Dolphinium, landing and care

Dolphinium is the form of grassy plants of the family of ilok. In a wild form, it is found in Asian countries and in the mountainous areas of Africa. Another name of the plant is a bellyness. Because of the bright and lush inflorescences, the plant is popular with gardeners.

Dolphinium species and varieties

1. Dolphinium is like annual and perennial. Breeders brought about 40 species of annual plants. They require the same care as long-term types of dolphinium.
2. However, their appearance has more modest characteristics. The flowers of annual grades of the plant are smaller than that of perennials, and the height of the stem does not exceed 1 m, while in perennial relatives it can reach 3 m.

Varieties annually Dolphinium

1. Field is a bush that grows up to 1.5 m. It occurs both terry and smooth surface of petals. Field dolphinium is considered toxic, but the exact dosage of the tincture of the plant turns it into a diuretic and antiparasitic agent.
2. The most popular varieties of wildlife dolphinium:

• QIS ROSE - Pink Flowers;
• FROSTED SKY - white core against blue petals;
• QIS Dark Blue - Dark blue palette flowers.

3. Fields of field dolphinium are blown in early June, and please the eyes until the end of the summer.
4. Ajax variety - grows from 0.3 m to 1 m in height. Most often there are pink and lilac pattages of inflorescences, less often on the stems of Ajax variety are blooming red and purple flowers.
5. Ajax varieties begin to bloom in the first year after landing. This period continues from July to the first frosts.
6. The most famous varieties of Dolphinium Ajax:

• Race Kelsey - tall bushes with flowers of different shades of elongated shape and dense petals;
• Koenigs-rittersport - a plant up to 1 m long with a variety of shades;
• Hyacinth mixture - low plants up to 0.5 m long. The stem is covered with terry flowers at the same time. Flowers can have a wide variety of shades. Speeciously look like the landing of this dolphinium variety around the perimeter of the site or fence, as well as in group plantings. Bouquets of flowers look very attractive and stand in the water more than a week.

Multi-year dolphinium varieties

1. There are 5 species of perennial dolphiniums. They are bred by crossing, achieving a wide variety of shades of inflorescences and different heights of the plant, starting from the 19th century.
2. To decide on the variety of delphinium, look at the photo on the Internet, which will also prompt how beautiful to combine different varieties and color colors on one flowerbe or along the site.
3. Mafinsky is a view of a long-term dolphinium, derived by a biologist from the Mafino town in the Moscow region. This shrub has high stems up to 180 cm and dense petals of semi-world flowers. Plants of this kind of frost-resistant.
4. The most famous varieties:

• blue lace;
• spring snow;
• pink sunset.

5. Belladone is the only kind of plant with hanging down inflorescences. The most famous varieties of delphinium Belladon:

• ARNOLD BEKLIN - plants with saturated blue colors;
• Casa Blanca - Snow-White Flowers with a Yellow Main;
• Kleine Nachtmusik - dark purple inflorescences;
• Moerhemii - Plant is covered with pure white inflorescences.

6. Pacific is a type of delphinium in the form of large bushes with a plurality of stems up to 2 m in height and a large seminal flower. The most popular varieties:

• Black Kniht - a plant with dark purple petals and a black middle;
• Blue Jay - Plant with dark blue petals and brown middle;
• Blue Bird - Light blue flowers with a white middle;
• Galahad - white-white flowers with a white storm.

7. Elamum - all plants of this species have shades from pale blue to saturated violet. The most popular varieties:

• Abgesang - cornflower flowers with a white storm;
• Lady Belinda - Flowers completely snow-white;
• Perlmutterbaum - pearl-blue inflorescences with a pinkish tump, dark eyes;
• Amethyst - Amethisto - Blue Inflorescences.

8. New Zealand is a kind of delphinium with very massive semi-world or terry inflorescences of noble and very beautiful shades. Plants are frost resistant and have high immunity to diseases, flowers are well standing after cutting. This is the most popular kind of dolphiniums.
9. Popular varieties of New Zealand Dolphinium:

• Sunny Skies - a combination of blue and white shades in colors;
• Green Twist - terry flowers in combination of white and green shades;
• Pagan Purples - inflorescences in a blue-purple palette;
• Blue Lace - Flowers light blue with a pinkish tinge;
• Sweethearts - a combination of pink and white shades of inflorescence.

How to grow a dolphinium from seeds

1. The cultivation of dolphinium from seeds is the longest, but very exciting way to breed the plant. In addition, this is also the most fiscal option.
2. Store plant seeds need in the refrigerator or sow soon after their collection. If you keep the seeds in warmth and dry for a long time, then crops will be very weak.

Preparation of Dolphinium seeds

Before starting the process of growing the dolphinium, it is necessary to treat the seeds with a solution of manganese, falling asleep into a tissue bag and lowering the disinfecting fluid for 20 minutes. After that, rinse the seeds with cool water right in the bag and place them for 24 hours into the epin solution. For its preparation, you need to dilute 2 drops of the substance in 100 ml of water. The last stage is to dry seeds, which will prevent their sticking.

Soil preparation for Dolphinium

1. The soil for seeds must contain the following components:

• peat;
• garden land;
• humus;
• sand.

2. All components need to take equally and sift. This mixture can be added perlite with respect to 100 g per 5 liters of ground mixture. It will make the soil more moisture and loose. Warming up the finished soil in a water bath about 1 hour will save it from weeds and fungal lesions of plants in the future.
3. Fill the tanks for the separation of dolphinium seeds with ready-made soil and slightly sealing it.

