Flowering Perennials (lupine And Delphinium)

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

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Not all summer residents have the patience and time to take care of flowers. And so you want at least the front garden to please the family and guests with elegant colors throughout the summer season. For such, nature has created perennial plants that require a minimum of care. They themselves take care of the heirs, leaving people with rare weeding and thinning of the territory of their residence. In hot weather, they will be grateful for watering. And, if you sometimes feed them with organic matter, they will answer you with exuberant flowering.

Lupine

The plant's ability to survive in the most unsuitable conditions for life gave it the name "lupus", which for those who understand Latin sounds like "wolf". Many even attribute it to the category of weeds: it takes root so quickly and firmly in the garden space. Not too much popularity of lupine among summer residents is explained by the laziness of the latter. Most often, lupine bushes that came without an invitation are covered with blue-purple flowers. Their monotony is more depressing than joyful. It is easy to fix this by buying a couple of bags of multi-colored lupines in stores with the sign "Seeds". Their variety will pleasantly surprise you: your front garden will dress up in white, pink, red, cream, purple … clothes.

Lupine will look great in the form of a separate bush and a multi-colored strip along the palisade (fence). It is better to carefully cut off the fading bunches, then by the end of the season the lupine will give you a new wave of colors and will not spoil the general appearance of the front garden.

Although lupine is completely independent and unpretentious, it will be grateful for periodically loosening the soil and removing weeds in the first year of its life on your site. Next spring, you can feed the plant by adding twenty grams of superphosphate and five grams of potassium chloride to one square meter of earth.

Summer residents who treat their pets with special trepidation will give you an even bigger list of tips. For example, that it is necessary to tie tall lupine bushes to a support in order to avoid their breakage from strong winds. But this list, although natural and will bear its additional fruits, will turn lupine for you from an unpretentious plant into a flower that requires close and time-consuming care. in this case, it is better to start growing decorative roses. Lupine is good because it almost does not require attention.

My lupine grows all over the territory, without any care, without a garter to the supports. Its lush thickets themselves support individual stems and perfectly withstand hurricane winds before a summer thunderstorm.

By the way, lupine roots enrich the soil with nitrogen. So, having mowed the annoying meadow of lupins, you can safely plant vegetables in this place that are especially fond of eating nitrogen.

Delphinium

Delphinium is also referred to as unpretentious and not requiring close human attention to plants that adorn the flower garden. At the same time, they immediately give a long list of work required for its cultivation:

* deep tillage before planting, since the flower has a powerful root system that loves underground space;

* delphinium does not like sandy soils because of their rapid drying out, although it also does not tolerate dampness, preferring moderate moisture;

* the flower requires regular watering throughout the summer, moreover, it must be watered very carefully so that the water goes to the roots, and does not spray the flowers and leaves;

* it must be fed several times per season with different fertilizers.

Having looked at the agony of a neighbor, whose experience of a gardener-gardener is much more solid than mine, as she tried for three years that the delphinium took root in her flower bed, I abandoned it. Of course, its flower is beautiful and reminds some people of the head of a dolphin, for which it got its name. But I liked the really unpretentious lupine more. Its inflorescences look like delphinium flowers when viewed from afar. And it is better to look at the heads of dolphins from the deck of a yacht swaying on the waves of the Red Sea.