It is difficult to imagine a garden without tall, flowering plants, which either rivet our attention with the perfection of color and form, sometimes remain invisible, acting in the background for other floral arrangements. Tall flowers for the garden, creating bright accents, give the site dynamism and completeness. In order for tall perennials to bring individual uniqueness to the landscape design of the site, it is advisable to consider the characteristics of these representatives of the plant world when choosing plants.
Features of growing tall flowers
Often tall, flowering plants are called giant flowers. The reason for this is their gigantic growth, which can vary in the range of 1-2.5 and more meters.
This feature should be taken into account when choosing a place for the plant: thanks to its high growth, such flowers can successfully decorate any unsightly areas.
Although most plants of this group are not particularly picky about the soil, they still show the greatest decorativeness on deep and rich soils. Among tall representatives of the plant world there are practically no shade-tolerant specimens.
Since the vegetation processes in tall plants determine the flowering period, which begins in the second half of summer and can last throughout the fall, these flowers especially need enough moisture.
The structural features of the core root system allow the flower to extract moisture from deeper soil layers when the topsoil dries up
Successfully tolerate short-term drought, tall perennial flowers that have a stem root, for example: tuberous snake, Astrania minor, panicled hypsophila, Elecampane tall, katran hearty, mordovia, beautiful teleia, Mullein, rhubarb.
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Plants that are more demanding of soil moisture have a fibrous root system. These include: large-headed cornflower, wrinkled mallow, lamellar astilbodies, New Belgian aster, Maclea, meadowsweet plants, geleniums, aconites, goldenrod.
Decorative shapes of tall perennials
Despite the apparent simplicity, these garden perennials, quickly mastering the space in the garden, become its bright decoration. The sun-loving exotics of lupins brought to us from North America are very popular not only due to the variety of beautiful forms. These plants are very useful because they have nodules on their roots containing bacteria that can produce nitrogen directly from the air.
One of the most popular tall perennials that are widely used in the design of suburban areas are lupins.
It is difficult to tear your eyes away from the snow-white, cream and even pink clouds of meadowsweet flowers resembling
This perennial, reaching up to 1.5 in height, also has an unusually beautiful cirrus-dissected foliage of rich green and golden hues. The shade-tolerant, moisture-loving handsome meadowsweet is effective both as a solitary plant and in group plantings against a background of a pond or lawn.
High powerful delphinium peduncles dotted with a scattering of miniature candles of the most incredible shades also look elegant.
Unpretentious care perennial can grow in one place up to 10 years. It is ideal for creating the so-called "lazy" garden. Interesting are the groups of delphiniums combined from varieties with contrasting colors. The delphinium can also grow on semi-shaded areas in the garden, but it shows beauty in full force only in the sun.
Gentle spikelets of inflorescences of Volzhanka or Buzulnik, reaching up to 2 meters in height, delight flowering throughout the summer
These tall flowers loved by many gardeners prefer shaded areas.
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The picky perennial is often used as a beautiful living screen, masking the unsightly corners of the site. The buzulnik most effectively looks in the vicinity of gaillardia, hosta, incense, rogers, rudbeckia, and medunica.
An elegant digitalis that looks like a tall bell will not leave anyone indifferent, striking others with its defiant beauty
A rosette of rather large elliptical shape of digitalis leaves is crowned with a spike-shaped inflorescence, decorated with many flowers-funnels of a wide range of shades, ranging from white and cream to golden brown and purple. Perennial feels great in shaded areas. Digitalis is in perfect harmony with honeysuckle, rhodonedrons, aquilegia and hosts.
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Soaring at a height of two to three meters, the "lavender fog" surrounded by a greenish cloud of openwork leaves, created by a tall cornflower, amazes with its splendor
An abundantly flowering perennial in all its glory manifests itself in slightly shaded areas on moist, rich soils. The plant itself is quite tall, but thanks to large clumps of inflorescences bordered by elegant dissected foliage, it seems light and airy.
Combining planting, taking into account the decorative features of each plant, you can create chic multi-tiered plant compositions that perfectly fit into the garden of any style.
