Flower beds and borders

Flowerbeds and flower displays enhance the urban landscape in both parks and along the streets. Our carefully designed plant arrangements are unique and consistently catch the eye of residents and visitors to Warsaw. Our gardeners often use a hybrid technique, combining perennials with seasonal plants. Seasonal plants are selected to remain attractive from spring to autumn. The varied flowering times of perennials allow us to achieve a sense of diversity in the flowerbeds, as their forms and colours change throughout the year.

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Flowerbeds and flower displays are classified according to plant material, form and type of composition as follows:

• seasonal flowerbeds – areas planted with annuals or biennials, as well as non-hardy perennials (e.g. geraniums). These are planted once, twice or three times during the growing season in prominent locations, parks, squares and green spaces;

• perennial beds – areas planted with a composition of perennial plants, short- or long-lived, which overwinter in the ground. They flower at the appropriate time for the species or variety, and after flowering they produce seeds, after which their above-ground parts die back for the winter. In the following growing season, the plants grow, flower and produce seeds;

• hybrid borders – areas planted with a mix of perennials and annuals that complement one another. The base of the composition consists of perennials and low shrubs, to which annuals are added each year. For economic and environmental reasons, we have replaced most flowerbeds with hybrid borders;

• rose beds – areas planted mainly with rose bushes. We distinguish between mixed rose beds, where the composition is mixed with other plants, most often perennials or grasses, as well as classic rose beds, where the bed is composed solely of rose bushes.

Maintenance work is carried out on flowerbeds and borders – watering, fertilising, mulching, weeding and pruning.