Decorative Garden Designs, How to Mix Beautiful Flowers with Edible Herbs and Vegetables

Decorative garden beds are fun. Beautiful flowers attract pollinating insects, scare away pests, protect the earth from excessive evaporation of moisture, decrease the amount of weeds, and, as a result, save your efforts to create beautiful and healthy gardens. Colorful flowers decorate your garden beds and make you happy after work. Here is the Lushome collection of gardening ideas and tips on how to plant flowers in the garden.

Beautiful flowers can be planted directly between vegetable beds or placed around the garden. Low-growing flowering plants do not deprive vegetable crops of the sun while adding colorful accents to decorative garden designs. Most flowers are sown after the vegetables have sprouted and become stronger. The exception is spring bulbs. They get along well with young lettuce, cabbage, and other vegetables. Beautiful flowers can benefit your garden beds even in autumn if you plant them as seedlings after harvesting.

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If you want to plant flowers with edible herbs and vegetables, keep in mind that daffodils and tulips take root well in carrot beds. Lettuce and cabbage grow well with crocuses or anemones. Marygold flowers, nasturtium, camomile, calendula, tansy, and petunias protect vegetables from insects and strengthen plants, such as edible herbs and vegetables.

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Fragrant flowers attract pollinating insects to the garden, including bees, butterflies, and bumblebees. White clover, forget-me-nots, echoltia, purslane, zinnias, and daisies are excellent for decorative gardens. Bees appreciate alliums, heather, geraniums, sweet clover, or phacelia planted near vegetable beds. Bees are attracted not only by the smell but also by the color. If you want these insects to visit your garden more often, plant flowers in white, yellow, blue, red, orange, and purple shades. Honey plants ensure high-quality pollination of vegetables.

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Calendula is a protection shield from the potato beetle. Marigolds protect plants of the pumpkin family from nematodes affecting the roots. Sunflowers and cucumbers get along well, and the stems of sunflowers can work as supports for the climbing shoots of cucumbers. Nasturtiums and cucumbers are also good neighbours. Nasturtium produces edible flowers that also look good next to potatoes while protecting the plants.

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Edible flowers are ideal for adding a decorative touch to garden designs. Roses and garlic are an excellent duet. Catnip scares away cruciferous fleas that harm cabbage. Dwarf zinnia attracts predatory ladybirds, which help protect broccoli and cauliflower from aphids. Gladioli and garlic do not hurt each other. When you remove the garlic bulbs, the garden beds do not look empty, as they are filled with blooming gladioli.

  by Ena Russ   
   05.06.2025