Thanks to emergence of new selection grades the phloxes can please flower growers since May. Variety of paints and forms and also simplicity in care for them attract many judges of beauty. But at all simplicity it is necessary to know features of landing, change and care for this plant.
Landing of phloxes in the spring
Landing of phloxes should be made to the damp soil without stagnation of water in the spring, otherwise flowers will die. It is better to create for this purpose hillock or to choose the high place. The phloxes growing in shadow blossom not intensively and blossom later, and being constantly in the sun - have pale coloring. Therefore the place for landing should be chosen as optimum that light and moisture was enough, but without surplus.
To the open ground it is better to plant phloxes in April or May, to carry out landing in the evening. Long-term phloxes usually blossom in August-September. In the spring the soil around bushes is mulched, tie up long stalks. Loosening is carried out not deeply as roots of plant are close to surface.
Ways of reproduction of phloxes
It is possible to make multiple copies annual phloxes seeds. For this purpose in March in container with the earth nasevat seeds under film. It is not necessary to trench in seeds. After two weeks after emergence of shoots seedling dive. To carry out jumping one bed better in the second half of May. The distance between landings depends on plant height. For undersized grades it has to be not less than 15 cm. It is possible to seed phloxes in soil at once, without growing up seedling. Do it in May beginning of June. Rules are followed by the same.The second way of reproduction of phloxes in the spring – roots. The bush has to be not younger than 3 years. Stalks shorten half, divide rhizome into parts, cut roots for rejuvenation and land on the constant place. For this purpose it is necessary to make holes of the size, sufficient for rhizomes, to add fertilizer, it is good to spill water and to pomesit phloxes, having powdered with the earth, on depth not less than 5 cm, then to stamp.
In May it is possible to multiply phloxes cherenkovaniye. For this purpose shanks land or in boxes, or at once in soil. It is possible to break out at the flowers which have broken through from under the earth escapes at the basis in the early spring and to put. Such procedure can be done, using no more than a half of bush. Also there are still ways of summer and autumn reproduction of phloxes.
How to feed up phloxes
That phloxes it is bright and abundant blossomed, they need to be provided with good fertilizing. Produce soil fertilizer around bushes mineral and organic fertilizers or compost in the spring. If in the spring and at the beginning of summer there are not enough rains, phloxes systematically water in the morning or in the evening.
It is necessary to cut off and leave bushes periodically on bush to 7 escapes. Sometimes at the wrong leaving the phloxes begin to hurt. Also flowers can suffer from wreckers. In order to avoid transfer of disease to other plants the struck bushes delete completely together with the adjacent earth.