Planting in soil Astilbe .Astilba in the open field .Care

but that she grew up there, it should be put there.And even earlier - to buy.

From this comes the recommendation of paramount importance: the opportunity to review the plant through the transparent package must be selected specimens with nondepleted school rhizome with shoots will appear only (or even only outline).The good preservation of roots - the key to the future health of the bush.

If the rhizome is not too drained already stretched considerably and repeatedly curved sprouts inside the package, it will get accustomed (but special beauty in the first year of this bush wait no longer necessary).

rhizome with visible injuries, over-dried, moldy or rotten, or the young shoots and leaves have withered, and even more - begun to rot is not worth buying.

Store purchased material prior to planting time should refrigerator.

Landing Astilbe nuances

When planting Astilbe in a ground hole digging depth, sufficient for the free placement of the rhizome (no deeper than 30 cm), with the obligatory incorporation organic manure or complex fertilizers (30g / m beds), compost and bone meal (2 handfuls / m beds).It is recommended to use Bioneks , which is based on a fermented chicken manure.If you have poor soil moisture retention will be helpful in making the planting hole hydrogel .

Astilbe Planting in soil.Photo

extremely important in this regard is how to plant Astilbe watering .When the content of the purchased seedlings in the pot it is necessary to water the day before landing, be sure to repeat this procedure after planting the plants in the soil.

straightened in the hole is filled with soil rhizome with a light of its seal, but without penetration of the plant.Carbon black is on the level at which it was planted in a pot, otherwise - so that the root collar is flush with the ground, and so that, after watering and settling of the soil the roots of the plants are not exposed.

Astilbe Planting in soil.Photo

planted crops carefully, but plentifully water, filling water circumferential groove, dug to avoid spreading water.In dry weather, watering is repeated for at least a day to complete the healing time of the plant.

Astilbe Planting in soil.Photo

Rounding landing Astilbe bark mulch ground (chopped), or compost or sawdust, leaving free space around the germs.

symbol of the successful completion of the work is to install shortcuts to the grade designation.

main varieties

The genus there are at least 40 kinds and no less than 400 varieties with heights from 0.15 to 2 m The main decoration of plants -. It is an inflorescence-panicle or brush length from 10 to 60 cm. cultural flowering time from June to August (depending on the type and grade).

The varieties include:

• Astilbe David;
• Astilbe naked;
• Astilbe Chinese;
• Astilbe Japanese;
• Astilbe Thunberg.

Astilbe Each variety is different habit (bush form), color corolla flower and leaves, flowers aroma or lack height, but also the time and duration of flowering.

for Astilbe David - bush, flowering from July to August, broad, magnificently sprawling structure, reaching 1.5 m in height, with light green (pale brown veins) wrinkled leaves of complex shape is characterized by flowers pink-purple shade, the axis of which is rejected under the direction almost at right angles.

bush Astilbe bare is only 12 cm high, its diameter - 15 cm Ornament plants are bronze shade leaves.;flowering period (June - July).

Flowers Astilbe Chinese may have a white color, and pink and purple, the length of the inflorescence can reach 30 cm in height shrub up to 1 m. The brilliant openwork pattern leaves are covered with hairs light tan color.Differs long flowering (June - August).

Flowering Plants Astilbe Japanese with light-green leaves (with height up to 70 cm) pinnate shape with a glossy sheen to stretch a wide range, and the white (or pink) fragrant flowers gathered in inflorescences in the form of a rhombus, reach a length30 cm;flowering duration is one month (July).

collected in long (25 cm) inflorescence-brush having a diameter of 10 cm, numerous flowers of Astilbe Thunberg white color with complex leaves with serrated edges form a plant up to 80 cm, flowering from July to August.

conditions for growing Astilbe

much trouble culture at cultivating his gardener does not deliver - not enough time being planted, it survives to the habitats of all kinds of weeds and weeding it is not required.But some features of farming should still be taken into account.

Astilbe For planting in the open ground should be a place with mild (sparse) shadow or partial shade - full sun plant health is not conducive.But when planting under big trees with dense shade it also grows and blooms bad.

Astilba feels good in places with high humidity near water: the pond, fountain.But the soil of moderate constant humidity is also quite enough.If the ground water at the landing site lie high and the soil has a high moisture content, the best conditions, and it is not necessary to invent.

In addition, depending on the soil water table level Astilbe respects the soil deeply proryhlenny or dug over (to remove the roots of weeds), fertilized humus compost, peat (well decomposed) or manure (sufficiently rotted), based on the rate of 2 buckets / m2.

