On flowerbeds, alpine hills and rock gardens, one can find a creeping evergreen herbaceous plant with a shade or an airstrike, as it is also called. She refers to the cabbage family. Let's find out more about the bright, beautiful flower of the Oreta - growing out of seeds, when planting and how to care for it.
Aubrieta - growing out of seeds at home
In the people this flower is sometimes called a windbag. His Latin name he received in honor of the artist-florist from France Claude Aubry. A bright blooming carpet of auras will become a horizontal or vertical ornament of any garden in the spring, and its foliage is not damaged in winter even in severe frosts. If the plant at the end of flowering cut off all the shoots, then by autumn it can bloom again. Many flower growers will be interested to learn how to grow a seed from a seed.
Propagation of this flower can be both seedling method, and sowing seeds in the ground. However, growing from seeds in the open field often leads to the degeneration of varieties, so they cultivate the obrite from seedlings, especially since care of it is quite simple. You can buy seeds of this plant in a flower shop, but it will bloom, unlike grown on the street, this year already.
When to plant a plant for seedlings?
Terms for sowing seeds Seedlings for seedlings depend on the area where it will be grown. For regions with a temperate climate, about 70-75 days before the onset of heat (at the end of February), the seeds of this plant can be planted at home. The seedlings grown in this way will have to be planted in the garden in April, and it will begin to blossom in early summer, in June.
How to plant obrityu seeds?
As practice shows, planting seedlings with seedlings on seedlings is best done in special peat tablets or cups. Some gardeners prefer growing obrites in vermiculite , which contributes to the rapid germination of seeds. In each container with a moistened substrate, no more than 2-3 seeds should be planted. Top with fine sand with a thickness of no more than 5 mm and cover with glass or light-transmitting film. After the emergence of seedlings, the transparent coating will need to be removed.
How many days does the shroud appear?
Seeds of this flower, seeded houses for seedlings, do not grow very quickly. Often shoots appear after 14-21 days after they were placed in the soil. The temperature in the room, where the containers with crops are kept, should be maintained within 18-20 ° C. As soon as the threat of recurrent frosts passes, the plants can be planted on the street and continue to care for these beautiful flowers.
Aubrieta - sprouting seedling
Not many gardeners know how to dive a shade. And meanwhile, this plant very much does not like transplantation and does not get well after them. Therefore, experienced flower growers recommend spreading seeds during sowing so rarely that they do not need to be dived. In addition, for growing seedlings it is necessary to use separate tanks, from which grown seedlings by transshipment can be gently planted on the bed.
How to plant a seed with a seed in the ground?
If you want to know everything about the surprisingly beautiful flower of the shade, how the seed grows when planted, then remember that in the open soil the planting material must be planted either in spring, in May, or in autumn, in October. Before you start growing, the land needs to be prepared. The place under it should be sunny or slightly shaded. Especially beautiful is the look of the obrite planted along the edge of the flower bed or on the alpine hill.
The plant does not like heavy clay soils. The earth should have an alkaline reaction, be nutritious and easy. The flower can perfectly feel on sandy loam and even stony soil. Planting obrites and care for it in the open field consists of the following stages:
- clear the site of weeds;
- digging the soil to a depth of 10-15 cm;
- we introduce wood chalk, lime or ash;
- moisten the selected area;
- We spread the seeds;
- sprinkled with sand;
- water the crops as they dry out.
Planted in spring in the ground, the seeds will germinate in about 20 days, and those that you plant in the fall will only spring next spring. After the seedlings of the obrite grow, the soil beneath them must be regularly cleaned of weeds, loosened and watered. Two or three times during the season, the ground under the flowers can be mulched with sand. Adult plants need fertilizer, so before flowering, and also after it, feed the obrite with any complex fertilizer that does not contain nitrogen, which causes excessive growth of green mass.