A beautifully designed flowerbed will decorate the garden, and the original combination of colors in it will become a real work of art. The gardener will have to work hard to create a beautiful flowerbed: when planting perennial plants, you can wait several years for them to grow and give the desired result. For quick registration of the site, an ideal option would be a flower bed of marigolds. These annual plants are unpretentious and have abundant flowering. Marigolds are presented in a variety of varieties, have many colors, shapes and sizes. From marigolds you can create beautiful flowerbeds, rabatka, undersized species look great in balcony containers and mixborders.
A flowerbed of marigolds will create a cheerful ensemble in the garden, bright and multicolored flowers will delight from the very beginning of summer until the first frosts. This plant can be grown both by sowing seeds and seedlings. Marigold sprouts take root very quickly and do not require special care. For early seedlings, it is better to sow the seeds in boxes, add a little mixture of peat and sand to the soil. When the seedlings have grown, it is necessary to dive into separate boxes, and later already mature plants can be planted on a flower bed. After transplanting seedlings, it is necessary to top-dress with ammonium nitrate, and later with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers. The plant requires frequent watering in the initial
period of vegetation and flowering, in the future it needs to be watered as the soil dries. For flower beds, you can choose such varieties of marigolds as "terry giant", "honeycombs", "apricot primo" and "harmony".
The design of the flower beds of marigolds can be different. The area under the flowerbed is often broken in the form of a sun: each ray corresponds to one sort of marigolds. In the center, leave a place for planting petunias. A flower bed of petunias and marigolds in the shape of a sun will look great both on the garden plot and in the park.
Upright varieties of marigolds will please with brightness, they will add all kinds of shades of yellow to the flowerbed. Deviated marigolds have a wide and spreading shape, in these varieties there are one-color and two-color colors, you can see shades from bright brown to saturated orange.
A flower bed of marigolds may consist of several varieties of plants. So, on the sides of the flowerbed you can plant erect lemon marigolds, and fill its middle with thin-leaved varieties of plants, which will allow them to stand out in an original way.
A beautiful mixborder will turn out if we take as a basis the flowers of marigolds of different varieties, and fill the foreground with deciduous ornamental plants. Red petunia at the edges of the flower bed will add richness and colorfulness. In rabatki, stunted marigolds are good in combination with ageratum and creeping plants.
A flowerbed of marigolds will always have a cheerful and cheerful look, because these sunny flowers, combining perfectly with other plants, create beauty and coziness.