Under the sun's rays, perennials bloom with special splendor and beauty. The choice of their species and varieties is large enough so that every gardener can find plants of the color, shape and flowering period that suit him.
The most successful places for many rich blooming garden perennials - open to the sun.
Here, such noble long-flowered flowers as lilies, peonies and phloxes can show themselves in all their glory. They tolerate short-term daytime shade rather calmly, however, longer shade and even openwork shade from trees and shrubs seriously affect their prosperity.
Especially sensitive in this respect are large, lush-flowering selection varieties of sun-loving perennials. For them, the most optimal ridges with fertile and sufficiently moist soils.
The design of sunny areas completely depends on your taste and, of course, on real opportunities your garden. Small flower beds in the front garden can be decorated no less impressively than stretched along garden path a rabatka, a "ribbon" of perennials along the border of a garden or a flower island in the center of the lawn.
In any case, it is very important to skillfully combine plants for growth. Such tall and lush-flowering crops, such as krasodnev, mallow and lupine, are most advantageous in the "far" section of the flower bed. Their stalks will rise above the shorter crops in the foreground, which in turn will cover the base of their shoots.
Compact cushion perennials are very suitable for decorating a beautiful transition between a rabat open to the sun and a lawn, terrace or garden path - shrub aster, gray carnation or bell carpathian... They will reliably cover the soil with a dense leafy cover, which will decorate the edges of the rabatka at the time when flowering ends.
The most important advantage of sun-loving perennials is a colorful outfit. Their multicolored arrangement looks best against a calm background of trees and bushes.
To achieve certain color combinations, it is necessary to take into account the frequency of development of each individual culture.
The peak flowering of perennials is from June to August. At this time, such large yellow-colored "sun-worshipers" such as rudbeckia, heliopsis, coreopsis, heleniumas well as juicy red monard and knifofia.
Calm white and blue notes in this flavor bring different kinds and varieties of bell and spur (delphinium).
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You can extend the flowering season on a sunny rabat with the help of such attractive autumn flowering crops as sedum, garden chrysanthemums or autumn asters.
Most perennials bloom again in the fall if they are promptly cut off after the main flowering period. These plants include delphinium, stenactis, catnip and scabious.
The choice of spring sun-loving perennials is somewhat less. Bloom in April rezuha, lumbago meadow and adonis... In May they are joined by day-lily, catnip and pion.
You can enrich the spring palette with bulbs such as narcissus, tulip and grouse... Since bulbous crops become unattractive after flowering, they should not be planted in the foreground.
A variation on an easier-to-maintain large flower garden is a sunbathing lawn. Wild perennials - nivyanik, yarrow, meadow sage - thrive here in a motley company with herbaceous plants. Such lawns are sown with a special seed mixture or individual crops are planted on an existing lawn.
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Rabatka of sun-loving perennials
This bed of perennials is dominated by soft and delicate colors.
