The best times for planting shrubs and perennials are generally in the fall until early spring, excluding the frost period of course. It is therefore now that it is appropriate to project ourselves towards the beautiful days of 2022 by planting the plants which will offer decorative foliage and magnificent flowers. Like haute couture, plants evolve and design new styles each season: if you want to follow “plant” fashion, we reveal the spring-summer 2022 garden trends of Flower Promise.
A garden where you can feel good
With the periods of confinement, epidemic waves and stress resulting from this coronavirus, we all want and need to feel good in our environment, at home but also in the garden, on the terrace or the balcony, which are its outer extension.
Plants adapted to climate change
Here the plants must adapt to hot summers, to dry, poor or even arid soils: we find warm “natural” colors (copper, chocolate, terracotta, etc.) with graphic silhouettes embodied by cacti, opuntia, yucca and perennials. such as gaillardia, Alstroemeria, yarrow…
This singular garden does not prevent it from being inspiring with a touch of exoticism permitted in a mild climate and well-drained soils: the luxuriance of the ferns, the originality of the spectacular flowering of the proteaceae, the atypical foliage…Thus, even if it means cultivating certain potted plants, everyone can find, even collection plants, which will give an unusual note to their garden.
Our new favorite : the Metrosideros ‘Ferris Wheel’ (Metrosideros carmineus ‘Ferris Wheel’), a small bushy shrub suitable for growing in a pot (photo above), with evergreen leaves and inflorescences in small scarlet brushes!
An almost wild nature
This is a garden that must live a little alone, without you spending too much time there because it is sometimes counted on you. However, wasteland has no place there, but by replacing weeds with hardy perennials and annuals that reseed themselves spontaneously, the “punk” garden as evoked by Eric Lenoir becomes a reality.
Around the grasses, settle the easy Sanguisorba, the asters, the aubriètes, the echinops, revealing all the tones from timeless blue to mauve.
Our new favorite : Wisteria Grande Diva Barbara (Wisteria x brachybotrys), not vigorous, with fragrant lavender and white flowering, bronze foliage and low development making it suitable for small gardens even for growing in pots!
Attention to biodiversity
The gardener today affirms his desire to take care of nature, to display environmental convictions which materialize in the garden via permaculture, the mix between the beautiful and the good, the use of organic or biodynamic gardening practices. Plants intended to prepare one’s own manure and decoctions with stimulating or repellent effects are on the rise, as are auxiliary insects.
As for the vegetable garden, its border with the ornamental garden becomes blurred by mixing with flowers, small fruit trees, good, productive, easy, healthy (goji, haskap, etc.) and original perpetual vegetables.
Our new favorite : whipped cream cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. acephala), a perpetual cabbage with embossed foliage, bluish-green variegation bordered with creamy white, decorative and structuring by its height (1.5 to 2m)!
Sparkling and warm mango sorbet flowers
Finally, in the garden, we like to share good times with family, friends, or simply stroll there, meditate there, rest there. For this, shade trees are essential, offering cooler, more decorative, more durable, and more soothing protection against the sun than that of an awning or a parasol. Opt for the fast-growing Paulownia, the Albizia for its resistance to drought…
The colour mango sorbet will be all the rage on the clothing racks of spring-summer 2022 fashion, and it will be the same in the flower garden with fresh, sparkling, structuring flowers thanks to the return of somewhat obsolete varieties such as gladiolus, dahlia, peony, but also flowers intended to create dry bouquets…
Our new favourite: orange-yellow avens (Geum Tutti Fruttii), a compact perennial (photo above) with long and abundant flamboyant flowering ranging from yellow, orange to red from May to August!
Browse garden centres, nurseries, catalogs and websites, in particular with flower promiseand treat yourself to make your garden, your terrace or your balcony desirable and welcoming!
(credits – photo 1: Stervinou / photos 2 and 3: Promise of flowers)
Written by Nathalie on 07/12/2021