Dry summers are a big problem for most plants. They do not always successfully survive the sun, so you have to either save them - by arranging a shade, or replace them with drought-resistant flowers. Flowerbeds consisting of such varieties easily tolerate even the most high temperatures, pleasing lush bloom Location on.

sun loving flowers

Drought tolerant plants have gained the most popularity as many are perennial ground cover flowers, herbs and shrubs. By the way, they are used not only for personal plot - unpretentious plants suitable for maintaining a neat appearance of plots in the cemetery. Flower beds in sunny areas will be decorated with many perennials, due to their unpretentiousness to the conditions. Drought-tolerant flowers are abundant, so all you have to do is arrange them and enjoy them.

Peony - despite the fact that flowering occurs at the end of spring, it will decorate the garden with neat green foliage throughout the summer. Moreover, he is a record holder for longevity and rarely needs a transplant. Hosta - ornamental plant, whose flowers look like bells. The richness of colors and expressive leaves will decorate any flower bed.

Echinacea with its large, fleshy stems and flowers will easily take root in any soil with any light. Echinacea blooms in summer and autumn, is tall. The drought-resistant stems of echinacea will brighten up your garden, even outside of the flowering period.

Garden chamomile - will not create any problems during growth, but will please with large white flowers. Keep in mind that by autumn it will begin to multiply, so if you do not want the dominance of chamomile, take care of the rhizome of the flower. Perennial ground cover flowers are suitable for sunny places. They form nice pillow on earth, pleasing not only beautiful flowers, but also juicy leaves.

Sedum is the king of flower carpets. Ground cover flowers, in principle, are characterized by abundant growth, but Sedum is the leader in terms of the area it occupies. There is no place where he would not take root. It blooms with an abundance of pink, yellow, white flowers that last all summer. It can be planted in a cemetery to form a beautiful pillow.

Heuchera - also forms rosettes of leaves, and they have a different color: there are green, gray, even red shades. Heuchera reaches a height of 30 cm, and during flowering up to 60 cm.

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drought tolerant herbs

There are quite a few herbs that meet the requirements of dry places. Drought-resistant ground cover grasses will decorate not only flower beds, but also dinner table which increases their value. In addition, you can sow a cemetery with herbs, creating a neat and well-groomed appearance.

Thyme - in addition to a strong aroma, it has beautiful lilac flowers. But, planting it in the garden, be careful - all the surrounding bumblebees and bees will gather to taste its pollen. Euphorbia cypress is a low grass with sharp leaves-needles. Blooms twice - at the end of spring and summer. There are so many flowers that each bush turns into a fluffy ball.

Gray fescue - attracts attention with its sharp, bluish-green leaves. It is often compared to a sea urchin for its obvious resemblance. Plant it in the front rows and renew every 4 years to get a long-lasting carpet. The advantage of Fescue is that it does not grow and continues to grow even in winter. Ground cover bushes of Fescue will give the plots in the cemetery a neat look.

Ornamental trees and shrubs

Drought-resistant shrubs are a real salvation for places where there is no shade, but there are a lot of scorching sun rays. Ground cover shrubs are less common than grasses or flowers. But on the other hand, they create lush hedges (which can limit the site in the cemetery).

Gailardia - comes from the Aster family. This bush with wide branches up to 70 cm in height, blooms in large bright flowers. Alpine aster is a shrub that blooms small in June colorful flowers. Hydrangea is a shrub that blooms in mid-summer until the end of autumn. She is willingly planted in the cemetery due to the fact that she is evergreen and with beautiful flowers.

Forsythia are trees and shrubs that bloom bright yellow flowers in early spring. Jasmine, mock orange - a sprawling bush with large white flowers, spreading a thick aroma. Unpretentious in terms of places of growth, but requires good watering.

Yarrow is another representative of the Astrov family. It grows in bushes up to 70 cm in height, blooms with flat flowers of white, yellow or red. Garden juniper is a tree-like shrub with needle-like or scaly leaves, gray fruits. After rain, it spreads a thick aroma, so if you want to achieve a variety of smells in the garden - water the juniper from time to time or bring wet twigs into the house.

