The most favorite and common annual among flower growers is petunia. Thanks to the unpretentiousness and long flowering actively used in landscape design. A variety of varieties allows you to create colorful flower beds and fascinating compositions.
Seedlings are usually grown at home or purchased in retail chains. Using cuttings for the May planting, this should be taken care of in March. Using the seedling method, a petunia bed is created in one day.
Growing petunias is a simple process, it is important to plant them correctly. In flowerbeds, rows or circles are usually observed, in any case, leave the recommended distances between seedlings. For small-flowered varieties, an interval of 15 cm is maintained, large-flowering varieties require more space - 20 cm, ampelous - from 30. With more frequent placement, the plants will be depleted, oppressed by each other and stretched. As a result, they completely lose their decorative effect.
The soil also matters - petunia loves the neutral acidity of sandy loamy soil or loam. On earth with high content of downed clay, development slows down and there is no splendor of flowering. Make sure that planting is carried out in light and loose fertile soil. It is recommended to add Agrovermiculite or Perlite to the pits.
monochrome
A classic version of the use of petunias, which is ideal for location on the lawn and looks fascinating in the front area. In the design of any form, only petunias are used. Plants are divided into varieties and planted in circles, stripes, geometric shapes. Usually seedlings with white flowers are used for edging.
Mini flower bed of petunias
Miniature flower beds are often created to decorate the recreation area, the area near the house, the porch, the gazebos. Such flower beds necessarily have a restrictive edging. For mini flower beds use large bush varieties. Here it is also possible to use ampelous species.
Petunia and conifers
A flower garden of petunias around a coniferous tree harmoniously fits into the rich density of greenery and complements it with the bright colors of its inflorescences. Combinations are used with cypress, pine, thuja, spruce and a small juniper. The flower garden can be made around the entire circumference, from the side, in the form of a semicircle, rectangle.
Suspended structures
Petunias planted in hanging containers, flower pots decorate the porch, gazebo, entrance summer kitchen. Often they build special frames, arches in which pots are placed different sizes on hooks, chains, cords.
Petunia flower beds with other flowers
In vertical variations, ivy, lobelia, balsam, sweet pea, verbena are suitable. Tall marigolds are planted in the center of round flowerbeds of pink and purple petunias, and a short coleus is planted along the edges for framing. Such flower beds are always beautiful and original.
A flower bed is the most common element in the design of a summer cottage. It has the following features: a raised surface, a clear, most often geometric shape, closed loop. It is customary to divide flower beds into regular and irregular. The former are characterized by strict geometric patterns and clear lines. Flowering plants should be simultaneous and continuous. Beautiful regular flower beds can be made from marigolds, salvia, begonias, petunias, tulips. Most often, they require a considerable area and are more suitable for parks with their large territories. But there are also chamber options that are quite appropriate in the country or in the garden near a private house. Applying simple circuits, you can make a stylish and original flower bed.
Most suitable flowers to fill the flower garden - annuals. Bright colors, unpretentiousness and long flowering- these are their distinguishing features.
Marigolds are very diverse both in height and in the shape and size of flowers. Color palette these plants are not very wide, they are: yellow, orange, red and brown. But inside it there is a huge variety of shades and color combinations. There are many hybrid forms that have surpassed their parents in flower size and decorativeness. Varieties with flowers of creamy and pure white color. Flowerbeds from these sunny and bright colors will be appropriate in the garden, decorated in any style landscape design.
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There are a lot of options for marigold flower beds. The main difference is in the set of plants. The design of flower beds with marigolds can have two options.
