A bright diversity of the flights will not leaveindifferent to any summer resident. Most of these amazing plants blossom already at the end of spring and pleases the eye until late autumn. Annual flowers do not require much attention and labor, if you choose the right place for planting, take into account their "habits".
Selecting Annuals
To choose the right annuals for planting, you need to decide which corners of your garden they will decorate, and also pay attention to their height and growth features.
- Plan instead of ordinary-looking shed wallsto admire the annual flowers blooming all summer? The names of the colors that suit you - mallow, amaranth tailed, tall marigolds, castor oil, sunflowers, helichrysum, kosmeja, kleoma. The height of these plants is from 70 centimeters to 1.5 meters. High handsome people will make your front garden cheerful or cover a slightly squinty fence.
- Curly annuals climb in a short timeto a height of one and a half to three meters. They will decorate the garden pavilions, trunks of old trees, openwork arches, easily climb onto the fence. Rapidly growing lianas are conveniently planted where there is little space. Flowering climbers: morning glory, sweet peas, nasturtium large, winding beans, winged tunbergia.
- For fans of mobile gardens suitableplants are begonia, lobelia, surfonia, gatsania and many other low plants with a spreading or compact form. They look great in pendant pots, balcony boxes, ceramic pots.
- If you are ready to decorate the curbs along thelawns or paths, front flower beds - it is best to place low plants for the garden on them. Annual flowers with names: echolcia, nasturtium pygmy, Iberis, marigolds and dwarf marigolds - ideal for this purpose.
- The growing annuals are the indispensable participants in the design of original compositions and alpine slides. Plant here plants with a mass of small flowers: alissum, verbena, annual phlox, brachicum.
Duration of flowering
Preservation of the ornamentality of annual flowers depends on the type and variety of the plant.
The shortest flowering time for poppies, cornflowers, and Iberis. They decorate the garden for only one month.
If you pre-plan the sequence of flowering or sowing flowers, the site will be smart throughout the season.
Most of the plants bloom for a long time, until the coldest. These are very popular annual flowers for summer cottages. Names of them for certain you are familiar:
- diverse varieties of petunias;
- fire salvia;
- high, medium and low snapdragon;
- fluffy ageratum;
- space with openwork leaves;
- sweet-smelling tobacco;
- favorite flawless marigolds.
Some annuals continue their flowering even after the first frosts.
Here are some names of garden annual flowers and photos:
- malopa, or summer mallow;
- summer chrysanthemums;
- fragrant verbena;
- marigold, or calendula;
- cornflower blue;
- aster garden;
- lavatera three-month;
- lobelia erinus or long-petioled.
Re-flowering annuals
Among the pilots there are even repair plants. They are able to blossom again and restore lost decorativeness.
For this you need only to help them a little. It is only necessary to cut the faded branches, water and feed them. The plant grows lateral stems, which again bloom well.
Some photos and names of annual flowers blooming repeatedly:
- Iberis annual;
- Nemesia, the family of the Noricorn;
- cornflower cornflower;
- lobularia seaside;
- snapdragon, or antitrinum;
- calendula, or marigold;
- ageratum, the Astro family.
"Good tone" - advice on the placement of summer books
Of course, if annuals you are going togrow for cutting to bouquets, then placement is not such an important task. You can simply land them on a regular bed. But even there you can arrange flowers correctly.
- When planting a plant, it is good to choosevarieties and species of different flowering periods. Then the faded or not yet flowering summer will create a background in the composition. If the layout is correct, the flower garden brings pleasure and joy to the whole summer season.
- Plants in the group should be harmonized in height, the size of the flowers. Consider also the shape of the leaves.
- Pay attention to coloring the flowers of annualplants. Blue should not coexist with red and yellow. Plant between them species with decorative leaves. Good for this silver cineraria.
- Use the features of color perception.Warm tones seem closer than cold. Plant the plants of blue, white, bluish tones behind yellow, red or brown. The flower garden will seem much larger than its real size.
- White flowers gently dilute hot red and bright yellow colors. But do not put them next to the light lemon flowers. The composition will lose its expressiveness.
- Do not get carried away by a large number of plants with different colors. The flower bed will look congested.
Look at the photos of annual flowers in the garden. Perhaps it will inspire you to create a similar masterpiece on your site.
After the location of the flowers is determined, the bags with seeds are bought, it remains to determine the types of flower beds. They are different in design and application. Consider what flower gardens can be.
