Typically, perennials are sown in February-March for seedlings, transplanted into the ground in the spring, and this season the plants mainly increase their green mass, and only in the next season they delight with flowering. But among them there are those that bloom in the first year.
The so-called express perennials are grown seedling method. From January to March they are sown in wet fertile soil: use a mixture of turf or leaf soil, humus, peat and river sand in a ratio of 2:2:2:1. In this case, before sowing, it is advisable to spill the soil with a pink solution of potassium permanganate.
Seedlings are regularly fed. If plant leaves are pale, use ammonium nitrate(20 g per 10 liters of water), if the seedlings grow slowly, they are sprayed with a growth stimulator (Epin or Zircon - just dilute 2 drops of the drug in a glass of water). IN open ground The seedlings are planted together with other perennial flowers and these plants are cared for in the same way.
So, let's see what beautiful perennial flowers should be planted in the garden so that you can enjoy their lush flowering in the first year.
This is a tall (up to 70 cm) perennial “daisy” with bright yellow-orange-red petals and pubescent leaves. It is unpretentious, grows quickly, blooms throughout the summer. But in order for the flowers to be bright, the plants need to be planted in sunny areas where moisture does not stagnate.
Gaillardia seeds are sown for seedlings at the end of March and watered moderately. At the same time, they are not sprinkled with earth, but simply cover the container with polyethylene or glass and place it in a room with a temperature of 20-24°C. Gaillardia does not tolerate waterlogging, so after germination, watering is reduced.
Externally, helenium is similar to gaillardia - the same bright orange or yellow “daisy”. But still, these plants have differences.
Despite its name, helenium blooms not in autumn, but in summer. The peduncle can reach a height of 150 cm. This flower is unpretentious and loves sunny and humid places. Seeds for seedlings are sown in February, and in May the seedlings are planted in open ground.
Delphiniums of the Belladonna group appeared as a result of crossing the tall delphinium and the grandiflora delphinium. These plants have high (up to 2 m) stems, on which are paniculate inflorescences of large simple or semi-double flowers in the shape of a cup. Most often they are blue, white, light blue or purple.
Seeds are sown superficially for seedlings in early February. They are lightly sprayed with water, covered with film and placed in dark place with a temperature of 15-18°C. When shoots appear (usually after 15-20 days), the container with seedlings is transferred to a bright room with a temperature of 19-22°C and the film is removed.
The seedlings are watered moderately, 2 months after sowing they are planted one by one in 1 liter pots, in May they are “relocated” to open ground, and in June they are already admiring the spectacular flowering.
This plant has paniculate inflorescences with small red flowers at the ends of tall peduncles (about 90 cm high). Kentranthus is similar to valerian, but unlike it does not have healing properties.
To enjoy the summer abundant flowering red inflorescences that look like clouds, the seeds are sown in late February - early March. The container is kept at a temperature of 20-22°C and additionally illuminated so that the seedlings receive light for at least 6 hours a day.
After 2-3 true leaves appear, the plants are planted one at a time and kept at a temperature of 16-18°C. At the end of May, seedlings are planted in open ground and fed with complex mineral fertilizer every 2 weeks.
Centranthus prefers loose, fertile soil. The plant is watered only in dry weather, and in such conditions it blooms well until September. In late autumn, the stems are cut off and the centranthus are covered with spruce branches or spunbond for the winter.
Delicate white and purple bells will decorate any flower bed, but they look best in a rocky garden.
Seeds are sown superficially in the first half of February, watered, covered with film and kept at a temperature of 18-21°C. The soil is regularly moistened. After 2-2.5 months, the seedlings are planted in separate pots with a diameter of 8-10 cm, and in May they are transplanted into open ground. This plant is undemanding in care: it needs periodic weeding, watering in dry times and short pruning in the fall.
This unpretentious rose, only about 30 cm high, can grow both in open ground and at home in a container. Numerous semi-double and double roses of white and pink color bloom on a low bush. If faded flowers are removed in a timely manner, new buds are quickly formed.
Rose seeds are sown in February-March in peat soil, lightly sprinkle with vermiculite, water with a spray bottle and cover plastic film. Seedlings are kept at a temperature of 18-20°C and sprayed daily with water at room temperature. After emergence of seedlings, the temperature is reduced to 10-14°C, and when several true leaves form, the plants are planted in separate small containers, and in May - in open ground.
Express clematis
Express perennials include several clematis: Tangut, oriental, serrate, etc. Tangut clematis is most often grown in flower beds as a spectacular vine. Its shoots (about 2.5 m long) are densely strewn with golden-yellow bell flowers.
Seeds are sown from January to March in large furrows, lightly sprinkled with sand, moistened and covered with film. The crops are sprayed with water every day. After the true leaves appear, the seedlings are planted in cups one at a time, and in the second half of May they are transplanted into open ground. To make the vine curl better, pinch it over 2-3 leaves.
