A summer cottage is a cozy corner not only for growing vegetables and fruits. Citizens come here to rest. Even in a small area, there is always a place for beautiful flower arrangements. They are composed of perennial and annual plants.
How to choose flowers for a summer residence?
A wide variety of plants grow gardeners in their areas. In early spring, bulbous primroses are pleasing to the eye. Bushes of perennial plants are not rare. However, a variety of annuals will be the main plants for amazing compositions. Unpretentious flowers - for giving the perfect solution. When choosing them, you should take into account the height and characteristic features.
Properly selected plants will provide continuous flowering from spring to the first frosts.
Flower beds from annual flowers
The area of the summer cottage is small. Where to plant flowers to get a magnificent landscape? Mixborders, flower beds and modular flower beds are most popular for suburban areas. At the same time, unpretentious plants are selected that do not cause much trouble. Flowers, the vegetative period of which is the whole season, are called annual or flower beds. Most of them are photophilous plants. Therefore, annual flowers for flower beds are planted in open areas.
What flowers are planted directly in the spring in the spring?
The most popular flowers: calendula, cosmos, cornflowers, marigolds and zinnia, matthiola and sweet peas, eschscholzia, asters and others. There are a lot of such plants. However, when sown directly into the soil, they begin to bloom in the second half of summer. Therefore, part of the plants is grown in seedlings. This method will allow you to transfer the flowering to the beginning of the summer season.
Growing seedlings
The timing of sowing seeds to obtain seedlings is determined by the characteristics of each plant. When planning a flower garden, you should determine which flowers to plant seedlings, and which to sow directly in the ground. Flowers by sowing dates can be combined into several groups. It is easy to grow seedlings of species such as zinnias and asters, dahlias "funny guys", marigolds, celosia and annual chrysanthemums. They are sown in seedlings in mid-April.
It is more difficult to grow high-quality planting material of plants, the characteristics of which require sowing seeds in March. During this period, additional lighting and the creation of the necessary temperature regime will be required. This group can include species such as snapdragon, cochia, sweet pea, petunia, left-handed, salvia and others. Annual flowers for flower beds grown in seedlings are planted when stable warm weather occurs.
Mixborders
Where to plant flowers and in what way to grow, each grower decides individually. To decorate the cottage, a mixborder is perfect - stripes combining decorative and floral cultures. They are framed by garden paths, as well as formed flower beds, flower beds, lawns, trunks of fruit trees, and even garden beds. For a mixborder, species such as salvia, calendula, tall asters and marigolds are perfect.
When planning, plants that have different flowering periods are chosen. They are sorted by height. Even a novice summer resident will cope with this technique. Seasonal mixborders can be collected from different plants. Amazingly, annual flowers combine with vegetable crops. The garden mixborder can be composed of beets, carrots, legumes, dill and fennel. Kale and parsley look especially good. Vegetables are combined with poppies, nasturtium, marigold and marigolds. They will be not only a decorative component, but also an excellent prophylactic against pests of vegetable crops.
Flower beds
When determining the area where to plant flowers, it is necessary to take into account the size of the plant, their color, as well as the flowering period. Flower beds can be single-color or bright multi-color. Unpretentious flowers for giving will transform the site. They are preferred for several reasons. First of all, from annuals you can create different compositions. Moreover, every year they can be changed both territorially and in form. The flower grower, as an artist, creates beautiful landscapes: but not with paints on the canvas, but from representatives of the flora in the garden. A variety of plants allows you to pick them by color and aroma, as well as height. They grow quickly and already at the beginning of summer they will decorate the cottage with bright colors. We plant annual flowers in flowerbeds according to a certain pattern.
In this case, the number of plants that make up the selected composition is calculated. Marigolds are great for flower beds. They are represented by various varieties that differ in the color of the flower and the height of the plant. Orange, brown, lemon, dark red inflorescences appear in June and adorn flower beds through September. Calendula is no less attractive. Terry species are especially effective. The height of these flowers reaches 50 cm. Bright inflorescences have orange, yellow or lemon color. The flowering period is June-September. Petunia is especially popular. Plant height - 25 cm. Flowers have a diverse color. Flowering will last from June to October.
Vertical gardening
With the decorative design of a summer cottage, a creative approach is required. In small areas, various forms of flower beds are perfectly combined . Vertical flower beds are fantastically beautiful. Curly annual flowers are used for them : nasturtium, petunia, begonia and other ampelous plants.
Vertical flower beds are quite compact. As a support, garden arbors, specially made supports or vertical structures can serve.
Vertical flower beds are popular
, where they use plants that are able to form long curly shoots.
Flower garden in the shade
The country garden is a shadow zone. Quite often it is empty. In the best case, the space under the trees is filled with lawns. Unfortunately, it is difficult to pick up annual plants in the shady zones. In partial shade for a flower bed, you can drop a few pilots. These are flowers such as balsam, fragrant tobacco and evergreen begonia, nemophile.
Modular flower beds
In summer cottages it can be difficult to find an open sunny place where to plant flowers. In this case, modular flower beds help out. This method is convenient and simple. And for him, simple annual flowers are perfect, which are planted in containers or decorative flower pots. This method will allow you to place plants in any corner of the cottage.
They decorate arbors, terraces, recreation areas. Containers can be placed on both sides of the tracks. If the site near the building is laid out with plates, some of them are removed. In their place they place a flower module. It will have a geometric shape. The composition of the modular flower garden can be composed of ampelous plants: petunias, nasturtiums and morning glory. It can be planar and three-dimensional, but the chosen form of the module remains unchanged.