Unpretentious annual flowers for a garden bed, blooming all summer
No lawn can match the annual flower beds that fill the garden with harmony and vibrant colors throughout the summer. The unpretentiousness and ease of care of these long-flowering plants, as well as their exceptional benefits for human health and all plants in general in the summer cottage, win over almost all gardeners and summer residents. Annuals, which bloom throughout the warm season, can be admired by placing them in flower beds, along country paths, beds, as well as in hanging flowerpots and flowerpots.
By the way! The site also has an article about perennial flowers blooming all summer.
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Annual plants for a beautiful garden in the country: summer flowers
If for some reason you still have not decided on the place where you will have a permanent flower bed at your summer cottage, or, for example, have not yet been able to decide which flowers you want to plant, you can always make a temporary flower bed from annuals. Optimally create a flowerbed of continuous flowering from annual flowers blooming all summer, spreading them according to flowering time, so that your annuals bloom and smell during the entire warm period.
At the same time, do not forget that, in addition to aesthetic goals, a flower bed with long-flowering annuals also has a clean practical sense, since the unusually pleasant smell of flowers very often attracts insects - pollinators to the garden to the flower bed, as well as to the nearby plants. In addition, there are a number of colors, for example, the well-known marigolds, which, on the contrary, scare away harmful insects with their harsh aroma, such as the Colorado potato beetle, and protect against root nematodes. Oh health benefits human, using medicinal tea from medicinal plants, such as cornflower, calendula, etc., you need not say.
Below you will find a list of the names of annual flowers that bloom in summer, which can be grown both through seedlings and without seedlings.
Video: a flower bed of continuous flowering of summer annuals
Annuals that bloom all summer: the names of flowers and their photos
Advice! Carefully read the instructions on the back of the package for planting seeds of annual flowers, perhaps some of them can be grown without seedlings.
One of the most beautiful and popular undersized annuals.
Ageratum
Godetia
Annual mallow
Datura
Enotera
Brachycoma
Morning glory
Video: annuals that bloom all summer
Annual flowers grown without seedlings: their names and photos
Some annuals can be planted directly as seeds in open ground without first growing them through seedlings. This is especially true for novice gardeners, because no need to bother with seedlings, as well as for the southern regions, where weather conditions make it possible to sow plant seeds much earlier, for example, in central Russia and especially in Siberia and the Urals.
Typically, most of these annual flowers should be planted on open and sunny places in your garden, as a maximum, in light partial shade.
The optimal timing for planting flowering annuals with seeds directly into open ground on a flower bed is end of April-May depending on the climate of the region and the current weather conditions.
By the way! Some of these flowers can also be grown through seedlings (if you want an earlier flowering), so we recommend that you carefully read the instructions on the package of specific seeds.
Calendula (marigold)
Cornflowers
Sweet pea
Iberis (Iberian)
Cosmea (Mexican aster)
Lavatera
Nigella
Linen
Eschsholzia (Californian poppy)
Ornamental beans
Borago (cucumber herb)
Video: annual flowers and plants grown without seedlings
Thus, unpretentious annual flowers blooming all summer long will help to give a unique zest to the flower bed in your country house. You can spend a lot of time and energy on growing seedlings if you are eager to see a spectacular flower garden faster, or you can just plant seeds right away in open ground. In both cases, it is necessary to strictly adhere to the instructions for planting seeds of annual flowers, which is always on the back of the package, as well as our sensible advice and recommendations for proper planting, cultivation and care.
Advice! There is also an overview material on the site that lists perennials blooming all summer.
Video: a flower bed of annuals blooming all summer