The most beautiful drought-resistant flowers for a flower bed
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Sun-loving flowers
Drought tolerant plants have gained the most popularity as many of them are perennial ground cover flowers, grasses and shrubs. By the way, they are used not only in the personal plot - unpretentious plants are suitable for maintaining a neat appearance of the plots in the cemetery. Flowerbeds in sunny areas will be decorated with many perennials, due to their unpretentiousness to conditions. Drought tolerant flowers are abundant, so all you have to do is arrange them and enjoy blooming.
Peony - despite the fact that it blooms in late spring, it will decorate the garden with neat green foliage throughout the summer. Moreover, he is a record holder for longevity and rarely needs a transplant. Hosta is an ornamental plant with flowers that look like bells. The richness of colors and expressive leaves will serve as a decoration for any flower bed.
Echinacea with its large, fleshy stems and flowers, will easily take root in any soil with any light. Echinacea blooms in summer and autumn, it is tall. The drought-resistant echinacea stems will brighten up your garden, even outside the flowering period.
Garden chamomile - will not create any problems during growth, but will delight you with large white flowers. Keep in mind that by autumn it will begin to multiply, so if you do not want the dominance of chamomile, take care of the rhizome of the flower. For sunny places, perennial ground cover flowers are suitable. They form a beautiful pillow on the ground, delighting not only with beautiful flowers, but also with juicy leaves.
Stone rose - looks like rosettes with short plump leaves of deep green or dark purple color. In the middle of summer, a stem with a large flower at the end rises from the outlet. Its flowers will decorate the cemetery if you don't have time to care for the plants.
Carnation - has a variety of varieties and colors. After it has faded, the stems should be cut and then you will get neat bluish bushes. Yaskolka - actively grows both above the ground and below it. Its leaves are gray or silver in color, and it blooms with white star-shaped flowers.
Sedum is the king of floral carpets. Ground cover flowers, in principle, are characterized by abundant growth, but Sedum leads in the area that it occupies. There are no places where he would not take root. It blooms with an abundance of pink, yellow, white flowers that last all summer. It can be planted in a graveyard to form a beautiful pillow.
Heuchera - also forms rosettes of leaves, and they have a different color: there are green, gray, even red shades. Heuchera reaches a height of 30 cm, and during flowering up to 60 cm.
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Drought tolerant herbs
There are quite a few herbs that meet the requirements of arid areas. Drought-resistant ground cover grasses will decorate not only the flower beds, but also the dining table, which increases their value.In addition, grasses can be sown in a cemetery, creating a neat and well-groomed look.
Thyme - in addition to its strong aroma, it has beautiful lilac flowers. But when planting it in the garden, be careful - all the surrounding bumblebees and bees will gather to taste its pollen. Cypress euphorbia is a short herb with sharp needle-like leaves. It blooms twice - at the end of spring and summer. There are so many flowers that each bush turns into a fluffy ball.
Gray fescue - attracts attention with its sharp, bluish-green leaves. It is often compared to the sea urchin for its obvious resemblance. Plant it in the front rows and renew it every 4 years for a long lasting carpet. The advantage of Fescue is that it does not grow and continues to grow even in winter. Fescue ground cover bushes will give your graveyard plots a neat look.
Ornamental trees and shrubs
Drought-resistant shrubs are a real salvation for places where there is no shade, but there is a lot of scorching sun rays. Ground cover shrubs are less common than grasses or flowers. But on the other hand, they create lush hedges (which can be used to limit the area in the cemetery).
Gaillardia - comes from the Aster family. This bush with wide branches up to 70 cm in height, blooms with large bright flowers. Alpine aster is a shrub that blooms with small multi-colored flowers in June. Hydrangea is a shrub that blooms in mid-summer to late fall. She is willingly planted in the cemetery due to the fact that she is evergreen and with beautiful flowers.
Forsythia - trees and shrubs that bloom in early spring with bright yellow flowers. Jasmine, chubushnik is a sprawling bush with large white flowers that spread a thick aroma. Unpretentious in terms of growing areas, but requires good watering.
Yarrow is another representative of the Astrov family. It grows in bushes up to 70 cm in height, blooms with flat flowers of white, yellow or red. Juniper garden - a tree-like shrub with needle-like or scaly leaves, gray fruits. After the rain, it spreads a thick aroma, so if you want to achieve a variety of smells in the garden, water the juniper from time to time or bring wet twigs into the house.
Ground cover shrubs include horizontal cotoneaster. This evergreen shrub spreads along the ground, grows quickly and rarely grows above 50 cm. Mountain pine is a tree or shrub with brown-gray bark, dark green needles and small beautiful gray-brown cones. Whether it's a flower bed or a graveyard, plants that take the heat easily will add freshness to any area, even if you don't have a designer vein.
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