Small overview
When the snow begins to melt in the fields and forests, the time comes for the first spring flowers. We call them common word"primroses". Many of them bloom in some European latitudes back in February - even where snow is rarely seen now :) We are also interested in them because they can be found in the wild in our cultivated gardens. To help summer residents, I will show you a few photos.
Primroses - this is the name of a whole family of plants, the representative of which is Common primrose, or common primula (lat.Primula vulgaris).
Another primrose:
Spring Primrose, or Medicinal Primrose, or Present Primrose, or Spring Primula (Latin Prímula véris). Photo: Wikipedia
In some regions, any first spring flowers are called "snowdrops", but according to the botanical nomenclature, the "correct" snowdrop looks like this:
Snowdrop, or Galantus (Latin Galánthus). There are several types of this plant that are poisonous. In the photo - Galanthus nivalis. Photo: Wikipedia
One of the first to bloom is the Chionodoxa, which is sometimes confused with the Siberian Proleskaya.
Chionodoxa; Snowman; Snow beauty. Photo: www.weerkust.ru
Siberian beetle (Latin Scilla siberica)... Photo: Wikipedia
In some regions, the liverwort is called proleskaya.
Liverwort noble (Hepatica nobilis), or copse. Poisonous plant. The white flowers next to it are the anemone nemorósa (lat. Anémone nemorósa). Care must be taken when working with it, as with all buttercups.
And this is another anemone.
Buttercup Anemone, or Buttercup Anemone, or Buttercup Anemone (Latin Anemóne ranunculoídes). Poisonous plant!
It is sometimes confused with another plant from the same family, which is called a spring plant, but if you look closely, the differences are visible to the naked eye.
Winter Erantis, or Winter Vesennik, Eranthis hyemalis (see also title photo)
It bloomed lungwort (Pulmonaria).
And it blooms corydalis (Latin Corýdalis).
This is how she looks in bloom:
Corydalis are also considered poisonous. Photo: www.vespabellicosus2008.narod.ru
Goose onion (lat.Gagea)
Common mother-and-stepmother (Latin Tussilago farfara)... Leaves of this plant appear later than flowers. Photo: www.vespabellicosus2008.narod.ru
In the wild, you can find both crocus and muscari (mouse hyacinth).
Crocus (lat.Crócus)
Viper bow, or Mouse hyacinth, or Muscari (lat.Muscári). Photo: Wikipedia
Lumbago (lat.Pulsatílla) blooms later, in some regions it is called "dream-grass". Common lumbago is a poisonous plant.
Beautiful flower carpets create different types of tenacious and lamb, which also bloom a little later than the very first flowers.
Tenacious creeping (Ajuga reptans L.), or Dubrovka. Photo: www.files.school-collection.edu.ru
Purple lamb (Latin Lamium purpureum)... A yellow flower next to her - clean man, which is sometimes confused with marigold.
Spring cleaner, or spring buttercup (lat.Ficaria verna).
And the marigold looks like this and is very, very rare in our gardens:
Marsh marigold (Latin Caltha palustris)... She has only 5 petals; poisonous plant. Photo: Wikipedia
Well, just in case :) Plants that in some latitudes can bloom in January.
Veronica oak (lat.Veronica chamaedrys)
Perennial margarita (lat.Béllis perénnis)
Ivy budra, creeping budra (lat.Glechóma hederácea); sometimes called dognip or catnip. The plant has a pleasant aroma but is also considered poisonous.
I won't show the dandelion, everyone seems to know it :) Instead, I will show a beautiful violet.
Soul sirloin (lat.Víola odoráta). The most fragrant primrose! In some reference books, it is considered a conditionally poisonous plant. *
* "In modern literature, poisonous plants are considered to be those that produce toxic substances (phytotoxins), even in small quantities causing death and damage to humans and animals. However, this definition contains a certain measure of convention." (BN Orlov, D.B. Gelashvili, A.K. Ibragimov. Poisonous animals and plants of the USSR). Most researchers divide such plants into highly poisonous, poisonous and conventionally poisonous.
In early spring, the beloved garden lacks color. The lawn is just on the way to lush greenery, while the trees and shrubs are still sleeping. This is the time when primroses reign in flower beds and alpine hills. We present to your attention the best early garden flowers with a wide variety of colors.
About the features of cultivation
All primroses have a special development cycle. During the period when all nature is reborn after winter and begins to actively vegetate, they have already experienced the most active phase of their lives. This happens in April-May, depending on the type of plant and variety.
Primroses are always planted outdoors in autumn from September to November to in early spring admire their bloom. Places are chosen open, drained, sanctified by the sun. Plots are suitable between stones, under trees, which in spring do not yet have foliage and the site is completely open to the sun.
Perennial bulbs or plots of perennials are planted with the condition that in the summer they aerial part will either be absent altogether, or will lose its decorative effect. That is, you need to plant them in groups near summer ornamental plants and shrubs.
In the garden, an interesting option for planting bulbs in the lawn. In a few years they will grow and will delight the eye with whole blooming meadows.
Primroses are not only beautiful plants, but also very easy to care for. They do not require watering and any agrotechnical measures. It is enough just to feed them 1-2 times a year and plant them if necessary.
Ultra early bulbous
There is still snow, but the first messengers of spring, snowdrops, are beginning to break through from under its cover, and other flowering bushes will delight us one after another with bright colors.
Snowdrops
Snowdrops are the first to wake up from hibernation. Their white bell flowers appear in March, as soon as the snow melts. The botanical name of the plant is. Propagated by daughter bulbs or seeds. Prefers growing conditions close to natural. They look especially impressive in the garden terry varieties snowdrop.
Galanthus groups are planted under shrubs, trees, in partial shade, so that in the summer on scorching sun the bulbs in the ground did not dry out.
- crocuses:
- hyacinths;
- woodlands;
Crocuses
This is one of the most numerous groups of spring flowers in color. They are yellow, blue, violet, pink, and have a two-tone color. There are natural forms and hybrid ones, bred in Holland and with large flowers. Most often, unpretentious Tommasini and Ankyra are grown on personal plots. The plant grows rapidly as it forms numerous babies after flowering.
Crocuses are like hyacinths and are great for early forcing in containers. To do this, in November, they are planted in a light substrate with a high sand content. Crocuses will bloom by March. For a spectacular appearance, 5-10 bulbs are planted in a container.
Hyacinths
Bushes have not only an aesthetic appearance, but also a bright aroma, especially for Dutch varieties. In just a 5-century history of cultivation, more than 300 varieties of this plant have been bred. It is planted both in groups and singly on alpine hills or in combination with crocuses and tulips.
Muscari
The most unpretentious and bright primroses appear in the garden. It blooms from April to May, depending on the variety. Bloom for about 1.5 weeks, after which the aerial part dries up. planted in groups to create the effect of a blooming carpet. The predominant color of inflorescences is white, blue, purple.
Proleska
Low-growing plant with small flowers fits. The botanical name is scilla. Siberian beams have bright blue flowers, it is she who is widely represented in gardens middle lane... Extremely unpretentious and ideal for a natural garden landscape. All the plant needs is moist, light soil during the flowering period. When planting a spit in the garden, you need to be prepared to restrain its active growth.
