Plants that bloom in autumn. Plants blooming in autumn

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The sad time has come to say goodbye to the red summer. Gradually, the entire tree-shrub brotherhood is dressed in gold and crimson. What a beautiful, unsurpassed play of various shades of yellow-red colors. And in the crystal clear blue sky, the cranes are already screaming. Farewell Summer! Nature puts on an elegant dress for a farewell banquet. It is not for nothing that the poet called this time "the charm of the eyes."

According to the calendar, as you know, autumn comes on the first of September. Astronomers consider the beginning of autumn the day of the autumnal equinox - September 22, meteorologists - the date of a steady transition of the average daily air temperature through 10 degrees to lower temperatures. The transition of the average daily temperature through 5 degrees is a sign of the end of the growing season. Autumn is usually divided into two periods. The first lasts from the first frost until the end of November, and the second - from the end of November to the beginning of winter. The first frosts are the beginning of autumn. But after them, as a rule, warm and dry weather begins, the so-called "Indian summer" begins. In these days of golden autumn, summer seems to be returning again, and a number of plants bloom again. But this joyful, colorful period of autumn is very short.

Phenologists believe that autumn comes with the onset of a noticeable yellowing of the leaves on trees and bushes. In different years, the leaves turn yellow at different times. The first to turn yellow are the leaves on the birches, later on the linden, then the bird cherry, the branches, crowns, viburnum bushes are covered with purple. Yellowing of the leaves and November are the most characteristic features of autumn. Why do leaves turn yellow in autumn? This question is often heard from different people. In summer, the leaves are green from the presence of a large amount of green pigment - chlorophyll. But, in addition to chlorophyll, the leaf also contains yellow-orange pigments - carotene and xanthophylls. In summer, the pigments are masked by chlorophyll, so the leaf looks green. In autumn, chlorophyll is destroyed, and yellow-orange pigments give the leaves golden and orange tones. But, in addition to yellow, on many trees and plants, the leaves acquire even more diverse shades: from red-purple to purple flowers. This is explained by the presence in the cells of the leaves of a special colored substance - anthocyanin. With cooling, the content of anthocyanin increases, because low temperatures and bright light contribute to its formation.

No less characteristic of autumn is the fall of leaves from trees and. This phenomenon cannot be explained only by the onset of cold weather, as some believe. If you transplant a tree into a room or greenhouse where the temperature does not drop, it will still shed its leaves. This is because by autumn a special cork layer forms at the base of the leaf petioles. This layer separates the leaf from the plant. A light breath is enough, and the leaf falls off. By November, many substances that the plant does not need accumulate in the leaves, and with the fall of the leaves, these substances are removed from the plant. November, as well as the change in the color of the leaves, is associated with a change in the vital activity of plant organisms in connection with the preparation for adverse winter conditions. This vital adaptation has been developed over thousands of years under the influence of the climatic features of the temperate zone. After all, with leaves, the trees could not survive in the harsh conditions of winter. During the warm period, trees, for example, evaporate about seven thousand kilograms of water through their leaves ... If a birch had remained for the winter with leaves, it would have died from a lack of water, since it is impossible to take it from the soil in such quantities in winter ... Coniferous trees are another matter, they do not shed their clothes for the winter, which, due to the special structure of their needle-shaped needle leaves, evaporate very little water, and therefore they are not afraid of winter water hunger.

Gradually, the leaves fall off the trees and bushes, but the herbaceous plants still retain their green color. True, among them there are already quite a few with yellowed stems and leaves, and many plants are even blooming. Some plants bloom a second time only occasionally, and for some, repeated flowering in the fall has become almost commonplace. Plants such as adonis, fragrant violet, marigold, cuckoo flower, forest anemones and a number of others often bloom a second time. Particularly conducive to re-blooming are the peculiar weather conditions of autumn, when after a cold snap a prolonged warming occurs.

