Delicate pink flowers – anemones – delight the eye like never before in the autumn garden. Asters are also gorgeous. Lesser known plants are vaccaria (thousand heads) and chelon. Their delicate flowers will brighten up your garden and require little care.
Anemones
September Charme with silvery-pink flowers is the brightest among autumn varieties. Such an anemone (it is also called anemone) loves fertilized soil and partial shade under the crowns of trees. Blooms in September or a little later. Anemones are propagated by seeds and vegetatively. In the first case, the germination rate is low, and, given this, it is necessary to stratify the seed and plant it in loose soil. If you sow anemones in late autumn, then the first sprouts will hatch in early spring. And in the fall, you will be delighted that you will see pink-silver delicate flowers in your area. Remember that waterlogging can kill seedlings. It is easier to propagate anemones vegetatively. For example, by dividing the rhizome or tubers.
Asters
Few ornamental garden plants can boast such an incredible variety of varieties, colors, sizes and shapes.
Red, pink, lilac, purple - all the shades of autumn asters simply cannot be listed. These delicate flowers are surprisingly hardy. They appear in the flower beds when all the other plants that inhabit the garden are already preparing for rest. And they retain their beauty until late autumn, and sometimes until early December. Make sure that asters grow in abundantly fertilized, rich soils and do not remain without water for a long time. This delicate flower will do the rest.
Vaccaria
This herbaceous annual from the Carnation family in nature inhabits almost all continents. In Russia, it is found in the Far East and rarely in the south of the European part. Since it began to be cultivated as an ornamental plant, many varieties with a variety of colors have appeared. The color palette of vaccaria is very rich: from snow-white to bright purple. This annual plant has a rather high stem (up to 60 centimeters), lanceolate leaves and paniculate inflorescences. When planting these delicate flowers in your garden, do not forget that they are poisonous: they contain saponins.
These substances cause hemorrhages. In folk medicine, vaccaria extract is used to treat eczema and toothache. In the garden for this plant, you need to choose a well-lit place, loamy, non-acidic soil. Sowing is done in early spring. Vaccaria is also good for dry bouquets: paniculate inflorescences perfectly retain their shape and do not crumble.
Helona
This is a beautiful flowering perenni althe Norichnikov family. In Russia, he is little known and is quite rare. The name of the flower comes from the Greek word for turtle (kelone). Helona received it for the helmet-shaped inflorescences. This is a tall (up to two meters) dense shrub, consisting of a large number of erect stems, with lush decorative leaves and pink, white or purple flowers. Helona blooms from August to October, it is not afraid of frosts.