Erantis
This plant is also included in the list of ultra-early bulbous. It blooms in April with bright yellow flowers with a diameter of only 2-2.5 cm, and does not lose its decorative effect even with snowfalls. The plant reaches a height of 10 cm. It is necessarily planted in groups, in single plantings it does not look spectacular.
The list of early flowers for the garden can be supplemented with representatives such as irises (netted), daffodils, hazel grouses. The latter are the most numerous and are represented by both dwarf species, similar to snowdrops, and large ones, reaching a height of 80-90 cm.
Daffodils
Representatives of the family are no less numerous in terms of varietal diversity. On the market you can find ultra-early bulbs and late bulbs that bloom in May. The most graceful among daffodils are:
Delicate irises
Reticulated iris is a dwarf representative of irises. The botanical name is iridodictium. It reaches a height of 10 cm, so I plant it in groups on or among the lawn.
Most bulbous plants do not need to be dug up. In one place, they can grow for at least 5 years. The exception is plants that grow rapidly and require more space. This also applies to tulips, which every year go deep into the ground, from which the flowers become smaller or do not appear at all.
Tulips
The brightest and long-awaited symbol of spring is the tulip. The plant is found both in the wild in fields and meadows, and in cultivated. Hundreds of bred varieties and hybrids. They differ in the size and color of the bulb, the height of the plant, the diameter and color of the flower, the timing of planting and flowering.
Tulip flowers can be goblet, oval, cup-shaped. Petals can be simple, double, fringed. There are varieties that form multiple buds on one plant.
The most early varieties tulips that bloom at the end of March:
There are many more varieties of tulips that bloom from mid-April to the end of May. They are distinguished by a high stem up to 40-50 cm, a variety of shapes and colors of inflorescences. For abundant flowering, they need moisture and nutritious soil. The more organic components it contains, the larger and brighter the flower will be, and the bulb will give more babies.
Grown in the open field and in containers. The bulbs are planted in the ground in October-November, depending on the region and the weather. Soil temperature should not be higher than + 10 ° С. The bulb should have time to take root before the onset of persistent frost, but not develop a green aboveground part.
If the plant is used for container planting, the bulbs are planted in November and left in a cellar or other cool and dark place until January.
In the month of planting, watered 1-2 times to prevent the soil from completely drying out. In the spring, tulips are fed 2 times with nitrogen and mineral fertilizers until flowering.
When the plant blooms and the stem turns yellow, the bulbs are dug up, dried and stored in a ventilated area until planting in autumn. Tulips differ from other early-flowering bulbs in that they are ideal for cutting and forming bouquets.
Herbaceous early flowering perennials
Perennials are very convenient for growing, as they do not take much time and are usually less whimsical than annuals. For several years in a row, they occupy a permanent place in the garden, grow and delight with decorativeness. Knowing the exact timing of flowering plants, you can form the so-called gardens continuous flowering, highly decorative all the warm season of the year.
Spring primrose
- the most numerous early perennial in terms of varietal characteristics. The first green leaves of the plant appear in March and bloom from April to May. Primrose bushes are compact, from 8 to 20 cm high. Inflorescences are simple or double white, yellow, burgundy. Propagated by dividing the bush and seeds. Can be grown outdoors and in containers.
Among the variety of varieties, there are representatives with flowers similar to muscari, they are called so - muscariodes. There are so-called candelabra primroses, the flower stalks of which are very tall, and the inflorescences are arranged in a circle in a ring.
The varieties are highly decorative:
Primroses are divided into early flowering, medium flowering and late flowering, and some species bloom 2 times per season - in early spring and late summer.
Hellebore Caucasian
Hellebore - differs from other early flowering ones in that it is planted in the garden in early spring, as soon as the soil thaws a little. Its greenery remains decorative whole season due to dense and tough green leaves. The plant is hardy, strong and highly decorative. It blooms from February in warm regions, in cold regions - from April. In the garden, they use hybrid varieties that differ in the variety of flower colors and their diameters. The hellebore can be white, purple, yellow, and pink.
Long-haired anemone
Anemone is a delicate and unpretentious flower, popularly called the Anemone. It blooms in April with white, pink, pale purple flowers on high stems. There are both simple and hybrid forms with double flowers. It grows quickly due to the creeping rhizome, most often its growth must be restrained. After the plant has faded, the greenery of the bush remains decorative until the beginning of winter. In a long and warm autumn, the anemone blooms again.
Terry marsh marigold
Kaluzhnitsa is a resident of humid and swampy regions. In the garden, it is used to decorate reservoirs. It is a compact shrub with bright yellow flowers. The hybrids have double flowers.
Early and mid-flowering primroses include daisies, forget-me-nots, periwinkle, a swimsuit and a dicenter, whose flowers are similar to broken heart... All of them are unpretentious and perfectly adapted to climatic conditions the middle lane.
Rare exotic
In a temperate climate, adapted varieties of tropical plants do well. One of them is Ornithogalum, a bulbous relative of hyacinth. The second name of the plant is Poultry.
The following types of this primrose winter well and are unpretentious in care:
Terry sanguinaria
Sanguinaria canadensis is a miniature flower that blooms as soon as the snow melts. Long bloom - about 3-4 weeks. The flowers are like tiny water lilies. This is a representative of the poppy family, whose homeland is North America.
The plant is shade-tolerant, frost-resistant, unpretentious. It is not affected by diseases and pests, propagates by plots. In the garden, it is planted under trees and shrubs, quickly grows to whole fields.
Siberian Kandyk
Kandyk is a rare bulbous plant from the lily family, outwardly similar to cyclamen. It blooms in April, and flowers and leaves with brown spots are decorative. Forms dense bushes 30-40 cm high. Peduncles are tall, on which there are drooping flowers with bent petals of white, pink, purple and other shades. Winter hardy and unpretentious plant, originally from the northern regions.
Early garden flowers have one major advantage - they are eagerly awaited to bloom. They symbolize the arrival of the long-awaited spring, even if there is still snow in the yard, and the frost grows stronger at night.
Primroses in landscape design - video
Dacha is not only garden beds, berry bushes and fruit trees... Perennial flowers help to create beauty on the site. For a garden, unpretentious long-flowering plants are indispensable, as a magnificent frame for a canvas created by the labor of a summer resident.
For beginner gardeners, it may seem that breaking down a flower garden and caring for it is too troublesome. But with the right choice of crops, taking care of flowers will not take much time, and the buds will open with early spring and until late autumn.
The most unpretentious flowers for spring
Early spring in the middle lane does not please with colors. Annual flowers have not yet been sown, even the most unpretentious ones are just showing up from under the ground.
Are there really plants that are ready to bloom in the first warm days? Yes, wintering bulbous crops have formed the rudiments of buds since autumn and in the spring they are the first to illuminate the flower beds with all shades of the rainbow.
Crocuses
Crocus corollas of white, blue, yellow and even striped colors appear practically from under the snow. Plants with a height of 7 to 15 cm bloom from March to May, and after the withering of the flowers they retire. Planting of bulbs is carried out in the traditional terms for spring bulbous plants, from August to September. The best place for crocuses is in well-lit areas or partial shade, for example, under the crowns of shrubs or trees that have not yet blossomed.
