To date, garden plots, flower beds and window sills in apartments are decorated with a variety of ornamental plants. The abundance of flowers, shapes and sizes of plants delight the eye of flower growers and their guests. Plants with flowers of all shades of blue, from blue to dark blue, are gaining popularity. The blue shades of flowers are very reminiscent of the sky, and that is why they are gradually winning the love of flower growers.
Blue flowers: a symbol of the sky
Thanks to the efforts of scientists-breeders, today many new varieties have been introduced plants with blue and blue flowers. As outside observers note, plants with blue and blue flowers are striking in their richness of colors. In addition, blue and blue go well with other colors.
So, The most popular colors of all shades of blue are:
- African lily or agapanthus;
- ageratum;
- wrestler or aconite;
- small periwinkle;
- Veronica oak;
- hyacinth;
- spring;
- garden hydrangea;
- blue tulips.
It should be remembered that in nature, pure blue flowers are extremely rare, mostly plants have shades of blue.
Blue flowers
Agapanthus or African lily is a houseplant with blue flowers of extraordinary beauty (pictured). Belongs to the onion family, genus Agapanthus. A rather low plant (no more than 70 cm in height). The leaves are large, fleshy, collected in fluffy rosettes. Flowers of various colors, including bluish and blue, are collected in umbrella-shaped inflorescences.
The plant blooms from summer to late autumn. Recently, the plant has been actively cultivated at home. Most popular among indoor plants three types are considered:
- agapanthus orientalis;
- agapanthus campanula;
- agapanthus umbrella.
The plant is photophilous, feels good under sunlight. The optimum growing temperature is considered to be 15-25 degrees Celsius. It does not require painstaking care, watering should be regular, it needs to be transplanted.
Ageratum varieties Blue mink belongs to the aster family. This small size bush (no more than 60 cm in height), with triangular or diamond-shaped leaves, stems straight, pubescent, the number of stems is quite large. Ageratum fructifies, fruits in the form of a five-sided achene.
Blue flowers are fluffy, small, reminiscent of dandelions. Flower growers often plant whole flowery carpets, and the bush is also popularly called a “dry stream”.
Aconite or wrestler
A trail of legends and legends has always hovered around this plant. According to one version, aconite appeared after the dog Cerberus, the guardian of the entrance to Tartarus, appeared in Greece along with Hercules. From his poisonous saliva, which fell on the ground, a plant appeared.
The wrestler (pictured) refers to a small size (60-130 cm tall) perennial herbs, with a straight, rarely curly stem (up to 400 cm in length). The leaves are blade-shaped, dark green in color, arranged alternately. Blue flowers vaguely resemble a bell. It tolerates winter well, does not require painstaking care, and transplants are well tolerated. Actively cultivated by flower growers in gardens and front gardens.
Fully poisonous plant. When working with a flower, all precautions must be observed. It is recommended to land out of the reach of animals and small children.
Small - a small plant with blue flowers, surrounded mystical stories. The periwinkle is about 40 cm high, the stem is branched, straight, rarely creeping. Flowering begins in May, pale blue or dark blue flowers appear on the stems. Flowers solitary, pedicels long, about 3–4 cm in diameter.
The leaves of the periwinkle are attached to the stem with short cuttings, have the shape of an ellipse, fleshy, dense to the touch, shiny. The top of the leaf is juicy green, the bottom is paler, grayish green in color.
The plant bears fruit, the fruits begin to ripen in June. Famous for its healing properties.
Veronica oak
The plant belongs to the genus Veronica, the plantain family. The herbaceous perennial has creeping pubescent stems, the length of which varies from 10 to 40 cm. The leaves of Veronica oak are ovoid, the edges are slightly jagged, about 2-3 cm long. Attached to the stems with short cuttings.
The inflorescence is racemose, axillary flowers have a bluish tint (pictured). The flowers are four-five-leaved, sometimes have a white border or dark veins across the petals. It has long been grown by flower growers as decorative ornament garden or vegetable garden, prefers dry and shady places growth. Widely distributed in Russia and Ukraine.
Hyacinth accompanies beautiful legend: once the son of the king of Sparta, a young man named Hyacinth, challenged the gods Apollo and Zephyr. The young man competed with the god in discus throwing, in no way inferior to the deity. Zephyr couldn't let a mortal win, so a gust of wind changed the trajectory of the disc's fall. He hit Hyacinth right in the face. The young man died from a mortal wound, and in the place where the drops of Hyacinth's blood fell, a tender bud grew.
belong to the lily family, is a perennial plant with a tuberous root system. The leaves are dense, juicy green in color, as if superimposed on each other. Flowers of various colors, there are also blue tones. Inflorescences racemose, with many flowers, similar to bells.
About 45 flowers can be located on one stem.
Gentian or Gentiana
Gentian belongs to perennial shrub plants of the gentian family. It includes about 400 subspecies, small in stature, about 50-70 cm. In the natural environment, you can find specimens up to half a meter high.
Gentian's stem is erect, has basal leaves collected in a rosette. The leaves are mostly entire, may be ovoid or oblong. Flowers solitary, rarely collected in inflorescences, with straight vertical peduncles. They have the shape of a bell, blue, less often blue.
Gentiana has recently been cultivated in Russia, in areas where the climate is similar to the natural habitat of the flower.
garden hydrangea
Large-leaved is considered the most popular ornamental shrub (see picture). The bush is quite tall, there are specimens about 4 m high. People call this shrub hydrania. Widely used in Russia to decorate gardens and parks.
Hydrangea leaves are quite large, juicy green shade, egg-shaped. The leaf tips are slightly pointed. The inflorescences are cluster-shaped, lush, of various colors, there are shades of blue. Remotely resembles lilac, the diameter of the inflorescence can reach 15 cm.
Flowering begins in June, ends in September - October. With the onset of cold weather, the leaves change color, becoming red-brown.
Blue and blue tulips were bred not so long ago by plant breeders. As a perennial bulbous plant, tulips come in a wide variety of shades of blue. An ephemeroid herbaceous tulip, in spring it goes through all stages of development: from the first leaves to death.
Tulips are quite popular among flower growers, they do not require special care. Watering prefers regular, the soil for the tulip should be with a loose surface.
Meadow plants are a fairly rich community that develops more dynamically than mountain or steppe ones. Meadow flowers and grasses compete for light, nutrients, water, so they grow much more actively than their forest counterparts, as well as representatives of the mountains and steppes. Grassland plants include thousands of species, and most of them can be grown in your home gardens.
With photos and names of meadow flowers and herbs, as well as a description meadow plants you can find on this page.
What are meadow plants
Camassia (CAMASSIA). Lily family.
(out of six known species, three are cultivated) - plants of mountain meadows North America. They have an ovoid bulb, belt-like leaves in a ground bunch, above which a leafless tall peduncle rises with a brush of large star-shaped flowers.
Types and varieties:
(C.quamash)- height 25 cm, has a multi-flowered (20-35 flowers), dense inflorescence, blooms in early June.
(C.cusickii)- height 70 cm, loose inflorescence, blooms at the end of May.
Camassia Leuchtlin (C. leichtlinii)- height up to 100 cm, loose inflorescence, large flowers (diameter up to 5 cm), blue or blue, blooms in June, up to 20 days.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with normally moist clay and loamy fertile soils; leveled areas require drainage.
Unpretentious.
Thermopsis (THERMOPSIS). Pea (legume) family.
Thermopsis lupiformis(T. lupinoides)- perennial from meadows Far East with a long rhizome and high (up to 140 cm) straight stems, leafy beautiful gray-gray trifoliate leaves. Inflorescence - apical drooping brush of bright yellow large flowers. The plant is very decorative, forms a thicket, but already in the middle of summer ends the growing season.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with loose fertile soils.
Reproduction. Segments of rhizomes (at the end of summer) and seeds (sowing before winter). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Derbennik (LYTHRUM). Derbennikov family.
loosestrife loosestrife (L. salicaria)- large (100-150 cm) short-rhizomatous perennial growing in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere along wet meadows, river banks and reservoirs. The stem, bearing numerous narrow-lanceolate leaves, ends with a terminal raceme of bright purple small flowers. The bush is dense, strict, spectacular.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with moist clay soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing before winter), dividing the bush (in spring). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Miscanthus (MISCANTHUS). Family bluegrass (cereals).
Rhizome high perennials (100-200 cm) from wet meadows of the Far East, forming large dense sods, erect stems, leaves lanceolate, hard.
Very beautiful fan-shaped silvery panicles.
Kinds:
Miscanthus sinensis (M. sinensis)- dense, slowly growing curtain.
Miscanthus sugarflower (M. saccharifiorus)- forms a loose thicket.
