Curved Garden Bed Design

Less formal gardens are freely shaped with curved lines that enhance the design of your home.

Curved garden bed design. See more ideas about raised beds garden design garden beds. While we love the traditional raised garden bed boxes we created our curved raised garden bed kits to allow our gardeners to mix straight edges and curved edges to design the perfect bed for their yard. Building curved raised garden beds.

Plants can be healthier and more productive in a raised bed because you can control the quality of the soil and water drainage. You can also prevent tunneling pests from decimating your plants. But reading how to do it is one thing and it is quite another challenge to actually lay out the design for the curve that you want to achieve before attempting to lay out my first curved border i carefully read and re read a.

Use design lines to guide planting the outline of your garden beds can influence where you plant what. Numerous garden books and on line advice provide a wide variety of instructions on how to create a curved garden bed. Mix up your raised garden bed design with curved edges at frame it all we like think outside of the box.

In the design below the bright blue dot is the anchor the brown are the tall plants the pink are the medium plants and the dark blue are the short plants. For example a border garden with an irregular edge creates more visual interest than a straight edged border. Your design doesn.

So if you think and plan theme your beds and choose and position your plants carefully you ll be well on the way to. You will note that the plants are grouped in drifts with the taller plants in the middle of the bed and then getting progressively shorter as you get toward the edge. As well you can accentuate your design lines by planting a single type of plant along the entire length.

For example the space that is created when a design line arcs or juts out is a great place for a feature plant or focal point. But remember the general principles of garden bed design fit all sizes. Miles garden design when making a raised bed instead of going in ground you can place it where the sun or shade is the best for the plants you want to cultivate.