2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Many wild plants (weeds) have cultivated forms and are used in landscape design. A flower bed of flowering herbs requires minimal maintenance, pleases with its unusualness and beauty
For a weed bed, you can choose any plants: high-low, perennial-biennial, cereals, creeping-erect, tuber-bulbous. Among the wild species, you will find various colors of foliage and inflorescences. I offer the top of the best unpretentious flowers for flower beds and site design.
Clover
Clover is ideal for decorating flower gardens and open spaces. An unpretentious culture with bright greenery and long flowering in demand in horticulture. The plant does not need care, only with unwanted growth it becomes necessary to restrict growth. Uncontrolled reproduction suppresses the timely removal of faded buds.
"Clover"
In the design of a suburban area, different types of clover are used:
• golden / rustling;
• creeping white / gruel;
• red (height 50-80 cm);
• pale yellow (up to 50 cm);
• small (foliage height 5 cm, stems of scarlet, pale pink color no higher than 7-8 cm).
All types of clover are suitable for filling the flower beds; for most, flowering takes place in June-July. Especially popular varieties are Pashenny (annual 20 cm high), Pink Peach (40 cm, blooms with pink flowers all summer) and Shabdar / Persian clover.
In perennial species of clover, a full-fledged plant appears in the second or third year after sowing. Seeds are sown in early spring or in August and early September, planting depth is 0.5 cm.
Knapweed
An upright herb called cornflower is known as a weed in cereal fields. Its flowers in the form of baskets-inflorescences are painted in blue, have gracefully carved petals. It reproduces by self-sowing, not demanding on soils, frost and drought-resistant.
Knapweed
Prolonged flowering of cornflower, exquisite beauty and unpretentiousness interested gardeners. Today there are several dozen cultivated forms, differing in height, color and shape of the buds. Among the garden cornflowers there are not only blue-blue, but also white, pink, burgundy, lilac, yellow. Terry varieties have been bred with a colored center.
Cornflowers are sown in April-May or before winter, the deepening is minimal (0.5 cm). In spring, seedlings appear 2-3 weeks after the melt water disappears. When 2-3 true leaves appear, the plantings are thinned out. The step between the plants is 10-20 cm, depending on the variety.
Care consists of occasional watering and weeding. Undesirable reproduction by self-seeding is excluded by timely collection of unripe seed bolls.
Violet
Violet
A perennial herbaceous violet belongs to the ground cover group and is in demand in landscape design. Abundant flowering takes place twice a year. Depending on the species, the buds are purple or white. Foliage decorativeness remains until the end of autumn.
Fertile soils and sunny places are favorable for growth. On semi-shady areas, a fragrant violet will also grow, but the flowering is not so abundant. The plant reproduces by seeds, rooting shoots, creeping rhizome.
Buttercup
Unlike wild-growing buttercups, garden buttercups are more decorative and less aggressive. Cultivated varieties, bred on the basis of Asiatic buttercup, have different colors of buds (red, white, purple, orange, etc.), inflorescences can be double.
"Buttercup"
A low, bright garden buttercup will successfully create an accent on any flower bed, decorate a nondescript place. Abundant flowering occurs in early to mid-summer. Reproduction is assumed by rhizome nodules or seeds.
Sowing is carried out in the ground in May, at the same time the existing seedlings are planted. Buttercup needs only initial development in care, then no effort is required from the gardener.
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