Spring instant garden of frost-resistant annuals

At the end of April and May, as soon as the sun begins to warm, we hurry to your beautiful spring garden. During the long monotonous winter, the eyes missed the bright colors, and the hands-on planting, and we so impatient to fill the site with color and flowers.

Cold-resistant annuals for the garden

How fortunate that on trading floors and in garden centers there is such an abundance of flower seedlings for every taste, here you can find everything - and already in bloom. And one of us sows seedlings of flowers on his own at home, and she is already growing, after picking it there is nowhere to put it, which means that it is time to plant it too.

However, not any. What can be planted in the garden right now? Let's not forget that in the middle zone the term of possible recurrent frosts is up to 10 June. To avoid disappointment and financial losses, the most cold-resistant of annuals can be moved to the garden.

But flowering seedlings, to immediately transform the garden. Another way to save on seedlings is to plant not flower beds in the ground (here you will need too many plants to create the proper decorative effect), but in containers.

Viola

Viola, or violet, is a biennial, most often two types are used in flower beds. The first is Viola Wittroka, better known in our country under the name of pansies, it is she who is often used in urban landscaping. This viola blooms from late April - early May until hot dry weather occurs in June-July and from August to severe frosts. Flowers with a diameter of 5-10 cm, the color of the flower can be almost the entire spectrum - multi-ton, contrast, rainbow, bright, pastel, almost black ...

The second type is a horned viola with small flowers with a diameter of about 3,5 cm. It is less commonly used yet, although it remains compact in hot weather and in the sun. But since many interesting colors have now appeared on sale, the culture is clearly on a sharp rise. It is already sold blooming in ready-made compositions in flowerpots, and they scatter like hot cakes, despite the price.

Both types are frost-hardy, well winter, light-loving and at the same time can grow in the shade. When the soil dries up and especially low humidity, the flowers become smaller and the plants even cease to bloom. But in the rainy summer, flowering can continue until the fall. Prefer friable, drained, nutritious, moist soils.

Where.

Use violets for any type of flower beds, and can also be used in vases, containers and hanging baskets. There are ampel varieties specifically for containers.

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Own seedlings.

If you want to grow seedlings you can sow the seeds yourself in February or July. In summer, you can sow all the violas, so that after the winter they bloom from early spring already in the ground. Sown in the spring in the house seedlings can be planted in the garden in late April.

Antirrinum, or the lion's pharynx

Antirrinum, by its nature, is a short-lived perennial that is grown as an annual. In floriculture, a large antirrinum is used. Snapdragons can be tall (cut), medium and compact (undersized), and more recently, ampelous. The colors are always very clean in yellow-orange-red tones ranging from light and white silks to very dark velvet. Snapdragon is photophilous, but can grow in a small shade, prefers cool weather. It tolerates frosts well. In dry and hot times it needs watering. It grows well when fertilizing. You also need to remember that flowering will be more even if the ovaries are regularly removed.

Where.

Snapdragon is planted in flower beds of any type: on flowerbeds, in curbs, and discounts. It also looks interesting in containers and pots, ampelous forms - in a cache-pot. It can be used for cutting, for this it is grown in industrial greenhouses, by the way year-round.

Own seedlings.

Blooms in May-June, somewhere in 2-3 months after sowing, and flowering lasts until frost. If you want to plant in the garden already flowering plants and early, you need to choose low-growing varieties. In any case, the seedlings are ready for transplanting into the ground already in mid-May.

You can sow seeds for seedlings in February - early March. Germination can be accelerated if kept in the refrigerator for about a week.

Alyssum, or Lobularia

Alyssum is an annual plant. In our gardens, a species of marine lobularia with a marvelous and very strong honey aroma has long been settled.

Blooms allies from April to strong frosts. Flowers are not large, white, pink and lilac.

Alyssum is photophilous, but also grows well in the penumbra, very cold and drought-resistant, in hot weather it can stop flowering, which is easy to restore if the crop is cut off and fed. It grows well on mild, moderately moist, non-acidic soil.

Where.

Lobularia can be used to create curbs, plants, well picks up other plants, fills free space in the flower garden.

Own seedlings.

At home, seedlings are sown in early April, then in the ground can be planted in mid-May. Or in the middle of May, plant directly into the flower bed.

Leo, or matthiol

Levkoy, or matthiola gray-haired, is a short-lived perennial shrub that is grown with us as a summer. Its flowers are simple or double, 3-5 cm in size, white, yellow, pink, red, purple, blue, lilac, lilac and purple. And what else has Levka been famous for for not the first hundred years - this is its bright special aroma.

Leo blooms until the fall. He is very cold and hygrophilous, so you can safely plant the finished seedlings already in May.

Plants grow well in sunny places and in the shade. Feel better on fertile and light soils.