This perennial has strong and straight shoots (up to 70 cm high) in June-July, covered with white, pink, lilac, lilac or purple flowers with a diameter of about 10 cm.
Seeds are sown for seedlings in February and left in a room with an air temperature of 18-20°C. When true leaves appear, the seedlings are planted in separate pots and grown at a temperature of 10°C. The seedlings are watered moderately and fed with complex mineral fertilizer once a week, and in mid-May they are planted in open ground.
Scabiosa grows well in sunny areas and prefers soil rich in humus. To ensure that the color of the flowers is bright, the plants are fed with potassium-phosphorus fertilizer 2 times a month. For the winter, the stems of the plant are cut off and covered with spruce branches.
The shape of the bush and inflorescences spectacular flower resembles a delphinium. Flower colors vary: purple, blue, scarlet, salmon, red, wine.
Seedlings develop within 4 months, so the seeds are sown superficially in late January - early February in loose soil with neutral acidity. Place the container with seeds in a well-lit place with a temperature of 18-22°C and spray the ground with water 1-2 times a day.
For successful cultivation Lobelia seedlings need 16 hours of daylight, so the seedlings receive additional light.
When real leaves appear, the temperature is reduced to 13-16°C. A month after sowing, the plants are planted in separate containers, and at the end of April - beginning of May they are transplanted into open ground. Lobelia prefers sunny places with moderately moist soils.
What express perennials decorate your flower garden?
Among the flowers perennial crops we can distinguish a group of garden flowers that can bloom in the first year after planting. To do this, it is necessary to carry out a number of agrotechnical measures that will allow express perennials to bloom in the first year after sowing.
Viola (pansy)
The beauty of pansies is amazing - these charming bright flowers with a contrasting mask on the petals are often planted on balconies and in garden beds. refers to biennial plants, found perennial varieties, which, when sown from seeds, bloom on next year. You can speed up the flowering of plants, for which early planting of seeds of perennial and biennial varieties of viola for seedlings is practiced.
It is important to keep in mind that flowering may begin in the first year, but there will be very few flowers, and the size of the flower will be smaller than expected for this variety.
Viola seeds are quite large in size, so they can be easily treated with special stimulants to stimulate germination. “Epin” perfectly increases the germination rate - in a solution of the drug at the rate of 1-2 drops per 0.5 liter, pansy seed material is pre-soaked for 0.5-1 hour. After soaking, the seeds are sown in shallow boxes with a nutrient substrate.
You can start sowing viola seeds for seedlings already in mid-January. If you want to get blooming pansies in the year of sowing, when the third true leaf appears, you need to pick the seedlings into separate cups. The harvested viola seedlings must be illuminated with lamps; they can be fertilized only after the seedlings begin to grow.
Good results for stimulating the flowering of violas in the first year after sowing seeds can be obtained by adding planting soil double superphosphate - granules are mixed with the substrate at the rate of 1 box per 10 liters.
Viola is a cold-resistant plant, so it can be planted in the ground, but before that it is useful to harden the seedlings.
Aquilegia
Aquilegia (columbine, orlik) is an elegant perennial plant that decorates the garden at any time, because it is curly green foliage looks very decorative even without flowers. Amazing aquilegia flowers with gracefully bent spurs are amazingly decorative. The color of the petals can be any - varieties with a two-color color are often found. blooms in May, the flowering of the plant lasts until the end of June.
You can sow seeds for seedlings in January, but before that it is very important to stratify and stimulate the seed. Around December, aquilegia seeds are placed in the refrigerator, where they are kept for 3-4 weeks, after which they are soaked in a solution of Zircon, Humate or Epin. Prepared seeds are planted in the soil, ensuring that it is nutritious and light. Young plants dive into a separate container when several true leaves appear.
In the first year, young aquilegia bushes can produce loose panicles with several bells a little later; the bushes can bloom even in the fall, which will add charm to fading flower beds.
Aquilegia easily cross-pollinates and propagates by self-sowing, so you can use grown seedlings for replanting in flower beds and garden beds. Do not destroy plants that have grown by self-seeding; the color of the petals may be different from the parent. But it is from such seedlings that sometimes it is possible to grow stunning plants.
Echinacea
Echinacea is not only beautiful plant, this flower is used to treat and prevent many diseases.
To speed up the flowering of young Echinacea plants grown from seed, it is important to plant the seeds early - at least 20 weeks should pass before the first flowers appear.
Grow healthy, hardened seedlings, plant them in the ground at a more early dates(when the temperature drops, you can use temporary film coverings), and huge armfuls of flowers will appear on the Echinacea bushes in the first year.
Rudbeckia
If a rudbeckia bush blooms in a flowerbed, it means that all attention will be focused on it a huge bouquet. Rudbeckia flowers are colored bright colors yellow-brown in color, huge in size - a real decoration of the garden.
