Color summer

Rules for creating flower compositions. Planting flowers and flower garden. Compatibility of different types of plants.

When building a flowering wall, a metal frame was installed, which fastened several containers one above the other. The main vegetable material is an ampel form of pectic color. Around the same Nasturtium, Fuchsia, Cosmeya and Lavaiter. A similar effect of the vertical wall can be achieved using annual lianas, such as Ipomey. Low walls create from fragrant peas

Plants placed in containers, such as Vitroque violet, demanding on regular watering and balanced feeding. So that the water is not stored, plant them in a container with holes. And in hot dry weather, spend several irons per day

Suspended baskets with ampeline forms of petunias - one of the most popular ways to decorate the summer cottage using abundant textures

The geometric ornaments are based on the game of figures, such as triangles and rhombuses. Each cell is filled with one plant form-blooming labels, forget-me-not, terry daisies or decorative-deciduous species. Do not use splashing crops - they quickly grow up and break the strict landing plan

Petunia and other ampel plants in containers form large hanging screens, covered with bright flowers. Especially beautiful on fences and balconies of houses. It is recommended to grow the seals in containers only in case you have the opportunity to water them daily. Do not forget to delete all the faded flowers

In the past ten years, some types of garden cabbage began to use them in decorative purposes, they are planted in flower beds and added to bouquets. In varieties with a height of 30-40cm, the leaves are usually collected in a socket, and at high (up to 120 cm) are located on the stem alternately. Coloring is the most diverse: white, cream, pink and red with transitions in green. Cabbage blooms in August and retains decorativeness to frosts. It is often included in the autumn compositions, combining Alaska's Alaska's Valturia and short chrysanthemums

An amazing combination of a white air cloud from fine-ceiling umbrella ammones and large red poppies. The skellations of the middle band ammon are not cultivated, it can be replaced by Hielya, Tmina, even gypsophila or grown by carrots. This composition is decorative at all long, three or four weeks in the middle of summer this man-made sketch, resembling forest glade, is unusual in our gardens. Not too often you will meet a similar combination of semids (lavaters of pink shades, red cosmei, salvia) and fluffy cereals (Eragrostis). Flower garden is deliberately careless ->

The red inflorescences of Pelargonium are a bright color accent against the background of miniature ash-gray leaf of the cherry immortals (Helichrysum Petiolare). Covered with soft whiten hairs, they are very gentle not only in color, but also to the touch. Successful combination for containers and hanging baskets

Flowers from the texts can be arranged not only in the middle of a green lawn. The stone is capable of becoming a colder and quiet background. This "eternal" natural material. He emphasizes the brightness and juice of flowers - Rudbecia, velvetsev, Ageratum, Salvia and burgundy leaves of the coles

The same plant changes its "sound" depending on the environment. Here are small labulian flowers sea contrasting larger and more volumetric petunia. Cold lilac-violet tone softens and muffles active warm shades - pink and red. The most familiar and familiar name of the Lobular Marine Sea-Alissaum, is she and the truly Russian bug. This plant is famous for its sweet honey smell.

Considering a flower garden from a close distance, we can pay attention to each plant, compare the size of flowers - large velvetsev and fine-ceiling lobelia, feel their contrast

Lobularia in the neighborhood with Senecio Cineric. Against the background of ash leaf, it solorates, the emphasis shifts on the silver-white middle of the flowers. A huge mass of inflorescences hides all the leaves and stems, excluding the painting green

Large cobbled platforms sometimes seem very boring and monotonous. Live notch introduces a "carpet path" from a multicolored garden petunia, selected by tone contrast, light and dark, white and purple

Another variant of the combination of cereals and the seventeenth-white brachik and barley hrying. This is a very subtle and elegant hint of rural motifs - daisies and bread cereals. In the background, cosme and fragrant tobacco trendy light green shade are visible.