Ground cover shrubs include horizontal cotoneaster. This evergreen shrub creeps along the ground, grows rapidly and rarely grows above 50 cm. Mountain pine is a tree or shrub with brown-gray bark, dark green needles and small beautiful gray-brown cones. Whether it's a flower bed or a graveyard, heat-tolerant plants will bring freshness to any setting, even if you don't have a designer vein.

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Video review of perennial drought-resistant flowers, features of planting and growing hostas.

Drought-resistant flowers for a flower bed are the best option for growing in a sunny area in the southern regions. Such heat-resistant and dry-resistant ornamental foliage and flowering plants are perfect for arid places in areas characterized by high temperatures and insufficient rainfall.

Drought-resistant plants: general characteristics and care features

Any garden and houseplants, as well as decorative perennials and bushes that can live in conditions characterized by a pronounced lack of water and are very resistant to drought - xerophytes. The most famous subgroups of such plants are represented by:

• plants avoiding soil aridity or ephemera. They have the shortest growing season, which coincides with the period of active natural precipitation;

• plants that actively store moisture or false xerophytes. The names of representatives of this subgroup are known as succulents, which have thick and fleshy stems or leaves;

• plants, with a very well developed adaptability to extracting moisture with the help of a highly branched root system;

• plants that grow in dry areas and tolerate a lack of moisture in a state of suspended animation. Such sclerophytes are characterized by a relatively low water content.

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The natural area in which xerophytes grow under natural conditions can be different. It can be perennial crops, trees and all kinds of shrubs, as well as cereals and various annuals. To choose which drought-resistant plants are most suitable for decorating a garden, you need to familiarize yourself with their characteristics and cultivation features.

Beautiful drought-resistant flowers for a flower bed in a sunny area

Abundantly blooming and very beautiful flowers for flower beds can also have sufficient drought tolerance., and the background for them is most often green ground cover crops or grass.

Ornamental non-flowering plants and herbs for dry areas

Drought tolerant trees and shrubs

Such cultures successfully combine unpretentiousness in care, undemanding to growing conditions and pronounced external attractiveness.

Drought-resistant perennials and annuals: options for use in garden design

Ornamental cereals, flowering and drought-resistant shrub crops are great for decorating a garden space. Such unpretentious plants are able to grow well on any type of soil.

Cereals look very beautiful and original not only in single plantings, but can be a worthy addition to yarrow, catnip, goldenrod or rose bushes. Trees and shrubs serve as an excellent background, used in the design of group and single plantings. Blooming annuals and perennials are great for flower beds, flower beds, lawn and border decoration.

What drought-resistant flowers to decorate a flower garden (video)

Any drought-resistant varieties are ideal for decorating a garden space and different types flower beds. Such crops take root perfectly on almost any type of soil and are able to serve as a worthy decoration for the landscape of a backyard or garden plot.

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Flowers are a decoration of the yard, but they require a thoughtful approach from the grower both to the arrangement of flower beds and flowerbeds, and to the combination of plants. In many cases, due to weather conditions, there is not enough moisture, and we, always busy and in a hurry, do not have the opportunity to water flower beds enough times. Not every plant is able to fully survive in such extreme conditions. But there is a way out, and this way out is drought-resistant plants.

Drought-resistant flowers, grasses and ornamental shrubs feel great even on soils with a minimum moisture content and are not at all happy with moisture-saturated soil. With an excess of moisture, drought-resistant plants can get sick or even die.

Of course, site drainage can come to the rescue here. This is a troublesome and costly business, but without it - in any way. The topic of drainage is a topic for a separate article.

Annuals

The ease of care for annuals, their ability to bring new and new colors into the flower garden every year, the most amazing forms and their inexhaustible variety attract and will attract flower growers.

