For beginners who decided to do gardening the best options for the first steps would be planting bulbous plants, including flowers. They do not require special and painstaking care. With their help, any site, with enough sunlight, homestead territory will become more beautiful, brighter and more attractive. It is worth noting and the fact that the earliest bulbous varieties can start young shoots even before the first snow came down. Thanks to this, the people are rightfully called the messengers of spring.
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Perennial flowers planting
All types of bulbous varieties are planted in the autumn period of time.
The choice of the most favorable autumn time for planting directly depends on individual and varietal characteristics. Detailed information on the landing can be obtained by reading the literature of a certain kind.
features of the process
The first step is to choose the most suitable place for planting flowers.
Perennials are not more than three months in the phase of active growth and flowering. The rest of the time they fall into a "hibernation". The most convenient for planting can be a place next to a perennial perennial plant. The main factor for the choice should be without problem penetration of sunlight. The soil on the selected site should be fertile and loose.
Two weeks before the landing, it must be prepared: dig up, cleanse of weeds, branches, stones and the like, make compost and multicomponent fertilizers. On the landing site, drainage must be made without fail. It will provide the plant with an optimal amount of moisture and will not allow rotting of the bulbous root system.
Planting bulbous is made according to a uniform principle for all varieties: the depth to which the bulb is planted corresponds to a threefold height of the bulb itself. In cases where planting is carried out on sandy soil, the depth of planting can be increased. Perennial bulbous, planted in autumn without losses and pathogenic formations will overwinter in open soil.
The most suitable autumn months for planting are September and October. It is during this period that the bulbs are in hibernation. The bulbs are cleaned from the leaves, carefully examined for the absence of areas covered with mold or rot. Also, pay attention to the roots: they must be healthy and not damaged.
bulb processing and care of planted bulbs
It is advisable, before planting, to process the bulbs with a special preparation against fungal diseases, the instruction for the use of which is kindly provided by the manufacturer on the packaging material.
In order to get beautiful large flowers in the future, you will have to look after planted bulbs. Correct and high-quality care will ensure the full development of the plant. Care is as follows: sufficient and timely watering, with time, after the appearance of sprouts, proper pruning, fertilizing the soil with the necessary components.
watering and fertilizing
Ideal conditions for the growth and flowering of perennial bulbs can ensure correct and timely watering. Special attention should be paid to watering during the spring drought period. It is at this time that the plant is particularly susceptible to harmful external factors.
Fertilizers for this family of plants must be introduced twice a year. The first time compost and mineral multicomponent fertilizers are introduced when the plant grows as actively as possible. The second time, the same composition, is made during active flowering. The introduction of only one recycled compost into the soil will be sufficient to stimulate the active growth and flowering of perennial plants.
how to properly trim bulbs after flowering
Bulbous, without fail are subject to pruning. It is produced after the flowering process is over. On the stem leave only the leaves. This procedure helps to increase the number of nutrients received by the bulb. In consequence of this, bulbs have enough useful substances for better and faster development.
With regards to digging bulbs, it is worth remembering: bulbs of tulips and hyacinths are to be extracted from the earth every year or every two years, lilies and daffodils - every two to four years.
Other varieties, experts advise to extract from the ground only in those cases when the flower has grown too much. Do this procedure better in the summer, after the foliage is completely withered. After digging, the bulbs are folded and stored in a dry and warm place until the next planting.
Planting flowers and transplanting them
When planning an irradiation or transplantation of ornamental plants, it is advisable to use a planting calendar for flowers 2016. They are planted in August September. Here you should pay attention that some plants can be planted early, at the end of summer, but if you, for example, are a fan of hyacinths, then the planting of the material should be moved to the second part of October, by this time the soil will cool down to a temperature of about +8 C.
At the first stage, as early as the end of August, it is possible to plant such small-melting plants as:
- pushkin,
- scylla,
- muscari,
- crocuses,
- hiodonoxes.