Another unexpected guest in flower garden is corn. Beautiful shape of her blinks and leaves with the addition of yellow balls Rudbecki - a weathered country style. In August, a gentle greens of young cobs will come to replace brown belts

Flowerbed from plants of approximately the same height of yellow kareopsis, orange tagheets and white echolling, begins to hide in the rays of the setting sun. VUMES, closer to the night and at the moon, it glows. This amazing property is characteristic of almost all not too small white-yellow colors. Such compositions can be planted along the tracks - they will become a good landmark in the dark, this unusual flower garden populated by TAGETES Vanilla, Senecio Cinerahyra, decorative cabbage, easy to confuse with the garden of the nursery. The main element of building the texture and form of leaves (corrugated, smooth fluffy, similar to thin lace weaving), as well as plants height

Monochrome compositions built on the shades of the same color are very elegant. Purple and lilac tones refer to cold, twilight paints causing a person an alarming state. It is so that these two flower beds could be (in the foreground agratoratum, a flashes, a decorative cabbage, on the posterior lavater and cosme), if there were not few "smears" of the White Eshcholving of California. White refreshes the flower garden and removes the feeling of anxiety

Against the background of silver-green "curly" fields, red accents are highlighted, rare enclosures of terry maca macs. As you know, he will flash quickly, and he will shift TAGETES

In order to save expressiveness in a large garden area, it is very important to work with large stains, or, as artists say, "large masses". A wavy chalk is composed of Ageratum, Balzamine, Salvia. Close-like shades support each other, and each is a bit muted

Verbena in a vazon. Gentle flowers suffer from impetuous wind, heavy rains and hail. Come up with way to protect them. You can apply the design of polyethylene on a wire frame. It is easy if the seals in your garden take up only 2-3 containers

Two opposite colors are woven into an ornamental flower garden. Assistance to each other Lobelia and Tagtess are also brighter and rich

The design of the garden was engaged in a specialist landscape architect. The hostess very thinly felt the specified mood and supplemented the landscape unusual in the form of a flower bed "bagel" from flax. Leng-plant is light-chapter, cold-resistant and unpretentious. It takes enough blooms from the end of June and at the end of September. The center "Bublik" can be planted one of the challenges blooming late autumn, when Len loses his decorativeness

Semids allow you to create not only flat sketches, but also volumetric flower beds. The highest element here- columns from Surfinia, the tier below, the flowering field from the calendula, the cells, amaranth, verberies, salvia and decorative cabbage

Mosaic made from Nesiyia Goobovoid. Its small, with a diameter of 1-1.5 cm, the original flowers so thickly cover the plant that the leaves are almost not visible. Sow it in the spring right into the ground, shoots appear in 5-8 days. This sprawling annadeal blooms at the end of June

Raspberry and lilac ageratum - monochrome "painting". However, the size of the flowers is selected in contrast: in zinnia they are large, single, and the ageratum-small, collected in inflorescences ->

The process of creating flower beds is often compared with the art of painting. The reason for this lies in the game characteristic of both phenomena with paints. True, the flower compositions live long, so we are particularly acute and perceive their beauty.

Color circle. The main colors are red, yellow and blue. Composite, resulting from mixing basic, orange, green and purple. The circle can be expanded by introducing new shades between each pair of neighboring. There are several types of contrasts: in color (further additional colors, such as red and green), in saturation (light yellow and dark blue). Neighboring shades are used for monochrome flower beds, special "paints" in the landscape designer palette. They are distinguished by a very long period of flowering: for most cultures, it begins with June-July and ends with the first frosts. Of the total mass of decorative plants, they are also distinguished by unusually bright, juicy color and a huge variety of shades during flowering. For the first time years of the existence of a young garden, when shrubs and trees are just beginning to grow and the landscape seems very naked, an incredibly large number of summer plants are planted. They emphasize all the attention of themselves and hide the temporary disadvantage of volume and color. The only minus work with such plants is quite high costs associated with the annual need to acquire seeds and seedlings.

