Many gardeners take part of the garden, growing flowers for a bouquet. Titles and photos will be presented below. After all, how, sometimes, I want to decorate my home with fresh flowers. Perennial or annual flower plants, if you choose the right types and varieties, will delight you with their charm in the flowerbed, in the bouquets of the house. The article describes the types of perennial flowering plants with strong stems, beautiful flowers that, after cutting, retain freshness for many days, look great in a vase.
However, not all types of perennial flowers retain freshness for a long time after cutting, because of which they are usually not used for bouquets. Among perennials there are bulky species that are not suitable for a bouquet.
Choose those that you like in shape, color, flowering time - plant in your garden. In this case, you will provide yourself with fresh flowers in the flower beds and in vases for the whole season.
Perennial flowers
In the spring, such grassy flower plants as peonies, nyvyanik, watershed, fragrant killer grass, soft cuff, red heichera bloom first. Delicate shades of flowers in these plants allow you to make bouquets of them in a romantic style.
Spring flowers are being replaced by bright flowers of the beginning of summer: golden coreopsis, orange or yellow knifofiya and pale yellow yarrow of the Moonshine variety. These flowers blend very well with blue delphiniums.
At the same time, elegant white and blue bells bloom with leaves similar to peach leaves, and in areas with cooler climates - a shady European swimsuit and purple digitalis.
In the middle of summer, dozens of species of flower plants bloom, and gardeners get the opportunity to create bright bouquets in the style of impressionism. For cutting, red and light purple monard are tubular, blue scabiosis and pink astilbe.
Another flower that is often used to make bouquets is a lyatris with fluffy purple or white arrow-shaped inflorescences.
Very beautiful summer long-leaved veronica. Its tall plants with strong stems, pink or bright blue spikelets are unusually beautiful.
When composing bouquets, it is very important to observe the correct proportion between tall plants with spike-shaped inflorescences and plants that have flowers of a soft, rounded shape.
Plant a yarrow whose flowers are round in the shape of umbrellas.
Noteworthy is the variety of yarrow Credo. His flowers are pale yellow. They are deservedly popular with gardeners. Yarrow belongs to those few types of flowers that cannot be cut until pollen is visible on the inflorescences.
Another large flower, which due to the rounded shape of inflorescences can become the center of the composition of the bouquet, is a garden phlox. To prevent the petals from falling off soon, phloxes are cut as soon as the first flowers bloom, and not a day later.
Purple Echinacea is a perennial flowering plant, very revitalizing summer bouquets. The Magnus variety is especially good with large flat petals, which are less prone to fall than is observed in local species.
A bouquet of rudbeckia looks like a bunch of miniature sunflowers.
Hyssop anise is often grown for cutting. Anise hyssop plants have to be cut often, because only fresh flowers have a pleasant blue color, and then they fade. Hyssop flowers are very fond of visiting butterflies, therefore, it is advised to leave them in flower beds in small quantities all season.
When the summer begins to move smoothly into autumn, flowers appear for new magnificent bouquets. Stonecrop (sedum), as well as elegant aconite (wrestler) with rounded inflorescences are very good in bouquets, especially because they retain freshness for a long time.
Gracefully inclined goldenrod, which is also very simple to grow, are beautiful in a vase.
Goldenrod flowers (solidago) are an excellent food for many beneficial insects. It is believed that the flowers of the goldenrod cause hay fever, but the pollen of this plant is quite heavy and is not carried by the wind, which means that it does not cause any problems for allergy sufferers.
Perennial autumn asters, which are often found in our gardens, are very suitable for cutting. In autumn bouquets they look great.
In many regions, these late flowers remain fresh in vases for a long time and serve as a wonderful decoration for the festive table.
Caring for flowers allows them to bloom more profusely
If you need a fresh bouquet, cut perennial flowers without regret. Many varieties bred for bouquets, after cutting, even grow better and bloom longer. The reason for this phenomenon is that in flowering plants, the life cycle ends after they have flowered and produced seeds. When the cut interrupts the life cycle of the plant, it causes a second wave of flowering. For the same reason, it is recommended to remove flowers that have faded but not yet formed seeds. This is done to increase the number of flowers in the plantings of perennials.
If you have a desire to become a real florist, then thin out flower plantings before they bloom in order to stimulate the formation of a large number of flowers of the best quality.
Perennial flower growing experts believe that shortening the stems by half of some perennial flowers that have not entered the flowering phase allows the flowers to be postponed for several weeks: they bloom when the shortened plants have already bloomed. The following types of perennial flowers respond to such an appointment: veronica, heliopsis (golden ball), echinacea, stonecrop, goldenrod and garden phlox.
As for phlox, this beautiful perennial plant reacts to pruning stems in its own way. It often happens that phloxes grow very long stems, decorated with huge inflorescences, so they have to be tied up. In plants with shortened stems, the formation of a larger number of low stems with many less heavy inflorescences is observed. Such phloxes look better in bouquets.
To make flowers stand longer in a vase
In order for the bouquet to stay fresh longer in the vase, you need to cut off the leaves from the stems and put the flowers in a vase with water, adding one teaspoon of vinegar and one tablespoon of sugar per 700 g of water. Acetic acid inhibits the growth of bacteria, and sugar provides the flowers with nutrition.