A flower that smells at night. Aromas of the evening garden: a selection of the best varieties of fragrant flowers. Rules for creating a fragrant garden in the country

There are many different surprises in nature. One of them is night flowers. They bloom at night and fill the air with their lovely fragrance..

Night flowers are truly a miracle of nature. They open their petals at night. The most popular ones are listed below.:

• Vechernitsa

The mystery of the night flower Mirabilis begins with the name. From Latin "mirabilis" is translated as "amazing." Surprises with a variety of colors and unpretentious care. If you plant several different types mirabilis next, then on next year the color scheme will change. Blooms will different color on one bush. Due to the fact that the plant blooms at night, it is called the "night beauty". It blooms in the evening and blooms until the morning, exuding pleasant aroma.

Mirabilis lives for several years in the absence of harsh winters. In regions where winters are quite cold, it is considered an annual.

Mirabilis can be propagated in many ways:

1. seeds
2. By dividing the bush
3. cuttings
4. Digging up the root for the winter

seed propagation the simplest and most efficient. AT southern regions mirabilis reproduces by self-sowing.

The division of the bush can be produced provided that the bush has a well-grown root. Dig up the plant and divide the root with a shovel or knife. Separated parts are planted in different holes.

Propagation method by cuttings extremely complex and not always effective. As a rule, I use it when there is no other way to preserve the look of the plant. To do this, take a stiff shoot. The cut on the shoot is dried, dipped in a growth stimulator and allowed to take root in water or in the ground.

Dig up the root for the winter in regions with cold winters. The root is stored in sand, observing the level of humidity. This method is rarely used. Because it is extremely rare to save the root due to the difficulty of maintaining the necessary moisture. The root either dries up or rots.

Vechernitsa

Vespers is otherwise called Hesperis due to the fact that it blooms in the evening. The leaves are entire and pinnate. Hesperis flowers can be purple, yellow or white color. Evening bush can reach 75 centimeters in height. The flowers are small in size.

Evening frost-resistant, unpretentious plant. Vespers blooms for about two months. Flowering depends on weather conditions.

If the winter is not snowy, then the evening should be covered with leaves, spruce branches. Otherwise, when severe frosts the plant may die.

Propagated using seeds. They are bought in the store, or assembled independently. It also reproduces well by self-sowing.

planted late spring and summer or autumn. But it will bloom only next year.

It is necessary to plant the evening at a distance of 30-40 centimeters. The plant is photophilous. The soil for planting an evening requires fertile and loose.

– amazing plant revealing its beauty at sunset. Also has the name Night Candle and Oslinnik.

Oenothera is annual, biennial and perennial plant. perennial varieties evening primroses grow in warm regions. Flowers come in bright yellow, white, blue and red..

Height can reach 30-120 centimeters. It all depends on the variety of evening primrose. Stems are erect or creeping.

Mattiola is a member of the cruciferous family. The plant has a straight stem and bright green leaves. Matthiola flowers on racemose inflorescences, come in blue, white, yellow and purple . Has a wonderful aroma. Therefore, it is planted next to the terraces.

There is a special rule that should be followed when planting matthiola.

You can not plant a plant on a site where cabbage, or another representative of cruciferous, previously grew.

In such places, mattiola can hit fungal disease or another disease that will lead to the death of the plant.

- a beautiful shrub. Gardeners love it for its unpretentiousness and ability to bloom from spring to autumn. The leaves are small, oblong in shape. The flowers have four petals and come in white, yellow, pink and purple.. They are small size, but at good care, alyssum flowers can become larger every year.

The shrub loves the sun, open areas.Alyssum can be watered infrequently and tolerates heat well.. But frequent watering can lead to the death of the shrub.

Since the plant grows very quickly, it must be planted at a distance of 30 centimeters from each other.

Night flowers can hardly boast of large, delightfully shaped flowers.. But they have common feature, which attracts many gardeners. This is an unforgettable alluring fragrance that can be enjoyed all night long.

For growth and development, all plants need sunlight: most of the representatives of the kingdom of Flora open up to meet him early in the morning, and at dusk close the buds tightly. However, there are also originals in nature - flowers blooming at night: walking along dark alleys or a garden, you can catch their heady aroma. You yourself have probably inhaled it more than once: it is already difficult to imagine parks or embankments without such plants.

