What Flowers And Ornamental Plants Can Decorate Your Flower Beds From Spring To Autumn

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

Flower for the season

Every flower know your season! So you can paraphrase the well-known proverb. And indeed, each plant dissolves its lovely and pleasant flowers to the heart and eyes in a strictly defined period. By collecting a series of such plants, you can create a magnificent garden that will bloom from early spring to late autumn, like a garland, changing the color of the bulbs and lighting them one after another in its various parts - the corners of the garden!

Spring garden

Galanthus snowdrops

It all starts with the goddess of all romantics - spring ! The first bulbous, primroses, sometimes make their way through the crust, snow and cold, towards the sun, as if in a hurry to enjoy its rays. The most beloved and most anticipated of them are snowdrops. Maybe that's why they are listed in the Red Book, because everyone strives to rip them off.

Still, it is better to grow snowdrops in your flower bed, since now many cultural forms have been created that will gladly settle under your window and, withering at the beginning of summer, will wait to meet you after a new long winter.

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Proleska - Scylla

Snowdrops are good because they are completely unpretentious and are not afraid of frost, on the contrary, they even need it. However, certain conditions for full development are still needed. The first is the obligatory abundance of moisture on the site, and the second is an open space that provides an abundance of light.

If the winter period is not distinguished by a large snow cover, which also melts quickly in spring under the influence of an unusual temperature, then you will have to water the snowdrops. In conditions of a lack of moisture, they will bloom poorly and for a short time.

In general, the duration of flowering of snowdrops is regulated by nature itself: in cold spring they bloom longer, but if it is hot outside, then their flowering is sometimes limited to only two or three days. After the end of flowering, you do not need to cut off the leaves, because you can damage the bulb, it is better to let them die off naturally.

A little later, when the snowdrops leave the stage, they are replaced by crocuses who adore space and the sun. If there is not enough space on your site, and the crocuses are forced to huddle in a small shade, then try to bring the soil to the optimal state for these plants. Crocuses love well-drained and very fertile land.

Nearby with the crocuses, at practically the same time, blue-eyed blue-eyed blue-eyed trees are already opening up. Here they are, although they look like snowdrops like twins, they prefer a small shadow rather than open space. Scilla, or scilla, will become the flower that can be planted in the shaded part of the flower bed without fear that the plant will die.

Hyacinth

Following the groves, they show their delicate eyes-flowers and muscari. This plant will feel at ease both in a shaded area and in an open place. The main thing is that at the time of their flowering outside the window there is an appropriate temperature, equal to + 15 … + 17 ° С. Caring for the crop is not at all difficult, all you need to do is periodically remove weeds and loosen the soil to a depth of no more than three centimeters. By the way, about the soil: muscari are completely undemanding to its composition, they will grow on any type, the main thing is that it is moisture-permeable, and neither melt nor rain water stagnates on its surface.

The next flower in line, which blooms at almost the same time, is hyacinth. He is known to all flower growers and is good to everyone. There is, perhaps, only one drawback - its massive greenery quickly turns into an unsightly mass, exposing the area on which the flower grew. This must be taken into account when designing flower beds. One of the ways to solve this problem is to plant hyacinth next to more "long-playing" plants, which are able to grow and hide the empty space.

Narcissus

The flowering time of hyacinths coincides, as a rule, with the more common plants - tulips and daffodils. They don't require any special care. Also, their "friends" - primroses and lilies of the valley are not very demanding on care, however, they simply adore when the substrate on which they grow was well processed, rich in organic matter and moisturized.

In addition to the skillful combination of flowering plants, you can often see their well-chosen color range. For example, the bright red of a blooming tulip and the yellowish-white color of a daffodil will work well. In addition, in addition to a good combination of colors, these crops do not require special care and can coexist elegantly in tandem.

Tulips go quite well with groves, and daffodils - with primroses, they are great both in group plantings of 5-6 plant species, and in single plantings, including no more than two pairs.

But we digress from our plants, let's return to their description again. So, we have primroses next. There are actually quite a few species of this plant, and they often bloom at different times, therefore, skillfully picking them up, you can stretch the flowering period of this particular flower, loved by many. Gorgeous primroses inflorescences, often very bright - lilac, red, pink or lilac are simply mesmerizing. I want to extend the beauty of the flowering of a certain species indefinitely, but, alas, these are just pipe dreams, but you can still slightly increase the flowering period. For this, the plant must be planted between perennials, they will provide the primrose with the necessary shading, and she will certainly answer such care by extending the flowering period.

Primrose

From primrose is very well combined permanent crops such as Weigela and freesia, spirea and fragrant mock orange. Freesia, by the way, also emits a very pleasant aroma, but you still cannot call this culture undemanding. Freesia loves loose, moisture-absorbing and humus-containing soils, but if the substrate in your area is far from the culinary preferences of freesia, you can fix the situation by introducing rotted compost with the addition of mineral fertilizers.