Consist only of marigolds. Such a flower garden is the best option for a beginner grower. A flower bed of any simple geometric shape planted with Chernobrivtsy, as they are affectionately called in Ukraine, of the same variety. Preference is given to low flowers with large inflorescences. With a fairly dense planting, at least twenty-five centimeters between plants, they give the effect of a flower carpet. Varieties of undersized marigolds for such a flower garden: "Lemon Miracle", "Orange Snow", "Eskimo" with white flowers. All of them have a height of 35 centimeters and inflorescences with a diameter of 6 to 8 centimeters. The work on creating such a flower bed is simple, and the result is impressive. You can shade a single-color flower bed with a marigold border in a contrasting color or alternate plants of two colors.
It is easy enough to break a round mono-flower. It can consist of regular concentric circles, then the center of the composition coincides with the center of the flower bed. You can shift it and get a traditional flower garden original design.
Scheme of a round mono-flower from marigolds
Flowerbeds are single-colored. Varieties of marigolds.
Orange.
Marigolds "Marvel Orange"
Marigolds "Marie Helen"
From these varieties, you can create both a single-color and a combined flower bed.
The composition consisting of three flower beds looks interesting. They can be both at the same level and at different heights. Each flower bed is populated with marigolds of the same color and height.
Scheme of three flower beds from marigolds
Varieties of marigolds are suitable for flower beds:
This sunny flower It goes well with other flowers, annuals and perennials. Flowers with a contrasting color are suitable: all shades of blue and purple, red, white. A one-color combination is also possible, but the flowers should have a different structure.
Most suitable options annuals: alissums of all colors, blue and white ageratums, salvia red and blue, gaillardia, nasturtium red and yellow color, blue nemesia, nolan, blue nemophila, snapdragons of burgundy, red, yellow and white shades, petunia purple, blue, yellow and white, asters purple, blue, blue, white, red, as well as small ones and which need to start in March. Silvery leaves of cineraria will perfectly set off bright colors.
In a flower bed of a laconic floral pattern with a star, such plants coexist perfectly:
Difficulties in creating this element garden design will only be at markup. The best option- make a drawing on paper and transfer to nature in the right scale. Flower decoration will not cause difficulties. Planting density: for marigolds - 30 cm, for salvia - 20 cm. These crops are planted with pre-grown seedlings.
To arrange a mixed flower bed with your own hands, you can use the following perennials: Germanic blue irises and purple hues, nivyaniks, various bells, low phloxes of white and lilac shades, blue aquilegia, silver woolly chistets.
For such a flower bed, the following plants can be recommended:
The design of the flower bed is simple: it is divided into sectors, each is given to one annual flower culture, the center is made up of perennial irises. They do not bloom very long, but the beautiful xiphoid leaves will serve as a decoration all summer.
Wanting to break a flower bed, each gardener will devote enough time to the selection suitable plants. What are the requirements? This will depend on the task to be performed given zone recreation.
For example, if it is planned to have tea parties and meetings with friends here both in autumn and winter, then it is worth planting evergreen bushes and trees on the site. Rest in the summer suggests that hot days will not interfere with the lush flowering of flowerbed plants.
Is there a flower that is not afraid of either the scorching sun, or the wind, or even sudden changes in temperature? Yes there is.
A rare flower bed or flowerpot does without a beautiful petunia. Gradually, this plant is gaining the respect of all flower growers. Why do you like this modest flower so much experienced designers landscape and amateur gardeners? What are the varieties in the family of this botanical genus? What care is required for a petunia to bloom all summer? These questions are worth considering in more detail.
Petunias on the balcony look great. The brightness of colors, the riot of flowering - will decorate any balcony and distinguish it from others. And how pleasant it is to have a tea party surrounded by flowers on the balcony and enjoy their aroma and beauty! Check out the ideas of petunias on the balcony!
Petunia in the garden
Planning a flower garden is a concern for both the beauty and practicality of planting. Petunia satisfies both of these needs.
For example, due to the variety of its colors and shapes, it harmonizes perfectly with any flowers in the flower bed. But he can also perform solo. Wherein appearance area is not affected in any way. When planting flowers, you need to consider such an important point as their ability to get along in the neighborhood. After all, plants that need different conditions, will not be able to coexist normally. The consequences are sometimes very sad. Being a non-capricious flower that grows safely even next to roses, the petunia deserves its place in the most sophisticated flower beds. At the same time, she does not cease to bloom generously.
