Luxurious gladioli in the flower beds of summer cottages are always given the leading role. The long skewer immediately catches the eye with its long, sharp leaves, especially good during flowering. Undoubtedly, it will decorate any landscape. The difficulty of using gladioli in garden design lies in the selection of neighboring crops that would complement and emphasize the beauty of the buds.
Many flower growers like flower beds, where gladioli take the central place.
The use of plants in landscape design
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- The use of plants in landscape design
- Compatibility of gladiolus with interior items and other plants
- Varietal and species diversity
- Rules for choosing a place for planting gladioli in the garden
- Simple tips for forming mixed flower beds with gladioli
- VIDEO: Secrets of the lush bloom of gladioli.
- Photos of examples of beautiful flower beds with gladioli:
Due to its peculiarities, gladiolus is used only for group planting. Plants require support, specific care. Every year, the bulbs must be dug up, so the neighborhood with perennial flowers is excluded. The culture is combined with flowering annuals. There are a lot of examples of the use of gladioli in landscape design, photos confirm this. When planting plants, an appropriate retinue is selected, which complements the skewer, serves as a background for the royal flower.
He earned the love of flower growers thanks to his presentable appearance.
As a monoculture, a flower forms a gladularia. By combining the color combinations of the skewer, landscape designers and gardeners achieve colorful compositions. Plants are used in mixborders. Planting is done in the background, in the foreground the culture will overshadow the others.
Gladioli in the flowerbed are always given the leading role.
When creating a background for primroses and summer flowers, take into account:
- the height of the stem of the skewer, some large-flowered varieties grow over 2 meters;
- short budding, flowers bloom gradually, at the same time the upper buds of the spike develop;
- late flowering, this is an autumn flower.
But having blossomed, gladioli are in the lead in mixborder compositions, attract everyone's eyes, causing admiration.
In order for the composition to look harmonious, the regal flower needs an entourage, in which it is recommended to use less expressive specimens.
In landscape design, other vegetation is combined with a skewer. Ornamental undersized and medium-sized shrubs serve as decoration, conifers - as a compositional addition. The emphasis is on gladiolus landings. With this approach, the design will be harmonious. A combination with less expressive colors of the same shade or contrasting colors, which serves as a frame, is allowed.
The whole variety of gladioli is represented by more than 200 plant species, which, in turn, have over 1000 varieties.
For reference. Gladiolus is named because of the similarity of sharp leaves to the weapon of legionnaires - gladius. Later it was believed that the bulbs brought good luck in battle to the Roman soldiers. Thanks to the myth, the flower became popular outside the borders of the empire.
If you use single copies in landscape design, the gladiolus will lose its majesty.
Compatibility of gladiolus with interior items and other plants
Usually gladioli are planted in a flower bed, in rockeries, mixborders. Low-growing species are also good in containers and flowerpots, used as pot crops in winter gardens and summer compositions.
Planting a large group of royal flowers can cause some chaos in the flower bed, which will lose its expressiveness.
Skewer in a flowerpot:
- will decorate a flight of stairs;
- disguises a façade defect;
- will become the accent of a flower garden;
- will perform the function of a tapeworm on the parterre lawn.
Competent observance of proportions between gladioli and other surrounding vegetation will help to obtain a harmonious composition in landscape design.
Planting in containers is practiced in summer cottages, open terraces for dividing the recreation area into a solarium and a barbecue area. Gladioli often decorate the blind area of cafes and restaurants, add luscious greenery to the city landscape. The root part is decorated with:
- expanded clay;
- small pebbles;
- colored gravel of decorative rocks;
- shells;
- multi-colored shell;
- coconut fiber.
There are many options for combining a flower when it will look beneficial in the overall picture of landscape design.
In constantly blooming mixborders, the skewer is placed behind spring flower crops:
- tender crocuses;
- variegated undersized primroses;
- a variety of daffodils;
- tulips;
- bearded irises.
The second name "sword" gladiolus received due to its unusual shape, which vaguely resembles a sharp sword.
When bulbous crops grow, gladiolus only gains strength, releases an arrow. Later, perennials planted in the foreground become the center of the composition: peonies, daylilies, beardless irises of various colors, summer low phloxes. The skewer at this time forms a dense green wall, a perspective background, a background.
Flowers are part of the iris family, are a perennial corm plant.
In autumn, the flower will be harmoniously combined only with the caps of asters, medium-sized chrysanthemums, small contrasting dahlias used for border decoration. Bright dahlias and gladioli in mixborders and rockeries are incompatible, the composition will turn out to be tasteless, clumsy. Flowers will compete for primacy in the flowerbed.
Depending on the variety, the period between the moment of planting and the formation of buds lasts from 70 to 95 days.