Tulips
Tulip - not only the most common on summer cottages perennials, but also the most unpretentious flowers. Today, lovers of spring flowers have at their disposal hundreds and thousands of magnificent varieties. However, not everyone knows that these garden plants belong to several species, differing both in appearance and in the timing of flowering.
Skillfully choosing varieties, with the help of tulips alone with a height of 10 to 50 cm, you can decorate a site up to an alpine slide. The first tulips bloom in March, and the most late varieties wither at the end of May.
Tulip bulbs are planted in the first half of autumn in sunny areas with loose, nutrient-rich soil.
During growth and flowering, plants need regular watering, which is stopped in the summer when the bulbs are resting.
Garden tulip species react differently to frost. If in the southern regions the most lush terry and lily varieties can be considered unpretentious plants for summer cottages and gardens, then in the northern regions the common tulips of Greig, Gesner and Foster need annual digging.
They can be replaced by low-growing botanical tulips or Kaufman tulips that winter easily in any climate.
Daffodils
Together with tulips on garden beds daffodils appear. Blooming lasts from April to the last days of May, while flowers illuminate the garden not only with bright sunny shades, but also with an exquisite aroma.
Depending on the variety, the plants reach a height of 30 to 60 cm. Flowers can be either simple or double, with a short or long crown. Daffodils prefer areas with loose, fertile soil. They grow well in the sun and under the crowns that open at this time. The main thing is that the soil in which the bulbs were planted in the fall should not be oversaturated with moisture.
Daffodils are long-blooming, unpretentious garden flowers that are successfully used in mixed plantings with tulips, garden varieties, dicentra and other plants. Daffodils for several years feel great in one place. Growing up, they form very dense clumps, which are planted after the foliage wilted, that is, at the beginning of summer.
Wintering bulbous cultures, appearing from nowhere in the spring, are unpretentious and bright, but at the same time their foliage cannot retain decorativeness for a long time. It dies off, exposing the place in the flowerbed, so in advance you should take care of planting a number of "replacement" crops, such as peony bushes, perennial poppies or aquilegia.
Periwinkle
It's one thing to pick up long-blooming perennials and unpretentious flowers for a garden in the sun. Another is to find the same plants for both open and shady areas.
There are not so many shade-tolerant horticultural crops - periwinkle is a prime example of one of them. or small dwarf shrubs bloom in the midst of spring and spread quickly, rooting without difficulty upon contact with the ground.
Periwinkle cultivars create spectacular clumps of fresh greenery, spotted in all shades of blue, white, pink and purple. At the disposal of gardeners, specimens with simple and terry corollas, smooth and variegated foliage.
Many ornamental plants are associated with romantic legends. Not an exception - which, thanks to such a story, is better known not by its real name, but as a "broken heart".
Thanks to the powerful rhizomes of the dicentra, it tolerates winter cold without loss. Foliage dying in autumn with the arrival of heat rises again above the ground, near different varieties reaching a height of 30 to 100 cm. A spectacular plant in May is covered with white, pink or two-colored corollas of whimsical, heart-shaped, collected in racemose inflorescences. Flowering lasts about a month, and under the transparent shade of young foliage, drooping inflorescences of an unpretentious plant for a summer residence and a garden look brighter and last longer.
The dicentra will be indispensable in a flower bed in the vicinity of primroses and daffodils, muscari, ferns and ornamental varieties of onions.
A flowering plant is worthy of admiration in a single planting, and after the withering of the inflorescences, it will become an excellent background for other flowers.
Lily of the valley
The classic spring flower beds are forest beds that bloom in May. Thanks to the creeping rhizomes, the plants overwinter. In the spring, leathery leaves rolled into dense tubes first appear on the flower beds, then peduncles up to 30 cm high rise above the unfolded rosettes. Each inflorescence contains from 6 to 20 white or pinkish, fragrant bells. Flowering lasts until the beginning of summer, and then red rounded berries appear in place of flowers.
The dignity of these unpretentious garden perennials- flowers that do not lose their beauty in the sun and in the shade, the ability to grow in one place up to 10 years.
Kupena
In the forest, next to the lily of the valley clumps, you can see graceful kupena plants. Blooming from May to June, the perennial is not as bright as other spring flowers.
But in shady areas, near conifers and shrubs, a culture from 30 to 80 cm high with drooping white or greenish bell flowers is simply irreplaceable.
Brunner
May is the month of the brightest greenery and unusually lush flowering of garden perennials.
At this time, under the crowns of trees, near paths and reservoirs, under the protection of walls and fences, blue Brunner flowers appear. Plants with a height of 30 to 50 cm, with decorative pointed-heart-shaped foliage, prefers to settle in partial shade, where there is enough moisture and nutrition for lush deciduous rosettes and inflorescences towering above them.
Delicate blue unpretentious garden flowers enliven the most shady corners, do not require special care, thanks to attractive, often variegated foliage, they protect decorativeness for a long time and can do without transplanting for many years.
In favorable conditions, brunner grows excellently and reproduces by dividing the bush.
Summer, beautiful and unpretentious flowers for a summer residence
Bright, rapidly growing annuals, 1-2 months after sowing, color the flower beds in the most incredible colors. But autumn comes and the plants complete their short life... The next spring, the summer resident begins with the selection of annual, ornamental crops, sowing and caring for young seedlings. This takes a lot of precious time, which could be devoted to vegetable seedlings, caring for fruit and berry plantings.
Long-blooming, unpretentious flowers specially selected for the garden, which bloom in different seasons and do not need painstaking care, will help to save time and energy. Although they bloom only in the second half of summer or in the second year, they live in one place for several years without a transplant.
Summer is the most fertile time for flowering plants. An incredible number of species are ready to give their flowers to the summer resident. The main thing is to choose from them those plants that can rightfully be called non-capricious and beautiful.
Aquilegia
When late tulips and daffodils bloom in the garden at the end of May, ornamental foliage of aquilegia or catchments begins to rise above the ground. The whimsical bells of this, one of the most unpretentious perennials for summer cottages, open up on tall, erect peduncles.
Flowering lasts almost without interruption from the end of May to September. And even without flowers, plants do not lose their charm. Their leaves take on purple and purple tones by autumn. Depending on the variety, aquilegia can grow from 30 to 80 cm in height. All of this species grow well in the shade and in open areas. Already from the name it is clear that the catchment loves moisture, but even with a shortage of irrigation, it is able to find water thanks to its powerful rod rhizomes. Aquilegia grows best on light, drained soils.
Flowers appear in the second year of life. Mature plants can be divided. This can be done in early spring or autumn.
Although under favorable conditions aquilegia reproduces by self-sowing, this method does not allow preserving the properties of hybrid and varietal specimens. Seedlings are most often purple or pink in color and can become a kind of weeds if immature seed pods are not removed in time or flower beds are not weeded.
Swimsuit
To moisture-loving unpretentious garden flowers beloved by many summer residents also applies.
Her yellow or orange flowers open in May and, with regular watering, do not disappear until the second half of summer. The plant, 50 to 90 cm tall, is noticeable enough to lead in group plantings near and in shady corners of the garden. Tall flower stalks will be safe next to fences and ornamental shrubs.
