🌷 This delicately pink and bright red with a silvery hue flower bed in the Luxembourg garden in Paris this spring inspires you to create a similar bed in your own garden. The tulips have already flowered, but other plants can still be planted, either through seedlings or by sowing seeds directly into the ground. This will delay the flowering of the annuals this year and the biennials will bloom next year. I would look for seedlings of plants, so that already this year to observe the luxurious flowering. So, let’s look at the planting scheme:
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✨ Front of the flower bed:
🌸 Biennial daisy ‘Tasso Red’ Bellis Perennis — from seedlings.
🌸 Alpine forget-me-not Myosotis alpestris — from seedlings for flowering this year or from seeds for next year. Blooms from May to July.
🌿 Alternative: Alyssum — from seeds or seedlings.
🌸Wallflower Erysimum — stunning flower colors and fragrance, best grown from seedlings. It may be annual and perennial.
✨ Middle/background:
🌸 Silver ragwort Senecio cineraria — sow directly into the ground or use seedlings.
🌸Biennial lunaria Lunaria annua — It is better to plant seedlings, then flowering will be this year. By sowing seeds you will get a flowering plant next year.
🌿Alternative: Greater ammi Ammi Majus or White laceflower Orlaya grandiflora — can be sown directly into the soil.
🌷 Scattered throughout the bed:
Late double Tulip ‘Foxtrot’ — plant bulbs in the ground in September.
A bush rose can be planted evenly in the bed. For example: Angela (Kordes); Heritage, Olivia Rose, The Wedgwood rose (David Ostin).