1. Miscanthus - Miscanthus sinensis.
2. One-year malopa three-incised, or hole - Malope trifida.
3. Hybrid variety of yarrow - Achillea "Schwefelbluete".
4. Bellflower milk-flowered - Campanula lactiflora.
5. Perovskia wormwood - Perovskia abrotanoides.
6. One-year hybrid of verbena - Verbena.
7. Sedum squeak, or hare cabbage - Sedum telephium (before flowering).
8. Ornamental round-headed onion - Allium sphaerocephalon.
9. Foxtail cirrus - Pennisetum alopecuroides (before the appearance of peduncles).
10. Wormwood Louis - Artemisia ludoviciana.
11. Hybrid variety of yarrow - Achillea "Lachsschoenheit".
12. Hybrid aster shrub - Aster dumosus (before flowering).
13. Hybrid coreopsis - Coreopsis.
14. Fassen's cattle - Nepeta fassenii "Six Hills Giant".
15. Geranium Himalayan - Geranium himalayense.
16. Annual fragrant tobacco - Nicotiana.
17. Santolina cypress-Santolina chamaecyparissus.
Examples of compositions from sun-loving perennials
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Cascades of colors Thanks to a well thought out fit, geraniums, sedum and cuff get the same sunlightas well as tall wood mallow (Malva sylvestris) in the background. |
Warm colors of autumn The delicate and soft palette of Echinacea purpurea, Helenium and Aster amellus hybrids is simply amazing! |
Daylily (Hemerocallis), Gaillardia (Gaillardia) and spotted loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata) just glow in the sun. |
Beautiful sun-loving perennials
Large-flowered perennial with long, candle-shaped inflorescences; supports are desirable; re-flowering after pruning. Densely covered with bells, the erect peduncles of the burgundy are effective in any corner of the garden.
Phlox paniculata - long-lasting large-flowered perennial with dense, pin-shaped peduncles; re-flowering after pruning. The pleasant scent and lush floral outfit make phlox one of the most popular horticultural crops.
Unpretentious large-flowered perennial with inflorescences-baskets; gives root suckers; pruning increases the flowering period. If you give the rudbeckia enough space, then gradually it forms dense flower thickets.
An abundance of star-shaped inflorescences over dense dark green foliage; good ground cover plant. Warm lights of the autumn shrub aster (Aster dumosus) glow in the garden until October.
Catnip - long, arched shoots with numerous small double-lipped flowers; loose bushy growth. It is not difficult for him to find a company. Regular pruning keeps the bush compact.
Oriental poppy (Turkish) - large cupped flowers of a luminous color; short flowering time; spreads by self-seeding. He is loved for the freshness of bright flowers and for the expressiveness of the seed pods.
A hardy large-flowered perennial with sunflower-like inflorescences on long, straight stems and long-lasting flowers.
Lavender - a compact long-lived perennial with evergreen pubescent foliage and fragrant flowers. Thanks to the ligneous stems, lavender is classified as a semi-shrub. She is very good at curbs.
Day-lily - large-flowered perennial with stellate or bell-shaped flowers; grows to the size of a large bush.
Gaillardia - attractive multi-colored radial inflorescences on strong stems; protection from cold weather is recommended.
| Plant name | Image (clickable) | Height, cm. | Coloring flowers | Flowering time |
| High spur | 100-200 | Blue, purple, white | June-July, September-October. | |
| Phlox paniculata (Phlox paniculata) |
Under the sun's rays, perennials bloom with special splendor and beauty. The choice of their species and varieties is large enough so that every gardener can find plants of the color, shape and flowering period that suit him.
The most successful places for many abundantly flowering garden perennials are open to the sun.
Here, such noble long-flowered flowers as lilies, peonies and phloxes can show themselves in all their glory. They tolerate short-term daytime shade rather calmly, however, longer shade and even openwork shade from trees and shrubs seriously affect their prosperity.
Especially sensitive in this respect are large, lush-flowering selection varieties of sun-loving perennials. For them, the most optimal ridges with fertile and sufficiently moist soils.
The design of sunny areas depends entirely on your taste and, of course, on the real possibilities of your garden. Small flowerbeds in the front garden can be arranged no less impressively than a rabatka stretched along the garden path, a "ribbon" of perennials along the border of the garden, or a flower island in the center of the lawn.
In any case, it is very important to skillfully combine plants for growth. Such tall and lush-flowering crops, such as krasodnev, mallow and lupine, are most advantageous in the "far" section of the flower bed. Their stalks will rise above the shorter crops in the foreground, which in turn will cover the base of their shoots.
