The beauty of the flower bed depends on the flowers growing on it. Using perennial flowers in your garden, you can create delightful compositions that adorn the site throughout the season: from early spring to late autumn.
Perennials live for several years and require more simple maintenance than annuals, moreover, they are quite winter-hardy flowers. In most cases, they do not need special conditions and preparatory pre-winter measures, for example, digging and preparation for storage.
Consider some flowering perennials, popular and unpretentious, wintering in the open field, as well as provide their description and photos.
About perennials
Perennials - a fairly extensive group of plants growing in the garden. They grow several years in a row in one place without transplanting: the above-ground part dies naturally, and at the beginning of the next season, the root system, awakened by spring warmth, releases young shoots.
Root systems of perennial plants are:
As the plants grow, they are divided or transplanted. 
Duration of flowering, sizes and decorative properties of perennials are different, They can be used for a variety of purposes:
- the creation of an alpine slide or rock arias;
- pond framing;
- mixborder design;
- the creation of a simple flower bed, blooming throughout the season, selected by color or other characteristics, spicy, medicinal and others.
The dignity of such flower beds is that they do not need annual decoration and are popular with flower growers who do not have time surplus. Given their constancy, it is advisable to carefully plan a flower bed, remembering that it is laid at least for a few years.
The plants in question can be grown independently by seedling, purchased bulbs, rhizomes or tubers, or obtain a plant in a container. A common and common practice is to share planting materials of your favorite plants with friends and neighbors.
Important! It is not recommended to sow the seeds of perennials in open ground - under the harsh effects of the environment, they most likely will not even grow.
Types of perennials
According to the catalog, perennials are not only flowering - some are valued for the decorativeness of the leaves, there are grassy, shade-loving, ground cover, low, medium and tall.
Overwintering in the open ground, they will from year to year recreate the once selected herbal composition.
Tree peony
Pion - perennial flowering plant, has the shape of a bush, the aerial part dies off annually. Tree peonies prefer southern areas. They are very hardy, winter without shelter. Cultivars have semi-double and terry flowers that exude a delicate fragrance. Flowering occurs in May and June, becoming more abundant from year to year.
Flowers prefer loose soil, but can grow on loamy with proper processing. They love the light, but they tolerate shading without problems. The proximity of groundwater that could damage the root system should be avoided.
Important! Elegant look on any bed and reliably protect plants from pests lavender and marigolds.
The reproduction of pions occurs by dividing the rhizome with a shoot, which can be produced in autumn or spring. The distance between the bushes when planting - at least one meter.Top dressing is made at emergence of shoots when buds appear, and after the end of flowering. If winter is expected to be harsh, it is better to cover the flower.
Astilba
Astilba - a beautiful flower of the family Kamenelomkovy, has many varieties. Unpretentious, winters well in the open field, flowering begins in June and ends in September, delighting the gardener throughout the summer, can bloom in the shade. The plant rhizomatous, the aerial part dies off.
Flowers have a variety of colors, gathered in large brushes, reminiscent of a lace pattern. The foliage is graceful. Grow from 60 centimeters to 1.5 meters high. Start blooming in July, ending in August.
The soil needs a wet plant. The rate of development depends on how much the soil is moistened and on the air temperature. For breeding divide the bush.
Did you know? If astilba is brought into the room at the beginning of winter, it will bloom in April and even in March.
Tall varieties of the flower are planted at a distance of half a meter from each other, a short distance of 30 centimeters is quite short. Perfectly decorate a bouquet or flower basket.Rudbeckia
Rudbeckia dissected has the popular name "golden ball". Perennial widely distributed. Differs in frost resistance, exclusive unpretentiousness and plentiful blossoming all summer and almost all autumn. The flowers are colored yellow or purple.
It can reach a height of 2 meters. It is used for decorating fences and in other places where tallness is required, for example, for masking the walls of a shed.
Propagated by dividing the bushes or rassadnym way. Growing seedlings in a box or on a bed, it is planted in the ground at a half-meter distance. 
Did you know? Essentially, rudbeckia is a weed that grows everywhere and quietly tolerates not only lack of care, but also attempts to get rid of it. Without proper control, the gold ball is able to supplant other ornamental perennials and master the entire flowerbed or plot.
Iris
Iris - herbaceous perennial plant with branching rhizome. Flowers come in many different shades and have a delicate delicate aroma. Flowering begins in May and lasts until the end of June.
Iris likes fertilized soil. The flower is propagated, dividing the rhizomes, and also by the seed method, sowing the seeds before winter. Delenka rhizomes are planted in September or March at a half-meter distance.
If there is no rain in the summer, the soil is watered additionally, maintaining friability. Weeds should also be removed. 
Important! The flower grows in the next 2-3 years so that its rhizomes begin to bare. When this happens, they are covered up with earth.
It tolerates wintering under the snow, but if the winter is predicted to be harsh or a cold climate in the place of growth, it is better to cover the plant for the winter. As a shelter is used:
When spring comes, shelter is removed, and the plant is fed. The following dressings are before flowering, when the buds are tied, and after it.
Tulip
Tulip - flowering bulbous perennial. Grow and bloom begins one of the first, in early spring. Flowers resemble bells and have a variety of colors.
After one or two years, the bulbs (after the tulip has faded) should be dug out, dried well in a shaded place and stored in a shed until planting.
They should be landed in September: large ones - at a distance of 15-20 centimeters, small ones - at 10 centimeters. Close up on 10-12 centimeters deep. You can sow seeds in early spring. 
Did you know? It is not difficult to achieve tulip bloom in winter. To this end, the bulbs should be planted in pots in September, watered and kept in the dark at a temperature of 4-5 degrees. When sprouts and buds appear, the pots are relocated to a room where the temperature is between 12 and 14 ° C. At first, it is desirable to shade them from the sun's rays.
