Floral arrangements that delight the eye with gorgeous blooms throughout the season are a dream that is easy to realize in your own area by correctly selecting plants. A flowerbed of continuous flowering is an excellent option for creating a floral masterpiece that does not freeze for one moment, from the contemplation of which you get aesthetic pleasure at any time of the year. The secret to creating such a flower bed is quite simple: to achieve endless beauty, it is enough to select plants with different flowering periods and supplement the composition with plentifully blooming annuals, as well as specimens with decorative foliage.
Highlights when creating an all-weather flower garden
In order to create a flower bed of continuous and abundant flowering, it is necessary to take into account not only the timing of flowering of ornamental plants, but also the requirements for growing each of the crops. So planting perennials, it is important to maintain the distance between them in order to provide them with optimal conditions for growth and intense flowering.
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It is worth approaching the choice of pets for a flower garden with special care, taking into account such moments as: the plant's exactingness for illumination, its drought tolerance, soil features preferred by the chosen specimen and recommendations for caring for it.
Creating a flower bed of perennials, to achieve a stunning pictorial effect, you can use only 7-8 varieties of plants with different periods of flower opening. Further proceed from the fact that the flowering period of each plant is no more than 3-4 weeks. This means that for each plant that is at the peak of its flowering, there will be a couple of species that are already fading or are still only blooming plant specimens. You can make the picture more complete by supplementing it again with flowering and decorative leafy varieties.
In order to make it easier to determine the choice of plants, their number and color combinations, you can pre-draw a couple of options for schemes of beds of continuous flowering. Having outlined the shape of the flower garden with a contour, you can begin to arrange the accents of the composition.
If the flower bed is equipped in an open area, the center of the composition is filled with tall plants, and lower flowers are placed closer to the edges of the flower garden. When arranging a flower garden along the wall, tall flowers, occupying the rear of the composition, act as a background for a low mixborder of low-growing and ground cover plants.
One example of a flowerbed of continuous flowering is thought out so that the flower garden remains attractive from early spring to late autumn:
The most popular plants for flower arrangements
Spring tenderness
The flowerbed gradually comes to life and in place of primroses, the flower garden is painted with colorful paints, miniature primroses, daisies, fluffy delicate purple pompoms of dream grass and surprisingly beautiful pansies.
In the second half of May, a delicate aroma of hyacinth inflorescences exudes. At the same time, an incredibly beautiful bush imperial grouse or imperial crown blooms.
During this period, when the plants on the flower bed have already awakened, empty areas between perennials can be filled with seedlings or sowing annual seeds so that they will please with their flowering in the second half of summer.
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Summer beauty
From the first days of June, a real "flower carousel" unfolds. At the same time blooming: delphiniums, roses, zinnias, lyatris, hydrangea, alissum, esholtzia, calendula ... After them, the baton is picked up by cornflowers, lilies, daylilies, nyvyanik, erigeron, astilba.
Among the popular perennials blooming all summer long, one can also single out: lilies and daylilies, monard double, rudbeckia, cassock, echinacea purpurea.
Autumn riot of color
When the summer heat subsides, dahlias, phloxes, cannes, chrysanthemums, lobelia, and colchicum take the baton of flowering. Opening such different and surprisingly beautiful flowers towards the sun's rays, every autumn flowering plant pleases the eye and at the same time gives rise to some sadness in the heart - you will soon have to say goodbye to this beauty until the first rays of spring.
When creating compositions, you can use the feature of some plants to please re-bloom. For example, re-dyeing the flower garden with colorful paints will help: ageratum, begonia, repair roses and carnations.
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In this diversity of the flower world there are plants that are able to delight others with gorgeous flowering throughout the season. Inflorescences of decorative onions, blooming at the end of May, “freeze” with outlandish balls, giving the flower garden originality and multi-tiered. Golden balls of craspedia do not lose their attractiveness until the very frost. From early spring to late autumn, the decoration of the flower garden is a decorative yarrow.