In the autumn garden, delicate pink flowers, anemones, please the eye more than ever. Also beautifully blooming asters. Less well-known plants are vaccaria (thousand heads) and chelon. Their delicate flowers will decorate your garden and will not require special care.
Anemones
The September Charme variety with silver pink flowers is the brightest among autumn varieties. Such an anemone (it is also called anemone) loves fertilized soil and partial shade under the crowns of trees. It blooms in September or a little later. Anemones are propagated by seeds and vegetatively. In the first case, the germination rate is low, and, taking this into account, it is necessary to stratify the seed and plant it in loose soil. If you sow anemones in late autumn, then in early spring the first sprouts will hatch. And in the fall you will be glad that you will see pink-silver delicate flowers in your area. Remember that waterlogging can destroy seedlings. It is easier to propagate anemones vegetatively. For example, the division of rhizomes or tubers.
Asters
Few decorative garden plants boast such an incredible variety of varieties, colors, sizes and shapes.
Red, pink, lilac, violet - you simply can’t list all the shades of
autumn asters . These delicate flowers are surprisingly frost-resistant. They appear on the flower beds when all the other plants that inhabit the garden are already preparing for rest. And they retain their beauty until late autumn, and sometimes until early December. Make sure that asters grow on richly fertilized, rich soils and do not remain without watering for a long time. Everything else this delicate flower will do itself.
Vaccaria
This herbaceous annual from the clove family in nature inhabits almost all continents. In Russia, it is found in the Far East and rarely in the south of the European part. Since it began to be cultivated as an ornamental plant, many varieties with a variety of colors have appeared. The color palette of the vacancies is very rich: from snowy white to bright purple. This annual has a rather high stem (up to 60 centimeters), lanceolate leaves and paniculate inflorescences. When planting these delicate flowers in your area, do not forget that they are poisonous: they contain saponins.
These substances cause hemorrhages. In folk medicine, vaccaria extract is used to treat eczema and toothache. In the garden for this plant you need to choose a well-lit place, loamy non-acidic soil. Sowing is done in early spring. It is also well suited for dry bouquets: paniculate inflorescences perfectly retain their shape and do not crumble.
Helona
This is a beautiful flowering perennial of the Norichnikov family. In Russia, he is not widely known and is quite rare. The name of the flower comes from the Greek word "turtle" (kelone). Helona received it for the helmet-shaped form of inflorescences. This is a tall (up to two meters) dense shrub, consisting of a large number of erect stems, with lush decorative leaves and pink, white or purple flowers. Helon blooms from August to October, is not afraid of frost.