2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
In previous articles, I briefly talked about shade-loving perennials. But if you don't want to look at the same flowers every year, then you can plant annual flowers that feel great in the shade. These include scented tobacco, lobelia and nasturtium
Scented tobacco
This amazing flower, captivating with its aroma and large flowers of delicate pastel shades, can increasingly be found in the plots. How does it attract gardeners? First, an extraordinary aroma, which in intensity can only be compared with a night violet. Secondly, with unusual pure pastel colors of a fairly large size. Thirdly, it grows well both in shaded areas and in the bright summer sun.
The only thing that scented tobacco does not like is poor soil and drought. Therefore, if the soil in the future flowerbed is infertile, then in the fall add compost and humus to it, and add peat there in the spring.
Fragrant tobacco propagates only seeds, which are sown for seedlings in late March or early April, and after the onset of heat, towards the end of May, they are planted in open ground in a previously prepared flower bed. By the way, if you have a waterlogged area, be sure to take care of the drainage system!
Caring for a fragrant plant is simple. The most important thing is to water and feed the flower on time. Top dressing for the season is carried out twice: the first at the stage of the emergence of buds, the second at the stage of flowering of the first flowers. Watering is carried out as the soil dries up, do not allow the soil to dry out for a long time. By the way, the optimal feeding is to water the tobacco with water in which mineral fertilizers are dissolved according to the instructions for them.
Subject to these simple conditions, tobacco will grow, bloom and delight you with its aroma until the very frost. Please note that Dutch tobaccos smell very weak.
Lobelia
Lobelia pleases the eye with abundant flowering, flower stalks are diverse: you can find all shades, from white and blue to burgundy and purple. It grows well in shaded areas without losing the brightness and intensity of flowering. The height of the plant depends on the specific variety. Please note that there are also perennial and ampelous lobelias, the latter look good in hanging pots or multi-tiered flower beds.
The best way to grow lobelia is to sow seeds for seedlings, it is done in March, in May the grown seedlings are planted in a flower bed. By this time, the first flowers are often blooming on the plant.
Lobelia is quite demanding on the ground, it grows best in light, nutritious and moist soil. When planting a plant on a flower bed, pour a little expanded clay or gravel into each hole, they will serve as drainage.
Lobelia care is very simple. The most important thing is to water on time, preventing the soil from completely drying out. Pull the weeds out periodically and gently loosen the flower bed.
Nasturtium
A very beautiful plant up to 2 meters high (depending on the specific variety) with bright flowers, grows well in partial shade or in the sun. To grow it, every grower needs to know a few tricks. First. Nasturtium is extremely thermophilic, from frost, which other flowers can easily tolerate, it will inevitably die. Second. Nasturtium is extremely painful to transplant, so it is best to grow it in peat tablets or pots and plant it in the ground with them. Third. After planting in the ground and before flowering, nasturtium needs rather abundant watering, but after the flowers appear, water it only as the soil dries up.
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