At all times, weaving flowers for the garden were popular with owners of estates and estates. Wealthy hosts from different parts of Europe and the world brought plants to create their own luxurious greenhouses, to decorate summer residences. Time passed, but the love of winding and weaving cultures remained. Professional gardeners and amateurs are still using them to try to diversify their site, make a unique composition, etc.
It is almost impossible to imagine a garden, even the most modest one, without weaving street flowers . Arbours and pergolas entwined with greenery, vertical gardening of walls and hedges - all this adds coziness and originality, moreover, it helps to hide some of the shortcomings of the terrain and buildings, to zone the space.
Annual and perennial climbing plants
All weaving plants that are used in garden design can be divided into two large groups: annual and perennial. The classification is based on their growing season. Perennials can grow in one place for decades and every year to please you with their flowering with renewed vigor. Annual plants have a limited growing season and die, as a rule, with the onset of the first frosts. However, they have one feature for which gardeners love them so much - this is the most magnificent and plentiful flowering. They, in comparison with perennials, are able to give the largest possible seasonal increase.
What to choose weaving flowers for the garden? And those and others. Due to the variety of planting material that currently exists, you can, firstly, achieve the effect of continuous flowering, and secondly, use each species where it is most appropriate. Of course, do not forget about climatic conditions, moreover, when choosing flowers, you should be guided by this factor in the first place.
Let's start with the annual weaving flowers for the garden - as the most simple and versatile to use. We offer you a selection of the five most popular and spectacular plants.
Sweet pea
In our opinion, sweet peas are underestimated, since they are practically not in demand among landscape designers. And completely in vain, because the plant has its own unique charm. Without it, it is difficult to imagine such a popular Provence style and an English garden. Currently there are 10 groups of varieties and more than a thousand varieties. Powerful hybrids grow in 1-2 months to 2 m in height, and from mid-summer the bushes are decorated with large “moths” flowers (typical for all legumes) of a wide variety of bright colors that exude a delicate aroma. There are also medium and undersized varieties. This diversity allows you to create a harmonious multi-level composition.
Sweet peas belong to the group of weaving flowers most often used for arbors. It is unpretentious, requires only regular watering and timely garter lashes. Prefers shady places where the sun falls in the afternoon. In the photo above - sweet peas planted with clematis.
Morning glory
One of the most unpretentious curly annuals is, of course, morning glory. With her strong green embrace, she will embrace everything that comes in the way. This genus of flowering plants from the family Convolvulus includes more than a thousand species, but several main varieties are used in decorative gardening, which gave rise to numerous hybrids.
Ipomoea prefers sunny, well-lit areas. The care is simple and undemanding. In a dry summer, it needs frequent watering.
Ipomoea - weaving flowers (photo above), most often used to decorate fences and hedges. At the same time, the type of support does not play a role: a neighboring tree, a wall of a house, etc. Ipomoea creates a living carpet, decorated with many large (up to 10 cm in diameter), fancifully curved funnel-shaped flowers. The palette of shades varies from white to dark blue, burgundy and saturated purple. Against the background of green foliage, a bright contrast is obtained.
Kobe
Kobe can rightly be called the queen of annual weaving flowers (photo above). It stands out among a wide variety of hybrids with large flowers in the form of wide bells, reaching a diameter of 8 cm. A palette of shades: from white to saturated, deep purple. The plant has a high growth rate and the ability to quickly grow green mass, it can reach 4 meters per season. Shoots are very tenacious with a sensitive antennae, do not require additional garter and can crawl on any surface on their own. Flowering continues until the first frost. If desired, morning glory roots can be dug up and stored until next spring in room conditions. However, as a rule, gardeners prefer to use it as an annual.
In terms of use, the kobe is universal. With it, you can hide the most unsightly buildings and walls, decorate pergolas and gazebos, walls of the house. True, there is one caveat: the green mass growing by the plant seems light only at first glance, therefore it is better if the support is strong enough.
Dolichos, or hyacinth beans
Could there be something brighter and more exotic in Russian gardens than blooming dolichos? These gorgeous weaving flowers are a novelty that deserves close attention. Gardeners often call it "curly lilac", which is associated with stunning large brushes of flowers that form on a plant in mid-summer. Closer to autumn, no less decorative glossy pods of purple hue appear in their place, which are also a kind of decoration.
Dolichos is a thermophilic plant. Under good weather conditions, it is able to give an increase of up to 4 m in height over the summer. In this regard, professional designers prefer to use it for pergolas and arbors. The plant is not demanding to care for. However, in central Russia, it is recommended to grow it through seedlings and plant it in a permanent place only after warm weather sets in without the threat of frost.
Nasturtium
Nasturtium in its homeland, in Central and South America, is a perennial. However, in our climatic conditions, these are annual weaving flowers for the garden. The photo clearly demonstrates the magnificent warm golden range of shades characteristic of nasturtium. The plant is unpretentious and even in cool summers can grow up to 3 m in length. Prefers sunny and warm areas.
Shoots are strewn with flowers that blend harmoniously with rounded bright green leaves. Experts recommend using it to design arbors, as nasturtium is a natural remedy for annoying insects.
The listed annual species are only a small part of the plants that can be used for vertical gardening. In addition to beautifully flowering specimens, there are many deciduous and decorative. However, the palm still belongs to perennial weaving flowers for the garden. You will find the photo, name and a brief description of the most common crops below.