Some plants, in particular weeds, can bloom, as they say, from snow to snow, that is, from early spring to late autumn. Among them are starfish or wood lice, talaban (yarutka) and others. In autumn, later forms of some plant species can also be found with flowers. These are eyebright, tenacious, field violet, gravel, etc. These species bloom in early summer, seem to disappear later, and bloom again by autumn. Such seasonal forms of individual plant species are still very little studied.

Part of the autumn-flowering species are plants that bloom in the second half of summer and continue their flowering in the fall. Chicory, cinquefoil, crow's feet, some, carnations, tansy, sverbizhnitsa and others fade late. In damp places, the succession still blooms.

And there are some types of plants that bloom only in autumn. Among them, first of all, it should be noted - the most interesting plant in its biology. Only in autumn, the yellow flowers of Sternbergia of the autumn Amaryllis family also open. This rare plant is found in our Odessa region and in the Crimea. Autumn snowdrops, some types of saffron, etc. bloom in autumn. Finally, they bloom too. Early winter is coming, and the first loose white snow will cover the ground.

The onset of cold autumn does not mean the withering of bright flower beds. In order to admire an attractive garden until the very frosts, you need to “settle” late flowers in it. What exactly? We will tell you what blooms in October and November.

Plants that bloom in late autumn are especially valuable for gardeners, because after leaf fall, nothing but them decorates a gray flower garden.

What flowers bloom in October
These plants are not afraid of the first night frosts. Bright colors in the garden will drive away the autumn depression.

Ageratum

This representative of the Astrov family has another common name - "long-flowered". And this is no accident. Fluffy pom-pom-like ageratum flowers bloom until late autumn and add blue, purple, white and pink colors to the garden.

Astra perennial

Unpretentious "Oktyabrins" are not afraid of frost and feel great even during the first snowfall. With proper care, perennial asters of late varieties continue to decorate the flower bed even in the first half of November.

Marigold

Marigolds were brought to Europe in the 16th century. In Russia, these were the first overseas flowers. Flower baskets of cream, yellow, orange and brown color exude a strong spicy smell, and when dried and infused, they are a healing remedy for colds, asthma, bronchitis, stomatitis. Marigolds bloom from June to mid-autumn.

tuberous begonia

This beauty with lush flowers in calm areas is able to bloom until mid-October. And if you grow begonia in a hanging planter, then with the onset of cold weather it can be transferred to a veranda or winter garden. And then she will delight you with her attractive appearance until November.

Verbena Bonar, Argentinian, Buenos Aires, or high

Bonar Verbena is not very similar in appearance to other members of the Verbena family. Its almost leafless stems (up to 1.5 m high) with small lilac-violet flowers, collected in umbellate inflorescences, fit perfectly into the autumn flower garden.

Most often, this verbena is grown as an annual: in May, seedlings are planted in open ground, and from August to October, the plant decorates the flower bed with delicate flowers and safely tolerates short-term autumn frosts.

Gatzania, or gazania

This undersized flower (up to 30 cm high) is often called African chamomile, but its flowers are more like gerbera.

They are single baskets with a diameter of 5 to 9 cm, consisting of reed flowers of orange, red, yellow color with dark spots at the base, which form an annular pattern around the yellow center. There can be up to 35 such inflorescences on one plant. In good light, gazania blooms until frost.

Helenium autumn

If there are enough warm and sunny days in autumn, the gelenium will continue to decorate the flower garden in early October. Its yellow, orange, purple, brown or two-color basket inflorescences (3-5 cm in diameter) look best in the neighborhood of perennial asters.

Hydrangea paniculata

Spreading bushes of hydrangea paniculata look attractive from mid-summer to late autumn. In October, plants of varieties that have the ability to change the color of inflorescences are especially spectacular. So, in the first half of October, paniculate hydrangeas Grandiflora, Little Lime, Pink Diamond still flaunt in the gardens.

