The bright variety of summer residents will not leave indifferent any summer resident. Most of these amazing plants bloom in late spring and delight the eye until late autumn. Annual flowers do not require much attention and labor, if you choose the right place for them to plant, take into account their "habits".
Choosing annuals
To choose the right annuals for planting, you need to decide which corners of your garden they will decorate, as well as pay attention to their height and growth characteristics.
- Are you planning instead of the nondescript walls of the shed to admire annual flowers blooming all summer? The names of flowers that suit you are mallow, tailed amaranth, high marigolds, castor beans, sunflowers, helichrysum, kosmeya, cleoma. The height of these plants is from 70 centimeters to 1.5 meters. Tall handsome men will make your front garden cheerful or cover up a slightly rickety fence.
- Curly annuals in a short time climb to a height of one and a half to three meters. They will decorate garden arbors, trunks of old trees, openwork arches, they will easily climb ontofence. Fast-growing vines are convenient to plant where there is little space. Blooming climbers: morning glory, sweet pea, large nasturtium, climbing bean, winged thunbergia.
- For lovers of mobile gardens, begonia, lobelia, surfinia, gazania and many other low plants with a sprawling or compact form will be suitable plants. They look great in hanging planters, balcony boxes, ceramic pots.
- If the borders along the lawns or paths are already ready for decoration, front flower beds - it is best to place low-growing plants for the garden on them. Annual flowers with the names: esholtium, dwarf nasturtium, iberis, thin-leaved marigold and dwarf marigold are ideal for this.
- Creeping annuals are indispensable participants in the design of original compositions and alpine slides. Plant here plants with a mass of small flowers: alissum, verbena, annual phlox, brachycoma.
Blossom duration
The preservation of the decorative effect of annual flowers depends on what species and variety the plant belongs to.
Poppies, cornflowers, Iberis have the shortest flowering time. They decorate the garden for just one month.
If you plan in advance the order of flowering or overseeding flowers, the site will be smart all season.
The main part of the plants bloom for a long time, until the very cold. These are very popular annual flowers for summer cottages. Their names are probably familiar to you:
- various varieties of petunias;
- fire salvia;
- high, medium and low snapdragon;
- fluffy ageratum;
- space with openwork leaves;
- scented tobacco;
- favorite trouble-free marigolds.
Some annuals continue to bloom even after the first frost.
Here are some garden annual flower names and photos:
- malopa, or summer mallow;
- summer chrysanthemums;
- fragrant vervain;
- marigolds, or calendula;
- cornflower blue;
- garden aster;
- three-month lavatera;
- lobelia erinus or long-leaved.
Repeating annuals
Among the annuals there are even remontant plants. They are able to bloom again and restore the lost decorative effect.
To do this, you just need to help them a little. One has only to cut the faded branches, water and feed. The plant grows lateral stems that bloom well again.
Some photos and names of reblooming annual flowers:
- Iberis annual;
- nemesia, family Norichnikovye;
- garden cornflower;
- seaside lobularia;
- snapdragon, or antrirrinum;
- calendula, or marigold;
- ageratum, Asteraceae family.
"Good form" - tips for placing flyers
Of course, if you are going to grow annuals for cutting into bouquets, then placement is notsuch an important task. You can just plant them on a regular bed. But even there you can arrange the flowers correctly.
- When planting plants in a group, it is good to choose varieties and types of different flowering periods. Then faded or not yet blooming letniki will create a background in the composition. If the layout is correct, then the flower garden brings pleasure and joy throughout the summer season.
- Plants in a group should be in harmony in height, size of flowers. Consider also the shape of the leaves.
- Pay attention to the color of the flowers of annual plants. Blue should not coexist with red and yellow. Plant species with decorative leaves between them. A silvery cineraria would work well for this.
- Use the features of color perception. Warm tones seem closer than cold tones. Plant plants in blue, white, bluish tones behind yellow, red or brown. The flower garden will appear much larger than its actual size.
- White flowers gently dilute the hot red and bright yellow. But you do not need to plant them next to light lemon flowers. The composition will lose its expressiveness.
- Don't get carried away with a lot of plants with different colors. The flower bed will look overloaded.
See 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 of seeds are bought, it remains to decide on the types of flower beds. They differ in structure andapplication. Consider what flower beds can be.