Arabis
Although the flowering of arabis begins in the second half of spring, this unpretentious perennial can rightfully be considered a summer one, since its flowering does not end until the very frost.
A groundcover or creeping plant with stems 20 to 30 cm long, the planting field quickly forms dense, pillow-like curtains covered with clusters of small white, pink or purple flowers.
Trimming helps to prolong flowering and maintain the shape of the plantings. Arabis feels best in open areas with light, aerated soil. This culture with variegated foliage is indispensable for decorating slides and other parts of the garden.
Doronicum
At the junction of spring and summer, many rhizome perennials take the baton of flowering in bulbous plants. Not an exception - a bright doronicum with large yellow inflorescences-baskets, reminiscent of chamomile. Flowers open on erect, bare or leafy stems 30–80 cm high. Unpretentious flowers for summer cottages and gardens are planted in the sun or in a transparent shade, but not under tree crowns.
Doronicum plants love moisture, in order to preserve it in the soil under light green foliage, the soil is mulched.
When the bloom ends, the greens also wither. Decorative ferns, curtains of nivyanik and aquilegia, with which doronicum is perfectly combined, will help to hide the gap that forms in the flowerbed.
Astilba
It's amazing how a single species of perennial can brighten an entire garden. This is possible for the numerous, blooming from June to September. Lush inflorescences that are racemose or panicle-like are not the only decoration of this plant. Shade-tolerant carved foliage enlivens the site no less. To do this, you just need to cut off the peduncles with dead inflorescences in time.
Depending on the variety and species, the height of the plants ranges from 40 to 120 cm. Astilbe blooms better with regular moistening of the soil, but they do not like stagnant moisture. V garden plantings these beautiful and unpretentious flowers for a summer residence look great against the background conifers, and itself will be a luxurious frame for.
Geranium
Many cultivars of garden perennials are descendants of wild-growing species, which can be found literally behind the fence of the summer cottage.
From May until the end of summer, the flowering of surprisingly tremulous continues. Single corollas or corollas collected in inflorescences of all shades of pink, purple, lilac and blue flowers short-lived. All day long, and a new one appears in the place of a withered flower.
When the flowering season is over, the garden is not empty thanks to the decorative cut foliage of the geraniums. By the fall, it is painted in bright golden, orange and purple tones and revives faded flower beds and hills right up to the snow.
The height of the most unpretentious perennial flowers for summer cottages, depending on the type, ranges from 10 cm to a meter. All plants are unassuming and do not impose special requirements on the soil, they grow in the light and under the crowns.
Loosestrife
If the garden has room for, or needs to be planted tall plant With bright colors and with the same decorative leaves, the answer can be one -!
How is this possible? We are talking about different types of loosestrife, equally unpretentious and suitable for decorating a plot.
Depending on the variety and type, they easily adapt to different conditions flowers have a height of 20 to 80 cm.
For shady corners and partial shade, a monetaceous or meadow loosestrife with long recumbent stems covered with coin-like rounded leaves is perfect. This culture is indispensable next to a reservoir, in wet areas, which are successfully revived by light green foliage and yellow flowers.
To decorate flower beds, mixborders and rocky hills, erect types of loosestrife with green or variegated foliage and yellow flowers are used, forming spectacular spike-shaped inflorescences in the upper part of the stem. All loosestrife is unpretentious, tolerates frost perfectly and is rarely affected by pests.
Perennial cornflower
Annual cornflowers relatively recently moved from the meadow to the garden. They were followed by their perennial relatives. Blooming from June to September, the plants form spectacular, thanks to the carved, rich green foliage of curtains with a height of 40 cm to a meter.
One of the most unpretentious perennial flowers for summer cottages, cornflowers grow well both in the sun and in partial shade. They do not impose any special requirements on the soil, they get along well with other crops and will be an excellent background for peonies, cornflower, undersized flowering and ornamental-deciduous plants in flower beds.
Today, gardeners have varieties of perennial cornflower with flowers of violet-pink, lilac, purple and white at their disposal. The large-headed cornflower has fluffy flowers of the original yellow color.
Turkish carnation
Multi-colored caps reveal in June turkish carnation... The bright flowers with jagged petals are very small, but gathered in dense inflorescences, they will perfectly revive the summer cottage, create a summer mood and paint the flower beds in all shades from white to deep purple.
A distinctive feature of the plant is flowering that lasts until September, the possibility of self-seeding and incredible color combinations. The height of a Turkish carnation, depending on the variety, ranges from 40 to 60 centimeters. Plants demonstrate the maximum decorative effect in the light or in partial shade, if they are planted next to decorative deciduous crops.
Lupine
Not only are they among the most unpretentious garden flowers. This perennial crop alone can bloom an entire site. Blue, white, pink, purple and bicolor spike-shaped inflorescences appear in the first half of June, and then re-flowering begins in the second half of summer.
Plants up to one meter in height bloom luxuriantly in the sun, do not like too fertilized soils and, thanks to their powerful rhizome, are able to survive in conditions of moisture deficiency. In the garden, lupines are an ideal neighbor for a cornflower, multi-colored aquilegia, perennial poppies.
Poppy
By the splendor of flowering, perennial poppies can only be compared with. Just one plant with corollas of scarlet, pink, white and purple color is enough to change the appearance of the most inconspicuous corner of the garden.
Despite the exotic appearance, poppies are completely unpretentious. They are not afraid of frost, grow excellently on any soil and tolerate drought without loss. But they react negatively to excessive moisture. Once settled on the site, with the help of very small seeds, the poppy can settle on its own, creating spectacular clumps of densely pubescent carved foliage.
Irises
There are more than a hundred species of irises in the world, many of which are actively used as ornamental plants. The flowering of garden varieties begins at the border of spring and summer, and continues until mid-July.
With a difference in color, size, habitat, these perennial rhizome plants have in common the appearance of pointed xiphoid leaves, collected in flattened bunches, as well as the graceful shape of flowers. Although corollas that open for a day or a little more cannot be called long-livers, amia plants bloom profusely and for a long time due to the many simultaneous rising peduncles.
In the garden, irises are favored by light or barely shaded areas with light, loose soil.
During the growing season and flowering, plants need regular soil moisture. But you need to carefully intervene in the development of the curtain. Loosening and weeding can affect powerful rhizomes close to the surface.
The flowering shoots of irises rise 40–80 cm above the ground. White, yellow, pink, purple, cream, blue or light blue flowers are perfect for decorating the garden and are ideal for cutting.
Nivyanik
Chamomiles, along with cornflowers, are traditionally considered a symbol of Russian open spaces. Garden varieties of daisy are the same chamomile, only much larger and more expressive. Simple and double inflorescences-baskets are crowned with erect stems with a height of 30 to 100 cm.
In the garden, the sycamore plant prefers to grow in open, well-lit areas with loose, nutrient-rich, but not too light soil. The plant responds to the lack of moisture and organic matter with flowers that shrink over time and the rapid withering of baskets.
