Dolphinium (Lat. Delphinium) Beautiful high flower from New Zealand. It is also called the New Zealand hybrid Dolphinium. They created with the help of selection Terry Daudswell. This flower grows up to two meters, and the flower itself consists of 21 petals. The flowers themselves are large with a diameter of 8-9 cm, but petals semi-either or terry.
The breeding of this flower is very painstaking, and for obtaining beautiful colors you will need a lot of patience and effort. The dolphinium was removed by crossing perennial plants and can grow at a permanent place to 10 years. You can then divide the bush and sear in different places.
Types of Dolphinium New Zealandsky
Dolphinium New Zealand Giant Hybrid is the most common view. It is distinguished by excellent properties:
- Coldness.
- Many years of up to 10 years.
- Resistance to disease.
- It can be used to form bouquets.
Dolphiniums can have a variety of colors and their shades. A middle of a flower can be black, and white, and even striped. The most popular varieties of New Zealand Dolphiniums:
- Blue Lace - terry flowers of blue colors with purple streants.
- Royal Aspirages - cornflower color.
- Green Twist - Sneise-white and green streaks.
- Sunny Skies - gently blue with a lilac chip.
- Misty Mauves - Lilac with terry, some corrugated petals.
- Deep Sweethearts - Dark Pink flowers, with an unusual eye striped or bright white.
- Morning Lights - Multicolored petals from blue-lilac.
- Dusky Maiden - Pink Flowers are very voluminous.
Soil preparation and selection of a plot for the Dolphinium of New Zealand
For the selection of the site you will have to try. First of all, you need to decide on the place, it should be very sunny, without drafts, and the soil must dry well.
Earth should consist of:
- 1 part of the garden land;
- 1 part of the peat;
- 1 part compost;
- 0.5 parts of coarse sand.
Gardening land, compost and sand will not be difficult to get, and peat can be bought at any garden shop. But on this, the preparation of the Earth does not end. So that the Earth acquire the necessary looseness and moisture intensity, you will also need to add perlite. It is added in the ratio of 10 kg of land and 1 tbsp. substances. We still need to destroy the seeds of weeds and fungal disputes, for this you just need to warm up the land in a water bath of 40-50 minutes.
Modified a long-term dolphinium from seeds. You can also with the help of cuttings, the division of the bush or kidneys.
Buying seeds and preparation of Dolphinium Dolphinium seeds to landing
Seed cost is very high, so it is beneficial to buy with the help of a joint purchase, there are now a lot of existing forums that are engaged in a joint purchase from New Zealand.
If you have the opportunity to assemble the seeds of New Zealand dolphiniums with flowers, you are lucky much more. In June, you need to mark the most beautiful bluers and pinch the top. These bushes do not process chemistry, and when they begin to ripen seed boxes, you need to wrap the newspaper to wrap, like a cup under seeds, and at the bottom of the newspaper to start the rope. Seed boxes will ripen from top to bottom, and when the boxes are revealed, they face directly in the newspaper. In cloudy weather, a flower with seeds is better to cover from the rain. From one bush, you can get about 200 seeds (1 g). After receiving seeds, they must be placed in the refrigerator for 3 days or stored in the same place before landing.
To increase the germination of seeds, you must first go through the disinfection procedure, for this they are placed in gauze, and then lowered in a strongly concentrated solution of potassium permanganate. Seeds are washed with flowing water, after that it will be necessary to soak the seeds in the epin solution. The final stage of the seeds is dried and lay out so that they do not stick.
The next step will be preparation for soil (stratification):
- take a segment of cotton fabric of light color, rectangular shape and evenly place seeds along the fabric;
- carefully clamp from both sides and we turn into a roll, we do so that the seeds are not shifted;
- prepare containers in which your rollers with seeds will be stored. Pour water to the bottom, put the rolls. Water should cover them about half;
- place containers in the fridge or winter on the veranda.
Seeds in a week check if they are swollen, then ready to land.
Landing Dolphinium Seeds New Zealand in Earth
- Seed seeds at the end of March - in early April. Dolphinium is sown in special containers that need to fill in our soil. Delicate of sowing 2 seeds for 1 square. cm.
- Then you need a little tamper.
- Seeds planted superficially. So as not to confuse where which varieties and when you landed, it is worth signing containers.
- Many have a problem - the seeds of black and can not be seen how to sow, this problem is solved simply - sprinkled with the prepared soil with river sand and sow seeds, and in order for the seeds tightly held on the surface - when watering, it is necessary to cover their ground 3-4 mm. .
- When finished with planting seeds you will need to pour them with boiled water room temperature.
Care for Dolphinium New Zealand
The germination largely depends on the lighting, in the dark seeds germinate better and faster. Therefore, seedlings need to cover with black film and put in the sun. Periodically, the containers are cleaned in a cool place 10-15 ° C.
The film is removed as soon as the first shoots appear, somewhere in 1-1.5 weeks, and the rest may need up to a month. The place for further growth is chosen very illuminated, but cool.
CARE FOR SAPERS Dolphinium New Zealand
- Care of seedlings lies in constant spraying and ventilation of the plant as soon as our Dolphinium Dolphinium seedlings are growing and seem of several leaves, they can be seeded on the pots of 300 milliliters, the temperature regime should be within 20 ° C.
- Watering should be scattered, without a clear jet, and constant. It is impossible to allow an overabundance of moisture - this can lead to a disease - a black leg, from which plants may die. You need to start an adaptation of seedlings to fresh air and sunlight since May month.
