How to Make Raised Beds Blend With the Landscape
Raising your flower beds helps create adequate drainage in a yard that has either poor soil or draining problems. You can design your raised flower beds to provide interesting focal points or dimensions to your landscape. By blending in the raised flower beds with the rest of the landscape, you create a natural look that contributes to the overall flow of the yard. Blend your raised flower beds of interesting slopes that meld with the surroundings. Does this Spark an idea?
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Inspect your yard for any natural slopes or elevated areas. Creating raised flower beds in these areas will help with drainage and follow the flow the yard. Use your region as a guide for choosing organic materials to line the borders of you raised beds. Rocky landscapes lend themselves to use stone borders and wooded areas are perfect for using log borders.
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Choose a spot within your flower beds to build a raised bed if you have a flat yard. By building behind existing flower beds, you can create the appearance of a yard with varying degrees of elevation. Plant tall flowers in front of the raised bed to hide the bed's wooden frame.
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Build the frame of your flower bed. To find out how to build a frame, visit the link found below (in Resources). Dig a trench on the site large enough to accommodate the size of the frame. Fill the raised flower bed with at least 6 inches of top soil.
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Plant your raised flower bed with plants either from your yard or native plants. Make sure the designated planting area and soil meet the plant's growing requirements.
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Pack the sides of your raised bed with soil. You can plant smaller ornamental plants on the mound of dirt around your flower bed to hide the wooden frame and allow it to blend in with the landscape.
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Stack wood or stone around you frame based on your region's natural surroundings. You can hide the wood by placing logs or stones on top of each other the same height as the frame.
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Tips & Warnings
Use the natural materials in your yard to blend in your frame such as large tree branches or twigs.
Avoid planting large trees or shrubs in your raised garden bed, because their root systems are too large for the frame.
