any suggestions for planting a raised flower bed.?

Answer 1

Put in some trailers around the edge, some Hebes are good for this. Maybe put some taller plants at the back if you want some height to it, for example, red hot pokers and astilbe. Fill the rest up with low growing plants, I usually mix annuals and perrenials, for example, salvia, geranium, viola, begonias. Maybe put in some spring bulbs (tulips, daffodils, narcissis etc) for some early colour, and even a centrepiece for striking effect. I have a varigated holly tree in mine as this is quite compact in size, but striking colours.

Answer 2

My MIL puts down black plastic mulch to keep out the weeds. Then she makes a diamond of begonias, and fills in the corners with red salvia and a foilage plant (sorry, don't know the name in English, but maybe coelus would work well). Inside the diamond, she has canna lilly in a hill in the middle, and then surrounded by orange and yellow marigolds.

There's a blue kind of salvia that looks very nice in raised beds, too.

Answer 3

Place alot of soil in the area you want the raised bed. Then place bricks, stones or anything to decorate and at the same time to prevent the soil from leaking out when you water.
Or you can place the wall of stones up first, cover it with a plastic covering used for outdoors making sure the plastic covering come up over the side of the wall. Then fill in the plastic with the soil, cutting off any of the excess plastic.

Answer 4

In my experience, they are no different than an unraised flower bed, other than there is a fence around them! You just need adequate drainage so that when the water flows through, it won't spill out onto the surrounding surfaces.

Answer 5

Use a laddder