2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
The long-awaited summer is slowly losing ground, giving the fruits of its short-term stay in our area. Vegetables in the beds are poured with juice, trying to look out of the loose beds; flanks of bright orange melons grow every day; rows of tall tomatoes turn red more and more; flexible branches of fruit trees bend under the weight of gifts. And only flower beds do not seem to feel the approach of autumn, spreading out with a multi-colored carpet at our feet
Marigold
Bright velvety caps of Tagetes of different sizes and styles are scattered throughout the garden. Their bright orange and burgundy outfits stand out in a clear pattern against the still quite fresh greenery of the plants. The air around the marigolds is saturated with a persistent tart aroma that repels harmful insects. Flirty caps peek out from under the powerful leaves of white cabbage, protecting them from annoying pests.
A decorative catchy border was created from marigolds along a gray garden path made of concrete tiles. Without such a rim, the walkway would look like a dull city sidewalk.
Gladioli
Under the weight of blossoming flowers, proud multi-colored gladioli lean to the ground. Flowers compete with each other in size, quickly catching up with those who came to this world a couple of days earlier.
Nasturtium
Vitamin nasturtium, which recently was used exclusively as a spice, flavoring and medicinal plant, having begun its yellow-orange flowering in May, continues to decorate the garden, regardless of weekends and holidays. Along the way, it heals the air, acting destructively on pathogenic microbes.
The leaves and flowers added to salads help to normalize metabolism in the body, strengthen and temper the immune system before the impending winter frosts.
Petunia
The abundant flowering of the light-loving and resistant to drought and cold petunias continues, delighting gardeners with all the colors of the rainbow. If you do not forget to feed the plant a little with fertilizers, petunia will decorate flower beds until the very cold weather. But the roots of the plant could not adapt to winter frosts, so every spring you have to sow seeds in a greenhouse or in a box on the windowsill in order to decorate the summer garden with new seedlings.
Phlox
The aroma of gentle phlox drowns out the aromas of other plants, spreading through the garden in pleasant caressing waves. Moreover, the height of the plant, the color of flowers collected in lush inflorescences, do not affect the intensity of the smell.
Phlox are perennial plants that live in one place for several years. True, severe frosts in a winter with little snow can destroy the roots overwintering in the soil. Also, winters with periodic thaws are dangerous for the roots, which is what the Russian climate is sinning today. Low-growing varieties are more resistant to frost.
Hosta
Gardeners value the host more for the decorative large leaves, painted in the most fantastic colors and having fancy patterns or an elegant edge on the surface. But by the end of summer, the perennial hosta shows the world racemose inflorescences of dull, but quite attractive flowers, located on high peduncles. They give a peculiar flavor to the August flower garden.
Zinnia
The richness of zinnia colors transforms the flower garden into a bright painting, from which it is impossible to tear off an admiring gaze. Tall, strong peduncles proudly demonstrate to nature amazing inflorescences, differing in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors.
Although in nature zinnia is a perennial plant, in culture it is usually grown as an annual. Zinnia loves warmth, sun. Dislikes dry or very wet soil, fears frost. August is the month of her reign.
Many other plants continue to delight gardeners in August, trying to prolong such a short summer in our area.
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