Flowerbed
Classical view of the flower garden.A small piece of land is given some geometric form. Possible fencing low border. A distinctive feature - the plants are planted so that the designed pattern is obtained. It is preferable to break down the flowerbeds on the lawn in the parade area of the site.
Rabatka
A distinctive feature is the shape of the elongatedrectangle. The width is usually from 50 cm to 1.5 meters. The length is much wider than the width, since they arrange the rabbit along the paths or the fence. Annual flowers are usually planted in one variety. Sometimes choose different species, but close in height. To equip such a flower garden is easy. Therefore, it is often used in suburban areas.
Mixboarder
A new kind of flower garden, which was adopted from the British.It is closer to the idea of a natural garden. It has an elongated shape, because it is often arranged on the entire area between the path and the fence. High plants are closer to the fence. It differs from other types of flower beds by applying trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals. Plant the plants in loose groups. The center of composition changes throughout the season. Requires a lot of space, so it is used in spacious areas in manors.
Flower containers
Perspective view of mobile flower beds.Annuals combine with beautiful herbaceous plants or create only flower compositions. The position of containers is easy to change, forming new combinations.
The Garden in the Shade
In any garden there are places inshading. Sometimes the site is located on the north side. Light flowers see only in the morning at sunrise and in the evening at sunset. Or large fruit trees, giving a wonderful harvest, close the plants. Amateurs-flower growers will be helped by shade-tolerant annuals.
They tolerate shading well enough and blossom fully: bright nasturtium, lobelia erinus, fragrant tobacco, balm or "light".
Shadow-tolerant summer is unpretentious. After all, growing up in the shade is such a test that not many can. You need to water the flowers moderately. In the shade, moisture does not evaporate as quickly as in an open area.
Most of these plants do not tolerate low temperatures. Plant seedlings in the open ground only in stable warm weather.
Annual flowers (photos and their names), which withstand shading, are given further.
Fragrant tobacco
The birthplace of the flower is Central America. There he grows as a perennial. In cold Russia has adapted to give seeds in one summer, because it can not withstand our frosts.
The overseas resident settled in our summer-resorts, maintaining the penumbra. As soon as large sprouts are blossoming - flowers, aroma spreads through the garden.
The diameter of the flowers reaches eight centimeters.They can be painted in blue, yellow, lilac, pink, white, crimson. Such a variety of colors have only cultural varieties. In nature, the flowers of the tobacco are painted only in white.
Nasturtium
The flower grows in many garden and garden areas. But still has not lost its popularity. He conquers with his unpretentiousness, the bright coloring of the solar spectrum and the plasticity of forms.
Dwarf varieties are suitable for creating curbs and foreground planets. The height of compact bushes is only fifteen to twenty centimeters.
Climbing varieties grow to 2.5 m. They are planted near gazebos and fences, used as ground cover plants. Flowers nasturtium smell subtly and unobtrusively herbal freshness.
Grades of medium size grow to half a meter. Perfectly get along in hanging baskets and various containers.
The plant is very unpretentious.It suffers a drought, it grows in the bright sun, and in the scattered shadow under the trees. Just do not need to plant nasturtium in a nutritious, fertilized soil - get a sea of leaves, but you will hardly see flowers.
Straw seed-glomerules can be sown directly into the soil at the end of May. Seedlings sprout in ten days and should not fall under recurrent frosts.
If you grow seedlings, you need to remember that nasturtium does not tolerate transplants. Use peat pots.
Flowers nasturtiums are simple, terry andsemi-double. In diameter, they reach five centimeters. Derived varieties with unusual cream, pink and salmon color. You can see cherry blossoms. The most common are yellow and orange colors, sometimes in combination with brown.
Balsam garden
This flower prefers penumbra.He can not live in a sunny open place. Too tender stems and flowers of this inhabitant of the subtropics of Africa. He will be well under the canopy of trees or not far from the bushes.
Sowing balsam garden can be carried out directly inflowerbed, when the earth warms up. Flowering begins much earlier, if in March, sow seeds for seedlings. Adult plants dive, and in the first decade of June they planted in the garden.
Balsam loves watering and damp places. But adapts to the drought, it just does not grow so splendidly. They are fed with complex fertilizers only before buds are formed.
Grows balsam garden up to 0.5 m in height.For a long time it preserves decorativeness - from June to the beginning of cold weather. He has fluffy inflorescences of terry or simple flowers of pink, white, lilac, dark red or purple.
Even in the shady places of the garden, annual flowers will help create bright beautiful flower gardens.
