In order to see your garden beautiful with the onset of warm days, you need to decide which flowers to plant in the fall. Of course, there is a whole group of plants that can be planted only in the spring. But it is preferable to plant a number of summers and perennials precisely in the winter.
There are many advantages to autumn planting:
- Seeds are stratified in vivo.
- The plants are more frost-resistant and strong, they have a better developed root system.
- Flowering begins in the first year of vegetation, sprouts come out together and bloom earlier.
- A planned and planted flower garden in advance will not take much time in the spring, there is no need to buy seedlings or keep it on the windowsill.
- Flowers fully get moisture from melting snow.
What flowers are planted before winter? Traditionally, in the fall, bulbs are planted, perennials are divided and planted, and some annual flowers are sown .
Planting bulbs
With the planting of onion and small onion can not be tightened. What flowers to plant in the fall and in what time frame should this be done?
The first are colchicum: autumn-blooming crocuses, colchicums, Sternbergia. The landing period is from late August to mid-September. The development of a good root system requires thermophilic hazel grouse, poultry, garden hyacinths and cardiocrinums. Their landing should be completed by the second decade of September. Throughout September, you can plant daffodils, kandyks and small onions: bluebills, spring crocuses, hionodoxes, iridictums. Tulips are planted until the end of October. Planting is mulched and covered with a layer of foliage for the winter, with spruce branches or covered with non-woven material.
Sowing annuals
Sowing is carried out after the onset of cold weather so that the seeds do not have time to start growing. The site is prepared in advance, before freezing the soil. Fertilizers are introduced into the ground and grooves are cut.
Seeds are distributed more densely than in spring, and sprinkled on top with a layer of dry soil. Sowing can be carried out later, placing seeds directly on trampled snow. Then they must be sprinkled with soil and again with snow.
What flowers are planted in autumn with seeds? Frost-resistant and not loving transplants: cosmea, cloves, left-handed, fragrant tobacco, reseda, poppies, cornflowers, asters, calendula, eschscholzia, snapdragons, chamomiles, annual chrysanthemums.
Division and planting of perennial crops
What flowers to plant in the fall, using plant delenki with its own root system? By this time, such chic garden representatives as peonies, clematis, and delphiniums are growing and require transplantation.
If they are planted in autumn, when the soil is filled with moisture and slowly cools, young plants have time to take root and continue their growth until frost. Landing is carried out from the first half of September to the October matinees. At the same time, you can share hosts, phloxes, bells, medunits, daylilies, periwinkle, astilbe and irises.
Perennials from seeds
Seeds of perennial flowers have a short shelf life, germinate for a long time, need stratification. Winter crops - a guarantee of good germination and friendly growth. The place must be chosen sunny and without stagnation of water.
What flowers to plant in the fall? Almost all popular perennials: delphinium, lupine, arabis, gentian, aquilegia, bells, oriental poppy, hellebore, chyme, primroses and many others.