Own: landing and care

The magnificent decoration for flowerbeds or the Alpine slide will be the outfit - a low perennial, covering the ground with a solid carpet of small gentle flowers. This culture is not suitable for creating vertical compositions. On how to grow out, we will tell in this article.

Brief description of the plant

The audit of the long-term refers to the flowering cultures of the cross-tech family. This soil plant received its name in honor of the French artist Claude Aubeta. Oblast is widespread in Europe and Central Asia. Small bright inflorescences are painted in different colors of blue and purple gamut, there are also plants with white, red or pink buton. Short shoots of optic are intertwined with each other, forming a dense impenetrable rug on Earth. The foliage in this culture is small, oval, a little pointed.

The flowering period of the plant falls at the end of the spring or at the beginning of the summer and lasts for 40-50 days. Fruits appear on the site of the sworded buds in the form of small pods with oblong brown seeds.

Due to abundant blossom, as well as the ability to maintain foliage even in winter, it will be widespread in our country as an element of landscape design. This plant looks perfectly in mountaineering, ramks, borders and vertical flower arrangements. Cascade outliers can serve as an ornament of the loggia, balcony, veranda.

Culture varieties

Among the many varieties of this plant are the following types in the gardens of our country:

1. Deltaidoid Own is a low-speed perennial plant, a bush of which reaches no more than 12 cm in a height, and in the width up to 60 cm. The colors of the colors of deltoid is different, the most common pink and purple color can less often meet red or blue varieties. This culture is divided into several varieties:

• "Aureovariegata" has light lilac shade buds, and its leaves are decorated with golden border along the edge;
• "Alix Brett" is distinguished by the terry inflorescences of a brightly raspberry shade;
• "Astolat" - a variety of outbreaks with saturated purple buds and motley foliage;
• the inflorescences of the BRESSINGHAM PINK grade are terry pink petals;
• small purple flower decorated stems of the "Doctor Mules" hoovers;
• the culture of the Red Carpet variety looks very effectively thanks to the bright red shade of buds.

2. Cascade and culture variety, often used to create vertical flower compositions. On the dense weave of short stems, many evergreens leaves are growing, which cover the surface like a carpet. Cascadal outflower flowers in the late spring and early summer, releasing single blue or red shades buds. Flowers consist of 4 petals and a yellow heart. With the help of this culture, stony slopes, walls of buildings, fences, borders of garden tracks and flower beds are decorated. The height of the bush reaches 15 cm.
3. Hybrid outfit has small colors of various shades. Depending on the specific variety, you can meet the buds of pink, red, purple or white color. Hybrid envelope bush grows up to 10 cm in height, it takes up to 50-60 cm of space into the width. Culture perfectly feels in open sunny territories and is able to endure both hot weather and a small frost. There are several varieties of this plant:

• oblast "Charming Morocco" is the most common type of hybrid culture. It has pretty large flowers painted in a variety of tones: blue, blue, red, pink, purple. The size of buds is 1.5 cm, the bush grows into a height of 10 cm. The period of flowering "Charming Morocco" falls on May and June;
• the sort of "Royal Cascade" produces stems reaching a length of 25 cm and decorated with light pink flowers. Ideal for decorating vertical surfaces, multi-level flower beds;
• "Red Cascade" has the inflorescences of a saturated-red shade;
• the Lizzy grade grows in a height of up to 15 cm, the shoots of bushes are decorated with red buton, the diameter of which is approximately 1 cm;
• the grade "Deborah" also has red inflorescences, but a bush of such a culture grows up to 20 cm;
• pretty effectively in the design of the garden looks a varietal mixture "Fruit Assorted", which produces multicolored buds painted in various shades of pink and red gamma.

Methods of breeding OBREET

Landing optic seeds

The most popular is the method of breeding culture by seeds. Buy sowing material in any flower shop will not be difficult, but you can also stock seed yourself, if the culture has already grown earlier. With seed reproduction, it is important to consider that the plant will not release buds in the first year after landing, and it will bloom only after the season.

Research outdoor can be raised in the apartment. If you are going to transfer sprouts to a permanent flower in the last weeks of May, it is possible to engage in sowing seeds in February. When growing out of seeds, prepare a light fertile soil. You can buy ground for flowering plants in a specialized store. Place the soil in a wide container and on top of pour a thin layer of fine sand. Place the grain to the ground, trying to make the same distance between them. Moisten a little from the pulverizer, cover the polyethylene film container and leave for 3-4 weeks for germination. When the first sprouts break through the ground, remove polyethylene from the tank.

