2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
It is not difficult to ensure the continuity of flowering in a perennial flower bed. It is important to select plants taking into account the sequence of budding dates. We present useful information with a list of assortments and care rules for extending decorativeness
Which perennials to choose?
The main point when creating a flower bed is a competent selection of plants. It is important to ensure the alternate flowering of one participant after another, as well as try to maintain the criteria of harmonious neighborhood and overall design in the layout of the seedlings. When placing, you need to take into account individuality and try to create conditions for full development. Pay attention to soil, lighting needs and make the right groupings in relation to sun and soil quality. You may need to choose a dry or shady place.
By the way, you need to start grouping precisely with light and moisture-loving, and then divide the selected species by flowering time. This requires experience, knowledge, but the result will be pleasing - you will not regret the time spent on the selection of plant assortments.
There are many flowering plants, we will consider only those that are included in the list of the most popular among gardeners and are often used to create landscape compositions. For examples, we will recommend those that are easy to grow and resistant to weather fluctuations.
Spring flowering perennials
This group includes all bulbous from daffodils with tulips to crocuses and chionodoxes. Popular phlox subulate, lungwort, common lumbago, virginia mertensia.
Perennials of late spring and early summer flowering:
Broken heart (dicentra), peonies, catchment (aquilegia), lamb, Dianthus carnation, irises (Germanic, bearded, Siberian). As well as geychera, geranium, iberis, sage, coreopsis.
Summer flowering perennials:
Lilies, double monarda, yarrow, rudbeckia, purpurea echinacea, daylilies, hosts, paniculata phlox, delphinium, Gaillardia.
Autumn flowering plants:
Chrysanthemums, all kinds of stonecrops, Hubei anemone.
An example of a simple flower bed of continuous flowering
The size can be any, but not less than two square meters. A large area will increase the number of seedlings and create variety. The layout is also not very important. The main condition: when creating a flower bed, it is the use of vegetation, which gives an even flowering time.
So, we will plant chrysanthemums, lilies, lilies of the valley, chamomile, whorled coreopsis. For an improved design, we use the method of increasing height - tiering. The foreground should be occupied by low-growing varieties: lily of the valley and coreopsis. These plants can be planted in groups, rows, or alternating.
Plant any variety of low-growing chrysanthemums behind the front lane. After that, stepping back slightly, chamomile bushes are planted, pick up a variety that has an average height. The tiers are closed in our case by the tallest flowers - lilies. For them, the last row is highlighted; on a round flowerbed, this will be the middle.
Flower bed care
The difficulty of caring for some perennials is the constant limitation of distribution. For example, a lily of the valley has an actively growing root system, which can capture an entire flower garden in a couple of years. Therefore, it is necessary to remove the overgrowth that appears in the right place. You can, of course, immediately plant sprawling plants in plastic containers without a bottom. This will further facilitate care and help to avoid unnecessary efforts.
The aesthetics of the flower bed is maintained due to the timely removal of faded buds, weeding, cutting off old stems and foliage, one cannot do without top dressing and loosening. Watering for perennials is not as relevant as for annual flowers, so if you visit your area on short visits, nothing terrible will happen.
There is one more nuance for caring for a flower bed. Sometimes, between the flowers, empty spaces appear, in this case nothing needs to be planted on them. Use techniques to improve the composition through decorative backfill, installation of a sculpture, a flashlight, and placement of a beautiful stone.
With long-term growth, replanting of new plants is required, removal of old ones. Heat-loving specimens will need to be covered for a safe wintering. As a result, your composition will delight you all season with its blooming appearance.
Recommended:
Unpretentious Flowering Perennials: 11 Species
For beginners or summer residents, with irregular visits, it is recommended to plant flowering herbaceous perennials. I'll tell you about plants that do not require maintenance and look spectacular in the garden
Top Not Killed Flowering Perennials
In order not to waste energy on ennobling the territory, plant unpretentious garden flowers. I offer an overview of perennials that grow without much care and bloom for a long time
Flowering Perennials (daylily And Irises)
Those who are not too fond of lush greenery can have a daylily and irises in their summer cottage. Their pointed, strict leaves discipline, at the same time giving the opportunity to relax in the country, and not work hard from dawn to dusk, caring for the flower garden. After all, are you for the summer cottage or the summer cottage for you?
How To Create A Continuous Flowering Floxarium
A variety of luxurious inflorescences, an exquisite aroma make phlox a desirable flower in our flower beds. It is known that these plants have therapeutic properties: they normalize mental processes, relieve stress, and restore mental balance. Under the influence of their unobtrusive aroma, a relaxation process begins, this kind of relaxation is called flox therapy. Let's talk about how to arrange continuous flowering floxarium
Continuous Flowering Of Adenium
The African tropics gave the world a surprisingly hardy plant, the succulent stems of which store water reserves for the dry season. Leathery bright green leaves shine, and bright and abundant flowers adorn the shrub for a long period. In our conditions, the plant is grown indoors, admiring natural creativity
