Summer Flowers

It's true that some hobby gardeners love to create flowerbeds that burst with every color imaginable, mixing daisies, Adonis, summer forget-me-nots, snapdragons, and many other summer flowers in a vibrant jumble. While this can create a charming, natural impression, it often doesn't do justice to the beauty of individual blooms.

Instead, carefully crafted compositions of harmoniously matching flowers, which bloom at different times or have varying heights, offer a more serene experience. They guide the viewer's eye from one flower to the next, allowing each species to shine. This approach results in a garden that feels both elegant and well-maintained.

To skillfully compose your flowerbed, first determine the viewer's focal point. This depends on your garden's pathways, the location of seating areas, and, of course, your house and patio. Now, purchase your summer flowers sorted by bloom color and height. You should also ensure that flowers will be blooming throughout the entire summer to make the bed as magnificent as possible.

Once you have your plants, set them into the well-prepared, compost-enriched, sunny bed so that the smallest ones are at the front and along the sides.

Small summer flowers that grow no taller than 30 cm include garden chervil, gray cress, bidens, and field marigold. After these, you can plant those that reach about half a meter in height, such as cornflowers, blue wax flowers, field larkspur, or even tricolor bindweed.

In the middle, you can feature particularly large and spectacular flowers like jimsonweed, fleabane, yellow horned poppy, or even a cotton plant. The latter not only blooms beautifully but also fascinates observers with its interesting cotton bolls.

If you're up for a small effort, you can let some of your summer flowers go to seed. This allows you to easily propagate your favorite annuals for the following year. Otherwise, you can improve your flowers' bloom performance by regularly removing withered flower heads and fertilizing them often.