So what flowers bloom at night?

The magic of matthiola aroma

Do not be deceived by the modest appearance of this flower - before you is a real queen of fragrance. Mattiola bicornis is valued precisely for the fact that in the evening and at night it literally saturates the air with its aroma. In addition, this plant is very unpretentious. It can grow even with relatively low temperatures. Sow it in April to admire the delicate lilac inflorescences and inhale their sweet smell on June evenings. With proper care, she will delight you until October.

Mirabilis: beauty of the night

This bright diva, a native of Mexico and South America, "wakes up" only in the afternoon, when the sun slowly sets below the horizon. Lush bloom gives a rich, pleasant aroma.

Mirabilis (“amazing”) received its name for a unique property: one plant is able to produce buds different colors. Blooming, they delight the eye bright colors- from orange to deep pink.

African Princess of the Zalusian

This graceful overseas guest also called night phlox. Opening delicate white-pink buds in the evening, it exudes a subtle unique aroma, in which some people catch hints of vanilla.

Like many other flowers that enchant people with their scent, it is often grown in hanging vases and balcony boxes.

Selenicereus: queen of the night

A creeping plant in the cactus family that produces a fragrant flower that blooms at night. It grows in Mexico, the West Indies and the southeastern United States. Today, if there is a bright place in the room, you can make it an inhabitant of your home. The plant is unpretentious, although it loves abundant watering. In any case, its fabulous flowers, in which the gold of the sepals and the white silk of the petals are combined, will pay off care and attention with their magnificence.

Unique balsa tree

Finally, I would like to talk about amazing tree balsa. You will not find it with us - it grows in South America. Its wood is the lightest in the world. However, interesting tree they also make large flowers that bloom at night. The photo conveys all the diversity of life, centered around the buds that opened after sunset. They attract a variety of insects and even animals! Sweet nectar, which contains about 30 grams in one cup, is drunk the bats, olingo, kinkajou, opossums. The flower is pollinated by hummingbirds, bees and other insects.

Plants also have a biological clock. Each plant “wakes up” at its own time. There are "night" flowers that open their petals at night. At exactly 8 pm, evening primrose reveals its bright yellow petals. At about the same time, fragrant tobacco flowers bloom, and after 9 o'clock, matthiola flowers.

What garden flowers bloom only at night?

Mattiola or night violet - annual, groundcover. This flower has long been planted near arbors, benches, terraces for the wonderful honey aroma that mattiola exudes all night (not without reason its second name is night violet). The color of flowers varies from pale pink to deep purple. If you plant this flower in a container on the balcony, your apartment will be filled with a wonderful sweet fragrance every evening.

* Growing conditions

Matthiola is extremely cold-resistant, it withstands frosts down to -7 ° C. Prefers sunny places well-drained, fertilized soils. Sowing on permanent place early spring (late April - early May). Blooms in July. Not afraid of penumbra.

If you want your night garden plants to have a more intense scent, place them near a wall, gate, or trellis. Vertical gardening will make the garden more voluminous and spread the smell throughout the territory.

Oenothera Missouri
garden flower Evening primrose Garden flower evening primrose has another name - "night candle".
The effect that it produces when flowering is long remembered. After sunset, evening primrose comes to life, filling the garden with a pleasant aroma. A lot of buds, rolled into tubes, unfold within two to three seconds and turn into large ones. yellow flowers, up to 7 cm in diameter, having the shape of a saucer.
In the morning, after night flowering, the evening primrose appears in all its glory. Before lunch, insects manage to visit it, after which the flowers close. In the evening, new ones bloom - and so all summer, from June to frost. On cloudy days or in the shade, the flowers are open during the day.

* Growing conditions

Evening primrose is fairly easy to grow. Sowing in early spring immediately in open ground. Prefers open, sunny locations with well-drained soil. In dry weather, watering is necessary. Loves feed.

fragrant tobacco an annual plant with a straight thin branched stem up to 80 cm high. The leaves are large, basal - rounded, stem - elongated. The flowers are regular, non-double, solitary. The shape of the flower is star-shaped with a long tube. The color of the main species is white, but there are varieties with light lilac-pink, lilac-red and transitional colors.
Fragrant tobacco is valued for its pleasant aroma, which intensifies in the evening and in cloudy weather, since the flowers usually close in the sun during the day.

