What perennial flowers are suitable for Siberia?
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Undersized
Low-growing plants look great both in small areas of the flower bed and in large meadows. Frost-resistant varieties include virtually all known primroses. Primroses have a long bloom, so they will decorate your garden throughout the spring season.
They are low, about 10-25 cm, look good when planting in a group, often not looking very good in single plantings. The bright colors of the inflorescences are characteristic of the varieties Arktika red, Bicolor calypso, Cherry with a border. If you need more restrained colors, pastel shades, then pay attention to the Yellow Eye, Blue, White, Salmon Orange, Apple Blossom, SPRINGTIDE Mix.
Snowdrops are certainly suitable for the unresponsive Siberian climate. The snowdrop snowdrop, among other things, scatters on its own over the site, and the broad-leaved snowdrop with its double flowers will make any flower garden sophisticated. Lilies of the valley and pansies will not only brighten up the spring season with their flowering, but also provide a green carpet for the rest of the year.
The not very popular Chionodox flower blooms with blue or blue bells, very similar to snowdrops. Narrow basal leaves create a cushion for the inflorescences. The flowering period of Chionodoxa is from April to May.
Medium-sized
Flowers and grasses of medium height will help create neat living fences along garden paths or low flower beds. Almost all varieties of tulips survive the weather conditions in Novosibirsk with envy. Early terry varieties such as Bonanza, Carlton, simple types Brilliant Star, Diana. Due to their height (from 30-40 cm), tulips can be combined in group plantings, or planted one at a time.
Narcissus also fits perfectly into cold climates. Moreover, it does not need to be dug out every year. Preference should be given to tubular (Mount Hood, Beersheba), large-crown (Helios) or terry (Golden Ducat, Inglescomb, Snowball) varieties.
Iris reticulated, just like its fellow iris bearded, frost-resistant, unpretentious, beautiful during the flowering period. There is also a Siberian variety, which gets along even better with the Siberian climate, decorating flower beds with blue-blue flowers. They will easily survive the cold, hardships, short summer: anemone, chrysanthemum, daylilies, medium-sized varieties of asters, erythronium, panicle hydrangea.
Video "Perennial flowers of Siberia"
The video shows photographs of perennial flowers growing in Siberia.
Tall plants
Tall plants can always be included in an interesting design composition of your flower bed, building bizarre cascades, combining tall plants with those that are lower. This will give your flower bed or garden a zest, turning your relaxation area into a horticultural masterpiece. Siberian gardeners in their cooler latitudes can grow beautiful flowers on tall stems.
Among them are the most unpretentious, incredibly beautiful phloxes. Fragrant flowers, reaching a height of 40 cm, are resistant to low temperatures, do not require special additional care - the bulbs of this perennial do not have to be dug out every time and kept warm. Even in frozen soil, the plant retains its vitality.
Rose - will become a real decoration of your garden and flower beds. Of course, the queen of flowers requires special care, as well as a lot of effort to create the conditions for her growth. But the beauty and scent of pink flowers deserves all the effort.
The real bedstraw, a companion of the spring thermophilic bedstraw, reaching 1 meter in height, will also become a real decoration of the flower bed. Its yellow inflorescences will add juiciness, sunshine to your garden, and its "wild" beauty will add elements of naturalness to your composition. The plant is completely unpretentious and takes root well in any kind of soil, and especially in soil containing clay.
New Belgian aster - luxurious bushes of beautiful flowers of different shades. It blooms in the fall, continues to delight the eye until the onset of cold weather. Astra also gets along well with coolness and is able to get along with other perennials. Special care for the New Belgian aster is not needed, but mineral fertilizers will provide its density, juiciness, saturation.
Perennial decorative flowers growing in Siberia are truly not inferior in their diversity to plants of warmer latitudes. If you approach the matter with imagination, calculate the flowering time of each of the perennials, you can decorate your garden so that, from early spring to the very frost, you can admire the picturesque man-made landscape of your garden and flower beds. Combine, choose varieties, combine colors, so you can create for yourself the most comfortable corner where you can relax, enjoying the natural beauty.
Video "Perennials of Siberian latitudes"
Video selection of the most common perennial flowers that grow favorably in the northern regions of Russia.