Lamprocapnos popularly called "broken heart." This reflects the unusual appearance of the flower: a heart-shaped bud that opens in two halves, releasing several thin petals. The arrow is a whole garland is not too large (up to 2 cm in diameter), but expressive flowers pink shades or pure white color. Dicentra decorative and after flowering, a low shrub with lace gray-green foliage adorns the long flowerbed.
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Recommendations for cultivation
In the culture of using 2 kinds of plants that differ in flowering time: great (mid-May to mid-June) and beautiful (from early summer until August). Sometimes they re-bloom in early autumn.
Dicentra is not too demanding on the light. In a shady corner of the garden bush gives a greater increase, bloom later, longer does not stop blooming. On a sunny plot of the same bush early and quickly fades, and its dimensions remain small.
When choosing a site for planting it is important to find a site with good outflow of water. Stagnant water plant tolerates bad, and in low-lying areas may rot. Recommended for cultivation of slightly elevated areas with loose, fertile soil. When planting in the ground need to add eggshells, dolomite or chalk crumbs 1 tbsp. l. for every 5 liters of soil.
When the bush bud, you must remove the withered flower stalks. The stems are cut at 3-5 cm above the soil level. At the end of the season all the above-ground part is removed at the root.
Hibernate bushes are without shelter. In Western Siberia, plants tolerate harsh winters, frost in late autumn, when there is no snow cover, and the spring cold snap. In central Russia need only shelter in areas where the snow cover is absent when frost below - 25 ° C. As used shelter 20 cm chips sprinkled on the spot where the bush grew. In the spring you need to throw mulch, giving ground to warm up.
Watering and fertilizing
Dicentra require a good watering. The lack of moisture flower emits little flower arrows and beaters are small and featureless. Watering is recommended when the top layer of soil dries 1-2 cm in depth.
After watering the ground under a bush, be careful proryhlit to ensure that the roots of good access of oxygen. To save the looseness of the soil and moisture for a long time, if you can not often be watered bushes, apply mulch or bark chips. Layer of mulch is necessary to fill the entire projection of the crown bush.
Spring bushes fed complex fertilizers for flowering plants (Fertikov, Kemira luxury and so on.) Supplemented with 1 tbsp. l. ground chalk or gypsum per 10 liters of solution. The high content of potassium and phosphorus contributes tab floral arrows. You need to use drugs in accordance with the dosages. After flowering bush can be organic feed, wherein nitrogen content is higher. Conveniently use the infusion of the herb or mullein solution (0.5 L slurry in 10 liters of water) and wood ash (1 cup). Under a bush in height and 50 cm make 1 liter of a mixture, and a large variety (1 m in height) - 2-3 liters.
Dicentra can not long be transplanted to a new location. If she strongly growing bush divide, otsazhivaya part in another corner of the garden. In group plantings Dicentra need to consider the height of each class and arrange them so that large do not interfere with growing smaller. A distance between the low seedlings (Candy Hearts, Laksharient etc.) - not less than 40 cm, and for the tall (Gold Hut Bekkanal et al.) And the winding (e.g., Golden tears) - can leave more.
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