4 beautiful annuals: bloom almost all summer

Annuals - required guests in my garden. Planting them, we can every year to change the appearance of the area, to try something new or stay true to your personal preferences. In this article I will talk about the top 5 in my opinion, ornamental plants, annuals. They are united by "highlight" - a long flowering: you and your site visitors will admire the flowerbed almost all summer (and fall more often!).

With someone of the heroes of the article you are intimately familiar. I hope that will be able to discover new species!

1. Beauty-Petunia

Petunia - a popular garden plant with a delicate aroma. We derive a lot of different varieties. They differ in the structure of the flower (simple and double), painting, type. Some of the varieties - a compact bushes, covered with flowers in summer. Others form the whole fragrant cascades!

Petunia pinch to the plant branch and looked lush ball, or carpet.

To petunia blossom in June, pre-grow seedlings or buy ready seedlings. Regularly water the planting. Especially if you put them on the site, open the scorching rays of summer sun. Otherwise wither and leaves, and still unopened buds.

2. Antirrhinum. Whew. Just snapdragons!

If you want to decorate your annual weed bed of the end of June and up to the frost, select the place of lions zevu. Small stems height of an average of 15 cm will be a wonderful catchy island, curb decoration paths or create a bright fringe in assorted flower beds.

Special attention is given the unusual shape of a flower. He vaguely like a lion's mouth, for which he earned Antirrhinum its popular name. There is another, less poetic name - "dog".

Snapdragon grows well on all types of soil, even without fertilizer. But, if you want a long and colorful blooms, it will take at least one dressing: during budding. The plant is perfectly content with precipitation and does not require regular watering. You do not have to "go for it" with the watering can. But if the hot and dry weather is already a few days, abundantly pour the flower bed with snapdragons.

3. Annual Zinnia - bright summer

Zinnia is similar to terry, very curvy daisies on thick stems. Feast for the eyes bright, positive color, which can be variegated. But most of all - plain, tightly pressed to each other petals.

Each flower zinnias - "long-playing". His life reached a record for most other colors, annuals 30-35 days. And to replace the fading buds open new ones!

Zinnia varieties differ from each other in height. Most of them are low-growing does not exceed 20 cm, whereas tall species easily reach 1 meter. And we can use to create a diversity of spectacular tracks in the garden! "Time" zinnias in the garden - from mid-June until late autumn, until the plant is to grab the first frost.

4. mysterious calceolaria

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To say that I see a bright calceolaria the flowerbeds at the florist very rarely - to say nothing. Unfortunately, the unusual plant with flower (both in form and coloring) unpopular. More is known as the flower room, rather than a garden. Maybe it's time to fix it? If you like a selection, please put "Thumbs up!" Thanks. Read more: 🔹 Spectacular flower bed (2 m) of 5 colors unpretentious: simple and tasteful! Driving, photos, description