For many gardeners, the pinnacle of dreams is to have a garden with a varied appearance, where a lot is going on, something always appears or disappears naturally
and it's hard to get bored here.
There is a group of plants that are great for helping to achieve this vision.It consists of short-lived perennials that produce large amounts of seeds and are able to grow independently in new places.
Plant wanderers have their own development tactics. In the right places, they germinate and grow quickly before other plants can occupy them. Their seeds lie even for several years
in the ground and take the opportunity to start growing in spring when there are vacancies in the bedding.In the initial period, however, they will pay for their vigor with life expectancy and a weaker power of competitiveness.
Perennials that fill the gaps in the bedding are usually drowned out and displaced by their neighbors in the second or third year.However, until then, due to their long flowering, they fulfill their task perfectly.
When choosing wandering species, as in the case of other perennials, we take into account the site conditions. On a sunny bed with good, humus soil, they will feel good, for example, polymorph, lupine, peach-leaved bell and rose mallow.Places in the light shade correspond to the foxglove, the eagle-owl, the ladies' nightdress and the greater yoke.
A sunlit rock and a gravel bed with a dry, low-fertility substrate will be quickly inhabited by purple leaf, clary sage, permanent flax or red spur.Filling plants can be planted in a suitable place after rushing or sown directly into the ground.
The gaps to be filled even appear on a manicured discount.Some plants die, others do not develop strongly enough.Short-lived perennials easily spread in empty places not covered with mulch, which makes it difficult for seeds to contact the soil.
Valuable flower seeds
The wandering plants will give us a lot of joy if we devote more attention to them from the beginning.The open places in the flowerbed are also inhabited by weeds, such as gout, starlet, knotweed or grasshopper.
Therefore, perennial seedlings should be identified in time to protect them when weeding.Cutting the shoots after flowering extends the life of many short-lived perennials, but prevents them from reproducing on their own from seeds.
A compromise solution is to cut off some of the faded shoots.We leave the rest for the seeds to mature.Self-seeding plants can destroy a carefully planned bedding arrangement.To avoid this, we collect the seeds and sow them immediately or in spring in selected places.
