Barley Maned Description and Planting

Flowering plants are certainly beautiful in their own right, but they are given a special facet by other ornamental partner plants.

One of these plants barley maned, landscape designers have been using in landscaping gardens and parks for quite some time.

In this article, we will familiarize ourselves with barley more closely: its description, use in the landscape and not only.

Maned barley: description

Barley barley - It is a herbaceous, perennial plant belonging to the family of grass grasses. The grass has a strong, short rhizome with thin processes. The height of the grass is on average from fifteen centimeters to half a meter - it depends on what soil the barley grows on. The plant is smooth, thin and flexible green stalks. The leaves are long, up to eight centimeters in diameter; the deciduous mass is dense, with sharp ends, saturated green color. The plant blooms in July, inflorescences - spikelets. Ears have long, flexible awns with purple tint, sometimes pink. The inflorescences hang on the peduncles and at the slightest breeze of the wind fluttering like a mane. This magnificence is kept on the plant until September, then the fruiting period begins.

The grain of the barley barley looks the same as the rest of the cereals of the genus barley: narrow linear, with a longitudinal groove grain.

Growing barley barley

For growing barley barley you can buy seedlings in horticultural farms. You can purchase seeds and grow your own seedlings, providing you with proper care.

The choice of place and time for barley

Open, well-lit areas are suitable for planting barley, as he likes the sun and tolerates drought well. You should not worry about the shelter: the culture is cold-resistant.

The plant can grow on any soil, but the most beautiful and developed will be on nutrient, aerated soils with a weak acid reaction.

Sowing seeds and planting barley

To ensure quality seedlings, cereal seeds are stratified. To do this, a thin layer of peat is poured into a small tray at the bottom, seeds are placed on top, moistened the surface and wrapped in food film and placed in a refrigerator on a shelf for vegetables. To prevent the seeds from suffocating, several holes are pre-made in the film. After two months, you can conduct sowing. At the beginning of April, prepare everything you need: a seedling box, a soil mix, a wooden board according to the box size. For a mixture of soil suitable garden soil, mixed three to one with sand. After spreading the seeds over the surface in a thin layer, sprinkle with soil, moisten the soil with a spray gun and press it with a plate.

The following conditions are necessary for germination:

• lighting - not bright, moderate;
• temperature - 12-16 ° C;
• humidity - light (watering as the top layer of soil dries out).

Barley dives into separate pots after three weeks, when the plant is in the development phase of four strong leaves. Small containers up to 6 cm in diameter are placed on a warm window sill. During this period, it is necessary to maintain a constant, but moderate soil moisture. In the first decade of May, it’s time to start hardening the seedlings: gradually increasing the time from a couple of hours to a day, the seedlings are taken out onto a balcony or outside. In mid-May, when there is no threat of return frost, seedlings are planted in open ground.

Planting barley grivasty is carried out immediately into the soil in regions with a milder climate. At the beginning of April, seeds are sown in a selected place and looked after, like any other crop. They monitor the humidity and purity of the soil. To the bushes already grown barley were fluffy and heap, throw two or three grains into one hole. Planting is covered with a film, constructing a mini-greenhouse that will protect the plant from the cold.

Caring for barley maned

Barley is unpretentious grass, the whole care for planting consists in timely watering and loosening the soil so that the root system is saturated with oxygen.Feeding is not much needed - this plant survives without fertilizer in any conditions, but if you feed, then follow the amount of nitrogen fertilizer.

Cereal, in principle, does not get sick, the only disease that can attack it is gray mold or mold. If a gray mold is found in the planting, the plants need to be planted and reduced watering and fertilizing. Affected parts or whole plants are removed and disposed of. To fight the disease will help fungicides: "Topaz", "Fundazol", "Horus".

Using

The maned barley is many-sided in use, it perfectly coexists with flowering and evergreen plants, with other decorative cereals, fits into almost any composition.

Decorative use in landscape design

Flowering grass decorate and give lightness to rocky areas of the garden and rock garden. The air waves of the ears of corn will decorate the flowerbeds, both alone and in a group with flowering plants. The grass harmonizes well with such cereals:

• bent openwork;
• brown millet;
• pennisetum;
• cattail bicolor.

A beautiful silvery yellow radiance of the flowerbed will be given to compositions with marigolds, calendula, rudbeckia of yellow-orange shades, with coriopsis. A calm, slightly coldish tone will be given to compositions with lavender, sage, and two-colored godson.

Decorative grass can close a void, formed as a result of the withering of flowers, diversify the lawn with its presence, give liveliness to stone decorative compositions.

Creation of bouquets and compositions

To create dry or winter bouquets they use almost everything that is on hand: cones, branches, fruits, ribbons, bark, citrus peel, jute cords and much more. The most attractive are bouquets or baskets, or compositions of another type, made from natural materials: wood, stones, and so on. Plants are pre-prepared, dried connected in bunches and inflorescences suspended in dry rooms. As for barley, it should be cut in the first phase of earing, because later the ears will begin to crumble.

Grasses in bouquets are perfectly combined with fruiting and flowering plants.Of the fruiting, the following herbs are more commonly used:

• hogweed;
• the hedgehog;
• iberis;
• linen;
• Lunaria;
• Nigella
• sagebrush;
• stahis;
• feverweed;
• Physalis;
• Echinacea.

Our grass is well combined with prickly herbs: mordovnik, dogrose, teasel; with other cereals: miscanthus, anthoxantum and corn. Interesting combinations are obtained with flowers, such as:

• heather;
• gypsophila;
• homfren;
• xerantemum;
• edelweiss;
• Helipetrum;
• celosia.

In conclusion - advice: do not keep dry bouquets or compositions for years, they lose their attractiveness and absorb dust, which can be a source of illness. Do not be lazy to dry new plants and create another bright detail for your decor.