Not only chrysanthemums can make your garden colorful in late autumn

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Not only chrysanthemums can make your garden colorful in late autumn
Not only chrysanthemums can make your garden colorful in late autumn
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Gardens at the end of autumn can be very depressing: at this time, the harvest is over, the plants have bloomed, we can only enjoy the colorful foliage, but the browning, curling and falling leaves already predict that we have little chance left against winter. At this time, everyone prefers to sit in the apartment to comfort themselves with their indoor plants.

Even the end of autumn can be colorful and lively in the garden too, you just have to choose the plants well. The first obvious choice for this is chrysanthemums, as they can brighten up gloomy gardens with their colorful and cheerful appearance, but many people still do not like this plant so much, saying that it is a cemetery flower. So if you want to see something else blooming in the garden even in October, here are some ideas on what to plant!

Lilac

As its name indicates, this plant was invented specifically for this period, and it is perhaps the one most people know next to the chrysanthemum. In addition to the reds, yellows and brown shades of the autumn garden, the purple and blue of the aster will look great. It is especially lucky that it is not a demanding plant, but it likes the sun and good quality soil.

Depending on the size of your garden, you can choose from different species of aster: there are very small ones, roughly 20 centimeters tall, but there are also large ones, reaching over 1 meter. If you don't want to mess with it all the time and plant new and new plants every year, then choose perennial varieties. They start to bloom already at the end of summer, and if you planted it in a good place and the plant feels good, they will also decorate the October garden beautifully.

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Sasakvirág

If you like the color blue - which is not the most common color in the garden - then the helmet flower is also a plant that you will like to plant. It likes semi-shade, well-drained, nutrient-rich soil, so its flowers will be brightly colored. It got its name from its helmet-shaped flowers that bloom in clusters.

However, before you rush to the nearest garden center to get one, you should know that the whole plant is highly poisonous. In the Middle Ages, it was considered the favorite flower of poisoners, and its care should only be done with gloves. So if you have small children, you should give up planting the plant for a while.

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Wizard

A simple, beautiful-looking plant with bell-shaped flowers, which in our country especially likes semi-shaded places in the heat of the summer, and if it feels good, it can even bloom until the beginning of winter. What's more, it's not only its flowers blooming in mauve or other shades of pink that give it its decorative ability, but also the fact that its leaves change from bright green to red in winter.

The csarab likes acidic soil that is not prone to drying out, and stays only in a place without shade. Unfortunately, it is not that easy to keep, so many prefer to grow it in pots, which makes the situation easier.

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Vújúháj

If you want a really showy, perfectly undemanding, and moreover long-lasting plant for your garden, then the varieties of the crow skin were invented for you. It is a succulent plant, which means it tolerates extreme drought very well, and prefers loose, well-permeable soil. Why is it worth planting? In addition to the fact that it does not require care, you can keep your flowers even throughout the winter. It should only be cut off in the spring, being careful not to damage the new shoots. Last but not least, it also attracts butterflies, so it definitely brings a little life into the typically colorless, dying gardens at this time. At this time, the magnificent and bean-leaved crow's feet delight us with flowers, the other crow's feet typically bloom from spring to mid-summer. This can last until the arrival of frost, and the opened inflorescences, i.e. fruit branches, can decorate the stems even until spring.

„Among the annual flowers, the small-flowered velvet flower, also known as stink bug, blooms in October, or more precisely until frost. This ornamental plant, which is demanding in its appearance, but lives anywhere, is available in yellow, orange and brown colors, and we can easily grow seedlings from them by sowing them in the garden in the spring. In addition to the particularly low (10-15 cm) versions, we can choose from any size up to half a meter high.

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Autumn crocus blooms in September-October, which looks similar to spring crocuses with larger flowers. The purple, dark-veined flowers are illuminated by the dark orange stamens, which resemble the color of real saffron. This species requires rich soil, it is a late blooming, valuable ornamental plant.

Pansies bloom not only in autumn, but also in winter in case of mild weather, until May-June. They are available in many different colors and flower sizes, and they cause real joy even in periods with poor light. The small-flowered pansies bloom like a carpet, the leaves can hardly be seen under the abundance of flowers. Today, even those with large flowers grow many flowers.

The Japanese honeysuckle is a small shrub that begins to grow its dark colored flowers above the winter green foliage in autumn. The plant likes semi-shaded places, moist and medium-loamy soils. With its very beautiful appearance, it is one of the most demanding flowers in gardens with a Mediterranean atmosphere, says Kata Kálmán, horticulturist and managing director of Kertelünk Kft.

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