Home care after hyacinths peduncle

It is known that charming hyacinths can bring joy to others with their beauty, amazing fragrance only about two weeks. But it is worth considering that the proper and reverent care of the flowers, you can enjoy a long peduncle between the end of April to the first days of June.

Amusing fact is that usually the first to begin to blossom flowers have blue, color purple color, then begin to blossom hyacinth soft pink, white, red and lilac color.

In the last bloom flowers yellow and cream colors.

In many ways, the period of flowering hyacinths may depend on the varietal characteristics and favorable surrounding weather conditions. When warm, wet weather inflorescence continues to grow even during the flowering period begun, increasing the number of new flowers, thereby increasing the flowering period hyacinths.

After critical moment occurs: the plant begins to fade and the process of formation and growth of follicles.

leaflets hyacinth

When the spike finally stopped, hyacinth arrow must always be cut.

It is important to do it before the pods with seeds, because they will take away all the nutrients themselves, and at the same time the bulbs will weaken. Because only large, healthy bulbs beautiful hyacinth inflorescence may appear.

But the foliage of the plants after flowering is better to leave, so the bulbs will be able to receive extra nutrients due to frequent watering and fertilizing. Leafy part of the flowers to dry in the natural process.

But if you want to speed up this process, you can stop watering flowers in June. In late June, almost all the leaves will shrink, then you can start to separate them from the bulbs.

After working in the territory, where growing hyacinths, need to lay mulch.

Saving bulbs

For safety, hyacinth flower bulbs can remain in the ground in one area about 3-4 years. During this time, they are well add to the size and picking up the kids.

And the advent of the fifth year of storage, you can dig up and sit down. But such a method of storage of bulbs is not suitable for delicate varieties of hyacinths, because after over-wintering plants can prevent flowering.

In this case, the bulb should dig, and after carefully sorting and disinfection, send stored in a cool place.