How to Make a Garden Beautiful and Useful: 5 Flowers Worth Planting in Your Garden

Flowers not only decorate the garden, but also have a positive effect on the environment and your health.

Today you will learn about five flowers that are worth planting in your garden.

Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told us which flowers are not only beautiful, but also useful.

Calendula

Calendula is a bright and unpretentious flower that blooms until frost.

This plant attracts beneficial insects and repels harmful ones, so it is recommended to plant it near vegetable crops.
Calendula has healing properties, it helps with wounds, burns, colds and other diseases.

Nasturtium

Nasturtium is a beautiful and fragrant flower that blooms in the summer. It can be found in a variety of colors, from white to dark red.

Nasturtium has a unique ability to attract beneficial insects, enrich the soil with nitrogen and at the same time repel various pests.

Nasturtium has nutritional and medicinal value, it contains vitamins and antioxidants. All parts of nasturtium are edible, they have a sharp and spicy taste.

Lavender

Lavender is a fragrant and decorative flower that blooms in summer. It has blue-violet inflorescences that gather in spikelets. Lavender loves the sun and dryness, it grows well in poor and calcareous soils.

Lavender acts as a magnet for beneficial insects and protects nearby plants from pests, promoting healthy growth.

Lavender has healing and cosmetic properties, it helps with headaches, insomnia, stress, rheumatism, burns and other problems.

Daisy

The daisy is a delicate and graceful flower that blooms in spring and summer. It has white, pink or red petals and a yellow center.

Daisy grows easily in any soil, it is not afraid of drought and frost.

Daisy attracts beneficial insects and repels pests, and is also able to cleanse the soil of heavy metals.

Daisy has medicinal properties, it helps with colds, coughs, sore throats, sinusitis, ulcers, gastritis and other ailments.

Sunflower

The sunflower is a majestic and sunny flower that blooms in the summer. It has large yellow inflorescences that turn towards the sun.

Sunflower loves warmth and light, it grows well in fertile and moist soils.

Sunflowers attract beneficial insects and repel pests, and are also a source of seeds.

Earlier we talked about how to rejuvenate an old rose bush .