After a week and a half, you can plant bulbs of daffodils, then turn to tulips.
The question naturally arises, what will happen if the recommended time limits are violated. In general, it's okay, but the rooting process will begin no earlier than the ground temperature will drop to certain indicators.
In the process of waiting bulbs will be at increased risk:
- infection with fungal and other diseases,
- damage by wireworm.
The appropriate temperature for germination of most bulbous plants is +10 C, when planting bulbs should be guided by this temperature, it is not worthwhile to risk the health of your favorite plants.
When planting bulbous flowers, almost everyone can face problems from which the bulbs are damaged. Basically, it is the formation of mold and rot. The development of these problems, in the first place, is associated with a large surplus of moisture. In addition to them, many viruses and very harmful for the plant can be transferred with water. In order to avoid this, watering should be very accurate and arrange it in such a way that moisture does not fall on the foliage of the plant.
All bulbs without exception, at the end of the flowering phase, begin to accumulate useful substances, which later (with the advent of spring) to promote active growth. Proceeding from this, it is possible to draw the following conclusion: trimming of the upper part can be made not earlier than autumn and only after it independently wither. In cases where the wilting was delayed and the first nocturnal frosts began, there is no need to worry, pruning can be done at such a time. Immediately after the end of the flowering process, it is worth removing only the boxes with the seeds. These phases are performed at a certain time in order for the flower to grow rhizome and use these with the onset of the next spring.
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Planting flowers in the open ground
More varieties of perennial plants with relatively large seeds can be successfully bred and without a room for cultivation (delphinium, poppy, pinnate, spring primrose, veronica, garden camomile and many others).
There is such a landing as follows:
- in boxes filled with earth suitable for a given plant variety, before the beginning of the winter period or in the spring, seeds are placed;
- boxes set on the open ground.
The first shoot of seeds will be noticeable with the arrival of the first warm days. Formed shoots, without fail, you need to dive. Seedlings growing in this way will be strong and healthy.
Planting of perennial seeds, often produced directly in the open ground. Sowing can be done both in spring and in autumn. In no case should the plant with crops be located in the sun. The soil type must be sandy loamy. In order for moisture to be retained in such soil, it is necessary to introduce peat crumb into it. On the area under the bed make marking the cross rows with a marker. The distance between the rows should be no more than 25 centimeters. Seeds are placed in grooves to a depth of 1 centimeter, then sprinkled with their humus.
Seeds planted in the spring are regularly watered until sprouting emerges above the ground. Watering the seeds planted before the onset of winter produce as needed. To ensure that moisture remains as long as possible in the soil, the row spacing must be mulched using moss.
The development of perennials is rapid. If the entire planting process is performed correctly and on time, then, approximately, in early June, it can be transplanted into the open ground.
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Planting flowers beautifully
Timely and performed in accordance with the recommendations of planting flowers in the open ground will allow the active flowering of perennials in spring and summer next year. Nevertheless, to get real pleasure from contemplating flowering plants, not only the timely planting of flowers and proper care will be required. It is also important what scheme of planting flowers will be used.
The approach to solving this problem can be very different, for example, you can create a flower garden, in which the plants will be located chaotically, during the flowering period a beautiful lawn will appear that has a natural appearance. For this option, you can use one or two types of bulbous plants, you can organize such a flower garden on the lawn.
If there is a separate area under the flower garden, then it will be necessary to find a suitable scheme for planting flowers, or make it yourself. The composition can include plants of different sizes, whose flowers will have contrasting hues, if desired, you can create a monochrome composition.
You can arrange flowers freely, in groups, but you can design a pattern that resembles an ornament. Further, the resulting pattern is transferred to the ground with maximum accuracy, increasing in its respective proportion each of its lines. Clear guidelines for the establishment of no, the choice of plants and the pattern of their landing is usually carried out in accordance with the personal preferences of site owners.
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