More and more gardeners prefer to equip and decorate the sites. Someone builds the Alpine hills, builds rock-garden, forms multilevel beds or lands along paths.
Description
Having planted beautiful flowers, gardeners sometimes face leaving problems. But there are not whimsical and very colourful grassy perennials which are pleasing to the eye not only during blossoming, but also during growth, forming juicy, green lawns. And to belong to some of such types the perennial "Thrift".
Flower "Thrift" - perennial plant of family bichromatic, from order of pink family. The low plant, root does not go to depth and beautiful inflorescences sockets of various color. There is a lot of grades at "Thrift", however at summer residents such look as enjoys bigger popularity:
- Alpine;
- turfy;
- thrift ballerina;
- Velvich;
- seaside;
- pseudo-thrift or beautiful thrift.
The soil and illumination of the site different, but for this look it is possible to pick up the place. Important there is a lot of sun.
Features of landing of perennial
It is possible to grow up thrift from seeds or to separate adult plant bushes.
At cultivation from seeds, there is house method (cultivation of seedling of the house and then change to the open ground) and at once to the soil.
If the house method, then seeds land in the spring in boxes not deeply to the earth, and at emergence of sprouts are covered with film and plant the grown-up seedling in garden in the spring (the beginning of May).
If to plant seeds to the soil at once, then it is better to make it since fall or at the very beginning of spring. Before landing to keep in cold, then in water. The soil to loosen and water carefully.
At reproduction by method of division of adult bushes, it is better to take plants 3 years are more senior. To separate accurately into parts, keeping root system. For creation of beautiful carpet to put sprouts closely to each other, approximately in 15-20 centimeters. Before landing the earth it is necessary to feed up, bring humus for few weeks before disembarkation. To put not deeply and the soil top around plant can be powdered with gravel or coarse decorative sand.
Care for grassy perennial
Perennial plants can grow on the same place several years. Care for them not difficult. Includes – preparation of the place (fertilizing), watering, loosening and cleaning of dry leaves and peduncles, preparation for winter.
Fertilizing moderate - before landing, blossoming, by preparation for winter.
At once to remove zavyadshy peduncles to prolong the blossoming period.
Watering - plant does not love a lot of moisture, abundant watering only in very hot days, it is better scattered. Exception – during landing time of seeds in soil or planting of seedling, it is necessary to water it is abundant, but not with surplus. The drainage which is not allowing stagnation of water at roots is important.
The thrift turfy has to take cover for the winter fir twigs or branches. If the winter low-snow, then is better to cover all types of thrift with fallen leaves.
Periodically the plant needs to be updated, replaced with young bushes. Then "Thrift" will be long pleasing to the eye.
Note: plants of thrift are resistant to wreckers and diseases.