Iris - flowers, which can be found on every flowerbed. Are in great demand in the design of landscape design. They look beautiful in a single group and the combined landings. If you want to decorate their irises gardening area, please refer to their species and pick a suitable option.
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What are the irises?
Irises are long rhizomatous colors. The perfect place for them - a site that all day is sunlit. The advantage of the plant is its nekapriznom character. It may be in one place for many years without problems. If it will grow strongly, the flowers become smaller.
Compared with rhizomatous irises, bulbous more demanding in to the conditions of detention. The choice of such huge varieties of flowers. Different in color, size, flowering period. Each of them has its own claim to the soil.
Their color is striking in its diversity. Irises come in one- and two-color. Especially look beautiful iridescent colors. Decorative qualities are inherent to this plant not only at the time of flowering. Their leaves without flowers also look great.
Irises are classified into two types:
- bearded;
- bezborodatye.
Usually, gardeners prefer to grow the bearded irises that surprise manifold varieties.
According to the size of the flowers are divided into:
- undersized (maximum height 40 cm);
- sredneroslye (maximum 70 cm height);
- tall (height is more than 70 cm).
If your garden site flaunts the pond and you want to frame his beautiful flowers, stop the choice on the beardless irises, who love the soil with high humidity. These irises are bog, Japanese, Siberian et al.
Using the irises in the garden design
Irises - gorgeous colors, which fully show their beauty in monoposadkah and are not lost in the compositions of the combined type. In home areas they are planted:
- In monoklumbah - in the flower beds, which have different sizes and consist of one or two colors or three colors.
- Along the paths in the garden. Landing of such a plan called ridges. Plants planted in one or two sides.
- The rockeries. Well in tandem with conifers, as pines and firs. Do not lose the decorative qualities after their flowering period is over.
- Near the pond or lake. With their help, you can draw beautiful coastline. Well take root in marshy areas. Some varieties of irises can be planted in parts of the reservoirs with shallow depths.
- The combined flower beds. Perfectly complement a variety of flowers and ornamental shrubs.
Combination with other colors
All irises look good with conifers and ornamental shrubs. They can be combined with lilac, spirea. Appropriate in plantings combined type.
Important! Iris feature is that their roots are located close to the soil surface. That is why their neighbors should be flowers, the roots of which lie in the deep layers of the earth. If you ignore this recommendation, after a while irises will grow and begin to oppress neighbors perennials.
Irises - friendly neighbors for other plants. However, if you plan to plant in one place different flowers, take into consideration the periods when they bloom. Thus the bed will always be presentable.
Elegant looks combined with day-lily, lupine, poppies, delphiniums. These plants do not oppress one another, because they have different depth of the root system.
The front tier of mixed flower bed can occupy a pansy, marigold, forget-me. Combines with roses. For the composition, which will be located on the shore of the pond area, you can select the host, Globe and other crops, which respond well to an increased level of humidity.
To irises stand out from the background of songs in the garden area, drop them based on their height. Consider also color of flowers, it is undesirable to irises coexisted with colors that have an identical hue.
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