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Many summer residents are thinking about how to ennoble the site with plants. Especially if the dacha is a village courtyard with useful, but unpresentable buildings. Curly annual flowers will come to the rescue, which will successfully decorate any shed, palisade or chain-link mesh. The advantage should be given to climbing one-year-olds due to the fact that next year it is possible to change other plants or demolish buildings. Unpretentious curly annuals are loved by connoisseurs of fleeting beauty. They are grown not only in rural areas, but also on city balconies.
Benefits of vertical gardening
Recreation areas of climbing plants in suburban areas are becoming more and more popular, occupying a niche of the once indispensable vegetable beds. Decorate such corners with curly flowers for the garden.
Annual plants have a number of advantages:
- Annual creepers are easily propagated by sowing in the ground or through self-grown seedlings;
- Economical – seeds of climbing annual flowers are much cheaper than perennial seedlings;
- Fast-growing – climbing annuals that sprouted from seeds in the spring, in a few weeks of summer will be able to braid an unsightly outbuilding or fence. Curly flowers will serve as an original screen on the balcony of a high-rise building;
- Creepers are a convenient material for landscape design: in a short time they create interesting compositions by placing annual curly flowers near trellises, arches, pergolas, walls, fences;
- The uniqueness of compositional solutions: plantings vary every year, creating new multi-colored living pictures from other climbing annuals;
- They give aesthetic pleasure: all annual creepers create harmonious green verticals with a lush carpet of leaves, and then the performance is complemented by a floral riot of colors.
For some gardeners, the short life span of climbing annuals may seem like a disadvantage, as well as working with them: seedlings, weeding, watering. But the man-made beauty of climbing plants rewards.
Why supports are needed
Curly annuals for the garden are chosen by creating cozy shady corners in open areas, comfortable gazebos. You need to know that not all annual vines can climb vertically on their own. Some climbing plants will need support. A green flowering carpet will lay where it is directed. A curtain of annual climbing plants will close the unpretentious support pretty soon.
Curly flowers climb up in two ways.
- Some, like various types of ornamental beans and sweet peas, cling to supports with the help of antennae;
- Ipomoea, bindweeds wrap their stem around a support.
Soft nets, wires are suitable for the first climbing plants. Accordingly, for other annual lianas, it is necessary to arrange thin, rigid racks, to which the stems of climbing plants must be tied up.
Create supports
Supports serve as a kind of launching pad for climbing flowers. Annuals immediately begin to grow intensively and climb up if they find support.
- When establishing a support, it must be borne in mind that some climbing plants can rise up to 3 m in height or even more under favorable conditions for growth;
- Nails are hammered on wooden buildings and a mesh with large cells, ordinary fishing line or strong threads are pulled;
- For climbing flowers planted in an open space, it is necessary to build a lattice, put a metal mesh on strong posts, pull a wire or twine to a fixed crossbar;
- Craftsmen make pyramidal structures from willow;
- They build arches, pergolas, arrange metal trellises.
Varieties of blooming climbers
For guaranteed flowering, and also because of the ease of care, unpretentious, acclimatized climbing annuals should be preferred. Their flowering lashes are graceful and picturesque.
Ipomoea
This is the most common climbing annual plant. Ipomoea forms light screens of graceful, heart-shaped leaves, rich dark green. Spectacular gramophone flowers 5-8 cm in diameter open early in the morning. On a hot sunny day, morning glory fades up to 12-13 hours. In cloudy weather, the flowers last until the evening.
The most common color of bindweed is shades of purple and pink. These climbing annuals are self-seeding.
Ipomoea species with blue and saturated raspberry color of large flowers in our conditions hardly produce matured seeds. They must be purchased every year.
Ipomoea is sown in cups and then planted in a permanent place. Common bindweed varieties with purple and light pink flowers are sown directly into the soil when the ground warms up. Both types of climbing annuals should be planted in sunny areas, they do not bloom well in the shade. Not suitable for delicate climbing flowers and a place blown by the winds. In hot, dry weather, these climbing annuals require watering.