Goldenrod, or solidago

Bright yellow pyramidal inflorescences of goldenrod enliven the autumn garden until the very cold. Tall specimens can reach a height of 2 m, and dwarf plants grow no higher than 40 cm. All goldenrods are absolutely unpretentious and, thanks to their honey aroma, attract bees to the garden.

kanna

This stately flower (up to 3 m high) blooms from June to late autumn. The leaves are large, elliptical or oval-oblong, pointed, (25-80 cm long and 10-30 cm wide), green, striped or purple-bronze.

Flowers are red, orange, yellow, pink or white. They are located on tall stems and do not fade until frost. Canna is completely unpretentious, almost does not get sick and does not attract harmful insects, even if it is not treated with anything, however, in the middle lane it is not able to overwinter without good shelter.

Lantana Montevidei, or Selloviana

The ovate leaves of this climbing lantana are covered with delicate pubescence, and they are serrated along the edge. The flowers are very small, tubular, lilac-pink with a yellow core, collected in compact spherical inflorescences.

Flowering is observed from June to October. And when grown in a sunny, wind-protected area, Montevidean lantana can “hold out” in a flower bed, balcony or open terrace until November. And her bright flowers won't even fade.

Nasturtium or capuchin

In the middle lane, nasturtium is grown as an annual, because in winter, in an unstable climate, this tropical flower freezes.

Most types of nasturtium cultivated in our latitudes bloom from June to October. Flowers are simple, double and semi-double. Coloring - bright red, salmon, yellow, orange, apricot, cream.

Attractive plants blooming in November
At the beginning of autumn, the flower beds are still strewn with a variety of flowers, and the list of November ornamental plants is already much smaller. On the eve of winter, only the most hardy specimens do not fade.

decorative cabbage

This edible plant is not only tasty, but also beautiful. In the garden, it looks like an unusual rose that blossomed in the garden at an unusual time for her, from September to November. Corrugated and lacy cabbage leaves outwardly resemble the petals of the queen of a flower garden. Therefore, a vegetable crop may well replace roses in a flower garden, which by November already need to be protected from the cold.

Ornamental cabbage tolerates transplanting well, so it can first be grown in the garden, and in the fall, with the advent of colored rosettes, transplanted into a flower bed or container. The plant will not lose its attractiveness even under a thin layer of snow.

Daisy

The delicate daisy blooms for the first time in May, but with proper care, the flowers reappear in September and delight the eye until late autumn. The leaves and buds of the daisy are preserved under the snow throughout the winter.

Chrysanthemum

Garden chrysanthemum is rightly called the latest flower of autumn. She remains in the flower garden when many ornamental plants have already left for the winter. The flowering of most types of chrysanthemums begins in July and lasts until late autumn, sometimes fluffy flowers “peep out” from under the snow even in December.

The most cold-resistant are Korean chrysanthemums. In the middle lane, they do not fade even after the first snowfall and winter well in open ground without shelter.

These fall-blooming perennial flowers and shrubs will brighten up your garden! Let's see what plants a spectacular September flower garden can't do without.

In our latitudes, September is often a continuation of summer with its warm days and beautifully flowering plants. In early autumn, your garden will look especially impressive if you "settle" these graceful perennials in it.

Perennials blooming in September

The list of autumn flowers is quite wide, but we tried to choose the most attractive plants that bloom in the flower beds in the first month of autumn.

Chrysanthemum

The name of this plant is translated as "golden flower". And thanks to the bright color of the buds, the chrysanthemum fits perfectly into the autumn flower garden. Terry forms look especially impressive, which resemble elegant pompoms.

Today there is a variety of varieties, the excellent representatives of which differ in the color of the petals. Flowers are white, cream, pink, bronze, yellow, fiery orange, copper red, lilac ... And how gorgeous chrysanthemums look in bouquets!

Dahlia

This unpretentious and incredibly beautiful flower is also striking in its diversity. Dahlias differ in the height of the bush, the shape, structure and doubleness of the flowers. Now in the gardens you can find peony, anemic, needle, collar, spherical and nymph dahlias.