Will bloom in spring tulips if you do not dig up the bulbs and they will spend the whole summer in the ground? They will bloom, but without drying the bulbs, flowering will be less intense. In addition, the replacement bulb of tulips every year is formed deeper than the old one, that is, the plant gradually sinks into the ground. Deep-seated bulbs bloom later, or may not bloom at all.

What to do to bloom imperial hazel grouse?
You can stimulate the flowering of hazel grouse if the bulb is not planted vertically, but at an angle of 45 degrees. It redistributes in her nutrients and leads to the laying of a flower bud.

Vechernitsa perennial also enhances its scent at night. Extremely unpretentious. Sowing in a permanent place in June. Grows best in loose soils, in full sun or partial shade. Winters without shelter.

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Thanks for the scent of beautiful flowers
There are beautiful flowers. And there are fragrant ones. As a rule, these two properties are rarely combined in one flower. Even roses do not smell as rich as, for example, discreet mignonette. Russian front gardens were famous for their fragrant flowers. What kind?

Now the reseda is completely forgotten. But in vain. In the evening, it exudes a marvelous aroma. Mignonette is not famous for its flowers, so you can plant it among representative beauties. Breeders, however, tried to improve the quality of small flowers, getting terry varieties and diversifying the palette of yellow-red shades. But it's better to focus on the smell. Mignonette is also good because it blooms for a long time - from mid-summer to frost. most fragrant and old variety- fragrant mignonette.

The soil is not demanding. Loves the sun. Growth is small: from 20 to 40 centimeters (depending on conditions and variety).

Heliotrope

Heliotrope is good both in smell and color. It can be called an aristocrat in a village flower garden. Among the beautiful, with clearly marked veins of leaves, hats of lilac or blue flowers. Heliotrope blooms until frost.

There are tall varieties that are grown in large pots in greenhouses. Heliotrope cuts beautifully. Therefore, at the end of summer, you can do "supplies" for next spring. Rooted cuttings are kept warm bright room. In the garden, heliotrope prefers a sunny position.

Monarda

They say that Stalin once stopped at flower bed. "What kind of flower is this?" He pointed to the Monarda with his hand. They answered him. “A very beautiful flower. And it smells good," he said. The monard smells really strong. Mint. The smell is not so much in the flowers as in the leaves. The flower is unusual: one-, two- and even three-story.

A short stem grows from the middle of the flower, on which another flower blooms. Monarda flowers are white, pink, red. Blooms in July-August. Monarda is a perennial. You can propagate by dividing the rhizomes. Demanding for watering.

Levkoy (Matiola)

Perhaps the left-handed coat never went out of fashion. The aroma is amazing. Especially at night. The people call him the "night beauty" (Matiola bicorn variety). There are many varieties of levkoy. There are small, inconspicuous, and there are with luxurious, tall peduncles.

There are early flowering (first half of summer) and late flowering. Some varieties look great in the cut. Levkoy is also good because it is represented by the widest palette of colors. Annual (with the exception of the "night beauty"). Each season is grown through seedlings.

Sweet pea

Recently, sweet peas are very popular. Moreover, many varieties with a great variety of shades have been bred. The flower has become more significant, larger, the stem is longer. Therefore, a vase with a bouquet sweet pea- real chic.

But in order for the pea bush to grow luxurious, you need to prepare “fat”, rich soil in advance. When the young stalk reaches 10-15 centimeters, pinch the crown, after which it gives many side shoots. Support is required. The height of most varieties of peas reaches 2 - 3 meters. For abundant flowering, wilted flowers are regularly removed. Loves sun and watering.

Fragrant tobacco

In our country scented tobacco loved recently. There is a reason. At good conditions tobacco leaves grow large, beautiful. The flowers are delicate and very fragrant. Fragrant tobacco should be planted in a group, this enhances the aroma.

The shades are different: light, pink, burgundy, greenish. There are undersized varieties, but most varieties reach 80-100 centimeters. Blooms from mid-summer to October.

