If you want your flower garden to continue to delight you with a riot of colors and aromas when spring arrives, you will have to work hard on it in the fall.
Fortunately, the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh told about the necessary procedures for each flower.
Perennials (roses and rhododendrons)
As a rule, perennial plants “living” in open ground cope with low temperatures without problems, but this does not mean that they do not need care.
In the fall, be sure to remove their leaves, and cut back plants with thin stems before the onset of cold weather, leaving stems 5 cm long.
Irises, lupines, peonies, flones
These perennials, like others that are no longer at the peak of their flowering, need to be replanted.
Tuberous (gladioli, dahlias)
The underground part of these plants must be dug up, washed, treated with fungicides, then dried and only then sent for storage.
Crocuses, hyacinths and snowdrops
If the previous “group” had to be dug up, then these, on the contrary, need to be planted – in this case, already in March you will have the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of these primroses.
Annuals
Before the frost hits the ground, you need to have time to collect seeds from annual plants.
If you want to admire the friendly shoots of annuals in early spring, do not miss the opportunity to sow the flowerbeds with calendula, aster and adonis.
Ornamental shrubs
If you have long wanted to "enrich" your plot with barberry, rosehip, boxwood, thuja, fir and spirea bushes, now is the time to start planting them. However, if you have to deal with seedlings with a closed root system, you can immerse them in the ground at almost any time of the year (except, of course, winter).
