3 reasons to plant echinacea in 2019
How did many beautiful color options for a bed! Each of the candidates is charming in its own way. Today you will meet with a cute little Echinacea - a simple but exquisite "daisies" for the garden. There are at least 5 reasons for deciding to stop the election on a purple plant.
Echinacea (Rudbeckia) purple - a universal flower
Bush Echinacea - a powerful and vigorous plant height of about 1-1.5 m, bringing adverse conditions without difficulty. Within reasonable limits, of course. Stems and leaves can not boast of special ornamental species, but rather serve as a background for the main pearl of Echinacea - special flower that can not be confused with others.
In addition to the traditional purple color, petals high-quality Echinacea can boast white, red, pink coloring.
Flower Echinacea - daisy large diameter of about 7 cm. It consists of two parts that complement each other. Long petals-tabs, painted in primary colors, a little (and sometimes not gently) bend down to the ground. Middle, consists of tubular petals brown with bronze or reddish tinge.
Here's a close-up photo with my site:
Echinacea - a perennial plant
Echinacea well winters in the open ground without additional shelters. There are three exceptions to the rule: first-year plants, severe frosts in the region and the risk of snowless winters in combination with low temperatures. In such cases, the best zamulchirovat cropped plant, and to be sure, you can hide agrovoloknom or spruce branches.
Echinacea make a garden beautiful
How can I use echinacea in landscape design? Here, just for instance, variants:
- In the national flower bed in the middle, or background. Thanks to neutral, although noticeable coloring petals plant is successfully combined with the majority of the inhabitants of the flower beds.
- Individual bushes in the garden, for example, along paths, walls or buildings near the bushes.
- It looks wonderful echinacea, planted in front of conifers. For example, juniper bush.
Make sure that Echinacea is planted in the field or in the light penumbra. So the plant will show its decorative properties as much as possible!
Nekapriznaya beauty
Echinacea - beautiful flowering plant without further ado. Just follow the 3 tips:
- Lime soil before planting, if the land is acidic.
- Echinacea abundantly watered in the evening, if 2-3 days there was no precipitation.
- Starting from the second year of life, it is recommended to fertilize the flower ash and compost. But I'm doing differently: before planting echinacea land has already been composted, so the next few years does not need to increase fertility. I use complex mineral fertilizers in liquid form for flowering plants: garden, indoor - no difference. Important to potassium and phosphorus in the composition was more than nitrogen.
The measures will improve the appearance of the flower will bloom longer, more abundant and more vivid. I hope you enjoy the result! With good care Echinacea purpurea flowers from early July to late September.