How to cut the faded flowers Iris? Advice from experienced gardeners

Irises very popular and beautiful flowers. The species number is more than 1,000 varieties. The presence of this flower in the garden adds sophistication, as well as can not fail to please your man smell.

Many growers ask questions. How to care for plants? When to trim? How to do it?

This flower - a perennial plant, and his ability to live the next year depending on the care after flowering. Some irises bloom twice a year.

Therefore, the care of these plants is very much needed. The main way is to trim.

Pruning is a very important stage of courting Iris, as their flowers bloom at different times. After the beginning of the withering of the flower need to cut the flower stalks.

Do so only with sharp clippers, so as not to damage the plant and remove a withered part. Cut the bud is better with receptacle, leaving a 2 cm from the bud.

Still closed not mature buds can not be cut. After completion of flowering also need to remove the stem completely, leaving 2 centimeters from the ground.

Itself leaves during flowering irises is not necessary to cut, it slows down the movement of nutrients and the plant may die in the winter. However, yellowed leaves best to remove.

For the perfect care worth checking out a bed two or three times a week.

If you do not carry out pruning after flowering irises, then start on the stem fastened seeds. Unattended, this process leads to the spread of seeds over large areas and the bed turns into a very bad condition planting site.

However, if you want to wait for the seeds, they can be collected and used for planting.

To obtain good seed should leave only one flower on one bush. But do not forget that plants grown from seeds is not quite similar to the mature plants transplanted via tubers.

Trim faded buds performs not only an aesthetic problem (dried flowers spoil the appearance of beds), but the physiological - seed ripening takes away a lot of energy in the plant, and the second time is no longer an iris bloom.

It should also be remembered that the withered flowers can cause an accumulation of bacteria that can cause serious illness and later death of the plant.

Knowing these simple things will help to keep the flower bed clean and tidy, does not want to prevent the spread of colors, as well as maintain healthy and beautiful plants for many years.