Autumn is here, so hurray for planting flowers in the garden! Does this seem like a contradiction? This is not quite true, because there are many plant species that are very happy to settle in their new habitat right now.
Have you also thought that at this time it is time to close the garden gate and return to it again in the spring? It is possible, but you would be depriving yourself of a lot of blooming beauty to look forward to in the spring after autumn planting. We will talk mainly about bulbs and hardy perennials.
See how best to plant bulbs:
Why plant in autumn?
Why plant now, i.e. in autumn? For many plants, this is the ideal time – and they have very good reasons for doing so. The ground is still warm enough to allow plants to take root in the new locationbut nothing is forcing them to rampantly produce green matter above ground. The humidity will help them acclimatize and next year it will be early spring ready to go about their task ahead of time before others and with even greater power.
Choose the right species
In order for everything to succeed as we would imagine, it is necessary choose the really resistant species. The plant must be frost resistantbut at the same time independent enough not to require complex protection. Such will then reward us for our autumn activity in the spring and also lifelong higher resistance to drought and diseases. After all, another reason for autumn planting is saving time in a few monthswhen we won’t know where our head is in the garden.
Brave warriors against the cold
Which types of plants are ideal for autumn planting? We should certainly not forget about an elegant hellebore that we can consider a real fighter for your right to life. Most of her species it begins to bloom already at the end of wintertherefore it is more than appropriate to offer them a new home already in the fall.
You know Caucasian caterpillar? Rock climbers are certainly clear, the rest of us can remember that this is a plant that we can to be planted in a rockery, but it is also very suitable for edging flower beds. The caterpillar is completely undemanding and we can be sure that in the spring it will appear in the garden in all its beauty strewn with lots of white and pink flowers.
Sunflower? No – rudbeckia
If you love sunflowers, then you will definitely like these too Rudbékie. These optimistic perennials are very similar to them, and if we plant them right now, even if we have to wait until the end of next summer for their flowers, they will stay with us thanks to such winter adaptation for many years to come. The garden gets a big advantage because rudbékia they bloom until winter and thus offer food for beneficial insects even at a time when they will have to look around a lot for each “bite”.
Bulbs will welcome autumn planting
Anyone who would like to burn down their neighbor’s pond in the spring should take care of it now planting spring bulbs. The era when we dug bulbs out of the ground in the fall and put them in the cellar to hibernate is already gone, so we can without any regrets plant tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and other spring beauties before frost. But it is necessary check the weather forecast as bulbs need several weeks to take root reliably.
Give them the right conditions
Place bulbs twice their size in the groundwith the tip up of course. Do not forget about drainagewhich is necessary as protection against waterlogging and rotting. Finally, let’s remember that it is necessary to provide for future plants sufficient watering and also a basic dose of fertilizationwhile but we must avoid larger doses of nitrogenwhich would “drive” them above the surface. You try it this year also?
