Flower garden of perennials of continuous flowering 

A flower bed that blooms throughout the warm season is, perhaps, every grower’s dream. Flower beds formed from perennials have a number of advantages over their counterparts, on which annuals are planted. The flowering process in the flower beds, where perennial representatives of the flora are planted, will be renewed annually. In this case, all the gardener will need to do is water, cut and feed the plants on time.

In this article, we will talk about how to form a flower bed of continuous flowering from perennials, flower garden schemes will be provided, and the nuances that need to be considered when planting flowers will be described. But first, we invite you to find out what perennial flowers can be planted in a flower bed.

Categories of perennials

All flowering plants, from which landscape compositions are created, are divided into 3 categories: short, medium and tall. Let’s look at each category individually.

Low-growing

The first category includes flowers whose growth does not exceed 30 cm. They are most often used to create colored carpets. Low growing flowering perennials include:

• phlox;
• dwarf asters;
• aquilegia;
• shavings;
• feverfew;
• Carpathian bells;
• soapwort.

When planting undersized perennials, it is important to follow some rules:

1. Low-growing flowers are best planted on the sunny side. If this moment is ignored, then lush flowering should not be expected.
2. For plants to bloom well, they need to be fed with flower fertilizers, while nitrogen fertilization should be kept to a minimum. The fact is that the latter contribute to an increase in green mass, and not flowering.
3. To make a flower bed with undersized flowers look attractive, plants need to be planted close to each other.
4. Undersized representatives of the flora require careful care and timely weeding. And the point here is not only the aesthetic appeal of the flower bed, but also the fact that weeds are detrimental to undersized perennial flowers.

Middle-aged

The category of medium-sized flowers includes flowers whose growth reaches 30–80 cm. With their help, you can arrange a tiered flower bed or a mono-composition. Among the medium-sized perennials are the following:

• peonies;
• radiols pink;
• day-lily;
• roses;
• yarrow.

When planting medium-sized plants, you need to leave some distance between them, as they grow more than their undersized counterparts.

Tall

All flowers with a height of more than 80 cm are called tall representatives of the flora or giants. When making an island flower bed, you can’t do without tall perennials. This category includes the following flowers:

• basilisks;
• mallow;
• winding sunflowers;
• window sills;
• stock roses.

Advantages and features of continuous flowering flower beds

In order for a flower garden of this type to always look good and please you, it is important to take into account some nuances when planting plants. A bright and dense flower bed can only be obtained in a sunny area. Therefore, the first thing to do is to choose the sunny side of the landscape for the flower bed. After that, distribute the flower beds into zones with the names of the plants that you will plant on each of them. So, you can ensure the constant flowering of the flower bed.

Flowerbeds and gardens of continuous flowering perennials have a number of advantages:

1. The first and, perhaps, the main advantage of such a flower bed or garden is durability.
2. Ease of care, which consists in weeding, watering and feeding plants.
3. Long flowering – throughout the warm season.
4. Seeds or seedlings of annuals need to be bought annually, while funds are invested in perennials once.
5. Usually perennials are unpretentious and can grow both in the sun and in partial shade or even in the shade.
6. Perennials do not deplete the soil.

Selection of plants by season

Flower garden schemes are created depending on what effect you want to achieve. This is clearly seen in the photos provided in the following subsections of the article. Flower arrangements, as a rule, are named consonantly with the seasons.

Tenderness of spring

The most delicate flowers bloom first after winter. Primroses, crocuses, daisies, pansies, tulips, daffodils and lungworts must be present in the spring flower bed. These perennials usually bloom in early spring and delight the eye for a month. They are replaced in May by late varieties of tulips, peonies, lupins and aquilegia. By the end of May, imperial hazel grouse, hyacinths and others are gradually beginning to bloom.

The taste of summer in the flowerbed

In the summer, in the flower beds you can already find a lot more flower arrangements. Among them are amaranths, hibiscus, marigolds, roses, levkoy, hydrangeas, zinnias, delphiniums and lyatris.

