Which garden perennials bloom in the first year. Review of the most unpretentious long-flowering perennials for the cottage and garden with photos. Perennials blooming by month
Perennial flowers are plants that retain their decorative qualities from spring to autumn for many years. universal in their use in landscape design. They look impressive when decorating the territory both in group and single plantings. At correct selection species and varieties can be provided continuous flowering from early spring to late autumn.
In this section we will collect those perennial plants that are successfully grown in our conditions of a moderately cold climate, and do not belong to vines, woody shrubs, or large plants. Bulbous plants for rock gardens, rockeries and rocky hills, we also considered it necessary to place them in a separate section. This section will mainly be replenished with herbaceous ornamental flowering and ornamental leaf garden perennials:
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Unpretentious flowers in your garden
If you want to create a garden that is beautiful from May to October, look no further. Most gardeners are happy to grow the most different flowers. But it happens that you can’t always be in the garden all the time, you don’t have enough time, you don’t always have it at your disposal special means feeding and protection, and the weather, especially in lately, often behaves completely unpredictably! We buy a lot of seeds every year and flower seedlings, we plant, we work, we take care of flower beds all season, but the results we get are the most modest, and this upsets us very much..... Why does this happen?
As a rule, the main reason can be cited as the wrong choice of plants. First of all, it is necessary that the conditions of your site meet the requirements of these particular plants, and most importantly, that they are provided with proper care. In addition, having become delighted with some new flower, you buy it, but then it suddenly turns out that it is difficult to care for, and, unfortunately, blooms only for two weeks.
If you are a beginner gardener or you have little time to care for plants, then you should strive to ensure that your garden grows those flowers that are decorative all season long and unpretentious. At first glance it may seem that such colors (and ornamental shrubs) very few and that there is nothing interesting in them. But that's not true! It's not true that the most luxurious flowers– those that require daily work.
There are so many gorgeous flowers that require very little care. Among these plants there are both perennials and annuals. The most important thing is to choose from them those that you like best, and also to create harmonious, bright and effective combinations of them in the most formal areas of your site.
Growing express perennials
In the first year, lychnises, delphiniums, nivaria (chamomile), rudbeckia, gaillardia, aconite, elecampane, yarrow and many others bloom (if they are seedlings). If planted in the ground, they may or may not bloom. Almost all perennials will bloom in the first year in the fall if they were planted in early spring (March) at home with lighting and with normal growth without stretching due to low lighting.
There are so many gorgeous flowers that require very little care. Among these plants there are both perennials and annuals. The most important thing is to choose from them those that you like best, and also to create harmonious, bright and effective combinations of them in the most formal areas of your site.
How to ensure continuous flowering in the garden? In each of the flower beds you need to select flowers according to the time of flowering, so that some replace others from early spring to late autumn. Annuals, as you know, bloom mainly during the summer, and perennials and bulbous plants will also help you extend this continuous flower “conveyor”.
Perennial flowers are characterized by a wide range of flowering periods, many of them start much earlier than annual flowers.
Well, the bulbous ones are very early, and also inimitably beautiful; there is, perhaps, nothing to replace them with - they are so unique and spectacular.
In addition, bulbous flowers have a huge number of varieties! You can even put together a living garden collection from them, or arrange a themed flower garden. Many perennials and bulbous plants are the easiest to care for. flowering plants.
But you can’t do without annuals in the garden. They are, of course, more labor-intensive, but they also have many advantages. And what a variety of colors, sizes and shapes! It is precisely because of his lush flowering they require more attention, abundant watering, and need to be fertilized more often. But many of them are also very unpretentious. Therefore for lung garden The optimal ratio for care would be: 60% perennials and 40% annuals. You can select them from the list of easy care plants.
First, let's talk about perennials. Which ones to choose? Of course, much is determined by your own tastes and conditions in the future flower garden. To begin with, we can recommend the following: hosta, astilbe, paniculata phlox, aquilegia, rudbeckia, echinacea, periwinkle, bergenia, dicentra, daylily, cornflower (garden chamomile), lupine, sedum, primrose, buzulnik, autumn asters, yarrow, varieties of bells, brunnera, cornflower.