Varieties:
"SiLberfeder"
"Strictus"
Zebrinus
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with rich, wet, peaty soils.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush in spring and seeds (sowing before winter). Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Aquilegia, catchment area (AQUILEGIA). Buttercup family.
Speaking about which meadow plants have the largest number of species of varieties, they immediately call aquilegia. This flower has about 100 species and dozens hybrid varieties. In nature, they grow in meadows and rocks in temperate regions of Eurasia and North America. These are graceful plants with beautiful leaves and an original flower shape. A rosette of trifoliate leaves, often of a beautiful bluish hue, departs from a thick branching taproot.
Species and varieties. High (above 60 cm):
Aquilegia hybrid (A. xhybrida)- large flowers of all colors.
Ballerina- flowers are pink, terry.
Crimson Star- red-white flowers.
"Edelweiss"-white.
hybrids McCanah(McKana Hybrids)- the tallest (up to 120 cm) aquilegia with large flowers directed upwards of all colors.
Aquilegia sticky (A. glandulosa)- purple-blue flowers.
Common Aquilegia (A. vulgaris) - purple flowers with a short spur.
Aquilegia olympic (A. olympica)- with drooping white-blue flowers.
Low (height 10-30 cm):
Aquilegia alpine (A.alpina)- purple flowers with a short spur.
Aquilegia fan-shaped (A.flabellata)- large blue flowers with a pale yellow edge without spurs.
Aquilegia blue (A.caerulea)- flowers are blue with white, spurs are thin.
Aquilegia canadensis (A. canadensis)- with red-yellow flowers.
The last two species are the rock plants of North America.
Growing conditions. Sunny to semi-shaded areas with light sandy soils. After flowering, the above-ground part of the plants is cut off, new leaves grow by autumn.
Reproduction. Aquilegia are juveniles, so they are transplanted in the 3-4th year. Easily propagated by seeds (sowing in spring or before winter), the division of the bush is poorly tolerated.
Self-seeding often appears. Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Boltonia (BOLTONIA). Aster family (composite).
In the grasslands of the eastern part of the United States, 4 species of tall perennial boltons grow. Their height is up to 150 cm, the stems are branching, leafy with narrow linear leaves.
Numerous small (about 1 cm) baskets, white, pinkish, very elegant, collected in a loose brush.
Look at the photo of this meadow plant: the bush, despite its height, is very graceful, transparent.
Growing conditions. Sunny places with rich, moist soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring) and dividing the bush (spring). Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
What other plants belong to the meadow
Below are the names of meadow plants and their photos with descriptions.
Buzulnik (LIGULARIA). Aster family (composite).
Powerful herbaceous plants of wet meadows of Asia. The leaves are large in the rosette, the stems are straight (80-120 cm) leafy; baskets are yellow in a corymbose or racemose inflorescence.
Types and varieties:
Buzulnik toothed(L. dentata = L. clivorum).
Buzulnik "Othello"
Desdemona- with dark-colored leaves, leaves are large, kidney-shaped, large baskets in a corymbose inflorescence.
Buzulnik Hesseya (L. x hessei).
Hybrid buzulnik toothed And buzulnik Wilson.
Buzulnik Przewalski (L. przewalskii)- the only drought-resistant buzulnik species with palmate leaves and a candle-shaped inflorescence.
Buzulnik narrow-headed (L. stenocephala), grade "The Rocket".
Wilson's buzulnik (L. wilsoniana)- with a pyramidal inflorescence.
Buzulnik Vicha (L. veitchiana)- the highest buzulnik with heart-shaped, sharp-toothed leaves, inflorescence - an ear.
Siberian buzulnik (L. sibirica)- the leaves are rounded, the peduncle is straight, the inflorescence is spicate.
Growing conditions. Sunny to semi-shaded areas with rich, moist soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing before winter or spring) and dividing the bush (in spring). Divide and transplant rarely (after 8-10 years). Planting density - 3 pcs. per 1 m2.
Cornflower (CENTAUREA). Aster family (composite).
A typical plant of the meadows of the temperate zone of Eurasia and mountain meadows. Bushes with lyre-shaped or oval, often silvery leaves, collected in a rosette, and large bright flowers-baskets are very showy. Baskets consist of numerous funnel-shaped flowers along the edge and small tubular flowers in the middle.
Species and varieties. Bushes grow:
- (C. montana)- used in culture more often than other species, it has lanceolate silvery leaves and deep blue-violet inflorescences.
Variety Parham- a purple-lavender basket.
cornflower Alba- white.
"Rosea" - pink.
"Violetta"- dark purple.
(C. macrocephala = Grossheimia macrocephala)- the highest cornflower (up to 120 cm) with yellow capitate baskets.
(C. dealbata = Psephellusdealbatus) differs in very effective dissected, from below grayish lyre-shaped leaves and bright pink baskets.
Variety "John Coutts" middle flowers are yellow.
And at "Sternbergii"- white.
Russian cornflower (C. ruthenica)- height 100-120 cm, light yellow basket with a diameter of 5-6 cm.
The overgrowth is formed by:
Cornflower soft (C. mollis)- can grow in partial shade, the leaves are oval, silvery, above them are low (about 30 cm) peduncles with blue baskets.
Cornflower Fisher(C. fischerii)- forms a loose thicket of silvery leaves 30-50 cm high, baskets are pink, fawn, lilac.
Growing conditions. Open sunny areas with fertile, loose, neutral, moderately moist soils.
Reproduction. Cornflowers grow rapidly, reproduce well by dividing the bush (spring and late summer) and seeds. Seeds can be sown before winter (October-November) and early spring. Shoots appear quickly (in 10-12 days). Seedlings bloom in the second year. Planting density -3-9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Gaillardia (GAILLARDIA). Aster family (composite).
Short-lived perennials and annuals of dry grasslands and prairies of North America. Straight branched pubescent stems up to 70 cm high depart from a shallow rhizome. The leaves are oval, the inflorescences look like yellow-red daisies on long stems.
Types and varieties:
Gaillardia grandiflora (G. grandiflora)- forms of the city of Ostoy.
Variety Dazzier- red middle, orange border.
strong>"Croftway Jellow" - pure yellow.
Mandarin- red with yellow, their height is 50-70 cm.
dwarf variety Goblin.
Dwarf Gaillardia variety Kobold 20 cm high, red with yellow tips.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with loose soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), seedlings bloom in the second year; dividing the bush (spring). It is necessary to divide and transplant every 3-4 years. Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Heliopsis, sunflower (HELIOPSIS). Aster family (composite).
Perennial grasslands and prairies of North America. High compact bushes (up to 150 cm) from straight branched leafy (oblong leaves) stems. At the top of the stems is a paniculate inflorescence of yellow baskets.
Types and varieties:
Heliopsis sunflower (H. helianthoides).
Heliopsis rough (H. scabra)- Opposite leaves are rough.
Terry varieties:
"Golden Plume"
Goldfieder(yellow basket with a green center).
Non-terry:
Gigantea
Patula.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with any dry soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing before winter) and dividing the bush (in spring). Division and transplant after 5-7 years. Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Doronicum, goat (DORONICUM). Aster family (composite).
The genus includes about 40 species growing in meadows and sparse forests of the temperate zone of Europe and Asia. These are rhizomatous plants with oval basal leaves and large (up to 12 cm in diameter) yellow "daisies" raised on tall peduncles. All species are spring-flowering, their leaves die off in mid-summer.
Types and varieties:
(D. orientale = D. caucasicum = D. cordatum)- a typical ephemeroid from the forests of the Caucasus with a long bead-like rhizome, forms thickets, blooms in early spring.
"Little Leo"- undersized variety.
(D. plantagineum)- plants from the meadows of the Pyrenees, the rhizome is short, beaded, forms bushes up to 140 cm high, blooms in late spring.
Variety "Excelsum"(up to 100 cm high).
"Magnificum".
Mme Mason.
A shorter variety of doronicum - Grandiflorum.
(D. austriacum)- baskets in a corymbose inflorescence, blooms later - in July, the leaves remain until autumn.
Doronicum poisonous (D. pardalianches)- height up to 180 cm, shade-loving, forms abundant self-seeding, stable.
Growing conditions. Doronicum orientalis is grown in shaded areas under the canopy of trees with loose forest soils; d. plantain grows well in the sun and in partial shade on loose fertile soils. Moisture-loving, do not tolerate overdrying of the soil.
Reproduction. Rarely by seeds (sowing in spring), more often by segments of rhizomes with a renewal bud in summer, after the end of flowering. Planting density - 9-12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Bathing suit (TROLLIUS). Buttercup family.
An excellent spring plant in the wet meadows of Eurasia and North America. About 30 species are known, differing in the shape of the flower. Everyone is powerful root system, beautiful palmately separated leaves on long petioles, collected in a dense bush, 30-70 cm high, spherical flowers (open or closed).
