Ampelnye plants

Ampelnye plants will be a real godsend for beginning gardeners, who do not yet have enough practical experience to design and care for the garden. What does the term "ampel plant" mean? This plant, which is grown in flowerpots, hanging vases, baskets.

Advantages of ampel plants

To understand what plants are called ampelnye, you need to have an idea of ​​what the benefits they have:

• the opportunity to decorate any place of the garden or disguise its ordinary-looking plots;
• mobility in displacement - plants can easily be rearranged, changing compositions;
• simplicity in care, which consists of regular watering and top dressing. This is their difference from plants planted in the open ground, which need to be weeded, hilled and mulched.

Types of ampel house plants

There are such varieties of ampel plants:

• twisted ampel plants, which are also called lianas. They have antennae, which cling to the grid or grate and climb up it;
• creeping ampel plants that grow in a container high suspended above the floor, their stems freely hang down.

Ampelnye plants for the garden

The most popular ampel plants for the garden are the following:

1. Petunia , which is one of the favorite plants of all florists. It differs in different colors and long flowering, which lasts from early spring to late autumn. Petunia is unpretentious in nursing. A suspended vase with a plant is best placed in a lighted, warm place.
2. Surfinia . This flower is very similar to petunia. But the bush of the surfium is thicker and has more flowers. The plant can reach up to 1m in diameter.
3. Bacop . Distributed in Europe, we are much less common. An important condition for its cultivation is adherence to the optimal watering regime.
4. Begonia . It should be kept in sunny places, in the shade and partial shade, it loses its decorative properties.
5. Verbena . It is characterized by a long flowering, which lasts from the beginning of spring to autumn. Soil for planting should be selected loose and with a lot of fertilizers. The exception is top dressing containing a lot of nitrogen, which verbena reacts poorly.
6. Geranium (Pelargonium ampel). This plant likes warm, lit places, is drought-resistant.
7. Diace . The plant prefers sunlight and light sandy soil. In hot weather, abundant watering is required for it.
8. Dichondra . It looks very good in compositions with other ampel plants. Due to its original appearance was called "silvery waterfall".
9. The Campaign is equal . Refers to the family of bells. It has stems about 25 cm in length and flowers resembling asterisks, lilac, white or blue in shape. To prolong the flowering period, dead flowers must be removed in a timely manner.
10. Lobelia . These plants are annual or perennial. Good take root both in the sun and in the penumbra.
11. Nolan is strange . Has flowers of intense lilac or blue. The length reaches up to 50 cm. The plant is unpretentious in care and is characterized by drought resistance. In the garden, it should be placed in a place where drafts are excluded.
12. The charm is pleasant . In care is unpretentious, the soil> prefers well-hydrated, with a lot of additional dressings.
Fuchsia is ampel . Decorate your garden in the early autumn, which accounts for its flowering. To ensure proper care for it, you should observe a constant moderate watering and avoid direct sunlight.

The listed types of ampel plants are suitable not only for the garden, but also for the balcony.

Expanding, the ampel plants form incredibly spectacular compositions that will decorate any house, balcony or garden.