The cold season, even with severe frosts, bulbous perennials, wintering in the open field, tolerate well. However, if there is little snow, it is better to additionally cover the ground with humus or peat.
Aster
Astra love for reliability, simplicity and more, perhaps, for late blooming. When the majority of perennials have already faded, aster in its magnificence and diversity takes the stage.
Asters are so unpretentious that they require no maintenance at all. The only thing that Astra does not like is the swampiness of the soil, which she does not tolerate.
For the sunny place aster will be especially grateful and will reward the grower with beautiful flowering and active growth. Propagated aster cuttings, as well as seeds.
If you want Astra to be a well-groomed flower, rather than a decorative weed, growing where it pleases, you need to take care of it: feed the soil with organic fertilizers and lime. 
Making out a flower bed, planting asters do not need to thicken, leaving her room for airing. Tall plants are tied up.
Reproduction is carried out when the bush becomes bare from the inside - in 3-4 years. Roots dig, divide and land on a new place. This procedure is carried out in early May or in August.
Did you know? Contrary to popular belief, asters bloom from spring. Not all of course - only certain species. The Alpine starts in May, the Italian joins it in the summer, and towards the end, the new Belgian and New England, blooming until frost, join. Astra heather, the most common in our gardens, coincides with them in time.
Antemis
Anthemis dyeing, otherwise known as chamfer, is a member of the family of the asteraceae - a rhizomatous cold-resistant perennial, European native. In its genus, there are about 200 species.
It is a shrub with dense branches. All summer blooms profusely with flowers of a golden color with a pleasant fragrant aroma; in the fall, flowering becomes less plentiful. It has decorative leaves of aesthetic value and without flowers. Plant height about half a meter.
In the landscape involved in the decoration of rockeries, rock gardens, borders and so on. Its yellow flowers look favorably on any background and fit into various compositions. The plant tolerates wintering in the open field. 
Did you know? All parts of the plant, as its name implies, contain a yellow coloring matter. Used for dyeing fabrics. In addition to dyeing and decorative qualities, chamomile is a spicy plant.
Aquilegia (catchment, Orlik)
Aquilegia, or catchment - perennial belonging to the family of buttercups. The plant is hardy, enduring winter. It grows up to 80 centimeters. The exact number of species is not installed, it is believed that they are from 60 to 120.
Even under the snow starting its growth, it lives to late autumn. The watershed is rich in flowers of various colors, its leaves have a high decorative effect, due to its merits it is widely distributed.
In the first half of summer, the plant blooms, and then decorates a flower bed with its leaves. The peak of flowering occurs in the third year of life at this place.
Sow the seeds in autumn or spring. Another way of breeding - the division of the bush. Used for landscape purposes, cut flowers in the interior are also good. 
Important! A native of the northern mountains, the watershed prefers shaded areas and moist, fertilized soil.
Lupine
In perennial lupine bush height of a meter, powerful and quite lush. Flowering is abundant and beautiful, begins in June and lasts all summer. As the faded "arrow" is cut, the lupins resume flowering.
Being undemanding, lupine can grow even on poor soils and shaded areas, but it will be more grateful for a sunny nourishing place.
For reproduction divide the bush or sow the seeds. This can be done at any time of the year, sowing in the ground for a permanent habitat or planting on seedlings.
Since the plant forms a bush powerful, you need to maintain a half-meter distance between plants. As seedlings, you can also use seedlings resulting from self-sowing. Good winters in open ground. 
Did you know? Lupine was known to the ancient population and the inhabitants of ancient Egypt. They ate it themselves and fed the animals, used in medicine.
Day-lily
Daylily, or gemerokalis, very demanding. It blooms with large orange flowers resembling lily flowers. On a high meter spike, flowers are arranged in bunches. Flowering occurs from June to August. He loves the soil fertilized, prefers partial shade.
Shrub divide for transplanting after flowering, planting delenki at a distance of 70 cm from each other.
In the summer, the flower should be watered and fertilized; by winter, the green mass should be cut. It is used both for bouquets, and for decorative landings in various compositions and solo. Wintering in the soil tolerates well. 
Astrantia
Astrantia is a herbaceous perennial, originating from an extensive celery family. It grows in Europe and the Caucasus, Asia Minor and the Alps, loves deciduous forests and forest edges.
The stem of the plant grows to 40-90 centimeters. The leaves are decorative, five-fold - they are collected in the rosette, the lower ones are equipped with long petioles, the upper ones almost do not have them.
Flowers are painted in a variety of colors, gathered in umbrella inflorescences. The plant prefers shade and winter well in the ground. 
Perennial care
- Although most perennial plants are unpretentious, they should still be prepared for the winter: remove the dead aerial part, and cover the root part with frogs, peat, humus, sawdust or special material on the eve of frost. This rule is especially important for first-year plants.
- Plant transplants require every few years. If you do this often, the forced to constantly adapt to a new place of the plant will not have the strength for lush growth and violent flowering.
- Plants in which the stem and root system creeping, transplant no more than once a decade, because they are very poorly tolerated moving.
- For several years, flowers in one place need to be fed with mineral and organic fertilizers.
Important! Fertilizers should be applied only when the plant is abundantly watered.
- Soils such plants like friable, respond well to dressing.
- Wild flowers on the flower bed should try to provide the most close to the natural conditions.
- To preserve moisture in the soil flowerbed mulch.
- It is advisable to protect the flower garden from drafts and wind.
Given the properties of plants and the characteristics of their content, everyone can organize a magnificent unique flower bed, many seasons pleasing the eye with their appearance and fragrance.
A pleasant handicap for a novice gardener will be the exceptional unpretentiousness of perennials and their undemanding to natural conditions.