Species with spherical closed flowers, 50-70 cm high:
Asian bathing suit (T. asiaticus)- orange-red flowers (they are called "frying").
(T. altaicus)- orange flowers dark spot(stamens) inside.
(T. chinensis)- blooms later than other species (at the end of June), orange flower with protruding orange nectaries.
(T. ledebourii)- tall (up to 100 cm) plant with golden-orange flowers.
Bathing suit hybrid(T. xhybridus)- yellow, orange flowers, large, often double.
Cupped species, more or less open flower, low (height 20-40 cm); yellow flowers:
Jungar bathing suit (T. dschungaricus).
Bathing suit semi-open (T.patulus).
Bathing suit dwarf (T. pumilus).
Growing conditions. Sunny places with rich moist soils. Peat mulching is recommended. Light shading possible.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (spring, late summer), every 6-8 years. Freshly harvested seeds (sowing before winter). Seedlings bloom in the 2-3rd year. Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Small-scale (ERIGERON). Aster family (composite).
These beautiful, long-known plants in culture are also called lilac daisies. Out of almost 250 species of small-flowered plants, only 3-4 species are grown, and mainly cultivars, hybrid forms. These are perennial short-rhizomatous plants that form rather loose bushes, often with decumbent stems. Leaves oblong in rosette, inflorescence-basket, often in corymbose inflorescence. Reed flowers are narrow, located in one plane; median - yellow tubular. Bush height 30-60 cm.
Types and varieties:
Alpine small-scale(E. alpinus)- height 30 cm, lilac-pink baskets.
Small-scale hybrid (E. x hybridus).
Variety Azure Beauty- with blue flowers.
Jewel Mix- lilac-pink flowers.
"Summerneuschnee"- with white and pink baskets.
Small-scale beautiful (E. speciosus)- from the mountain meadows of the west of North America, bush height up to 70 cm, baskets up to 6 cm in diameter, purple with a yellow center. Flowering is abundant, from mid-June to August. Seeds ripen in August.
Growing conditions. Plants are undemanding, preferring light rich moist soils and sunny habitats. After the end of flowering, the shoots are pruned.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring) and dividing the bush (spring and late summer). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Tansy (TANACETUM). Aster family (composite).
Common tansy (T. vulgare)- a large (height 100-120 cm) plant from the meadows of Eurasia with a thick short rhizome, erect stiff stems covered with pinnately divided, bristly, dark green leaves. Dense flat golden yellow small baskets are collected in corymbose inflorescences at the ends of the stems.
Growing conditions. This species of meadow plants prefers sunny habitats, tolerates a lack of moisture well. Resistant and unpretentious. After the end of flowering - cut off.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring and autumn), dividing the bush (in spring and late summer), weeding. Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Beautiful meadow flowers
In this section, you can get acquainted with the names of meadow flowers and see their photos.
Monarda (MONARDA). Family of yasnotkovye (labial).
Monards are beautiful meadow flowers that grow only in the temperate zone of North America in dry grasslands and prairies. These are tall (up to 120 cm) long-rhizome perennials with a straight hard leafy stem and small tiers located on it. fragrant flowers in racemes. The whole plant is fragrant.
Types and varieties:
Monarda double (M. didyma)- purple flowers in capitate inflorescence.
Monarda tubular(M. fistulosa)- higher and shade-tolerant appearance.
Monarda hybrid(M. x hybrida)- hybrids of monarda double and tubular.
Varieties with flowers light, almost white:
"Aquarius"
Schneewittchen
With pink flowers:
"Beauty of Cobham" "Croftway Pink".
With red flowers:
"Scorpion"
Cambridge Scarlet.
Growing conditions. Sunny and semi-shaded places with loose fertile soils, without stagnant moisture.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (in spring) and seeds (sowing before winter). Perennial plant, divide and transplant after 5-7 years. Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
They are used in all types of flower beds, since the monarda is stably decorative, exudes aroma, the bush keeps its shape well. Suitable for cutting. Dry leaves are used for aromatherapy.
(BELLIS). Aster family (composite).
Daisy perennial (B. perennis)- a miniature compact plant growing in nature in wet meadows and forest clearings in Western Europe and Asia Minor. In culture, it is a short-lived (3-4 years), but rapidly growing perennial due to stolons with a rosette of light green spatulate wintering leaves pressed to the ground.
Numerous peduncles (10-20 cm high) with a single basket inflorescence rise above them in May-June. There are many varieties, but at present, terry daisies with large spherical baskets with a diameter of 5-7 cm are more often grown:
Group "Monstrosa".
Bright Carpet.
Interesting pompom varieties - "Pomponnetta"
Growing conditions. This is a light-loving and moisture-loving plant, in slightly shaded places it blooms for a longer time. In damp areas with stagnant moisture, it rots in winter.
In rainy summers, there is a second abundant flowering - in August.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), dividing the bush throughout the season. Repot every 2-3 years. Planting density - 25 pcs. per 1 m2.
Sunflower (HELIANTHUS). Aster family (composite).
The description of these meadow flowers is familiar to everyone: perennial sunflowers are tall (120-200 cm) perennials with erect, leafy stems, branched at the top.
The stems end in medium-sized yellow baskets 5-10 cm in diameter. They bloom in late summer - autumn.
Kinds:
giant sunflower (H. giganteus)- leaves broadly lanceolate, rough.
Ten-petal sunflower (H. decapetaius).
sunflower hard (H. rigidus)- blooms later than other species, variety "Octoberfest".
Willow sunflower (H. saiicifoii)- with narrower leaves.
Varieties:
Sunflower "Loddon Gold"- terry.
Sunflower "Triumphe de Gand"
"SoLieL d'Or"- semi-double.
Growing conditions. Sunny places with rich neutral soils. Tolerates lack of moisture.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), dividing the bush (in spring). Transplant and division every 3-4 years. Planting density - 3-5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Stem (EUPATORIUM). Aster family (composite).
Tall (up to 150 cm) short-rhizome perennials from wet meadows and forest glades of the Far East and eastern regions of North America. Most of the 600 known species are tropical, and only 5-6 species grow in the temperate zone. They form high (120-150 cm) bushes from hard straight densely leafy stems. Leaves are oval, hairy. Small baskets in wide corymbose inflorescences, from light pink to purple.
Types and varieties:
Steep spotted (E. maculatum), variety "Atropurpureum".
strong>Purple vine (E. purpureum)- dark pink inflorescences.
The window sill is wrinkled (E. rugosum)- fawn inflorescences, variety "Chocolate" with dark purple leaves.
-Grain of the Glen (E. glehnii)- pinkish flowers, blooms earlier than other species (in mid-July).
Stem pierced leaf (E. perfoliatum)- Meadows of the eastern United States.
Growing conditions. Sunny or slightly shaded areas with moist, rich soils respond well to peat application.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring) and dividing the bush (in spring). Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Ratibida (RATIBIDA). Aster family (composite).
Perennial dry grasslands and prairies of western North America. The root is thick, taproot, the leaves are lanceolate. An interesting basket of yellow reed flowers and a highly prominent central part of small brown tubular ones.
Types and varieties:
Ratibida columnar (R. columnaria)- height about 50 cm.
Ratibida pinnate (R. pinnata).
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with dry sandy soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), seedlings bloom in the 2nd year. Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Used as part of mixed flower beds, especially the "natural garden" type.
Rudbeckia (RUDBECKIA). Aster family (composite).
Plants of the grasslands and prairies of North America. Unpretentious. In culture, their inflorescences-baskets are valued, always yellow, with a convex black-brown center. The roots are fibrous, shallow; sometimes a rhizome is formed.
Types and varieties:
(R. fulgida) forms compact, densely leafy bushes 40-60 cm high.
best grade Goldsturm- blooms profusely for almost two months with yellow "daisies", quickly forms a curtain.
Rudbeckia is beautiful (R. speciosa)- juvenile (3-4 years), multi-colored baskets (yellow-brown).
Rudbeckia dissected (R. laciniata)- height 100-200 cm, quickly forms a thicket.
Variety "Golden Ball"("Gold Quelle")- An excellent resistant perennial.
Growing conditions. Sunny and slightly shaded areas with rich, loose, moderately moist soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), seedlings bloom in the 2nd year. The division of the bush (spring). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Highlander (POLYGONUM = PERSICARIA). Buckwheat family.
A large genus (about 150 species), whose species grow throughout the Earth: in the steppes, meadows, mountains, and in water. They have dense lanceolate leaves and terminal spike-shaped inflorescences. Perennials are grown in central Russia.
Types and varieties:
Highlander related (P. affine = Persicaria affinis)- ground cover perennial from the rocks of the Himalayas, 10-25 cm high, leaves are dense, lanceolate, wintering, inflorescences of small pink flowers.
