böden (naturimgarten.ch) - List of species of insect-friendly bulbous plants, tips for planting and care:
Netzwerk Blühende Landschaft: Insektenfreundliche Zwiebel- und Knollenpflanzen (PDF)
Interesting:
- Have you noticed the changes yet? Shrub mix for alternating flowering periods in flower beds - more and more flower beds in Vienna are sporting a new, natural look:
Stadt Wien: Neues Bepflanzungskonzept der Wiener Stadtgärten (PDF)
Sources:
- Product database for soil, fertilizer, beneficial insects, herbicides etc., with a quality seal from “biologisch gärtnern”:
Die Umweltberatung: „biologisch gärtnern“ - Produktdatenbank(umweltberatung.at) - Sources of supply with regional plant materials of proven origin (wild plant seeds, wild plants, and wild-growing trees for private and large-scale projects):
Rewisa Netzwerk: Fachbetriebe naturnahes Grün – Pflanzenlieferanten(rewisa.at)