Where.

Use of Mattiol is possible on all kinds of flowerbeds, as well as on cutting.

Own seedlings.

You can sow seedlings from the end of February to April. Levkoy, like the alissum, can be sown immediately into the soil, but then the flowering will be delayed until the end of the summer. Seeds are sown at a distance of 15-20 cm from each other. On top, they are sprinkled with a thin layer of soil, covered with a nettle. Shoots appear somewhere on the 5-7 day.

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In the ground with seeds

Not only levee and alissum can be sown directly into the ground. There are other summer books with which it is permissible to do this way.

It is much more budgetary, since seeds are usually cheaper than purchased plants, and this method does not require long-term cultivation on the windowsill (you do not have to spend money on soil, pots and backlighting). But the inevitable minus is that plants sown in open ground bloom much later.

Among the flowers that can be sown directly into the soil in May: dimorphoteka, iberis, calendula, koreopsis, limnantes, sweet peas, nasturtium, nemofila, smolevka and eshsholcia. All these flowers are very unpretentious and grow quickly, so you will quickly be pleased with your flowering, and very soon the garden will become bright with bright colors.

For sowing, warm days are chosen, the soil is carefully loosened, and after sowing it is impossible to allow drying and crust formation on the surface.

On a note:

To prevent disease black foot and for the prevention of root rot, during sowing and picking, it is possible to put into the containers biofungicide-based trichoderma tablets (strain Trichoderma harzianum). On a pot with a diameter of 15-17 cm, 3 tablets are required (based on 1 tablet per 300 ml of soil). It should be positioned in 1-5 cm from the surface, just where the roots of young plants will develop. The drug starts to work for 3-5 days, and its protective effect is saved up to 1,5 months. With the help of this biological product, the normal microflora of the soil is restored, it is absolutely harmless to humans and does not stay in the plant.

Often there are difficulties with sowing small seeds, such as tobacco, petunia, lobelia, primrose. They should be sown over the surface without sprinkling soil on top. But for swelling they must be saturated with moisture. Simply pour the snow over the sowing and slightly tighten, so that a layer of thickness approximately 1 cm is obtained.

Large seeds such as dahlias, nasturtium, sunflower, zinnia, before planting, it is best to wrap in a damp cloth (there should not be too much water, so that the seeds do not rot) and hold it on the battery until germination. Seeds will be pushed through 2-3 days.

If the seed box with the seedlings is dry and the soil has moved away from the walls of the container, do not immediately water it from above. It is better to first put it in a tray and shed the edge, the moisture thus evenly passes into the center, and young seedlings will not fall.

When should we feed the seedlings? Not before a couple of real leaves appear (next to the cotyledons). And make the first feeding is no more than a third of the full dose of fertilizers (the total dose of 20 g per 10 L of water). Take special fertilizers for seedlings. Do a top dressing better on the sheet and preferably on a sunny day, in order to assimilate nitrogen.

If the fertilizing is not carried out on time, and the soil contains insufficient nutrients, the growth slows down, the leaves begin to turn yellow or large yellowish-green spots appear on them. This is a sure signal to take on a sprayer with a fertilizer solution.

© Author: A. Petrunya

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THE MOST COOL-RESISTANT MOBILE

The life of annual flowers in conditions of central Russia is unfortunately short. Seedlings of many of them can be planted in the ground only in early June, when the threat of frost has passed. And in September, after the first, even the weakest cold snaps, summer flower beds lose their decorative effect. And even if the warm weather returns, the plants are no longer able to restore their elegant appearance. But still some annuals can tolerate lowering the temperature to at least minus 5-7 ° without noticeable damage to their beauty.

Bitter Gelenium (Helenium amara) is a tall bush of spherical shape. Its variety Party Gold is an annual and abundantly blooming from May to October, distinguished by its compact size (height 30-35 cm) and not requiring a garter. The plant is branched, with numerous erect shoots covered with elegant foliage. Inflorescences of sunny yellow color up to 3-4 cm in diameter are abundantly located on the tips of the branches. Drought-resistant, unpretentious. easy to grow. Hardy to the first frost and retains decorativeness until the end of flowering. He is beautiful at group plantings in borders or single - in flowerpots, a cache-pot, pots. Photophilous, but tolerates partial shade. Prefers moderately fertile soil.

Oclonica Eklona (Osteospermum ecklonis) is an evergreen bushy plant about 100 cm high. As a rule, bushes have upright shoots, but there are species with creeping stems. The edge of the sheet plates is uneven. Flowers - inflorescence baskets, the diameter of which is 4-10 cm.

