Perennials delight the eye with their blooms over a fairly long period. Over the years, they begin to thicken and degenerate. This can happen after 3 years and 10 years. If the flower has lost its former splendor, you can restore its beauty, but you have to work hard. How can I restore a bed of perennials and what recommendations need to be taken into consideration?
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When updating a flower garden
To engage in the rehabilitation of a flower garden can be the end of May and in August. Before proceeding with the update beds, worth examining the characteristics of each perennial, of which it is composed. Those that bloom in late summer, it is recommended to divide and replant in spring. As for the spring and June the plants, then carry out the work necessary to transplant in late summer.
If you find it difficult to understand the perennials and accurately determine the period of flowering, are ready to upgrade the flower garden of continuous bloom in the spring. In this way the plants will have enough time to adapt and gain strength. However, flowering can not please every one of them.
Before you completely disassemble the old flower bed, make a plan for a new one. Include any plants from which you want to create a composition. Perhaps some of them you have, and some will have to buy. Over time, plants can grow actively, so they need to provide a place with a margin. At first, the flower will not look rich, but it will be more lush with time.
How to upgrade the ground on a bed of old
Over the entire period of their stay in the area pulled flower nutrients from the soil. Moreover, you can watch it creeping herbs overgrowing such as wheat grass, sow thistle, horsetail. It is possible that it becomes caked soil and contours lose definition.
The main part of the update of the composition are considered to work to replace her bed. To start digging all perennials, which consisted of a flower bed. Withdraw them carefully, because at the time of such manipulations is a high risk to damage the root system. For storage of excavated bushes shading to choose a place with an optimal level of humidity.
With the utmost care to dig out the following perennials:
- Aggressive perennials (arabis Alpine, periwinkle, loosestrife, Geum Quellyon, knot-grass, Polygonatum multiflorum, chickweed Bieberstein et al.). The roots of these plants is necessary to dig out completely. To divide, you can use a well-Edged shovel. With this garden tools separate the pieces of the curtain even in the flowering period. If you plan to include these plants in a flower bed, they should be small, otherwise they will score more planting.
- To remove rhizomatous perennial (Astilbe, Volzanka, Iris sibirica, daylily, phlox, hosts) are used forks, and for separating into parts in motion to go a sharp knife. Fragile roots (for example, daylilies), is necessary for non-durable period podvyalit in a shaded place and only then take up their division.
- Perennials with horizontal underground creeping roots (Anemone japonica, Centaurea montana, lily of the valley, Monarda didyma, stahis woolly, yarrow, rudbeckia dissected et al.) it is necessary to divide the shovel so that it was 3-5 for each copy kidney.
- Perennials with above-ground rhizomes (saxifrage crassifolia, iris bearded) divided by the blade. Such work should be carried out after a plant bud.
- Perennials with tap (Aquilegia, gypsophila, mullein, Papaver orientale) is not propagated and transplanted by dividing the roots. For these plants only suitable way to seed, because they do not stand up and die transplant.
Root bumps are subject to a thorough visual inspection. The thing is that pernicious weeds may be in them. Remove all unnecessary, not to expose your site overgrowing them. In addition, remove the rotten and dried roots, place slices on Apply crushed charcoal or ash.
Once you dig out all the old perennials, pay attention to the site, where they grew up. Digging up the ground, clean it from the residues of the roots, cut the edge of the flower bed, so that he found clean lines. To do this, you can take the fillets tape or create a barrier at its discretion.
It is mandatory to energize the soil. On 1 square meter is required for 2 buckets of rotted manure, 1 bucket of river sand and peat. The mixture also need to add a few handfuls of ashes and complex mineral fertilizers. Mix all the ingredients and smooth out the resulting composition of the surface of the beds.
How to choose plants for flower beds of perennials
Today, the market can find a huge range of plants from which you can create a gorgeous song. You should not blindly buy all perennials include in your flower garden certain plants. Select them with the following recommendations:
- All plants should have a similar life cycle. In other words, to carry out their division and transplanting is necessary in the same time.
- Perennials should be included in one group to the susceptibility to light (well respond to light or vice versa, without problems grow in the shade or partial shade).
- These will require irrigation of the same frequency and makeup same fertilizers.
If you create a bed of well-chosen perennials, take care of it will be much easier.
How to care for transplanted perennials
The restoration of beds you have 3 days, as long as dug perennials are not stored. The countdown should begin from the moment you land confiscated from the first plant. If you put them in a container with water and put in place, shielded from direct sunlight, they stand in the power of more than 3 days, but it is not necessary to experiment, since it does not give the plant strength.
If you know exactly what your plants (their size, color, survival rate), you can immediately planted them in a permanent place, focusing on the preparation of the plan. With regard to plant novice, you have purchased but not yet know what they please, it is advisable to plant them on a mini-flower bed, away from the others tested perennials.
Shkolku create need in the area with fertile soil, sufficient light and moderate watering. It is also important to him to grow plants that will not experience stress when adjacent decorative delenki will be with them.
Planted at a fixed place of one type plants are two ways - alone (after a certain time period), or group.
If for you the best is the first option, the first few years of a flower bed will look poorly, so the extra space will be required to take annual plants. In the second case, the flower will immediately look decorative. Each of these methods has advantages and disadvantages. Which one to choose - you decide.
If you have prepared the ground for new beds with all the requirements, you can not bother yourself making fertilizing, weeding and loosening. Young plants do not require such care at the beginning of his stay in the new place. All you have to do - is to water them regularly. After the transplant, the roots are not able to actively absorb moisture, so watering should be moderate.
After 7-10 days you can spend processing plant stimulator rooting. To do this, you can use the drug "Kornevin" (dissolve 1 package of 5 liters of water). The procedure will facilitate their adaptation to the new conditions. Processing plant root growth stimulator can be carried out by spraying or dusting. For it is possible to start at a time when the perennials are delenki the fresh air and landing expected.
With the rehabilitation of the old beds of perennials may be some difficulties. In order to facilitate care for her turn in the plant composition with a similar lifecycle. In the future, they will have to change at one and the same time, it has largely facilitates the task.
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