Ampel flowers

Among all the ornamental flowering plants, ampel colors are especially notable for their beauty. They are attractive with original falling lashes, which are their main feature. Ampelnye plants are good for vertical gardening, now fashionable trend in garden design. And they will help to decorate the territory, where there are no traditional lawns and flower beds - for example, a concreted country yard, a terrace, a wall of the house or a boring entrance door.

Popular types of flower colors for the garden and balcony

There are a lot of varieties of ampel colors, and each of them is beautiful in its own way. Let's look at some of the most interesting and common flower colors for pots:

  1. Petunia is the leader among ampel plants. It is very popular due to the simplicity of cultivation and the variety of varieties. In addition, petunia blooms for a long time - from spring to late autumn. When placing pots with petunia, consider that she likes a lot of heat and light.
  2. Surfonia is a large flowering ball up to 1 m in diameter. Externally, the flowers are very similar to petunia, but they are much thicker. This plant is ideal for hanging flowerpots.
  3. Geranium , or ampel Pelargonium, is loved for its decorative, drought-resistant and phytoncidal properties. It is often planted on balconies and arbors. Geranium also loves light and warmth, but prefers moderate watering.
  4. Begonia is famous not only for decorative flowers, but also for original carved leaves. What is characteristic, in the shade and partial shade, it loses its decorativity, so plant begonia on sunny places, which she very much loves.
  5. Lobelia - unpretentious one-year-old, which blooms beautifully and in partial shade. Its small flowers are densely located and look very pretty. There are also perennial varieties of lobelia - they do not differ frost resistance and require good shelter for the winter.
  6. Verbena will enjoy its long flowering throughout the warm season. But, choosing this plant as an ornament of your balcony or garden, prepare to regularly feed it.
  7. Dihondra differs from other ampel colors in that it is a decorative deciduous plant. His whips fall like a silvery waterfall, as people have called a dichondra. This flower looks great in combination with bright flowering plants in baskets or pots.
  8. Ampelic fuchsia blooms in autumn, coming to replace the "summer" ampel colors. She loves moderate hydration and prefers penumbra, as in the sun the cups of her flowers lose decorativeness.

Choosing ampel garden flowers to your taste, you will never go wrong: they are all decorative and very beautiful.