Variety "Darjeeling Red".
Highlander snake (P. bistorta = Persicaria bistorta)- a plant of wet meadows of the temperate zone of Eurasia with a thickened tuberous rhizome, height up to 100 cm, an ear of pink flowers.
Highlander splayed-ram(P. divaricatum)- up to 150 cm high, large spreading panicle, stably decorative appearance.
Weirich Highlander(P. weyrichii)- a plant of meadows of the Far East, 200 cm high, white flowers in a racemose inflorescence, forms dense thickets.
Highlander Sakhalin (P. sachalinense)- up to 200 cm high, a powerful plant with a long rhizome, from the meadows of Sakhalin, forms thickets of leafy stems with large oval leaves, white flowers in a racemose inflorescence.
Highlander amphibian (P. amphibium)- height up to 70 cm, semi-aquatic.
Growing conditions. G. related - a plant of sunny areas with loose sandy soils and moderate moisture, other species prefer sunny or slightly shaded places with rich, moist soils; d. amphibian grows in shallow water.
Reproduction. Rhizome segments (at the end of summer) and summer cuttings. Planting density - depending on the size of the plant from 3 to 20 pcs. per 1 m2.
Highlander related is used in rockeries, borders; city of snakes - as part of mixed flower beds, in groups "natural garden"; high overgrown highlanders are used to decorate fences and buildings. All species are interesting for cutting.
Golden rod, golden rod (SOLIDAGO). Aster family (composite).
Perennial tall rhizomatous plants of wet meadows, forest glades of North America. Types of meadows in Europe and Siberia are not decorative. Bushes of erect hard leafy stems 40-200 cm high. These meadow flowers got their name for their color - large paniculate inflorescences of yellow-gold tones rise above the bushes at the end of summer. They consist of small baskets (from a distance similar to mimosa flowers) and are both light, openwork, and dense spike-shaped, green-yellow or yellow-orange.
Types and varieties:
goldenrod(S. altissima), the rhizome is short, the bush is dense.
Goldenrod hybrid (S. x hybrida).
Perkeo
goldenrod "Baby Gold"
"GoLdstrahL"
Laurin
Strahlenkrone
Dzintra
Kronenstrahl
Fruhgold
Spagold
wrinkled goldenrod (S. rugosa)- height 200 cm, forms thickets, panicles are long, drooping.
Growing conditions. Sunny or lightly shaded areas with moist clay rich soils.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (in spring or after the end of flowering in autumn). It grows rapidly, so you need to divide after 4-5 years. Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Eriophyllum (ERIOPHYLLUM). Aster family (composite).
Eriophyllum woolly (E. lanatum)- perennial herbaceous plant of dry meadows and prairies of North America. The bush is quite dense, with rising shoots 30-40 cm high.
As can be seen in the photo, these meadow flowers have narrowly dissected, densely pubescent leaves, the inflorescence is a golden "chamomile" with a diameter of about 4 cm.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with light, well-drained soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), seedlings bloom in the 2nd year. It is possible to divide the bush in spring and late summer. Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
, Oslinnik (OENOTHERA). Cypress family.
Perennial rhizomatous plants, mainly from the grasslands of North America. Stems stiffly pubescent, numerous, with simple oval leaves and large fragrant flowers in racemes or solitary. Open at night or on cloudy days.
Types and varieties:
(O. missouriensis = O. macrocarpa)- 20 cm high, creeping, with yellow flowers.
(O. speciosa)- 50 cm high, juvenile with pink flowers.
Oenothera quadrangular (O. tetragona = O. fruticosa)- 90 cm high, yellow flowers.
Variety Fyrverkeri
Oenothera Longest Day.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with rich, well-drained, calcareous soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring), seedlings bloom in the 2nd year. The division of the bush (spring and late summer). Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Low ones are used in rockeries and borders, high ones are used in mixborders.
Daylily, red day (HEMEROCALLIS). Lily family.
About 20 species are known, mainly growing in meadows in East Asia. The bush is large, up to 100 cm high, with a powerful deep root system (sometimes short stolons are formed).
Pay attention to the photo of these meadow flowers: evening primrose leaves are xiphoid, curved; funnel-shaped flowers large (up to 12 cm long), wide open (in sunny weather), collected in a paniculate inflorescence (from 10 to 40 flowers), live one day.
Types and varieties:
Daylily brown-yellow (H. fulva)- brown-yellow flowers and a large bush.
day lily (H. minor)- the most drought-resistant species with a small bush of narrow grass-like leaves and an inflorescence of small light yellow flowers.
Daylily Dumortier (H. dumortieri)- compact bush, orange flowers.
(H. middendorffii)- fragrant orange flowers.
Daylily lemon yellow (H. citrina)- characterized by a lemon-yellow flower of an elongated shape.
day lily hybrid (H. x hybrida)- hybrids of complex origin with flowers of all colors (except blue and blue) and different flowering periods.
10,000 varieties are known, groups are distinguished: early (late May-June), medium (June-July), late (August-September); by color (monochrome, two-color, multi-color).
Interesting modern varieties with white (yellow) flowers with an "eye" in the center:
Day-lily Radiant Greetings- "peephole" brown on a yellow background.
"Edna Jean"- raspberry "peephole" on a pink background.
Growing conditions. Sunny (or slightly shaded) places with rich, normally moist soils.
Reproduction. By dividing the bush (once every 10-12 years) in early spring or late summer.
(TRADESCANTIA) . Commeline family.
Herbaceous perennials growing in the meadows and prairies of North America form dense bushes 50–80 cm high from saber-shaped basal lanceolate leaves.
The flowers are three-petaled, large (4–5 cm in diameter), flat, in an umbrella-shaped inflorescence. The flowering of the specimen is long, but not friendly, since 2-3 flowers are open at the same time.
Types and varieties:
Tradescantia Anderson (T. x andersoniana)- hybrid.
Variety Innocence- almost white.
"Karminglute"- red.
Leonora- dark purple.
Osprey- light with a blue center.
Tradescantia Rubra.
Charlotte- bright purple.
Tradescantia virginiana (T. virginiana)- pink-purple flowers.
Tradescantia ohio (T. ohiensis)- height up to 100 cm, the leaves are narrower, linear, the flowers are bluish in a bunch, drought-resistant.
Growing conditions. Sunny places with fertile, normally moist soils. Plants are unpretentious.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing before winter), seedlings bloom in the 2nd year. The division of the bush (spring and late summer). Planting density - 12 pcs. per 1 m2.
Use in flower beds of any type.
Physostegia (PHYSOSTEGIA). Family of yasnotkovye.
Physostegia virginiana (P. virginiana)- high (80110 cm) perennial from the wet meadows of North America. Quickly forms a thicket due to long branching rhizomes. Strong dense stems are covered with lanceolate light green leaves. The inflorescence is spike-shaped terminal, in the species it is lilac.
Varieties:
Bouquet Rose- height 70 cm.
"Summer Snow"- 80 cm high, white flowers.
Variegata.
Growing conditions. Sunny or semi-shaded locations with rich, moist soils.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring) and dividing the bush (spring and autumn). Planting density - 16 pcs. per 1 m2.
It looks good in separate spots under the canopy of rare trees, as part of the “natural garden” flower beds, in mixed flower beds (limit growth); for a cut.
Meadow grasses with photos, names and descriptions
With a photo of meadow grasses, their name and description can be found below.
. Aster family (composite).
Large grasses from the grasslands of North America. Straight, branched stems at the top are covered with lanceolate leaves. Large flowers solitary or in loose corymbs. According to legend, the name of this meadow grass is given by the name of the beautiful Helen, the wife of Menelaus, who has the same beautiful golden curls as the petals of helenium.
Types and varieties:
Variety "Altgoldrise" with yellow marginal flowers in strokes.
Helenium "Gartensonne"- marginal flowers are bright yellow, median - yellow-brown.
Katharina- marginal flowers are dark yellow, tubular - brown.
Moerheim Beauty- yellow basket
"Die Blonde"- red-brown, etc.
Helenium Hupa (H. hoopesii)- orange-yellow flowers, blooms in June, height 40-50 cm.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with loose garden soils and good moisture. Planting density - 5 pcs. per 1 m2.
Reproduction. These meadow grasses reproduce in spring with young rosettes. Divide and transplant every 3-4 years.
(COREOPSIS). Aster family (composite).
Perennial grasses from the grasslands of North America. Numerous branching stems 60-80 cm high, covered with leaves, depart from a dense short rhizome.
As you can see in the photo, these meadow grasses have bright yellow inflorescences-baskets that look like daisies.
Types and varieties:
Most often cultivated coreopsis grandiflora(C. grandiflora)- it has pinnately dissected leaves and large baskets (up to 6 cm in diameter).