Eurasian tree propagates by seeds, dividing adult clumps, and also by self-sowing. This must be taken into account if all crops have clearly defined boundaries in flower beds and mixborders. For the most lush flowering, it is advisable to divide the rosette of the daisy every few years.
The best neighbors for one of the most unpretentious perennials for a summer residence, as in the photo, are flowers, gypsophila, bright poppies and bells. White inflorescences look great against the background of carved greenery and cornflowers, next to decorative cereals and onions.
Bell
It will not be difficult even for beginners to grow bells in the country. Plants are unpretentious, resistant to diseases and pests, winter well without shelter. The only thing that interferes with the perennial is an excess of moisture and dense, poorly drained soil.
In nature, there are many types of bells with simple, semi- and double flowers in white, blue, lilac, pink and deep purple tones. Plants from 20 to 120 cm in height, depending on the type and shape, find a place on slides and in group plantings with cornflower, pyrethrum, lush peonies and strict cereals.
Stock-rose
Easily tolerant of drought, with luxurious ornamental greenery and racemose inflorescences, it can rightfully be considered the queen of the suburban area. Plants up to 2 meters high are among the largest in Russian gardens... They rise above other flowers and even fruit bushes.
Stock roses or mallow can easily create living wall or turn into the center of a lush flower bed. Beautiful, unpretentious flowers for summer cottages grow on light, well-drained soils, propagate by seeds, including self-seeding. But moving a large plant to another place will be problematic. The transplant is hampered by powerful long rhizomes, damage which leads to the weakening and even death of the mallow.
Simple and double, white, yellow, pink and red, burgundy and bright crimson flowers on powerful erect stems are used to decorate hedges and walls, in flower beds and as background plants. Group plantings of mallow are incredibly beautiful different shades... In front of them, you can plant the same unpretentious phloxes, bells, decorative forms onions, cornflowers and undersized varieties, as well as any annuals.
Spicy-aromatic unpretentious perennials for summer cottages
When choosing long-blooming, unpretentious flowers for the garden, one cannot overlook the plants that are often popular as spicy, medicinal or fragrant herbs. Moreover, many of them are in no way inferior to flowering perennials, their flowers will decorate flower beds and can be used for cutting.
Today, many varieties are available to gardeners, lemon balm, catnip. On the site, if desired, you can plant hyssop, thyme and even lavender. These plants look great in a separate, "pharmacy" bed, but they can easily be imagined as part of a mixborder, in a rural-style flower bed or in the form of free clumps near a hedge or wall of a house.
Unpretentious and useful perennials, thanks to lush greenery, are decorative from spring to frost. And during flowering, they attract a lot of bees and other pollinating insects.
Oregano
Oregano is a native inhabitant of the European part of Russia. The plant, familiar to many for its characteristic aroma of greenery and pink-lilac caps of inflorescences, prefers to settle in open, well-lit areas with light soil. In nature, oregano can be seen in clearings and forest edges, in oak forests and in dry meadows.
The first oregano greens appear in March, literally from under the snow. By June, the plant forms a lush cap of densely leafy shoots 20 to 50 centimeters high. And a month later, stems with delicate inflorescences-baskets rise above the greens.
The entire aerial part of the plant, incredibly revered in France, Italy, and the USA, has a spicy aroma. Here oregano is grown as natural seasoning to sauces, salads, pasta and poultry, baked goods, in particular, pizza. Tea with herbs and oregano flowers is no less tasty. Collecting oregano or oregano is carried out from July to October, while the perennial blooms.
The herbaceous shrubs of oregano strewn with flowers are magnificent in the company of cornflower, lupines, rudbeckia, clouds of pink-white gypsophila and cereals.
Lofant
A lofant or multicolor with lilac-purple or white spike-shaped inflorescences is one of the most noticeable medicinal and decorative perennial plants... In the garden, the culture easily settles in the lightest areas, does not feel discomfort even in the sun itself and winters well, already from early spring showing everyone the first greenery with a purple or bluish tint.
Lofant is so unpretentious that it grows and blooms not only with a lack of moisture, but also on poor soils. Simple care and a little attention - and an unassuming plant will generously share with the summer resident a fragrant, anise-like or licorice-like smell, a herb rich in essential oils and useful for colds, diseases of the digestive system and urinary system.
In the garden, the spectacular inflorescences of the lofant will not go unnoticed by either people or bees. The plant, which blooms from June to late summer, is suitable for decorating front gardens and easily tolerates cutting.
Monarda
Monarda with white, pink, lilac and purple inflorescences is also a resident of sunny, sheltered from the wind corners of the garden with light soil.
V decorative purposes this fragrant perennial is planted next to other similar plants, as well as in the vicinity of coreopsis and, daisy and low-growing annuals, for which a monard up to a meter high will be a luxurious background.
An interesting combination of this plant with annuals, blue and white large-flowered bells, stonecrops and other crops, allowing you to imitate a corner of a wild meadow in the garden.
In summer cottages, you can often find lemon monarda. Its greenery during the flowering period, that is, from July to September, accumulates a lot of essential oils close to the oils of lemon balm, hyssop, and other spicy-flavoring and medicinal plants of their Yasnotkovy family.
Unpretentious autumn flowers: long-flowering perennials for the garden
With the onset of September, autumn comes into its own faster and faster. But it is too early to part with the beauty of the garden. Until the snow falls, the garden geranium curtains amaze with the play of bright colors, the badan dresses up in purple tones, they amaze with the bizarre forms of stonecrop on the slides and borders. There are a lot of unpretentious garden perennials in the garden.
Phlox
One of the brightest "stars" of the autumn flower bed is considered. These plants winter excellently in most regions, form green clumps in spring, and bloom in the second half of summer, practically until October, retaining an incredible variety of colors and splendor of inflorescences.
Depending on the type and variety, phloxes will be indispensable on alpine slides and traditional flower beds, near small ponds and next to buildings, which tall plants perfectly decorate at any time of the year.
In the list of cultivated phlox today there are more than four dozen species, among which only Drummond's phlox is an annual. All other creeping, bush, semi-lying forms with stems from 20 to 150 cm in height are ready to settle in the garden of a lover of decorative and unpretentious perennial flowers for many years.
Perennial asters
Annual asters are the constant leaders in the list of garden summer cottages and gardens. However, the true ones are often and undeservedly forgotten.
From August until the very snow, these plants bloom, illuminating the entire area with flashes of blue, white, pink, purple hues. There are more than 200 types of perennial asters, differing in size, lifestyle and shape. Alpine aster is quite small, and its inflorescences-baskets are located on herbaceous erect stems, resembling the familiar chamomile. And in the Italian variety - the form of a herbaceous, densely leafy shrub, completely covered with medium-sized flowers. Moreover, all types are extremely decorative and not capricious.
The height of perennial asters varies from 20 centimeters to one and a half meters. Flowers can be not only of different colors, but simple and double. These perennials form dense dark green clumps in spring, easily tolerate excess light and moisture deficit in summer, and completely transform the garden in autumn.
Shrub forms lend themselves to shaping, with their help you can create dense living borders and picturesque groups with other autumn plants.
The only drawback of perennial asters is inherent in many perennial crops. A plant that takes root in the garden begins to multiply uncontrollably, quickly mastering new territories. To prevent the previously colorful flower bed from turning into the "kingdom" of asters, you will have to monitor the settlement of the shrub and regularly remove the shoots.