Unfortunately, these attractive flowers are thermophilic, so they die at the first frost. But if in September the weather is warm in summer, then dahlias will pamper you with their flowering in the fall.

Phlox

This is the perfect plant for any flower garden. So, for rockeries, alpine slides and curbs, low awl-shaped phloxes are best suited, and for mikborders and solitary plantings - paniculate (these are tall bushes with bright and juicy coloring of delicate petals).

These sun-yellow, brick-purple and fiery-red flowers with a bulging core attract bees to the garden. Lush bright helenium corollas will not fade until the very frost.

Anemone, or anemone

This delicate and light flower on a thin stem sways in the wind and seems to be about to wilt. But, despite the external fragility, the anemone endures the vagaries of autumn weather.

In summer and until mid-autumn, Japanese anemones (Anemone japonica), hybrid (Anemone hybrida), felt (Anemone tomentosa), grape-leaved (Anemone vitifolia) and crown (Anemone coronaria) anemones bloom. By the way, the latter blooms in early summer.

Depending on the variety, the color of the flowers and their shape may vary. Bright red, pink, yellow and purple anemones are good in the autumn flower garden.

Rudbeckia

Sunny rudbeckia illuminates the garden with its yellow ray petals all September. This absolutely unpretentious flower is also called "golden umbrella" and "golden tower".

Currently, in flower beds most often flaunt brilliant rudbeckia (Rudbeckia fulgida) and glossy rudbeckia (Rudbeckia nitida), and before that not a single summer cottage could do without dissected rudbeckia (Rudbeckia laciniata), the second name of which is Golden Balls.

Colchicum, or Colchicum

This unusual flower is called colchicum, because it blooms not like most bulbs - in spring, but in autumn. Colchicum has its own special biorhythm: leaves appear in early spring, they die off in summer, and in autumn (sometimes even during the first snow) white or light purple flowers bloom.

This low plant looks good in borders, rocky gardens and near water bodies. And thanks to its delicate and not at all autumn coloring, colchicum looks very advantageous among plants with golden and red flowers.

Crocus autumn

Autumn crocuses are often confused with crocuses, but these are different plants, although outwardly they are really similar. Crocuses also have leaves in spring and bell-shaped flowers in autumn. The petals are blue-violet, whitish closer to the center, and yellow-orange stamens “peep out” from the core.

Astra autumn

Everyone knows this star flower! White and pink, red and lilac, raspberry and blue... Asters look great in any flowerbed. The most popular perennial asters that bloom in autumn are New Belgian (Virgin) and New England (American).

Spectacular bushes, strewn with small pink, purple and purple flowers, are often called Septembers and Octobers. They are able to bloom even after night frosts.

White, red, yellow and pink zinnias are a great decoration for an autumn flower garden. These graceful flowers from the Astrov family are undemanding to care for, but in our latitudes they are most often grown as annuals, since they are not able to survive the harsh winter.

Zinnia was the first plant to grow and bloom in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.

Shrubs blooming in September

There are fewer ornamental shrubs that adorn the autumn garden, but in terms of spectacular flowering they are not inferior to perennial herbaceous plants.

Hydrangeas of different types (the most popular of them are tree and paniculate) bloom in the first half of summer and decorate the flower garden with their fluffy multi-colored "balls" and "panicles" until October. In early autumn, shrubs look especially impressive, in which not only inflorescences, but also leaves shimmer with different shades. So, for example, in hydrangea paniculata Diamond Rouge green leaves turn orange by autumn, and the plant variety Kyushu- yellowish.

In honor of this delicate plant, in some Slavic languages ​​​​the first autumn month is called. Delicate white, pink, lilac and purple flowers continue to decorate the flower garden, even when it snows. These low shrubs look best in rock gardens, rockeries and rocky gardens.