Variety "Domino"- yellow with a dark center, height 40 cm.
"Lous d'Or"- semi-double, height 90 cm.
Sanrai- double flowers, height 60 cm.
(C. verticalillata)- differs in a compact, spherical bush and narrow linear leaves.
Variety Grandiflora- height up to 80 cm.
Coreopsis Zagreb- undersized (25 cm) bush.
Growing conditions. Plants are undemanding, grow well on any soil, in the sun and in partial shade.
Reproduction. Seeds (sowing in spring and before winter). Seedlings bloom in the 2nd year. It is possible to divide the bush (in spring and at the end of summer). Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Nivyanik, priest (LEUCANTHEMUM = CHRYSANTHEMUM). Aster family (composite).
Short-rhizome grasses of the meadows of Europe and Asia. The stems are straight, slightly branched, leafy, 80-100 cm high. The leaves are whole. Inflorescence - large baskets located at the ends of the stems. Marginal flowers - white, median - yellow.
Types and varieties:
Daisy, or chamomile meadow (L. vulgare = Chrysanthemum leucanthemum)- blooms in early June.
Variety "Hofenkrone".
May Queen.
Nivyanik the largest (L. maximum = Chrysanthemum maximum)- blooms from early July.
Variety Alaska.
"Polaris"
"Little Princess"- with large baskets.
Variety Agley
"Exhibition"
"Wirral Supreme"- terry baskets.
Growing conditions. Sunny areas with fertile clay, normally moist soil.
Reproduction. By seeds (sowing in spring), seedlings bloom by autumn, and by dividing the bush (in early spring and late summer). The plant is a juvenile, so division must be carried out every 3 years. Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Heuchera (HEUCHERA). Saxifrage family.
Plants of dry grasslands, rocks and prairies of North America. About 50 species of perennial herbs are known. Geyhery form a dense rounded low (20-50 cm) bush of numerous rosettes. The leaves are rounded, with a serrated edge, on long petioles, hibernating. At the height of summer, numerous openwork paniculate inflorescences of small bell-shaped flowers rise above the bushes. They bloom long and profusely. Seeds ripen in September.
In culture, only a few types are used:
-Heuchera american (H. americana)- leaves are bluish, flowers are small, greenish, few in number.
Variety "Persian Carpet".
Heuchera hairy (H.villosa)- a plant of dry forests with large green leaves and a loose panicle of white flowers.
Heuchera blood red (H. sanguinea)- reddish leaves, pink or red flowers in a loose multi-flowered panicle, this species is the basis of most hybrids.
Geichera small-flowered(H. micrantha)- known for its variety "Palace Purple" with large purple leaves.
Heuchera shaking (H. x brizoides)- garden hybrid.
Variety Plue de Feu.
"Rocket"
Silberregen.
Heuchera hybrid(H. x hybrida)- in last years Numerous varieties with leaves of different colors (pinkish, silvery, red, brown, with colored veins, etc.) have been obtained.
Particularly interesting varieties:
Prince- with green flowers and red-silvery leaves.
Regina- coral flowers.
"Peter Veil"- Red-silvery leaves with dark veins.
Plum Pudding- leaves are dark red, corrugated.
"Silver Indiana".
Growing conditions. Sunny and slightly shaded areas with rich, neutral, moderately moist soils.
Reproduction. The division of the bush (spring and late summer). Species can be propagated by seeds (sowing in spring). Seedlings bloom in the 3rd year. Divide and transplant every 4-5 years.
Planting density - 9 pcs. per 1 m2.
Houstonia (HOUSTONIA). The madder family.
Low-growing (10-15 cm) herbs from wet meadows and rocks of eastern North America.
Types and varieties:
Houstonia blue(H. caerulea).
Variety Millard's Variety- with bright blue flowers.
Houstonia thyme (H. serpyllifolia).
Growing conditions. These perennial meadow grasses prefer semi-shaded areas with moist soils.
Reproduction. Seeds and dividing the bush (at the end of summer). Planting density - 16 pcs. per 1 m2.
Red clover plant and its photo
Pea (legume) family.
The plant is a perennial with trifoliate leaves and flowers in capitate inflorescences. It grows in the meadows of the temperate zone. Height from 10 cm in creeping species to 90 cm in bush species. Good honey plants, improve soil structure.
Types and varieties:
Variety "Pentaphyllum"- green-purple leaves, white flowers, height 20 cm.
"Quadrifolium"- with four brown leaves, forms a carpet.
clover red (T. rubens)- height 60 cm, lilac-red flowers, grows in a bush.
Growing conditions. Sunny places with any soils. Unpretentious.
Reproduction. This type of meadow grass is propagated by seeds (sowing before winter), dividing the bush (in spring and late summer). Planting density - 9-16 pcs. per 1 m2.
Low clover forms rugs, well sods the soil on the slopes. Tall ones are interesting in mixed flower beds, where they improve the soil.
Which are well known or still unfamiliar, can take a place in the shade and in a sunny place. They can be planted in the center of a flower arrangement or in the background. On a flower bed, an alpine hill or in a rockery, they create an atmosphere of airiness, freshness and lightness. Among them there are small flowers and tall ones, shrubs and semi-shrubs, creepers and ampelous species.
tender lobelia
This is a plant that pale blue flowers, can be planted not only in a flower bed, but also in hanging baskets, balcony boxes, flower pots. Blooming lobelia resembles a blue ball. This flower looks good in a group, for example, with a petunia, or in a separate planting.
Lobelia belongs to the bell family. Depending on the variety of lobelia, it can be:
- Bush - forms a dense low profusely flowering ball, in which leaves are imperceptible.
- Ampelnoy - this species is more difficult to care for, flowering is not so plentiful.
In mid-July, when the formation of new flowers stops, the bush should be cut, leaving 5-10 cm, after which the lobelia will bloom again.
climbing clematis
This perennial herbaceous or woody plant, which is also called clematis, belongs to the buttercup family. A blue flower whose name comes from the Greek "klema" which means creeper. Clematis flowers can be not only blue, but also blue and dark red.
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Clematis are valued for clinging to supports, so this decoration will enliven a fence, pergola or gazebo. They are planted in early summer in a well-lit place protected from the winds. After landing, you must immediately install the support. Plant care consists in watering, loosening, mulching the soil with peat or humus. Top dressing - complete mineral fertilizer or wood ash.
Fluffy ageratum
This plant belongs to the Asteraceae family. It is unpretentious in care and blooms profusely, its flowers look like fluffy stars. In the wild, ageratum is a perennial, but the one that grows in flower beds is an annual. They can decorate borders, alpine slides and outdoor flowerpots. Ageratum flowers delight all summer and persist until frost. Blue and blue shades have the following varieties:
Beautiful and unpretentious annual flowers
Lupine and delphinium
Lupine dwarf is ideal for decorating a flower garden with a predominance of blue and blue tones. If you give this flower a large area, it will look very advantageous. Lupine can grow from 15 to 50 cm in height, planting flowers should not be thickened, because they need a lot of space for full development. The distance between flowers can reach 50 cm. In this case, it will be able to form not only one, but several side shoots. Intertwined with each other, they look very impressive.
If you leave enough space between flowers, lupine will bloom longer - up to 2 months. After the end of flowering, fruits with seeds are formed. The following year, they can be planted in open ground in late April or early May.
Delphinium blue looks good in group plantings behind low plants because of its high growth, which can be from 80 to 250 cm. With good care, it reproduces on its own, so you need to control this process. The leaves of the blue delphinium are very decorative, deeply divided, most concentrated at the bottom of the stem. Delphinium blooms in June - July, its large flowers are up to 5 cm in diameter.
The soil for planting a delphinium should be loamy or sandy, containing organic nutrients, well-drained. It is necessary to water the plant two to three times a week, fertilizing only during active growth.
Unusual hydrangea
This garden shrub will decorate landscape compositions, arbors and paths. Hydrangeas with blue flowers belong to the large-leaved variety of hydrangea. They have rounded inflorescences that bloom for a long time and profusely. Blue flowers have the following varieties:
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Many varieties are able to change their color from one to another during one summer on their own. If you want to change the color of the bush, it must be watered with a solution of aluminum alum during budding (2 liters of water per 1 tsp of alum). In this case, the white hydrangea will become blue, pink - lilac, and purple - blue-blue.
Heliotrope and Brunner
The heliotrope has small blue flowers, the name of which is translated from Greek as "revolving behind the sun." It is from the borage family, most of whose representatives are shrubs and herbaceous plants. In heliotrope, not only blue flowers are valued, but also the vanilla aroma that is characteristic of it.
Hybrid types of heliotrope can be blue, white, dark blue. In Russia, only annual heliotropes are grown, due to the winter cold.
