Flower beds blooming all summer

17.04.2016 Flowers

Flower beds and flower beds with your own hands in the country: a photo that blooms all summer - this is what we will deal with today in order to create a constantly blooming beauty in our area that will please the eye for a long time. When organizing such flower beds, we pay attention to the factors described below.

Seat selection

A large area is allocated under the flowerbed, with good lighting. Lack of sunlight will significantly reduce the list of plants.

The smaller the area, the less flowers can be placed on the flowerbed. If you can’t allocate enough space, then it’s better to choose fewer types of flowers. Or make up a single composition of several flower beds.

Soil requirement

The soil should be fertile, without stagnation of moisture. Excess moisture is harmful to the roots of most plants.
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Plant selection

Plants should not differ in soil, moisture and light requirements. A flowerbed looks depressing, on which one plant receives everything it needs and feels quite comfortable, while another “suffers” from a lack or excess of water and light. It is also necessary to consider the growth rate and size of the plant. Tall plants can drown undersized, make them inconspicuous.

The most important selection criterion is the flowering period. You can make a table on the flowering time, and choose plants whose flowering dates overlap. Or take for the determining factor the physical properties of the soil and light.

Blooming in April

For example, in the flowerbed “good drainage, light nutrient soil, good lighting, partial shade is possible”. Such conditions are suitable for early flowering crocuses, daffodils, imperial grouse, tulips, anemones, snowdrops. Plant height ranges from 6 cm to 1 m. Flowering begins in mid-April and lasts until the end of May. snowdrop galanthus, crocuses, delicate little blue spills, pansies will also please the very first ones to bloom, after them primroses and wonderful daisies will bloom.
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Blooming in may

In May, the baton is taken by irises and peonies, lupins and delicate aquilegia. Hybrid lilies and daylilies, rudbeckia, Turkish carnation, zinnias, depending on the variety, I will bloom all summer (June - August).

Blooming in June-July

Pay attention to the lupine - blooming in the spring, he will give you his tender flowers again at the end of summer. At the same time, you need to plant petunias, celosia, tobacco, also at the time of planting sweet peas, purslane, nemesia. Blossoming daisies will give the baton to gladioli, irises and peonies at this time. Behind them is the turn of the planting of gergin and cannes, salvia and ageratum, zinnia and cineraria.

Blooming in August and September

And closer to autumn, the flowering of the "Queen of Autumn" - asters and chrysanthemums will gradually begin. The height of different grades ranges from 20 cm to 1 m. They are not demanding on the ground. Chrysanthemums are perennial, so you need to immediately determine their place in the flowerbed. Asters are best grown in seedlings and planted gently on plants of the “first flowering wave”. Then the bright heads of asters against the background of stems and leaves of faded plants will truly become a decoration of the autumn garden. Later varieties of chrysanthemums bloom in September - October and tolerate small frosts.

Blooming all summer

There are wonderful flowers that delight with their flowering all summer. And to them, first of all, it is worth attributing the petunia beloved by many gardeners.An unpretentious beauty, so resistant to the surprises of nature, can even endure a sharp cold snap and become the basis for an all-summer flowering flower bed.

Next, it is worth paying attention to the marigolds - useful for the garden, because they scare away many pests, they are able to decorate your site with their bright suns almost all summer. plant different varieties of marigolds on the edges of the flowerbed in 2 tiers, and the yellow suns will revive your flowerbed for a long time.
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They will be especially good against the background of multi-colored pansies or delightful snapdragons. It is also recommended for a flowering flowerbed all summer - it will begin to bloom in May, and until November will delight you with its indefatigable beauty.
Rosa is the undisputed queen, you can purchase forribunda or polyanthus varieties, place them in the center of the flowerbed, and these beauties will delight your look all summer.

Planting plants

To obtain the effect of abundant flowering plants with the same flowering period, it is desirable to plant in groups. If they are planted in different places in the flowerbed, the "flower picture" will be fragmented. Set tall plants to live in the center of the flowerbed if the flowerbed is away from buildings and fences. Otherwise, in the background. To enhance the emotional perception of a flowering picture, you can add medicinal plants with a pleasant aroma (echinacea, sage, lavender) to the flower garden.

Some more tips

As an alternative to flower beds with constantly flowering plants, you can consider a flower garden of a small area, on which plants of 1-2 species are planted. But at the same time, different varieties are selected: early, middle, late.
For annuals, the flowering time can easily be shifted by sowing seeds at intervals of 1 to 2 weeks.
Be sure to plant the plants, follow the distance that is indicated in the recommendations for planting between individuals, it is important that the flowers grow well.
When planting bulbs, it is better to use containers that can localize the location of this group of plants. And thereby facilitating the excavation of bulbs in late summer.

And, most importantly, one should not strive to plant “everything and everything” on the flowerbed in the first year. Growing flowers is a creativity, a process, a desire to change, improve.
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