Flowerbed
Classic looking flower garden. A small piece of land is given some geometric shape. Possibly a low curb. A distinctive feature is that the plants are planted in such a way that a conceived pattern is obtained. It is preferable to break the flower beds on the lawn in the front area of the site.
Rabatka
A distinctive feature is the shape of an elongated rectangle. The width is usually from 50 cm to 1.5 meters. The length is much greater than the width, as they equip the discount along the paths or the fence. Annual flowers are usually planted in one variety. Sometimes different types are chosen, but close in height. To arrange such a flower garden is simple. Therefore, it is often used in suburban areas.
Mixborder
A new type 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 over the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe site between the path and the fence. Tall plants are closer to the hedge. It differs from other types of flower beds by the use of trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, and annuals at once. The plants are planted in loose groups. The center of the composition changes throughout the season. It requires a lot of space, so it is used on spacious plots in homesteads.
Flower containers
Perspective view of mobile flower beds. Annuals are combined with beautiful herbaceous plants or create only flower arrangements. The position of containers is easy to change, forming new combinations.
Garden in the shade
In any garden there are places that are in shading. Sometimes the site is located on the north side. Flowers see light only in the morning at sunrise and in the evening at sunset. Or large fruit trees, giving a wonderful harvest, close the plants. Shade-tolerant annuals will help out flower growers.
Tolerate shading quite well and bloom fully: bright nasturtium, lobelia erinus, fragrant tobacco, balsam or "light".
Shade-tolerant letniki are unpretentious. After all, growing in the shade is such a test that not many can do it. Flowers should be watered sparingly. In the shade, moisture does not evaporate as quickly as in the open.
Most of these plants can not stand low temperatures. Plant seedlings outdoors only in steady warm weather.
Annual flowers (photos and their names) that withstand shading are given below.
Scented Tobacco
The birthplace of the flower is Central America. There it grows like a perennial. In cold Russia, he adapted to give seeds in one summer, because he cannot withstand our frosts.
An overseas resident settled in our suburban areas, withstanding penumbra. As soon as large stars - flowers - bloom, the aroma spreads through the garden.
The diameter of the flowers reaches eight centimeters. They can be painted in blue, yellow, lilac, pink, white, crimson colors. Only cultivars have such a variety of colors. In nature, tobacco flowers are only white.
Nasturtium
The flower grows in many suburban and garden plots. But still has not lost its popularity. It conquers with its unpretentiousness, bright colors of the solar spectrum and plasticity of forms.
Dwarf varieties are suitable for creating borders and foreground ridges. The height of compact bushes is only fifteen to twenty centimeters.
Climbing varieties grow up to 2.5 m. They are planted near arbors and fences, used as ground cover plants. Nasturtium flowers smell subtly and unobtrusively with herbal freshness.
Medium-sized varieties grow up to half a meter. Perfectly coexist in hanging baskets and various containers.
The plant is very undemanding. It tolerates drought, grows in bright sun and in scattered shade under trees. Just do not need to plant nasturtium in nutritious, fertilized soil - you will get a sea of \u200b\u200bleaves, but you are unlikely to see flowers.
Straw seed balls can be sown directly into the ground at the end of May. Seedlings germinate in ten days and should not fall under the return frost.
If you grow seedlings, you must remember that nasturtium does not tolerate transplants. Use peat pots.
Nasturtium flowers are simple, double and semi-double. They reach five centimeters in diameter. Varieties with an unusual cream, pinkish and salmon color have been bred. You can see cherry blossoms. The most common colors are yellow and orange, sometimes combined with brown.
Garden balsam
This flower prefers partial shade. live in the sunopen place he can't. Too tender stems and flowers from this inhabitant of the subtropics of Africa. He will be fine under the crowns of trees or close to bushes.
Sowing garden balsam can be carried out directly in the flower bed when the earth warms up. Flowering begins much earlier if you sow seeds for seedlings in March. The grown plants dive, and in the first decade of June they are planted in the garden.
Balsam loves watering and wet places. But it also adapts to drought, it just grows not so lush. Feed with complex fertilizers only until buds are formed.
Garden balsam grows up to 0.5 m in height. For a long time it retains its decorative effect - from June to the beginning of cold weather. It has lush inflorescences of double or simple flowers of pinkish, white, lilac, dark red or purple.
Even in shady places in the garden, annual flowers will help create bright beautiful flower beds.
