Top 7 best Summer plants that can be sown directly into the soil

It is generally accepted that the most luxuriantly flowering plants love warmth, and they should be planted in the ground only with seedlings. Not every summer resident has the opportunity to cook or buy flower seedlings.

I found a few plants that you can seed right in your garden and enjoy blooming all summer long.

1. Marigolds (tagetes)

I love this flower dearly, although many consider it too simple. In my collection there are varieties with double lemon and bright orange flowers, low and high.

All varieties can be sown in the ground in May. From June until frost, the flower bed will be covered with bright flowers.

2. Large-flowered flax

His flowers are small, but bright as lights: crimson, blue, blue. Completely unpretentious. I also grow from self-seeding, seedlings are not afraid of small frosts.

3. Phlox Drummond

A bright herbaceous annual that can be sown with seeds. I choose a color mix so that flowers of different shades bloom on the flower bed.

Sown in May, plants bloom in early July, and continue to form buds until autumn.

4. Sweet pea

Its buds are like moths and delight the eye with gentle pastel tones: pink, blue, light lilac, white.

There are varieties of different heights. I like dwarf Fantasy, Purple Cupid, Scarlet Pearl.

5. Alissum

Fast growing ground cover plants. Form lush bushes with many shoots. The flowers are fragrant, small, collected in inflorescences of white, lilac, red shades.

Seeds are sown in the garden at the end of April, covered with a film to keep warm. You can admire the flowering of alyssum 1.5 months after the emergence of seedlings.

6. Amaranth (shir)

An interesting plant that forms bushes with large leaves and bright burgundy inflorescences in the form of brushes. The width is sown in early May, on a fertile garden bed. Amaranth is not afraid of frost.

Flowering occurs in the second half of summer. The plant is attractive not only for its flowers, but also for its beautiful green or burgundy leaves.

7. Kosmeya

When the seeds are laid directly into the ground, flowering occurs in July and lasts until cold weather. You can also sow seeds in winter, then flowering will begin in June next year.

The buds are large, the flowers are simple, white, pink, scarlet, blue or burgundy. In combination with delicate feathery leaves, large flowers look especially advantageous.