While the seedlings develop and strengthen the root system, you should carefully care for them. Do not allow soil drying, provide plants with air and sunlight. Watering too abundantly too. When irrigating sprouts, it is desirable to use a pulverizer, so that the water jet does not blur the soil from the roots and did not damage them.

After about a month, when warm weather will be installed on the street and there will be no frosts at night, the seedlings of optic can be transferred to the open soil. If, after a month, the weather on the street will not yet allow planting plants to flower, the sprouts will need to be distributed across separate containers, so that they are not closely in the general container. However, it is possible to avoid unnecessary work if you land the seeds of culture immediately at a permanent place of growth. It is best to do this in September, but you need to be sure that the night freezes will not begin prematurely. In addition, we need to carefully delete the weeds from the flower beds, otherwise the young sprouts of the hoops will die.

Vegetative breeding methods

Some gardeners prefer to breed the culture by drawing up. To plant, it will be written in this way, you should explore the bush and not to find ripened shoots. Then the sprouts are cut off, cleaned from the ground and sand, cut the lower leaves from them. After that, the cuttings are planted in a greenhouse, pre-prepared so far from peat and sand. Replanting the rooted cuttings on the flowerbed is best in the late summer. Do not forget to trace, so that the roots formed roots. Sutting off the cuttings, keep the distance between them at 12-15 cm. As the outfit over the years becomes weaker and capricious, many gardeners are recommended to carry out shirts every year - so you will constantly maintain high decorative flower bed quality.

The reproduction of the culture of the division of the bush is theoretically possible, but in practice, such a method is extremely rarely used. Oblasts badly tolerates such a procedure, damaged roots of the plant can dry and flower will die. To this method, only those gardeners who have extensive experience with plants are resorted to this method.

CARE FOR ABOUT

When planting a plant in open soil, it is important to prepare the correct composition of the soil. Gardening is desirable to mix with small sand. When sowing seeds or seedlings, placing bushes with smooth beds so that they are not lost among weeds.

Own loves to grow in open areas well lit by sunlight. In addition, the plot must be quite spacious. Place the flower beds on the south side of buildings, on open slopes. To the soil, the plant is not too demanding, but for good growth and development of opticians, it is desirable to saturate the ground with chalk, ash or a small amount of lime. Earth around plants can also be mounted with a thin layer of fine sand.

Own does not need too frequent and abundant irrigation. With excessive moisture, the bushes increase a lot of green mass, but they bloom badly. To allow soil drying is also not worth it. In hot summer days, with a long lack of rain, the plant must necessarily water.

Young bushes of optic need to feed sodium humate. It is dissolved in water and watered flowers twice a day: in the morning and in the evening. Sodium humate stimulates the growth of roots and shoots, makes the plant stronger and hardy. The first feeders are carried out when at least 2 real leaves appear in the seedlings. More adult cultures are periodically feeding with comprehensive fertilizers for perennial flowering plants. They are made in the soil 2 times over the season: before the start of flowering, opres and after it trimmed.

Cultural pruning is also a mandatory part of the care. Each time after the end of the flowering period, the shoots of the plant are removed almost to the base. In a similar case, the audit on the site of cut stems produces new, which is also covered with flowers after a short time. Culture trimming allows you to maintain its decorativeness throughout the summer.

Diseases of this culture include torrential dew. If you have noticed that the stems and leaves of the bushes were covered with a whitish tap, treat them with a solution of colloidal sulfur. If, after processing, the signs of the disease did not disappear, you will have to get rid of damaged plants, so that the torment dew has not moved to healthy sections of the flower beds. The sick bushes need to be squeezed with root and burn.

Oblast refers to cold-resistant plants, it can easily carry small frosts when the air temperature drops to -5 ° C. But if too strong cold is expected in winter, it is better to further insulate flowers with dry leaves, sprunery or other underfloor material.

Useful advice

1. Acquire the seeds of both the best in the spring, and if you buy a finished seedlings, look, whether the roots have no root through the holes in the bottoms of the pots.
2. To feed the plant by manure or mineral nitrogen fertilizers is not worth it, since these substances worsen the farmability of the culture.
3. The longest bloom is observed in varieties whose flowers are painted in blue and purple shades. Cultures with red buds bloom not so long.
4. In the flower compositions of the optic, it is most successful with red soapy, rock alissum, oxoba, white and pink, fragrant, dwarf iris, bells and floccals.

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