Perennial flowers, blooming all summer - this is a real dream of every gardener and summer resident. Creating such a beautiful flower bed is not easy, but if you choose the perennial plants correctly, everything can turn out.
Benefits of growing perennial flowers in your flowerbed
Perennial garden flowers are represented by a large number of species and intraspecific varieties. Their cultivation gives the gardener a lot advantages:
Growing perennial flowers is much easier, because the bush can remain in one place for 2-3 years. However, often these flowers do not even have to dig for the winter. The bush itself makes it possible to get more and more new seedlings, which allows significant savings on the annual purchase of varietal seeds.- Perennial flowers are characterized by good frost resistance, as many of them can even winter on the street. For lovers of constantly blooming flower beds, this suggests that such plants will delight you with their beauty until late autumn.
- The perennial flowering period is usually longer than that of annual sowing flowers. Moreover, even after completion of flowering, their bushes will continue to delight with a riot of green leaves or attractive fruits.
Growing perennial flowers is much easier, because the bush can remain in one place for 2-3 years. However, often these flowers do not even have to dig for the winter. The bush itself makes it possible to get more and more new seedlings, which allows significant savings on the annual purchase of varietal seeds.Important! If you notice painful lesions on flowering perennials, immediately remove all affected buds and leaves, otherwise pests and diseases can stop flowering and completely destroy the shrub. If the defeat is too extensive - use special preparations for spraying.
Perennial flowers require much less maintenance, they bloom earlier and quickly transform a flower bed. For this reason, it is very convenient to make the majority of such flowers in a mixed flowerbed. Do not forget that perennials are very convenient and just multiply, so that many gardeners earn good money on their beautiful flowerbed.
What are perennials
Unpretentious perennials, blooming all summer, cover different classes and types of flowers, which can differ in their height and type of flowering, and the method of their reproduction. Such a variety allows you to perfectly equip your flower bed with a beautiful combination of colors.
Height classification
By height, perennial flowers can be divided into 3 groups - high, medium and undersized.
Tall perennials are often used not only as one of the combinations in the flower garden, but also as an independent decoration of the garden, or even as a hedge. A wall of such flowers looks very impressive, especially if it is supplemented with lower plants. These flowers have a rather long growing season, so in the first half of summer you can only admire their lush green bushes, and in the second they start to enjoy intense flowering (although this happens very individually).
Among the tall perennial flowers with the most intensive growth and beautiful flowering are stem-roses, reaching 2.5 m in height; decorative sunflowers, which also delight with large golden-brown flowers. Such tall flowers as:
- Vasilistnik (his bushes with lush pink flowering, which occurs in July-August, can reach a height of 1.8 meters);
- Rudbeckia, blooming in the second half of the summer with golden balls;
- Veronika dlinnolistaya, which is distinguished not only high stems, but also elongated blue racemes of beautiful inflorescences;
- lavender, some varieties of which also reach a great height, as well as delight with a very intense aroma;
- Gelenium Hybrid, bringing a rich yellow color to the flowerbed due to its bright sunny colors.
Did you know? Perennials can bloom several times in a single season. To do this, after the completion of the first flowering bush must be removed under the root, as well as a good feed. Within two weeks, the plant will be almost ready for new flowering.
Small flower beds are best decorated with short perennials up to 30 cm in height. Among such flowers it is worthwhile to pay attention to the cuff of soft, large-flowered flax, sage, gispofile, silverweed, geranium and carnations.
Sort by reproduction
Depending on the type and variety of perennial garden flowers can have different methods of reproduction, most of which allow you to get a new bush from the already growing. Thus, to reproduce perennials, do not even have to pay for them. The most common breeding methods:
- Seeds that can be collected only if you do not prune the bush immediately after flowering. This method of reproduction is suitable for both wild and varietal flowers.
- A large number of perennial flowers are also propagated by the cutting method, including this method can be applied to roses. To do this, a stalk is cut from a bush from 5 to 10 cm long and rooted in water or specially prepared soil. Cuttings is recommended to propagate sage, adriencia, catnip and iberian.
- By dividing the bush, which is needed by aster alpine, rudbeckia, gravel and peonies. However, many flowers without the annual division of the bush and planting at a distance can lose the intensity of flowering.
- Root grafting, which is possible only in the case of breeding of the Turkish poppy, Japanese anemone, mullein. To do this, even in winter, the bush must be dug with the help of a pitchfork and cut off large roots, which are then planted in pots and rooted. In the spring the plant will be ready for transplanting to a flower bed.
Important! The reproduction of such perennial flowers as aconite and bells with seeds is possible only if the planting material is exposed to cold for a long time. Otherwise they may not sprout.