Each of the 30 described ornamental plants can claim the title of the most unpretentious perennial flower for a summer residence. All of them are beautiful and amazing in their own way. In fact, the list of non-capricious cultures requiring minimal attention and generously sharing their beauty is not three dozen, but much more. One has only to look around, notice and transfer an interesting plant to the garden, choosing for a flower appropriate place and neighborhood.
Video about ground cover perennials in the garden
Forest spring primroses. Excursion. April 1st, 2014
A good tale about 12 months, the one where brother April helped a kind girl find snowdrops in a snowy forest. A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it. They say that Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak "spied" the plot of the tale from the Greeks or from a Czech writer, and there such phenological phenomena are quite possible. Recently, in our Central Russia, either in the fall, the dog rose will suddenly bloom, then the alder. But nevertheless, these are exceptions to the rules that nature has developed for its own good, has adapted to possible short-term temperature surges. Such as yesterday's Moscow blizzard with snow.
It is still cold and there are no pollinating insects at all, but there are heavy gusts of wind, aspen and alder are blooming. They have adapted to the fact that there are no winged helpers. Therefore, they produce pollen in large quantities and there is even such a thing as “Alder is dusty”.
On the same days, the willow begins to bloom, and a little later, other willows. It is to them that the first awakened insects fly, but the willow has a protective device against cold weather. Suddenly it starts to blow for a week in April, all the bees will sleep. So good ability Many of our willows to sprout play a major role in their dispersal - an abandoned field in a few years can turn into impassable thickets of willow.
At the same time, one of its main plants, cotton grass, begins to bloom in the swamp. In the harsh conditions of the tundra and swamps, insects also cannot help in pollination.
And again the wind comes to the rescue. Pollination occurs on the entire territory of one swamp at the same time, therefore, all the plants bear fruit together and at once, in the summer the swamp begins to resemble a large cotton field.
In humid places, in swampy meadows, an inconspicuous plant, the spleen, begins to bloom. Tourists walking in the woods in the spring may not even understand that they are walking through flowering plants - it is so inconspicuous to the eye. Perhaps it would be inconspicuous for insects, but they see in the ultraviolet range. And if they don't see it, the “adapted” spleen can pollinate itself and disappear underground in a couple of weeks until next spring. Such plants are called ephemeroids.
But this plant is difficult not to notice, or rather not to smell it. You walk through the April forest, the snow is still crunching, but when it warms up, more often on the edge or clearing, a surprisingly pleasant, delicate and alluring aroma covers the traveler. Here it is - an inconspicuous bush of a wolf's bast.
Its scent attracts overwintered butterflies and bees like the valerian tincture of cats. In the repeatedly cut forests of the middle lane, daphne is usually a thin small bush. And only once I came across to me in the Valdai National Park real giant with a trunk 4 centimeters thick and a huge dense two-meter cap of flowers.
The wolfberry pleases us with the smell, like many early flowering shrubs even before the leaves completely bloom.
In an undisturbed dark spruce forest, which, both in winter and in summer, the noble liverwort will flare up in one color with a rich blue paint. It seems to me that she retains this rich color in the first few days of flowering.
And nearby, under the spruce paws, if you look closely, you can find a completely inconspicuous plant with almost black flowers. This is an evergreen European clefthoof.
Backdrop for spring forest the anemones always trembling in the wind serve - to the north and west of Moscow it is the white oak anemone.
To the south and east, the yellow buttercup anemone dominates.
Sleep-grass has become a real fairy tale of pine forests, old birch groves, sunny edges. Twenty years ago, it was quite common in nature at a short distance from cities. But everything is changing, today this plant is in almost any central regions in the regional Red Data Books. In the Novgorod region, together with the Valdai National Park, we organized a small expedition, and found only a few plants in two places.
Another interesting plant of the spring forest is the Peter's cross.
It does not have green leaves, as well as chlorophyll. The short flowering period will end and the mysterious Peter's Cross will end, as Count Dracula will go underground until next spring or even for several years.
In the meantime, in the aspen forest last year's shoots of the ostrich fern gleam beautifully in the setting sun. Not a primrose, of course - but cute. Some even put it in vases, but these are certainly not villagers, but biologists.
In more southerly or eastern oak forests, the herbaceous cover in spring is not green, but blue. As botanists say, this screech aspects, i.e. creates a specific color background.
Siberian beetle, like all liliaceae, accumulates nutrients in the bulb for a whole year. And then it breaks through dry and rather dense litter broadleaf forests and rushes
up towards the light.
Goose onions do the same in the oak forest.
Once, there was calmness in the riverine strip oak forests on the right bank of the Seversky Donets. Quiet, the foliage is still quiet, because the buds have not blossomed. Shooting this goose bow from a low point, I felt a very quiet rustle all the time. Are the voles rustling? No - these are thousands of woods and goose onions rushing towards the light through the old foliage.
And on the sandy alluvial dune of the left bank of the Oka, the goose onion does not need to overcome the crust of old leaves. So he grew up so loose.
And in a small forest stream, and on floods, on rivers, a marigold rises from the water
The marigold is beautiful at the very beginning of flowering, while the buds look like small yellow-green balls or on the first day of full flowering.
And then huge burdocks of leaves will stick out of the water, the flown petals will float on the water and try, build a picture in complete chaos of yellow color.
So the first mosquito appeared, which means almost summer. There will be other herbs - violet, oxalis, swimsuit, orchis and venus shoes, bells and gentian. But this is already different summer history about flowering plants.
And finally. I think it is not even worth reminding the readers of my blog that primroses are good where they could grow. In a bouquet, they wilted in a few minutes. But even digging up is not worth replanting, only a super experienced person will be able to simulate natural conditions on personal plot, comply with all conditions of moisture, shading and nutrition for such fragile creatures. But if you have time, go out into the spring forest with a camera, look for the heroes of my story, at least to find out their names.
Despite the fact that in almost every garden beautiful, bright varietal flowers and shrubs are pleasing to the eye, we cannot indifferently pass by their modest forest relatives. Surrounding ourselves with lush floral splendor, we lose the thread of natural harmony. And simple forest flowers give us it again. This is probably why many of us want to move a “piece of wood” to our site. And it is quite possible to do this, because wild plants, for the most part, are unpretentious. They are well adapted to their natural habitat. They do not need weeding, additional watering, or artificial pollination.
However, when planting forest flowers, one very important factor- their compatibility with new conditions. For example, if a tall bell, accustomed to shady, humid places, is planted in a sunny flower bed, then in the first year it will become small, and after a year it may not bloom at all. And its neighbors marigold, wintergreen and calla arum can die immediately in such conditions. Also, not everyone can tolerate soil loosening. The weeds around the two-leaved lyubka should not be weeded out, but periodically short-cut off. But wild bulbs are normal for weeding. Some flowers in a cramped flower bed may not have enough space, while others can multiply very much and it will be difficult to get rid of them. Therefore, before planting wild plants in your area, you need to study how they grow in their natural habitat.
