Elimus Blue is a cereal decorative perennial with a lush beautiful curtain silver-blue shade. Such plants often use landscape designers to create gardens and flower beds. An important fact of popularity of cereal culture is the absolute unpretentiousness and high resistance of this culture. How to plant a plant at home and what care is needed by culture, - read in this article.
Elimus Blue, plant description
- Ehlimus Blue, also known as the "Colosnik sandy", is a perennial plant from the family of cereals. Blue prefix in the name of the perennial is connected with an unusual, silver-blue color of his luxury curtain. ELIMUS also can also have other names: Pyreshene, Volosset, Eden.
- The natural part of the culture is considered to be the Northern part of Europe, especially the landing of Elimus can be found in the arid areas of North America and Eurasia. Having worried a long-term culture can grow in almost any climatic zone: in subtropics, tundra, on the shores of rivers, lakes and even in the desert.
- A reprehensive, dense stalk of the plant reaches a height from 30 cm to 1.5 m. The pointed narrow leaves are long and rigid to the touch, arched with dense beams. From above, a lintel-like leaf plate is a smooth, covered with a wax bloom, below - slightly rough to the touch. The width of the leaves, on average, ranges from 2 to 10-15 mm, and often they turn into a thin tube.
- Beautiful, debris - blue coloring of leaves and stalks for autumn becomes yellowish brown. But even in winter, under the "hat" of snow, lush "bumps-bushes" of Elimus look exotic and attractive.
- The inflorescence of Elimus is represented by a dense thick spike, consisting of a set, located perpendicular to each other, short spikelets. At the same time, the axis of the cooleal inflorescences is almost naked, occasionally littered with rare spikes. Flowers a plant with small nondescript flowers, approximately in the middle of summer. At the same time, the inflorescence can reach height from 30 or more centimeters.
- The perennial is distinguished by the rapid growth rate with the simultaneous growth of the powerful root system. Rising kidney plant lays out underground shoots.
- This cereal plant is considered unpretentious, abandoned and frost-resistant. Moreover, ELIMUS grows perfectly both in conditions of high humidity and in arid regions.
ELIMUS blue, plant application
- Elimus Blue is growing lush, beautiful, spreaded bush and is a highly decorative culture. An uncomplicated plant with cider leaves at first glance seems absolutely simple and usual, but when used, the elimus blue is able to perfectly complement any floral composition.
- Many years of grace is perfectly combined with most plant species. Often, Elimus is planted against the background of summer bright flowering plants, such as: lavender, bells, begonias, phlox, dolphiniums, etc.
- Especially often can be found by plant "fountains" of elmus, adorning the coastal zone of reservoirs or decorative ponds. Some flower plants plant even in shallow water.
- Original and exquisitely with the help of Elimus landings, you can make an input zone into the courtyard or on the terrace, disembarking nickened bushes of perennials along the garden tracks, symmetrically each other.
- Elimus blue planting looks effectively both in a single landing, as an unusual bright accent, and in group plantings. With individual, soliter, landings it is important to use underground limiters that prevent the growth of the long-growing root system of cereal culture.
- Especially picturesque spreadable beams of cereals on the front or minor plans of a flower mixboarder. Silvery blue bushes of elmus look beautiful on the background of stones, when decorating alpine slides or landscape rocaries.
- Elimus Blue land not only in open soil, but also in flower pots or other suitable containers.
- The dried ears of Elimus look spectacularly in dry bouquets, so they are often used when creating winter floral compositions or ekiban. Such spikes are prepared in summer, but before the aging of seeds. For this, the ears are cut off, collected in small beams (10-15 pieces) and suspended (inflorescences down) in a dry but ventilated room for drying.
- In addition to decorative value, Elimus Blue is a popular fodder plant. And in Iceland, for example, ground grains of elimus are used to prepare some types of bakery products.
- Thanks to a powerful and well-developed root system, the cereals are planted in places where it is necessary to fasten the soil or sandy soil (slopes, slopes). It is noteworthy that the roots of the plant quickly grow both horizontally and deep into the soil.
Elimus Blue, landing and care
How to plant an elmus blue on the plot and what care to provide a plant? Consider in detail all stages of growing perennial in the open soil.
An unpretentious plant perfectly "feels" in almost any region, under any climatic conditions. The only thing, in cold zones with severe winters (for example, in the middle lane of Russia), the shrub for the winter will turn yellow, and faded, but in warm areas the ground part of the elmus is practically not changing throughout the year.
Elimus Blue, place for landing
- Elimus Blue, undemanding plant, can grow almost on any soils. But the most favorable for the growth and development of perennial is light, drainaged and fertile soil. The ideal option for cultivating the cereal perennials are loams or sovers. If the plant is planted in a separate pot, you can make the soil mixture yourself, mixing the turf, sand and peat, in proportion 1: 2: 2. As for the level of acidity, Elimus Blue prefers neutral or weakly alkaline soil.
