Bright and elegant iris justify the ancient Greek name. The translation of "iris" means "rainbow". The people of these unusual flowers called my dear and loved by allocating them plots on beds in almost every garden.
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A variety of ideas
Modern varieties of rainbow plant flower growers provide a great choice and the opportunity to admire their blooms for more than 2 months. In the culture of long ago entered the irises of different types: water, German, Siberian, pale and bearded. On their basis, derived many varieties and hybrids with a monochromatic color and variegated, with a strong flavor without it. Grow flowers in all regions of Russia. In the wild iris - spring flower, which quickly fades, leaving only their sword-shaped leaves, but the irises in the garden - spectacular decoration of the landscape in the first half of the summer.
Planting several varieties with different flowering period, growers can achieve the appearance of bright beaters from early May to mid-July. Many varieties have variegated foliage and unusual. Most often it is long leaves, painted in green and white or yellow longitudinal stripes. Several based marsh iris varieties have sizuyu leaf coloring and form high bushes. Such plants are used in garden design not only as flowering, but also as a decorative and deciduous.
Most iris - moisture-loving culture, and planted them along the banks of artificial lakes. Yellow water increases and in shallow water. Varieties of species relevant to the wetland beds, in which include several flowering at different times Kasatikov, beautiful sedge grass, milkweed and other wetland plants. Swamp flower beds adorn the wet and low-lying corners of the garden, where it is difficult to grow other plants.
Early-spring cultivars of wild types of irises and steppe alpine areas (ostrodolny, fine-leaved etc.) - a successful formulation for rock. Low courtines (40 cm) between bloom primrose-ephemers and summer colors. They are not too demanding to moisture, t. To. After flowering in the fall rest period.
The ideas can be proposed as the use of irises in the design as follows:
- Creating iridariya, which includes different kinds of plants. Contents can be both long-term flower placing bushes with different colored corolla of petals and form separate groups. Plants will bloom gradually, each time creating a new range of beds. Bushes inciting discreet annuals (such as roses or Alyssum) which Otten delicate beauty Kasatikov. Fill the flower bed after flowering can be flowering plants the second half of the summer (lilies, daylilies, delphiniums, etc.), Who often do not need to repot.
- Use as an accent on the lawn. In the role of a solo spectacular plants use a large variety of high peduncles and bright flowers, which preserves a beautiful view, and after flowering. The same goal can serve as a spring and courtines undersized species, which after flowering become invisible in the grass.
- Creating mixborders. This kind of flower bed includes different types of garden flowers, irises and easy to pick up to any flowerbed scheme. Numerous varieties of bearded iris and German are the petals of different color and perfectly fit into the flower bed.
Propagated by dividing the bush desired grade. After flowering, cut off quite a yearling the first link of the rhizome with a fan of leaves and roots and transplanted to a new location. By the next season the new Bush has time to lay the flower buds and will bloom in spring.
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