Liver: description, planting and growing

Liverworm is primrose, which, growing on the plot, will be pleasing to the eye in early spring. Even one or two bushes in the garden will look cute enough, but it will be better to look at the mass planting. Next, we learn what kind of culture and how to grow it grower.

Short description

Liver refers to perennial plants and enters family of buttercups. Its other names are “woods” or “hepatics”. In cultivation, this culture is not burdensome, and appears on the site immediately after it thaws snow. The liverworm blossoms when April comes to an end or May begins, and as if the carpet covers the earth with soft blue flowers.

Species

This plant has many varieties. Will consider features of the most popular varieties in our latitudes.

• Noble liver (ordinary) is a squat perennial subspecies. Its height does not usually exceed 15 cm. Dark green foliage, as seen in the photo, is located on long petioles and is distinguished by a rather high density. Flowers - single, reach 4 cm in diameter. May be blue or purple, in rare cases they are also white and pink.
• Pubescent liverworm refers to the noble subspecies. A distinctive feature of this type is the rounded shape of the leaves, as well as marble drawing on them.
• Asian liverwort also considered to be a noble liver subspecies. The height of the plant is about 5-10 cm. Three-bladed pouring, dark green. The flowers of the Asian species are rather small, not more than 1.5 cm in diameter. May be white or pink, less violet and blue. Seed this species in culture does not form.
• Liver transylvanian. It is a rather rare species. Very well tolerated shadow. A distinctive feature - abundant fruiting and flowering. Leaves - pubescent, wintering. The bushes of the plant are quite powerful, they reach 20 cm in volume, they grow up to 8-10 cm in height. The flowers have a diameter of about 4 cm, the color is usually bright blue.The Transylvanian liverworm is the most enduring species. It is also prone to self-seeding.
• Liver average. This is a group of hybrids that occurred as a result of the crossing of Asian and ordinary liverworms. The bush does not grow above 10 cm, and in diameter it reaches 30 cm. The flowers come in white, purple, and pink. Most often they are terry.

Location selection

In order to successfully grow and care for the liver, it is better to choose a site for it that does not have abundant sunshine. You can use a shady place, for example, behind the house or near the fence, but the plant will not live there for very long, so it’s best to stop at a section of medium lighting where the sun still has access, but not all day. As for the soil, the best option would be a rich, nutritious, loose and permeable soil.

Planting and reproduction of the liver

Landing of this perennial should be carried out during the off-season - in spring or autumn. Bushes can be divided into separate sockets with the root system. It is necessary to plant a crop so that its buds are above the ground surface.It is recommended to add a small amount of compost as well as complex fertilizer to the planting wells.

It is possible to propagate a plant either by dividing the bushes, or by seeds. The second option prevails in the natural growth of the flower culture. But in floriculture, a coppice of seeds is grown extremely rarely. This is due to the fact that they germinate for quite a long time, besides not all together. It is possible to collect seed in June and immediately sow in open ground. Shoots will manifest themselves only in a year, and a real leaf will be formed in two years. As for flowering, after sowing seeds, flowers can be seen only after 5-6 years.

Care Tips

After completing the planting of the liver, it is very important to provide her with proper care. Only in this way will the primrose be pleasing to the eye with a beautiful floral coating, as in the photo. Covering the plant for the winter is not necessary, since the liverplate is quite easily able to withstand the winter cold and frost.

This plant loves moisture. Although it can withstand drought, the leaves can fall off very quickly. It is necessary to moisten the soil around the plant as it dries, trying to keep the soil always a little wet.

As for fertilizers, hepatics develops quite normally without additional feedings. But if you want to feed the liver with useful substances, you can add bone meal to the soil as soon as the snow melts. During the period when flowering will end, you can fertilize the soil with nitrogen supplements, and at the end of the summer it is recommended to feed it with fertilizers containing potassium and phosphorus.

The most important thing in the care of this perennial is the timely weeding of the plot, since the liver can quickly be drowned out by weeds. Also be aware of the mulching. Low-lying peat or leaf humus will be suitable as mulch.

Combination with other plants

Due to the fact that the liver can grow after planting for many years, its bushes are often used in compositions on the site, including in rock gardens, curbs and rockeries. In such compositions, the perennial is better planted to the fore, since it is relatively short and in depth it will be difficult to make out.

Good neighbors for the liver will be a variety of undersized primroses - varieties of phlox (Canadian, awl, Douglas), periwinkles, hosts, claret, ferns, geyhery The liver is a weakly competitive plant, so you should not combine it with growing plants.

As you can see, the liverwatch is an unusually beautiful perennial that can decorate any infield. In addition, it does not require special care, and this is very important for beginning flower growers and for those people who do not have much free time for gardening.