The kingdom of exuberant, plump plants, contrasting colors, fanciful forms and extremely different shapes … This assumption is based on a combination of natural plant communities found in nature. These are well-thought-out arrangements of perennials and grasses that tempt with interesting features.They delight with freshness and originality, and more or less retain their decorative qualities throughout the autumn and winter.Compared to traditional discounts do not require labor-intensive and time-consuming care. Well-chosen species and varieties require only a minimum of fertilization, watering and cutting the shoots.
Such a bed can be planted with a proven mixture of perennials or with species selected by yourself. You should always pay attention to the suitability of the plants and the conditions in the bed.Choose strong, vigorous and long-lived species.Some perennials should have ornamental seed heads or green leaves in autumn and winter.
Grasses add lightness to the whole arrangement. You can also add classic decorative perennials, such as a delphinium or a flame, but they usually require more intensive care.Once planted, well-developed plants, apart from weeding several times during the growing season and cutting shoots at the end of winter, do not need any other treatments.
The ideal time to plant perennials is the beginning of fall. The still warm soil enables the plants to take root quickly. They need about a month to adapt to new living conditions. Before planting, clean the bed of weeds. To remove long rhizomes of couch grass and morning glory, it is necessary to loosen the top layer of the earth.Deeply loosen the cleaned substrate.After planting the plants, sprinkle 5 cm thick mulch around them to make it difficult for new weeds to germinate.Grit will be good on a sunny bed, grit will be good for a shaded tree bark compost.
Inspirations
"Prairie" in a dark corner of the garden
The beds with moderately moist soil are dominated by plants with decorative leaves: funkie, bergenie, fern and brunner. Geranium and lesser periwinkle grow between large-leaved perennials, and two species of sedge spread narrow grassy leaves. The colors of the bed are decorated with orange and red spotted picture berries, blue blooming funkies and red almond-leaved spurge. In the spring, always green perennials are accompanied by onion flowers.Regular weeding is necessary, but without the use of a hoe, in order not to accelerate the growth of weeds.Occasionally cut off the yellowing and drying leaves.
Year-round arrangement
Well thought-out, ingeniously designed arrangements can decorate the garden not only in summer. At the beginning of the season, the "prairie" bed is enlivened by the colors of the onion flowers. At the same time, the first perennials begin their vegetation and sprout new leaves.The beginning of summer is greeted by the earliest flowering perennials, such as rudbeckia and monkshood, as well as the most impatient ornamental grasses.Later, in addition to the still flowering rudbeckia and bluebells, asters of various colors and yellow panicles of goldenrod appear, and most of the grasses also bloom. In autumn and winter, gray-brown perennials and fawn grass remain in the bed. They will not be cut until February.
Colorful meadow in front of the house
Perennials with similar requirements have been combined into a colorful and vital group. Plants feel great in sunny places with permeable, slightly moist soil. Their flowers turn the front meadow into a colorful carpet.Violet flower candles of spikelet, liatria and baptisii are typical here. The loose white inflorescences of gaura and finger penstemon mix with them. The gaps are perfectly filled with the yellow blooming primrose. In summer, the ears of the rotisserie millet turn red. Later on, white and pink asters and yellow goldenrod bloom. Echinacea purpurea blooms for a very long time. In the spring, the meadow is decorated with flowers of narcissus, camassia and spider veins.