Sowing Dolphinium Seeds

1. Sowing Dolphinium seeds produce at the end of winter.
2. We put the seeds on the surface of the soil and on top cover the soil mixture by 3 mm, a little sealing upper layer, then cautiously be chilled with boiled water.
3. We cover the soil with a transparent lid, and on top of a film of black color, and put on the window near the glass. Dolphinium seeds sprout well in the dark. It is desirable that the air temperature is 10 - 15 ºC.
4. After 4 days, we move the container with seeds in the refrigerator or onto the balcony. In the cold, seeds should spend 2 weeks, after which we again carry them on the windowsill.
5. After 7 - 14 days, expect the first searches. As soon as this happens, you need to immediately remove the film, so you look at the surface of the soil from time to time.
6. During checks, moisturize and ventilate the surface of the soil.

Dolphinium Care

1. If the shoots are healthy, then they are dark green, their stems are durable, cotyledts have sharpening. After the formation of 2-3 leaves, it is necessary to peer seedlings into pots with a volume of 200 - 300 ml, and raise them at temperatures up to 20 ºC.
2. It is necessary to monitor the roariness of the soil and do not rearrange with watering. Excessive moisture can cause rising fungus, which can damage the shoots.
3. At the beginning of May, begin to arrange the air ventilation, leaving the separation of the dolphinium on the window. Also gradually leave shoots during sunlight.
4. Before sending germs to the open soil, it is necessary to fertilize the soil 2 times with an interval of 14 days. For this, minerals "Agrikola" or "Rasin" are suitable. At the same time, fertilizers should not be contacted with leaves.
5. When the roots of seedlings grow to such an extent that all the land will be permeated with them, the plants can be planted into the open soil. To do this, you need to pull out the earth with shoots and put in the prepared ground on the site.

Landing Dolphinium

1. Dolphinium confidently feels in sunny areas closed from the wind.
2. Dolphinium shoots planted after the probability of frosts will disappear. For this, at a distance of 0.6 - 0.7 m, it is necessary to make a deepening with a depth of 0.5 m and a diameter of 0.4 m.
3. In each recess you need to pour half a hockey, 2 tablespoons of mineral fertilizers and 200 g of ashes, and mix with soil. Mineral substances in concentrated form should not be contacted with the roots of the dolphinium.
4. After that, once again we are deepening and put in it com from the ground. We compact the soil around and water the plants.
5. At first, each sprout is better to hide under a plastic bottle or a jar to enable the plant to get used to new conditions. As soon as the stalks become growing, the shelter is removed.
6. If you do not want to grow a dolphinium from seeds, and see their magnificent blossom on the site still wants to buy already adult plants.

Dolphinium care

1. Plants need to be moderately watered under the root, especially during drought times. It must be done 1 time per week for 1 water bucket for each bush. As soon as the soil gets free, it needs to be braid.
2. Dolphinium needs regular feeding. The first time the soil must be fertilized when the plant grows up to 15 cm, the second time - when buds appear, and the third time - after the completion of the flowering period. Manure, ash, complex mineral mixtures are perfectly suitable as fertilizer.
3. So that the flowers were large and healthy, the plant needs to be cut, and bushes regularly cut forward. When the stem grows by 0.3 m, you need to remove weak shoots, and leave up to 5 strong stalks. Inflorescences and buds that were brought, too, need to tear off.
4. When the dolphinium bushes reach a height of 0.5 m, they are observed to prevent their breakdown during windy weather. The plant is tied by strips of fabric to rods or spicks that are installed nearby.
5. After 6 years of age, and for Pacific varieties after 4 years, the plant needs to be separated and transplant.

Dalphinium diseases and pests

1. Dolphinium can hit fungal diseases:

• multiple dew: For this disease, it is characterized by white first, and later brown circles on the leaves, as a result of lesion, leaf fades;
• range neck: while yellow leaves, flowers, and on the root neck, rotting.

2. With the appearance of these signs, it is necessary to start the processing of plants by Fundazole or the Topaz solution as soon as possible.
3. Diffine bacteria can also attack the dolphinium:

• bacterial wilt: the lower sheets of the plant become yellow, and the root neck softened and brown, the longer pull, the more the area of \u200b\u200bthe lesion becomes;
• black spottedness of the leaves: on the leaves you can see black spots, which then appear on the stems.

4. To correct the situation, you need to spray the plant with a tetracycline solution at the rate of 1 tablet per 1 liter of water. These measures will bring the effect only at the beginning of the disease. If the problem is launched, the plant will die.
5. Viruses can also damage the dolphinium:

• astrian jaundice: the plant slowly grows, the leaves are yellowing;
• ring spottedness: Round-shaped drawings appear on the leaves, which over time becomes greater. This disease is not treated, so the damaged plant needs to be removed.

6. To prevent Dolphinium viral diseases, you need to neutralize the TRU, which transfers the disease. For this plant is treated with carbofos or accomplish.
7. Dolphinium can attack insect pests:

• dolphinium fly: she hides the eggs into buds, after which the larvae feed on petals, and inflorescences do not produce seeds, in which case insecticides are used;
• slugs: Young sprouts devour, they are very afraid of chlorine smell, so placing containers with chlorine lime between plants, you can get rid of pests.

Take care of the dolphinium is not so difficult. But his magnificent flowers will paint your site into the sea of \u200b\u200bpaints and will rejoice the eye for a long time with their fragrance.