Among flowering annuals you can advise for a drought-resistant garden such plants as:

• • Zinnia (Zinnia)- annual flowering plant height from 30 to 90 cm. The leaves are located opposite each other, the stem and leaves are rigidly pubescent. It blooms in temperate latitudes from June to frost, the inflorescence is a basket, there are a wide variety of shades, the seeds have time to ripen, do not lose their germination for 2-4 years. Based on two types of zinnias - elegant and narrow-leaved, many varieties are currently bred for growing in flower beds.
  • Rudbeckia (Rudbeckia)- an annual or perennial flowering plant. Leaves oval below, lanceolate above. The flower is a basket with tubular and reed flowers. Tubular flowers form a brown tubercle, characteristic of this species. The flowers are similar to daisies, usually yellow or orange. Seeds are tetrahedral, small.
  • Cosmos- a tall flowering plant, imported from South America. The leaves are doubly pinnate, giving the plant an openwork appearance. The flowers are large, on long bare stems, white or pale pink to purple. Seeds ripen very well, propagated by self-sowing.
  • decorative types sunflower (Helianthus annuus) – annual high, up to 2.5 m, plant. The leaves are heart-shaped, arranged alternately. The stem and leaves are rigidly pubescent, the flower is a basket with dark tubular flowers and yellow petaled flowers. Seeds wedge-shaped, smooth, slightly pubescent.
  • Decorative poppy (Papaver rhoeas) - annual with many varieties with a variety of colors. This light-loving plant is planted in separate group plantings on a lawn or flower bed, as well as in a group of different varieties.

Rudbeckia
kosmeya
decorative poppy

ground cover plants

These drought tolerant perennials are short, up to a maximum of 35 cm, and very attractive. Forming dense, growing curtains, they are great for alpine slides and rock gardens. Tolerates bright sun very well. They are best suited for light, low-moisture soils. You can list sun-loving perennials for a long time:

• • • Young (Sempervivum): cobweb, hybrid, roofing, offspring - they all form dense rosettes of purple or green. In summer, large flowers of pinkish, yellowish, red flowers look spectacular against this background.
    • stonecrops (Sedum)- an amazing variety of shapes and colors. The leaves are yellowish, green, purple. Flowers crimson, orange, yellow, pink. They bloom from June to August, form extensive thickets.
    • Carnation (Dianthus) Well, how could it be without her. Carnation grass and gray, with simple flowers or with terry stunningly beautiful colors - from white-pink to raspberry-red.
    • Arabis (Arabis)- low creeping plant with rooted stems. May be annual or perennial. The leaves are pubescent, the flowers are white, yellow or pink, double or not, in pedicel inflorescences. The fruit is a pod.

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Arabis

• • Rock Alyssum (Alyssum saxatile)- a plant of the steppe hills and mountains of Siberia. A small herbaceous shrub with woody shoots. Leaves are ovate, strongly pubescent, with gray tint. The flowers are yellow, form a brush. It needs calcium rich soil.
  • Saxifrage (Saxifraga) – perennial with a well developed root system. The flowers look like an asterisk, form inflorescences. The leaves are thick, with a glossy leathery sheen, exude lime along the edge of the leaf. Thickets of saxifrage form sod covers.
  • Phlox subulate (Phlox subulata)- a plant with lying shoots and prickly sharp leaves, forming evergreen turf coverings. It blooms very profusely, flowers of various shades. It grows well on stony soils, on hills and mountainous surfaces.
  • Felt sapling (Cerastium tomentosum)- herbaceous plant up to 30 cm tall, with white flowers collected in corymbose inflorescences. Leaves are silvery green and pubescent. Inhabits mountainous, hilly areas.
  • Mesembryanthemum (Mesembryanthemum)- one-year or two-year creeping or creeping succulent up to 15 cm high. Flowers resemble daisies, open at noon. On the stems, vitrified cells in the form of dew drops are visible from above.