Variety "Sea Breeze" refers to corymbose. Its small flowers are like ripples that appear on the water. The height of the bush can be 40-45 cm. Suitable for growing on borders.
Brunner is another representative of the borage family. It begins to bloom one of the first - in April, flowering lasts a month. This plant is undemanding in care, it grows on its own and forms beautiful thickets.
Brunnera can be planted in partial shade or shade, it is winter-hardy, it can grow up to 15 years in one place. The best places to land brunners can be:
For landing, a place where there is sunlight in the morning, and the rest of the time in shade is suitable. The soil should be moist and loose, but without fresh organic fertilizers. If it is possible to plant a brunner near the northern wall of the house, this will be the best option.
Flax blue
This perennial has sky-blue flowers, thin but strong stems that grow up to 35 cm. The flower is five-petalled, 3 cm in diameter, the leaves are small. The flower opens and blooms for only one day, but the next day it is replaced by hundreds of others. Within two months, the bush will be covered with a pale blue cloud.
Without focusing on the basic rules of color, it is impossible to competently compose flower arrangements. Ornamental plants have many shades, varied texture, which is very important for the perception of a holistic picture.
In wildlife, color almost always contains a large number of nuances. It may change due to lighting or environment. Finding a pure color is almost impossible. The most widespread in the world of plants are purple, blue, lilac, blue, lilac tones.
The meaning of blue
Since time immemorial, people have associated various things or concepts with a certain color. White color - light, purity. Black shade - evil, hatred, night, death.
Blue flowers have become a symbol of the sky and the sea. What flowers of different shades mean, you can find out from florists. Blue color is able to calm, create a feeling of comfort and calmness, help to fall asleep. Also, this color symbolizes contentment with life and stability, spirituality and intelligence.
Dark blue color inspires confidence, which was the reason for its use in business suits. Blue is the color of coolness, it calms and promotes better sleep. In nature, blue is less common than other colors.
The meaning of blue flowers
Blue flowers are one of the main signs of romance and infinity. The blue flower is meant to convey a message of desire and love to those who receive it. Therefore, knowing which blue flowers are used in which combinations will help in creating professional flower arrangements.
Shades of blue in the garden
Not a single modern garden is able to do without bluebells, irises, aconites, lupins of various shades. However, since the blue range is not uniform, it makes sense to dwell on each shade separately.
Bright blue flowers are rare in the plant world, and if they appear in the garden, they indicate nobility and great value. Gentian, pushkinia, muscari, scylla, chionodoxa ended up in our gardens, having migrated from forest glades and mountain meadows, where they are difficult to get, and therefore they are associated with something exquisite and expensive. Cornflowers with their blueness are akin to the sky.
Blue color is stricter than blue. Dark blue flowers carry the seal of mystery and regal nobility. True, so that the excessive use of cold blue flowers in gardens and flower beds does not lead to depression, experienced designers tend to balance it with pastel colors. Traditionally, blue is well complemented by yellow and orange.
Every flower has its season
Blue flowers are present in petunias, violets, lobelias in the warm season. Blue flowers, whose names are known to everyone, are irises, cornflowers, and bluebells.
In March, blue hyacinths will be perfectly shaded by carnations, tulips, red pelargoniums. Against the background of the snowy whiteness of daffodils, blue flowers look great. What do different combinations of colors mean, explains floristry - one of the areas of aesthetics.
The largest number of plants with dark blue flowers can be found in the height of summer. These are revered by all iris, anemone, delphinium, gentian. By the month of August, the blue baton of the leader is picked up by a bell.
Blue
Gardeners like to plant flowers that have blue and blue hues on their own plots. As a result, flower beds shake with rich colors. When you admire them, strength is added. The blue shade is refreshing and caressing, perfectly combined with the colors of the rainbow. In flower arrangements, it sets off warm shades of red and orange. Traditional is a combination with blue pink or yellow. This combination in the garden is achieved if blue and blue hyacinths are planted in a flower bed. Pink colour, as well as snake mountaineer with forget-me-nots. Brunner inflorescences look amazing, which rise above the gold of variegated hybrids.
When the sunlight is intense, the blueness of the tones partially loses saturation, however, it is easy to find a shady corner in the garden where you can plant sprouts, lungwort, periwinkles, brunners and forget-me-nots. Some plants have blue foliage. They are also able to diversify garden compositions. These plants include blue fescue, mertensia, grate. There are also some hostas that have blue foliage.
Seasons of blue
When early spring comes, plants with blue flowers joyfully wake up the winter-weary earth with a cheerful blue bloom of crocuses and blueberries.
The beginning of May is heralded by the blue flowering of the spring umbilical, Siberian brunner, forget-me-not. All year round the small periwinkle with its leathery foliage serves as a decoration for the garden, and in springtime blue and blue flowers bloom on it. In summer, violet takes over the blue flowers in the garden.
In June, the flowering of low-growing steppe irises and aquilegia begins. July is decorated with delphiniums of blue tones. In the middle of summer, lavender blooms. All summer long bells and lobelia serve as decoration for flower beds and flower beds. To all this, there are many varieties of blue petunias. Even more varieties have shades of inky or purple. The blue flowering of tsitserbit completes the summer.
Monochrome blue gardens
Monochrome gardens have become a new trend in garden design in recent times. If you skillfully use the numerous shades of blue-blue tones, the garden will acquire a particularly romantic color, successfully relieving the stress of everyday life and calming the nerves.
After all, when flowers bloom in the garden at the same time, having a variety of shades of blue, the atmosphere of the garden becomes fascinating and mysterious. If you correctly select and correctly seat the representatives of the blue-blue flora, the garden will become visually much more spacious.
Flowers are a powerful compositional tool. Therefore, they are often used to place emphasis on important components of the layout. If a flower garden appears in the garden, where flowers predominate shades of blue in various combinations, this distinguishes the garden from many others, giving it an unusual flavor.
Means of revitalizing blue compositions
The main task that florists solve when creating a monochrome flower garden is to prevent it from becoming monotonous. Blue flowers harmonize perfectly with coreopsis and yellow anemones, creamy astilba, blue-gray carnation leaves and stems, light blue puskinia and stakhis. The composition of blue or blue with white, blue with silver-blue is associated with refreshing coolness and brings calm. A wonderful combination is obtained when combined with blue colors of light roses and daylilies. The reverse of the calming effect is given by combinations with a blue tint of yellow and orange.
Location
The success of the composition, where there is a blue flower, is largely determined by the chosen location for the flower garden and for all the plants involved in it. When creating flower arrangements, it is necessary to take into account the shape of plants, their growth rate, leaf texture, and agricultural requirements. For example, anemones and delphiniums take root remarkably in conditions where there is little moisture and fertilizer. A large number of perennials can be found growing excellently in ordinary soil with good drainage and moderate moisture.
It is advised to plant 3 seedlings representing each variety. So they will grow faster, and you will quickly achieve the desired result. If necessary, it is possible to reduce or increase the size of the flower bed by reducing or increasing the number of seedlings.
You don't have to expect amazing results right away. At first, the future beautiful corner will not make a big impression. To mask empty spaces between seedlings, plant them with ground cover plants - green or yellow lysimachia or blue styloid phlox. A good impression is made by small stones, which will be removed in the future.
When planning the composition of a flower garden, it must be taken into account that it will constantly undergo changes: each plant has its own flowering time, so there may be specimens on the same bed that are just sprouting, that are in the flowering phase and for which it is time to wither. To make the flower garden look neat, fading plants must be removed in a timely manner.
Anyone who loves the romance of a spring garden should like blue muscari, crocuses, primroses, blueberries that bloom luxuriantly in the shade of trees. In the summer, veronica, wrestler, aquilegia look wonderful in flower beds and in discounts. Perennials and annuals can once again emphasize their beauty: asters, lobelia, borage, viola.
container landings
A variety of garden accessories will fit well into the atmosphere of thoughtfulness formed by plants: tables, chairs, blue planters. A wooden wall painted blue will easily play the role of a bottomless sky and become a backdrop for blue flowers planted in containers.
These container plantings can freshen up an existing garden design. Planting is best in early spring. bulbous plants, which will bring spring mood to the garden much earlier than other flowers. Containers can serve as flowerpots, tubs and baskets.
When creating a flower garden in blue, it must be taken into account that at dusk the blue color loses its expressiveness. Bright lighting, on the contrary, gives it saturation. For placement of blue plants, well-lit areas should be chosen. If the garden is small, then planting blue flowers is best done as a background for the white, red or yellow tones located in front. This will lead to a visual increase in the size of the garden.
In keeping with its surroundings, blue can create a sense of sophistication or be casual. With a successful selection of the landing site, he is able to deepen the space, create volume. In this case, it seems that he "floats" in the air. If the blue color is located next to pink, it seems refined and striking grace, and close to the dark blue color, which condenses the flower arrangement, the blue color is almost weightless.