- Sun-tee malicious culture needs an open sun terrain, not afraid of drought and long-term heat. For the plant is also allowed a moderate half-day. But in the strong shade, the color of the shrub will be faded and not so attractive as in the sun.
- Considering the fact that the Ehlimus Blue is considered a plant with high vegetative mobility, it is important to initially choose the place for landing the cereal. Underground elmus roots permeate the soil at a distance of about 100 cm, which can adversely affect the smallest plants. In addition, if when landing does not limit the growth of Elimus roots, the perennial quickly "spreads" throughout the site.
- Due to high cold-rescue, Elimus Blue begins its vegetative growth at sufficiently low temperatures.
ELIMUS blue, agricultural landing
- Before planting the plant should properly prepare the landing site: to switch the plot, add (in the case of the depleted composition of the soil) Organic fertilizers, smash large wrenches and to dissolve ground with robbles.
- It is important to initially schedule the landing scheme, as an elimus is formed on open spaces, it forms loose extensive thickets, but with a constant landing grows with a dense beam.
- The most important thing when landing a perennial is to establish underground artificial growth limiters that prevent the plants in the site uncontrolled "sprawling". For this, the bushes are planted in an open ground in deep (at least 30-40 cm) dishes with impenetrable dense walls. The diameter of such a container (tubs) can be selected from 15 to 30 cm. In such conditions, the ellus blue in 2-3 years completely fills the volume provided to it with a container, not the angry growing plants and not breaking around the territory. After landing, the edges of the tank should only be tightened to the surface of the Earth.
- Otherwise, the agricultural landing of Elimus Blue is no different from landing other plants. A shallow hole is digging out, poured with water and plant a trunk of cereal perennial. The soil after planting is compacted so that so-called not formed. "Air Pockets".
ELIMUS BYGE, CARE FEATURES
The plant care is absolutely simple and will not cause any difficulties even at a beginner flower. After early spring, last year's leaves cut off, after which the elimus quickly begins to increase the new green mass.
- Elimus Blue needs regular watering only at the stage after landing and during the beginning of the growing seasonal development (when the leaves begin to grow). In the summer, the drought-resistant plant is perfectly done without irrigations, pleaseing natural precipitation. Experienced flowers noticed that with the abundance of moisture, the bushes become more thick and wider, but in conditions of insufficient moisture, the growth of Elimus is noticeably slowed down, while Kurtina looks compact and kochet. However, during the melting period, the moisture is undesirable for perennials, which can provoke the plants. In order to avoid this, in the case of abundant snow falling in winter, the curtains are covered with film.
- After irrigation, the ground around the elimus bushes needs loosen or mulching. The mulch is perfect for peat, light humid or peat mixture.
- The cereal culture for a long period retains an attractive appearance, so in periodic transplants and rejuvenation absolutely does not need.
- Additional feeding and applying fertilizer elimus blue is also not required. Sometimes, if fertilizers were not introduced at the time of planting the plant, a handful of complex mineral fertilizer poured under the bush, the granules of which are gradually dissolved in the soil after watering or rain. It is also possible to introduce organic feeding in minor quantities.
- To prevent self-control and uncontrolled plant reproduction, it should be cut off yet not matured ellium spikelets.
- An additional advantage and the reason for the cultivation of an unpretentious cereal can serve as high resistance of the plant to diseases and pests.
- In addition, Elimus Blue is resistant to strong winds, drafts and environmental pollution.
- The perennial refers to highly frost-resistant plants with a zone of frost-resistant "5", so it takes great to -25 0C and does not need special shelter for the winter period.
Elimus Blue, reproduction of the plant
Elimus Blue breeds seed either in a vegetative way.
- With the reproduction of Elimus seeds, there is no need to grow seedlings. Seeds perfectly germinate in the open soil, gradually turning from thin rare sprouts into lush curtains. Seeds are sown on the prepared land plot of early spring or late autumn (under winter). Elimus blue seeds are small enough, so when crops it is convenient to pre-mix them with sand. After sowing, a plot or wells is spilling with robbles. For the development of dense and magnificent curtains, Elimus seedlings will need at least 2-3 years.
- A vegetative way of reproduction of perennials is very simple and not intricate. This method of breeding cereal culture is most popular among gardeners. For the breeding of the cereal, the bush is simply separated (with the help of acute shovels) several formed young shoots with their own roots that are planted separately. At the same time, the decenes are rapidly rooted in a new place and do not require special attention and special care. This method of reproduction allows the plant to bloom in the year of planting.
Thus, the Elimus Blue is an attractive decorative plant capable of transforming and decorate any garden or flower beds. The plant has a lot of advantages that have long appreciated experienced floweries and landscape designers. The perennial is considered an absolutely unpretentious, hardy culture that is well tolerate drought, an abundance of moisture and severe frosts.
At the same time, Elimus Blue is considered a fast-growing and well-growing plant that does not require special care and attention.