Aquilegia

Aquilegia, or catchment, belongs to the family of buttercups. The very name suggests that the plant is hygrophilous, preferring partial shade and shadow. The soils of aquilegia are undemanding. They refer to young people, that is, they live about 4-6 years, then disappear. To prevent this from happening, consider allowing them to resume self-sowing. It happens at them without ceremony, it is necessary only not to disturb and mulch under them in autumn soil. However, the catchments are easily perepylyaetsya, but because of the seeds grow at all the plants that you have blossomed. But sometimes plants with a very interesting coloring of flowers are obtained, and it is already very diverse: from pure white, cream, pink to maroon, blue and violet with all sorts of shades.

These large( about 9 cm diameter), often two-colored, flowers have a very long spur( about 5 cm). Single flowers of aquilegia are located along the entire length of erect, slightly branching peduncles. Long-shaded flowers swing on thin but sturdy peduncles, like strange birds, with the slightest fluctuation of air. If you even just walk past them quickly, they will immediately begin to "flutter".To preserve the entire set of colors, these hybrids should be planted in separate groups in different parts of the garden, each grade in its own place.

Blossom as long-spaced and ordinary catchments in May-June, about a month.

The plants have a rooted root system, so they do not tolerate the transplant. Easily multiply by seeds, and therefore the easiest way to reproduce them is seed. Seeds can be sown at home on seedlings in March, you can sow them in early spring directly into the soil, either directly after the ripening of the seeds in July, or in the fall for the winter. Seeds are small, so they are embedded in the soil only 0.5 mm, and it is easier to simply scatter them on the soil, and then this place is rolled or compacted by the board. The best germination of the seeds sown in autumn. In the spring, the seedlings are thinned out or planted in a schoolchild located in the shade to grow under a 10 x 10 cm scheme. At the end of summer, they are transplanted to a place according to the 30 x 30 cm scheme. The seedlings bloom for the second year. But even if you do not do anything at all, just scatter seeds to the place where you want to grow aquilegia, although it will necessarily grow in early spring or late autumn.

The openwork, durable foliage of aquilegia is decorative all summer long. If you do not need seeds, then after flowering, just cut off the tip of the peduncles, leaving the foliage. Aquilegia can not be fed if you planted it on fertile soil. If the soil is poor, then once a season, make 0.5 tbsp.spoonful of any mineral fertilizer that you have, just scattering it around the plant on moist soil.

Grows on slightly acidic and even acidic soils. No care for watersheds is required. The only request from this plant is wet soil. But even in a drought the plant does not die, but only dries the leaves.

There are no pests in these plants, as well as diseases. Well stand in the cut. Cut for the bouquet recommended peduncles, which revealed 2-3 flowers.

Aquilegia can be used for foreground in minceborders or brochures, on flower beds or in separate groups on lawns.