Let's give just a few examples.
Garden chamomile. This flower is a win-win decoration for any flower bed. Chamomile is unpretentious, blooms for a long time and lasts a long time when cut. It reproduces well by dividing rhizomes, but you can also start it with your own seedlings by sowing the seeds at the end of February. It should be noted that chamomile can be completely replanted throughout the season; you only need to shade it for 2-3 days when replanting.
In addition to cornflower - white chamomile, there are also colored daisies - pyrethrums, their flowers are smaller, but very bright.
Primrose. This one is wonderful shade-tolerant flower as if they were specially created to decorate rock gardens and ponds. It can also be grown from seeds, but it is better to purchase ready-made seedlings. Recently, many new varieties with unusually spectacular double flowers have appeared.
This unpretentious perennial, which will not require much labor from you. Primroses bloom early spring, when there is still so little color on the site. There is no need to cover the primrose for the winter, just keep the soil clean from weeds, they can oppress this plant. Primroses grow in one place for several years, and then they can be divided and replanted.
Rudbeckia and Echinacea. These perennials are even similar in appearance; they are tall, showy, and bright. They will help to create an ensemble in any flower garden, give it structure and decorate the background, and their inflorescences will harmonize with any other “landscape forms” in your flowerbed. In terms of agricultural technology, they also have a lot in common.
It is best to grow your own seedlings at home by sowing the seeds at the end of February. They have no problems with germination, you will definitely get good seedlings, and settle down on permanent place she will be fine too. It can be planted in the ground in spring or early summer; at first, carefully weed out and water abundantly. The soil doesn't matter. You can also fertilize mineral fertilizers, and organic, but not too often.
There are not many flowers that are not only suitable for decorating shady corners of the garden, but also bloom in the shade. First of all, these are hosta, astilbe, daylilies, dicentra. These plants have a common quality: they are best planted with rhizomes; seeds are less successful. Planting material is always on sale.
Caring for these flowers is also similar: watering, sometimes fertilizing (best with mineral fertilizers during flowering, and in the spring with organic matter) and timely removal of faded inflorescences. Any soil is suitable.
Hosta is a plant with the most decorative leaves; they are green, blue, variegated, with a white border, and yellow. And the leaf size can be any: there are dwarf hostas, especially for alpine slides, but there are simply giants. Although this plant is mainly an ornamental deciduous plant, it also blooms with beautiful lilac bells on long stalks. Grows best in the shade.
Astilbe, daylilies and dicentra can also be used as decorative foliage: each plant has its own, very characteristic leaf shape.
When selecting color range Focus on the following colors: astilbe blooms in red, pink and white, the same shades are found in dicentra, and daylily blooms in orange, yellow and red.
Dicentra pleases us with flowering in spring and early summer, and astilbe and daylily - in the second half of summer. Over time, you will even have to limit the spread of these unpretentious, lushly growing perennials.
To propagate perennials, the root division method is used: the bush must be dug up, and the rhizome is cut (or chopped) into several parts, so that each part has at least two buds (or shoots). Each part is then planted separately.
Preparing a flower garden for planting
Flower garden care
In addition, perennials can also be grown from seeds. This method is especially convenient when there is no planting material, and you really want to have a specific plant in your garden. By the way, many of them can be sown before winter.
In the next part of the article we will talk about unpretentious annuals.
Express - perennials. This is the name given to perennial plants that bloom in the year of sowing. Most perennial flowers begin to bloom in the second or even third year, and in the first year they form only a rosette of leaves. Sometimes, when sown early, perennial plants bloom towards the end of the season, but this flowering is weak and does not benefit them, since the plants do not have time to prepare for winter, become weaker and may not even survive the first winter. However, there are perennial flowers that bloom quietly in the year of sowing and delight their owners with fast and lush growth. So they are called express perennials.
Express - perennials
Express – perennials – unpretentious plants, most of them can be sown directly into open ground in May or before winter. However, in order to ensure flowering in the first year, it is better to sow the plants as seedlings from January to March, depending on the type of plant. You can read about growing flower seedlings in the article.