We are offering to you an example scheme flower beds with perennials:
1. Miscanthus - Miscanthus sinensis.
2. One-year malopa three-incised, or hole - Malope trifida.
3. Hybrid variety of yarrow - Achillea "Schwefelbluete".
4. Bellflower milk-flowered - Campanula lactiflora.
5. Perovskia wormwood - Perovskia abrotanoides.
6. An annual hybrid of verbena - Verbena.
7. Sedum squeak, or hare cabbage - Sedum telephium (before flowering).
9. Foxtail cirrus - Pennisetum alopecuroides (before the appearance of peduncles).
10. Wormwood Louis - Artemisia ludoviciana.
11. Hybrid variety of yarrow - Achillea "Lachsschoenheit".
12. Hybrid aster shrub - Aster dumosus (before flowering).
13. Hybrid coreopsis - Coreopsis.
14. Fassen's cattle - Nepeta fassenii "Six Hills Giant".
15. Geranium Himalayan - Geranium himalayense.
16. Annual fragrant tobacco - Nicotiana.
17. Santolina cypress-Santolina chamaecyparissus.
Of course, you can replace some flowers with your favorite ones, because this is an approximate option ... and you can extend the flowering season in a sunny flower bed with the help of such attractive autumn flowering crops as sedum, garden chrysanthemums or autumn asters.
Most perennials bloom again in the fall if they are promptly cut off after the main flowering period. These plants include delphinium, stenactis, catnip and scabious.
The choice of spring sun-loving perennials is somewhat less. Bloom in April rezuha, lumbago meadow and adonis... In May they are joined by day-lily, catnip and pion.
You can enrich the spring palette with bulbs such as narcissus,tulip and grouse... Since bulbous crops become unattractive after flowering, they should not be planted in the foreground.
A variation on an easier-to-maintain large flower garden is a sunbathing lawn. Wild perennials - nivyanik, yarrow,meadow sage - thrive here in a motley company with herbaceous plants. Such lawns are sown with a special seed mixture or individual crops are planted on an existing lawn.
Examples of compositions from sun-loving perennials:
Cascades of colors
Well thought out fit geranium, sedum and cuff get as much sunlight as tall forest mallow (Malva sylvestris) in the background.
Warm colors of autumn
Delicate and soft palette echinacea purpurea (Echinacea purpurea), helenium hybrids(Helenium) and asters daisy(Aster amellus) is simply amazing!
Beautiful sun-loving perennials
Delphinium - large-flowered perennial with long candle-shaped inflorescences; supports are desirable; re-flowering after pruning. Densely covered with bells, the erect peduncles of the burgundy are effective in any corner of the garden.
Phlox paniculata - long-lasting large-flowered perennial with dense, pin-shaped peduncles; re-flowering after pruning. The pleasant scent and lush floral outfit make phlox one of the most popular horticultural crops.
Rudbeckia - unpretentious large-flowered perennial with inflorescences-baskets; gives root suckers; pruning increases the flowering period. If you give the rudbeckia enough space, then gradually it forms dense flower thickets.
Shrub aster - an abundance of star-shaped inflorescences over dense dark green foliage; good ground cover plant. Warm lights of the autumn shrub aster (Aster dumosus) glow in the garden until October.
Catnip - long, arched shoots with numerous small double-lipped flowers; loose bushy growth. It is not difficult for him to find a company. Regular pruning keeps the bush compact.
Oriental poppy (Turkish) - large cupped flowers of a luminous color; short flowering time; spreads by self-seeding. He is loved for the freshness of bright flowers and for the expressiveness of the seed pods.
Heliopsis is a hardy large-flowered perennial with sunflower-like inflorescences on long, straight stems and long-lasting flowers.
Lavender - a compact long-lived perennial with evergreen pubescent foliage and fragrant flowers. Thanks to the ligneous stems, lavender is classified as a semi-shrub. She is very good at curbs.
Day-lily - large-flowered perennial with stellate or bell-shaped flowers; grows to the size of a large bush.
Gaillardia - attractive multi-colored radial inflorescences on strong stems; protection from cold weather is recommended.
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Lack of water in the country is not a reason to abandon the arrangement of flower beds and flower beds, but many garden plants (especially the pampered species) simply won't survive without regular watering. Therefore, the owners of such plots should rely on the species, forms that grow in nature in similar conditions, content only with what the sky sends.
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A discreet background plant: its silvery color pleases throughout the growing season, and its tart aroma intensifies on a hot summer day.