List of the most popular perennial flowers: photos and names
Perennial flowers have perennial names that are very well known to everyone. When making your flower bed, it is recommended to pay attention to such flowers, as they are easy to wear, tolerate frosts well, are resistant to pests and give excellent flowering.
the Rose
This perennial flower is the most popular among gardeners. Now you can pick up for your beds a variety of varieties as woven pink flowers, and single plants. Often, roses are planted in the center of the flower bed, although often fans of the “queen of flowers” arrange separate rosaries. Distinguishes roses and the fact that they bloom almost all summer and half of autumn, until the first frost. 
Did you know? The most stable and early flowering perennial is the iris, which in the spring can be taken away the entire flower bed, it is later sown with annuals.
Carnation
This plant has an attractive flowering, which begins to delight from the beginning of summer. Among different varieties of carnations, you can pick up a very large number of shades, which will allow planting a flower bed only with carnations. But often they are planted for framing flower beds or garden paths. It is recommended to give their preference to undersized perennial carnations, which are well tolerated wintering. 
Lily
Lilies are a real decoration of the flowerbeds, because they are distinguished by very large and attractive buds, which can have a variety of shades. At the same time the flower is undemanding to care and is resistant to the most common pests. Depending on the variety, lilies can delight with their beauty from early summer until autumn. 
Did you know? Most of us perceive asters as annual flowers, although perennial varieties exist among them. In particular, it is the Alpine aster, Dumusus and ordinary aster.
Delphinium
Another beautiful perennial that blooms all summer is the delphinium, which in its bloom resembles colorful and elegant candles. Delphinium belongs to the group of tall perennials, which usually land in the center or behind the whole flowerbed. The most spectacular of these flowers look in combination with lilies or phloxes. Gardeners are particularly pleased with the variety of shades of these flowers. 
Hyacinth
These are the first flowers that are starting to decorate the flowerbed from the very early spring. They are stunted, so they land on the edge of the flower bed. For hyacinths, annual flowers are usually sown. Often they are bred together with tulips and daffodils, which are similar in bloom and make up beautiful early flower beds. 
Pansies
These are violets, the flower of which consists of petals having a tricolor color. Such undersized biennial flowers usually land on the edges of the flower beds. If you choose the right shades, pansies can plant the entire flower bed. 
Important! When choosing flowers for your flower bed, pay attention to how they adapt in your area. Indeed, even the same sort of peonies can bloom in a different period, depending on the time of arrival of the first real heat.
Pion
Lush bushes of peonies with very large and fragrant buds - this is another discoverers of the flowering season. Peonies are very easy to propagate and practically do not need to care for them. They can spend the winter without additional cover. Fans of peonies also plant late-flowering plants in their flower beds, which look particularly attractively planted in a row near the garden path. 
Phlox paniculata
Among the unpretentious perennials, blooming all summer, phloxes include paniculata, from which you can create real flowering carpets on a flowerbed. If we are talking about undersized bushy phloxes, then they are also quite unpretentious in their care, and they are also well preserved in winter. In flowerbeds, they are usually combined with carnations and asters. 
Rules for the location of perennials in the country
Beautiful perennials, blooming all summer, will look even more impressive in a flowerbed if they are correctly positioned, that is, the flowers are right in their height and color. In this matter it is necessary to follow several rules:
- Pick up for a bed of sunny, not blown by the winds place. After all, the flower bed should be located not only in a convenient place for you, but also comfortable for flowers.
- It is more practical to make one big flower bed than many small ones, since it is easier to pick flowers in it and find a good combination.
- Create a preliminary plan of planting flowers in relation to their color. It is very important that the color scheme is not too contrasting and does not include "all the colors of the rainbow." It is better to dwell on several shades or to make several multi-colored stripes separated by white flowers in a flower bed.
- The most important thing when choosing varieties of flowers for a bed is to take into account their height. For edging the flower beds, low-growing phloxes and astilbees are suitable, in the middle it is better to land medium-sized delphiniums and hyacinths, and in the center roses or anemones will look perfect. Excellent in the center of the flower beds look and perennial shrubs or dwarf trees.
- It is very important that the timing of flowering plants in a flower bed as much as possible coincided, and they all bloomed simultaneously. Then at least a few weeks a year, you can admire your posh flowerbed.
- When choosing a soil for each plant, you may have a serious confusion, so for a flower bed it is better to select black soil nutrient soil, which every spring will need to be carefully loosened and fertilized with mineral or organic means.
Thus, it is not difficult to pick flowers to the country, because in a huge variety of plants you will definitely find your favorite perennials blooming all summer long and you can easily combine them into an ideal in height and color range.
