Perennial flowers can be found in every suburban area and in every rural garden. Their main advantages are unpretentiousness and high decorative qualities. Having planted any perennial variety on your site, you can enjoy the beauty of plants for several years in a row. Garden perennial flowers feel great in almost all regions of Russia.
Where can such flowers be used
Perennials are planted both on flower beds and along paths, along the banks of artificial or natural reservoirs, on alpine hills. Usually, gardeners use not too whimsical varieties that do not require complicated care. Choosing perennial flowers for a summer residence, you should follow some recommendations of landscape designers. So, along the paths usually plant compact bushy plants, not too tall. It can be lavender, peonies, crocuses, primrose. Unpretentious plants are also usually selected for an alpine hill. This can be undersized edelweiss, daffodils, creeping thyme, stonecrops, etc. Of the higher, you can choose, for example, phlox or spectacular feather grass.
How to arrange a flower bed
When choosing flowers for garden perennials for flower beds, you must also follow some rules. In the event that planting is carried out along the fence or the wall of the building, tall plants are planted in the background. Next are flowers with a stalk of medium length, and then undersized. If you want to arrange clubs viewed from all sides, tall plants should be planted in the middle. At the same time, low perennials should grow along the perimeter.
Color Matching
Of course, in order to arrange beautiful flowerbeds and borders, you need to choose the right color scheme. Each perennial flower should grow in this regard in its place. If desired, you can use both plants with petals of the same color, but in different shades, and play on contours. For example, lupins (planted in the center), anemones (in the middle) and bear ears (at the edges) will look very beautiful in one flowerbed. Next to purple flowers, yellow looks unusually spectacular.
In the event that you doubt the final result, it is best to plant flowers of the same species on a flower bed or along paths. It is easy to pick garden perennial flowers with the names of varieties in any specialized store. For a larger effect, plant several different ones at once.
Landing
Particular attention when planting perennial flowers should be given to the composition of the soil. After all, they will grow in one place for a long time, and therefore, there should be a lot of nutrients in the soil. Fertilizing before planting is a necessary process in this case. In addition, the varieties themselves should be selected according to the type of soil on the site. So, for clay soils, a host, astilbe, violet, lily of the valley or iris is well suited.
Drought-resistant and moisture-loving flowers
Perennials are most often chosen to decorate a site if they want to save time on caring for flower beds. Therefore, it is best to plant the most unpretentious plants, with a strong root system and not requiring frequent watering. In this regard, a bluehead, yucca, elecampane, loosestrife, gaillardia can be distinguished from high species. Among the low ones, it is worth choosing cornflowers, thyme, stonecrops, edelweiss.
In the lowlands, where the soil is constantly moist, or near artificial ponds, it is worth planting such moisture-loving flowers for garden perennials, such as buds, violets, primroses, cuffs, backache.
What to use fertilizers
Despite the unpretentiousness, such flowers, of course, still require attention to themselves. If you forget about your flower beds, they will quickly lose their decorative effect, and all your work on selecting varieties and planting will be in vain. Perennials, as already mentioned, need nutrient-rich soil. Therefore, from time to time they need to be fed. In early spring, complex fertilizers should be applied under the roots. During flowering, potash and phosphorus fertilizers can be used. Closer to autumn, any fertilizers containing no nitrogen should be introduced into the soil. This will strengthen the root system for the winter.
Watering perennial garden plants
Such flowers should be watered quite accurately - under the root, trying not to fall on the leaves and stems. At the end of the procedure, it is necessary to mulch the soil. This will allow the roots to "breathe." In addition, moisture will remain in the soil longer. Mulching has one more important plus for flowerbeds - plantings processed in this way look much more neat. Another mandatory procedure that garden perennials require, is the removal of flowers and leaves that begin to fade. If you tear off all unnecessary parts in time, you can stimulate rapid flowering. In addition, purified from all unnecessary, the plants look much more spectacular.
How to choose varieties in a particular region
Of course, you should choose the types of perennials, as well as their varieties, taking into account the climate of the area in which you live. In central Russia and in the southern regions, absolutely any garden flowers feel great. In the Urals, perennials of most species also grow just fine. The same can be said about Siberia. But in these two regions flowers like fireball, garden daisy, dolphinium, peonies, forget-me-nots, tulips, irises feel best of all.
However, it should be remembered that some (mainly tuberous and bulbous) plants may not tolerate cold Ural and Siberian winters. Therefore, flowers such as peonies, gladioli, dahlias, irises, will have to be covered for the winter. In some species of perennials, tubers need to be dug up and stored in a cool place in the fall.
Diseases and Pests
Perennials are usually flowers that are very resistant to various kinds of diseases. However, sometimes infection with any infections and pests still occurs. One of the most common diseases of such plants is gray rot. In order to get rid of this problem, it is easiest to use a 1% solution of Bordeaux fluid for spraying. Processing is carried out 2-4 times per season. As for pests, most often perennials affect nematodes. Fighting this scourge is extremely difficult. It’s easier to prevent infection. It is as a preventive measure against the appearance of this unpleasant fly that perennial plants are watered under the root, trying not to wet the stems and leaves.