The semids are the collective name of a large group of decorative plants blooming in the year of sowing and grown for one season. First of all, the true annual species that the entire life cycle of development take place are primarily observed, from the birth of a seed to an adult individual. That is, they manage to bloom, give fruit, seeds, after which they die. Among the names of this row - Ageratum, Astra Chinese, Tagtess (velvets), Vasilek Polyeva, Iberis, Calendula, Levka, Lobelia, Mak samography, Nasturtia, Petunia, Sunflower, Portulak, Rudbeckia, Flox Drummond, Kindergarten, Zinnia, Eshololization, and T . D. WTU The same group falls some of the twilights (for example, Vitrochka violet) and perennials (antirrinum, verbena, IPOMEY, Koleus, Pelargonium, etc.), not wintering in open ground in conditions of moderate climate of the middle strip of Russia. The seals form thick graceful multicolored "pillows", so richly dilated with flowers, which is hardly looking for the greens of leaves. These compositions resemble the canvas of impressionists built on wide dynamic pure strokes. By the way, in contrast to annual cultures, almost all perennials bloom not so long and abundantly.

In addition to beautifully blooming textures, there are also decorative-deciduous (flashes, garden cabbage, perilla, cyclery) and cereals (Lagurus egg-shaped, shake, eragrostis, hrying barley). Especially lovers in gardeners enjoy fragrant plants - heliotrop, fragrant peas, lobulory, mattiol, rested and tobacco, which are especially fragrant towards the evening. The tack of the seal for designing the arbor, the terrace or fences are growing even the fine-forming pumpkin - she has beautiful rough-pointed leaves, large bright yellow flowers, and even the fruits of the most different shape (in the form of a bottle, watermelon, pears, ball or disk) and painting (yellow , cream, green or striped).

Landing

This simple "sketch" as if came to us from the village paralisian: the yellow inflorescences of the calendula, the bloody-red garden flax and the rare interspersed in purple gothic, the sedates sit down or seed directly into the ground depending on the characteristics of the agricultural engineering of each particular culture. You see that grown through seedlings, the beginning of flowering shifts in June. Some breeds are planted with color-kami already in May. Many gardeners grow seedlings on their own at home, although this occupation is characterized by consideration. Seeds are sown since the end of February and ending April, and then dive. The transplantation in the ground is carried out in May (frost-resistant cultures, withstanding cooling up to 5C, - fragrant peas, cloves Shabo, Levka) or June (so, seedlings of Ageratum, Tagtetes, fragrant tobacco, Petunia, Zinnia and Salvia are transferred to the ground after 5-10 June, when the danger of late frosts).

If you acquire seedlings in the garden market or in the nursery, carefully inspect each plant. In appearance, they must be dense, and not elongated and sluggish. In addition, the root system must be in a pot or container, and all the leaves are green. The yellowing leaves are the sign that the plant is starving, and spotting or uneven edges indicate the presence of pests. Be sure to pay attention to the place of transition from the underground part to the ground. Darmentation can be a sign of a dangerous disease of the black leg. It is better to buy seedlings at least with one or two blossomed flowers - you definitely not be mistaken in the grade. Of course, the seedlings acquired more expensive than the seed bag. The cost of one plant from the discharge of the textures varies from 5 to 25 rubles.

Growing seedlings

Many seams for earlier blooming are grown through seedlings. This Ageratum, Balsamines, Lobelia, Calcceolaria, Ursnia, etc. Seeds sowed since February and ending April, every culture - in a separate seaside container, since the conditions of sowing and germination differ. Punching of the substrate can be used all sorts of mixtures, most of which include three main components: a thin turf land, a nyline peat (neutral) and large river sand. Aspect ratio, for example, 1: 1: 1 or 3: 1: 0.5. The substrate may consist of other components, but it is very important that it is moisture and breathable and fresh, that is, not used earlier for breeding plants.

The bottom of the container is laid with a drainage layer (clamzith with a diameter of 1-1,5 cm), then the substrate is falling asleep, and on top of the ones-calcined, pre-washed sand with a layer of approximately half a half. This will prevent the contamination of the seedlings with a black leg, able to completely destroy shoots. For the convenience of watering from the surface of the substrate to the edge of the container you need to leave around a centimeter. Then the prepared soil is shed through fine-grained sieve with a pink solution of manganese. Disinfect and seeds themselves. They are maintained for 30 minutes in a weak solution of manganese (0.1%), then washed with flowing water and dried. Some cultures should be pre-germinated. The seeding depth on average is 1-3 seed diameters. Small seeding seashest sow superficially, rows after 3 cm. To facilitate sowing, these cultures can be mixed with sand. Get searches and grow seedlings of some species, especially smallest, is very difficult (this refers to Begonias, 1 g of which contains up to 70,000 seeds, as well as to Arctotis, Venidium, Verberen, Gotania). Therefore, they are recommended to buy on the market already blooming.

