If gardening is your relief valve, if you can find yourself in the green, or simply want to transform your corner of the earth – small or large that it is – into an explosion of life and colors, then you are in the right place.
Because yes, every year we see the new floral tendencies bloom like fashions in stores, but some flowers manage to resist and continue in the incessant work of knowing how to enchant, albeit, sometimes, are decidedly underestimated.
Today I propose five of it that cannot be missing in your garden: they range from great classics to others who perhaps will make you raise an eyebrow. And trust me: the number 3 is a twist.
Tulipani – The Signori della Primavera
You can’t start such a list without nameing them. Tulips are the ambassadors of the summer, the emblems of awakening after the torpor of winter. Their colors – from red bright to sun yellow, passing through the most intense purple – tell different stories, give movement also to the most static garden. They are elegant, vertical, yet cheerful flowers.
The cultivation of the tulip is simple, even if it requires a little strategy: they are planted in the autumn, when the air begins to pinch the nose, and then they leave each other, under the ground, in silent expectation. And when they bloom, around April, the reward is an impressionist picture that Van Gogh would have envied.
A personal advice? Choose different varieties, mix the heights, dare with dark shades next to pastel ones: you can obtain a sort of organized chaos, an asymmetrical harmony of great charm.
Lillà – The perfume that tells the childhood
Have you ever heard the scent of a lillà bush in bloom? No? Then you have to remedy. Because in addition to the color – a lilac that merges with cream white or with delicate pink – this flower brings with it an essence that knows the memories caress: he knows of the house, of grandmothers, of the afternoons of May.
The lilac is rustic, resistant, has no diva claims, grows well even in non -perfect conditions, needs only light and air. And if you leave it free, it becomes a small tree, a reassuring presence in your garden.
Many plant it for color, but those who really know him do it for the wonderful aroma.
Ibisco flowers – the exotic you don’t expect
And here comes the surprise. Because the hibiscus is not only that Hawaiian postcard flower, to be put in the hair and in tropical cocktails. It is a flower that can also live well in our climates, especially if you choose rustic varieties, such as theHibiscus syriacusthe hibiscus of the roses, also known by the name of Ibisco Althea.
The Ibisco flowers bloom in the height of summer, when the other flowers begin to lose nail polish: the petals, large and spectacular, open as theatrical fans and give the garden a Zen garden allure, with a Caribbean touch. There are Rossi, Rosa, Bianchi, Blue with Bordeaux center – there are over 200 varieties of hibiscus – and each flower lasts one day, a symbol of fleeting beauty, even if the plant flourishes relentlessly for months.
And do you know what the beauty is? They attract butterflies and bees as if they were magnets: an oasis for pollinators, a party for the viewer.
Dalia – The queen with a thousand identities
Dalia is a mystery revealed. Every time you see a new variety, you think: “Is it always the same plant really?”. And yes, it is. But it has a chameleonic soul – the genre dhaalia It includes thirty species and more than 20 thousand varieties – and for this we will find spherical, pompous, almost geometric, other light, with thin petals such as feathers, still others that look like flowering sea stars.
Originally from Mexico, Dalia loves the sun and well -drained soil. It can also reach one meter in height, becoming the undisputed protagonist of your summer garden. In return he only asks for a bit of water and attention when the cold arrives (the tubers must be repaired or disintegrated).
CICLAMINO – The little warrior in winter
When the whole garden falls asleep, he wakes up. The cyclamen is a real winter miracle: it blossoms when it rains outside, when the sky turns off and the world becomes gray. And for this reason it affects more.
The flowers seem to flutter on the thin stems, with colors ranging from white to burning burns, and the heart leaves are designed with surgical precision. There are its garden and interior varieties, but they are the rustics, such as the Cyclamen Hederifoliiumto surprise more: resistant, generous, able to multiply year after year.
The cyclamen is sober poetry, it is the hope that blossoms when it all sleeps.
Good cultivation!
