The heather belongs to plants which please us up to approach of winter. Filigree flowers of bright berry tones perfectly supplement picture of autumn landscape. Dwarfish bush of heather - popular ornamental plant for winter garden and balcony. The heather is quite undemanding if to follow some basic rules.
Generally for sale two types of heather are offered. It is Kallun's heather or summer heather, and better known Erica. The last is also known as winter or snow heather because its main period of blossoming - from December to April while the summer heather blossoms from August to November. However both views are identical in the requirements to leaving and location therefore the councils provided here are applicable both for summer, and for winter plants.
In its current form the heather exists since the beginning of the last Ice Age. It is wood, evergreen dwarfish bush and as the blossoming plant - important source of food for bees at the end of summer. Heather honey quite spicy is also appreciated by gourmets.
Landing and care for heather
Small bushes of heather which in the wild nature can grow to one meter in height quite strong and are suitable both for use in garden, and on the balcony in tub. First of all, the correct location and the suitable soil is important: heather herbs best of all blossom in the solar place. Even in half-shade they feel rather comfortably, but should not be too dark. Claims to the soil are low too: the heather loves the subacidic friable, well humidified soil. Too heavy earth can be diluted with the marsh soil or sand.YoYoYoYo
The soil always has to be well humidified, but not wet: the heather is sensitive to overwetting. Drying up of the lower part of plant will be the warning signal, in this case. Therefore if you see that the plant began to dry up, you do not hurry to water it, perhaps, the soil, on the contrary, too damp.
In principle, the heather can be put all the year round, but landing in the spring or in the fall during the period from September to November will be especially successful. To the open ground separate plants it is necessary to land at distance 20 cm from each other. It is necessary to fertilize only two once a year, in the spring and in the fall. As fertilizers, first of all, organic approach.
That the heather long looked beautiful and well-groomed, bushes should be cut off after blossoming – in the fall or in the early spring. Thus, plants long remain blossoming. Cutting is identical at both types: faded inflorescences at the same time are just cut off by garden scissors. The main thing, do not cut off to the earth, under the place of cut the branch has to have foliage still. So from below there will be escapes which after drying will be able to form new flowers.
The heather perfectly looks not only in garden and on the balcony, but also is attractive element for decoration of premises.
In bouquet the heather is especially harmoniously combined with yellow and orange colors.