Forest plants prefer moist soil with a high proportion of leafy soil. It is necessary to plan their landing in such a way that the chosen place is as close as possible to their natural conditions growth. If the plant grows larger every year, grows and blooms profusely, then these conditions are suitable for it.
Let's take a closer look at some of the green forest dwellers.
In the spring there is still snow in the forest, and the first leaves and flowers are already visible on the thawed patches. There is no need to introduce such inhabitants of the spring forest as snowdrop, blueberry, muscari, crocuses, lilies of the valley, violets, anemones. They are well known to all, breeders have bred many ornamental varieties of these plants. In the spring, you can also find such forest flowers as dream-grass, lungwort, marigold, ivy budra, fragrant violet, spring primrose, fragrant woodruff and many others. Let's get acquainted with some of the more rare guests of the garden plots.
Liverwort
Noble liverwort (Hepática nóbilis)- Buttercup family, a small herbaceous perennial (5-15 cm). Flowering occurs in April, the color of the flowers is from whitish to blue-violet. One flower does not wither for almost a week. Corolla diameter - 2-4 cm. The three-lobed leaves vaguely resemble a human liver in their shape (hence the name). The leaves remain under the snow all winter (only slightly fade). Numerous fluffy hairs on the lower part of the leaves and on the petioles help to keep warm and survive the spring frosts. After flowering, a fruit is formed with seeds about 8 mm in diameter. It is odorless, attracts insects with its pollen. Most often, this flower can be found in the spruce forest. Therefore, a noble liverwort is suitable open space, in which the sun will be from early morning to 14 hours. The soil is needed loose, rich in humus. It is medicinal. This plant is often confused with snowdrop and blueberry.
Corydalis
Corydalis (Corydális)- family Dymyankovye, herbaceous plant 10-20 cm high. The leaves are dissected. Inflorescences are a dense raceme. The flowers are sometimes white, but more often red-purple or light purple. Flowering lasts from April to June. Tuberous plant. Grows in mixed forests. Very resistant to frost, as well as pests and diseases. Prefers slightly acidic humus soils. It multiplies quickly, does not like stagnant water. It has many types.
Spring chistyak
Spring Chistyak (Ficaria)- Buttercup family, a short perennial (10-30 cm). Emerald green hoof-shaped lacquer leaves. The flowers are small bright yellow glossy stars. One of the first to bloom together with snowdrops. It looks like a small bunch. It looks bright and delightful against the background of the still bare ground. But it multiplies very quickly and can become a weed. By the time the seeds ripen, it becomes poisonous. Medicinal plant.
Summer flowers
In summer, the flowers in the forest surprise with their diversity. These are gentian, daisy, wild berry, Veronica officinalis, bells, forget-me-nots, basil, lunnik, oxalis, wild poppy and many others. Let's take a closer look at some of them.
Narrow-leaved fireweed or willow-herb (Epilobium angustifolium L.)- the Onagricaceae family. The stem of the fireweed is erect with lanceolate leaves, it will grow from 50 cm to 2 m. The inflorescence is a cluster of large pinkish-crimson flowers, which bloom gradually from bottom to top. Flowering begins in the second half of summer and lasts about 30 days. Grows in forests, forest edges, fires, clearings, ravine slopes. Unpretentious, frost-resistant. The rhizome grows very strongly, so it must be thinned out before the seeds ripen. Amazing honey plant. Possesses a lot of useful medicinal properties.
Kupena or Solomon seal (Polygonatum multiflorum)- Liliaceae family, herbaceous plant with a curved stem 60-70 cm. Oval leaves (10-12 cm) are arranged on the stem in symmetrical pairs. The axillary flowers are whitish-cream in shape and resemble elongated bells up to 1.5 cm. They practically do not smell. Kupena vaguely resembles a large lily of the valley. Blooms in early June. Then black berries form in place of the flowers. The shoot dies off annually. Kupena is unpretentious, but does not like dry places. A wild plant can be propagated at the site by dividing the rhizome. Poisonous. Possesses medicinal properties. Grows in deciduous-spruce forests.
Cyanosis blue or azure (Polemónium caerúleum)- the Sinyukhovye family. The stem is erect, from 40 cm to 1 m. The leaves are oblong, pinnate. Blooms in June-July. The inflorescence is a panicle of beautiful blue flowers. After flowering, the plant does not look decorative, it is recommended to cut it off immediately. After cutting, it quickly recovers and becomes pretty again. Cyanosis is winter-hardy and unpretentious, but loves low-lying areas where groundwater is close. In nature, it grows in forest-steppe zones in damp places. Possesses medicinal properties.
Meadowsweet
Meadowsweet or meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)- family Pink, has an erect stem, reaching two meters. Dark green large three-lobed leaves are pubescent below. When rubbed, they emit a characteristic cucumber smell. The inflorescence is an erect panicle of many small flowers, white-pink or pale yellow. Blooms in mid-summer. It has a very strong aroma. A thick, creeping rhizome forms new shoots by August. Meadowsweet - cold-resistant and moisture-loving plant... Distributed in forests and forest-steppe, in humid places. Excellent honey plant. It is a medicinal plant.
Among spring primroses the leading position is, without a doubt, the bulbous flowers. And it is well deserved. After all…
Autumn flowers
In the autumn forest, which is replete with bright colors, flowers become less catchy and not so noticeable, they bloom in autumn too, but in a special way, more modestly. What kind of flowers can be found in the forest in autumn? Basically, these are the summer autumn, gentian, sivets meadow, nyvyanik, clover, cinquefoil, oak grass, cmin, umbelliferous hawk, autumn kulbaba, black cohosh and others.
At the beginning of autumn, in the forest, we are gladdened by the flowers of oregano, goldenrod, twisted bell, violets, saying goodbye to summer.
Oregano or oregano (Оriganum vulgaris L.)- the family Lipocytes, a small perennial (30 to 80 cm). Small two-lipped flowers are collected in oval spikelets, which gather in panicles at the end of the branches. The color of the flowers is pinkish-purple, rarely white. Blooms all summer and early autumn. In August, the seeds are already beginning to ripen. The plant is cold-resistant, undemanding, but grows poorly on heavy acidic soils. Photophilous. Very widespread. It grows in the steppes, in clearings and forest edges, on the slopes of ravines. Loves pine and aspen forest areas. It has a strongly pronounced pleasant aroma and a bitter-spicy taste. It is a medicinal plant and is used in cooking as a spice. It is used in the design of mixborders, rockeries, rabatok.
Goldenrod
Common goldenrod or golden rod (Compositae)- family Compositae, perennial with reddish stems from 40 cm to 1 m. Oblong-oval leaves with small denticles along the edge. Paniculate inflorescences are collected from baskets, which, in turn, are composed of small yellow flowers. From the second half of summer to the end of September, they bloom. It grows in forests, on the slopes of ravines, on forest edges, clearings, glades. Unpretentious. Sometimes requires a garter. If you want to avoid self-seeding, then immediately after flowering, you should cut it off. Goldenrod is possible, also suitable for flower beds and mixborders.