When creating a flowerbed of continuous flowering from perennials, lilies, echinacea, rudbeckia, monards and yasnitki can also be added to the list of plants. With proper care, you can not only enjoy the pleasant appearance of these flowers, but also smell their wonderful aromas throughout the summer.

Autumn colors in the flowerbed

The flower arrangement will not be complete if you do not plant autumn flowers in the flower bed, which replace the summer ones. In autumn, perennials of continuous flowering, such as carnations, ageratum, begonias and remontant roses, bloom in the flower beds. To return the bright colors of summer to the flower bed, you should find a place to plant coreopsis, asters, sage, gelenium and stonecrop. Yarrow, ornamental onions and craspedia withstand practically until frost.

Development of a flower garden scheme

If you have to make a flower bed in an open summer cottage and you have a fairly large area at your disposal, then the flower bed design scheme may look like this:

• In the center of the composition, tall perennials are planted.
• Further from the center are medium-sized flowers.
• Closer to the edge – a rug of undersized perennials.

When choosing shades of plants that will grow in a flower bed, it is important that their compatibility with each other is not violated. Even in the most ordinary flower bed you can place bright accents.

If your flower bed is located near a fence or fence, then the tallest plants can be planted closer to it. The height of the composition in this case will decrease as the flower garden spreads to the territory near the house.

Before you make a flower garden, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the basic flowerbed design schemes, thanks to which you will create your own unique masterpiece. These schemes can be a base or starting point for beginner growers.

Selection of colors

Before creating a continuous flowering bed, it is also important to determine the dominant colors. As a rule, warm and bright shades are found in the flower beds. The background for such a palette is often blue or purple.

So, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with several rules for choosing a color palette for a flower bed:

1. In order for perennials to please the eye, it is important to choose contrasting colors, for example, yellow with blue/purple or red with green. If you have a large flower bed, then the plants should be planted in large groups. Otherwise, from afar, the flower bed will look ugly.
2. If the flower garden is part of the recreation area, then make it more neutral, for example, plant blue with purple or red flowers. Thus, calm and not exciting compositions are created.
3. Grey, black and white shades go with any color palette. Variegated and bright compositions of permanent flowering can be diluted with white flowers. To emphasize the shades, you can plant black flowers in a flower bed. As a background, you can plant plants with grayish foliage.
4. pastel colored plants will help you create a dreamy and romantic atmosphere in your territory.
5. Look very interesting one-color flower beds of different shades.
6. It is worth noting that warm shades, as you know, visually reduce, and cold, on the contrary, increase.
7. To decorate a flower bed before flowering and after it ends, you can plant on it plants with beautiful leaves.

Ready schemes

The best flower bed is the one you designed yourself, however, it is important to follow some basic rules. Next, standard schemes for planting plants for decorating a dry stream will be considered, you will also learn about decorating a gate with flowers, a flower bed in partial shade and a flower garden of fast-growing plants.

stream illusion

If for some reason you cannot make a fountain or stream on your site, but at the same time you really want to create something similar, then you can make a dry spring as an option. If you do all the work on the manufacture and design of a dry stream, then the illusion of a living source will be created.

The channel is laid out from oblong pebbles of different sizes. Transparent blue beads will create the illusion of a stream and from afar it will seem that water is really running in it.

To make a dry stream attractive, you can make a flower garden of continuous flowering for its decoration. Disembarkation is carried out according to the scheme shown in the photo:

1. The leafy-bamboo gives the stream a natural look, although it is not a flowering plant. This plant is found in many water sources. You can replace it with an ostrich.
2. Bearded irises are planted at the mouth of the stream.
3. Opposite the irises, lobelia looks good.
4. Next to the irises, you can land a creeping tenacious.
5. Poskharsky’s bell will perfectly fit into the bed of a dry stream.
6. A beautiful and smooth transition from one shade to another will help create shaving hybrids.
7. Opposite the shaving, on the left edge, you can plant any large-leaved plant with bright colors. It may be a large-leaved brunner.
8. Opposite the brunners, awl-leaved bryozoan will look great.
9. The red creeping tenacious will be an excellent completion of the flower arrangement provided for the design of a dry stream.
10. The final plant should also be non-flowering, for example, the same bamboo-leaf or ostrich.

