25 Best Flower Bed Ideas

Create Gentle Curves

This flower bed uses gentle curves to create a shape that naturally draws the eye to the entryway and makes the space feel more welcoming. To achieve this look, lay out a garden hose to outline the pattern first before digging the bed.

Use Edging to Define a Space

Incorporate Natural Stone Accents

This bed is accented with stacks of natural stone, which provide texture and structure. You don't necessarily have to build a wall; one or two well-placed rocks our small boulders add interest to any bed when artistically placed.

Read more: Why You Should Be Using More Stones In Your Garden

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Mix Annuals, Perennials and Shrubs in Flower Beds

Add Containers to Flower Beds

Create Whimsical Accents

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Add Raised Beds

Raised beds allow you to plant in what may be otherwise unsuitable conditions, such as sandy, rocky or clay soil. They can be a few inches to a few feet tall, which make gardening easier on the back, too.

Read more: 15 Best Raised Garden Beds

Plant Edibles and Ornamentals Together

You don't have to have a dedicated vegetable garden; combine edibles and ornamentals in the same bed for a pretty and practical garden. Here, tomatoes tumble alongside annuals such as flossflower. Flowers also attract and support pollinators, which is essential for some crops such as squash to form fruit. You even can incorporate edible flowers in your garden design!

Read more: 12 Beautiful Edible Flowers for Decorating Your Dinner Plates

Add Pollinator Plants

Tall flowering plants, like those found in meadows, are beautiful and support pollinator insects. While it's not practical to transform your entire yard into a meadow, you can convert a small portion, such as a narrow strip along the driveway or a small border area along your property line.

Read more: 20 Gorgeous Flowering Plants that Will Attract Bees

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Make a Statement

Your flower garden is already colorful, but adding an accent piece in an eye-catching hue, such as this sunny-yellow Adirondack chair, puts your personal stamp on it.

Read more: 21 Best Garden Ornaments That Aren't Gnomes

Create Height

Construct a Gravel Path...

Paths don't have to be expensive; even a simple gravel path adds personality to any flower garden setting. It's also a way to encourage visitors to wander through the flowers to enjoy the experience.

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... Or Make a Natural Stone Path

Don't want to bother with gravel? This path is even simpler to construct: Natural stones are sunk into mulch or lawn to create an attractive and wending path that makes you want to explore the garden.

Read more: 18 Stone Walkways That Will Beautify Your Yard

Shrink Your Lawn

Instead of a large lawn with a small edge of flowers, consider expanding your beds and leaving just a small portion of lawn to serve as a grass pathway. It looks beautiful, helps pollinators, and with the right blend of plants will actually reduce work: Perennial beds also don't need to be mowed like grass does!

Read more: 25 Best Perennial Flowers and Plants to Make Any Yard Beautiful

Mount Window Boxes

Window boxes are another way to enhance your flower garden. They're also a great alternative if you don't have the space to plant in-ground. Match them to your home's style, as shown here with this picket fence-styled window box on a cottage window.

Read more: 20 DIY Window Boxes to Step Up Your Outdoor Décor

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Plant in Patterns

The repetition of plants provides continuous color and flow, which is far more appealing to the eye than one or two plants placed here and there in garden beds.

Use Unexpected Containers

Grow a Cut-Flower Garden

Part of the joy of gardening is adding flowers you can snip and bring indoors. Even a single stem makes a difference! You don't have to create a separate space; just plant many different types of flowers, especially those with nice long stems for cutting, such as peonies, coneflowers, zinnias, and cosmos.

Read more: 60 Best Types of Flowers You Should Have in Your Garden

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Add Hanging Baskets

Hanging baskets are another way to provide vertical interest in your garden. They can be mounted to walls, off of decks, or on posts in the garden. Or use a shepherd's hook so you can hang them anywhere you like.

Read more: 16 Best Flowers to Grow in Your Hanging Basket

Provide Water and Shelter

Arricca Elin SanSone has written about health and lifestyle topics for Prevention, Country Living, Woman's Day, and more. She’s passionate about gardening, baking, reading, and spending time with the people and dogs she loves.

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