Climbing roses
If ordinary standard roses are garden queens, then climbing roses are his princesses. They have long hanging shoots (2.5–9 m), for the normal development of which strong support is simply necessary. Varieties can be repair, that is, blooming almost throughout the season, or ordinary - with a single flowering. The flowers are simple or semi-double, collected in a large inflorescence, do not have an aroma, are painted in a wide variety of shades of pink, red, white and yellow.
Climbing roses are the children of the sun, so it is best to plant them on the south and southwest side of the exposition. Heat and plenty of light contribute to the growth of growth, on which buds will appear next year. Roses are demanding on the fertility and structure of soils, they need care, so just planting them and, as they say, forgetting, will not work. Otherwise, you will not see the abundance and beauty of flowers. Weaving roses occupy a central place in the vertical gardening of the garden. They are perfectly combined with small architectural forms, and are also indispensable when creating pergolas, arches, arbors, pyramids, columns, decorating the walls of the building.
Clematis
The herbaceous creeper clematis is one of the most popular garden plants. Delicate and charming, in beauty it makes a worthy competition to many exotic species. The plant is quite picky and requires constant care. But in return, it will thank you with a magnificent bloom. The spectacle is truly amazing when up to five hundred large fragrant flowers bloom up to 15 cm in diameter on a vine. Depending on the variety, the weaving flowers can be double or simple, and the color can be red, purple, pink, white, yellow, blue.
Clematis have good frost resistance, especially zoned varieties. This feature allows you to use them in the gardens of the Urals and Siberia with proper shelter for the winter. Use the plant to decorate hedges, create shadows in the yard, braid arches and gazebos, mask outbuildings.
Brown Honeysuckle
Not all perennial weaving flowers for the garden can boast of such an original look as Brown honeysuckle. It reaches the highest decorativeness during the flowering period, however, the rest of the time the bush is beautiful due to large dark green leaves densely located on shoots up to 2-3 m long.
In summer, the shrub is completely covered with dense greens and beautiful flowers resembling fuchsia and possessing a delicate pleasant aroma. The most common shade is red-orange. The flowers are large (up to 5 cm in length), not collected in inflorescences, so the bush looks even more elegant. The plant is unpretentious, patiently tolerates adverse environmental conditions.
Brown's honeysuckle prefers well-lit places, without drafts and strong winds. The shrub is sensitive to dry soil, so it requires regular watering and mulching of the protruding roots. It is not capable of self-pollination, therefore it is recommended to plant several specimens nearby.
For landscape design, these perennial weaving flowers, or rather shrubs, are used in several directions: creating a hedge, vertical gardening (pergolas, arbors), trellis, individual single plantings with support.
Wisteria
Wisteria, or Wisteria, is a perennial species of climbing garden plant belonging to the legume family. It is a very popular beautifully flowering vine and is widely used in landscape design of regions and countries with a mild climate. In Russia, it can be found on the Black Sea coast or in the Crimea. You can not pass by its spectacular inflorescences up to 50 cm long, which can be painted in pink, white, blue, purple.
Until recently, this splendor was inaccessible to central Russia. Bushes simply freeze in cold winters. However, plant breeding, including weaving garden flowers, does not stand still. In the US state of Minnesota , a frost-resistant macrostachia wisteria variety called Blue Moon was bred. The plant can withstand a drop in air temperature to -40 ° C.
The main thing for lianas is heat. Therefore, experts recommend planting it closer to buildings and walls. They will serve not only as a support, but also as additional sources of heat.
Campsis
Campsis is the champion in growth rate among all other climbing perennials. In just a couple of seasons, under proper conditions, its shoots are stretched to a length of 3 m, completely braiding arbors and arches. It is resistant to adverse weather conditions, cold weather and at the same time has a modest, but worthy beauty, pleasing to the eye. Campsis on your site will grow "on its own", without requiring special attention, except perhaps periodic watering. In winter, the root system is covered.
The plant has beautiful flowers of an unusual form, usually orange, odorless. Liana is sometimes called "aggressive" due to the fact that it gives an abundant root shoot, which develops like a yeast. This feature can be used for good. It’s enough to plant a campsite where nothing else grows (the farthest corners of the garden, unsightly buildings, etc.).
What to choose?
When choosing weaving flowers (photos and names of the most popular are presented above) for your garden, first of all, compare the possibilities with the goals. If you want to get a lush green carpet, decorated with flowers, in a short time, then resort to annual plants. They literally in front of their eyes will braid a gazebo or a fence, at the same time hiding all the defects of the site. If you plan to equip a place to relax for a long period, then it makes sense to think about perennial curly flowers. They will grow longer, but the annual question of what to plant this time will disappear.
Leaning to the choice of this or that option, it is necessary to consider some nuances in advance. So, climbing plants, such as kampsis, do not require special support. They will perfectly climb independently on the walls of stone or brick.
Clinging garden plants, such as sweet peas, are suitable for thin grids or stretched wire, for which their thin antennae will cling.
For leaning vines (wisteria, honeysuckle) you will need to build trellises or arches, pergolas. They cannot fix themselves on a vertical surface, but they wrap it very tightly and tightly. Half lianas, in particular climbing roses, require not only supports, but also additional fastening and garter.