Garden flowers: perennials for summer cottages and flower beds

Flowers-perennials can be found at every dacha site and in every rural garden. Their main advantages are unpretentiousness and high decorative qualities. Having planted any long-term variety on the site, it is possible to enjoy beauty of plants some years on end. Flowers garden perennials feel great in virtually all regions of Russia.

Where can such flowers be used?

Perennials are planted both on flowerbeds and along paths, along the shores of artificial or natural water bodies, on alpine slides. Usually, summer residents use not too whimsical sorts, which do not require complex maintenance. Choosing flowers, perennials for cottages, you should follow some recommendations of landscape designers. So, along the paths are usually planted compact bushy plants, not too high. It can be lavender, peonies, crocuses, primroses. For the Alpine hills, usually unpretentious plants are also selected. These may be undersized edelweiss, daffodils, creeping thyme, cleaning, etc. Of the higher, you can choose, for example, phlox or spectacular feather grass.

How to make a flower bed

Choosing flowers garden perennials for the flowerbed, you must also comply with certain rules. In the event that planting will be done along the fence or the walls of the building, tall plants are planted in the background. Then come flowers with a stem of medium length, and then short stature. If you want to arrange clubs, viewed from all sides, tall plants should be planted in the middle. At the perimeter, low perennials should grow along the perimeter.

Selection of color combinations

Of course, in order to arrange beautiful flower beds and borders, you need to choose the right color. Each flower-perennial must grow in this respect in its place. If desired, you can use both plants with petals of the same color, but different shades, and play on contests. Very beautifully in one flowerbed will look, for example, lupines (planted in the center), anemones (in the middle) and bear ears (at the edges). Next to the purple flowers look spectacularly yellow.

In the event that you doubt the end result, it is best to plant flowers of the same kind on the flower bed or along the paths. Pick up garden flowers-perennials with names of varieties is easy in any specialized store. For a better effect, plant several different things at once.

Landing in the ground

Particular attention when planting perennial flowers should be given to the composition of the soil. After all, they will grow for a long time in one place, and consequently, there must be a lot of nutrients in the soil. The introduction of fertilizers before planting is a necessary process in this case. In addition, the varieties themselves should be selected according to the type of soil on the site. So, for clay soils the host, astilba, violets, lily of the valley or iris are good.

Drought-resistant and hygrophilous flowers

Perennials are often chosen to decorate the site in the event that they want to save time on the care of flower beds. Therefore, it is best to plant the most unpretentious plants, with a strong root system and do not require frequent irrigation. In this regard, of high species, one can distinguish a bluehead, a yucca, an elephant, a vertebra, a gaylard. From low it is necessary to choose cornflowers, thyme, clarifiers, edelweiss.

In lowlands, where the soil constantly remains moist, or next to artificial ponds, it is worth planting such water-loving flowers as garden perennials, like buds, violets, primulas, cuffs, lumbago.

What fertilizers to use?

Despite the unpretentiousness, such flowers, of course, still require attention to themselves. If you forget about your flowerbeds, they will very quickly lose decorativeness, and all your works on the selection of varieties and planting will be in vain. Perennials, as already mentioned, need a nutrient-rich soil. Therefore, they need to be fed from time to time. In the early spring, complex fertilizers should be applied under the roots. During flowering you can use potassium and phosphoric fertilizing. Closer to autumn, it is necessary to introduce into the soil any fertilizers that do not contain nitrogen. This will strengthen the root system for the winter period.

Irrigation of perennial garden plants

To water such flowers should be carefully enough - under the root, trying not to get on the leaves and stems. At the end of the procedure it is necessary to wallow the soil. This will allow the roots to "breathe". In addition, while moisture will remain in the ground for longer. Mulching has one more important for the flowerbeds plus - the plantings treated in this way look much more neat. Another mandatory procedure, which requires flower perennial flowers, is the removal of the beginners to fade the flowers and leaves. If you tear off all unnecessary parts in time, you can stimulate a rapid flowering. In addition, cleaned from all unnecessary, the plants look much more effective.

How to choose varieties in a particular region

Of course, you need to choose the types of perennials, as well as their varieties, taking into account the climate of the locality in which you live. In the middle zone of Russia and in the southern regions, absolutely any garden flowers feel great. In the Urals, perennials of most species also grow just fine. The same can be said about Siberia. But the best in these two regions are the flowers like a fireball, a garden daisy, a delphinium, peonies, forget-me-nots, tulips, irises.

However, it should be remembered that some (mostly tuberous and bulbous) plants can not survive the cold Ural and Siberian winters. Therefore, such flowers as peonies, gladioli, dahlias, irises, for the winter will have to cover. In some species of perennials, tubers must be excavated in the autumn and stored in a cool place.

Diseases and pests

Perennials are, as a rule, flowers, very resistant to various diseases. However, sometimes infection with any infections and pests still occurs. One of the most common diseases of such plants is gray rot. In order to get rid of this problem, it is easiest to use a 1% solution of Bordeaux liquor for spraying. The treatment is carried out 2-4 times per season. As for pests, perennials often infect nematodes. Fighting this scourge is extremely difficult. It's easier to prevent infection. It is as a preventive measure from the appearance of this unpleasant fly, perennial plants are watered at the root, trying not to soak the stems and leaves.