Twisted bell
Twisted or assembled bell (Campanula glomerata L.)- Bellflower family, perennial up to half a meter high. It has lanceolate wide leaves. The capitate inflorescences resemble small bouquets of small blue-violet bells (sometimes white). Blooms all summer and early autumn. Unpretentious. It grows on forest edges and clearings, as well as among shrubs. Medicinal plant. In landscape design, they are used for planting under trees, in ridges, natural gardens and for cutting.
Violet tricolor
Violet tricolor or pansies (Viola tricolor L.) and field violet (V. arvensis Murr.)- the Violet family, annual and biennial herbaceous plants with an erect, slightly ribbed stem 10-45 cm. The toothed leaves at the edges are ovoid. The flowers are single, irregular, 5 petals, arranged on a long peduncle. The violet has a tricolor long corolla. The upper two petals are purple or dark blue, the two side ones are of the same color, only lighter, and the lower large petal with a spur is light yellow (maybe with a purple edge). And the violet has a short field corolla and smaller flowers. They also differ in color. The field violet has white upper petals, while the middle and lower ones are bright yellow. Violets bloom from May to early October. It is found everywhere on the edges and clearings in the forest, in forest belts, as well as along the roads. Violet is undemanding and frost-resistant. Prefers neutral soils. Doesn't like fertilization with fresh manure! Caring for a wild violet is the same as for its ornamental varieties. It is a medicinal plant.
But there are such flowers in the forest that bloom in the fall, these are autumn crocus. The name itself suggests that it blooms at the wrong time, not like all of its bulbous counterparts. He confused spring with autumn.
Autumnal crocus
Colhicum autumnale- Liliaceae family, bulbous plant about 10 cm. Aboveground stem is erect, rounded. Three or four broad-lanceolate leaves are collected in a rosette around the fruit, in the middle of summer they die off, and with the onset of cold weather large flowers up to 25 cm appear, similar to crocuses. The color of the flowers is from white to purple. Blooms in the first half of autumn. In nature, it occurs in wet flooded meadows, along rivers and streams. Colchicum is an unpretentious plant. In the fall, he will be able to decorate the site, and he will stand in a vase for about 5 days. You just need to remember that the whole plant is poisonous. You need to work with it with gloves and take precautions.
Plants of the forest are not blooming
Walking through the forest, you suddenly stop looking at a plant that does not stand out for its flowering, but still has some special appeal. After all, not only the delicate beauty of forest flowers, but also beautiful or unusual leaves make wild plants very decorative.
Cuff (Alchemilla)- family Rosaceae, creeping perennial (15-60 cm). The cuff has unremarkable flowers, they are small, collected in inflorescences false umbrellas, inexpressive greenish-yellow hue. Blooms from May to late summer. But the main advantage of this plant is its leaves. They are light green, round, fan-shaped, pubescent, with slightly concave lobes. Due to the pubescence, dew drops are retained on the leaves. In the light of the first rays of the morning sun, it looks just amazing! The plant is unpretentious, but loves moist soil. It self-sows well, therefore it is necessary to immediately cut off dry peduncles. It successfully coexists with tall plants (bells, delphiniums, etc.). You should not plant medium-sized low-growing plants near the cuff (for more information about which you can find out), growing, it can simply close them. A good cuff on alpine slides and as a curb. In the wild, it occurs in ravines, on forest edges, on the banks of water bodies and in wet meadows.
Ferns and horsetails will add a unique pristine atmosphere to your garden. These ancient representatives flora have interesting and lush foliage. There are many species of them growing in our forests.
Kochedyzhnik (Athyrium)- this genus includes about 200 species of ferns. There are 12 species in our area. These are large ferns up to 1 m, growing mainly in the forest. Leaves with short petioles, pinnately dissected, covered with brownish scales. It is very widespread in humid forests, can form whole thickets. It multiplies intensively by spores. Considered poisonous. He likes wet shady places, it is often planted near artificial reservoirs.
Common bracken (Pteridium oquilinum)- perennial fern plant up to 1 meter high, branch width with leaves up to 70 cm. Cirrus or pinnately cut, lanceolate leaves at the ends are obtuse, located on long petioles, dense. They have a peculiar smell. It does not grow as a bush, the leaves are located one by one and are tied underground by a rhizome. Propagated by spores. It grows most often in oak and pine forests. Unpretentious. It is considered poisonous, although it is used as food by the peoples of the Far East.
Horsetail- a herbaceous perennial spore plant that has an interesting texture. It has tough, branched green, segmented shoots 30-60 cm and spore-bearing spike-like cones. Often found in the forest in swampy areas. Several types of horsetails are used in landscaping.
Forest shrubs
There are many in our forests beautiful shrubs, you just have to look closely. Here are hanging beautiful long earrings of hazel, wild species of willow meet spring with fluffy "seals", delight with flowering and decorative fruits wolf bast, euonymus, honeysuckle, dogwood, brittle buckthorn, privet. Beautiful and useful black elderberry, hawthorn and blackthorn. All are countless.
Black elderberry (Sambucus nigra)- This shrub is found everywhere in the wild. Its height is 6-10 m, the leaves are large, slightly shiny. In May, it becomes covered with fragrant whitish-cream inflorescences. And closer to autumn, flower umbrellas turn into clusters of black berries. This unpretentious shrub on the site is a hassle for active reproduction. However, this is not a reason to give up this cute and very useful medicinal plant.
Hawthorn
Hawthorn (Crataegus)- tall bush, family Rosaceae. It has many types. This plant retains its decorative effect for almost the entire warm season. At first, the bush pleases the eye with beautiful white flowers, and in the fall it flares up with red-orange clusters of very useful berries. Fruit color can range from light orange to black. A very undemanding and sturdy plant. Beautiful in hedges, thorny branches will make such a barrier impassable. It also looks decoratively alone on the edges.
Blackthorn or blackthorn (Prunus spinosa L.)- branched thorny shrub from 1.5 to 4 m, from the Rosaceae family. Oblong-oval leaves with denticles along the edges. In the spring, it is covered with medium-sized white five-petal flowers, and in the fall, in their place, black-gray fruits appear, resembling small cream. Sweet and sour in taste, they have a slight astringency. Medicinal plant. In the wild, it grows in the forest-steppe zone. Unpretentious.
Forest plants in landscape design
We can "invite" many forest guests to our garden plot. Growing in the harsh conditions of the wild, they can reveal all their possibilities in a well-kept garden. It is best, of course, to use plants from your area.
Some forest flowers are suitable for a Moorish lawn: daisy, bells, wild poppy, forget-me-nots. On a shady area, you can plant ferns, horsetails, kupena, they will give this part of the garden a touch of mystery and peace.
Liverworts will decorate rocky hills in a group with small-bulb primroses. Kaluzhnitsa, Ivan-tea, meadowsweet will look great on the banks of an artificial reservoir. Cyanosis will become a decoration of any flower bed. Oregano can be used for mixborders and discounts.
Most shrubs will work well for hedging and will do well in solo planting. A wonderful border will come out of the cuff.
Nowadays such trend in landscape design as "natural garden" or "eco-style garden" is coming into vogue. The basis of this style is the recreation of a wilderness corner in the garden. Of course, everything should be done as naturally as possible. For this, the wonderful plants of our forests are used, which are in perfect harmony with inner peace person.