Tired of the winter monochrome, the look invariably rejoices when it sees beautiful spring flowers. That is why gardeners with special love and diligence choose those that bloom as early as possible. If you are also close to such aspirations, you should pay attention to the spring bloom. Its delicate flowers will begin to decorate your garden in April.
Types of Strawberry
There are such varieties of this plant:
- The flower garden is spring. Perennial bulbous, growing to a third of a meter. His flowers are drooping, very fragrant, keep on stems from three weeks to a month.
- The flower garden is summer. He has larger bulbs, the “growth” is up to half a meter, the leaves are greenish-bluish and long - a third of a meter, and sometimes more. Flowers are collected in charming umbrellas, also drooping. By flowering, this variety pleases closer to summer, beginning in late May. A very beautiful plant, but for some reason it is less popular than the spring bloom, perhaps because it blooms later.
- Autumn white flower. Very happy gardeners at the time of universal withering. In addition, pink-colored varieties are found from plants of this flowering period. However, they are much more capricious than their counterparts: they are unstable to cold and do not tolerate moisture at rest, so they will have to be covered during heavy autumn rains. Therefore, they did not win much popularity among Russian flower growers.
Separately, you can highlight Gravetye Giant - a variety bred artificially by English breeders. Its representatives are stretched to 60 centimeters, and each flower petal is decorated with a greenish-lemon stain.
Bulb Selection
If you decide to refresh your flower garden and plant a flower garden, planting and care will be much easier if you take the right approach to buying bulbs. To the touch, they should be weighty and dense, not creep under the fingers. Donets - whole; if there are slight scratches on the bulb, it’s not scary, if only they are dry and not moldy. Germination of a stalk or roots is noticed - it is necessary to plant immediately; if this is not part of your plans - choose another instance. Dried bulbs will not give shoots. If you need to store them, be sure to pour them with sawdust or packaging in perforated plastic.
You should not buy a flowering spring bloom for planting - it takes root poorly, the flowers fall, and the leaves wither, die, the bulb weakens very much, and the next flowering will be no earlier than in a year. Better be patient and grow it from scratch.
Landing rules
These small flowers are planted in the same way as other bulbs. The soil is loosening; the lowering depth is about three onion diameters (naturally, nobody measures the depth to a millimeter). If the earth is clayey, it is necessary to interfere in it with coarse river sand (fine gravel can be). It is necessary to plant spring bloom in moist places, dry soils will destroy it. Normal soil nutrition is also desirable. If you are not lucky in this regard, you will have to enrich the land by making compost. In case of soil acidification, the excess must be neutralized with lime. The place is chosen shady, but with sufficient diffused or evening lighting. The time allotted for planting bulbs is from July to September. If the autumn turned out to be warm, it can last until November. Transplants are required every five to seven years.
Gardener Care Tasks
These beautiful spring flowers require attention only during the growing season. When they grow intensively, you will have to feed them a liquid inorganic with a high content of phosphorus and potassium. Thanks to such actions, you will provide more magnificent flowering. In addition, these top dressings will help the plant to form strong bulbs that can overwinter without harming themselves. It will be necessary to take care of the white flower in the case of a dry spring - regular watering will help him maintain an aesthetic appearance. However, even in the absence of watering, the spring bloom will survive, it is drought tolerant. Only the bushes will be very stunted, and the flowering will be weak (or completely absent). In June, when the plant fades, you can completely forget about it - it itself will accumulate "winter reserves", without requiring outside attention.
Propagation of the flower garden
By mid-late July, these small flowers enter a state of dormancy. Now it is time to take care of increasing their plantation. During the tumultuous life before hibernation, each plant manages to form a pair of daughter bulbs. If you want to have more, the maternal spring bloom initially sits very finely, near the surface. Then his bulb will remain small, but it forms a lot of children. Planting material is scooped up extremely carefully so as not to damage the bulbous flakes, it is slightly dried to prevent the formation of rot. If nevertheless it was not possible to avoid damage, they should be sprinkled with ash.
The second variant of reproduction is by seeds. They must be used immediately after collection. The maximum shelf life is until the fall. After germination comes to naught. It is better to sow in boxes or pots: seedlings are so small that they are easily lost in the flowerbed. Watering and weeding is all that is needed for their survival. Such seedlings will bloom at best in the sixth year of life, so most gardeners prefer bulb propagation.
Designer use
If you like variety, and besides, you have enough space in your possession to experiment with planting flowers, the flower garden will organically fit into almost any composition that you invented. Especially successful among gardeners is the planting of rows of autumn, summer and autumn (for those who are not afraid of difficulties) varieties. Then flowering is provided to you throughout the season. They are good in group with other plants of early flowering, framed by tall flowers and shrubs, in the design of various reservoirs - both natural and artificial. They will not be superfluous in rabatki and very beautiful around altanoks, entwined with flowering ivies.