Garden and indoor bulbous flowers

Bulbous plants are the most popular representatives of the flower world. They are valued for their simplicity, bright colors, endurance in cold climates, as well as the ability to form unique flower gardens with a combination of different types. In this article we will look at the most popular types of primroses, take a look at their photos with the names and descriptions, and also study the correct ways to grow them.

Features of the cultivation of bulbous

Bulb flowers are recommended to be planted immediately after the purchase of bulbs. Of course, you can leave them for a while, keeping them in a cool dry place, but it is better to plant onions until they start to grow and become soft.

Such bulbous perennials like crocuses, daffodils, snowdrops, winter well in open ground. Gladiolus and Crocosmia are considered low-tolerant plants and need to be dug out for the winter from the garden. The bulbs of these flowers are dug in late autumn and stored in a cool dry place until spring. Some bulbous can winter on the street, provided that they cover for the winter. For shelter you can use straw, peat, orlik leaves, crushed bark, fallen leaves. The thickness of the covering layer should be 8 cm.

Shelter material must be breathable. Cover the flowers when the first frost. Mulching allows you to protect the soil not only from freezing, but also from the premature germination of onion plants during periods of winter warming. Peel off the mulch when the threat of the last cold snaps passes.

For all bulbous land should be well drained. If the ground is heavy, then gravel or sand can be added to it. If such flowers are grown at home in containers, then good drainage is also needed. There must be drainage holes in pots or containers.

Bulbs are planted in holes with a diameter of 2 times its size. But the depth of the hole depends on the planted plant. Also, when landing, you need to pay attention to the soil. If the ground is sandy, then the bulbs plant a little deeper, and if the ground is heavy, it is slightly higher. The bulbs of flowers such as tulips, hyacinths, daffodils are large, and they need to be planted to a depth of 2 times the bulbs themselves. Small onions are planted at a depth of the bulb. It is placed on the bottom of the hole and slightly pressed down to the soil. Onions must be directed upwards. Next, fill the hole with soil and slightly compacted. Place of planting flowers need to mark.

If the soil is not fertile, it is recommended to apply a slowly acting fertilizer. This fertilizer is bone meal. If the plant is planted for one season, and then the bulb is thrown away, then fertilizer can be not applied.

But if the bulb will winter and remain the next year, the plant needs fertilizer. When planting in pots or containers, plants need more fertilizing, as the reserves of nutrients are quickly depleted. With such cultivation, it is better to fertilize flowers with liquid dressings or long-acting fertilizer.

Bulb flowers that bloom in spring should be watered moderately before flowering begins, and then watered until the leaves turn yellow and brown. Plants that bloom in summer should be watered abundantly during dry periods so that the water reaches the roots that are deep. These colors include gladioli and daffodils. If the bulbs are at rest, you can not moisten the soil - it is very harmful for them, but if the plant has kept the leaves, it should be watered.

Plants that grow at home (pots, trays, containers), need to be watered as the soil dries. The soil is kept wet, while not over-wetting it.

Flowers that have weak stems or tall flower stalks, as well as those that grow on blown places, need support.

Be sure to pay attention to the proper care of plants after flowering. From this care depends bloom in the next season.

After flowering you need:

• remove faded flowers with a secateur, knife or scissors;
• remove only flowers, flower stalks should be left;
• during the removal of peduncles can not remove the leaves, because they form nutrients for the bulbs.

List of the most popular plants with photos

Bulbous and perennial primroses are the very first flowers in your garden in spring. In cold regions, the snow has not yet come off, and they, having lifted the petals, are already reaching for the sun. If you successfully write bulbous primroses in the design of the flower beds, they will please the eye every year.

Garden

Consider a list of the most popular garden bulb flowers:

• Snowdrop. This flower grows one of the first and literally from under the snow. Snowdrop can withstand frost -10 ° C.

• Babiana - a flower from the family of Iris.Narrow, lanceolate, sword-shaped leaves 15 cm long, which also have bristly pubescence, grow from the bulb.

• Colchicum - Also known as colchium, is a perennial plant. In the genus of this flower about 70 species.

• Gabrantus (rain lily) - has air petals that justify the name of the flower, meaning “delicate flower” in Greek.

• Gladiolus - It is a bulbous perennial flower, of which there are more than 5,000 species. There are hybrid and wild gladioli. They admire the beauty and variety of color.

• Eastern lily - these flowers are valued for large flowers (more than 20 cm in diameter) and a varied color.

• Lily LA hybrid - obtained by breeding Asian and long-flowered lilies. This flower is distinguished by its endurance, decoration and unpretentiousness.

• Lily OT-hybrid - The plant is obtained from the crossing of tubular and oriental lilies. In height, they reach 1-1.5 m or even higher, under favorable conditions.

• Narcissus - is a very popular flower from antiquity. There are many varieties of narcissus, and they are all greatly appreciated by gardeners for their incredible beauty.

• Tulip - Central Asia is the birthplace of this plant, despite the fact that the most growing tulips in the Netherlands. In recent years, more than 3,500 species of tulips of various shapes and colors have been bred.

Room

The following are listed bulbous indoor plants (with photo and names) that you can use to decorate your house:

• Freesia hybrid - a very beautiful plant with funnel-shaped flowers on one side of a strong peduncle up to 50 cm high. It has a strong, fragrant smell.

• Himenokallis pleasant - it blooms with fragrant flowers at the end of spring, flower stalks reach a height of 60 cm. It is very similar to a narcissus with narrow and long petals.

• Hippeastrum Hybrid - has hollow stems, on which there are inflorescences of 3-5 flowers. Hybrid varieties have a lot of types, colors and shapes.

• Zephyranthes grandiflora - forms peduncles up to 15 cm tall, blooms in early summer with flowers very similar to crocuses.

• Veltheimy Kapse - great as a houseplant. Peduncle up to 30 cm high, having about 60 bell-shaped flowers, will decorate any dwelling.

When planting bulbous plants at home it is very important to pay attention to the choice of the pot. A container of slightly burnt clay, which has thin, porous walls, is best suited.Inside the pot should not be glazed. The size of the pot is selected according to the size of the bulb.

At the bottom of the tank should be a hole for draining. The diameter of the pot should be the same with its height.

Rules for the creation of flower beds of bulbous perennials

Perfectly look flowerbeds of continuous flowering.

Such beds have a number of features that must be considered when planning it:

1. In order for flowers to constantly bloom and replace each other, their range should be very wide.
2. A flower bed looks expressive when there are large color spots on it. Flowers that grow alone do not give a whole composition.
3. Plants that bloom in approximately one period can be grouped together.
4. You can combine plants that have the same requirements (for soil, watering, lighting, fertilizer)
5. When planting in a flower bed, be sure to take into account the size of plants and the growth rate.
6. Combining flowers is better if you consider the color scheme. You can use both complementary and contrasting colors.

The flower beds are beginning to be planned with the “bloom calendar”, as some flowers begin to bloom in early spring, others will bloom in summer and last in autumn. Next, you need to schematically draw a plan of the flower beds, while taking into account how the flower garden will look at different periods of flowering plants.

Attention should be paid to the fact that the flower bed has different points of view, and plant the plants in such a way that they do not block each other.

On the flowerbed you will need to care for all the flowers, for this you need to provide small paths. They can be mulched with various decorative materials. Such paths will allow you to reach any plant in order to cut, tie up, water it.

Choosing bulbous plants for your flower garden is a rather difficult task due to the variety of species and varieties of such flowers. Thanks to this article about garden bulbous flowers, which are listed with photos with names, you can think out in more detail which flowers of the bulbous family will suit you the most.