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Mesembryanthemum

perennials

You can continue the list of drought-resistant perennials. Unpretentious and hardy, they feel great in the sun, grow well between the stones of alpine slides and rockeries:

• • Wormwood (Artemisia)- a perennial herbaceous semi-shrub plant with a tart bitter aroma of shoots. Leaves are green to silvery grey, dissected. Flowers in racemose or paniculate inflorescences, the fruit is an achene.
  • Euphorbia (Euphorbia)- perennial herbaceous or shrubby plant. In addition to seeds, it propagates by root shoots. All representatives have milky juice on the cut, very poisonous. The flowers are solitary or collected in rosettes, the inflorescence is surrounded by a sort of goblet.
  • Yarrow (Achillea) -perennial plant with baskets with many flowers, it would be more correct to say "yarrow". Widely used in traditional medicine, Stems up to 50 cm high. Yarrow extracts sulfur from the soil and spreads it around.
  • Lavender- has a wonderful aroma, its purple thickets beautifully decorate garden paths.
  • Daylily (Hemerocallis)- a plant with high arrows, at the ends of which flowers - has a great variety and is completely unpretentious.

Sagebrush
Spurge
Lavender

drought tolerant herbs

Making a flower garden without herbs and cereals cannot be considered complete. From decorative drought-resistant grasses you can plant:

• • Byzantine Chistets (Stachys byzantina)- a bluish-green plant with fluffy leaves.
  • Elimus (Elymus)- another name - grate. An unpretentious herbaceous plant, usually propagated by shoots from a rhizome. The inflorescence forms a panicle resembling an ear of rye or wheat; it remains dried on the stem for a long time.
  • Gray fescue (Festuca glauca)- perennial plant up to half a meter tall. The rhizomes are creeping, the inflorescences form panicles with spikelets, the fruit is a caryopsis. The leaves are lanceolate and may be green to silver in color.
  • Double source (Phalaroides)- perennial grass up to 120 cm high with striped linear leaves. It blooms with spikelets collected in panicles. The leaves do not wilt even from severe frosts. Usually with the help vegetative shoots from the rhizome it grows very strongly, it can become a hard-to-remove weed.

Byzantine chistets
Elimus
two-source

These herbs will add charm to your flower garden, give it sophistication and attractiveness.

tall plants

First of all, among tall drought-resistant plants, I would like to note decorative bow, mallow. Each of these plants is beautiful in its own way. Double flowers of stock-rose captivate your heart with their richness of shades - from burgundy to snow-white. Mallow blooms all summer - from June to almost frost. And these plants grow up to two meters in height.

Not far behind them is the decorative Allium bow. Up to one hundred and seventy centimeters, its spherical inflorescences of pink and white shades rise.

Yellow is the color of the sun, and for good reason yellow flowers are a symbol of joy and happiness. They bring warmth to any corner of the garden ...

drought tolerant shrubs

It is often very difficult, when building a landscape, to do without ornamental shrubs. Shrubs - this is the note that makes the garden sound for real, gives completeness and visual completeness to the improvement of the territory, on which you put so much of your strength, your imagination, your desire for beauty.

Juniper Cossack (Juniperus sabina) out of competition. Does not need additional care, quite steadfastly withstands adverse conditions. Attractive, evergreen, we can say about this shrub that if there are charismatic plants, then this is about him. Juniper with its presence brings a special charm and beauty to the landscape.

Euonymus (Euonymus)- a beautiful, very bright, even somewhat picturesque shrub. It is difficult to look away from the euonymus, surrounded by properly selected low-growing plants. In the summer months, its openwork, dark green foliage attracts, but autumn comes, and such a riot of colors embraces the crown of the bush - you can’t take your eyes off it. Many species are quite drought tolerant. This applies to, and others.

A good example of unpretentiousness and drought tolerance is barberry (Berberis). Yellow and bright red leaves adorn the long, thorny branches. Barberry loves the sun and feels great under its rays. Details of caring for this shrub can be found here Euonymus

• Carefully thought out which plants should grow nearby. In no case do not plant a drought-resistant plant next to a moisture-loving one. It will be very difficult to organize watering.
• When planting plants, the correct distance should be established between them. For plants that like to grow too much, root limiters should be used - they should be planted in containers without a bottom, buried in the ground, there will be no horizontal spread of roots further than expected.
• Watering such flower beds should be rare, but plentiful.