The first perennials bloom in spring and the last ones in late autumn. With such a large range of luxuriantly flowering and easy-to-grow plants to choose from, we have a unique opportunity to create an ornamental garden that will please our eye all year round.Most perennials look best in groups (consisting of one or more varieties).We arrange the discounts in such a way that several groups bloom at the same time, although in different parts of the garden. A map of the most important positions may prove helpful in this.Thanks to it, we will be able to see clearly which places should be made more visible and which ones should be masked (e.g.terrace).
The varieties of purple-flowering mossy sage are suitable for a summer rebate. Slopes and yarns with flowers in shades of yellow also look beautiful. The flowering of these perennials culminates in June and July.When their flowers lose their vitality in late summer, the role of foreground plants is taken over by, among others asters, sedum and goldenrod.Decorative flowering shrubs, such as Riffle, lilac, jasmine, and are very useful in building living walls between flowerbeds, while being a valuable element of the flower puzzle. The tranquil background for colorful bedding plants is evergreen boxwood, laurel and yew.
The location of plantings should be subject to the rhythm of changes taking place in the garden, planting spring perennials in one place, summer perennials in the other, and autumn perennials in the other.Let's also consider which part of the garden will be more attractive in spring, and which in summer and autumn. It is important because the flower bed looks different against the background of the succulent green turf of the lawn (in spring), and quite different in the surroundings of golden-colored trees and shrubs (in autumn).
In spring, perennials can be grown right outside the windows. In such plantings they look attractive, among others low-growing bergenie and large-leaved brunner.In summer, when we spend most of our time in the garden, planting should be arranged in the immediate vicinity of the terrace.Violet blooming lavenders, catnip and pink mallow are perfectly adapted to these conditions.
High-growing perennials of late summer and fall, such as bivalves, rudbeckia and asters, look good in the background, deep in the garden.A shaded resting place, which we use mainly during hot summer days, is also suitable for planting blooming perennials. such as 'Ouvertüre'.If we arrange the substrate with a carpet of lungwort, we will save ourselves the time-consuming weeding of weeds. It is worth adding that blue lungwort flowers appear in spring.
Discounts can also be attractive in winter, even when nothing is blooming in the garden.However, there is one condition: we must not cut dried-up inflorescences, inflorescences or seeds.Late-flowering perennials, such as sedum, and ornamental grasses are best suited for droughts.
It is best to start arranging a year-round garden right now, in the fall, because it is the best time to plant winter-hardy perennials (only a few specimens need to be planted in spring). These are i.a. autumn anemones, tritome, in colder parts of the country also catnip and most ornamental grass species.Before we decide to set up perennial beds in our garden, let's think about whether we have time to care for these plants.
A perennial garden looks beautiful only under systematic care.It consists in regular cutting of fading shoots, trimming overgrown clumps, weeding, watering, as well as proper fertilization.