Boxes are usually placed in film packages or are covered with glass to maintain uniform moisture and temperature, but periodically operate for ventilation. With proper maintenance, the shoots of almost all cultures appear after 5-15 days, but some later (for example, Azarin and Kobia will warm only after 20-25 days). The required length of the daylight for the normal development of plants is 12 hours, therefore additional illumination of phytolampa is recommended.

When the first real sheet appears, the sediments are picked (transplanted into larger containers). Urals with a rod (left, kikhy, nasturtium, poppy), weakweight (fragrant peas) or a weak root root system (petunias) each sighter is better to dive into a separate pot. Another option is modular containers, divided into cells - so when disembarking in the ground, the roots will be damaged less. All seedlings are necessary to periodically water, feed and harden.

The highest quality seeds are the F1 hybrids (first generation seeds derived from crossing two close-friendly crops). Of these, the most viable, beautiful and abundant flowering plants are developing. These hybrids are expensive: on average 3-4 times more expensive than ordinary seeds. Hospital, the offspring of hybrids F1 does not inherit the properties of their parents.

Many years sew in May-June immediately in open ground. These are cornflowers, year old, Dorsfootek, Iberia, Calendula, Lavaters, Mac, Mattiola, Chedd, Scabiosa, Phlox Drummond, Eshcholce, etc.

Selecting a landing place, be sure to consider the requirements of one or another type of illumination. Most of the sun-fans of the Sun, in the shade they stretch and lose decorativeness. Moreover, some of them (for example, Portulak) do not bloom at all in the shade at all. Light-loving species is better to take place from the south side of the house, not shaded by buildings or fence. Ktenyevinous textiles include Balzamin, Daisy, Nasturtium.

Flower formation

The design of the flower garden is very responsible and at the same time an unusually exciting event that allows you to find an embodiment for a variety of ideas. You're not so important, regular or landscaped style you are going to follow, we decided to build a flowerbed, border, Rabatka or Mixborror. We will certainly have a place for the sealing a flower garden, it is too difficult to abandon their truly summer, saturated beauty color. Such plants are used even in vertical landscaping (for example, fragrant peas or fire-red beans), plunge into lawn spaces and planted in balcony boxes and vases.

The flower bed project is usually drawn on paper on scale. This allows you to answer at once a few questions: what will be its form, area, color gamut; What plants it will be filled with; What landing density is assumed. You must imagine how the flower garden will look when plants reach maturity, and how it changes over time. Perhaps some species by the end of the summer will already be filled out and they will need to plan others to shift.

Color solution

Many plants are included in the Pestruk flower group: Bidensen, Verbena, Pelargonium Zonal, Nasturtium, Perillo with burgundy-black leaves. But the raisin here is, without a doubt, the kice, which for the beautiful shape of the bush was nicknamed by summer cypress. Highness it reaches 100 cm, and after a haircut acquires a wide variety of forms. Light green leaves, thick coating stems, the reddish shade is sometimes acquired by autumn. Small flowers are almost not visible One of the first to consider the question of the color scheme. It was not by chance that we have already compared a landscape design with painting many times. They are subject to general coloristic laws. There are three main colors, yellow, red and blue and three components (or derivatives), obtained as a result of mixing the main, orange, green and purple. For the convenience of selection of shades, basic and composite colors are depicted in the form of a color circle. On it you can show these 6, and you can 12, 24 colors and more - the circle expands due to the introduction of new shades between each pair of neighboring. The colors that are at opposite ends of any of the diameters of this circle are called additional. Basic such pairs: yellow and purple, red and green, blue and orange. Art historians call them "strange couples" - additional colors are opposed to each other, their combination is contrasting, but at the same time they need a very friend in each other and become brighter and rich in the neighborhood. Based on this law, many floral sketches are created, for example, the compound of agratorate and the ocula (purple shades) with the esthemium (orange) or lobelia with velvets (also purple and orange or blue and yellow). By the way, the listed compositions are contrasted not only in color, they still combine bright and dark, warm and cold.

