7 reasons why the irises in your garden to bloom. Complete guide to the grower

Your flower bed there was a place for elegant irises, and they did not want to please the flowering? Let's understand the reasons for the failure. Fix them, you can expect a sumptuous blooms. Nothing complicated - you just know the "addiction" of the plant. Go!

1. The place is not suitable for iris

Shady and swampy areas - the place where irises never bloom magnificently. The plant likes to bask under the sun! Rhizomes and bulbs do not tolerate stagnant moisture starting to rot. So if in a flowerbed in spring water accumulates, irises should be transplanted or "raise" the soil.

2. Improper planting bulbs

When terminating bulbs irises should follow the rule of "golden mean". The bulb should be one-third to peek out of the ground to root it was not on the surface. If your plants sit too deep - transplant them in spring or autumn. Since the procedure will take less traumatic. At high landing just sprinkle their fertile land and make sure that the ground level is not lowered due to rainfall or spring snowmelt.

3. Iris closely

Although irises - plants for group planting, do not put them too close to each other. They will disturb the neighbors, share the nutrients from the soil and pritenyat each other (and it hurts bloom - remember more from paragraph 1).

The optimal value intervals:

between undersized - 30 cm;

between tall - 40-50 cm.

4. You are too frequent watering or fertilize

Abundant watering irises (as the soil drying) is important only until the beginning of flowering. Then the plant is sufficient moisture coming from natural rainfall or Stored inside juicy rhizomes or bulbs. Out of the abundance of water roots, and then the bulbs rot. The plant throws all his strength to survive, rather than flowering. Abundant feeding make toffee "fatten", rather than to form buds.

Feed the spring 1 times their potassium nitrate (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water). From folk remedies excellent results gives a "green manure" - tincture of nettles.

5. unsuitable soil

Irises do not grow well in acidic soils. Therefore, the wire spring liming beds. I use wood ash (a glass on the bush).

6. irises freeze slightly

Iris - not very hardy plant. Winter freeze slightly the bulb or rhizome, and in the spring - the kidneys. Because of this shrub can be lost. BTo avoid scourge protect irises with autumn when the temperature drops to 5 ° C, cut leaves and sprinkle in winter or humus (thickness - 20 cm). With the first spring warmth of the mulch can be removed, and when the cold end - you need to remove it completely.

7. rhizome rot

If the plant is not only flourishing, but the dying leaves, possible causes rotting of the bulbs or rhizomes. Dig up the plant and inspect. The rhizome can be saved by cutting off the affected part, and treating Dry the cut fungicide.