A Garden In Pink From Spring To Autumn

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

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Astilbes are the most graceful perennials: both the shape of the bush and the carved strong leaves in themselves are works of skillful nature.

Their inflorescences - brushes amaze the imagination with the subtlety of the pattern: they can be of the correct pyramidal shape, high, medium and low, dense and sparse; can freely spread transparent brushes of creamy white, pink, lilac small flowers.

The combination of astilba with roses in bouquets and flower beds is an unforgettable sight! Having mentioned pink roses, one cannot but mention the wrinkled pink rosehip and its other species blooming with large fragrant flowers all summer. In the spring, Ledebour almonds are strewn with light pink flowers, weigela - with dark pink flowers.

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Various bows also support the pink and lilac palette of the garden (chives, giant bow, Ostrovsky). The adorable herb carnation can move into your garden from a nearby meadow.

There you can also find willow and twig-shaped loosestrife, fireweed, which will revive the flower garden with candle-shaped pink inflorescences.

Among the tall "free queens" it is impossible not to note the purple foxglove, which has countless bell-shaped flowers of various shades of pink with specks inside.

Self-seeding foxglove can occur in the most unexpected place in the garden. You just need to remember that the plant is poisonous, and therefore children should be protected from contact with it.

Peonies will reign in the June garden with the splendor of large, heavy flowers of all kinds of colors and shades, and there are many suitable varieties for the "rose" garden.

It should be noted that the leaves of peonies themselves are very decorative: in spring, young shoots are brownish-red, in summer the leaves are dark green, shiny, and in autumn they retain their attractiveness. For good flowering, peonies require a bright spot, nutritious slightly acidic soil, well-drained, proper planting and good nutrition. Peonies live in one place for 10-15 years, making up a spectacular dominant in any garden.

Peony bushes can be alternated with groups of pearl anaphalis with silvery leaves and large shields of white flowers. Peonies go well with paniculate phlox: the former finish flowering, and the latter begin, while the elegant, carved leaves of peonies perfectly set off the light foliage of the phlox.

Slender bushes of paniculate phlox form large color spots. This genus has an exceptional richness of pink colors with various nuances in the form of strokes, eyes of a different color, and, of course, many shades - cold and warm. For a better perception of them, it is worth "diluting" the colored curtain with white-flowered varieties, which can have not only spherical, but also pyramidal of various proportions, the shape of inflorescences, as well as different flowering periods.

The aristocrat of the garden, lily, is crowned with luxurious flowers of various colors, among which the pink palette is very diverse.

Asian hybrids, the most reliable in our conditions, are often decorated with specks and strokes, which makes them especially attractive. Asparagus, planted between the lilies, will give them a special charm with a cloud of delicate greenery. Gypsophila paniculata and annual will be good as partners: their small white flowers on branched shoots will wrap, like a bride's veil, slender lilies, as well as roses.

In the same role is maiden feverfew with white double baskets of flowers, similar to small-flowered chrysanthemums. Its white, abundantly flowering bushes illuminate the darkest corners under the crowns of trees and are combined with any plants.

The hedge, strewn with delicate pink, white-pink, pink with purple streaks of large flowers, allows you to create unpretentious musk mallow. This ancient plant of the village gardens has not lost its charm at all.

In summer, the lushly blooming, slender mallow bushes give a feeling of lightness and festive mood. To match the mallow with tall candles, seated with pink double flowers, there are stately stock roses. The colors of their flowers are now just dizzy, and there are many new products for the rose garden. They will bloom until the frost.

Mallow and stock-rose are propagated by seeds, like all biennial plants, sown in open ground in June, planted in a permanent place in August. Stock roses are tied to supports (sometimes they grow more than 2 m in height!).

Of the annuals with pink flowers, one cannot but recall the three-month lavater. Its bell-shaped flowers, like a thin brush, are painted with white or purple veins.

You can sow it directly into the ground in May, flowering continues until frost. Kosmeya with feathery leaves and large multi-colored inflorescences-baskets is also good. Pink begonias, nasturtium, diastia, petunias can grow in containers and move to any corner of the garden where accent color is required.

Pink, lilac "daisies" will decorate the flower garden small-petaled (erigeron), pink pyrethrum, purpurea echinacea. Star-shaped inflorescences of Alpine, Italian, chamomile, Chinese asters are familiar to everyone and do not require special recommendations.

Every year, the variety of varieties and colors allows you to make any compositions from these elegant plants. If low shrub asters with a spherical shape of a bush, completely covered with graceful flowers of bright pink, lilac tones, have not yet settled in your garden, by all means get them - you will not regret it!

They are perfectly combined with tall New Belgian and New England asters, blooming small radiant flowers of pink, lilac-pink, purple (as well as white, blue, purple) on spreading openwork bushes. Perennial asters bloom until the very frost, closing the season together with Korean chrysanthemum, a prominent stonecrop and autumn crocus, preserving the pink veil of the outgoing summer.