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Italian immortelle (Helichrysum italicum) is an evergreen subshrub up to 60 cm high and up to 1 m wide. It blooms in summer with yellow small baskets gathered in shields.
Italian immortelle - flowering, photo
Winter-hardy, but in the first year of planting it is better to cover it with dry leaves, spruce branches. Propagated by cuttings in October-November.
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St. John's wort is calyx, or calyx
Luxurious during the flowering period, abundantly scattering the "gold" of its flowers.
St. John's wort,a photo
Hypericum calycinum is an evergreen subshrub up to 60 cm high.The only drawback is insufficient frost resistance, so I cannot recommend it for central Russia, but the plant is so beautiful and drought-resistant that I decided to include it in this article.
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Iberis evergreen
On our site he finds more and more admirers.
Iberis evergreen,a photo
Iberis evergreen (Iberis sempervirens, syn. I. commutata) is a semi-shrub with preserved in winter small leaves, up to 30 cm high, 40 cm wide. Small white flowers, collected in small dense apical brushes, bloom from April.
Iberis evergreen "Snowflake". Photo by 123rf.com. Iberis evergreen "Weisser Zwerg". Photo from google.ru
Decorative varieties are difficult to distinguish from each other; the visual difference lies in the compactness of the "bushes":
- "Snowflake", syn. ‘Schneeflocke’ - 25 cm high, 60 cm wide;
- "Weisser Zwerg", syn. "Little Gem" is 15 cm high and 25 cm wide.
What else to look at on the site about Iberis:
Kentranthus red
How can you do without it in dry areas?
Kentranthus red,a photo
Kentranthus or red centranthus (Centranthus ruber) is a beautiful herbaceous perennial 60-70 cm high, 1 m wide. The flowers are pink, red, white, bloom from May to September. In addition to the southern regions, you can try to grow it in protected areas of summer cottages with dry shelter. It reproduces easily by self-seeding.
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Large-flowered winged or beautiful, ethionema
The beautiful winged grass (Aethionema grandiflorum, syn. A. pulchellum) is a semi-evergreen semi-shrub 20-30 cm high and wide.
Large-flowered winged worm (with white flowers), photo
Flowers are white, light pink, fragrant, collected in small inflorescences; bloom in April-May. Cut off after flowering; calcareous soils are preferred. In central Russia, it is grown as an annual. Propagated by seeds.
Narrow-leaved lavender
When you see the mesmerizing flowering of lavender in the highlands of Crimea, it becomes obvious: here it is - an ideal plant for dry areas.
a photo
Parameters of narrow-leaved lavender (Lavandula angustifolia): height up to 1 m, width - up to 1.2 m.
Lavender narrow-leaved "Hidcote". Photo from windyridgegardencentre.ie. Narrow-leaved lavender "Jean Davis". Photo from loghouseplants.com
Decorative varieties:
- ‘Hidcote’ - up to 60 cm high, 75 cm wide, dark purple flowers;
- ‘Jean Davis’ - light lilac flowers;
Narrow-leaved lavender "Loddon Pink". Photo from potterandrest.co.uk. Lavender narrow-leaved "Munstead". Photo from the site highcountrygardens.com
- ‘Loddon Pink’ - compact, up to 45 cm in height, 60 cm in width, light pink flowers;
- 'Munstead' - 45 cm high, 60 cm wide, bluish purple flowers;
Narrow-leaved lavender "Nana Alba". Photo from growsonyou.com. Lavender narrow-leaved "Twickel Purple". Photo site burncoose.co.uk
- ‘Nana Alba’ - 30 cm high and wide, white flowers;
- "Twickel Purple" - 60 cm high, -1 m wide, bright purple flowers.
Anyone can have a beautiful and colorful site, even not so much an experienced gardener... And even if it is not possible to ensure daily watering and they need to be planted in an open, arid area, it does not matter. Consider some drought-tolerant plants as examples for planting in a sunny flower bed that will bloom, delight with lush greenery and create coziness in your garden.
Drought tolerant herbs
When decorating a solar flower bed, you should pay attention to which will help to complement your flower garden with juicy greenery and give it volume.
