Bulbous - modern ways of planting

How, you have not invited bulbs to your garden? Or maybe you just do not know some secrets of their use? If the word "lasagna" means only "a dish of Italian cuisine" for you, and the bulbs scattered around the flower garden in the creative mess do seem at least something strange, then it's time to turn to the experience of European designers and learn modern ways of planting bulbous

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Ribbons and brooks are another well-known method of European parks in the garden. It is better to limit yourself to a brook of densely planted Lukovichi

Feel like an Italian cook and cook “onions” from onions instead of toppings and soil instead of layers of dough. When the time comes for planting bulbs (usually from the third decade of September to mid-October), several types of bulbs are selected that bloom in sequence, and a rather large (30 or more cm in diameter, about 30-40 cm tall) pot.

A drainage layer is poured to the bottom, then a soil layer about 10 cm thick, the most late blooming bulbs (usually they are the largest - hyacinths, tulips, onions, lilies) are laid on it, then a soil layer about 2-5 cm thick above the top bulbs that have already been planted, then the second layer of bulbs (medium flowering time - tulips, daffodils), the soil layer and finally the third layer of bulbs (the so-called primroses - snowdrops, blueberries, crocuses); on top is a layer of soil. Bulbs when planting are placed at a distance of 1,5-2 diameters. Landing shed. A pot dug in the garden (or placed in a frost-free room) is left alone until spring.

Disassembled bulbs are best planted on the 1-2 season in the garden, since in the pot the feeding area is small, and they are unlikely to be able to give a lush and plentiful flowering for the next year. Soil in the pot needs an annual replacement.

The method of lasagna, the Europeans are successfully used and directly in the garden in order to save space. "Lasagna" has small spots in the flower garden, so that the neighboring perennials have the opportunity to hide the "patty" after the bulbs have faded. The essence of the method remains the same, but the depth can be somewhat reduced, because the bulbs tend to go deep into the soil.

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Annual digging can be omitted (if bulbs that are not requiring annual digging or are reconciled with its absence are used - Darwin's tulips hybrids. Triumph, Simple early, Simple late, botanical; small onion, as well as daffodils and bows), but once every 3-4 years do necessary. The most popular way of planting bulbs in the garden is erratic "scattering" with subsequent planting of bulbs among existing plantings of perennials, and preference is given to botanical species and sustainable varieties, rather than sophisticated and capricious novelties.

For the trendy natural garden, bulb pastel tones are the most suitable.

Miniature crocuses, scallops are better to be scattered closer to the edge of the flower garden, medium-sized tulips, daffodils, camassia in the middle, and tall lilies, bows, eremurus, crocosmia in the middle or in the background. Such plantings do not imply an annual excavation. After 2-3 years, bulb planting will look even more organic and bright.

Perhaps the most colorful and diverse among the bulbs are tulips. Tulips with a calm transition of color ('Sweetheart') are perfectly combined with bulbous similar tones, while bright and spectacular ('Prinses Irene'), as a rule, are self-sufficient, and the proximity to other bulbs will deprive them of a share of charm.

Fimbriated tulips (wine-red 'Burgundy Lace'), like other bulbous ones with an unusual flower shape, are good as an accent, then their companions should be less pretentious and have a nuanced or contrasting color. If the fringe is marked with a different color ('Cummins'), then combinations with plants whose flowers are colored in the tone of the rim will be beneficial.

The same applies to other two-colored tulips ('Burning Heart' with red smears on a creamy background, raspberry-white 'Estella Rijnveld', white-violet 'Zurel', cherry-white 'Columbus').

The so-called "blue" tulips ('Lilac Perfection') are good in the surroundings of muscari, hyacinths, onions of blue-lilac scale, and the interspaces of yellow-flowered neighbors are emphasized by the depth of celestial shades. Green tulips ('Little Princess') are very peculiar, among bright neighbors can get lost, especially appropriate in white flower gardens, natural gardens, as well as in the neighborhood of tulips, whose petals are colored not only in green, but also pinkish color ('China Town' ), lemon ('Green Jay'), crimson.

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Terry tulips (yellow-creamy 'Montreux', soft pink 'Angelique') are good because their flowering period is long, and the spot of color that they create, is voluminous and large. Multiflorous tulips (terry 'Charming Beauty', simple late 'Wonder Club' and 'FlamingClub', t. Preston 'Fusilier', 'Unicum') have the same advantages, but not due to the number of petals, but the number of flowers from one bulb.

And, if terry tulips can not always be resistant to bad weather, the multiflorous simple are usually more enduring.

Returning to landing methods, it is worth saying that landing onion modules is no less popular, for example, among a paved area. However, as they wither, they lose their attractiveness and need to be replaced, as a rule, with bright summers.

Often in photographs from Europe you can admire the spots of daffodils on the lawn, naturalized and growing naturally. However, with such a planting, mowing the lawn becomes difficult, because the foliage of daffodils should completely dry out. In this case, early flowering species of daffodils, botanical tulips ('Lady Jane', T. Turkestan, T. Kolpakovsky, T. Rock 'Lilac Wonder', T. Tarda, especially with narrow leaves - T. L., T. Clusius, can become an alternative. 'Tubergen's Gem') or small onion whose leaves fade earlier and are less sensitive to cutting.

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Planting bulbs - Photo

1. Luxurious candles of hyacinths and elegant glasses of tulips in pink and purple, diluted with snow-white daffodils - a joyful and spring "robe" of the garden

As a result of such planting during the flowering period, the container looks like a vase with a lush bouquet of flowers decorating the garden for two months. Such a container needs annual care in terms of digging and sorting bulbs - because the density of planting is high, and many types of bulbs give an annual baby.

2. excellent partners of bulbs in the container - compact spring-flowering biennials, the neighborhood of perennials is difficult due to the annual bulb transplant and soil replacement

3. An effective duet of tulips and crocuses is possible if medium and late flowering varieties of crocuses and early-flowering tulips (Greig, Kaufman, Foster, etc.) are used.

4. Mix pastel hyacinth and muscari with “barrels” of sky-blue color, add sunny accents in the form of primrose, viola, daisies - a wonderful carpet made of onion is ready!

5. For naturalization in the Garden are suitable small-bellied, as well as narcissus (cyclamenoid, zhonkilli, tacetovid), species tulips (eg Sprenger, Altai, T. Bibershtein)

6. Perennials with a lush above-ground part (letter, geranium, astilba, mountaineer), as well as a sheared low curb, if bulbs are planted with medium-sized spots (0,3-0,5 m in diameter) will be able to hide the bulbs from leaving the flower garden ...

7. ... or scattered in free order, it is better to avoid planting bulbs in the foreground, since it will be more difficult to mask them here, styloid phlox, periwinkle, geyhera, thyme, undersized stonecrops ('Virichic'), lilac ('Nightrider' ), creamy white ('Greenstar').

8. Landing on the lawn is difficult for bulbous: their leaves should be chopped off, and the lawn needs to be mowed. Less painful to remove leaves react small-bellied and daffodils

9. Cold-growing cereals (fescue amethyst, blue sesleria) form a duet with onion, and heat-growing (sporobol, molony) "wake up" at the time of bulbous outflow from the flower garden

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