Flowers make up many stories and secrets. Astra is no exception. For some reason, it is believed that Astra is a symbol of the beginning of autumn. After all, it is with Astra "children go to the first school bell.
Multicolored Astra Hats Shrubship raise mood in gloomy autumn days when it rains outside the window for several days, and in a beautiful vase on the table, even summer, with its colorful paints. To some extent, Astra cause nostalgia for the summer. After all, we all understand that frosty nights will come soon. But our asters still bloom under the window, as if while holding the sun's latter forces.
What is the power of nature? We have such flowers that are pushed with their gentle and weak heads from under the snow, and there are those who fall asleep the first snow, and their intimidated petals with the last hoping shine through the snowy powder.
Astra Shustaic - Description
Astra Sustainic refers precisely to those flowers that are trying to please us from under the snow-white fluff. To effectively decorate the landscape. Perennial shrub flowers are an excellent find. They quickly grow up and form an attractive and colorful spectacle, closing even the most uncomplicated corners in the garden. Translated from the Latin "Astra" is a "star". And she got such a name, most likely in the form of his flower, which externally reminds us the star.
Astra belong to the Astrov family or complex family. They can be found in Europe and Asia, in America and Africa. And everywhere she gives joy.
The shrub Astra is distinguished by straight and branchy stems, which stretch into a height of up to 50 cm. Large. In diameter up to 3 cm their inflorescences are shaped baskets. Their flowers along the edges have a bunch form, and the yellow heartset has a tubular shape. Astra flowers long-term from the beginning of autumn and to the most frosts.
Astra Perennial Shrub - Sort
Perennial shrub asters grown everywhere. Love for himself, she deserved not only with beautiful and vivid blossoms but also because with their help you can reduce temporary and labor costs in the process of landscaping any territory. We will get acquainted with the most popular varieties.
Astra Shrub Jenny
Astra Shusta Jenny is one of the most popular varieties that gardeners lovers are actively growing in their sites. During flowering, she gives a lot of bright raspberry-pink flowers with a yellow middle. This is a compact plant, which is characterized by good branching and abundant flowering.
Jenny loves the sections well lit by the sun and drained the soil, is considered indispensable in the autumn flower bed.
Astra Appolo Shustachnikova
The branches of the shrub Astra Appolo pulls at a height of 20 to 50 cm and form semi-shaped bushes. They are conventionally divided into low-spirited, which are used in the form of jewelry for border and stony slides, and tall, which can form a beautiful flowering autumn hedge. They look great in group landings on lawns. The bushes are covered with white flowers from the beginning of September and are able to withstand even the morning freezing to -5 * p.
Once in 3-4 years it is recommended to share and disseminate bushes, which will provide more active flowering. They are poorly tolerated dry soil, while very beautifully bloom under sunlight.
Astra Shrub Starlight
Starlight grade is a tender symphony of beautiful Purple-pink shade sockets that are able to give joy even on the most rainy day. A bush is characterized by highly branched stems, which can rise to a height of up to 50 cm. Sockets of inflorescence with a diameter of up to 3 cm are neatly assembled into shields, abundantly bloom at the end of August of the month and delight their bloom for 40-45 days. This is an unpretentious shrub who perfectly tolerates winter, but is afraid of dampness. So that the shrub can really please you with his beauty, it needs to ensure the right conditions and pick up a sunny side for planting with fertile and alkaline soil.
Astra Shrub Bly Laguna
Astra Shrub Bly Lagun will give us a beautiful saturated blue purple shade of colors and will delight us from the end of August and to the first morning frosts. The numerous flower petals are lined up in a dance around the solar cranks. Some of them in diameter reach up to 4-5 cm.
Among their fellows, Blau Laguna is distinguished by a compact spherical bush up to 50 cm high, which will look at the yellowed garden. This is an excellent grade, which is great for the decoration of the border, Rabatok and Alpinarias.
He likes to grow on the sunny side, at the same time she feels nicely on the precurable sites. It quickly grows and in one place can grow up to 6 years. To get a magnificent bush, it is recommended to plant 3-5 with pile roots, and abide by the distance between them at least 40 cm. If you put bushes in the spring, then in the autumn you can already wash their first bloom.
Astra Shrub Lady Blue
Perennial winter-hardy shrub variety Lady Blue has beautiful bright blue infrequities. No wonder he was presented with such a name. After all, his flowers on a spherical bush really resemble a modest young lady in a blue robe that gently stretches to the light. Blooming bushes at the end of September of the month and decorate the gardens before the snow falling.