We have selected photos, looking at which you can be inspired by the ideas of decorating the garden with petunias and choose for yourself interesting options flower beds of petunias
It would be nice to calculate the time of flowering of flower bed plants. Some gardeners prefer stepped flowering. When some blooming buds come to replace others. Then the constantly blooming petunias will serve as an excellent backdrop for the changing pattern of colors and shapes of other plants.
To understand how popular this flower is, you need to get to know it better. This letnik is a representative of the Solanaceae genus. And even though he himself South America, the area of cultivation of petunias is almost the entire Earth.
New varieties are being created. Thanks to this, it became possible to grow petunias different colors and forms. Plant breeders note tape, terry and cold-resistant varieties, as well as surfinia and ampelous hybrids.
The color range of the plant is so wide that it includes both primary colors and their shades. There are white petunias, salmon, yellow, blue and pink, there are also dark purple and bright red.
The size of the flower also makes a difference in the signs. decorative features petunias. The diameter of a flower resembling a funnel is from 4 cm to 13, and small-flowered varieties, 2.5-4 cm.
There are 4 groups of petunias:
large-flowered;
Many-flowered;
Dwarf;
Ampel.
All varieties and groups contribute to the decoration of both sophisticated and simple flower beds.
You can buy already blooming petunias in pots, and you can also try growing petunias from seeds.
petunia care
This unpretentious plant does not require special care. It grows even where there is no constant watering, where the hot summer sun will dry out the rest of the flowers.
Gardeners advise planting petunias in open ground late autumn or in early spring as soon as the snow melts. But often the flower itself can reproduce by self-seeding.
Watering petunias is desirable to arrange plentiful so that the earth is saturated with moisture by 10-15 centimeters. Bright rays summer sun they will not be afraid of a flower if they water it in the morning and in the evening.
Abundant flowering guarantees both timely feeding of the plant and its haircut. How to fertilize petunias? Any complex feed with the addition of potassium will do. Shortening the cuttings to 10 centimeters will be especially relevant on hot days.
Beauty petunia will always thank the one who cares for her. Her luxurious flowering will give a lot of positive emotions. Any flower seduces with its beauty. But simple petunia able to turn a flower bed into a masterpiece that captures attention.
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Petunia represents beautiful flower exuding a delicate honey aroma. Very often they are used in the design of decorative landscapes in gardens, on summer cottages and in city parks. With this option, there is a large number of thanks to the huge number of varieties of petunias.
Today we will tell you how you can use it to decorate a flower bed in the garden and not only, as well as what other plants petunia can be combined with. Some examples include photos so you can see the examples first hand.
Few people know that petunia belongs to the category of nightshade plants, and potatoes also belong to them. long time petunia grew up wild plant and didn't have decorative effect , and only in the 19th century it was noticed by breeders who made hybrid decorative varieties based on it.
There are more and more of them every year, gardeners love both old and new types of petunias. The most popular for growing in gardens are petunias of ampelous varieties. In the photo you can see how they look, their description is as follows:
The color range of petunias is striking in its diversity. So, their flowers are:
Due to the presence of a huge number of varieties, many lovers often use them to decorate the garden. For example, arrange beautiful flower beds based on them. In the photo you can see examples of creating such compositions.
The flower bed in the garden is a well-thought-out composition, where each plant has its place. It is best to plant in a flower bed ready seedlings according to the planned project. But we do not always sow seeds in a flower bed good decision, since many may not ascend and disappear when grown, respectively, the design of the garden according to the plan may not work.
