How to make a garden of irises masterpieces: parsing predilections plants 🌸

Iris flower silhouettes vaguely reminiscent of the intricate orchid

Have you noticed that often growers are irises little... contemptuously? "Why organize dances with a tambourine around the flower that grows well without care and bloom every year." Directing his philosophical thoughts toward irrelevance vytantsovyvaniya before the iris, summer resident loses more. A lot of things!

bearded Iris - a wonderful example of how breeders were able to bring miniature varieties, at the same time to cheer maintaining important features of the original material: simplicity and hardiness.

What you will agree, for the Russian decorative garden it is very important. Given the vagaries of the weather with a range of temperatures in the plus side and the minus from year to year and from year to year. In short, the iris does not have to cover for the winter, and nothing will happen to him. Of course, if you looked out the window, you do not see the tundra, and you did not welcome the polar bear, gracefully waving his paw.

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It's about frost.

Iris can be called divine flower. The ancient Greeks named the plant in honor of their goddess Iris, which descends from heaven in the mortal world over the rainbow. Iris and translates as "rainbow" Later botanists decided not to touch anything in the names. And rightly so!

And now for the notorious unpretentiousness. Lazy gardeners dig into the word, like a hungry tick in June sacrifice. With the hope of believing that there are decorative flowers with a beautiful bloom, which is not necessary to weed out, watered, fed, and they will still run amok, like nettles behind the fence.

No, my dear, this will not work) Of course, because of its unpretentiousness iris not will die due to lack of care and is able to withstand any humiliating indifference. But over time, the bearded iris bloom is getting worse and worse. But getting from the gardener a little care, a year-on-year irises give magnificent, bright and relatively long flowering in June and July. Decorative and not seedy.

That's about the "little" I want to tell you more. Try it! I'm sure will please both you and your bearded goddess Iris flowers :)

irises fans create whole gardens of this plant. They are called iridariyami. Doubt that for such a beauty no one cares.

The main rule - avoid swamps

Iris, being exemplary rhizomatous plant that can grow with wet feet. Standing water in the ground - a sure way to decay, which will destroy the handsome bearded. Even if the problem is not critical, in such conditions the plant will expend energy to maintain health, losing in bloom.

CouncilIf you have a heavy soil before planting in the bottom of the pit pour a large river sand. He will play the role of drainage: water will go about their business below, leaving the rootstock security

Avoid the risk of a snap. It is not necessary to plant irises where rain and melting snow recruited pools. Therefore, the lowlands area immediately expunged from the list of potential sites for planting. Smooth surface, and even better slope or hill - that's where the iris will feel safe and will demonstrate its ability to flower in full!

Add a pinch of sunlight

**In Russia, the iris is called iris in people, and in neighboring Ukraine - Pivnik, I mean cock**

Irises are very fond of light and it's a fact. The more sunlight gets the plant, the grander it blooms. The situation changes dramatically as the shadow: the shadow of a rickety fence iris will produce 2-3 zachuhannoy flower. Or even ~~cry~~ It refuses to do so.

Therefore, to the irises not fall into depression, plant them in open areas. High - light shade or diffused light. By the way, the sun flower with a bizarre form begins to play, it seems, all the shades of the rainbow, in whose honor it was named Aristotle compatriots.

Brief watering

Some researchers claim that the iris scent relieves stress and fatigue. But it is not exactly

I do not want at length on this subject. Even my husband, it is clear that the plants should be watered. Because without water plants suffer, and then - wither. Therefore, in the heat with no rain wet the flowerbed. And even after the iris ottsvol.

Update irises: a rare but important procedure

In good conditions islet irises spreading with enviable speed. As a result, the bushes can crawl beyond the boundaries permitted by florist. And on the other hand, a nutrient soil sooner or later begins to miss. She comes to the rescue - the transplantation, which will put all into place and bring order in a personal iridarii.

The best interval between updates of irises - from 3 to 5 years

Update procedure is best done 2-3 weeks after completion of flowering. Dig, divide the rhizome (as they are connected to thin webs), move, cut 1/3 poryshek leaves, and plant again. And the remnants can be shared with a neighbor.

And now about the diet of irises

Even on the most fertile soil irises rapidly pulled out of the soil nutrients. Therefore, for an abundant flowering is necessary to make a dressing. Here is a list of the ideal:

springWhen the iris proklyunetsya from the ground, treat him immediately all the elements of NPK in equal amounts. Best Invention garden agrochemical - Universal NPK.
That seemed buds irises. It's time to give potassium and phosphorus, for example, superphosphate and potassium sulfate.
After flowering - same. After all, life does not stop flower. Rhizomes continue to gain strength.

The most important feeding - the first spring. But the second and third do iridariya exuberant flowering. But please, do not fertilize with manure bearded not tolerate it in any form.