Tulips usually can be given to women for holiday on March 8. Just as narcissuses, hyacinths and snowdrops, zt still call flowers ""primroses"". Many summer residents plant at themselves in beds these bright and unpretentious plants. Tulips belong to family of lily family. They can be grown up in flower beds or winter gardens. Some amateur flower growers grow up them and at home, in flowerpots, and at the correct distillation the tulips blossom directly for New year.
1. But for receiving their beautiful garden tulips it is necessary to grow up correctly and to transplant correctly. Tulips love light, not windy places. Fertile subacidic or neutral soil will be suitable for their cultivation. Most of all tulips are afraid of overwetting. Transplant tulips of times in 2-3 years.
2. Wait for blossom fading of tulips and yellowing of their leaves. Leaves have to turn yellow on one third. Dig out bulbs of tulips, sort them, wash out in water. Decompose for drying in heat, the aired room. You store bulbs of tulips at temperature of 18-20 degrees.
3. Dry them within 3-4 weeks. On bulbs the sunlight should not get, and indoor temperature should not exceed 34 degrees not to spoil flower kidney.
4. Prepare in garden bed or bed for rassazhivaniye of tulips. It is necessary to transplant tulips not earlier than September 10, but not later than October 10, that is in 1.5-2 months prior to freezing of the soil.
5. Plant bulbs of tulips in the prepared bed on depth exceeding height of bulbs by 3-4 times. The distance between bulbs has to be 5-10 cm.
6. By the way, flowers of tulips reckon infected with pestrolepestnost virus with longitudinal strokes or strips. Experienced flower growers of bulb of such tulips destroy.
7. Florists advise not to cut off flowers of tulips from stalks, to dig out them together with bulbs, to wash out and put in vases. So they blossom longer. And after blossoming of bulb it is also possible to dry and again to transplant.