Cortaderia - ornamental grass, pampas grass landscaping

The landscaping is very popular grasses. Try to plant ornamental plants such as the cortaderia.

Description

It's long and tall grass with paniculate inflorescences of pink and silver colors (rarely purple). Country of origin - South America. There she is considered a weed, and reaches a height of 2-3 m. Planting can be seedlings in late February and March. In May and June can be planted to a permanent place. She grows (the plant is the aggressor), so you need to limit its growth, embedded in the ground around the plant some metal plates.

This is the background culture, since the leaves have a sharp edge, it is better to plant at a place where go often. It looks nice near water. It is better to put it sporadically to bush clearly visible. You can put in front of the fence. Spikes are rising up, they do not lie. Cut it completely in the spring when the snow melts. New grass begins to appear in April.

Undemanding plant to the soil, but loves the sun and moisture. The plant is considered to be winter-hardy, but in the cold of winter or in combination with frosts and thaws may die, so its harbor spruce branches, agrovoloknom, dry leaves and grass. To do this, you need to prune the plant, leaving 30 cm in height. Tie a rope zamulchirovat layer of peat or compost around the root zone and pour the leaves. Cover covering materials.

For greater certainty of survival plants in the winter, it is best to plant it in a large container or digging for storage (at least in young plants).

How to sow

Take a plastic bowl, put to productive land, making rows of 3 mm deep, pour evenly potassium permanganate pretreated seeds (they are quite small), mixed with sand and sprinkle ground.

Next, moisten the soil with a spray bottle and put it on the window sill, covering package for condensation. A week later (the largest - is 2 weeks) appear friendly shoots. Seedlings can be further sit on containers if you have plans to plant a few bushes or plants to share with friends.

But keep in mind that when breeding seed cortaderia blooms only after 5 years.

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