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Long flowering perennials are a real treasure for any garden. Whether undersized or tall, they invariably delight the eye with their flowering, which is usually much longer than that of their annual counterparts. A variety of varieties, species, forms will provide you with a rich choice for creating unique flower beds, front gardens and flower beds.
Popular long flowering plants
The leaders in popularity among perennials are, of course, roses, tulips, irises, hyacinths, undersized violets, asters, chrysanthemums. Garden open spaces can be filled with them indefinitely, as long as there is enough space. However, in addition to these flowers, there are several more remarkable and popular types of plants for your garden, which are distinguished by a long flowering period, incredibly beautiful flowers and general unpretentiousness to living conditions.
The stock rose, better known as mallow, is a tall flower that is decorated with large buds along the entire stem. With many varieties and colors, mallow is perfect for creating hedges around the perimeter of the garden. Tricyrtis is a herbaceous plant whose flowers look like lily flowers. Most varieties of tricirtis have a straight stem, alternate leaves. But the main attention is attracted, of course, by the buds – large, spotted, funnel-shaped. There are 10 varieties of tricirtis, each of which will surprise you with the shape and color of the buds.
Stem purple is a tall plant with bluish-green leaves. Blooms for about a month at the end of summer. Flowers are collected in corymbose inflorescences of 5-12 flowers each. The color ranges from pale pink to deep purple tones.
Willow sunflower is a tall herbaceous plant with straight stems and bizarre purple leaves. It blooms in large panicles 5-8 cm in diameter, the buds are bright yellow. Basil is an amazing plant that has flowers without petals. The fragrant aroma of cornflower will be a good addition to any garden. The inflorescences are collected in umbrellas, because after the start of flowering only stamens remain on them – it seems that light clouds have settled on the stems.
Yarrow is the undisputed champion in flowering, blooming in June, it fades only in September. A variety with yellow flowers has become widespread, but there are also all shades of red, pastel colors. Peony – famous not only for lush bushes and large buds, but also for long flowering. The most common colors are red and purple, but there are also pink, white, light yellow varieties. It is noteworthy that the peony has dark purple leaves, which makes it a very exotic plant.
Gentian – undersized bushes of this plant are richly decorated with flowers of all shades of blue. However, garden varieties of gentian provide a wide range of colors: white, yellow, pink, purple. Astrantia is a medium-sized flower that blooms in June and continues to bloom until the end of August. Astrantia pleases with a rich palette of colors from white to green. Quite often there are tricolor buds that combine white, pink and green petals. Often, astrantia repeats flowering in September, blooming garden beds for the second time.
Sage – with minimal care blooms all summer. Medium-sized plant with rich blue or purple candle flowers.
Armeria is a ground cover perennial flower that will decorate any corner of the garden with bright flowers. Flowering period from early May to late August. The color palette is rich, there are varieties with white, pink, carmine red and dark red buds, which will allow you to choose the right color for any flower arrangement.
Clematis – will delight gardeners with a wealth of species and varieties. This is a tall flower, with large buds of many colors. Clematis blooms from mid-May until mid-September. Phloxes are a ground cover flower with creeping shoots, up to 150 cm long. The color palette of phloxes will shade and complement any flower beds in your garden, there are white, pink, red, blue buds up to 4 cm in diameter.
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Anemone – represents tall plants. Her inflorescences are collected in umbrellas of bright colors: white, pink, red, blue, yellow. It blooms in spring, but there are varieties that bloom in summer or autumn. Cornflower is a tall flower, with graceful blue or white small inflorescences. One of the longest blooming – blooms in spring and fades only at the end of summer. For lovers of the richness of flowers, there are varieties with yellow, purple, red or white buds.
The list of really popular long-flowering ones is endless. This includes rudbeckia, echinacea, delphinium, rhodiola, astilba, gelenium. Such attention is fully justified – after all, they really bloom all season, and with proper care they repeat flowering for an encore.
Rules of landing and care
In order to make your garden really cozy, you should properly plan the planting of long-flowering perennials. The most successful, and most importantly, simple planning technique is the principle of the three. This principle implies the distribution of plants according to their flowering periods. For example, from May to June – some flowers bloom, from June to mid-summer – others, until the end of summer – the third and fourth in early autumn. So, for each time period, you choose three types of plants and plant them together, alternating with each other. Thus, in your flower bed, flowers will bloom alternately and delight the eye from mid-spring to autumn. You can also dilute them with plants that bloom or retain their decorative appearance throughout the season.
As you already know, most perennials are quite unpretentious plants. But if you take care of them and treat your flower bed with love, the result will simply amaze you. Do not forget to dig out in time and properly store plants whose root system is represented by bulbs or tubers. Some of them can be left in the ground, but should be covered for the winter. Also, do not forget that some flowers are very sun-loving, and some bloom better in the shade. Considering the relationship of the plant to the sun, you can plan how to plant them in the soil in order to get a satisfactory result.
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