Morning glory kvamoklit
Ipomoea quamoclit is native to Mexico. The climbing plant is remotely similar to flowers, the leaves of this annual are graceful, pinnate. The flowers are small, up to 1-2 cm in diameter, red, pink and white.
The seeds of the annual Ipomoea quamoclit are sown in separate containers in March, in such a way as to plant a seedling in May. Plant carefully, protecting delicate roots, in a sunny place.
There is Ipomoea quamoclitus lobed with drop flowers in spike-shaped inflorescences. This climbing annual plant is cultivated by a limited number of flower growers.
Sweet pea
Delicate low annual plant with fragrant clusters of flowers of different colors: white, red, chocolate, all shades of pink and purple, up to purple. Sweet pea flowering is long – 4 months. The climbing plant begins to bloom from the end of May. Flowers appear until September when frosts arrive.
The annual sweet pea is not afraid of frost, the seeds are sown directly into the soil, but the place is selected sunny, without strong winds. Flowers 3 to 8 cm in diameter. If wilted flowers are removed, flowering will be more abundant. Seeds ripen, you can grow your favorite climbing plant every year. The soil for flowers should be nutritious and moist.
Beans fire red
Looking through photos of climbing annual flowers for the garden, one cannot help but pay attention to the spectacular vines of fiery red beans or Turkish beans. These are different names for one climbing plant with bright scarlet inflorescences and large trilobate leaves. Liana can grow more than 3 m. If the seeds are sown early, red beans bloom from June, flowering continues until autumn.
They are soaked and boiled like ordinary garden beans. You can not eat young pods of Turkish beans, their fibers are too hard.
The seeds of the climbing plant are sown in May. They must be soaked for a day in a growth stimulator. Holes are made at a distance of 50 cm. An annual climbing plant loves moist, fertile soil, a sunny area.
Dolikhos
This creeper has another name – hyacinth beans. There is another option: curly lilac. The climbing plant captures with its color and unique grace of elegant purple-white inflorescences from July to September. The resulting dark purple beans will also serve as a kind of decoration.
Large seeds are planted in the spring at a distance of 50 cm, soaked for a day before planting. Curly annual prefers sunny and wind-protected places, fertile soil. It grows up to 1,5-3 m. The leaves of the liana are large, colorful, form a luxurious carpet on vertical surfaces. A plant with a pleasant aroma blooms profusely. The seeds are getting ripe. These are dark brown or black beans with a white rib. In the homeland of annual plants, in North Africa, they are eaten.
Kobeia
The beautifully flowering kobeya liana is grown by seedlings, which must be looked after since February. Curly annual blooms from the end of July, demanding on the soil, likes regular watering. Bell flowers are green at first, then turn purple, emit a delicate honey scent. Liana grows up to 3 m in a warm place. The plant does not like the shade. The climbing annual is fixed with the help of tendrils extending from the leaves.
Nasturtium foreign
This climbing plant is related to the familiar nasturtiums with rounded leaves. But foreign nasturtium is a liana, in which the leaves are five-lobed, and the flowers are fringed, of the original structure. An annual grows up to 3 m, grown by seedlings. Seeds are soaked for a day in a growth stimulator, planted in separate pots. Seedlings may be rare. The climbing plant blooms profusely on the sunny side, drapes the walls well. Seeds are collected in autumn for propagation.
Unusual plants for decoration
Practical housewives for green screens often use beautiful and healthy curly annuals: asparagus beans, cucumbers, zucchini, rough melotria. Modern varieties of asparagus beans successfully play the role of decorations, thanks to their multi-colored elongated pods. The fruits of annuals are green, yellow, crimson, purple and violet.
Fans also grow quite rare and capricious climbing flowering annual plants: dark red rhodochiton, rough vine, azarina, tunbergia and others.
Creepers with spectacular flowering are a brilliant sign of a garden where plants are loved and carefully looked after.
