Lupines: beautiful garden flowers. Features of cultivation

If you want to diversify your garden with beautiful flowers, you will certainly think about the lupins. Colored cones, striving upwards, unpretentious in the care and will be for a long time to please the hosts friendly flowering.

Caring for lupine is not difficult, but beneficial to the flower looks like a garden, and in the garden, under the windows and porch, happily meeting included massive stems with lots of flowers.

planting lupine

Planting lupine should start with seedlings. Seeds are sown in a box with peat mixture in the first half of March.

To lupine ascended together, it is necessary to cover the soil moist gauze and to wet her from time to time. Usually, the seedlings are shown on the surface after 1-2 weeks.

The landing of lupine in the ground produced after a few true leaves appear.

Despite the fact that lupine looks quite gentle and non-viable, with a thin stem, gardeners do not recommend to delay Bedding - root system of plants is growing rapidly and prolonged transplant may be inadvertently damaged.

Planted the seeds of lupine can be in the open ground, but it is done in April, when the warm weather.

Seeds deepen 2 cm. Lupins grow best in sandy loam or loamy soil on the site must get a sufficient amount of light.

care of plants

Caring for lupine is very simple. When planting perennials is important to carefully follow the ground, especially in the first year. It is cultivated and remove weeds.

Adult bush is only necessary to spud, as the lupine often exposed root system. It should always be covered with soil, otherwise the plant will die.

Water the plant abundantly necessary only in the spring, when there is an active stem growth, and it is gaining strength. During the summer, moderate watering enough.

The second year of a long-term lupine can be fed. Used multicomponent fertilizer does not contain nitrogen.

Most used feeding - calcium chloride and superphosphate. If the plant is well tolerated fertilizer, it is repeated and the following spring.

Pest control - an essential element of care for lupine. Where you can live aphids, weevils, fly germ.

All insects successfully eliminated insecticide is not detrimental to the plant.

As for diseases, the lupine is subject to:

· Mosaic;

· Rot;

· Fusarium wilt;

· Phomopsis;

· Spot.

From most diseases can be eliminated with proper planting and care of plants.

Collect seeds from the lupine should be done with the full drying the bean when it will crack itself. It takes place in October.

After flowering perennials and collect seeds sprinkle the ground in the area of ​​the root and the tip of the harbor with sawdust, so that the plant is not frozen in the winter.

Planted annual and perennial lupine is not difficult, because undemanding plant quickly assimilated into the ground and brings excellent large inflorescences of various colors. Combined cone lupine possible with other plants, creating a unique garden landscape.