A higher terrace offers great views of the garden. The walled border beds are, however, by no means suitable for all plants because of their extreme site conditions. We present you with two design ideas for patio beds. With planting plans as PDF for downloading and printing.
The difference in height between the terrace and the garden is covered by a natural stone wall, and two stairs lead down from the seating area into the garden. Now a suitable planting is missing for the slightly sloping border beds. It is important that the plants can cope well with heat and drought.
The hanging bed on the terrace, supported by a stone wall, is mainly planted with perennial herbs. Because lavender, rosemary, thyme and oregano thrive best on sunny, dry soils. They are also an ornament with and without a flower and fill the air with their wonderful scent.
The lemon balm forms compact bushes and continuously supplies ingredients for refreshing teas in summer. A total of four standard roses of the tried and tested scented rose ‘Gloria Dei’ stretch their large, light yellow to pink shimmering flowers towards the sun. The light pink flowering hybrid tea ‘Frederic Mistral’ grows between the herbs, from which flowering branches can also be cut for the vase.
On the patio door, a large stainless steel pergola offers enough space for tendrils for the Akebia, which opens its fragrant purple-brown flowers in May. The climbing rose ‘Shogun’ also spreads here with a flood of pink, double and also fragrant flowers. Its flowers are particularly rainproof.
The ideal plants for sunny and dry garden areas are those with gray foliage. They reflect sunlight very well. Willow-leaved pears are planted as standard trunks at the front and rear of the terrace. The blue rhomb attracts attention from July to October. The ornamental shrub with its upright shoots over a meter high is then adorned with blue inflorescences.
Gray, velvety leaves are the trademark of the Wollziest ‘Silver Carpet’. The ornamental sage delights with purple flowers on the border. If you cut it back after the first bloom in June, a second bloom will follow from August. Other gray-leaved eminences are the flat-growing juniper ‘Blue Carpet’ with evergreen steel-blue needles and the blue grass with its gray-blue stalks. The ideal partners for the gray and blue plants are plants with white flowers. The half-double, white flowering small shrub rose ‘Kent’ grows on the border of the bed. In June, white spurflowers and white feather carnations can be seen in the bed. The light violet-blue flowers of the Bergastern complete the flowering round of flowers in the terrace bed in late summer.