The most popular and unpretentious annual and perennial flowers for the garden

Marigold

When arranging land plots, you cannot do without ornamental plants. Depending on the size and purpose of the land, its owner selects the necessary seedlings, not forgetting about garden flowers.

And very often the desire to improve a garden or area near a country house is accompanied by the desire to do this with moderate physical and material costs. Therefore, many strive to choose the most unpretentious flowers for the garden. How to do this and which types to give preference to?

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Annuals for vertical gardening

When choosing plants for a site, you can, of course, plant simple and undemanding varieties of perennial flowers, decorating the site with them for the decade ahead. However, this solution also has a negative side - you will have to look at the same color scheme for many years. Planting unpretentious annuals will help add variety here.

You can’t do without flowers from the largest genus of the Bindweed family, especially if you need to decorate any vertical construction very quickly.Morning glory will not only cover the required vertical space with its shoots in six to seven weeks and rise to a height of more than two meters, but will also delight you at dawn with the opening of gramophone flowers. The flowers remain open only at the beginning of the day; by lunchtime they close and fade.

The next morning new buds open. Currently, there are many varieties with flowers of various colors: white, purple, pink, blue, red, bicolor.

Japanese breeders have worked the most on new hybrids and varieties. Thanks to them, morning glory - chimeras - appeared. Their flowers appear brown. The disadvantages include the fact that morning glory is heavily affected by spider mites and aphids.

Kobeya. This annual vine can climb to a height of more than 4 m. It branches well and rises due to its tenacious tendrils. The plant blooms in the second half of summer. The flowers are large, up to 10 cm in diameter, bell-shaped. The most common varieties are those with purple and white flowers.

Kobeya is most often grown through seedlings, but the mother root can also be preserved.
The disadvantage of the plant is that its growth slows down in cold summers.
They are also distinguished by their unpretentiousness:

  • mousey peas
  • dolihoe, "curly lilac"
  • nasturtium
  • decorative pumpkin

Chamomile

In addition to vertical gardening, annuals will also be required for horizontal spaces.

Unpretentious annuals for flower beds, lawns, borders

Marigolds, petunia, zinnia

Perhaps these flowers are not only one of the most unpretentious, they are also the most versatile. Due to the fact that varieties and hybrids with sizes ranging from 15 cm to one meter have now been bred, they can also be used as ground cover, border, and accent plants.

Unpretentious petunias include bush and small-flowered varieties. The great advantage of petunias is their continuous flowering from late May to early October.

Also one of the most unpretentious and very decorative annual flowers. Thanks to the variety of the brightest colors, it is suitable for almost any corner of the garden and can be combined with any other plants. When selecting annuals for flower beds and other compositions, you should also not lose sight of the following:

  • calendula
  • cosmos doubly pinnate
  • sulfur-yellow cosmos
  • decorative sunflowers
  • asters

There are a great variety of unpretentious annual flowers; when choosing them for the garden, you need to take into account their growth, the size of the stems, the color of the flowers, and the timing of flowering so that they blend with their perennial neighbors.

Perennial flowers that are easy to grow and care for

Among the unpretentious perennial flowers, there are many that, thanks to their beautiful and abundant flowering, delight gardeners every year.

Herbaceous peonies

As beautiful as these flowers are, they are so easy to plant and care for. It is enough to plant a peony rhizome, provide minimal care and timely watering, and the plant will gain a huge number of buds the very next year after planting. There are varieties with simple and double flowers.

The disadvantage of herbaceous peonies is the short flowering period, which ends in early summer.

Garden chamomile, cornflower or popovnik

The simplest folk flower not only in appearance, but also in growing. He will not spoil any garden or flower bed with his appearance. There are varieties up to one meter in height and with flowers up to 8 - 10 cm in diameter. The marginal flowers are most often white, and the middle ones are yellow.From a botanical point of view, it is not entirely correct to call nivaria a chamomile.

Entitled chamomile Unpretentious perennial flowers include the following types of pyrethrum:

  • Persian chamomile, pink marginal flowers
  • Caucasian chamomile, the marginal flowers are red or pink, differs from the Persian in the shape of the leaves

Lupine, goldenrod

This flower, after planting in the garden, grows almost like a weed. The plant is tall, with beautiful leaves and varied flower colors. It is completely undemanding to soil and does not require complex care. You can say about lupins that you plant them and forget them.

Petunia

Planting this plant is much easier than getting rid of it. It makes sense to place them in the most remote and undeveloped corners of the site in order to give them a somewhat ennobled appearance until the time hands reach them. Don’t forget about the following perennial plants that will not require extra attention and care:

  • blood red cosmos
  • sedum
  • looked younger
  • clover decorative
  • Separately, it is worth mentioning about bulbous perennials

Unpretentious bulbous plants in the garden

Unpretentious bulbous flowers include, first of all, those that grow in one place for three to six years and do not require annual replanting.

Decorative bows or alliums

These plants can become a real decoration of any garden and any flower bed. Decorative onions are replanted every five years. The variety of varieties will allow you to choose an allium that is suitable in terms of flowering time, size and color.

Montbrezia imuscari

This flower is related irises. It is also called Japanese gladiolus. In just a few years, the plant can cover a fairly large area; it also needs replanting no more than once every five years.

Unpretentious plants with very small bulbs. They bloom very early in spring and can be an alternative to other primroses. Their flowers are white, blue, purple with a pleasant and delicate aroma. Flowering is quite long, up to 20-25 days. They grow in one place for up to five years.

When choosing unpretentious flowers for a site, you still need to take into account its characteristics and provide the plants with minimal care in the form of weeding, watering and fertilizing, otherwise even the hardiest of plants may not only fail to bloom, but also lose all decorative effect.

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