Eremurus
Eremurus has two more names - shiryash and fox tail. There are eremurus from the countries of Central Asia, and therefore heat-loving and under conditions of the Northwest are not frost-hardy enough. Plant height from 50 cm to 3 m.
Eremurus powerful - a real giant, and therefore it needs a lot of space, it looks nice in a separate plantation, and if you plant a whole group, you must provide for planting the distance between plants at least 50-60 cm. It blooms in June, its dense, arrow-shaped inflorescences are collected from small starry flowers of delicate peach color, with a delicate aroma. They gradually open, within 3-4 weeks. In the midst of blooming, its long fluffy inflorescences resemble the tail of a fox, and hence its name is "fox tail".
Elresis' eremurus is also not a dwarf, its height is 2 m, flowers are delicate-pink fragrant. There is a white grade Albus.
Approximately the same size Echmus's Eremurus - with bright pink flowers.
All these eremurus have an inflorescence length of 1 m! If there is no place for such large plants in your garden, then get a relatively low( about 1 m tall) eermus narrow-leaved with a very dense inflorescence of bright, orange-yellow, fragrant flowers, or yellow eremurus with lemon-yellow inflorescences, or Olga's eremurus with palepink flowers and a red-brown central vein( named in honor of the botanist OA Fedchenko).
There is still a white eremurus with cream flowers and a mermorecular eremurus with milky-white inflorescences.
The most winter hardiness is relatively low Eremurus Himalayan and Altaic, as well as the above-mentioned mothflower.
These plants should be planted on sunny, elevated, well drained places, in fertile, moderately moist soil, with the addition of coarse sand or small pebbles. Those places where water stagnates or close to ground water are not suitable for eremurus. Frankly speaking, the climate of the North-West is not the most suitable for them, because when the soil is too moist during prolonged prolonged rains, the kidneys of renewal rot. Therefore, when planting, try to ensure that the root neck is covered with large sand, which will create a microdrain around the kidneys of renewal.
Propagate plants by dividing rhizomes or seeds. Rhizomes are divided and planted in September-October. In zones with a continental climate, this can be done in the spring. The rhizome is a disk the size of a walnut, from which thick, fleshy roots leave. On the rhizome should be at least 2 renal buds. Plant rhizome at a depth of 8-10 cm at the bottom of the landing pit should always pour sand and ash and fill the root neck with small pebbles or coarse sand.
Eremurus do not tolerate acidic soils, so annually, in the spring, make ash around the bushes, at least half a liter jar under the plant. Or water the soil around them with lime milk( 1 glass of lime per 10 liters of water), pouring at least 2-3 liters of solution under the plant. Since at the end of the season the lower part of the rhizome dies off, and a new one grows at the top, the roots of the eremurus get out upward, make sure to add a new soil in autumn, otherwise you will lose them in the first winter. At the same time, the root neck is covered with sand.
At seed breeding, the sowing is done with freshly harvested seeds for the winter in a schoolchild( a place prepared in advance, free from weeds).They have good germination. In the beginning of summer, they are thinned or planted, the superfluous ones are covered for winter, and for the next autumn they are transplanted into place. Flowering seedlings only for 4-5-th year after sowing.
Aboveground part of plants dies after flowering, so it is cut by soil level at once, otherwise in rainy weather dying foliage can cause decay of the root neck.
For the winter make dry shelter, as for roses or clematis. The soil is mulched with peat, the top is put a box covered with a film that does not reach the ground to ensure the airing of the plant. From above put stones or bricks that the wind has not carried this film "roof", covering plants from rains. When there are stable cold, lapnik, on top of the box, is thrown over the box, now to the very ground. In the North-West, this is the main stumbling block - the time of onset of persistent cold weather. Yes, we can in January, for no reason at all, plus 4 degrees or more for 10-15 days!
If you do not come to the site in winter, then try to save these beauties, however, like roses, in the following way. Fill the plants( the tillering site) with necessarily large sand, about a bucket for each plant. And then cover it with lapnik. But it is necessary to do this in the North-West only at the end of October.