Examples of such drought tolerant plants:- meandering meadow - forms bumps of thin blades of bright green color. It is not picky about tolerating frost well and is great for planting on open area;
- tonkong gray - low drought-resistant grass of green-gray color, which explains its name. It takes root well in sunny areas and does not need any specific care;
- reed canary - grows well both in sunny and shady areas. His main feature - leaves white;
- - excellent plant, which absolutely does not need watering and loves sunny places. Many varieties of tenacious are known, which differ in a variety of colors.
- In April-May, you can land cornflowers. They prefer sunny places and are unpretentious to the soil. These perennials must be planted at a distance of at least 30 cm, otherwise the plants will shade each other. Cornflower does not require special care after planting and is resistant to pests and diseases. In order for your sunny flower bed to look neat, you need to remove flowers that have faded.
Did you know? Cornflowers are perennials that are widely used in classical medicine. They are part of antiseptics and preparations for the treatment of diseases of the eyes, liver and biliary tract. IN folk medicine inflorescences are used to make various tinctures that help in cosmetology and even gynecology.
- A sunny mood in your flower bed will create doronicum. While the rest of the plants are just gaining strength, and the bulbous have already faded, the doronicum will delight you from May to June. More than 40 species of this plant are known. The flower perfectly adapts to any conditions, so a solar flower bed is perfect for planting it. When leaving, it should be borne in mind that the plant has a superficial root system, and weed and loosen the soil with care so as not to damage the perennial.
- Lush and bright, which are also planted during this period, are not only unpretentious, but also bloom twice: in June-July and August-September. They can be planted either one at a time or in groups of 2-3 plants, in which case in a couple of years you will get powerful Root system this plant is very strong and goes down to a depth of 1 meter. It should be borne in mind that the seeds of this perennial are poisonous and it is necessary to cut the peduncles in time. But the stems of faded lupine will be wonderful for your flower bed.
- The list of flowers that are great for an open sun bed includes small petalsblooming throughout the summer. This plant is deservedly preferred by novice gardeners and designers. After all, when choosing this perennial, you get fluffy green bushes, which also bloom profusely. Small petals are frost-resistant, not capricious and sun-loving perennial.
- You can also disembark at the end of May. it herbaceous plant from bright colors has about 90 species, there are both erect and ampelous. The plant does not require any special care, but during flowering it is desirable to provide moderate watering. And, of course, to maintain the neatness of your flower bed, you should remove dried flower stalks.
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has a variety of colors and is perfect for a solar flower bed. In addition to the abundance of colors, it also has the most pleasant aroma... All varieties of carnations go well with other plants in the flower bed, they are not capricious to the neighborhood.
Sun-loving flowers for a flower bed
There are a lot of plants in nature that we can plant in a solar flower bed. And in search of drought-resistant flowers for a flower bed, we advise you to pay attention to those that do not need to be sown every year. Another plus in favor of perennials is the fact that they are quite unpretentious and do not need special care.
If your site is not shaded by plantings, is well lit by the sun, has light, sandy loam soils, then drought-resistant plants will feel best on it. They grow well in the sun, easily tolerate a lack of moisture in the soil, while maintaining decorativeness. Their assortment is quite large, and compositions with sun-loving and drought-resistant plants can be very diverse.
Irreplaceable ground cover
First of all, drought-resistant plants include numerous ground cover or pillow-like "alpine" perennials for rocky gardens. They, as a rule, are undersized (15-35 cm), form dense growing clumps, feel great in the bright sun. Light, well-drained soils are suitable for the growth of "Alpines".
Rejuvenated (m roofing, m cobweb, m offspring, m hybrid) form compact rosettes of shortened and pointed thick leaves of green or purple color. In the summer they bloom pretty large flowers on long peduncles of yellowish-white, dirty pink, red flowers.
