A summer cottage is a cozy corner not only for growing vegetables and fruits. Citizens come here to relax. Even in a small area there is always a place for beautiful flower arrangements. They are made up of perennial and annual plants.
How to choose flowers for giving?
Gardeners grow a wide variety of plants on their plots. Bulbous primroses delight the eye in early spring. Bushes of perennial plants are not rare. However, the main plants for amazing compositions will be a variety of annuals. Unpretentious flowers are a great solution for giving. When choosing them, you should take into account the height and characteristics.
Properly selected plants will provide continuous flowering from spring to the first frost.
Flower beds of annual flowers
The area of the suburban area is small. Where to plant flowers to get a luxurious landscape? The most popular for suburban areas are mixborders, flower beds and modular flower beds. At the same time, unpretentious plants are selected that will not cause much trouble. Flowers whose vegetative periodis only a season, are called annuals or flowerbeds. Most of them are photophilous plants. Therefore, annual flowers for flower beds are planted in open areas.
What flowers are planted directly in the ground in spring?
The most popular flowers: calendula, cosmos, cornflowers, marigolds and zinnia, matthiola and sweet peas, escholcia, asters and others. There are many such plants. However, when sown directly into the ground, they begin to bloom in the second half of summer. Therefore, some plants are grown in seedlings. This method will allow you to transfer flowering to the beginning of the summer season.
Growing seedlings
The timing of sowing seeds to obtain seedlings is determined by the characteristics of each plant. When planning a flower garden, you should determine which flowers to plant with seedlings and which to sow directly into the ground. Flowers by sowing time can be combined into several groups. It is easy to grow seedlings of species such as zinnias and asters, dahlias "jolly guys", marigolds, celosia and annual chrysanthemums. They are sown in seedling boxes in mid-April.
It is more difficult to grow high-quality planting material for plants whose characteristics require seeds to be sown in March. During this period, additional lighting and the creation of the necessary temperature regime will be required. This group can include species such as snapdragon, cochia, sweet pea, petunia, levkoy, salvia and others. Annual flowers for flower beds, grown in seedlings, are planted at the onsetsustainable warm weather.
Mixborders
Where to plant flowers and how to grow, each grower decides individually. To decorate the dacha, a mixborder is perfect - stripes that combine decorative and floral crops. They are framed by garden paths, as well as formed flower beds, flower beds, lawns, near-stem circles of fruit trees and even garden beds. For a mixborder, species such as salvia, calendula, tall asters and marigolds are perfect.
When planning, choose plants that have different flowering periods. They are sorted by height. Even a novice summer resident will cope with this technique. Seasonal mixborders can be collected from different plants. Annual flowers are surprisingly combined with vegetable crops. A garden mixborder can be made up of beets, carrots, legumes, dill and fennel. Kale and parsley look especially good. Vegetable crops are combined with poppies, nasturtium, calendula and marigolds. They will be not only a decorative component, but also an excellent prophylactic against pests of vegetable crops.
Flowerbeds
When determining the area where to plant flowers, it is necessary to take into account the size of the plant, their color, as well as the flowering period. Flowerbeds can be single-color or bright multi-color. The site will be transformed by unpretentious flowers for a summer residence. They are preferred for several reasons. First of all, you can create different compositions from annuals. Moreover, every year they can be changed both geographically and in form. The florist, as an artist, creates beautiful landscapes: but not with paints on the canvas, but from representatives of the flora in the garden. A variety of plants allows you to choose them by color and aroma, as well as height. They grow quickly and at the beginning of summer they will decorate the cottage with bright colors. We plant annual flowers in the flower beds according to a certain pattern.
This calculates the number of plants that will make up the selected composition. Marigolds are perfect for flower beds. They are represented by various varieties that differ in flower color and plant height. Orange, brown, lemon, dark red inflorescences appear in June and decorate flower beds until September. No less attractive is calendula. Terry species are especially spectacular. The height of these flowers reaches 50 cm. Bright inflorescences have an orange, yellow or lemon color. Flowering period - June-September. Petunias are very popular. Plant height - 25 cm. Flowers have a variety of colors. Flowering will last from June to October.
Vertical gardening
When decorating a summer cottage, you will need a creative approach. In small areas, various forms of flower beds are perfectly combined. Fantastically beautiful vertical flower beds. For them, climbing annual flowers are used: nasturtium, petunia, begonia and other ampelous plants.
Vertical flower beds are quite compact. Garden arbors, specially made supports or vertical structures can serve as a support. enjoypopular vertical flower beds, where plants are used that are able to form long climbing shoots.
Flower garden in the shade
The country garden is a shadow zone. Quite often it is empty. At best, the space under the trees is filled with lawns. Unfortunately, it is difficult to pick up annual plants in the shady zones. In partial shade for a flower bed, you can plant a few flyers. These are flowers such as balsam, fragrant tobacco and evergreen begonia, nemophila.
Modular flower beds
In summer cottages it can be difficult to find an open sunny place where to plant flowers. In this case, modular flower beds help out. This method is convenient and simple. And for him, simple annual flowers that are planted in containers or decorative planters are perfect. This method will allow you to place plants in any corner of the cottage.
They decorate gazebos, terraces, recreation areas. Containers can be placed on both sides of the tracks. If the area near the building is lined with slabs, some of them are removed. A flower module is placed in their place. It will be geometric. The composition of a modular flower garden can be made up of ampelous plants: petunias, nasturtiums and morning glory. It can be planar and volumetric, but the chosen form of the module remains unchanged.
