New flowers at our dacha

I want to tell you about the flowers that I planted at my dacha for the first time this year.

We live in Krasnoyarsk. We're considered to have a sharply continental climate, with very cold winters and hot summers, with large temperature swings between day and night. The construction of the Krasnoyarsk Hydroelectric Power Station has mitigated this harsh climate. Now, winters are less severe, and summers are cooler. Krasnoyarsk gardeners have begun growing not only carrots, cabbage, and potatoes, but also peppers and tomatoes in the open ground, as well as exotic cold-climate plants like eggplant, watermelons, melons, and corn. Some gardeners manage to harvest grapes and apricots. They also grow southern flowers—roses, chrysanthemums, and eustoma—though they have to be covered or dug up and stored in a cellar during the winter.

Every year, some of my flowers disappear, don’t sprout in the spring, and I replace them with new ones.

This year (2020) these new perennials and annuals have appeared in my flower beds.

Daylilies

In the spring, I planted two daylily bushes. I bought low-growing varieties—one with yellow flowers, the other with red double ones. One daylily produced two tall stems with orange flowers with a brown stripe inside; the other has no stems yet.

Ligularia

Ligularia dentata with dark burgundy leaves, it is also low-growing and has also blossomed, throwing out a peduncle with several yellow flowers on it.

Liatris

Liatris – a blazing star. Another new addition to my garden. The flower has produced a single tall stalk with shaggy, bright lilac flowers. The flowers open from the top of the stem down.

Astilbe

I also bought two astilbes. One is white, but it didn't bloom this year. The other is a light smoky, off-white astilbe, and it delighted me with its first bloom.

Lysimachia punctata

I've always wanted to plant this flower, and finally found it. But it's disappointing me; perhaps the rainy weather affected its growth. The bush isn't growing at all, and the leaves are covered in dark spots. It's produced flower stalks and yellow bell-shaped flowers, but they're so puny, the plant looks sick. I watered it with phytosporin; maybe it won't die. I'm tempted to dig it up, repot it, and put it in a greenhouse.

Roses

This year I bought two yellow roses. I bought one in February and put it in the cellar with the other roses. Our roses freeze in the winter, even under cover, so in the fall we dig up the bushes and store them in the cellar. In the spring, I took the roses out of the cellar and moved them to the greenhouse.

I repotted the hybrid tea rose Ilios, and sprouts appeared. But they later dried up, and the rose turned black, with only a small shoot emerging from the bottom. I planted it in open ground at the end of April. It didn't produce new shoots for a long time; the bush was dry, and I thought my rose was lost. But in early June, new shoots began to sprout.

And in early August, the yellow rose bloomed. The bush is very weak, but I hope it will survive.

In the spring, I bought another yellow Dutch rose called Bogamy. This rose's bush already had leaves. The rose bloomed profusely, with many flowers. I trimmed the stems, and it sent up new branches again, which bore new buds.

Evening primrose

I grew the evening primrose called "Night Candle" from seeds.

I sowed it in a pot in mid-April in the spring, the seedlings grew in a greenhouse, and in mid-May I planted them in open ground.

Oenothera began to bloom at the end of July.

It has many peduncles, the flowers are quite large, delicate lemon-colored, beautiful, the petals are delicate, there are four of them on the flower, and inside the flower there are long stamens.

This is a perennial plant, low-growing, if it survives the winter, I will transplant it to another place near the bells.

Bells

I sowed a mixture of perennial bellflowers last summer, and only three sprouted. The Carpathian bellflower had finished blooming, so I replanted it in a more suitable location. This bellflower has white flowers and grows low.

The other two bushes are not yet blooming; they have different leaf shapes.

Chrysanthemums

I sowed perennial chrysanthemums—a mixture called "Stars of the Galaxy"—for seedlings in early February. The seedlings emerged within a week. They grew very slowly. In the spring, I transplanted the seedlings into individual cups, and at the end of May, I transplanted them into open ground.

Chrysanthemum bushes are different, some are tall, some are short.

Some plants have begun to flower; the first flowers will bloom in September.

In the fall, I'll dig them up and transplant them into pots. Our chrysanthemums don't survive the winter; they freeze, so we have to store them in the cellar all winter.

Snapdragon

Snapdragons are annuals. This was my first time sowing these flowers, and they delighted me with their vibrant blooms. I grew them from seedlings, sowing them in a box in April, and they grew in a greenhouse. I planted them in the flowerbed at the end of May. The plant is short, with green, elongated leaves. The flower stalks are straight, completely covered with buds. The flowers are quite large, and come in a variety of colors – white, yellow, pink, deep crimson, burgundy, orange, and variegated. I'll definitely plant them next year.

Nasturtium canary

Nasturtium canariensis, also known as Canary, is a climbing annual plant with small, delicate leaves and unusual, stunningly beautiful, delicate lemon-colored flowers.

Last summer, this nasturtium covered the entire arbor at my neighbors' dacha. I also decided to plant these flowers near the chain-link fence. I sowed the seeds in the spring, and only four sprouts emerged. At the end of May, I transplanted them to the fence. At first, they grew well, twining their vines around the mesh, and they began to bloom, but prolonged rains took their toll on the plant. The stems began to wilt from the excessive moisture, and my nasturtium looks terrible.

I hope that all the flowers planted in the spring will grow well, survive the winter and decorate our dacha.