- It is necessary to fertilize the dolphinium twice - while planting in the pots and at the time of landing at a permanent place. The gap between fertilizers should be somewhere two weeks. Agrick or solver can be used as fertilizer.
- To understand whether seedlings are ready to transplant to a permanent place, you need to inspect the earthen com, the roots must fully told it and it should be easily removed from the container or pot.
Landing Dolphinium New Zealand for permanent place and flower care
Growing the seedlings Dolphinium New Zealand in the open ground is an easier process. Before boarding, you need to prepare the wells of 50 cm depth, and pour 0.5 sand buckets in order that he penetrates well. Mix the earth with peat and compost and fall asleep the seedling to the root formation site.
Dolphinium New Zealand - 15 centimeters
When the plant reaches 15 centimeters, you can feed it with fertilizer. We take 1 bucket of manure and weigh 10 liters of water. The solution should be enough to pour 5 bushes. The following procedure is to prevent the weed rotting, for this, the land around the plant is molded. For this, peat is perfect.
Dolphinium New Zealand - 25-30 centimeters
You can already begin thinning the plant to get larger and beautiful inflorescences, and it will also help the better air passage and improve its resistance to diseases. There should be no more than 4-5 shoots on one bush. When thinning, you need to carefully examine the plant, the strongest stalks left, and thin and weak cut off.
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The resulting cuttings can be tried to root. To do this, the cutting place is handled by coal, and then crushed with a tablet, in a month you will have roots. And after 14 days after the appearance of the roots, you can put in an open ground.
Dolphinium New Zealand - 50 centimeters
You will need a color support. For this, rods are suitable, they are needed that the plants keep well and do not break. You will need 3 rod two-meter heights, to tie 1 bush dolphinium. For rizings, it is best to use flavors of fabric. The next plant garter when they reach a meter height.
Care for Dolphinium New Zealand during flowering
New Zealand Dolphiniums love water very much. When the plant is actively growing, consumes more than 50 liters of water. Where is the warm climate, in hot weather, flowers watered 1 time per week. One flower requires approximately 3 liters of water. Flowers are very loved when they have fluffy ground, so after irrigation you need to break the ground around the bush, deepening about 5 cm.
When the flowers bloom, they need more water and feeding fertilizers. The phosphate-potash fertilizers are ideally suited in the ratio of 20 g of substance on the water bucket. One bush needs 1 liter of fertilizer. Thanks to this procedure, you will get very beautiful flowers and the most long bloom.
Delphinium disease and pests of the New Zealand
The greatest concern for dolphiniums of New Zealand hybrids is the correct care for them. However, no matter how try, plants sometimes suffer and pests may begin on them and then you need to act very quickly.
Types of Dolphinium Delphinium and Fighting
- Puffy dew
This is a gray-white flare, and the leaves themselves become brown.
Treatment: Dispense with 0.5% mortar of bordeaux fluid, foundazole or toopase preparation.
- Fusariosis or wilting stem
Brown watery spots appear and soon the plant dies.
Treatment: The victims are cut off and thrown out, and it is better to burn.
- Black spots
Covered flower from above down the stalk. It is possible to treat only in a non-launched state.
Treatment: 1 tab. Tetracycline dissolve in 1 liter of water. And spray the plant, repeat it to the full cure.
- Ring spot
The leaves begin to yellow. Treatment is useless, only the destruction of damaged processes. For prophylaxis, you can treat by accomplish or carbofos.
Types of pests Dolphinium New Zealand and Fighting
- Dolphinium Fly (Forbia)
Very dangerous insect for the Dolphinium of New Zealand, who lay out their eggs on the flower, and when they hatch - they begin to eat the flower.
Treated with insecticidal preparations. It is also helpful to add dry mustard, ash wood and ground pepper on the flower beds.
- Slug
The slugs eat young plants, and during the night can destroy all germs. Next to the plant put the lime, she will scare them. You can arrange traps for slugs. Dispatch the cabbage leaves, and in the morning to collect and throw out or destroy the shut-off slugs.
- Aphid
Lovely loves the leaves of Dolphinium. Prevention should be carried out in the spring - to make a tobacco or to treat economic soap.
Dolphinium Care New Zealand after flowering
After the flower plowed, you need to cut all the inflorescences, of course, if you do not need seeds. After circumcision will begin to grow new shoots. If you do everything right, they will bloom closer to autumn again.
Delphinium division of the New Zealand vegetative method
In the period between flowering, it is possible to divide bushes 3-4 years of age. To begin with, the bush is digging and neatly, without affecting the kidneys, we divide it with a sharp knife. Places where we cut, you need to treat wood ash. And sear separately. And after repeatedly fading the colors of hybrids when the leaves frighten the leaves, it is necessary to trim all stems at a level of 30 cm, and slices of stalks are smeared clay, these procedures will protect the roots from the charge.
Caring for Dolphinium New Zealand in winter
Crop to 30 cm from the ground.
New Zealand Dolphiniums are very frost-resistant, regardless of age. In front of the winter they are covered with straw or sweetheart.
Decoration of flower beds Dolphinium New Zealand, photo
Sit them in the back background. It looks like a dolphinium along the walls and fences, which gives him additional protection from the wind. It looks very good if you make a live fence from the dolphinium or disguise the ugly shed.
It is very convenient to use these flowers to compile bouquets, they can stand cut from 5-10 days. If you change the water daily and cut, they will preserve much longer.
The flowerbed can be made from their single landing, and you can make the back background for the flower beds. Picturesque look with Rose, Lily or Beauty Yukka.
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