Landscape Designing

LANDSCAPE DESIGNING FRMT 325 Cr. Hr. 3(1+2)

Lesson 10:Garden Features

Flower beds

• The flower beds display the flowers in the best way possible. It may be borne in mind that flowers look best when massed in a bed.
• The flower beds have special importance under conditions of the plains of India since they can be kept throughout the year.


• The flower beds can be planted with winter flowering annuals sown during September-October or summer flowering ones sown during February-March and rainy season flowers sown during April-June
• Flower beds should be simple in design as circles, rectangles, and squares which are easier to maintain.
• Kidney shaped beds in the midst of a lawn also look very attractive.
• Various other abstract designs can also be made.
• Flower beds are the most important part of formal garden and these are marked out most ornamentally in pairs.
• In a landscape style garden the number of flower beds are less compared to a formal garden, as the flowers are mostly grown in the borders or in front shrubbery.
• The beds should always be placed in full sun except when these are meant for growing shade-loving plants.
• Rectangular beds are best placed near the building to harmonize with the straight lines of the house.
• A rectangular bed on the lawn is laid with its longer sides run parallel to the adjoining straight path or the edge of the lawn.
• Flower beds in the lawn are separated by 15-60 cm grass verges or paths to run a lawn mower.