A good addition to gladioli in rockeries is a juniper placed behind the plantings. Neighborhood with ornamental herbal crops is encouraged:
- variegated Iberis;
- dark thyme;
- carved Dubrovnik;
- bluish fescue;
- light sandy spikelet;
- openwork yarrow;
- juicy hosts and geyhers;
- a silvery purse (hare ears);
- other non-flowering plants.
As a background, snapdragons, pharynx, small marigolds, ageratums, and lubularia are used. The list goes on. Various combinations of gladioli in the garden are possible, the photo shows the design of plots in different styles. The main thing is that blooming low-growing flowers are combined with gladiolus buds in shade, be lighter or darker in the same color scheme, or create a contrast.
The tallest gladioli reach a height of 1.7 m, which is very convenient if you need to create a bright accent in landscape design.
Note! Combinations of yellow and blue tones always look advantageous, red combines with white, pale blue - with purple, lilac, white.
Varietal and species diversity
There are more than 200 species and more than a thousand varietal varieties of skewer of the most incredible color from white to dark purple. There are plants with monochromatic and variegated buds.
The variety of shapes, sizes and shades gives an innumerable number of options for landscape design using gladioli.
Species and hybrid gladioli are grouped according to various characteristics:
Flowering time:
- very early, early bloom in summer, in July, finish in August;
- medium, medium late produce a peduncle in August;
- late - in September.
To create a harmonious composition is not an easy task, here the main thing is to observe the commensurability of the accent element with the accompanying frame.
On average, the duration of flowering is 70 days, in some species up to 95.
The arrangement of flowers on the stem is:
- spike-shaped;
- in a spiral;
- On the one side;
- double-sided.
Striving for a rich picture, do not forget about moderation in order to exclude luridness.
Buds vary in size:
- small up to 7 cm;
- small-flowered with a diameter of up to 10;
- mid-flowered - up to 12;
- large - up to 15;
- giant up to 17 cm.
According to the shape and color of the buds, gladioli are distinguished from 11 varietal groups with even, torn, corrugated, contrasting edges, colored, combined cores.
So that the landscape design site with gladioli does not gap with emptiness, it is worth taking care of bright colors in the rest of the period.
Using different types, it is easy to form a multi-level long-blooming flower garden.
For reference. The most large-flowered gladioli have corrugated edges of the petals. Up to 30 flowers are formed in an ear.
It is optimal to use different varieties of gladioli in landscape design relative to the flowering period, then the flower bed will glow with bright colors for at least one month.
Rules for choosing a place for planting gladioli in the garden
For gladioli in a flower bed (photo), illuminated dry areas with fertile soil are chosen. To grow full-fledged arrows, plant the bulbs in a permanent place after frost. The skewer is thermophilic, rather capricious for cultivation in temperate latitudes. There must be open access to it for garters, feeding, loosening. Withered buds should be plucked out regularly.
The optimal number of gladioli in one group planting is from 10 to 15 copies.
Note! The shade of the petals is influenced by a number of factors: illumination, soil nutrition, bulb age. With a lack of minerals, the color fades, when there is little light, the size of the bud decreases.
Simple tips for forming mixed flower beds with gladioli
The use of undersized gladioli in landscape design is justified on paths, ridges, lawns, lawns in border planting. Low-growing varieties of skewer are used in the border design of paths, lawns. Flowers-neighbors of large species should be lower in height so as not to overshadow the beauty of gladioli.
In the background of a flower bed with gladioli, it is recommended to use plants that are homogeneous in terms of structure and color.
You should not create too large a mono flower from a skewer, it will look like a plantation of flowers intended for bouquet cutting. To fix the tall stems, thin, inconspicuous or spectacular supports are selected, and trellis structures are used.
Depending on the height of the skewer, in most cases, for the flowering period, they need to equip props that will support heavy inflorescences.
The beauty of a flower is self-sufficient, but with a single planting it will be lost. The optimal number of bulbs in a group to obtain an expressive color spot is from 10 to 15.
Photo of gladioli in landscape design confirms the sophistication of flowers of royal beauty.
Important! When forming the compositions, planting material is selected that matches the color and size of the flowers. Combined (variegated) are planted separately from monophonic, small from large.
VIDEO: Secrets of the lush bloom of gladioli.
Photos of examples of beautiful flower beds with gladioli:
Designers' ideas on how to beautifully plant gladioli on a plot with a photo will help form their own design solutions that emphasize the beauty of gladioli. A simple option is a combination of a skewer with spirea or barberry. Ensembles in pastel colors look good, combinations of blue, pastel beige, pale lilac shades. For landscaping, too bright colors should be avoided. Having shown taste, relying on a sense of proportion, gardeners create colorful flower beds with gladiolus.