Buddleya David, or changeable

This deciduous shrub, reaching a height of 2.5 m, is very decorative due to small flowers collected in spike-shaped inflorescences up to 40 cm long. Depending on the variety, they can be pink, purple-blue, white, purple.

Buddleia flowers exude a sweetish aroma that attracts butterflies and bees to the garden. Panicle inflorescences look like lilacs, so buddley is often called autumn lilac.

As you can see, the onset of autumn is not a reason for sadness, because for at least another month, beautifully flowering plants will not allow us to mope! And what flowers and shrubs make your autumn garden boring?

Modern molecular genetic data confirm the work of the Russian plant physiologist M. Kh. Chailakhyan, performed seventy years ago.

at the Institute of Plant Physiology. K.A. Timiryazev RAS recently held the XIII Chailakhyan Readings. This year the event was especially solemn, as it was timed to coincide with the celebration of the 110th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Khristoforovich Chailakhyan, a world-famous biologist, academician, a cheerful person who knew how to gather people around him and infect with interest in research work. It is an honor to make a presentation at such an event. This year, the audience listened to the professor of the University of North Texas, USA, Brian Eyre. His talk was titled "Beyond Photoperiod and Flowering: Florigen as a Regulator of Plant Architecture and a Tool for Biotechnology". How did Mikhail Khristoforovich Chailakhyan glorify domestic science?

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Science and life // Illustrations

Science and life // Illustrations

Science and life // Illustrations

Science and life // Illustrations

Science and life // Illustrations

In the thirties of the twentieth century, interested in a seemingly simple question why some plants bloom in spring, while others in summer or autumn, he set up a series of elegant and simple experiments in which he was able to find the answer to this question. Chailakhyan convincingly showed that the hormone florigen is synthesized in plants (from the Latin "floreo" - to bloom and "gene" - generative), and the signal for its formation is the length of the day.

Sensitivity to day length is characteristic of many plants of temperate latitudes. (The longest day in the Northern Hemisphere is June 21. Until this date, the day grows, and after that it decreases. The length of the day does not depend on the vagaries of the weather. That is why plants whose “biological clocks” are set to the length of the day bloom every year at about one and the same time). According to the reaction to the length of the day, plants are classified into long-day (bloom when the day has exceeded the critical length), short-day (the day has become less than the critical length) and neutral.

He suggested that under the influence of a certain length of the day, substances of a hormonal nature are synthesized in plants, the combination of which induces a bright culminating process in the life of all higher plants - flowering. Moreover, these substances are synthesized in well-defined “competent organs” - in mature, formed leaves and from there they enter the apical meristem (bud being formed), determining its further fate - what to become: a leaf shoot or a flower. A young, freshly opened leaf is unable to synthesize these substances. They cannot be synthesized by young plants that have not reached the required critical biomass. For example, in the first year after sowing seeds, long-day plants such as bluebell and foxglove do not bloom, all their efforts are aimed at “building up” biomass and acquiring “competence” for subsequent flowering.

Mikhail Khristoforovich Chailakhyan conducted experiments with chrysanthemum and perilla (short-day plants), rudbeckia (long-day plant), sunflower (neutral plant), tobacco (varieties with different sensitivity to day length) and many other plants to find out which plant organ perceives day length . Since leaves, stems and shoot meristems are always in the light, it means that the length of the day should be “registered” by one of these organs. The logic of the experiment was simple: we cut off all the young leaves from the top so that they could not send signals to the meristem, and leave the old leaves. Let's take a opaque fabric. In one plant, we will cover the old lower leaves with this cloth early in the evening, and leave the top in the light. The leaves will be on a short day, and the meristem on a long day. In another plant, we will cover the top in the evening, and leave the leaves on a long day. Which one will bloom the fastest?

