Dahlia border, landing and care

These bright and fluffy flowers can be found today on any subsidence. Border dahlias, unlike their high (up to 150 cm) of fellow, relatively simple and unpretentious, so they can be easily raised in the country. It is enough just to know about some features of these amazing plants and follow a number of simple, but very useful and effective advice. How to choose and buy border dahlias? What is the difference between the cultivation of border dahlias from the cultivation of other decorative plants common in our garden sites? What variety of border dahlia choose? Read about all this below.

Friendy dahlias - a little story

Who would have thought that the plant, whose homeland was considered sunny mexico, is captured in a cold Russian climate? Miracles still happen. Centuries Indians Mexico used this plant for their needs. Georgina was used to treat epilepsy, used in food, and durable and hollow stems of colors were used as respiratory tubes. Surprisingly, Latin America's residents did not impress the beauty of these colors at all, the plant was valued, first of all, for hollow stems that could be used in various economic needs. But the Spaniards who came to the shore of Mexico in the distant XVI century were fighting the beauty of these milled and fluffy flowers. It was the Spaniards that Dahlias got into Europe. Very soon about these colors were recognized in the UK, Germany and France. By the way, it was Georgina that were the favorite flowers of Josephine, famous his beloved Napoleon.

In Russia, Georgina fell only in the XIX century. It was then that they came up with this proud name. In the world, these flowers were already known entitled "Dalia", but in Russia they decided to give them a new name. Karl Wildenov called these flowers in honor of the domestic scientist Johann Georgi. By the way, in Botanica it is customary to say "Georgin", but in non-specialized literature a long name of the flower is used exclusively in male genus: "Georgin".

Types of Georghin

As often happens in the botanic, the classifications of dahlias are a great set. There are several hundred and different colors of dahlias, also flowers differ in the form of the bud itself (anemoid, collar, pionic, pomponovye, spherical, etc.), as well as along the length of the stem and the size of the flower. The last two classifications are most convenient for gardeners.

By the size of bud, dahlias are:

• Large-color - differ in large bootons, the diameter of which over twenty centimeters. Such flowers look very beautiful in the bouquet, however require quite painstaking care.
• Mednetswate - bud in diameter from ten to twenty centimeters.
• Small color - the diameter of the flower during disclosure does not exceed ten centimeters.

Most often, Georgina is classified by growth:

• Border, sometimes this kind of colors are called dwarf (up to sixty centimeters) or low-spirited dahlias (up to eighty centimeters), which sounds very intact. However, it is border dahlias that cannot be better suited for country sites. These magnificent and solemn plants adorn the flower beds and park alleys up to the onset of the first frost. Moreover, unlike its high fellows, border dahlias do not need to be tied up, crop trunks from leaves, install support. It is worth noting another feature of border dahlias: their small, tightly grouped buds bloom much longer.
• Average is called dahlias that are capable of growing up to 120 centimeters. Among them are also varieties that belong to border georgins. In most cases, these are perennial shrubs and, in the same way as low, they do not require additional care and they can be used to decorate flower.
• High dahlias can reach one and a half meters in height. Most often this annual plant, which must be tied up, as well as cut the leaves. It is a heavy and painstaking work, so they are rarely used in landscape design, but in floristics such plants are used particularly wide.

Sort Georginov

To date, more than ten thousand different varieties of dahlias are known. Which one to choose - depends on your purpose and personal preferences. It should only be remembered that it is easiest to care for border dahlias. Let's call the most common varieties.

