They delight us with their enchanting but short-lived beauty for just one season. And if in a spectacular mixborder, where every year reveal the buds of permanent residents, there were vacancies, hurry to fill them with annuals. From early spring flowers-soloists in mixborders will change each other.
In your flower garden everything is thought out and calculated — from the time of flowering of each plant to the combination of their colors? But even he is not immune from the intervention of his Majesty the case. In the spring, for example, you can not wait for the flowering of tulips, bulbs which attracted mice. And due to weather conditions, the flowering time of all members of the green team can move. Or plants from harm suddenly open buds at the same time, instead of flowering in turn, as prescribed by nature. And when the petals fall off, your favorite “front garden” will please only with juicy greens… but it does not matter! This problem is easy to solve by putting in the mixborder annuals.
Viola and Myosotis: the carpet of these annuals will easily cover all the empty places in the flower garden.
They will fill the voids, and some plants (Nigella or ornamental grasses — large Briza and barley) also give the plantings ease and more natural look.
Briza
Without these fleeting-just for one season! – creatures can not do if the flower garden is young and the plants are planted rarely in it, taking into account further growth.
Annual plants will fill the voids and give the landings ease and more natural, natural look.
Another plus: the annuals make an element of diversity and novelty, because it is not difficult to change them every year. Them, and and perennial young plants wise to let “walk” in the garden.
In Germany the prevailing belief says that the delicate flowers-bells of digitalis served as the hats of elves
How to include annuals in mixborders? The easiest way is to mechanically fill the empty seats with seedlings of Tagetes, Petunia or Lobelia.
Short-lived beauty
But if you have already worked hard to create a harmonious composition of perennials and have achieved success, many of the available in the form of a ready-made seedlings of annuals may seem clumsy, unsightly in a carefully selected ensemble of plants. Therefore, when choosing temporary tenants mixborders, decide which of the available flowering perennials would benefit from the accompaniment of annuals, and pick the last in the appropriate color scheme. Moreover, the colors can be both additional and contrasting: in the second case, it is important to observe a sense of proportion, so as not to turn the flower bed into a tiresome colorful patchwork carpet. And adding to the perennials and annuals in the same colors, you will not break the already established harmony, but will make the flower patches are richer in shades and undertones that will accentuate the blurred perennial flowers with bright accents of the same tone or mute sharp paint pastel nuances.
Myosotis
The retinue from” merry guys”, Calendula, Tagetes, Tropaeolum, verbena, Lobularia or viola will make you pay attention to the Central link of the composition — a beautiful flowering perennial — even at the stage of buds.
Tagetes and Amaránthus: harmony of color contrasts-bright yellow and Burgundy-purple. Very effective combination!
If the selection of matching plants seems difficult to you, we will help! Let’s talk about the perennial and annual inhabitants of the flower garden, which is easy to make friends and will delight in its beauty.
The inhabitants of the flower garden
The delightful Lobelia makes an excellent company for a variety of plants, but is especially good in the rose garden.
Left: Lobelia will look wonderful in the rose garden: for him, choose a plant of lilac-lilac colors. Right: Chionodoxa reveals tender petals in early spring, opening the season
And if earlier its range was limited to blue and white colors, now filling openwork floral lace Lobelia gaps between the bushes of roses, you can create for them elegant background and lilac-lilac.
Enough in a Sunny place for a few years to leave unattended Lysimachia point, and it will capture the whole clearing!
Lysimachia. After flowering, the stems are cut off, and before winter completely remove the above-ground part of the plant
If this “occupier” seeks to conquer all new lands, limit its invasion by “settling” Tagetes erect, Calendula, yellow Tropaeolum, Erysimum cheiri. Like magic garden “spices”, located in the Suite Lysimachia, they will reveal his talents in a new light and make the hero of the hit parade!
Impatiens-red, pink, purple and white — great color support, for example, Astilbe. Impatiens Waller place on the shadow side, as the sun he quickly fades, and the new Guinea hybrids, on the contrary, better bloom in good light.
Impatiens
Remember that all members of this family are big fans of water. Impatiens help out in those corners of the garden, where other annuals for flowering is not enough sun.