The bright variety of flyers will not leave indifferent any summer resident. Most of these amazing plants bloom in late spring and delight the eye until late autumn. Annual flowers will not require much attention and labor, if you choose the right place for planting for them, take into account their "habits".
Annual selection
To correctly choose annuals for planting, you need to decide which corners of your garden they will decorate, as well as pay attention to their height and growth characteristics.
- Do you plan to admire the annual flowers blooming all summer instead of the plain walls of the shed? The names of the flowers that suit you are mallow, tailed amaranth, tall marigolds, castor oil plants, sunflowers, gelichrysum, cosmea, and cleome. The height of these plants is from 70 centimeters to 1.5 meters. Tall beauties will make your front garden cheerful or cover a slightly rickety fence.
- Curly annuals in a short time climb to a height of one and a half to three meters. They will decorate garden arbors, trunks of old trees, openwork arches, they will easily climb a picket fence. It is convenient to plant fast-growing vines where there is little space. Blooming treetop: morning glory, sweet peas, large nasturtium, curly beans, winged tunbergia.
- For lovers of mobile kindergartens, begonias, lobelia, surfinia, gatsaniya and many other low plants with a spreading or compact form are suitable plants. They look great in hanging planters, balcony drawers, ceramic pots.
- If you are ready to create borders along the lawns or paths, formal flower beds - it is best to place low-growing plants for the garden on them. Annual flowers with names: escholzia, pygmy nasturtium, Iberis, marigold and pygmy marigolds are ideal for this.
- Creeping annuals are indispensable participants in the design of original compositions and alpine slides. Plant here plants with a mass of small flowers: alissum, verbena, annual phlox, brachychoma.
Flowering time
Preserving the decorativeness of annual flowers depends on what species and variety the plant belongs to.
The shortest flowering time for poppy, cornflowers, Iberis. They decorate the garden for only one month.
If you plan in advance the flowering or seeding of flowers, the site will be elegant all season.
The bulk of the plants bloom for a long time, until the colds. These are very popular annual flowers for a summer residence. Their names are probably familiar to you:
- diverse varieties of petunias;
- fire salvia;
- high, medium and low snapdragon;
- fluffy ageratum;
- space with openwork leaves;
- fragrant tobacco;
- beloved trouble-free marigolds.
Some annuals continue to bloom even after the first frost.
Here are some names for annual garden flowers and photos:
- malopa, or summer mallow;
- summer chrysanthemums;
- fragrant verbena;
- marigolds, or calendula;
- blue cornflower;
- garden aster;
- three-month lavater;
- lobelia erinus or larch.
Re-flowering annuals
Among the pilots there are even repair plants. They are able to bloom repeatedly and restore the lost decorative effect.
To do this, you just need to help them a little. One has only to trim the faded twigs, water and feed. The plant grows lateral stems, which again bloom well.
Some photos and names of annual flowers blooming repeatedly:
- Iberis annual;
- Nemesia, the Norichen family;
- cornflower garden;
- seaside lobularia;
- snapdragon, or antrirrinum;
- calendula, or marigolds;
- Ageratum, Astrov family.
Good Tone - Tips for Placing Flyers
Of course, if you are going to grow annuals for cutting into bouquets, then placement is not such an important task. You can simply drop them on a regular bed. But even there you can arrange the flowers correctly.
- When planting plants in a group, it is good to choose varieties and types of different flowering periods. Then faded or not yet blooming flyers will create a background in the composition. If the layout is correct, then the flower garden brings pleasure and joy throughout the summer season.
- Plants in the group should be in harmony in height, size of flowers. Consider also the shape of the leaves.
- Pay attention to the color of the flowers of annual plants. Blue should not be adjacent to red and yellow. Plant views between them with decorative leaves. Silver cineraria is well suited for this.
- Use the features of color perception. Warm tones seem closer than cold tones. Plant plants of blue, white, bluish tones behind yellow, red or brown. The flower garden will seem much larger than its actual size.
- White flowers gently dilute the hot red and bright yellow colors. But you do not need to plant them next to light lemon flowers. The composition will lose its expressiveness.
- Do not get carried away by a large number of plants with different colors. The flowerbed will look overloaded.
Look at the photos of annual flowers in the garden. Perhaps it will inspire you to create a similar masterpiece on your site.
After the location of the flowers is determined, bags with seeds are bought, it remains to determine the types of flower beds. They are different in design and application. Let's consider what flower beds can be.
