Barley Grivacy, Landing and Care

For landscaping, field and steppe plants are often used. With their help you can give the garden, lawn or flowerbed a special style and flavor. Such cultures include a grivy barley, which will be discussed in this article.

Grivoy barley - Plant Description

Barley grivoy refers to cereal cultures. Despite the fact that in essence he is a wild steppe plant, today barley is widely used in landscape design due to its unusual and attractive mind.

In nature, the grivoy barley can be found in the steppes of Eastern Siberia and the Far East, he is growing in large quantities in North America. A perennial plant in cultural gardening is grown as an annual.

Cheerful barley is popular in garden design due to its attractive mind. It covers a flowerbed with a dense herbal carpet consisting of narrow, up to 3 mm width of leaves, as well as beautiful silk spikelets. It is the cooseny and are the most decorative part of the plant. They are long inflorescences with divergent modes of lion with long bristles about 8 cm long.

The culture is acquiring his magnificently delayed look. It was then that her quenching wind stalks look most effectively. Initially, they have a green shade with a light silver flare, but after some time they brighten up to straw color. Near the base, the spikelet is covered with small reddish scales.

Using a grivy barley in landscape design

Grivoy barley can be found in all sorts of flower beds and flower beds. It is especially appropriate, it looks in alpinaria and rocky gardens, on lawns in combination with other plants. They are very successful to fill out emptiness between cultures, quickly flowing in the spring.

Barley is used to delay the plots. It is used in a cut form when drawing up bouquets and various decorative compositions from dried flowers.

The strengths of the grivastoy barley are unpretentiousness and cold resistance, which means that it is possible to plant it where the thermal-loving plants will not fit. Culture loves solar sections with in moderation by moisturized soil.

Barley is very successful with many other decorative landings, its partners in the flower beds can be:

• other decorative cereals, for example, prudevoid millet;
• light-loving annuals like wildflower wildflowers, penisetum, egg-sharewing;
• for calm and restrained vegetable compositions, it is worth choosing perennials with light silver leaves: a sage medicinal, lavender, a diamond cross;
• in summer flowerbeds, bright cultures seem to be wondering as a low-spirited calendula, velvetsev, Rudbecki Voloshoy.

Grivastoy barley cultivation

Choosing a place and time for barley grivasto

You can plant the grivoy barley in the month of April. If you choose exactly this time, then in July you will get beautiful perfect fluffy bushes. You can play landings and at the autumn time - in the last days of August. In this case, the flowering of culture can be observed in June.

Please note: if you want to plant barley in the fall, then grow seedlings in the containers, which for the winter period can be added to the warm room. Seedlings can be grown from seeds and at the spring landing, if the year was cold, and spring is late.

As for the choice of place to land a barley of the Grivastoy, then there must be several rules:

1. Culture loves sunlight, because the flowerbed should be chosen on an open and well-lit territory. However, and the shadensity of this plant tolerates normally.
2. Excess moisture - enemy for barley. It is not recommended to be placed in lowlands, where many water accumulates in the soil. At the same time, the plant can be perfectly and painlessly survive drought.
3. The composition of the soil for this culture can be almost any, the main thing is that the land is not too heavy. Such soil quickly accumulates water and misses oxygen.
4. Barley hryvastoma will most like alkaline or weakness soil.
5. The soil is desirable to enrich mineral and organic fertilizers for better growth of barley. Culture will be able to grow in the sand, but it will not be so strong and attractive.
6. Finger the barley is better by humus.

Sowing seeds and landing of a bunch of grivasto

You can buy a grivy barley seeds in a specialized store. As a rule, grains do not need special processing, but to ensure better germination, they can be stratified. This is done like this:

1. For stratification of grains, pick up a shallow capacity of suitable dimensions and sprinkle with a peat.
2. Top to dispense seeds and cover another layer of peat. Do so until the entire tray is filled. Then whip the contents of the container with water.
3. Wrap the tray with polyethylene, do the top of several holes for accessing oxygen, and then put peat with seeds in the refrigerator to the bottom.

Here are some recommendations for the cultivation of the seedlings of the Grivastoy barley:

1. Culture grains need to be sowed in comfortable shallow but wide drawers.
2. Capacities with a future sediment should be placed where cool and dry, but there is light access. At the same time, the straight sun rays should not fall on trays.
3. The soil should be timely water, but in moderation to prevent overvailing.
4. After about a month from the seeds should grow seedlings, which can be recovered by this time, that is, to transplant into small cups or a pot.
5. You can transfer seedlings to the flowerbed in warm weather when freezing is run out.

Cheerful barley can be grown and reckless way in spring. Here are some tips on this:

1. The landing of seeds immediately at the flowerbed is carried out in early April. Grains are acquired in the store or collect themselves.
2. There is no special planting scheme for this plant, it can be planted on any free places, focusing on the desired drawing of the plant composition. So that the bushes turned out to be big and fluffy, plant seeds for 2-3 pcs.
3. Survening plants need to be protected from cold, covered with film or nonwoven material. You can equip the design like a small greenhouse from above, then the grivoy barley will bloom quite early.

Grivastic barley care

Grivoy barley unpretentious and grow up very quickly. If you do not want it to make it filled with himself the entire site and did not begin to interfere with other cultures, reload it as you grow. The inflorescences need to cut it before they cause new seeds, because the plant is perfectly multiplied by self-sowing.

Split barley is comfortable to seeds, but you can resort to the method of dividing the bush. Dock one healthy large bush, smooth with the roots of the ground, divide into several parts and transope in any place you have chosen.

If the climate is quite warm and barley feels comfortable, it can be grown as a perennial.

Cheerful barley, photo