If you want to break on his garden plot flowerbed and do not know what kind of flowers most unpretentiousBut at the same time, winter-hardy, beautiful and fragrant, it is worth paying attention to traditional phlox.
Colorful and undemanding perennial shrubs grow in any light and adapt to the different composition of soil.
Phlox are good in all respects - they are distinguished by lush flowering, good breeding, a long standing in the form of cut in vases.
Variety of species of phlox
To date, more than displayed 50 species this plant. Phlox are stunted and tall, consist of large or small Five-Petalled beaters have varied color - from white to bright crimson.
There are also flowers that delight the two-tone color.
After flowering on the stem form of a box with the seeds that are ready by the end of the season for planting in the ground.
How to protect from freezing phlox
By the end of September phlox complete their bloom and begin to prepare for winter. A person should plant a little help to successfully ride out the cold weather and cold to enjoy the new spring colors.
pruning phlox
Depending on weather conditions around the beginning of October, cut the aboveground stems of bushes.
This will prevent fungal diseases phlox, because during the summer they accumulate a lot of different microorganisms and small insect pests.
Also trimming is conducted for a culture of improvement, preservation of a decorative kind beds and protect the root system of the plant. To spring bush gave a few young shoots, cut the old stems must be at a height of 7-9 cm from the ground level.
Vlagozaryad and fertilizing
The roots should be abundantly watered, if the fall does not spoil colors moisture. A week after cutting the soil and the roots of the plants should be processed fungicides, and after another 10-12 days to hold fertilizer superphosphate and a small amount of wood ash.
With the onset of cold weather trimmed bush mulch, using humus, fallen leaves, compost. This will help the plants fed with the necessary materials and gain strength before hibernation.
Immediately before the first frost bushes lapnikom hide or thick layer of fallen leaves. Cover the plants with special water- and airtight material, you should not - the bushes below them perish.
If done correctly, the adult bushes phlox are perfectly sheltered from the cold, and with the onset of summer will please others abundant and colorful blooms.
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