Marigolds in your garden

Marigolds in all variety

The homeland of marigolds is America. But they are so unpretentious that they live well in various conditions in almost all corners of the globe.

Marigolds are completely different. There are annuals, and there are perennial varieties. They differ in the size of the flower, its color.

These plants can be tall (more than a meter) and erect with a separate, rather large flower, or they can be undersized bushes, not reaching a height of 30 cm. Look only at the photo of marigolds - this is a whole orange sea. For example, Vinilla and Antigua look like the real kings of marigolds.

They have such beautiful round inflorescences. True, it is somewhat more difficult to grow them than the usual varieties of the type of “rejected marigolds” (it is this variety that is most often planted on our flower beds in cities).

The marigolds received this Latin nickname in honor of the Etruscan demigod Tages, who was the grandson of Jupiter himself.

How to plant

There are several ways to plant marigolds. Flower seeds can be sown directly into open ground, or seedlings can be grown first, or an adult perennial can be transplanted.

Any of these methods will work, and marigolds will take root perfectly with a minimum of maintenance.

Let's start with the seeds. It is better to sow them directly into the ground in the first half of May, when the soil has already warmed up. They are planted, like any seeds: they make a shallow groove, spill it with water, cover the seeds and cover with loose earth.

In order for the seeds to sprout faster, they can be pre-wetted and kept in a warm, damp place until sprouts appear.

Growing marigolds for seedlings is a little more difficult. You just need to take into account the growth time of different varieties. Rare erect marigolds grow more slowly.

Such seeds must be sown in a container in the first half of March. Low-growing varieties are best sown in April. When the first three leaves appear on the shoots, the bushes can be dived.

And after another two to three weeks - plant the seedlings already in open ground. Throughout the cultivation of seedlings, marigolds need to be watered abundantly, but water stagnation should not be allowed - the roots can easily rot.

Characteristics of flowers and tips for their use in a flower bed

All shades are divided into warm (yellow-red gamut) and cold (violet-blue palette). Warm colors visually make the object more voluminous and, as it were, bring it closer, while cold colors, on the contrary, reduce and move away. This property can be actively used when creating the perfect flower garden.

Red is a very rich color, it is considered cheerful and optimistic. But under the influence of bright sunlight, red objects "cut" the eye and therefore appear flat. But in cloudy weather they become more expressive and deep. Therefore, plants with red flowers and leaves are ideal for northern regions, where cloudy days are frequent in summer.

Yellow, golden orange and lemon colors draw attention to themselves, create accents in the garden and uplift the mood

They are able to paint even a dark corner of a flower garden, however, it is important not to overdo it with these shades, otherwise they will overshadow neighboring plants

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Blue, purple and blue shades give the flower garden depth and romance. The colors of the sea and sky are great for relaxing and energizing. These shades help relieve stress and irritability.

And you also need to remember that blue and purple tones located in the background visually enlarge the flower garden. To achieve harmony, it is recommended to use yellow and red tones in the foreground. This will visually bring the distant plan closer.

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White is also considered a romantic color. Moreover, it is universal and can be used in any flower beds. White helps to bind incompatible shades and make smooth transitions between them. In addition, white looks good in the shade, as well as in all corners of the site in the late evening. The same functions are performed by gray and silver shades.

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All dark tones become invisible earlier than others, so they are not suitable for a flower bed near which you like to spend late evenings. It is better to plant white plants here.

Green color perfectly soothes and smooths out irregularities and abrupt transitions. The more green shades in the flower garden (lawn, plants with large green leaves), the more tones (including contrasting ones) can be used, since the green color mutes the flashy shades.

The flowerbed should be dominated by blue, purple, white, pink and green tones. They will serve as a beautiful background. And saturated shades (red, orange, yellow) are best used sparingly (in small groups of plants). In addition, a very bright and contrasting color spot (consisting, for example, of lemon, red, blue crimson and orange flowers) should occur no more than once in the flower garden.

A flowerbed, which you will admire from a distance, is best decorated in contrasting shades, and a flower garden, located, for example, near the house, is advised by landscape designers to be kept in the same color scheme. Monochrome gardens look great here.

Peculiarities

A flower garden of perennials is often called a flower bed of continuous flowering, because from early spring to the very snow, it pleases with its multicolor. And for professional gardeners, the flower bed blooms in winter. And this is a clear advantage over annual flowering plants.

