If you have little time to mess around with flowers, and beautiful flowerbeds at home or in the country to have a hunt, you need perennial plants. They can be selected once, having planned the site, and not transplanted for several years, admiring the beauty of flowering in their own garden. So, we suggest that you consider perennial flowers that bloom all summer: a photo and a name, and decide what suits you best, given the soil of the earth, the light or shade of the plots, and your own preferences.
To do this, take the following steps:
• outline a flower bed plan;
• determine the size of the flower bed, soil quality and the abundance or absence of sunny and shaded areas;
• choose the types of perennials according to the soil, light, humidity and so on;
• determine the border flowers, and their combination with the plants selected for the flowerbed;
• take into account the entire color gamut;
• choose flowers by height - from low (for framing flower beds, high - for the central part, and medium for a combination of all three species);
• choose according to the timing of flowering and the color palette.
Next, determine the types of perennials by their method of planting:
• bulbs - these plants need to be dug up and stored (gladioli, lilies);
• roots - the most problem-free, winter well;
• seeds - to check germination before planting, otherwise you will then have to plant everything again in a new way.
When all these nuances were sorted out, more than half of the work was done. Now you need to clarify which perennials bloom, in terms of duration and duration - this is a very important point that will make it possible to achieve flowering for the longest period, from April to October.
By the way, pay attention to gardener's lunar calendar, it will help to plant plants properly.
Blooming in spring
Such perennials will be able to start blooming your flowerbed as early as possible:
• Crocuses - these magical flowers, depending on the species, can bloom at different times, and already they can only make long-term flowering in the garden.
• Daffodils - their delicate flowering begins with the first truly warm rays of the sun, and then they pass on the baton. Onions wonderful winter in the land, harvesting does not require storage, care is minimal. Give them a place on the edge of their flowerbed, and they will decorate it cool in early spring.
• Hyacinths - already in April, these pretty plants will delight you with flowering, and the very first flowers - it is so beautiful and fragrant, and please most! Plant them along the edges of your flower garden, they will decorate them very much.
• Periwinkle - a wonderful flower for a shady garden, or its shaded corners, undersized, with small blue tender flowers.
• Tulips are also early birds on our flowerbed, you can plant different species, and they will bloom one by one, decorating your still flowerless flowerbed with the freshness of colors.
• Bell - if you look after it properly, this wonderful baby will bloom from spring to fall and delight your eyes. And how many varieties of a bell, one of them with all its types can be composed of luxurious flower beds!
In May, the flowers of primrose and incense begin to open, followed by flowering aquilegia and iris, then delphiniums come into play, cornflowers and daylilies.
Bloom all summer
• Pansies - magical low perennial, striking in the beauty of the combination of colors and shapes.
• Cornflower - gentle undersized, pleasant to the eye and bordering the border or the edge of the flower bed.
• Delphinium - happy with its bright candles all summer.
• Hosta - tall, with luxurious large leaves, will be the decoration of your flowerbed.
• Daylily - a great option for the center of the flowerbed, tall and elegant.
• Peony - another contender for the central part of the flower garden.
• Lily - a gentle princess, on a high stalk shyly tilts a luxurious large bud - beautiful and magnificent for the central part of the flowerbed.
• Phlox paniculata - another contender for the championship among your perennials, with a variety of colors.
• Astilba - unpretentious beauty, tall and bright, resistant to disease.
• Gladioli - handsome men with large stature, stand out among other greenery, and thanks to the modern presence of a huge number of colors can decorate half of the garden.
Suitable for harsh wintering
Candle-shaped delphiniums, delicate lupins, luxurious fragrant peonies, delightful enchanting lilies of the valley, with them they very well experience the harsh conditions of fuchsia, primrose, phlox, unpretentious, lush and magical winter well. Among them there are undersized, which are straightforwardly ideal for framing flower beds, get along well and look alongside asters, among them the clove in the company is also good.
Astilbe, coreopsis, bells winter well. A carnation has been bred now, wonderfully adapted for winter, and an excellent flower for framing a flower bed. Also pay attention to the aster - this unpretentious flower, if you choose its different types, will be from mid-summer to late autumn the joy of you is not catchy, but beautiful flowering.
The most hardy of all our perennials, perhaps, are irises - where you just can not meet them - along the edges of fences, near public buildings, along curbs, and park beds.
Shade-loving flowers
If you have a lot of shaded places on the site - you will be helped out by such wizards as the coin-shaped passerbird, his friend and ally, the small periwinkle. Astilba in general in full shadow can grow and feel great - take note of it.
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Sun-loving perennials
Fans of the bright sun for the most open areas:
• field camp
• alpine creeper
• turkish clove
• peonies
When planning the planting of flowers, be sure to make a larger distance between them, so that when the higher ones grow, the lower ones do not cover themselves. And keep in mind that perennials over the years become more magnificent and spreading.
And yet - how perennials such as roses are loved by everyone - a truly royal plant, with a huge number of species and colors. It is a pity that their flowering is not so long, and they give in to diseases a lot. But - with proper care, proper planting, and the alternation of species, you can arrange a whole rose garden and enjoy the beauty of these incredible, fragrant, and fabulous flowers. By the way, roses are useful to cut - do not spare them for indoor bouquets, cut and present to friends! And your bushes will please you with repeated flowering - after all, a bush instead of the forces spent on the formation of a seed will direct them to repeat flowering. And you joy, and your friends, and the house will always have a wonderful pink scent.
Perennials for the garden - the most economical and not time-consuming option. In the first season, plant a flowerbed, and do not touch it, just look closely at how your flowers will feel, pay attention to what to fix for the next season - what to transplant, where to add. Maybe dilute with annuals. Perennial plants are well transplanted by dividing bushes, so you can plant whole plantations of beautiful and flowering plants at different times to the delight of yourself and your loved ones.
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Anna
I really love flowers, I have a lot from the cottage and I am always interested in this topic. I have a lot of trees, so I have enough shade and I mainly deal with shade-loving plants. I would like to say that they have a more intense color than their photophilous relatives and less weeds grow with them. Usually I plant a Lungwort, hellebore and magnificent arizema. The only inconvenience is that they require additional feeding, because there is a struggle with the roots of trees for nutrients, this must be taken into account when caring for them.