Astra Shusta Annek
Astra Shusta Annek is an unpretentious perennial plant, which begins to bloom in bright raspberry-pink color from the end of August and to the first frosts. The shrub is not too demanding for the soil, but more like it is well drained and the water-permeable soil. During the growing season, Annek requires feeding and frequent watering, especially during the bootonization period.
This variety looks great in group landings on slings, lawns and stony areas.
Astra Shrub, Landing and Care
So that you manage to get early blossoms of shrub astra, it is recommended to grow flowers across seedlings. But also safely you can grow a bush and a sowing way. This is a longer and painstaking path, but you will be able to get healthy roots, which will soon delight you with a beautiful spherical bush, destroyed bright outlets.
Sowing seeds
Before boarding the seeds of Astra, shrubs should be soaked in a solution of any fungicide for several minutes. Prepare containers for sowing. In order not to confuse the varieties, you can hang seeds in different tanks.
Equally distribute the seeds on the soil surface and sprinkle them with crooked river sand. Cover the containers with glass, building, thus, a small greenhouse. Stop it on the windowsill from the sunny side and ventilate the greenhouse daily. Water seedlings need as needed.
For 5-6 days you can already see the first sprouts, after which it is necessary to reduce watering.
As soon as the first two real leaves are shown, seedlings are ready for planting on plastic cups. This is done in order for plants to be able to form a strong root system. Fill the cups with soil, pour and wait until the soil falls. After that, make a small recess and land the sprout to the depth to the seedlines. Once again, paint the plants and place the cups into a bright place. Remember that seedling is afraid of direct sun rays.
In the process of growth, seedlings must be periodically feeding with complex fertilizers. When seedling is well strengthened, you can begin to take it out to make it on the balcony for hardening and adapting to new conditions.
Astra Shustock - Landing
Astrand enjoy growing on the sunny side and on fertile soil. Therefore, pick up well-lit sections for them so that it can give you abundant bloom in the fall.
The soil preparation must be taken from autumn. To do this, carefully disappear, enter the humus or compost into it, approximately 2-3 kg of compost per 1 sq.m.
In the spring, clean the prepared area, carefully crumple it with robbles and sprinkle. Space seedlings with bushes, observing the distance between them approximately 35-40 cm. All landing works are best done in the evening. Thus, by the morning the plant will be able to adapt and climb.
Astramy care
Although Astra is not considered a whimsical plant, after all, adhere to some rules for the care of them, it will be necessary.
- Periodically carrying out a weeding and soil looser, preferably after rain or watering.
- Conduct the stems even before they begin to branch, which speeds up the process of developing the root system.
- Provide them the right watering. Astra is a plant that may suffer from both lack of watering and overvalued. This rule needs to be clearly observed and finding the golden middle, in which bushes will feel great.
- Putting fertilizers. Gardeners are recommended to conduct a three-time feeding during the growing season - a week after landing, during the period of bootonization and in the period of flowering.
- Remove the flooded inflorescences regularly, which will continue the flowering of blossomed buds.
How to save asters in winter
Here are beautiful asters, and frost begins to show his hand in the morning. This indicates that the flowers need to take care of how to save their asters to future flowering, in order to enjoy the beauty of their flowering.
Perennial shrub asters are winter-hardy, so strong frosts are not terrible. But gentle species need shelter.
From the fall, it is necessary to inspire the land and prepare for shelter dry leaves, legs of coniferous trees and peat.
The dried stems gently cut and cover the prepared material under which they will be until early spring. To make your plants faster in growth, the shelter must be removed in early April.
How to deal with pests
The only thing that gives the hassle of flowers is pests. It is they who can spoil beauty in the garden and bring a lot of trouble. Therefore, each of you should know that the most dangerous for Astra is:
- kindskaya TL
- cobweb tick
- meadow bug
- scoop
- pennya
- ordinary oath,
- passioned slug.
To protect your plants from this "plague", each color descender should take prevention measures:
- Drop the soil after the end of flowering.
- Put lime into the soil.
- Delete and burn the plants that affected the disease.
- Make fertilizers in the soil.
- When planting plants, observe the recommended distance between the bushes.
In addition, stock different drugs that are actively struggling with pests:
- Carbofos.
- Phospham.
- Metaldehyde.
- Fundazoll.
Carefully learn all the recommendations of experienced flowerflowers and then your asters will delight with multi-colored blossom in the garden to joy and passersby.
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