1. Happy kiss (Happy Kiss) - a variety derived in Holland. Seeing them, you will never think that this is familiar from Childhood Georgina. Externally, they are more reminiscent of chrysanthmore or chamomile. Most often they have bright orange flowers.
2. Romeo is another kind of single-row dahlias. From the "happy kiss" they differ only in a saturated scarlet tint of buds.
3. Merry guys - the most popular grade of Georgin in Russia. These small flowers are bright, life-affirming coloring can be found in the parks, at the flower beds and summer cottages. The variety is unpretentious in cultivation. These are very small, dwarf dahlias. Often there are inflorescences of pink and raspberry tones, but red, white and orange inflorescences come across. Sit them immediately into the ground, on a small depth. Flowers are easily experiencing small freezing and drought. For them, the main thing is that there is enough sunlight. The disadvantage of the variety is only one - this is the annual, the next year will have to grow seedlings again.
4. Children of Cardinal - another variety of Georgin very popular in Russia. It is largely similar to "fun guys." It distinguishes their only color. "Children of Cardinal" are able to a unique bronze tint of petals.
5. Bougie-WGOs - the variety is considered short, but in some cases the stalks grow up to a meter in height. The buds of this variety look very unusual: the magnificent cap of petals on the groom has a rich pink shade, and closer to the heart of the bud, the color of petals becomes bright yellow.
6. El Nino is a very unusual variety. The buds of these colors are large, symmetrical and have a rich burgundy shade.
7. Stars Lady - refers to the so-called "cactus" georgins. Numerous petals of buds are pointed at the ends. The buds themselves are quite large and reach twenty five centimeters in diameter. Color mainly gently pink.
8. Park Record - on appearance is very similar to the "Stars of Lady", but the color of buds varies from brick-orange to bright red.
9. Aspen is a very beautiful and very common variety in Russia. Refers to half-breasted georgins. Buds have a beautiful, symmetrical shape. Petals are slightly pointed. Shades of buds: from cream to snow-white.
10. Sunny boy (Sunny Boy) - the buds of these colors are cheerful yellow, as can be supposed from the name. There is a variety to pomponoid georgins. Inflorescences and really resemble a pompon of a cheerful hat.
11. Impreshn Fabula - a collar grade of dahlias. The buds look extremely interesting: on top of wide petals of purple color, closer to the heart of the bud is the inner layer of petals, needle and slightly more tender shade.
12. Vancouver - this variety is already among the average colors, but it does not require additional care. Lirefish large buds can reach twenty-five centimeters in diameter.

We buy Saplings Georgin

One of the few drawbacks of these beautiful and majestic plants is their short-life. Georgians loved people for an amazingly long period of flowering - whether a joke, to admire the colors of Georgin for five months a year. However, most varieties of hybrid and annual dahlias. Even the varieties that bloom for several years, the next year they give much smaller flowers with thin petals, and after a couple of years, even many years of grade, Georgins are degenerated, and it has to go to the store for the garden to buy border dahlias.

1. It is more expedient to buy Georgin seedlings in the spring, a couple of weeks before landing.
2. When choosing seedlings, special attention should be paid to the state of the roots. The tuber should look strong and heavy, and on its surface should be seen the first sprouts of future colors.
3. The cracked land on the rhizome is a very bad sign. Such a seedling cannot be taken in any case, since Georgians love the air and water very much. Without a sufficient wet environment, they do not live long. If the rhizer looks soft or overwhelmed, it does not make sense to plant it.
4. Often, sellers go to the cunning and carefully pack the root of seedlings into plastic bags. Think carefully by buying such a "cat in a bag", since, most likely, under the layer of polyethylene hides a damaged rhizome, from which it is impossible to grow a full-fledged flower.

Choose a place to land Georgin

Before choosing a plot for landing border dahlias, it is still worth remembering that these flowers from Latin America come true. Froses of Georgina include very intolerable, but the sun loving. Therefore, flowerbed for dahlias should be on a well-lit plot. Unfortunately, under the windows of the Dacha house, Georgina will grow badly, since the shadow falling from the building will interfere.

The land in which the bulbs of dahlias are planted, you need to prepare. The soil must be soft, it should contain a sufficient amount of water, air and useful substances for full growth of the plant. Experienced gardeners are recommended to use compost gradual dahlias to disembark.

Landing border dahlias

1. Before planting border dahlia, it is necessary to prepare the soil correctly and carefully. Drink the territory, add compost to the soil and the like. All this needs to be done in the first days of May.
2. It is necessary to plant flowers in the period from the tenth of the twentieth of May (in the event that the standard time has already been established in plus fifteen to twenty degrees).
3. Tubers need to be injected quite deeply. It is desirable that approximately ten centimeters of a feeble land remained over the tuber.
4. For the normal development of the root system, planting flowers should be at a distance of at least thirty-forty centimeters from each other.
5. Carefully monitor the "eyes", that is, the flower sprouts, looked up, otherwise Georghine will not be able to germinate.
6. Having finished with the landing, it is necessary to sprinkle the sprouts with a powder from the bark of trees (this technique has a special name in gardening - mulching. A mixture of bark of trees protects plants from weeds and pests).
7. Do not forget to use supporting pebbles for the correct growth and development of the bush.

