Flowers in the country from spring to autumn

One flower or a sea of flowers - the choice is yours

Hans Christian Andersen, who told the world about Thumbelina and the true heart of a tin soldier, said that life requires very little - sun, freedom and a small flower. All is true, but those who are not satisfied with only one, and moreover a small, flower, are unlikely to agree with him. After all, you want to see flowers all year round: in the winter - on the windowsills and in the greenhouses, and in the rest of the year - flowers in the garden and at the cottage, flowers on the balcony. And that the flowers were the sea, in which the sight would bathe, but the soul would rest and enjoy. What planting flowers in the country, so that their flowering began as early as possible and lasted as long as possible? And choose the best of the unpretentious, requiring a minimum of care, because they come to the dacha after workdays for rest, and not for fatigue from physical labor.

Flowering from spring to autumn

Flowers at the cottage for spring beds are best to pick up perennial melkolukovichnye, the flowering which occurs undulating. Where spring comes in April, the first yellow-white-pink-lilac joy with a fragrant smell is shared with us by crocuses, hyacinths, including mouse hyacinth for carpeting, more often called muscari. They are replaced by handsome daffodils and luxurious tulips, then - irises. After a while, in June, the favorites of the gods of Greece and the emperors of China - peonies. Their marvelous bloom is the real decoration of the country plot. They attract not only the magnificence of the forms and the bizarre coloring, but their stable decorative (30 years), long-flowered (month-and-a-half) and adaptability to climate change. The only requirement of this flower miracle is plentiful watering, up to 3-4 buckets under a bush with the subsequent loosening, but it is not necessary to water often, at the beginning of summer and in July, when buds of renewal are formed. The best place for them will be a sunny place or lacy penumbra. Pioneers are replaced by daylilies and lilies, competing with each other for the beauty of flowering. In the end, fireflies are blossoming with perennial phloxes, flowers of which are saturated with pure deep paints. This kind of continuous flowering from year to year is admired by perennial flowers at the dacha, and, interestingly, it does not bother flower lovers.

Makovovo-cornflower-camomile lawn

A colorful picture of the summer will be the flowers in the country house in the form of a lawn - sown with low-growing field grasses and unpretentious flowers from poppies, daisies and cornflowers. Care of the lawn is reduced to a minimum, it is undemanding to fertility and illumination. The main thing in creation is the selection of herbs and thorough digging of the site to defeat the weeds. It is best to buy seeds for an annual lawn from a domestic manufacturer. The peculiarity of the Mauritanian lawn (as it is called by the flower growers) is that it is better to sow grass-flower mixture in autumn, covering the area with acrylic. But you can sow in May. The first haircut is done when the grass grows to 10 cm, but before the appearance of flowers. In the future, watering and weeding unnecessary weeds. After withering the flowers, a second pruning is needed. In the autumn, the lawn is sown by crumbling seeds. One version of the flower-herb mixture for such a lawn from perennials: poppy oriental, gaylard, bathing-bird, nivian, goldenrod, red fescue, meadow grassland, veronica, catchment, viscaria, flax for many years, thin forage.

Stars on the beds

Cooking for the autumn decoration of flowers in the country needs from the spring. Without a multicolored placer aster is difficult to imagine an autumn dacha. But such an astrophysophyte needs to grow seedlings from seeds. Although there are perennial asters, called septabers, they look out from the first snow with small, living stars.

Joy of creation

Flowers at the dacha, design in the form of man-made alpine hills and stone streamlets will give uniqueness to a small corner of nature, which is under your protection. It is cozy to rest here, forces are restored more quickly. And it's so nice to admit to the guests that all this beauty is the work of your hands.