How to Create a Unique Flower Bed

How to design unique flower beds that will be the center of conversation in your backyard or arranged around your house perimeter in islands or joined rows. These beds, made from ordinary paver's block available at any home improvement store, are designed as combinations of hypercircles, incomplete circular arcs of stone joined together with mulch waterfalls that join the outer landscape to the raised beds. Varying wall heights enable the beds to be sloped to both raise and highlight the flowers that will be planted within.

You can use the shown designs for free. If you want me to design soething unique for your residence, send some photos to davidmartsolf@comcast.net and we can work out a contract. Generally, for several hundred dollars I can create the series of three beds you see in this video.

To review all of my artistic endeavors, simply Google or bing "Dave Martsolf". Hundreds of links will start you on a journey of interesting visions I hope you will enjoy.

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Dave Martsolf

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[DavidMartsolf]

Thanks Guitar Guy. When I retire I am going to build some about 12 feet high. Probably be useless, but I would leave one side open like the old hollowed out sequoias.

[mella19]

thanks for the great ideas :0 Great video and info!!

[DavidMartsolf]

@mella19 Glad you liked it. When I retire I will do something really wild, like huge Legos, maybe even paint them primary colors - no pastels and surreal flesh tones probably.

[19TL85]

i give you props on the effort for trying to be artsy, but from a landscapers point of view WOWWWW ` no bwayno

[DavidMartsolf]

@19TL85 Well, my dream was to keep building them higher and higher, intertwining them like giant threads like Jack in the Beanstalk up into the sky, but I ran out of funds. This year I joined two of the three together and filled the space with tomatoes, cukes, peppers and the far one with more perennials. Limited budgets create sacrifices. What can I say? Can you point me to others who have really 'lived the dream' so to speak? Thanks.

[guitarguy316]

Very Greek looking!! Reminds me of ancient ruins where you would only find partial remains of a building! Excellent idea, I love it!!

[DavidMartsolf]

@stewartlittleiscool Thanks so much. This year I needed more garden space so I joined two of them together.

[DavidMartsolf]

@zoomerlawns - by now the beds are once again past their prime, but if you write me at davidmartsolf@comcast.net  I will send you a couple of photos from this summer. We planted a combination of flowers and vegetables. Not quite the beauty of "To the Manor Born", but we did get a lot of tomatoes, green beans and hot peppers from these beds. - Dave

[zoomerlawns]

It's cool, but I'm interested in how it looks today. The plants leave much to be desired.

[DavidMartsolf]

@Decoded69 Hi Decoded, I've always been a closet sculptor who likes to try out different shapes and forms. That's why I left some breaks in the walls. Then I thought of castles with the crenelated battlements of the old European castles and tried that idea out. On the inner side there is a layer of vegetation stopper material to hold the dirt and moisture in. Thanks for commenting. - Dave