Years later perennials grow, and on the initial composition are flower bed only memories. Do not worry: you can rejuvenate your flower garden. But to restore its decorative effect you will have a little digging in the ground.
Do not put the plants too close together; distance between them should be half their height. Transplanting perennials to a new location in the flower garden, be sure to share them bushes!
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aging flower
Each year the flower bed looks different. Weather conditions favor the development of the one, the other its inhabitants. Over time, the more aggressive plants grow, displacing at least unpretentious. In addition, some perennials with age begin to bloom less and have to rejuvenate dividing the bushes. Gardener can intervene in the life of a flower bed -obuzdat strongly sprawling bushes and free up space for more delicate plants.
It happens so that, despite careful planning, in fact, a flower garden is not the way you imagined it in my dreams. The reasons may be very different. It may have changed the lighting area of planted next to a tree or a neighbor's house erected. Or maybe in a flower bed too grown weeds. Whatever it was, you know, that the flower must "redraw". The best time for this work - spring or fall.
Full update flowerbed
Flowerbed full update is required when it has outgrown goutweed, wheatgrass and other malicious weeds. To begin to greatly cut all perennials. This will allow you to get a more complete picture of a flower bed state. Then, using a shovel or pitchfork to dig out the plants out of the ground and carefully release them from the roots of weeds. Before this good soak the root ball in the water and then rinse it with water - then it becomes easier to recognize the roots of weeds.
Then clean the weeds the whole flower bed, trying not to leave the soil is not the slightest pieces of roots and rhizomes. Then shoveled or flower Loosen its surface layer and fill the ground compost. Particularly suitable for controlling weeds dry serene days: under the hot sun quickly dug weeds wither and die.
The division of the bushes
Growing perennials in the flower garden every 3-5 years should be divided. First of all it is necessary to do, when in the middle of bushes or bald spots are formed when the bush becomes too thick. Dividing the bush plants strengthens, rejuvenates and stimulates their growth. In addition, by dividing the bush can be propagated plants. It must, however, remember that some plants do not like this procedure. Peonies and hellebore, for example, after the division of the bush did not bloom for several years, and therefore it is better to divide less frequently.
Most perennial plants better tolerate autumn divide bushes and transplantation, but sensitive to frost species should be repotted in the spring, when the soil as it should warmed by the sun.
Most grateful plants
For planting in the new flower garden, choose the strongest and is growing rapidly plants -in the new flower bed they will please you for many years, without requiring special care. Divide most perennials grown up and planted bushes in their flower groups or individually. Plants that are in the old flower garden grow poorly are planted where they will not experience competition from the more aggressive neighbors. Filling updated flower plants are planted them at a considerable distance from each other.
Reproduce only those plants that grow well in your garden.
Not planting the gaps between plants formed during the reconstruction of a flower bed, new perennials. It is better to sow there unpretentious, self-seeding annuals breeding, which in a few years supplant overgrown perennial flowers.
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