When you come to your dacha to relax and work for pleasure, in addition to the peace and tranquility of fresh air, working with the land and moral satisfaction from realizing your own benefits, you also want to receive aesthetic pleasure and gain inspiration.
A universal option is beautiful garden flowers. With minimal opportunity to allocate a piece of space for a flower garden, you should choose only the best varieties. The choice in favor of annual plants speaks for itself: ease of sowing and care, abundant flowering. So, TOP annual flowers with good self-seeding, which surprise with their simplicity, are beautiful and give joy.
Aster, or callistephus
The unpretentious lush “star” will delight the eye with its variegated colors all summer long. With the arrival of the first mild frosts (up to -3...-4 °C) The “Nordic” beauty will show resilience. You can sow aster either in open ground or through seedlings, and in the first case the plant will delight the eye with bright colors longer. The area occupied by asters must be illuminated by sunlight.
Eschscholzia, or California poppy
Low bushes covered with large bright flowers of amazing shape will create a mood in any weather, and openwork silvery foliage adds grace. When looking at these flowers, an association arises with dudes in voluminous bright skirts. Eschscholzia is drought-resistant, but loves sunlight and does not require special care.
Sweet pea, or sweet pea
The garden version of the orchid has a divine aroma. Despite its fragile appearance, the flower is unpretentious and cold-resistant (down to -5 ° C). Its rich color palette will brightly color a country flower bed from white and pink to blue and cherry. Take care of the vertical support and garter of the plant, because the light-loving beauty curls and reaches for the sun.
Delphinium
Bright inflorescences in the form of panicles in purple, white, pink, blue shades, like candles, will create a playful and romantic mood. The plant blooms for a long time and, when cut, pleases owners for a long time.
Cosmea
An unpretentious self-propagating plant that does not depend on weather conditions or care. Does not require frequent watering or special feeding. But cheerful shades please the eye from late spring to mid-autumn.
Calendula, or marigold
In addition to its bright orange color, which gives a good mood just by looking at it, the flower also has healing qualities. Its beneficial properties in the form of a tincture or decoction are used in wound healing.
The smell of calendula can hardly be called particularly pleasant, but the properties of this aroma repel harmful insects that damage garden plants.
Leia graceful
A relative of the daisy, a sunny yellow flower with a white carved border, the leia looks great both in borders and in flowerpots. At the same time, it is unpretentious and does not require special care or frequent watering.
Cornflower
A garden flower beloved by many, it is an unsurpassed leader in charm, purity and simplicity.Garden cornflowers can be white, pink, lilac, purple, burgundy and, of course, blue. The plants are quite compact and bloom throughout the warm summer season.
Purslane
A bright rug spreading under your feet looks like a field with colorful butterflies. Invariably enlivening any place, it attracts attention with its delicate flowers and “greasy grass” leaves. It becomes capricious from lack of sunlight and in cloudy weather - it closes its petals tightly. But even at the same time, purslane looks impressive. The plant is thermophilic, afraid of frost and loves good watering.
Lavatera, or khatma
An unpretentious plant with bright gramophone-shaped flowers can also be planted in a semi-dark place. No special care is needed for the lavatera. And bushes dotted with flowers ranging from white to ruby can become a bright accent in a summer cottage.
Nemesia
The unusual shape of the flower, their abundance on one bush of the plant, bright color options - all this will make the flower bed spectacular. And the compatibility of nemesia with many other flowering plants is a special feature that makes it a favorite of florists.
When relying on annual plants, rejoicing in their brightness and grace, it is worth remembering that, having the natural function of self-seeding, such plants confidently survive in a relatively unfavorable habitat. It will be difficult to get rid of such joys.
