These Amazing Flower Bed Ideas for Your Home Garden will help you transform the look of your backyard completely. Explore them below!
Add eye-catching designs and colorful hues to your yard with these Amazing Flower Bed Ideas for Your Home Garden. They are also easy to follow!
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Amazing Flower Bed Ideas for Your Home Garden
1. Low Maintenance Annuals Flower Bed
Design a flower bed full of annuals or perennials! These blooms will stay the whole summer and will also come back year after year! Create a bed with a zigzag border filled with pink begonias rimmed with small white flowers.
You can also add height with boxwood, daylilies, miscanthus grass, barberries, and orange canna lilies.
2. Summer Flower Bed with Wheelbarrow Planter
If you have an old wheelbarrow, then use it creatively like this, filling it with colorful flowers. You can also install an old-fashioned lamp in the middle or behind the wheelbarrow too.
3. Flower Bed for Fence Line
Try this idea on the fence line or the front of your home—make a stylish s-curve design instead of a straight edge. Grow tall plants, flowers, shrubs in the back and short ones in the front.
4. Flower Bed for Small Yards
Small yards need less maintenance—you can design them with pretty euonymus or holly shrubs with different varieties of hydrangeas on the front.
5. Spilled Flower Pot
Create a focal point in your yard with a spilled flower pots and make a beautiful waterfall-like appearance! Check the tutorial here.
6. A River of Flowers
Imitate a river in your garden with curving grape hyacinth blossoms—the inspiration is taken from 1001 gardens. Recreate this idea as a front flower bed—you can plant tulips in clusters at the boundaries of the ‘flower river.’
7. Blossoms in a Tree Stump
A tree stump can bring an instant appeal to a flower bed—grow pelargonium in the center enclosed by nasturtium and deep purple bellflowers. Add ornamental grasses near the roots for a perfect balance.
8. Side Yard Flower Bed with Edging
Transform the side yard into a beautiful lush flower garden with nicely arranged annual flowers and hostas. Edge with brick pavers or small pots for a more pronounced look.
9. Flower Shaped Floral Garden Arrangement
Establish a flower bed in the shape of the flower—add vivid blooms of your choice for a colorful display. The more hues you will add, the better it’ll look!
10. Plant Bed and Raised Block and Stone Garden
Build a raised bed of pavers and pre-cut blocks where you grow plants easily. Try turf lily, ornamental grasses, asters, chrysanthemums, and thrift. You can also add some herbs and veggies.
11. Gravel Yard with Plant Bed
Include colors, textures, and heights with aloe, agave, sedges, rosemary, and ornamental grasses. Place a layer of gravel that separates the bed from the yard.
12. Clay Pots and a Flower Bed
Design a flower bed neatly with flowers in clay pots half-hidden in a bed of gravel. Plant tulips or other blooms—daffodils are also a great option.
13. Round Flower Bed with Containers
Make a circle of blooms in the garden, ringed by planters full of flowers. Plant a tall Norfolk Island pine in the center and create edging with impatiens and colorful zinnias.
14. Flower Bed in Antique Bed Frame
Use old furniture to create this idea—drape the headboard with gold, white, and purple blooms. Make pillows of little privets and mattresses of grasses, flax, or violets!
15. Flower Bed in a Boat
If you can arrange an old wooden boat, this idea will be a head-turner for the visitors to your home! Don’t forget to grow your favorite colorful perennials too!
16. Peony Flower Bed
Peonies look great in white, pink, and red hues with attractive foliage. Plant them along a wall or add them to the center of the garden.
17. Cauldron Flower Bed
Fill a metal pot with blossoms and hang it on a wooden log suspended by wooden poles. You can add more charm by mimicking fire with red or yellow flowers.
18. Classic Flower Bed with Roses
Roses are long-lasting, come in a variety of shades and look best in any garden! It will look stunning year-round as well.
19. Old Suitcase Flower Bed
We all have an old suitcase in our storerooms—you can make smart use of it by planting any flower of your choice. Do not forget to use the pockets, too!
20. Hollow Log Flower Bed
Design this simple flower bed in the front of the house with a hollow wooden log, and plant small perennials like daffodils, tulips, or any vivid flower of your choice! You also use a faux one.
21. Old Chair Flower Bed
Old rustic metal chairs can add a lot of charm to your garden. You can place flower pots on them or train climbers on them.
22. Old Tractor Flowerbed
Pick an old car, tractor, truck, or any other automobile at a throwaway price from a salvage yard and fill it with flowers and plants. It will be a fantastic addition to your garden!
23. Feature Flower Bed in the Yard
A feature flower bed will boost your yard’s curb appeal besides misting the air with a subtle fragrance. Grow colorful, fragrant varieties for a beautiful display.
24. Landscaping with Star Shaped Impatiens in a Coleus Bed
Grow White Impatiens amidst a bed of coleus. The striking color contrast will catch the attention of your guests, making your yard the center of attraction.
25. Colorful Patio Flower Bed
Grow Zinnias, Sages, Coleus, and other colorful varieties in a small garden bed on the patio. Ensure to border the bed well to main train a clean, manicured look.
26. A Tropical Patch of Coneflowers, Zinnias, and Banana
Dedicate a corner of your yard to the vivid coneflowers, bold purple-pink zinnias, and tall silver grass with a majestic banana in the middle. Plant the specimens according to their height to add depth to the area.
27. Well-Manicured Spring Garden in the Lawn
Deck up your yard with the colors of Spring. Border the flower beds with stepping stones and grow grassy specimens to fill the gaps. Raised succulent beds or tiny shrubs will add appeal amidst dense, lush foliage plants.
28. Hardy Perennial Flower Bed with Stepping Stones
Create a hardy perennial flower bed with lavenders, yarrows, coneflowers, pine leaves, and catmints if you are a busy gardener. They need little care and will brighten your yard with pretty pastel colors.
29. Wildflowers in a Tree Trunk
Wildflowers are a lovely way to add appeal to your garden with minimum effort. Dig a wide pocket in a tree trunk or wooden log and plant colorful blooms. The whole arrangement will add a rustic charm to your garden.
30. Gorgeous Tulip Bed
What can be more satisfying than watching your garden flushed with the serene shades of tulip! Fill a vertical patch of your yard with tulip bulbs in the colder months and enjoy the breathtaking view.
31. Tree Stump Flower Bed
Tree stumps can be a wonderful addition to your yard. You can pair small ones together, or use a big example like shown in the picture to grow multiple flowers of your choice. It will be a stunning addition to the front landscape.
32. Hanging Flower Bed
A large hanging basket of flowers on the front patio or a garden is the best way to use a limited space while showcasing magnificent blooms. Make sure to include multiple plants for the best display.