It turned out that if the leaves of the chrysanthemum are “awake” a little and “sleep for a long time”, then the plant blooms. If the leaves have a “long day” and a “short night”, then flowering does not occur, even if the meristem is darkened with a cloth, creating short-day conditions for it. It was then that M. Kh. Chailakhyan suggested that in the leaves with a short day, certain substances are formed that are transported to the meristem - and it forms flowers. But how to prove that it is the substance that serves as the signal?

Mikhail Khristoforovich took another short-day plant - perilla. He cut a leaf from a perilla that was growing in a short day and grafted it onto a non-flowering perilla that was growing in a long day. And the plant bloomed, although it remained with a long day!

Academician Chailakhyan set up a huge number of experiments, he grafted a shoot of a short-day plant - Jerusalem artichoke - onto a neutral sunflower plant and not only managed to cause it to bloom, but also proved by this experiment that flowering hormones are universal and do not depend on the type of plant.

In the 1950s, scientists were able to isolate one of the hormones, gibberellin, by biochemical methods. Gibberellins are a whole class of substances with more than 150 different substances. The longer the day, the more gibberellins are synthesized in the leaves. They are then transported along with the sugars throughout the plant. So the leaves "inform" all the tissues of the plant that the length of the day has increased. If long-day plants are sprayed with a solution of gibberellin, they will "seem" that the day is long (even if in fact it is not). And the plants will bloom. Unfortunately, so far it has not been possible to "deceive" short-day plants. Gibberellin solutions do not work on them.

After the discovery of gibberellins, the work carried out in Chailakhyan's laboratory was further developed and led to the understanding that at least two types of hormones are involved in the regulation of flowering. Academician Chailakhyan believed that the hormonal complex of flowering, which he called florigen, consists of two complementary groups of phytohormones - gibberellins and hypothetical anthesins. In long-day plants, both components of the florigen are formed with a long day, so they can bloom. But under short day conditions, they contain only anthesin, which is why plants with a rosette form of growth predominate among them (for example, rudbeckia, lettuce). Neutral plants contain both components and can flower in both long and short days. Under favorable conditions, short-day plants synthesize both gibberellin and anthesin, and with a long day - only gibberellin, but this is not enough for the transition to flowering. Gibberellin is necessary for the growth of the peduncle, and anthesin is necessary for the development of flowers, and they complement each other.

As for the second component of florigen, antesin, Chailakhyan suggested that it should be composed of nitrogenous compounds. However, attempts to decipher the chemical nature of anthesin were not successful for a long time. Only in 1991, Chailakhyan's laboratory staff discovered that in the leaves of rudbeckia, which send a signal to bloom, a protein with a molecular weight of 27 kDa begins to be synthesized. The same protein soon appears in the meristem. Scientists have suggested that this protein may be somehow related to florigen, but this work was never completed due to the termination of funding for plant physiology in Russia.

Later, in several foreign laboratories on the model plant Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis), it was shown that the product of the FT gene (flowering locus T) can claim the role of florigen: this small protein, weighing about 23 kDa, is synthesized in the leaves, and then transported to the meristem, causing flower formation. Based on Chailakhyan's theory, it can also be considered as a hormone of a protein nature, by analogy with animal protein hormones.

Many of the genes that control the transition to flowering in Arabidopsis have now been characterized. These genes interact with each other. Many models have been developed that capture these interactions. The current model of a plant's transition to flowering consists of four main biochemical pathways that are formed under conditions of (1) favorable day length (photoperiod), (2) favorable temperature, (3) age-related changes, and (4) gibberellins. We see the difference between this scheme and the florigen theory in a certain discrepancy between the two concepts of the transition to flowering: physiological and molecular genetic. According to Chailakhyan's hypothesis, gibberellin is a necessary component of the flowering stimulus. It is synthesized in the leaves and is involved in the processes that accompany the transition of the plant to flowering. The results of molecular genetic studies led scientists to believe that gibberellin is not associated with the photoperiodic reaction and acts separately. Now this position is being revised, and the gibberellic pathway is also made dependent on the photoperiod.

