Flowers – a real decoration of the garden, filling it with juicy bright colors create a unique effect of harmony and comfort. The variety of the flower world is simply amazing: varieties of showy annuals and perennials, dazzles the eye with its lush blooms, there are about 300 thousand. Choosing to design flower beds perennial flowers blooming all summer, I want to create such compositions, which can be enjoyed throughout the season. Let’s see what sort of colors are best suited for these purposes.
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Perennials are better than annuals «relatives»?
Despite the fact that annuals are known for unique bright colors throughout the season, many growers prefer still long blooming perennial garden flowers. The reason for this choice is the number of advantages of perennials, the main of which are:
- The possibility of growing in one place without a transplant in the next 2-3 years.
- Resistance to frost. Perennials can stand the winter and do not require much effort to care.
- The conservation of decorative features throughout the season.
Perennial flowers are ideal for garden: the growing years, most of them are picky flora can safely be the basis of most mixed flower beds.
Due to the variety of perennial flowers, which range present as herbaceous plants and flowering shrubs, you can create original compositions of a variety of shapes and colors
In addition, landscaping using perennials not only easier, but much cheaper in 2-3 years after planting the plants you can easily divide to create new compositions, exchange with neighbors or sell.
The most showy flower beds of perennials, grouped according to plant height and placed in tiers.
Tall flowering perennials
Tall perennials can act as mono-planting in the garden and natural backdrop or background when creating mixed borders.
Among the most interesting flowering tall perennials, with not only beautiful flowers and decorative foliage can allocate stock-rose.
Powerful 1.5 metre stems decorated with semi-double and double resembling peony flowers of various hues ranging from pale pink to dark Burgundy
Flowers tall handsome tricyrtis Purpul beauty is very similar to the Lily and even the Orchid. Preferring partial shade, the plant decorates the garden in a gorgeous bloom from early July until the first frosts
Unpretentious stevia spotty is extraordinarily beautiful: a bright Burgundy 1.5 meter stems of the plant since July bloom mauve brushes, hue, which gradually changes
Since vegetation processes in tall varieties of perennial garden flowers is rather lengthy, the peak of development and they reach flowering mainly in late summer.
No less spectacular addition of a flower garden can be decorated with gorgeous flowers-saucers with a diameter of 5-7 cm willow leaf sunflower
Thickets of ornamental sunflower height 2.5 m with Golden-brown flowers are visible far beyond the plot.
Unusually gentle look lilac-pink cloud of small flowers of Columbine
Bush, Columbine height of 1.8 meters hiding pinkish balls in July and August.
In the second half of the summer to transform the garden will help Golden balls rudbeckia, elongated brush blue flowers of Veronica linolitas, lilac bushes of fragrant lavender, rich yellow «suns» the gelenium hybrid.
Medium perennials-handsome
A win-win option in any garden will be perennial flowers for the garden with a height of 30 to 80 cm.
Thanks to the incredible beauty and ease of care of the daylily and its variants are very popular in ornamental horticulture
Brand picky floriferous yarrow, with about 30 species, the ability to enjoy lush blooms from early June to late autumn
The original appearance is Rhodiola rosea: a spectacular framed by its white and yellow flowers are fleshy oval leaves
To give a touch of elegance and romance to any flowerbed can, adding to her late-flowering varieties of peony.
Incredibly beautiful double flowers of different shades on the background of dark green leaves will give a flower arrangement delicacy and splendor
Average height among flowering plants, pleasing lush flowering throughout the summer, you can also select: Phlox paniculata, monardo dual, the astilba, cornflower.
Low-growing perennial flowers
On the background of the tall and middle-tall flowering plants look gorgeous, elegant flowers, reaching a height of about 30 cm.
Pansy — the perfect perennial, striking the original shape and incredible combination of colors: from snow white to dark and black
Solid «blanket» flowers of the most incredible shades are able to create dwarf forms of Phlox
Beautiful gentian, pleasing the eyes of an amazingly beautiful blue flowers from mid to late summer, striking in its elegance and splendor
In the group of low-growing perennials that bloom all summer also includes: spherical clumps of lady’s mantle soft, flax macranthon, sage Asherah, gypsophila paniculata, Dianthus deltoides, Potentilla, geranium.