There are other positive characteristics and features:

The main thing is durability. For several years, each plant grows in such a way that the old bushes can be removed completely painlessly and a new shoot will grow in their place next year.
Ease of care: before planting, the soil is well fertilized and baking powder (expanded clay, sand) is introduced, after planting the plants they are watered in a timely manner and weeds are removed.
Financial costs - about 1 thousand rubles per one flower bed for several years in advance. While seeds or seedlings of annual plants have to be bought annually.
Perennials are considered sparing - they do not drain the land and do not require regular feeding.
Such plants are unpretentious - some of them will grow in the sun, others are suitable for partial shade, the third for shade, and the fourth will grow calmly with any amount of sun.
To create such a flower bed, there is no need to invite a landscape designer every year.

Important aspects in creating

Beautiful flower beds

In order not to spoil all your work, at the stage of planning a flower garden, it is necessary to take into account several important distinctive features:

There should be an extensive list of plant species. From the first days of spring until the very cold weather, the flower garden will have a constantly blooming appearance
Plant more perennial varieties. Such species require less attention in care, they are not afraid of cold weather. For the next few years, you don't have to worry about the design of the site, because the process of growth and blooming of flowers will take place annually on its own. You just need to take care of the plants on time. They will grow very much every year.
Stop choosing not capricious plantings. They will have to coexist with each other, so they should not suffer from this. Unpretentiousness to conditions will help them not to feel discomfort.
Large colored spots will give expressiveness to the overall picture. It is not advisable to plant flowers one by one, because the fragmentation of the composition, the predominance of small elements in it will only irritate the eyes. Plants that bloom at approximately the same time are best grouped together.
The size of the flower bed should correspond to the general style of the site. If the territory does not allow making a large flower bed, then the effect of constant flowering can be achieved by planting several small seasonal flower beds. The same option is suitable for areas in which there is a large predominance of straight lines. The flower garden will not look very nice if you try to squeeze it into strict frames.

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Perennial flowers

Despite the fact that perennials cannot boast of the ability to create more and more new colors and combinations throughout the season as annuals, many growers prefer them. They explain their choice for several reasons:

Perennial flowers have been permanent residents of the flower bed for several years, which saves their owners from the worries and hassle of replanting them at the beginning of each summer season.
Almost all perennials are frost-resistant crops, and this property allows them to perfectly tolerate cold winters and frosts without creating any special conditions.
Perennials retain their decorative qualities throughout the summer season.

This type of flower crops grows well both completely alone and in combination with other species. Most often, perennials are used to create compositions in mixed flower beds, where they form the basis.

Growing flowers on your site that grow well for several years is quite a profitable activity, since it does not require large investments. After all, you can plant several species and admire them for several years, as well as create new flower arrangements on their basis every year with the addition of other plants.

All the variety of perennials can be conditionally divided into several groups depending on the height of flowering plants:

High

They are grown both as independent compositions (for example, in our country house, against the background of a green lawn, perennial asters and montbrecia in the center grow in the corners in flower beds), and as decorations or background for mixborders. One of the brightest representatives of this group is the stock-rose (mallow), which is distinguished by its unusual bright inflorescences and decorative leaves, the “golden ball” (a kind of rudbeky) and different varieties of dahlias.

Lupines are especially popular with amateur flower growers, which are famous not only for the variety of colors, but also for their benefits. This plant has a very unusual root system, which contains nodules with bacteria.Thanks to this, lupine has the ability to generate nitrogen directly from the ambient air. They are not inferior, and, sometimes, surpass them in growth of irises of different colors. Closer to the southern regions, hibiscus is grown.

Another representative of tall perennials is the meadowsweet, the flowering of which is so bright and fluffy that it resembles clouds of various colors. This ornamental plant reaches a height of up to 1.5 meters, while growing well in shaded areas with high humidity. The meadowsweet looks especially impressive in the composition of mixed compositions, as well as as a solitaire plant.

A plant such as a delphinium, which stands out among other flowers with its bright and unusual inflorescences in the form of candles, looks gorgeous in the summer cottage. This perennial is very unpretentious to the conditions of its cultivation and feels great in one place for 8-10 years. Shaded areas of a summer cottage are also suitable for growing a delphinium, but you can enjoy the full beauty of its inflorescences only in bright sunlight.

Medium-sized

The height of which does not exceed 80 cm.

In almost every summer cottage, you can see one of the representatives of such perennial flowers - this is a daylily, which stands out for the variety of its colors, as well as for undemanding growing conditions.

Another picky flower is the yarrow, which has several dozen varieties and pleases its owners with abundant flowering throughout the summer season.