In 2011, based on florigen, a number of laboratories developed a new technology for producing flowering plants. In the genome of plant viruses, the envelope protein genes were replaced by the FT gene. After infection with the virus, the leaves begin to synthesize florigen. But without the coat protein, the virus cannot spread throughout the plant, but the florigen can, and from the leaves it travels to the top of the shoot and causes flowering. This method was able to cause the flowering of cotton, soybeans and other plants. Thus, seedlings of the first year bloomed on an apple tree under the influence of a "florigenic" virus. Research is ongoing.

Rice. 1. Blooming chrysanthemum.
Rice. 2. Scheme of M. Kh. Chailakhyan's experiments on the induction of chrysanthemum flowering.
Rice. 3. Scheme of M. Kh. Chailakhyan's experiments on interrupting the night in short-day (SDR) and long-day (LDR) plants.
Rice. 4. Friendly cartoon.
Rice. 5. M.Kh. Chailakhyan with employees in the greenhouse.
Rice. 6. Apple seedlings can bloom if they are treated with a genetically modified virus, in which florigen is synthesized instead of an envelope protein.

Able to suddenly flare up with bright farewell colors. There is still plenty of sun in September and even October for a number of plants to fully bloom. Autumn is rightfully called the most colorful season of the year. She is able to decorate the garden not only with a view that has changed color, but also with a wonderful combination of flower shades in the flower beds. Let's look at plants that bloom in autumn together.

Late flowers in the autumn garden

• Of the known species put in the first place. Its multi-colored stars are able to please the eye before the onset of the first frost.
  Annual flowers grow quite large in size, and perennial representatives differ in small inflorescences, but more numerous.

• Came to our gardens from Japan. But this did not affect her development at all.
  Large-flowered varieties respect the warmth of the sun, and representatives from Korea are able to withstand frosts down to minus seven degrees. The smell of the plant is bitter, the color shades are varied.

• its appearance resembles the usual chamomile. She loves wet and fertile places. Flowering of various varieties occurs in September and October, continues until the onset of cold weather.

• Often found in the autumn garden. They bloom in various shades - lilac, red, pink and even purple. There are varieties in which the flowers are painted in two colors at once. Such plants look very pretty against the backdrop of autumn colors.

cereal plants

• Butelua elegant with its amazing decorative effect gives an original look. The inflorescences of this cereal representative grow quite exquisitely at a certain angle.

• The sharp-flowered reed grass is distinguished by its high growth, reaching one and a half meters. With its help, distant sections of flower beds are perfectly decorated. panicles, characterized by a soft pink tint.

• Molinya blue is quite compact and has purple flowers.

• But the Miscanthus cereal is able to attract silver-red tones with its inflorescences, favorably emphasized by brown colors.

shrub species

• Naturally, it cannot do without them. One of the representatives is. Blooms profusely in September. Flowers in the form of balls have a rather festive look, they add magic to the brightness of various shades that may be present on one bush.

• Ordinary is also capable of delivering joy. It blooms in pink and purple hues until early November.

How to organize the care of autumn plants

1. During the period of the beginning of flowering of autumn plants, it is recommended to stop watering. Water is needed only for those that are transplanted or grow only a year. Inflorescences that have stopped flowering are removed. Perennial types are cut to the root. If the pruning is high, then the stems are left for the winter and removed in the spring.
2. During this period, plants are recommended to be supported with superphosphate preparations and potassium sulfate. Flowers with tubers in the form of bulbs are fertilized only with potassium. Some representatives are allowed to perform hilling, sprinkle with spruce branches or cut branches for the winter.

This is not the whole list of autumn plants. There are many of them, and all are able to bring joy with colorful flowers. And if there is a desire to enjoy the view of bright inflorescences in the fall, do not rush to plant everything in a row. Take a closer look at which representatives are well suited for climate, soil composition and other conditions. And only after that start growing.