To warm colors include yellow, orange and red. In love composition, they always stand out and serve as a major accent. If you want to visually bring the flower bed located on the border, make it a warm tone on the border. Plants with golden-orange flowers are placed in the western part of the garden to emphasize the beauty of the sunset, - this technique used in his garden the famous painter and gardener Claude Monet.

Green, blue and purple cold colors, and they are not named so by chance. It is known that if you use them for the color of the walls in the room, the person begins to freeze at the same temperature at which he is comfortable in the Red room. Directions remote from the viewer always seem colder. Therefore, to deepen the perspective on the border of the garden, it is recommended to plant blue flowers. If you want to emphasize the shadow under the trees, also fill the space under them blue and blue shades.

Experimenting with color, do not forget about the tonality of the environment of flower gardens, the fence, the nearest plantings. Consider that the achromatic colors are white, gray and black- are designed to soften the bright compositions. Although the main background is usually green.

Neighboring shades in the color circle are used to create monochrome flower beds playing on a thinner "tool" - nuance. The combination of zinnia and the ageratum of purple tones or a monochrome composition of flowering cereals looks very gentle. An interesting colorful idea was implemented at one time English Gardener Gertrud Jackail - she designed a floral "rainbow".

Slowing out every year different types of semids, you can easily change the overall mood of the garden. One season he is red-orange (cheerful and elegant), another white blue (calm and lyrical).

Form and size

By creating container compositions, take into account the biological preferences of plants - requirements for light, moisture and soil acidity. The container with Lobelia and Pelargonium decorates a low wooden fence, choking one garden zone from the other how many blooming plants - so many characters: decorative cultures are graceful and clumsy, catchy and modest, fragile, gentle, languid ... Views with small flowers and Inflorescences (Lobelia, Lobulyaria, Kachiim, Gypsophila) look elegantly and formed "air cloud". Plants with large massive leaves and flowers (decorative cabbage, tintsille, sunflower) more tangible and impressive.

Deciding with color, think about the form and sizes, they can also be combined on the basis of contrast or similarity. Clear vertical salvia and carpet lobularia, large flowers of African velvets and small balls of verbena, rare brushes of Clarkia and dense "shields" of Ageratum. The flowers of velvetsev and zinnia, labelia and lobular are combined in size.

If you want to avoid a plane solution of the composition, to make it volume- select plants of different height: tall (80-100 cm or more), average (35-80 cm) and lowered (up to 35 cm). Just do not forget about the viewing point: tall views are placed in the background or in the center, if it comes to a circular survey flower. The creeping plants add various decorative-deciduous or cereals, playing with the shape of their leaves and ears. Let us give an example, as the same plant - large-flowered lavater, starts to "sound" differently, depending on the combination with various textiles. Lavaiter and zinnia. Both types are powerful, with large flowers. Very close on the tonality: the first has pink flowers, and the second, depending on the variety, orange, red or purple. With very large similarity of the shape of the flowers, expressiveness is achieved at the expense of a nuanse game of shades and opposition to the branching lavar of a slender zinnia. Lavaters and Ageratum. Here on the forefront of plants height protrudes (low ageratums are often used to cover lavaters bare legs) and the size of the flowers.

Biological compatibility

The decorative principles of the selection of planting material cannot be considered in the separation from the biological characteristics of plant development. Flower bed neighbors should have the same requirements for light, moisture and soil acidity. Consider the speed and direction of growth: fast-growing views are sometimes depressing slowly. As some breeds are bruised in the flower beds, you can plant others, so you save the decorative composition of the composition throughout the summer. Fortunately, almost all the textures are able to transfer a transplant even in a blooming condition.