Perennial varieties rarely bloom in the first year when sown from seeds, but as soon as seedlings of these magnificent flowers are planted in winter, single bright flashes of ocher will appear among the green foliage in late summer.
Nivyanyk
Niwberry (in common parlance - chamomile) rarely blooms from seeds in the first year, but it is possible and necessary to stimulate the flowering of this magnificent perennial. Niberry seeds are planted for seedlings in the first half of January; at this time there is not enough light, so the plantings need to be illuminated with lamps.
The seedlings must be planted in separate pots using soil filled with superphosphate. The granules slowly dissolve when watered, which allows young plants to gradually accumulate nutrients necessary for vigorous flowering.
Niwberry is transplanted into open ground in May, continuing to fertilize the plants all summer. It is important to remember that excess nitrogen fertilizers leads to the growth of green mass and delays flowering.
Assortment of seed perennials
Experiment with early boarding growing perennials for seedlings to obtain flowering plants in the first year is not difficult and interesting. For these purposes the following are suitable flower crops: gravilate; coreopsis; ; penstemon; foxglove (digitalis); ; veronica; daisy; catnip; mullein.
Make your garden beautiful and unique - grow amazing flowers in your flower beds that will be the envy of all your neighbors.
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 perennials, which are successfully grown in our moderately cold climate, and do not belong to vines, woody shrubs, or large trees. 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 foliage plants. 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 there are very few such flowers (and ornamental shrubs) and that there is nothing interesting about 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 collect living ones from them. garden collection, arrange a themed flower garden. Many perennials and bulbs are the easiest flowering plants to care for.
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 an easy-care garden, the optimal ratio 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 you high costs labor. 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 using 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 come in green, and blue, and variegated, and 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 it in your garden specific plant. By the way, many of them can be sown before winter.
In the next part of the article we will talk about unpretentious annuals.
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 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 covered with flowers. And the way it happens in mid-May. Locals they 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 you can see flowering shrubs 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 trees - 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 next comment is surprising.
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 there is climate change, - comments Head of the Department of Dendrology of the Botanical Garden of Tver State University 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 next year's resource. It will no longer have time to lay a kidney, which means next spring will not bloom. In addition, repeated flowering exhausts the plant.
Juicy news.
Biennials are plants that are grown for two years. In the first year after sowing they develop root system, stem and rosette of leaves, and flowers appear in the second year.
The biennials most often found in flower beds include everyone's favorite pansies, daisies, forget-me-nots, and mallow. The undoubted advantage of biennials is that the seeds can be planted directly in open ground. And wait two years... - you might think. However flowering plants You can get it this year if you correctly calculate the sowing time or try to grow them with seedlings.
Immediately after buying the dacha, I wanted to paint the garden in all the colors of the rainbow - the flower garden of the previous owners looked painfully boring, overgrown with wheatgrass and nettles. I cleared a place for a flower bed, planted the most unpretentious annuals: marigolds, calendula and fragrant alyssum. But here and there there were empty spaces in the flowerbed, and I decided to fill them with viola - pansies. I bought packets of Viola Wittrock “Swiss Giants” and “Cats” seeds.
I admit, I have little experience in floriculture, so I strictly followed the instructions for growing plants, carefully indicated on the bags: “Seeds are planted in open ground in July, flowering next year.” So I planted it - at the beginning of July. A week later, sprouts appeared, which I fed with Kemira universal flower fertilizer. Already in mid-August, my “pansies” had buds, and in September, along with the traditional autumn flowers - rudbeckias and chrysanthemums, some violets bloomed! The only pity is that the flowering lasted so short: the fragile plants quickly withered and wilted in the cloudy cold weather. It turned out that biennials can bloom in the first year, but in the fall...
The next season, I “worked on my mistakes” - I planted viola seeds in open ground not in July, but a little earlier - in June. I planted some of the seeds in boxes at the end of February. The seeds were distributed over the surface of the soil, lightly sprinkled with a thin layer of soil, and sprayed with a spray bottle. She covered the box with film and put it in a dark corner. The soil was regularly sprayed so that it was constantly moist, because... Seeds will not germinate in dry soil. As soon as the first sprouts appeared, I moved the box to the windowsill, and was careful not to overcook the seedlings under the film. And two weeks later I planted my seedlings into pots.
At the beginning of May, I planted a grown viola in the flower garden, and already in June the “pansies” delighted me with abundant flowering.
By the way, I read that in the first year you can make forget-me-nots bloom if you plant seeds for seedlings in winter, with the difference that forget-me-not seeds germinate faster in the light, so they are sown scattered on the soil surface and only lightly sprinkled with soil. At the end of April, flowers, already with buds, can be planted in flower beds, where they will bloom in May.