Such types of medium-sized perennial plants such as peonies, cornflowers, paniculata phlox, Turkish carnation, rudbeckia, escholzia and others also look spectacular in their summer cottage.

When planning a flower bed of low-growing flowers on your site, it is necessary to give preference not only to the abundance and variety of species, but to try to make one harmonious composition out of them. The prominent representatives of this group are pansies, Chinese carnation, geranium, cinquefoil, oak sage, and dwarf phlox.

Marigolds - cultivation

To obtain strong and beautiful flowers, it is recommended to receive seedlings initially at home, after which they are planted at the optimal time in the open ground.

Important! The process of growing marigolds is considered such a simple job that even a novice florist can cope with it without any problems, and this is due to the unpretentiousness of the plants. Some marigold owners prefer to drop flowering bushes, after which they are easily accepted, therefore they further delight the owners of the territory with bright and beautiful flowering

It is also allowed to plant seeds directly in open ground, however, this process is recommended to be carried out at the end of May, when good weather sets in the street, and frosts completely stop. Additionally, it is important to make sure that the soil is well warmed up.

Some owners of marigolds prefer to drop flowering bushes, after which they are easily accepted, therefore they further delight the owners of the territory with bright and beautiful flowering. It is also allowed to plant seeds directly in open ground, however, this process is recommended to be carried out at the end of May, when good weather sets in the street, and frosts completely stop.

Additionally, it is important to make sure that the soil is well warmed up.

Planting seeds in open ground is performed in the correct sequence of actions:

a furrow for plants is created, and its depth is approximately 5 cm;
the resulting furrow is watered with a small amount of water;
marigold seeds are prepared, for which they are pre-soaked to determine which of them are of high quality and ready for planting;
then they are sown in a pre-made furrow;
the seeds are sprinkled with earth and watered a little;
the first shoots appear after a few weeks;
if there is a too dense arrangement of sprouts, then it is recommended to plant them in order to get a beautiful flower arrangement.

Thus, you can get beautiful and strong marigolds even from seeds planted in open ground, however, this work is allowed to be performed exclusively in the warm season, when the earth is well warmed up, and there are no night frosts.

Important! If there are marigolds on the territory, there will be no need to buy seeds for the next year, since they can be easily obtained from faded plants, for which the inflorescences are well dried, after which the seeds are extracted from the cups, which remain until next year at home. If you want to get beautiful and blooming marigolds as early as possible, then it is advisable to grow strong seedlings at home, which are then planted in open ground

For this, the basic rules of the process are taken into account:

If you want to get beautiful and blooming marigolds as early as possible, then it is advisable to grow strong seedlings at home, which are then planted in open ground. For this, the basic rules of the process are taken into account:

it is advisable to plant marigold seeds to obtain seedlings as early as possible, namely in early spring, so that after planting in open ground, a beautiful and lush flowering immediately begins;
for planting, a high-quality mixture is prepared, consisting of humus, sand, turf and peat, and it is also watered with a disinfectant solution from a fungicide;
disembarkation is carried out in containers of suitable size, at the bottom of which rubble or sand is laid out to form a drainage layer, and its height should be approximately 3 cm;
organic fertilizers are applied to the soil, but it is not allowed to use fresh manure for this;
grooves are made in the container, and the distance between them is left within 2 cm;
the seeds of marigolds are laid in them, which are then sprinkled with soil;
watering must be careful, as a large amount of water can wash the seeds out of the soil;
the containers should be put in a warm place in the house, and it is important to ensure that the soil does not dry out;
in about a week, the first sprouts of marigolds will appear, after which the containers are placed in a place where they will receive a lot of light, and the temperature should be within 18 degrees.

Thus, it is quite easy to obtain high-quality, strong and optimal seedlings.

Mono-flower beds from tagetes

Marigold flower beds can be arranged in any shape and size. After all, there is a number of undersized curbs, tall, thin-leaved with small non-double flowers, black-shaved ones. In total, there are about 60 species of this floral plant.

Tagetes are also called black shavers because of the color of some of the types of these flowers. So, thin-leaved marigolds have inflorescences with a diameter of only 1.5-3 cm. And their petals can be painted in colors from pure yellow to dark brown with a lighter edging, similar to the eyebrows, but not black at all.

Thin-leaved species of Tagetes with medium-sized inflorescences have very dense, carved foliage. This combination gives these flowers a special decorative effect.

Thin-leaved marigolds are often combined with taller deflected tagetes. In the center of the flower garden, rejected black shaves with multiple inflorescences of different colors are planted with a thick carpet, and a border of thin-leaved plant species is created along the edge. These species bloom a little later than the rejected ones, so at first the curb will be formed by dense carved foliage.

Another version of a traditional flower garden is a round, oval or rectangular flower bed, which combines different colors of large-flowered erect black shaves. The inflorescences of these species are similar to full double chrysanthemums. They have a yellow or orange color of varying intensity.Flowers of different colors can either be planted at random, or you can create a color composition from them. For example, plant plants with orange flowers in the center in the form of a rhombus, and occupy the rest of the space with light yellow flowers. Other options will be suggested by imagination.

Beautiful flower beds of upright species of black-shaved ones can be created by alternating flowers of different colors and planting them in waves, stripes or groups of arbitrary shape.

Flower beds are also created from undersized species of black shavers in the form of some kind of ornament or pattern. But such compositions are arranged mainly in large city flower beds.

Features of creating flower beds from marigolds

Blooming Tagetes compositions can differ in shape, size, purpose and style. To create decorative flower beds, you must be guided by the general principles of planting marigolds:

Flowers should be planted in a lighted area. Foliage will develop in the shade, not buds.
Place the bushes at a distance of 20 cm from each other to create space for developing shoots and provide equal access to sunlight.
Plant high varieties in the background or in the center, shorter plant varieties in the next tier. Dwarf species are planted around the edges.
Tagetes grow both in open flower beds and in container compositions with protected ground.

A flower bed with annual marigolds is used in various styles for decorating the garden. Bright tagetes look great in rocky flower beds characteristic of the Japanese style. A variety of colors allows you to create strict geometric patterns and shapes. The combination with other flowers gives the flower bed the ease of landscape style. Planting annuals beautifully and creating a unique flower garden with your own hands is a feasible task for a keen gardener.

Monoclumba from Tagetes

The simplest type of flower garden, consisting of marigolds, is a monoclumba. This fit can be round, elongated or strict geometric shapes. Each group of plants is called upon to fulfill its functions in a flowering composition.

The combination of varieties of contrasting colors allows you to create patterns on the flower beds. An impromptu sun made of flowers looks interesting. To do this, plant tagetes of yellow and orange colors in the form of the sun. The space between the rays is filled with varieties with red, brown or variegated buds.

An oval or round flowerbed can be decorated with unpretentious annual marigolds of different heights. Tall varieties are planted in the center of the flower garden. Tagetes of medium height are placed towards the edges of the circle. The edges of the flower bed are decorated with miniature representatives of the species.

The original look gives the round flower bed a slight center shift. The planting pattern of different colors in height is preserved. The choice of the color of the buds depends on the imagination of the gardener and his preferences.

Low-growing ones are mainly used to create geometric ornaments or decorate borders. A flower garden of marigolds in the middle of the lawn or along rocky paths looks spectacular. Tagetes miniature beds in cascading containers allow you to enjoy the flowering of marigolds for several months.

Combined landings

Tagetes are used by gardeners in both single and mixed plantings. Universal flowers perform various functions in combined flower beds:

mask annuals with a short flowering period;
create color accents due to the bright color of the buds;
fill the empty space between plants;
frame the planting of large-sized trees.

Marigolds perform in areas not only a decorative function. The specific scent of leaves and flowers repels insect pests. Phytoncides, which are produced by the root system of the Tagetes, disinfect the soil around the plantings, protect against fungal diseases and fusarium.

Marigolds are combined in flower beds with perennial and annual flowers. The yellow-orange gamut inherent in the culture looks spectacular with purple, blue, white flowers. Combined plantings of tagetes with petunias, salvias and snapdragons are popular among gardeners.

The design of a flower garden with petunias and marigolds is based on the observance of the color rhythm and the arrangement of plants in height. Low-growing petunias should be placed around plantings with tagetes. For a harmonious shape, it is recommended to place plants up to 20-30 cm high in the center of the composition.

A flower bed of marigolds and petunias in yellow-purple or white-orange tones creates a bright, eye-catching accent on the site

When decorating blooming compositions, you should pay attention to the combination of not only different shades and heights, but also to the structure of flowers. Terry varieties of Tagetes set off the fragility of viola and allisum

The compact inflorescences of marigolds are successfully framed by the arrows of the snapdragon on the flower bed.

Traditionally, flowers with a long flowering period are used to decorate the front garden. The composition should be made from tall plants near the walls of buildings. Such crops can be chrysanthemums, chamomile and asters. In the foreground of the front garden, you can place deviant varieties of tagetes, petunias, calendula and border plants.

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