When landing astilbes group distance between the plants should be between 30 (minimum) to 50 (maximum) cm, depending on the height of the variety, which may be about 50, and about 120 cm.

How to propagate Astilbe

peculiarity Astilbe is steadily growing from the soil bulging rhizome with thick cords like adventitious roots (with an annual increase in height from 3 to 5 cm), requiring podsypaniya soil.In this part of the rhizome, found themselves deep down, die.

Therefore, every 5-6 years, so that the plant did not lose the decorative produce his division followed by transplant.

bush division - method of reproduction Astilbe easiest.Studna bush, removing the lower, dead parts of the rhizome, to dissect delenki with 3-5 buds on each.Parts of the divided bush Astilbe seated immediately, not letting the roots dry out;they need watering daily.Under this option, Astilbe breeding in the fall is quite capable to bloom.

During the multiplication using the kidneys resuming shoots grow back, cut with a piece of rhizome, placed in a mini-teplichku for rooting in a mixture of peat and gravel in the ratio of 3: 1.The sections of cuttings and mother plants powdered ash.For permanent planting young plants, or in the fall or spring of next season.

to breed of Astilbe using seeds rarely resorted - hybrids it is not able to preserve the varietal characteristics.When seed reproduction method, they are not embedded in the planting of soil - sowing them on the surface, and to accelerate the germination stratification is used - the exposure to the cold (for 21 days at a temperature of -4 ... + 4 ° C) followed by application of a conventional method for planting - growingin a warm room.

Astilba in combination with other garden plants

As flowering perennials, Astilbe, planted in combination with other shade-loving crops, able to decorate the garden site as its large white, violet, pink, red, burgundy, carmine, purple-redcherry and brooms, and shiny, lace and lush foliage - the color from dark green to burgundy and bronze to reddish petioles.

beautiful Astilbe neighbors, spread the leaves in May, can be both early-flowering plants: Corydalis, snowdrops, Proleski and Adonis, Adonis, lily of the valley, iris, tulips, hosts, ferns, Aquilegia, Solomon's seal, Rogers, Volzhanka.

Near delicate bushes astilbes interesting look podofilluma bushes, Bergenia, hellebore due to the structure of the difference, the color and thickness of the leaf blades.

profitably looks Culture planted on the edges of lawns, on the banks of the reservoir, in rockeries, in rabatkah in located in the penumbra mixborders.

care of plants (agricultural machinery)

Immediately after landing Astilbe work on its cultivation immediately flows smoothly into the next stage - the care of Astilbe: too lazy to pour not accept even the plant once again, you can destroy it or significantly slowthe process of its development.

Watering should be regular, as can be more frequent, and prolonged absence of natural irrigation (rain) water the culture in the morning and evening.With a lack of water in the culture begins drying up of the tips of stems and leaves.

only cultivar of Astilbe, able to survive mild drought - Astilbe chinensis, all the other varieties of this rule does not apply.

should delete all the images on the plant inflorescence after the landing (the first year of the culture of life), and after the division-transplant, while well settled down a plant or delenki him next season fully manifest their best qualities for the success of rooting.To save the decorative plantings removed also faded inflorescences-brushes.

thickness mulch layer around culture (produced humus, peat, straw, bark, sawdust, pebbles) should be at least 2 or 3 cm. It is necessary to prevent loss of moisture the soil, reduces the degree of overheating, do not allow to grow weedherbs and plant creates the necessary degree of heat in the winter.

addition of organic fertilizers applied at planting, for lush flowering Astilbe is important to keep the soil under culture optimal ratio phosphorus and potassium .For fertilizing dry soil is most often used peat or compost, and if it is wet - ready complex fertilizers.At the end of flowering plants are sure to spend a fertilizer potassium and phosphorus compounds.

When growing Astilbe in one place without a transplant for more than 5 years, the risk of baring rhizomes, renal recovery and young adventitious roots.Therefore, planting of such plants should be hide peat, compost or spruce branches, otherwise the flowering shrubs will be no less magnificent, or so long.Astilbe is younger easily tolerate warm winter neukrytymi.

a method such as weeding, almost do not need the care of Astilbe, because in adulthood she displaces all the weeds from their territory - the density of the leaves on the bush so large that they create an impenetrable for the sun shade, which does notable to survive any plant.

Astilba not subject to defeat by any of the known types of diseases or pests, so protective measures against them need simply does not arise.