Now let's look at a few of the most popular express perennials:
1. Gaillardia grandiflora. Forms bushes about 75 cm high with large daisy flowers of bright colors. Flowering is very long from June to October. You can read more in the article. Sowing seedlings in late March - early April. The seeds are slightly pressed into the soil, but not covered, covered with glass or film and placed in a bright place. Shoots appear in about 2 weeks. Watering should not be done very diligently; the plant does not like waterlogging.
2.Nsome types of carnations
They are also quite unpretentious and bloom in the year of sowing, for example, these are grass carnation, lush carnation, and blue carnation. You can read more about carnations in the article.
4. Dubrovnik
- a low shrub with spike-shaped inflorescences of small flowers - “lips”. Used to create borders, as well as in rock gardens. Read the article for more details. For flowering in the first year, seedlings are sown from January to March.
9. Some perennial varieties mallow
, for example, Zebrina mallow, bloom 4 months after sowing, thus, by sowing mallow in February-March, you can get flowering mallow already in June of this year, it will delight you with flowering until September.
10. Yarrow Pearl
– forms compact bushes about 70 cm tall with double white flowers, similar to gypsophila flowers. Blooms 4-5 months after sowing. To flower in the first year, you need to sow seedlings in February-March.
Weather disasters have led to the fact that at the end of August, when everything in nature is usually preparing for rest and peace after a stormy summer, flora rose up and is ready to bloom and smell fragrant again.
So, in the village of Panigino, which is in the Volokolamsk direction in the Tver region, in a couple of days all the lilacs were strewn with flowers. And the way it happens in mid-May. Local residents are surprised: “It even smells like May!”
Tver resident Elena Kurochkina posted a photo flowering bush on the social network, and away we go... It turned out that a miracle happened not only in Panigino. In the comments, residents of the region noted other settlements where flowering shrubs can be seen at the end of August.
Exactly. And lilacs are also blooming in Krasnovo,” says one comment.
And here in Konakovo it bloomed, just like last year. In our village, lilacs and rowan trees grow nearby, absolutely beautiful. Red clusters of rowan berries - and lilac clusters nearby. Fly away.
And in our Rameshkovsky district, even the lilac that did not bloom this year in May has blossomed. We thought she was dead. And she gave us a surprise for the fall,” says another.
But, as it turned out, not only lilacs are in the mood for spring.
In Ryabeevo (near Tver. - Ed.) hyacinths are ready to bloom, we read in the next response.
And here in the suburbs of Tver, the acacia tree has bloomed, and half of it: dry pods are hanging below, and the top is all strewn with flowers... - the following comment surprises.
Residents of the region enter into dialogue with each other. Some suggest that perhaps these are new varieties of flowering plants and shrubs. Others argue that this phenomenon has been occurring in the region for several years now, and, most likely, some serious changes are taking place in nature.
Of course, this is not due to the fact that some other varieties are blooming. In this case, climate change is evident,” comments Head of the Department of Dendrology botanical garden TvSU Elena Boykova.- This kind of weather, essentially June, is completely uncharacteristic of August. How did the plants react to it? There is no other way to put it, they are in shock.
There were cold nights in July. Sudden changes signaled that autumn had arrived. I noticed this in my strawberries: their leaves immediately turned burgundy, which is typical for autumn. But as soon as the warmth returned, this process stopped. But the next one has begun - flowering. So, in addition to lilacs and acacias, currant buds began to bloom in many people’s dachas.
This is explained by the fact that the buds are not laid in March before flowering, as we think, but in advance - in spring and early summer. That is, the plant bloomed this year, but as soon as the temperature saw passed (that’s what weather forecasters call sudden temperature changes. - Red.), it again thought that spring had come and reacted.
Is this harmful to the plant? Harmful. Instead of calming down and preparing for hibernation, it exhausts the resource next year. It won’t have time to set a bud, which means it won’t bloom next spring. Besides, re-blooming depletes the plant.
Juicy news.