Marigolds thin-leaved

Marigolds are a very popular flower in our country. It is affectionately called "velvet". Love for unpretentiousness, abundance and duration of flowering, for brightness and beauty.

Recently, many varieties of marigolds have been bred with small flowers that adorn compact, spherical bushes. If you disturb the bush, inadvertently touch it with a watering can or stroke it with your hand, a spicy aroma will immediately spill out. Annual. It is not picky about the soil. Blooms until frost.

Meadowsweet

In the wild, we can meet the meadowsweet on the edges of the forest. Attractive foliage: palmate or pinnate, slightly rough (like raspberries). Numerous white flowers are collected in paniculate long and fluffy inflorescences.

They smell like honey, which attracts bees. The minnow is unpretentious. Several cultivars, which is why the "caps" of flowers became more magnificent, painted in pinkish and yellowish tones. When cut, the meadowsweet fades quickly. Blooms for about a month. Prefers light shade.

Phlox is a luxurious and favorite perennial. Handsome. Unpretentious. Aromatic. Decorates the garden from mid-summer to late autumn.

In autumn, the stems of a faded phlox bush are cut off, leaving a small “stump”. So that in the spring the root is not exposed, phloxes are mulched (sprinkled with a little earth, peat and sand). In the hot summer, watering is required. Phlox propagates by spring or autumn division of the root. In the spring it is well cut.

Beauty and pride of Russian gardens. Peonies we loved and love. Recently, flower growers have developed an indomitable passion for new varieties. Despite the fact that peonies fade imperceptibly quickly. Simple, terry, semi-double, anemone - all are beautiful and fragrant.

Planted in autumn. Peonies prefer light shade. They do not like stagnant moisture in the soil.

I am sure that most summer residents strive to create at least small plot, where fragrant flowers for the garden will not only delight the eyes, but also captivate with their fragrance. Close your eyes and imagine paradise where everything blooms and smells of various aromas, birds sing and butterflies flutter.

Each flower is unique and remarkable in its own way, some of us prefer the aesthetic component, and then the selection of plants is carried out with an eye to their external qualities. And there are flower growers among us for whom the fragrance of a flower is the most important criterion. Such a summer resident, for example, can sow everything with a nondescript and modest-looking matthiola garden paths on both sides, and then enjoy its enchanting aroma with the onset of the evening and feel happy. To each, as they say - his own, and in this article I would like to consider flowers and plants that smell as good as they look outwardly.

Fragrant flowers for the garden

Plants and flowers with pronounced pleasant smell not only delight our sense of smell, but are also able to repel insect pests. When choosing garden dwellers, two nuances should be taken into account: the more representatives of the same variety are planted in one place, the more clearly you will feel their aroma. It is also worth knowing that flowers with the same name may look very similar, but not have the expected fragrance. For example, tulips - there are hundreds of varieties of them, but not all of them have a strong aroma.

The same can be said about selected varieties roses, peonies, sweet peas (perennial does not smell). You also need to consider that some fragrant flowers reveal their full potential with the onset of the evening. As soon as dusk falls on the garden, they begin to smell especially bright. Night violet (mattiola), evening primrose, which is also called "Night candle", mirabilis ( night beauty), brugmansia (it is poisonous), ipomoea lunar.

So, let's take a closer look at fragrant flowers for the garden:

Alyssum and phlox

Phloxes

These lush flowering perennials are unpretentious, require minimum care. Phlox bushes are of medium size, inflorescences can be white, pink, lilac, red, bluish. Depending on the variety, they bloom from May to late autumn. The aroma of phloxes is sweet, reminiscent of the smell of honey, in the most sunny days these flowers exude fragrance especially strongly. The plant loves lighted areas, less often - partial shade.

Night Violet Mattiola

These annual fragrant flowers for the garden do not attract attention, as they do not have the bright beauty of other garden inhabitants. If you take a closer look at Matthiola, it becomes clear that modest little lilac flowers also adorable in their own way. Amazing, unlike anything, the aroma of this flower is fully revealed with the onset of the evening and continues to delight our sense of smell all night long. The night violet grows well in sunlit areas, and it is also not afraid of partial shade. It is not recommended to grow it in the shade, otherwise the stems will stretch up, and there will be very few flowers. Matthiola blooms in the middle of summer and continues to delight us until September.