Care for border dahlias

1. Georgians love heat and moisture. It should always be remembered. In the event that the summer was arid, the dahlia flower was needed to water at least two times a week (in some cases it is possible to increase the number of watering to three). Moreover, it is very important that water goes to the root system, and not settled on the leaves. That is why before irrigation, it is recommended to impair the soil, clean it from weeds, melt foliage and other things that are unnecessary on the flower bed.
2. Russian soil is not sufficiently saturated with vitamins and minerals, so in order for your dahlias blooming a lush color, the plants need to be necessary to feed at least two times a month. Special feeding or an ordinary universal composition can be bought at any store for gardeners.
3. As already mentioned, in the cultivation of dahlias, the crushed crust of trees, ash and chalk will be especially useful to you, but the traditional fertilizers in the form of manure and avian litter is better to leave for other plants, they will only harm Georgians.
4. High dahlias need an additional support. Plants should be tied up to a special sticks and trim the leaves on time, immediately remove the focused inflorescences, and carefully ensure that there are no more than two-three buds on one bush. In case the flowers are larger, they will lose their aesthetic appearance and spoil the overall impression from the flower beds.

Enemies Georginov

Sloting Pennie, TRIPS, caterpillars, inchsharki, as well as a word and, in particular, slugs are the main enemies of Georgin. These pests literally adore dahlias.

1. Experienced gardeners are recommended once a week to handle flower beds with dahlias with a special solution of wormwood and cleanliness. This will help you protect the plant from the invasion of the slug.
2. Soap solution will help in the fight against tool and ticks.
3. Before disembarking, it is recommended to neutralize the soil with a solution of manganese.

Digging and storage of dahlias

With the onset of the first frosts, the tubers of Georgin need to immediately dig and put on storage. To wintering, these areply, thermal-loving flowers are not adapted.

1. A few days before digging the rhizomes, it should be removed from the plants extra buds and foliage. In no case can not do this on the same day as digging.
2. In the period from the tenth of the twentieth of October, it is necessary to push the day when the weather is dry and, if not warm, then at least solar. Excessive soil moisture threatens to you that the tubers can simply be contrary to storage.
3. To keep the dahlias' tubers safely and safeness, after digging the stalks, it is recommended to wrap foil. When the plant slightly snacks, it should be removed from it all the land and compost.
4. To preserve the tubers until next year, first of all, you need to follow the level of humidity. The drying is threatened by the fact that for the next year, Georgina will grow weak and non-visual, well, and excessive moisture again threatens the fact that the flower simply rotates.
5. When digging tubers, some damage to the root system are inevitable. In case the cuts are essential, they are sprinkled with a special composition of chalk and charcoal.
6. As in the case of flowers, the dahlias themselves also need not only in sufficient humidity, but also in the air. That is why the tubers of Georgin recommend to store in the cellar or, at least on the balcony (until the first frost), since there is a good level of ventilability. Subsequently, tubers can be transferred to the refrigerator. The optimal is the temperature of five degrees of heat.
7. It is important to remember that the dahlias should be stored in a special composition, and not just on the newspaper. Peat or at least ash perfectly suitable for these purposes. Sand and sawdust can also be added, but it is not recommended to store the tubers in pure sand.
8. Often, the tubers of dahlias paraffinize. This method allows to reduce the amount of hassle associated with the correct storage of tubers of these capricious plants. For such a goal, you will need to melt a decent amount of paraffin on a water bath (it all depends on how many tubers you decide to save). After that, for a few seconds, the Georgine tuber is placed in the paraffin composition. Having pulled out the tuber, you will see how the characteristic film is formed instantly. When the process of primary sinking paraffin is completed, the seedling in paraffin should be re-missing. After that, a little bit of the tuber in the hands, so that the crust, covering the seedling, slightly crashed, and there were moves for air and moisture. Then such a tuber should be omitted in peat and forget about it before May. Only occasionally, at least once a month, it is worth viewing Georgin seedlings. This should be done exclusively in order not to miss the moment of starting rotting one of the tubers. Such seedlings should be immediately disposed, since the rot is very quickly able to spread among other seedlings.

conclusions

Majestic and bright inflorescences of dahlias are able to transform any country area. These plants are not equal to the duration of flowering. Almost half a year you can admire them. The novice gardener may seem too complex the process of planting and care for border dahlias, but by trying, you will understand that there is nothing difficult in caring for border dahlias. Dahlia (scientific name of these colors), like all living things in this world, requires only a little care and attention on your part.