As for the chubushnik and weigela, they are much less demanding on the soil. These are unpretentious crops, but they have a high decorative effect, including lush flowering. In order for the shrubs of these species to please you with a chic, radiating health appearance, you need to provide them with loose and moist soil. Also, from time to time it is necessary to carry out sanitary pruning and more often to loosen the soil around the bushes.

Spirea in this regard is even more interesting, it does not even need loosening, but what kind of honey can bees get from its flowers! In addition, spirea is only slightly inferior to bird cherry in terms of its phytoncidal properties, which heals the air around.

Closing the list of spring-flowering plants, I would like to give a simple, but nevertheless important, advice: a place for planting early-flowering crops, and flower crops, and large shrubs, it is better to choose a place well protected from cold wind and excess moisture.

Summer flower beds

Nivyanik

From spring, we walk straight into summer, there is scope for color, aroma and beauty. Summer is no less fleeting than spring. But even in cloudy weather, bright flowers of perennials and annuals echoing them with beauty and unpretentiousness can dispel boredom and cheer up.

If there was a competition for the most expressive flower, then it would most likely be won by a large cornflower, often people call it simply and somehow even offensively - chamomile. However, this "daisy" lady is capricious. In order to be able to tell fortunes on its petals, it is necessary to divide the bush into two or three parts every two or three years, and it is also necessary to mulch the soil with peat or humus every year, not forgetting about watering, which is especially necessary in dry weather. In order for a couple of flowers that are already starting to fade not to spoil the whole picture, they must be removed by short cutting, and when autumn comes to the yard to replace summer, it will be necessary to cut out all the shoots near the ground.

In addition to capricious chamomile, Turkish carnations, peonies and irises bloom magnificently in summer, exude phlox scent, and aquilegia pleases with graceful beauty. All these crops, however, love well-fertilized, that is, nutritious soils, and phloxes, among other things, love plenty of moisture and good lighting.

Lupine

Of the plants that are not often found in the flower bed of an inhabitant, one can first of all note lychnis and liatrix, lupine and cinquefoil. But the banal stock-rose and yarrow already seem to have reliably passed into the category of "grandmother's flowers", although there are now many varieties of them, and some of them are simply of wondrous beauty. All these rather different cultures have one thing in common - an insane love of warmth. Give them the most open, sunniest and warmest place for lush development and active flowering.

But not all summer people adore the sun so fanatically; there are those among them who prefer a cool shade to an open place. These crops include, first of all, daylilies, cornflowers and the bell, adored by many for its simplicity and elegance. Perhaps the eastern cornflower stands out from the group of shade-loving flowers - it willingly grows in the shade, but blooms there very modestly, but in the sun it quickly fades out, but its flowering in this place is very lush.

The curiosities of the garden include narrow-leaved eremurus, it blooms in the midst of summer and, being little known in our country, is widespread in Western Europe. There he is simply a king - he is allocated the best places in parks and squares, on personal plots. Eremurus can often be seen in the center of the lawn or at the very crown of an alpine slide. This culture loves nutritious and, most importantly, well-drained soils, loves sunny, but reliably protected from the wind places, is afraid of waterlogging and stagnant moisture, but requires periodic watering, especially in drought.

Do not write off the cultures that are already familiar to all of us, which also bloom in the summer. This carnation, godetsiya, verbena, lavatera, kosmeya, calendula, tegetes and fragrant tobacco - they were in our gardens, are and will be.

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The charm of the eyes …

However, the summer has flown by, and autumn is already pouring foliage on the threshold. During this period, nature, like a gorgeous fireworks after an equally beautiful concert, wants to cheer up a person and fill the soul with colors to the eyeballs, for long three to four months - until spring. The overwhelming majority of breeds change the color of the foliage to a brighter one - golden or scarlet, which burns against the background of wilting and preparing for sleep.

The world of flowers also has its own kings of autumn. The first thing that comes to mind is the bright yellow, purplish red or fiery orange color of rudbeckia. By the way, these plants adore open spaces, and Gaillardia also loves them - it is worth planting it or helenium on a good, heated area with drained soil, and they will certainly delight you with lush and long flowering.

In autumn, unpretentious asters, the queens of autumn bouquets, and chrysanthemums, which, in addition to flower beds, can be grown in containers, also please the soul - they only need to be brought into the room for the winter. The landscape is also decorated with crocus, echo with armeria and badan, and sedum and echinacea, as if reminding of the upcoming colds and colds, are asking to be dried and used in infusions and broths.

Towards the end of autumn, like a staunch captain leaving with the ship into the abyss of uncertainty, marigolds will bloom, which will perish only under the thickness of cold snow …

Nikolay Khromov,

Candidate of Agricultural Sciences,

Researcher, Department of Berry Crops,

GNU VNIIS im. I. V. Michurina,

member of the R&D Academy