Designing A New Garden Bed

Choose a color scheme for the new garden bed that complements the other gardens in your yard or if it s the only garden one that flatters the home façade.

Designing a new garden bed. Decide where the garden bed will go and draw a plan on paper. The proportions of the bed are important. Garden design can get complicated when considering color scheme balance symmetry cohesion and unity of design.

By charlie nardozzi the editors of the national gardening association. A short bed doesn t need to be as deep a 3 foot by 8 foot bed will look right at home. Then you ll need to clean up the area so the soil will be easier to work.

Make your beds wide enough so that you can still have a layered flower garden with a border of shrubs framing the back of the garden and plenty of room for perennials that will provide colors textures and edge softening drapes. A 12 foot by 100 foot bed will look proportional. A longer bed will need more depth if possible.

Creating a new garden bed can time consuming but with good planning and some muscle it ll be worthwhile. The corrugated metal raised garden bed. Whether you choose to use cedar recycled plastic galvanized steel or any other raw material you can build your garden bed with ease.

Let s look at some of the most creative garden beds that you can make right in your own backyard. Most home gardens are more likely to have beds that fall between 5 and 50 feet long.