The height of the Pastograsseriya series does not exceed 30-35, see. Inflorescences are dense, with a metallic sheen. The color is white, pale pink, hot pink, purple. The dark blue middle effectively shades the main color of the flower. Blossoming plentiful and long. Bushes are strongly branched, retain a compact fluffy shape during the entire period of growth. Plants are good in beds and when planted in containers, resistant to cutting, tolerate light frosts, ending their bloom only in early November.

Lakfiol, or cheiranthus, is a herbaceous plant with thin pubescent stems 30-100 cm high. Depending on the variety, shoots can be either straight or strongly branched. The leaves are narrow, thin and long, grayish-green in color, resemble the leaves of lily of the valley. The flowers are small (2-2,5 cm in diameter), with four petals, can be simple or double.

Bright flowers of the variety Noyabrsky Salute - red, cream and yellow color. Blooms profusely until late autumn, requires moderate infrequent watering, tolerates short-term drought. During flowering exudes a pleasant aroma, which is compared with the smell of lilac. For better branching, it is recommended to pinch the top of the plant. When working with lacfiol seeds, it is important to be careful, as they contain toxic glycoside.

Canadian Verbena (Verbena canadensis) is a low-rise plant whose shoots barely reach the height of 20 cm. On the four-sided stem are openwork leaves arranged in pairs. The buds are collected in bunches, the color of the petals is pinkish, purple or white.

In the Toronto variety, the flowers are light crimson, gathered in openwork inflorescences with a diameter of 4-5, see. The plant is very branchy, it grows quickly, turning into a thick carpet, retains its decor-

tivnost before snow. Fertile loams are ideally suited as soil. However, this requirement is not fundamental. The main thing is good water permeability of the soil and loose structure.

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea) has been bred from wild cabbage species and is a real record for frost resistance: it withstands a drop in temperature to minus 15 ° and heavy snowfall. Depending on the variety, the plant height can reach 30-90, see. Varieties also differ in the type of leaves, which can be flat, curly or have a terry edge.

Variety Kale Krasnaya is an annual plant 80 cm high with elongated lace leaves of violet color. Head of cabbage is absent in this variety. Perfect for decorating flower beds, but can be grown in containers. Requires fertile, well-drained for you. The decorativeness of the plant is fully manifested at the very end of autumn.

Daisy (Beilis) is a short, popular and very beautiful flowering herb.

The leaves are oblong-ovate, collected in the rosette. Peduncles numerous, leafless, 15-30 cm tall, grow in the second year.

The advantage of daisies variety Sprint-flowering in the year of planting. This annual grows up to 15 cm high and has a classic look - graceful terry inflorescences framed by a neat rosette of leaves.

Inflorescences of medium size, about 3 cm in diameter, light, airy, on durable non-fleeting peduncles. The color of the flowers may be red, pink or white.

Daisy is light-requiring and not demanding on the composition of the soil. Landing is not suitable only places in the lowlands, where there is stagnation of water.

Iberis bitter (Iberis amara) is an annual of about 30 cm high. On the surface of shoots branching from the root neck there is pubescence. The shape of the leaf plates is reverse lanceolate, with a serrated edge. The color of flowers reaching a diameter of 1,5-2 cm can be white or lilac. The flowers are collected in racemose inflorescences of a columnar shape. It is usually used for bordering lawns, flower beds, decorating alpine slides. Flowers are suitable for cutting. The plant tolerates light frosts well.

Variety Iceberg grows to 40, see. Spreading bush during the flowering period resembles an airy white cloud. The raisin of the variety is the resistant delicate aroma of flowers, the inflorescences of which look very similar to large hyacinths.

Godetia grandi-flora forms a compact, branched shrub. Stems are smooth, erect or recumbent, 20-30 long, see. Foliage is single-edged, broadly lanceolate or lanceolate, leaves taper towards the base. Flowers in

diameter up to 10 cm, there are bell-shaped or cup-shaped, double or simple, varied in color, can be white, pink, crimson, lilac, scarlet, red, burgundy. Abundant bloom continues until October.

Meteor is a cold-resistant variety, it is a short, compact bush up to 30 cm high. Large flowers are about 7 cm in diameter, wide-bell-shaped, with wavy edges, rich burgundy. Perfect for the front edge of borders, rabatok, flower beds.

Alyssum sea (Alyssum maritimum) in the climatic conditions of central Russia is usually grown as an annual. Plant height can vary from 8 cm to 40 cm. A large number of branches spread along the surface forms a thick bush. Fleshy small leafy plates of oval shape and silvery coloring have slight pubescence on the surface. Crusiform inflorescences consist of small flowers with a honey aroma. Depending on the variety, the flowers may be colored purple, pink or red. Flowering continues until late autumn.

Taini Tim is a dwarf variety, reaching a height of 8 cm. The flowering is lush, due to the abundance of white flowers it is almost impossible to discern either shoots or foliage. Often used as a groundcover.

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