Petunia seedlings can be grown on their own or purchased from ready-made. If there are difficulties with the purchase, then it will not be easy to grow it with your own hands:
When growing seedlings of petunias on your own, the process should begin in early spring. In this case seedlings will be ready for transplanting into the ground in early summer. Also, a flower bed in the garden with the help of petunias can be arranged faster, but it is very expensive: buy large bushes and plant them where you need them.
Petunia loves the sun very much and treats the heat well. Therefore, in the garden for her, you need to choose places in the open sunny areas, which are darkened at noon with the help of a young tree, picket fence or something else. The plant will feel somewhat worse in places with great blackout., where the sun breaks through only for half a day, or under the crowns of trees. But a deep shadow for a petunia is completely contraindicated, the branches will stretch out, and the flowering will be very weak, as a result of which the flowers will turn pale.
For petunias, you need to choose a neutral or fertile soil. Best of all - sandy or loamy. But if the soil is heavy and clayey, this will not be very good for the plant: growth and flowering will slow down. The soil can be improved by loosening. To do this, it is dug up and fertile soil is added to it from another site or peat. Also, when planting in the hole, you can add a little baking powder, for example:
Remember that petunias, especially ampelous ones, tend to grow. They have developed root system, that's why to create a beautiful flower bed, you do not need to make plantings thick. This can lead to the struggle of plants for space, as a result of which some will begin to oppress others. In addition, such planting density can provoke the appearance powdery mildew and other fungal diseases.
To avoid this, it is necessary to observe the following distances in the collective plantings of petunias:
In some cases, ampel varieties require even greater distance from each other. For example, variety "Typhoon" should be planted 40–70 cm apart for a beautiful bloom.
To get a beautiful and attractive garden composition, petunias can be combined with each other by variety, or with other plants.
When planting flower beds in gardens, you need to choose samples that throughout the summer they are able to maintain an attractive appearance and tolerate heat well. An excellent choice would be flowers such as:
And the background of the composition can be low-growing deciduous plants:
AT spring period petunias can be combined with bulbous flowers, which dry the leaves for the summer:
In case of drought, they should be dug up and replaced with other flowers, or these areas should be temporarily covered with decorative leaves or ground cover plants.
A flowerbed with petunias under a tree will look even better if it is decorated with plants such as:
Petunia beds can be planted in containers, then plants can be combined with lobelia, balsam, verbena, viola, pelargonium and other flowers.
Petunias in the garden: flowerbed design options
We present to your attention several examples of the design of compositions in gardens based on petunias. You can see some samples in the photo.
Monoklumba is the simplest composition, while very attractive. In its most rigorous version, it means planting petunias of the same variety, such a flower bed will look like a monochrome spot. But if you place petunias on it different forms and shades, it, despite its name, will look diverse.
The mono-flower can be supplemented with such an element as conifer tree in the center, characterized by a clear geometry. As options:
Such a composition gets its appearance due to the vertical walls. She has no bottom, but petunias are able to develop, as well as on open field. Ampelous plants planted inside. The soil for a raised flower bed can be made better depending on the flower variety. To do this, it can be fertilized with components such as:
Such solutions are suitable for paved courtyards, where there are small landing pockets between the plates. A large-flowered bush petunia is planted in them, which over time completely covers the earth gaps. Instead, you can take seedlings of ampels and surfinias, which grow much faster than bush plants and create ground cover color compositions. Small flower beds will decorate the paved area and give new shades garden composition generally.
For round flower bed take two varieties of petunias purple and dark pink. It turns out bright and lands in a circle. In the center, you need to place a bush of orange marigolds. As a border, we plant undersized coleus bushes, which will help keep the shape of the composition.
The height of the flowerbed plants decreases from the center to the periphery, the composition itself has the shape of a dome and looks slightly elevated above the ground.
Petunia is a culture that grows well not only in open, but also in closed ground, so they can be grown in pots and containers. Due to this, they can be used to create vertical multi-tiered compositions that are assembled on the basis of different elements.
