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Planning and Planting a Corner Flower Bed
The Corner Flower Bed Plan
Many landscapes contain corners, areas ideal for structured and layered color plantings of annual and perennial bedding plants that create a floral display.
While specific plant choices, color selections, and placements are shown in this plan, most gardeners will freely substitute other plants, pick different flower colors, and make changes to the layered order in their own beds.
Use this example bed plan as a suggestion to learn how to plant corners of your garden with orderly ranks and tiers of colorful flowers. In time, you’ll master unique designs of your own.
About the Plan
Choose corners near walls, borders, edgings, or structures. Try them where a driveway meets the street, at the junction of fences and walls, and on the corners of decks or patios.
All are ideal spots for color beds of annual or perennial bedding plants.
This corner planting plan calls for using low-growing lobelia in the foreground edgings. (Other choices include sweet alyssum, forget-me-not, or violet).
Midsized petunias fill the center of the planting. (Other choices include marigolds, pansy, or narrow-leaved zinnia).
The background is three varieties of tall, colorful sage. Choose these or similar tall flowering plants available locally.
In larger beds, exaggerate the steps in height by choosing several cultivars that have varied heights. In smaller beds, use dwarf and miniature plant varieties.
Because the scale of the bed depends on your site and location’s dimensions, use plant spacing information to guide how many plants you’ll need.
The Plant Palette
C. Petunia
Petunia (Petunia X hybrida)—Mixed planting of ‘Midnight Madness’ and ‘Ultra Pink’ or similar cultivars.
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