Summer cottages and flower beds with perennial flowering plants can pleasantly surprise and delight flower lovers with their beautiful compositions for several years. Such plants do not need an annual transplant, most of them are unpretentious and not demanding in care and maintenance. And also the advantage of perennials in early flowering. It is for these reasons that many summer residents and flower growers grow perennial flowers in flower beds and personal plots.
Benefits of perennial flowers
Although annual flowering plants look brighter, more luxuriant and give rich shades of colors, perennials have their positive sides:
- During the entire spring-summer season, the plants retain their decorative qualities.
- Depending on the species and varieties, the flowers may not be transplanted for two or more years, they feel great and develop well in the same place.
- Plants perfectly tolerate severe winters, seasonal temperature changes and most of them are frost-resistant; they do not need special care in the autumn-winter period.
- The decorative qualities of flowering perennials allow them to be used in flower arrangements (in flower beds and flower beds) both as main plants and as secondary decorations for group plantings.
- There is no need to purchase planting material for such plants every year, which significantly saves the gardener's money and time, and also allows you to grow perennial flowers from your own seed material in subsequent seasons and increase the number of flowering areas.
- Planting and seed material collected on your flower garden can be sold or equivalently exchanged for other plants with amateur flower growers.
Varieties and varieties of perennial flowers
The variety of species and varieties of perennial plants has a large number of flowers, from which you can create compositional masterpieces, since they differ in color palette, shape, size and height. Unique spectacular flower beds can be multi-tiered. Flower arrangements can combine tall, medium-sized and low-growing perennial plants. Having correctly planted various types of perennials in a flower bed, you can enjoy their beauty throughout the warm season.
Stunted perennials
Low-growing perennials are flowers that reach a height of no more than 30 cm and bloom all summer months. Most often, summer residents plant phlox, pansies, gentian and periwinkle.
- Phlox Are creeping evergreens that form a flower carpet on flower beds. Low, creeping flowers create a dense covering, approximately 15-20 cm high.
- Pansies - unpretentious herbaceous plants that can decorate any area. The palette of colors during their flowering has about two dozen different shades.They fit perfectly into flower arrangements of various heights and delight the eyes of others throughout the summer months.
- Gentian - blooms for about two and a half months. The plant is distinguished by unusually beautiful flowers - blue-blue bells.
- Periwinkle - a plant that is most often used in the design of an alpine slide. The perennial looks great not only on the usual flower beds, but also attracts attention in stony compositional structures in a group of other flowering plants.
Medium-sized perennials
Medium-sized perennial plants reach a height of 50-70 cm. The most popular among flower growers are pink radiola, daylily and yarrow.
- Rhodiola rosea is a plant that is distinguished by unusual inflorescences and oval fleshy leaves.
- Daylily is a garden perennial, in the family of which there are about twenty-five species and varieties. The plant is known for its ability to grow in one place without transplanting for 10 years. In care - not demanding, attracts attention with excellent flowering and aroma.
- Yarrow is a beautiful perennial whose flowers retain their decorative qualities until late autumn. This garden plant attracts with a varied palette of colors throughout the entire flowering period.
Tall perennials
Tall perennial plants can reach over one and a half meters in height. Among them are willow sunflower, stock-rose, tricirtis purpl beauty.
- Willow sunflower blooms in the second half of July - early August. The plant is used in group and single plantings.
- The stem-rose has high stems with numerous inflorescences of various shades and shapes (including terry ones). The appearance of the plants bears great resemblance to peonies. Perennial flowering lasts a long period - from early June to early November.
- Tricirtis purple beauty is very similar to noble orchids. Flowering lasts until the first frost, and begins at the end of May, with the onset of real warm days.
Florist tips
In order for the plants in the flowerbed to bloom continuously throughout the entire spring-summer period, it is necessary to take into account the individual characteristics of each perennial separately. Experienced summer residents and gardeners recommend listening to these tips:
- It is not recommended to plant perennial plants nearby, which differ in terms of maintenance and care rules. This will cause a lot of inconvenience to the gardener and will interfere with the development and growth of neighboring plants.
- The first transplant of perennial flowers should be carried out only a year after they are planted in a flower garden or flower bed. The plant should have time to get stronger during this period and increase its immunity.
- Planting perennial flowering plants should not be too thick or, conversely, very rare.
- The place for the flower bed should be open so that all planted plants are visible from all sides.
