Among the most beautiful flowers that can be grown on your site, a surprising emperor grouse occupies a separate place . Planting and care of this plant is quite simple, but require some accuracy in the timing of digging bulbs. If all cultivation procedures are carried out on time, there should not be any problems with young hazel grouse.
Planting royal flowers
Before placing this plant on its site, you need to choose the optimal method for how to grow hazel grouse. Planting and care will depend on whether the seed method is used or the usual vegetative one. The first option is suitable for plant propagation on an industrial scale. It allows you to get a large amount of planting material, but the first flowering will have to wait up to 7 years. Therefore, usually amateur gardeners use the second method - reproduction by bulbs and children. Each year, each such spine is divided into two viable parts. Much less often, hazel grouse give tiny children who are also suitable for self-landing.
There are several mandatory rules that allow you to get a fluffy hazel grouse. Planting and care (the photo illustrates the flowering period) should always take into account the local climate and not violate the requirements for the proper cultivation of such plants. Before planting in the ground, the bulbs do not need to be dried, as is done with tulips and lilies. It will be ideal to immediately bury all new planting material, including small children.
A place for a flower is chosen warm, located in partial shade, not subject to the influence of drafts. The soil will need fertile and quite well loosened. The royal hazel grouse, whose planting usually falls at the very beginning of autumn, does not tolerate overmoistening of the soil. Therefore, experienced gardeners recommend equipping flower beds with this plant with good drainage. For the device of such a drainage, you can use simple river sand mixed with high-quality, but fresh humus. These components allow you to "lighten" the soil and feed the young hazel grouse.
Planting and care begin with the digging of bulbs in the middle-end of June, when the trunk of the plant begins to dry out and slope to the ground. You need to wait 1-2 weeks and immediately remove the planting material until the roots have rotted. It is not necessary to track or stratify the bulbs - you can immediately bury them in new holes. If grouse plans to buy in the store, it is better to do this at the end of August and immediately drop the material into the ground. The distance between the planting pits should be about 30 cm, and the maximum depth is calculated from the size of the bulbs. Large specimens require 20-25 cm, medium - 13-20 cm, and small - 6-12 cm.
The imperial hazel grouse, planting and care of which comes down to choosing a place and timely watering, is a rather frost-resistant plant. However, if winters are not snowy, it is worth sheltering the flower bed with spruce or pine paws. The plant can easily tolerate spring frosts to -6 ° C. The soil needs to be loosened occasionally and shallow, to make mineral fertilizers, but with watering you need to be careful. Since the roots of the bulbs can quickly rot, you need to gently moisten the earth: moderately, but regularly. With proper care, hazel grouse can actively grow and bloom in one place for 2-3 years, after which they will need to be dug up and transferred to a new site.