February 27, 2023, 14:36 - BLiTZ – News
With the right selection of flower crops for a summer cottage, you can observe lush flowering from early spring to late autumn. To avoid the hassle associated with planting such flowers, choosing perennials will help. The public news service found out what perennial flowers can decorate a summer cottage.
For each season, there are the most suitable crops for flowering. Let’s try to pick up flowers to decorate the cottage in spring, summer and autumn.
Spring
In the very first warm days, the following cultures are able to please with their beauty:
White, blue, yellow corollas of crocuses are shown to the light even before the snow melts. These plants bloom from March to May, their height usually reaches 15 cm. They look very nice in collective plantings, and are also able to beautifully decorate alpine slides. Crocus bulbs are planted from August to September.
This representative of the flora grows up to 20 cm. The flower bed is decorated with blue, white and blue inflorescences. Harmoniously combined with primroses, daffodils, carved greens.
Shade-tolerant culture, which is a small shrub. The plant is characterized by rapid spread. The variety of varieties allows the grower to choose blue, white, pink or purple colors, pick up simple or double corollas, smooth or variegated leaves, stop at a semi-shrub or ground cover variety.
Able to endure winter cold thanks to a powerful root system. Usually the foliage stretches to a height of 30–100 cm. You can observe flowering in May, when the flower bed is covered with white or pink heart-shaped corollas. The dicenter will delight the summer resident with its beauty for a month. Looks great in the neighborhood with primroses and daffodils, muscari, ferns and ornamental varieties of onions.
Summer
In summer, there is usually no particular problem for decorating a plot with flowers, nevertheless, consider the most interesting and popular perennial flowers among summer residents:
This is one of the most luxuriant crops. Sometimes just one poppy plant is enough to add luxury to a garden. And another advantage of the poppy is its unpretentious care. He is not afraid of frost, depleted soil, drought. Poppy is able to independently settle in the area.
Lupins bloom at the very beginning of summer. From the second half of July, the second flowering starts. The flowers are formed into blue, white, pink, purple and bicolor spike-shaped inflorescences. This is an unpretentious culture that reaches a height of 100 cm and is aesthetically combined with cornflower, multi-colored aquilegia, perennial poppies.
Turkish carnation
These are miniature flowers, which, gathering in lush inflorescences, are able to transform a boring summer cottage. To decorate flower beds, summer residents are offered varieties that include all shades, from white to rich purple. The culture is able to reproduce on its own, and its flowering lasts until September. It looks very nice in the neighborhood with decorative deciduous crops.
The inflorescence of this flower resembles a chamomile. Doronicum begins to bloom in late spring and early summer, reaches a height of 30–80 cm, loves the sun or a transparent shade, but does not develop well in the shade of a tree. Prefers moist soil, so mulch is recommended. In the flower bed, the culture goes well with tulips, forget-me-nots, primroses and other spring flowers. Photo: freepik.com
Autumn
Autumn perennials will give the gardener the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the site until the last days of the summer season:
Lush flowering begins in mid-July and continues until October. The plant winters well. The range of varieties allows you to choose flowers of any color that will look aesthetically pleasing on alpine hills and traditional flower beds, next to ponds and buildings.
perennial asters
Perennial varieties of asters bloom in August, flowering can last until snow falls. The most common varieties:
alpine: has a grassy erect stem, the flower looks like a camomile; Italian: has the form of a densely leafy shrub with compact flowers, can remain in one place without transplanting for many years, includes more than 40 varieties; Tatar: reaches a height of 2–2.5 meters, blooms in late autumn; naked: forms many inflorescences with wide leaves and large violet-blue flowers; Bessarabian: has heather-colored flowers with a yellow-brown center, bush height – up to 70 cm. Photo: freepik.com
Perennial asters are capable of making lively borders and pretty groups with other fall plants. It is worth knowing that this culture can multiply uncontrollably, quickly developing new territories, so the shoots will have to be removed periodically.