A vertical flower bed is made from wooden screen, containers with flowers are attached vertically to it. Another variant - creation of a flower tower, which is a planting sections piled on top of each other. And the third way is to create an arched metal frame, which serves as the main one for attaching several large planters with petunias.
For ampelous flower varieties, containers should be as spacious as possible and have drainage holes.
Growing petunias in this way is much more difficult than in open ground. One of the problems is the limited amount of soil, which is not very good for the plant. For the normal development of a flower, you need at least 2 liters soil mixture, and for ampelous plants- up to 4 liters, respectively.
Of course, a beautifully designed composition in the garden based on petunias is far from the end of work on it. Naturally, she requires personal care in order to delight you with her flowering and beauty.
The first thing flowers need is regular watering and feeding. In summer, in the heat, you need to water the flower bed at least once a day. Better either in the morning or in the evening when the sun is still not too scorching. At noon, watering is also possible, but only if the composition is shaded.. When watering, it is very important that the sun does not scorch the bushes, otherwise the burns will be too noticeable.
Fertilizers for petunias are needed for lush flowering. Here you can use both mullein, ash solution and other organics, and mineral fertilizers. But remember that at the seedling stage, petunias need more nitrogen, and during flowering - phosphorus and potassium. If you are planning to use purchased fertilizers, pay attention to the packaging, which indicates the ratio of all macronutrients.
Petunias will become a worthy decoration of a garden or plot, not only as part of a composition, but also individually. And if you follow simple rules care, they will certainly delight you all summer.
How to make your garden or balcony bright, fresh and blooming all summer long? Enough to plant a petunia.
And how to do it right, we will tell below.
If you want blooming petunias to delight you in April, you should plant in February. Then it is necessary to highlight it with a fluorescent lamp and keep the temperature within + 15–22 degrees.
However, it is better to start planting plant seeds in the second half of March. If the petunia grows on the south side, it is no longer necessary to highlight it with a special lamp.
Petunia belongs to undemanding plants, but it is recommended to use fertile soil for sowing, containing sand, humus or leaf ground. +17–19 degrees - optimum temperature in the petunia seedling room.
Prepare special seedling trays or small cups. Then plant your seeds with soil in them, but do not sprinkle on top.
Slightly moisten the soil and cover your seedlings with glass or transparent film - it will turn out small greenhouse. Petunias will grow better and faster if snow is used. Cover them with the seeds you have sown.
Periodically ventilate the room and water the seedlings a little, you can use a spray bottle. But don't overdo it! The ground should be slightly damp, not wet. Too much moisture can destroy plants.
The first shoots will appear in about 10 days. After the first shoots get stronger and a few leaves grow, transplant the plants into separate containers.
Petunia care consists of regular watering and fertilizing with nitrogen or complex fertilizers. This should be done about once every two weeks.
Petunias should not be planted in plant pots until May (depending on the climate in your area). If you do this earlier, then you must definitely monitor the temperature and, when it gets cold, cover the plant with glass jars.
Most often, gardeners grow ampelous, large-flowered or terry varieties. New shoots appear due to the self-seeding of the petunia, so it is necessary to weed out the extra stems in time, otherwise they may interfere with the rest of the plants.
The soil is suitable fertile, containing sand or clay, and the place should be well lit by the sun. Petunia doesn't like shadows.
This plant loves moisture, so you need to constantly water it under the root. But remember that too much water will make the petunias sick. It is also necessary during flowering to feed this beauty once every 10 days. A complex inorganic fertilizer with useful minerals is suitable for this.
How to make a bush lush? At the first stage of growth, remove the middle shoot at the level of 3-5 internode in the center. Then repeat this procedure with the side stems.
Growing this plant in a pot is a little more difficult than growing it in the garden. The soil should be loose and nutritious, and also retain water well.
To do this, add perlite or hydrogel. Make sure that the petunias always have moisture.
Feed petunia seedlings with a solution of EO at a ratio of approximately 1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water.