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Video: How To Attract Beneficial Birds And Insects To The Site
2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47
Creating a beautiful scented garden
Bring birds and butterflies to your site. How pleasant it is to watch these winged visitors in the garden. The garden is a natural environment for many birds and butterflies. He attracts them with food, water and provides them with shelter.
With careful planning and creation of your garden, consider how to entice birds and useful winged friends. Rest assured that the work you put into creating a garden of nectar-rich plants that bloom exuberantly in the summer and form brightly colored berries and fruits in the fall and winter will pay off.
In bushes and in the crown of trees, birds make nests, safe from creeping predators and away from people's eyes. High and low branches and leaves create comfort for them. Your hard work will be rewarded by creating an army of garden pest fighters, as well as helpers to pollinate flowers and fruit crops.
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You will constantly admire your garden with pleasure. The most attractive are beautiful butterflies, bees, bumblebees, dragonflies, buzzing and chirping birds. Fragrant flowers attract them. Some perennials also have a specific structure - an accumulation of small flowers with a tubular shape, attracting little guests.
Blooming bushes of spire, bean, roses, and other beautiful plants provide shelter for small midges on windy days. Birds also hide in the bushes. It is important not to forget to provide them with water for drinking and bathing. Please note - butterflies and birds prefer to drink from a shallow container filled with sand and water. Place a shallow bowl for them in the garden.
The ponds in the garden are not only of practical and decorative value. Surrounded by lush vegetation, they attract many birds and insects and serve as a swimming place for them. The same role is played by a waterfall or just a puddle. Don't forget about the feeders, especially in winter.
So, there should be birds and beneficial insects in the garden. And they only feel comfortable in a fragrant garden. Light and bright colors are a signal to attract birds and butterflies to the garden in search of nectar. For them, spots of bright, lively red, scarlet, yellow, pink, and also blue flowers are tempting. The orange-red color scheme is especially attractive.
Most scented flowers like sunny locations. When a shadow comes on them, then their flowering decreases, the energy of growth decreases. Ornamental grasses among beautiful flowers enhance their attractiveness and highlight the structure. That way, your garden will be beautiful throughout the growing season. I offer summer residents one of the garden options, which will undoubtedly attract many welcome and useful guests.
Achilles variety Paprika (10 plants). It has flat inflorescences of bright orange-red flowers with a cheerful yellow center on strong stems. The neatly divided fern-like leaves are green. Plant height - 60-75 cm.
Alstroemeria (10 pieces). A very attractive plant. The flowers are lily-like, up to 5 cm in diameter. The stems are strongly leafy and bear loose inflorescences in the upper part. Height 60-90 cm. It has yellow, orange, white, pink and red color. Shelter is required for the winter.
Echinacea purpurea variety Magnus (12 plants). Height - 90–100 cm. Beautiful bright pink large inflorescences up to 0 cm in diameter. Basal leaves are broadly oval, stem-sessile lanceolate.
Lupine Roussel (6 plants). Leaves are long-petiolate, palmate. Height 150 cm. Red inflorescences up to 70 cm tall - multi-flowered spike. Perennial, blooms in early summer.
Liatris variety Cobalt (6 plants). An extremely decorative and unpretentious flower. Luxurious herb with dense candle-shaped inflorescences up to 30 cm long, erect stems.
Leaves are narrow, long, collected in dense basal rosettes.
Oregano (origanum) (16 plants). Decorative, bees favorite shrub. It has aromatic leaves and forms tubular flowers with small, compact inflorescences. Plant height - 45-60 cm. Requires shelter for the winter. You can replace oregano with lemon balm, which has a strong lemon scent that soothes humans and attracts bees.
Penstemon (16 pieces). A very delicate plant with large scarlet-pink flowers similar to snapdragons. Flowers on strong straight arrows open consistently over several weeks. The leaves are lanceolate. These delightful flowers long and reliably attract winged friends. Plant height - 30 cm.
Phalaris bulbous (10 plants). This is an exclusively decorative ribbon grass - leaves of elongated white and green stripes. They are always in excellent condition and create a lasting bouquet.
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Spirea argut (1 plant). Very spectacular, profusely blooming spirea with drooping stems 1-1.5 m long. It blooms in April - May with white flowers, collected in long lovely inflorescences. The shrub grows rapidly, forming a lush, elegant bush.
How to create the shape of the proposed flower planting? First, draw a plan in the square using a cord, tape measure, pegs, and a wooden compass. Create the correct flower bed shapes - circles.
In the center, place a round table and a growing spirea, which, when growing, give the shape of a ball. Place the rest of the perennials in free outlines against the background of green grass. For the good development of the planted flowers, the preparation of the site where they will grow is of great importance. Clean it from stones and plant debris.
Fertilize the soil abundantly with organic and mineral fertilizers. For planting in the spring, prepare the site in the fall. Dig it up, and dig it up again in the spring. To make flower arrangements stand out better, raise the plants 5–10 cm above the grass carpet.
How to plant this garden?
First, plant the spirea in the pit at the same depth as it was in the nursery. The hole should be about 50 cm deep and wider, since the roots grow well in breadth and need space.
Strengthen the young shrub during the first growing season. Nearby, a Chinese apple tree of the Pionerochka variety, the leaves of which are red, can look very beautiful.
- Plant Alstroemeria and Achilles plants at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Make a mound over the planting pit, covering the ground with mulch 5 cm.
- Plant Echinacea at a distance of 40-50 cm from each other in concentric circles to create a rounded planting shape.
- Plant Rossel's lupine in ordinary soil at the rate of 6-9 plants per 1 m? and leave in one place for 5-7 years. Add ash, lime or chalk to the hole before planting.
- Plant Liatris every 20-30 cm. Be sure to mulch in the summer from the hot sunlight.
- Plant Penstemon at a distance of 25-30 cm. Water abundantly in summer, and mulch with peat in a layer of 10-5 cm for winter.
Of course, the choice of plants for attracting beneficial birds and insects is very large. The result here depends on taste and possibilities. Hopefully you liked this landscape project and that the floral arrangement will make you feel good.
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