Take this scheme as a basis and do something unique in your backyard.

Making the gate with perennials

If you have an arched gate on your site, then perennials can be planted near it, organizing everything so that the arch is entwined with flowering plants. By choosing the right flowers, you can enjoy a blooming arch throughout the warm season.

To begin with, perennials for a flower bed of continuous flowering should be divided into tiers, as shown in the photo.

• The first tier will consist of undersized plantations. These can be Pozharsky’s bells (20), stonecrop creaker (5), cushion aster (3), oak sage (9), foxtail featherwort (19), rock stonecrop (2).
• The middle tier consists of yellow yarrows (8 and 16). Further, closer to the gate on the left side, you need to plant higher flowers, for example, spikelet liatris (1), long-leaved veronica (7) and twig-like millet (6). Chamomile-shaped flowers will be planted on the right side closer to the gate – cushion aster (18), New Belgian rudbeckia (15) and brilliant (17).
• On the last tier, tall plants are planted, with which you can close a low fence. So, to create a beautiful composition in the background, you should plant a stock rose (9), sunflower (10), David’s budley (13) and glossy rudbeckia (14).

And this composition will be completed by planting weaving plants that will braid the arch. To do this, you can plant Jacqueman’s clematis (11) on one side, and a climbing rose (12) on the other. You can create a flowerbed of continuous flowering at the fence from any material, since such a composition is universal and will harmoniously fit into any exterior.

Flowerbed of fast-growing plantings

If you have already got down to business, then you want to see the fruit of your labor as soon as possible. This is true in the case of planting a beautiful flower bed. Of course, perennials are unlikely to bloom magnificently in the first year after planting, but still this can be achieved. But in this case, it is important to create a flower bed on the bright side of the site so that the plants are warm. Such a mixborder looks great near a fence, coniferous plantations or a wall.

The scheme for planting perennials will be somewhat different from the previous one, although, as you can see in the photo, it is in no way inferior to other flower beds in beauty:

1. The upper tier can be planted with stem-roses of different colors.
2. Not far from the stock roses, you can place a decorative sunflower.
3. On the middle tier, Icelandic poppies will look good.
4. Gaillardia can be planted near poppies.
5. Cardinal lobelia will help you make a bright accent, passing through the entire flower bed with a red ribbon.
6. To make the composition deeper, you need to add blue shades to it. To do this, you can plant a catnip.
7. Poskharsky’s bell will be next.
8. And a blue catananche will be planted on the edge.
9. You can supplement the composition with low-growing plants, for example, gravel.
10. Stonecrop will delight the eye with its beauty until autumn.
11. And the final note of the composition of perennials – geykhera.

The care of these plants is the same, which will allow you to keep the flower bed in order without much effort. So, you can hide an ugly structure or a blank wall.

Making a flower bed in partial shade

If you do not have a sunny area for planting a flower bed, then do not despair, you can form it in partial shade. The following diagram will help you come up with a beautiful perennial flower garden in partial shade.

The concept of this scheme is to effectively combine bright flowering plants with lush greenery. So, you can dilute the dull landscape. As a green space against the background of a flower bed, you can plant a function (1). You can also add background flowers to the flower bed with the help of a magnificent dicenter (2), it blooms in May and looks quite impressive. And the final background plant is a red epimedium (3), which has bright yellow-red leaves. Closer to the middle tier is the muscariform liriope (4).

From early May to October, your flower bed will sparkle with special colors if you plant geraniums (5) on it, and lungwort (6) will help dilute the composition. In the foreground, the spring umbilical (7) will look good, and violets (8) will replace it.

Conclusion

Instructions for planting plants to form a flower bed of perennials and the schemes proposed in the article will help you create your own masterpiece that will delight you and your friends throughout the warm season. And in conclusion, we suggest you watch a video on the topic of planting perennials when forming a flower bed of continuous flowering: