Criteria for planting compositions for growing low-growing flowers
What rules must be followed
When choosing colors, you need to decide for what purposes they will be intended. Either they will serve as a dividing element for tall plants, or they will be located in the foreground of the flower bed. Flower gardens in which only undersized plants are grown look beautiful. The choice of such plants directly depends on the type of country flower bed that will be created on the site.
- The degree of illumination of the flower bed;
- Soil moisture;
- The color scheme when creating it.
Influence of illumination
To place a flower bed in a summer cottage, you should choose a well-lit area. If you choose a place for it, located in the shade or partial shade, stunted flowers will suffer from a lack of light, or, alternatively, pick up shade-tolerant plants.
The following low-growing flowers are suitable for a well-lit flower bed: calendula, alyssum, geraniums with small flowers, marigolds, nasturtium, purslane
Among the large selection, you can pay attention to the beauty of undersized annual dahlias, silvery celloses, aubrietta, lobularia
Ornamental-leaved plants look no worse than flowering ones. For decoration, they use silvery cineraria, hosta, various varieties of coleus, chlorophytums.
If a shady area is nevertheless chosen for the location of the flower bed, it is required to choose such plants that do not suffer from a lack of light. The choice should stop on muscari, lilies of the valley, tricolor violet, double and pompom daisies, blue scrub. Shading and hosts, fuchsias, hyacinths, begonias and balsams are tolerated.
Selection depending on soil moisture
Wet soil is, first of all, a comfortable environment for the plants themselves. They love moist, but not waterlogged soil, plants such as irises, balsam, coleus, begonia, hosta.
Succulent plants are required to be planted in a dry area. Rejuvenated, periwinkle, sedum, stonecrops and saxifrage endure a temporary lack of moisture.
Flowers for a plain flower bed
A compositional solution in landscape design for one-color or one-color flower beds is created from flowers of the same color, which differ in shades.
To create a pink flower bed of undersized flowers, you need to plant purple, pink and raspberry petunias, pink begonias, fuchsia and geraniums. In addition to these, the foreground of the structure can be decorated with primroses and daisies. With their help, you can make edging flower beds in the country round.
The pink color of the flower bed may seem a little boring to someone, then next to monochromatic plants you need to plant other species that differ in shape, size and color.
Lobularia, purple and blue petunias, obrietta, undersized bells, forget-me-nots and muscari, blue or purple are suitable for creating a blue composition.
Colorful flower garden
When planning it, special attention should be paid to the selection of undersized flowers, such as verbena. They must match in color, shape and size.
The technique of contrasting in color is used when creating ornaments.
A spectacular combination of orange-yellow marigolds with blue Aubrietta flowers can be used to create a flower bed in the shape of a clock, where the watch hands made of Marigold will stand out against a blue background of Aubrietta.
A striped flower bed is the easiest to create. The main thing is that the selected colors contrast with each other. For example, blue with white, purple with white, red with blue, and so on.
To create a more elegant and festive mood, a white alyssum carpet can be used for the edging.
Lavender
Lavender
Lavender is often used for planting in curbs. They plant it in rows at intervals of 20-30 cm. It is often used as an auxiliary resource when decorating rose bushes. Lavender borders are planted around these very roses, and perfectly hide the bare ground, while, thanks to the color scheme, they perfectly complement the structure of the roses. Also, lavender serves as a natural remedy for aphids, which cannot tolerate this flower.
Lavender itself is a shrub. Lavender is most often purple or blue in color, but it can also be light pink, but in our regions this type of lavender is not so widespread. Lavender blooms for a long time, and is a honey plant.
Lavender is a very versatile plant. It is resistant to low temperatures down to -25 C ° and dry soil. The only thing that is afraid is waterlogging. Diseases and harmful insects are also not too scary for her.
Lavender propagates by cuttings. When pruning in spring, you need to be careful, because if it is done too early, then the cuts can be damaged by frost, and if it is too late, then the future intensity of flowering will decrease. If autumn frosts come early enough, then prune the lavender in early September.
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Perennial garden flowers daffodils
Among the flowering bulbous plants in the garden, beautiful daffodils can often be seen. More than 10 species of this garden culture are known in floriculture. The flowers of the daffodil can be simple or double, white, light pink or yellow.
Daffodils bloom in late April - early May. These early bulbous perennial flowers for the garden are completely unpretentious to care for, so even an inexperienced florist can easily grow them on a garden plot.
The plant is represented by many species, all of them differ not only in the color of the flowers, but also in their size and number on the peduncle. The largest varieties of daffodil are Palmaris, Orangerie, Fortissimo, the stem grows to a height of 45-50 cm.The daffodil Fortissimo also has large flowers, their diameter is about 8 cm.
Daffodils love sunshine, so plant these bulbous perennials in well-lit areas to help them decorate your garden. The garden plant is unpretentious to the soil, but if possible, you should give preference to loam
When choosing a site for planting daffodil bulbs, it is important that water does not stagnate in it during the spring and autumn during precipitation. Having chosen a site for planting daffodils, about a month before planting it is necessary to fertilize the soil with peat
It is necessary to plant bulbs in mid-August - early September, so the plants take root well before the first frost. In one place, daffodils can grow up to 4-5 years, after which they should be transplanted to another area. It is not recommended to dig out bulbs earlier than after 3 years, since only by this age are they ready to reproduce.
Bulbous flowers for the garden, known as "daffodils", in this photo are represented by different colors of flowers:
Violet tricolor (pansies)
Violet tricolor (pansies)
Beloved by many, absolutely unpretentious biennial plant "pansies" - this is an excellent choice for people who do not have a lot of free time. This plant requires a minimum of care, and is resistant to the negative effects of external factors. The color variety of these flowers is incredible, and the irregular shape captivates even the most experienced gardener.
One can talk for a very long time about the colors of "pansies". It can be one-ton, two-ton, or even three-ton.The color is white, yellow, red, blue, or shades of these four colors (pink, blue, etc.).
This type of violets is valuable because it has a gem (it blooms on its own). Having landed a plot with "pansies", one can hope that every year they will grow independently on an ever larger scale. That is why, if there is a need to keep the plant within certain limits, the excess plants will have to be removed every year.
Violets do not tolerate fresh manure. It is recommended to use complex minerals as fertilizers.
Violets are watered in moderation, need sunlight. The plant propagates by seeds or cuttings. Seeds are planted in February, and 2-3 weeks after the shoots have appeared, they dive. In May, they need to be transplanted to a permanent place where they will grow in the future.
Regardless of the color, the plant is very beautiful, and is suitable for decorating any flower bed.
When and how to plant?
The time and timing of planting plants that bloom in autumn depend on their species / varietal characteristics. So, the seeds of most herbaceous plants (marigolds, petunias, phloxes, chrysanthemums, asters, pansies) are sown for seedlings from February to April. In open ground, flower seedlings are planted in May, when the probability of frost is reduced to a minimum. Under favorable conditions and following all the care recommendations, ornamental plants planted in spring bloom with the onset of autumn in the same year.
When planting young plants (seedlings or seedlings) in open ground, you should adhere to the recommended scheme for their placement. The distance between the holes or planting holes depends on the size of the plants in adulthood. So, low and medium-sized plants (marigolds, asters, chrysanthemums, undersized snapdragons, crocus flowers) are placed at a distance of 20-40 cm from each other. In turn, tall ornamental crops (hydrangeas, standard roses) are recommended to be planted at a distance of at least 120-150 cm from each other.
Seedlings and young bushes of plants blooming in autumn are planted in open ground by transshipment. This planting method is considered the most gentle, as it avoids serious damage to the root system. Plants, planted by the transshipment method, take root in a new place easier and faster, and enter the budding and flowering phase in a timely manner.