Dispute with nature or imitation

To achieve such active carnation blossoms, choose a high-quality seed material released from viruses. Away The moment of bookmarks of floral kidneys Process the plants with stimulating drugs, such as CCC (chloroolinchloride), as well as all the works of landscape design, flower beds are landscape and regular. The first imitate nature, its chaoticness and free style of "planning". The second arrest with natural disorder and strive for strict symmetry, proper geometric forms and underlined decorativeness. Usually in the design of the flower garden adhere to the same direction as in the entire landscape. Landscape-style flower beds is a mixtore, alpine hill, imitation of a flowering meadow or forest edge; Regular-flowerba, border, slatkat, parquet, arabesque. We will tell more detail about the variety of these compositions in one of the nearest magazine numbers.

The flowering meadow is a bright carpet, woven of flowers growing in natural conditions (cornflowers, nonachho forms of poppy moss, liners, flax, dimorphothek, shakes, barley of the grivoish, polypogon and other cereals). Before sowing, mix the seeds of the seeds. Mixes can be most different. For example, from cornflower, calendula, esthemolia and sage, taken approximately in equal proportions. If in the summer on your meadow, by very reminiscent of the blooming Mauritan lawn, visible proposals will appear, fill them with plants transplanted with densely overgrown areas. To recreate the atmosphere of forest edge, plant chamomile and bells, fragrant flowering herbs. For Alpinarians, use Ageratum, Eshcholce, Iberis, Kermek, Lobelia, Lobulyaria, Leng Blowerous, Nemoxia, Nemophile, Portulak. For major flower beds and borders, use the dwarf forms of asters, velvets, verbena, cloves, Rudbecki, Cineroj. To create flat flower beds from carpet spring ageratum, Lobelia, Lobullaria, Portulak. Bowlings usually planted coleuses, lobels, petunias, pelargoniums, Vitrochka's violet. Punching of expressive solites is used by amaranth, glue, Kleschyevin, Cohm, Sunflower.

By the way, the textures help to emphasize not only the regular or landscape orientation of the landscape, but also the garden stylist. So, calendula, sunflower, Rudbeckia, the beans are typical for country sketches listed above the carpets - for luxurious French parquets, a curly IPOMEY, the decisive walls and gazebos, emphasize the grace of Modern lines.

Care

The flower garden project is drawn up in advance. It is most convenient to draw it on paper on scale. Think over what will be its shape, the area, coloring solution. After selecting plants, calculate the necessary landing density and imagine how the living composition will change over time. So in the middle of summer, it looks built on the contrast for the sketch of "sketch" from a lilac ageratum, a campus with dark burgundy leaves and the Eshololization of California, all the landings should be regularly poured, not allowing their overgrowths by weeds, especially in the Behamens. If in the early phase of development shoots of weeds to remove 2-3rds, their own investigation will not disturb you for a long time. After irrigation, feeding and rains, it is necessary to loose land, especially on heavy clay soils, which are stronger than all prone to the drainage and formation of surface crust. Watering the textures need regularly. This is especially true of container specimens, as they grow in a small isolated space and quickly dry. Tough hot weather plants in containers must be water twice in the morning and in the evening. The optimal form of irrigation cannon with watering systems. One of the options for container landing is the location of the pot with a plant in another pot (drawer, a vase, a container), more by volume. The space between them for the retention of moisture can be filled with ceramic or moss. Do not forget to pinch the points of growing strong shoots in ampel plants so that they develop evenly.

At an early stage of development, when the simultaneous formation of foliage and flowers of flowers occurs, there are two-three-time feeding plants with a complete complex of mineral fertilizers. Later, the flower garden can be carefully meditated with a compost. It is not recommended to use acidic peat or sawdust for this, since most of the elder-and-alkaline soils. The use of compost also improves the soil structure: mulch, decomposing, makes organic substances. Make sure that the plants are not subject to the epidemic of diseases or the invasion of pests, such as slugs and snails, eating young shoots.

During the flowering period, tear the blurred, lost the beauty of shoots and seed boxes - so the plant will give more strength to the formation of new flowers. Spacidious tall cultures with soft stems (sunflower, tall asters, etc.) should be tied to supports, metal or bamboo. Installation of supports or construction of retaining walls is especially relevant for areas highly purified by winds.

The editorial office is grateful to Dina Borisovna Kudryavets ("Phyto Market"), Maria Nikitichna Gabibova ("Institute of Design and Graphs") and Alexander Sapelin (Brunce Pflanzen) for help in preparing the material.