Flowerbed
The classic look of the flower garden. A small piece of land is given any geometric shape. Perhaps a fence with a low curb. A distinctive feature is that the plants are planted so that a conceived pattern is obtained. It is preferable to break the flower beds on the lawn in the front zone of the site.
Rabatka
A distinctive feature is the shape of an elongated rectangle. Width is usually from 50 cm to 1.5 meters. The length is much greater than the width, since they equip a discount along the paths or fence. Annual flowers are usually planted in the same variety. Sometimes they choose different species, but close in height. Arranging such a flower garden is simple. Therefore, it is often used in suburban areas.
Mixborder
A new type of flower garden, which was adopted from the British. It is closer to the idea of a natural garden. It has an elongated shape, because it is often arranged on the entire area of the site between the track and the fence. Tall plants are closer to the hedge. It differs from other types of flower beds using immediately trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals. Plants are planted in free groups. The center of the composition changes throughout the season. It requires a lot of space, therefore it is used in spacious areas in estates.
Flower containers
Perspective view of mobile flower beds. Annuals are combined with beautiful herbaceous plants or create only floral arrangements. The position of the containers is easy to change, forming new combinations.
Garden in the shade
In any garden there are places that are in shading. Sometimes the site is located on the north side. Flowers see light only in the morning at sunrise and in the evening at sunset. Or large fruit trees, giving a wonderful harvest, close the plants. Shade-tolerant annuals will help out gardening enthusiasts.
They tolerate shading well enough and bloom fully: bright nasturtium, lobelia erinus, fragrant tobacco, balsam or “light”.
Shade-tolerant summers are unpretentious. After all, to grow in the shade is such a test that not many can do it. Water the flowers in moderation. In the shade, moisture does not evaporate as fast as in the open.
Most of these plants do not tolerate low temperatures. Plant seedlings in open ground only in stable warm weather.
Annual flowers (photos and their names), which withstand shading, are given below.
Sweet tobacco
The birthplace of the flower is Central America. There he grows as a perennial. In cold Russia, he adapted to give seeds in one summer, because he could not stand our frosts.
Overseas resident settled in our summer cottages, withstanding partial shade. As soon as large stars - flowers, the aroma spreads through the garden.
The diameter of the flowers reaches eight centimeters. They can be painted in blue, yellow, lilac, pink, white, raspberry color. Such varieties possess only cultivars. In nature, tobacco flowers are only white.
Nasturtium
The flower grows in many country and garden plots. But still has not lost its popularity. He conquers with its unpretentiousness, bright coloring of the solar spectrum and the plasticity of forms.
Dwarf varieties are suitable for creating curbs and foreground rabatok. The height of compact bushes is only fifteen to twenty centimeters.
Curly varieties grow to 2.5 m. They are planted near arbors and fences, used as ground cover plants. Nasturtium flowers smell subtle and unobtrusively herbal freshness.
Varieties of medium size grow up to half a meter. Get along well in hanging baskets and various containers.
The plant is very unpretentious. It tolerates drought, and grows in the bright sun, and in the diffused shadow under the trees. Just do not need to plant nasturtium in a nutritious, fertilized soil - get a sea of leaves, but you will hardly see flowers.
Straw glomerulum seeds can be sown directly into the ground at the end of May. Seedlings germinate in ten days and should not be exposed to return frosts.
If you grow seedlings, you must remember that nasturtium does not tolerate transplants. Use peat pots.
Nasturtium flowers are simple, double and semi-double. In diameter reach five centimeters. Varieties with an unusual cream, pinkish and salmon color are bred. You can see cherry blossoms. The most common are yellow and orange, sometimes in combination with brown.
Balsam garden
This flower prefers partial shade. He cannot live in a sunny, open place. Too delicate stems and flowers of this inhabitant of the subtropics of Africa. He will be well under the crowns of trees or near shrubs.
Sowing garden balsam can be carried out directly in the flowerbed when the ground warms up. Flowering begins much earlier if you sow seeds for seedlings in March. The grown plants dive, and in the first decade of June they plant in the garden.
Balsam loves watering and moist places. But it adapts itself to drought, it just grows not so magnificent. They are fed with complex fertilizers only until buds are formed.
Garden balsam grows to 0.5 m in height. Keeps decorative for a long time - from June to the start of cold weather. It has magnificent inflorescences from terry or simple flowers of a pinkish, white, lilac, dark red or purple color.
Even in shady places of the garden, annual flowers will help to create bright beautiful flower beds.