These properties of it are widely used in the creation of color compositions. For example, placing more saturated tones at the bottom of a composition instills a sense of stability. If you place more bright hues, then there is a feeling of uncertainty and instability.
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, like a magnificent frame for a canvas created by labor of a summer resident.
It may seem to novice gardeners that laying out a flower garden and caring for it is too troublesome. But with the right selection of crops, caring for flowers will not take much time, and the buds will open from early spring to 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 beginnings of buds since autumn and in the spring they are the first to illuminate the flower beds with all the shades of the rainbow.
crocuses
Corollas of white, blue, yellow and even striped crocuses appear practically from under the snow. Plants with a height of 7 to 15 cm bloom from March to May, and after the flowers fade, 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 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 hundreds and thousands of magnificent varieties at their disposal. However, not everyone knows that these garden plants belong to several species, differing both externally and in terms of flowering.
Having skillfully selected varieties, with the help of tulips alone, from 10 to 50 cm high, you can decorate the site up to the alpine hill. The flowering of the first tulips begins in March, and the latest varieties wither at the end of May.
Tulip bulbs are planted in the first half of autumn in sunny areas with a loose, rich nutrients soil.
During growth and flowering, plants need regular watering, which is stopped in the summer when the bulbs are resting.
Types of garden tulips 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 to be dug up annually.
Undersized, but easily wintering in any climate, botanical tulips or Kaufman tulips will help to replace them.
daffodils
Together with tulips, daffodils appear in garden beds. Flowering lasts from April to the last days of May, while the 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. The 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, hardy garden flowers used successfully in mixed plantings with tulips, garden varieties, dicentra and other plants. For several years, daffodils feel great in one place. Growing, they form very dense clumps, which are planted after the leaves wither, that is, at the beginning of summer.
Wintering bulbous crops seem to appear “out of nowhere” in the spring, unpretentious and bright, but at the same time their foliage cannot retain decorative effect for a long time. It dies off, exposing a place in the flower bed, so you should take care in advance of planting a number of "replacement" crops, such as peony bushes, perennial poppies or aquilegia.
periwinkle
It's one thing to pick long-blooming perennials and hardy flowers for a sunny garden. Another is to find the same plants for both open and shady areas.
There are not so many shade-tolerant garden crops - a vivid example of one of them is the periwinkle. or small dwarf shrubs bloom in the midst of spring and spread quickly, rooting easily on contact with the ground.
Periwinkle cultivars create spectacular clumps of fresh greens flecked in all shades of blue, white, pink and purple. At the disposal of gardeners are specimens with simple and terry corollas, smooth and variegated foliage.
Romantic legends are associated with many ornamental plants. No exception - which, thanks to such a story, is better known not by its real name, but as a "broken heart".
Due to the powerful rhizomes of the dicentra, it tolerates winter cold without loss. The foliage that dies off in autumn rises again above the ground with the advent of heat, reaching a height of 30 to 100 cm in different varieties. A spectacular plant in May is covered with white, pink or two-tone corollas collected in racemose inflorescences of a bizarre heart-like shape. Flowering lasts about a month, and under the transparent shadow of young foliage, drooping inflorescences unpretentious plant for cottages and gardens look brighter and last longer.
Dicentra will be indispensable in a flower bed next to primroses and daffodils, muscari, ferns and ornamental varieties Luke.
A flowering plant is worthy of admiration in a single planting, and after the inflorescences wither, it will become an excellent background for other flowers.
Lily of the valley
The classics of spring flower beds are forest ones that bloom in May. Thanks to creeping rhizomes, plants hibernate. In the spring, leathery leaves folded into dense tubes first appear on the flower beds, then flower stalks up to 30 cm high rise above the unfolded rosettes. Each inflorescence has 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 the 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 lily of the valley curtains, you can see graceful kupen plants. Blooming from May to June, the perennial is not as bright as other spring flowers.
But in shady areas, near coniferous crops 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 ponds, 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, prefer to settle in partial shade, where there is enough moisture and nutrition for lush deciduous rosettes and inflorescences towering above them.
Pale blue, unpretentious garden flowers enliven the most shady corners, do not require special care, thanks to their attractive, often variegated foliage, they protect their decorative effect for a long time and can do without a transplant for many years.
Under favorable conditions, Brunner grows excellently and reproduces by dividing the bush.
Summer, beautiful and unpretentious flowers for a summer residence
Bright, fast-growing letniki, 1-2 months after sowing, bloom 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. It takes a lot of precious time that could be devoted to vegetable seedlings, caring for fruit and berry plantations.
Long-flowering, unpretentious flowers specially selected for the garden, blooming in different seasons and not requiring painstaking care, will help save time and energy. Although they bloom only in the second half of summer or in the second year, they live in one place without a transplant for several years.
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 them from those plants that can rightly be called non-capricious and beautiful.
Aquilegia
When late tulips and daffodils bloom in the garden at the end of May, decorative foliage of aquilegia or catchment areas begins to rise above the ground. The bizarre bells of this, one of the most unpretentious perennials for giving, as on, are revealed on tall erect peduncles.
Flowering almost without interruption lasts from late May to September. And even without flowers, plants do not lose their charm. Their leaves take on purple and lilac tones by autumn. Depending on the variety, aquilegia can grow from 30 to 80 cm in height. All of this species grow well both in the shade and in open areas. Already by the name it is clear that the catchment loves moisture, but even with a lack of irrigation, it can find water thanks to its powerful taproots. Aquilegia grows best in light, well-drained soils.
Flowers appear in the second year of life. Mature plants can be divided. You can do this in early spring or autumn.
Although, under favorable conditions, aquilegia propagates 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 weed if the immature seed pods are not removed in time or the flower beds are not weeded.
bathing suit
The moisture-loving unpretentious garden flowers also include the favorite of many summer residents.
Its yellow or orange flowers open in May and, with regular watering, do not disappear until the second half of summer. The plant, with a height of 50 to 90 cm, 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 summer, since its flowering does not end until the very frosts.
A ground cover or creeping plant with stems 20 to 30 cm long, the planting field quickly forms dense, cushion-like curtains covered with brushes of small white, pink or purple flowers.
Shearing helps to prolong flowering and maintain the shape of plantings. Arabis does 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 rhizomatous perennials take the baton of flowering in bulbous plants. No exception - a bright doronicum with large yellow inflorescences-baskets resembling daisies. 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 transparent shade, but not under the crowns of trees.
Doronicum plants love moisture in order to save it in the soil under light green foliage, the soil is mulched.
When flowering ends, the greens also wither. Ornamental ferns, curtains of leucanthemum and aquilegia, with which doronicum is perfectly combined, will help to hide the gap formed in the flower bed.
astilba
It's amazing how one type of perennial can decorate an entire garden. This is within the power of numerous, blooming from June to September. Lush inflorescences, racemose or panicle-like, are not the only decoration of this plant. Shade-tolerant carved foliage no less enlivens the site. To do this, you just need to cut the flower stalks with dead inflorescences in time.
Depending on the variety and species, plant height ranges from 40 to 120 cm. Astilbes bloom better with regular soil moisture, but do not like stagnant moisture. IN garden plantings these beautiful and unpretentious flowers for giving look great on the background conifers, and themselves 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 a summer cottage.
From May until the end of summer, amazingly quivering flowers continue to bloom. Single or collected in inflorescences corollas of all shades of pink, purple, lilac and blue are short-lived. Just a day, and in place of a wilted flower, a new one appears.
When the flowering season ends, the garden does not become empty thanks to the decorative cut foliage of geraniums. By autumn, it is painted in bright golden, orange and purple tones and revives faded flower beds and hills until the very snow.
The height of the most unpretentious perennial flowers for giving, depending on the type, is from 10 cm to a meter. All plants are unpretentious and do not impose special requirements on the soil; they grow in the light and under crowns.
Loosestrife
If there is a place in the garden for, or you need to plant a tall plant with bright flowers and the same decorative leaves, there can be only one answer -!
How is this possible? It's about about different types of loosestrife, equally unpretentious and suitable for site decoration.
Depending on the variety and species, easily adaptable to different conditions flowers have a height of 20 to 80 cm.
For shady corners and partial shade, a loosestrife or meadow loosestrife with long recumbent stems covered with rounded leaves similar to coins is perfect. This culture is indispensable near the reservoir, in wet areas, which will be successfully revived by light green foliage and yellow flowers.
To decorate flower beds, mixborders and rocky slides, upright types of loosestrife with green or variegated foliage and yellow flowers, in the upper part of the stem forming spectacular spike-shaped inflorescences. All loosestrife are unpretentious, tolerate frost well and are rarely affected by pests.
