A Beautiful Terrace Is Your Summer Room. Part 3

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

How to build and equip a cozy place for a family vacation

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Roses on the terrace

Among

dwarf,

standard and

climbing roses, as well as among

ground cover,

flower bed and

shrub roses, there are varieties grown in pots. The pots or planters should be large and deep. Roses love clay soil, loose, water and breathable. They should be placed in the sun, but not in the heat.

Shrub roses of the Snegurochka variety coexist well with fern. Potted roses should be well fixed when placed on tall stands. The selection of roses is great, for every taste. The smallest dwarf or mini-roses with red, orange-red, yellow, pink and white flowers are grown in tubs. These plants do not require a lot of space, and also grow the largest ones - climbing or climbing.

Standard roses, like no other form of roses, have many advantages on the terrace, because they look especially impressive. Clematis, sage, delphinium and horned violet can also be companions of roses.

For growing next to roses or under roses are used: soft cuff (yellow), gypsophila (white), delphinium (blue, white, pink), bell (blue, white, pink), verbena (various varieties), lilies (varieties of various types and colors), sage (blue, purple, white), phlox (different species), anemone (pink, white), coreopsis (yellow), tall bearded iris, Dalmatian geranium, shrub aster, various cereals.

Climbing and climbing roses require space, large pots, and tall supports, such as pergolas, on which to anchor and guide them up.

Blooming walls

Climbing plants should be used not only as decorative elements. They are the most reliable way to isolate yourself from other people's views. In addition to dense green walls, they form beautiful flowers and a delicate aroma. They do not need a lot of space, unlike roses, they only need shallow pots - up to 30 cm. Such plants grow more in width, forming dense carpets. Therefore, the supports must be stable, since over time the weight of the plants can be significant.

Protection from prying eyes can be provided by winter-hardy climbing plants: ivy, climbing hydrangea and curly euonymus, which are well recommended when grown in tubs. The garden on the terrace will also be enriched by clematis, preferring partial shade of honeysuckle - honeysuckle and curly honeysuckle.

At the edge of the terrace, it is appropriate to plant magnificently growing grapes or climbing roses in the ground in the garden.

Beautiful herbs

The filigree, pinnately complex grass leaves rustle in the wind and create a lacy shade, they are very attractive. It is advisable to grow desert crops on the terrace. They do not suffer from drought and lack of fertilizers. They don't have to be cacti armed with hard thorns. There are many thornless species, such as the "leafy" cactus epiphyllum. Other harmless succulents can be various types of Kalanchoe.

You can place on the terrace several palms in pots - date, dwarf, blue. Some of the ornamental palms look like ferns. Yucca, which looks like a palm tree, is also suitable for decorating a terrace. Red cannes and castor bean leaves create welcome color accents among lush greenery.

Perennials and bulbs for the terrace

The range of herbaceous perennials suitable for growing in pots is huge. When choosing candidates, their resistance to adverse conditions and appearance are important. Of interest are plants that, along with long flowering, have attractive leaves, for example, incense, hosta, autumn anemone, heuchera, loosestrife or cuff. Cereals also retain their attractiveness until late autumn. The richness of colors on the terrace is provided by dahlias, lilies, agapanthus, rudbeckia, astilba, bells, coreopsis, daylilies, hosts, irises, catnip, phlox, rudbeckia, veronica. Preference is given to kings in the garden - gladioli.

An important criterion that determines the possibility of use is the height of the plants. Low (10-20 cm) pillow plants are adorable in flat flowerpots. They are suitable for planting in the lower tier, where their shoots are hung over the edge of the pot. Plants with a height of 30 to 80 cm are in harmony with most vessels and are well suited for combined plantings. Species over 100 cm in height should be used as free standing plants.

Since herbaceous plants over the years "get tired" in their pots and rarely begin to bloom, lose leaves, they should be regularly (every 2-4 years) rejuvenated.

Kitchen bed on the terrace

Several types of delicate herbs can be grown here for seasoning. Many are sure that self-grown vegetables are much healthier and tastier than purchased ones. On the terrace you can grow lemon thyme, lavender, variegated sage, lemon balm, savory in a flowerpot, loosestrife or meadow tea, hyssop. No less interesting from a culinary and visual point of view are peppers, beets and tomatoes, an attractive red-purple basil leaves. Visual pleasure will be provided by the fruits of tomatoes, peppers and decorative pumpkins, as well as pods of motley beans.

You should rely on early ripening vegetables. These include radishes, which can be harvested within 4-6 weeks after sowing. Immediately after the radish, the salad ripens. Head lettuce takes 5-7 weeks from sowing to harvest. Tomatoes are very popular, which do not grow very much and still give a high yield. Be sure to place tomato pots in a place protected from rain under a roof or canopy so that they do not suffer from leaf and brown rot.

A small garden of green herbs on the terrace will make cooking easier for you, even if you have a large vegetable garden. The constant consumption of shoots and leaves does not harm the plants at all. On the contrary, continuous pruning encourages them to branch again and again, and they remain bushy and compact. For perennial onions, constant harvesting is even necessary so that buds are not tied on it, which would negatively affect the quality of the greenery. The flowers of nasturtium can be used as food because they are edible and decorate salads or desserts.

When creating a grassy slide, shade-tolerant herbs are placed at the very bottom: peppermint, parsley, lemon balm and sorrel. Plants demanding the sun are raised higher on inverted pots and whatnots. The uppermost places remain for drought-resistant herbs, such as thyme.

Grass pots should have holes in the bottom for water to drain and a layer of gravel a few centimeters deep for drainage.

You can try berry crops in standard form for growing in pots - black and red currants, gooseberries and yoshta. You can try to plant blueberry bushes, lingonberries. Remontant strawberries are also popular. Any containers will suit her.

Fall. The garden on the terrace will delight in autumn with bright fruits, colorful leaves and late flowers. Variegated autumn leaves are perfect for making herbarium, cereals - for making dry bouquets, berries - for getting variegated wreaths.

You can enjoy rudbeckia, physalis, heather, euonymus. Herbaceous perennials grown in pots - autumn sedum, anemone, orange-red chrysanthemums and many types of asters bloom only in the late season and fascinate us with an abundance of flowers. Physalis lanterns are beautiful when they take on an orange-red color.

Annual flowers - autumn chrysanthemums - perfectly decorate the terrace. Then they die from frost. Ornamental cabbage with the onset of cold weather is painted in bright purple tones or in a noble white color. Heathers, with their wealth of purple, white, pink and red flowers, make you forget that winter is coming.

If there is a threat of the first night frost, bring the plants to a warm room for a short time. In sheltered areas in front of the walls of houses, which store heat and release it on cool nights, the outdoor season can be extended, as well as in areas sheltered from wind and rain.

Ornamental trees can also give their delicious fruits - irga, chokeberry and mountain ash.

It must be remembered that euonymus and ivy are classified as poisonous plants. Cotoneaster, mahonia, snowberry are weakly poisonous.

Ornamental pumpkins can be grown in large pots with an abundance of water, nutrients and free space on the terrace.

Evergreen herbaceous perennials are also irreplaceable here: geykhera, badan, St. John's wort, Ayuga, ground cover subulate phlox, yucca, thyme, as well as various types of saxifrage and stonecrop.

And how beautiful decorative grasses are on the autumn terrace: sedges, oatmeal, millet, hare tail. Plants in tubs for the autumn terrace: fan maple, heather, coreopsis, cotoneaster, erika, euonymus and others.

Tamara Barkhatova

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