Numerous varieties stonecrops also belong to sun worshipers. They form extensive clumps, blooming from June to August with yellow, pink, white, orange, crimson small flowers, collected in loose inflorescences. Sedum have various leaf shapes - pointed, oval, rounded. They can be colored green, purple, yellow, and have a white border around the edge of the leaf. The most popular are: Otkotny Island, Edkiy Island, Eversa Island, Kamchatsky Island, Pozhny Island, Rocky Island, Bely Island and many others.
Heat-resistant plants include a variety of varieties carnation -grass and carnations grayish-blue with bluish stems and leaves with simple or double flowers white-pink or raspberry-red colors. They form "cushions" up to a meter in diameter and require pruning after flowering.
In spring, white and pink arabis turn into colored "rugs" phlox subulate with white, pink, lilac, purple flowers, aubrieta (lilac and dark pink color of flowers), sunny yellow rock alissum.
Alpine aster, which belongs to dwarf shrubs, blooms in June simple flowers pink, lilac, white.
Various types of undersized species are quite drought-resistant and sun-loving bells with blue, white, purple flowers: Carpathian, Osh, Osh, leafy spoon, Holmova, Gargan, Portenshlag, Pozharsky.
The common one blooms in July with lilac small flowers, attracting a large number of bees and bumblebees, spreading out in vast clumps. If you step on the plants, the air is filled with a pleasant aroma.
Yaskolka felt with white asterisks of flowers and whitish-gray foliage is able to cover large spacesas it forms underground stolons.
There is a fairly large assortment of medium-sized perennials, flowering and decorative-leaved, which prefer a sunny location, easily tolerate a lack of moisture in the soil. They usually reach a height of 40 to 100 cm. These plants can form small clumps or take up large areas.
There are many varieties of geyher - plants that form compact rosettes of rounded or jagged leaves of green, purple, yellow, silver colors. Such rosettes have a height and diameter of about 30-40 cm, and peduncles with small, collected in a brush, red or white small flowers rise to a height of 60 cm.
Some stonecrops (vidny island, living island) form rounded bushes 40-60 cm high with bluish, bright green, variegated (white with green), purple foliage, blooming in mid-summer and autumn with pink, purple, yellow, white flowers collected in flat inflorescences.
Variety look spectacular decorative bows .
Most of them are real sun worshipers. These are dwarf (no higher than 30 cm) Moli bows with yellow waxy flowers and Ostrovsky bows with dark pink inflorescences, Karatavsky onions with wide leaves and dirty pink spherical inflorescences, blue onions with bright blue heads, Christophe's bow with huge lilac flower balls (up to 20 cm in diameter).
Liatris spikelet has spike-shaped inflorescences of lilac or white flowers 50 cm high and in July decorates the middle plans of flower beds.
The famous edelweiss, a symbol of the Alpine mountains, forms a low loose rosette of silvery stems with whitish flowers.
Some drought-tolerant plants can grow strongly and occupy large areas in flower beds. Perennial sage with bright blue flowers perfectly tolerates drought and adorns the composition with flowering for a long time.
Yarrow (cultivars and wild species) forms whole thickets of stems 60-70 cm high with yellow, pink, purple and white flowers, collected in flat inflorescences.
Anafalis is a low plant (about 40 cm) with silvery stems and leaves, has white flowers with a yellow center, similar to yarrow. Various wormwood (for example, P. Steller and others) have different shape leaves and height, but usually silvery foliage.
Well tolerates the sun and drought, the woolly and part Byzantine - plants with pubescent grayish leaves and high peduncles of small purple flowers.
Of the annuals that love a sunny and dry location, one can name the seaside Alyssum, Umbelliferae Iberis, large-flowered purslane, mesembriantemum cinnum-flowered, hybrid gatsania, salvia (annual species and varieties), seaside cineraria, celosia pinnate, Echscholtia Vyacheslav Gomphrenuceae
Of the shrubs, the most sun-loving and drought-resistant are various types of spirits, henomeles (Japanese quince), but with a lack of moisture they quickly fade.
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Most conifers (with the exception of thuja) prefer a sunny and dry place. The most hardy pines, horizontal junipers and other blue spruce species.