Plant Your Garden in Yellow

Plant Your Garden in Yellow

Spring mood in your flower bed can last longer – choose yellow flowering plants and have a radiant bed until late summer.

Preparing the Flower Bed for Planting

Choose a location where you'll place your flower bed. It can be a strip along the house, by the garden fence, or an island bed beside a path. Remove weeds from the area of your future bed and work in at least a 5 cm thick layer of compost. If you're creating a bed under tree canopies, be careful when weeding and hoeing not to damage the tree roots. Your bed can be in a sunny spot, in shade, or partial shade. Choose plants to sow in your bed according to its location.

Select plants based on how you want your bed to look. You can have small asters and marigolds for a continuous yellow carpet. You can choose succulent spurges for an uncluttered bed, or rather a rock garden. Or tall gladioli that will delight you both in a vase and when cutting. If you're considering a bed of plants intended for cutting, definitely make weeding easier by planting them in rows like vegetables. This planting method is also more economical for watering. You can also plant cutting flowers in a bed where vegetables were previously grown. However, choose a sufficiently sunny location for them.

Among individual plants and their seeds, place bulbs of spring plants that will bloom first in the bed. Bulbs of daffodils, hyacinths, tulips, or snowdrops. You can also plant these spring bulbs in window boxes or pots and enjoy them on your balcony or windowsill. Lily of the valley and acidanthera will also look beautiful.

For a Sunny Garden Bed

If you have sunny beds, you're in luck. You can choose from an endless variety of annuals and create a yellow carpet in your garden. When selecting, don't forget small-flowering asters, daisies, coreopsis, or helichrysum. In your flower carpet, be sure to sow Basket of Gold (lat. Alyssum saxatile). Basket of Gold is a medium-height plant that blooms with yellow fragrant flowers from April to September. The plant height is 20-40 cm. The inflorescence is a corymb composed of a cluster of tiny flowers.

From taller plants, choose Gladiolus (lat. Gladiolus). Gladioli are also a magnificent cut flower, suitable for all occasions. You can give them as a highly elegant birthday flower. They are suitable for complementing modern interiors. If you fall in love with gladioli, you'll find that you can never have enough. Whether in yellow or other shades. If you can't decide which shade would be most suitable, we have a mixed colour blend of these elegant gladioli for you. Gladioli bloom from June to September. Their height ranges from 50 to 150 cm. There are approximately 260 species of gladiolus. They originate from Africa and Madagascar. For gladioli, we choose a sunny location and well-drained but nutrient-rich soil. We can enrich the soil with Cererit fertiliser. Before planting, carefully remove the corms from their husks. We take care not to damage the roots and sprout. We plant gladioli in the selected location at the end of May. We plant larger corms 10 cm deep to prevent the gladioli from toppling over later. For beautiful flowers, don't overwater the plant; watering doesn't need to be regular, but should be generous. When cutting, make sure to leave at least 4 leaves at the bottom of the plant to complete its vegetation cycle.

For Shady Spots in the Garden

Bring life to darker sections of the garden with shade-loving plants that thrive even when hidden under tree canopies. Plants with white, cream or blue-green leaves are suitable for shady spots, providing an interesting sight from spring to summer.

Hostas (also known as funkia or plantain lily) boast beautiful leaves and flowers. This plant originates from East Asia, particularly Japan, China and Korea. It grows to a height of 30-60 cm. Its leaves have a spoon-shaped to heart-shaped form. It will never thrive in a sunny location, so provide it with partial shade. Hostas can also surprise with fragrant lily-like flowers, but their main ornamental feature and advantage are the leaves. Always plant hostas cleverly in combination with spring bulbs. Although hostas are long-lived plants, their leaves don't overwinter - the first frosts will damage them. In spring, they take longer to sprout, so daffodils, irises and snowdrops can bloom first in the bare spots.

The ornamental Spurge also copes well with shade. It thrives in shady but dry locations. The flowers are yellow-green and decorate the bed from April to May. It grows to a height of 30-50 cm. It's good to know the height of plants when planning the bed layout before sowing, so that shorter species are sown in the foreground and taller ones at the back edge of the bed. Spurge is from a genus of plants that has about 2,100 species and originates from Africa. So the selection is vast.

Liven Up Your Garden with Yellow Flowering Shrubs

An interesting shrub is sea buckthorn, whose berries range from yellow, orange and red colors. Sea buckthorn is a shrub originating from Russia. It's a frost-hardy shrub that will thrive in any garden. It's now generally known that sea buckthorn berries contain high amounts of vitamin C. It's grown similarly to gooseberries. Sea buckthorn essentially needs a sunny location and light sandy, well-drained soil.

A Flowering Shrub Can Also Brighten Up Your Hedge

Do you have a hedge that's so dense not even a glance can penetrate it, and you'd like to add some variety? Then choose a suitable flowering plant, such as Chinese tea plant or edible hibiscus, which will be inconspicuous and only you will know what treasure is hiding in your hedge.

Tips for Balconies and Window Sills

What can you quickly change on your window sill this spring to make it shine and glow cheerfully? The fastest solution is to purchase decorative pot covers to unify the appearance of plants on your window sill.

On the balcony, we can combine beauty and utility in yellow shades by growing yellow balcony tomatoes this year. These bush varieties are highly productive and undemanding to grow. They're suitable for cultivation in both containers and balcony boxes.

A useful small plant for pots and boxes is the yellow Průhonice dwarf aster. This is a very attractive aster that forms small bushes with abundant flowers. It grows to a height of 20-25 cm. In flower beds, it's used for carpet planting.

Author: Hana Michalíková