Cornflower perennial
Annual cornflowers relatively recently moved from the meadow to the garden. They were followed by their perennial relatives. Blooming from June to September, plants form spectacular, thanks to the carved, rich green foliage of curtains from 40 cm to a meter high.
One of the most unpretentious perennial flowers for summer cottages, cornflowers grow well in the sun and in partial shade. They do not impose special requirements on the soil, get along well with other crops and will be an excellent backdrop for peonies, leucanthemum, low-growing flowering and decorative leafy plants in flower beds.
Today, gardeners have at their disposal varieties of perennial cornflower with flowers of purple-pink, lilac, purple and white. The large-headed cornflower has fluffy flowers of the original yellow color.
Turkish carnation
In June, multi-colored caps are revealed Turkish cloves. Bright flowers with jagged petals are quite small, but collected in dense inflorescences, they will perfectly enliven the summer cottage, create a summer mood and color the flower beds in all shades from white to rich purple.
A distinctive feature of the plant is flowering, lasting until September, the possibility of reproduction by self-sowing and incredible combinations of colors. The height of the Turkish carnation, depending on the variety, ranges from 40 to 60 centimeters. Plants show maximum decorative effect in the light or in partial shade, if they are planted next to decorative leafy crops.
Lupine
Not only belong to the most unpretentious garden flowers. This perennial culture alone can bloom the entire site. Blue, white, pink, purple and two-color spike-shaped inflorescences appear in the first half of June, and then re-blooming begins in the second half of summer.
Plants up to one meter high bloom magnificently in the sun, do not like too fertilized soils and, thanks to a powerful rhizome, are able to survive in conditions of moisture deficiency. In the garden, lupine is an ideal neighbor for leucanthemum, multi-colored aquilegia, perennial poppies.
Poppy
In terms of flowering splendor, perennial poppies can only be compared with. Just one plant with corollas of scarlet, pink, white and purple is enough to change the look of the most inconspicuous corner of the garden.
Despite their exotic appearance, poppies are quite unpretentious. They are not afraid of frost, grow excellently on any soil and endure 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, habitual habitat, these perennial rhizomatous 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 centenarians, amia plants bloom profusely and for a long time due to the many simultaneous rising peduncles.
In the garden, irises choose light or barely shaded areas with light, loose soil.
During the growing season and flowering plants need regular soil moisture. But it is necessary to intervene in the development of the curtain carefully. Loosening and weeding can affect powerful rhizomes closely located below the surface.
Flowering shoots of irises rise 40–80 cm above the ground. White, yellow, pink, purple, cream, blue or light blue flowers make a great garden decoration and are ideal for cutting.
Nivyanik
Daisies, along with cornflowers, are traditionally considered a symbol of Russian expanses. Garden varieties of leucanthemum are the same daisies, only much larger and more expressive. Simple and double inflorescences-baskets are crowned with erect stems from 30 to 100 cm high.
In the garden, cornflower 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 shrinking over time and with the rapid withering of the baskets.
Nivyanik propagates by seeds, division of adult curtains, as well as self-sowing. This must be taken into account if all cultures have clearly defined boundaries in flowerbeds and mixborders. For the most lush flowering rosettes, it is advisable to divide the rosette every few years.
The best neighbors for one of the most unpretentious perennials to give, as in the photo, flowers, gypsophila, bright poppies and bluebells. White inflorescences look great against the background of carved greenery and cornflower inflorescences, next to decorative cereals and onions.
Bell
Growing bells in the country is not difficult even for beginners. 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 bluebells with simple, semi- and double flowers in white, blue, lilac, pink and deep purple tones. Plants from 20 to 120 cm tall, depending on the type and shape, find a place on the hills and as part of group plantings with cornflower, pyrethrum, lush peonies and strict cereals.
stem-rose
Easily tolerant of drought, with luxurious decorative greenery and racemose inflorescences, it can rightfully be considered the queen of the summer cottage. Plants up to 2 meters high are among the largest in Russian gardens. They rise above the rest of the flowers and even fruit bushes.
Stock roses or mallows can easily create a living wall or become the center of a lush flower bed. Beautiful, unpretentious flowers for summer cottages grow on light, well-drained soils, propagate by seeds, including self-sowing. But moving a large plant to another place will be problematic. Transplantation is hampered by powerful long rhizomes, damage to which leads to 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 in, as background plants. Incredibly beautiful group plantings of mallows of different shades. In front of them you can land the same unpretentious phloxes, bells, decorative forms onions, cornflowers and undersized varieties, as well as any letniki.
Spicy aromatic unpretentious perennials for summer cottages
When choosing long-blooming unpretentious flowers for the garden, one should not lose sight of plants that are more often popular as spicy, medicinal or fragrant herbs. However, many of them are not inferior to anything. flowering perennials, their flowers will decorate the flower beds and can be used for cutting.
Today, numerous 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, “pharmaceutical” garden, but they can also be easily imagined as part of a mixborder, in a country-style flowerbed or in the form of free curtains 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 by the 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 green of oregano appears in March, literally from under the snow. By June, the plant forms a lush cap of densely leafy shoots from 20 to 50 centimeters high. A month later, stems with delicate inflorescences-baskets rise above the greenery.
The entire aerial part of the plant, incredibly revered in France, Italy, and the USA, has a spicy aroma. Here, oregano is grown as a natural seasoning for sauces, salads, pasta and poultry meat, pastries, in particular, in pizza. Tea with herbs and oregano flowers is no less tasty. Harvesting oregano or oregano is carried out from July to October, while the perennial blooms.
Herbaceous shrubs of oregano, covered with flowers, are magnificent in the company of nivyanik, lupins, rudbeckia, clouds of white-pink gypsophila and cereals.
Lofant
Lofant or polygon with lilac-violet or white spike-shaped inflorescences is one of the most noticeable medicinal and decorative perennials. In the garden, the culture easily settles in the lightest areas, does not feel discomfort even in the sun itself and winters well, showing everyone the first green with a purple or bluish tint from early spring.
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 unpretentious plant will generously share with the summer resident a fragrant, smell reminiscent of anise or licorice, 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 the end of summer, is suitable for decorating front gardens and easily tolerates cutting.
Monarda
Monarda with white, pink, purple and purple inflorescences is also a resident of the sunny, wind-protected corners of the garden with light soil.
IN decorative purposes this fragrant perennial is planted next to other similar plants, as well as in the vicinity of coreopsis and, nivyanik and undersized annuals, for which a monard up to a meter high will be a luxurious background.
The combination of this plant with annual, blue and white large-flowered bells, stonecrops and other crops is interesting, 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 the Lamiaceae family.
Autumn unpretentious flowers: long-blooming 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, garden geranium curtains amaze with the play of bright colors, bergenia dresses up in purple tones, on hills and curbs they surprise with bizarre forms of stonecrop. There are many flowers of unpretentious garden perennials in the garden.
Phlox
One of the brightest "stars" of the autumn flowerbed is considered. These plants overwinter excellently in most regions, form green clumps in spring, and bloom in the second half of summer, almost until October, retaining an incredible variety of colors and splendor of inflorescences.
Depending on the type and variety, phloxes will be indispensable on alpine hills and traditional flower beds, near small ponds and next to buildings that tall plants perfectly decorate at any time of the year.
The list of cultivated phlox today includes more than four dozen species, among which only Drummond's phlox is an annual. All other creeping, bushy, semi-lodging forms with stems from 20 to 150 cm tall are ready for many years to settle in the garden of a lover of decorative and unpretentious perennial flowers.
perennial asters
Annual asters are the unchanging leaders in the list of garden flyers for summer cottages and gardens. However, the true ones are often and undeservedly forgotten.
From August until the very snow, these plants bloom, illuminating the whole area with flashes of blue, white, pink, purple hues. There are more than 200 species of perennial asters, varying in size, lifestyle and shape. The Alpine aster is quite small, and its inflorescences-baskets are located on grassy erect stems, resembling the familiar chamomile. And in the Italian variety - the form of a grassy, densely leafy shrub, completely covered with medium-sized flowers. Moreover, all types are extremely decorative and non-capricious.
The height of perennial asters varies from 20 centimeters to one and a half meters. Flowers can be not only different colors, but simple and double. These perennials form dense dark green clumps from spring, easily tolerate excess light and moisture deficiency in summer, and completely transform the garden in autumn.
Bush forms can be molded, they can be used to create dense living borders and picturesque groups with other autumn plants.
The only drawback of the perennial aster is inherent in many perennial crops. A plant that takes root in the garden begins to multiply uncontrollably, quickly mastering all new territories. So that the flowerbed that was previously motley does not turn into the “kingdom” of asters, you will have to monitor the resettlement 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 giving. All of them are beautiful and amazing in their own way. In fact, the list of non-capricious, requiring minimal attention and generously sharing their beauty of cultures 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