2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Hearing the phrase plants in the country, immediately before your eyes there are beds with cucumbers, carrots, greenhouses with tomatoes, well, at worst, a lawn dotted with dandelions and clover. But the dacha is not only a fruit and vegetable "plant", it is also a place for exotic plants, which any summer resident tried to grow at least once. Searching, studying, growing and caring for exotic plants is quite a fascinating process and will leave few people indifferent
The exotic plants most beloved by summer residents are oriental hybrids, namely, a fragrant, bright, luxurious lily. Care and cultivation of lilies is laborious, since these flowers are quite capricious. However, when the garden is filled with an intoxicating aroma and huge, plate-sized flowers reach out to the sun everywhere, all the work of courting fades into the background. There are many varieties and varieties of lilies, so we will consider the basic requirements for planting and successful development of these beautiful exotic plants.
In order to plant lilies, you should take care of the drainage system. To do this, dig a fairly deep hole and line its bottom with drainage; broken brick or crushed stone is perfect for this. The drainage layer must be covered with soil by 15-20 cm, and only then the bulb is planted. The lily bulb is planted 5-10 cm from the top. The soil for oriental hybrids needs fresh, high-quality, for example, a mixture of peat, coarse sand and coniferous litter. The bulb is placed on slightly moistened soil, on top of the drainage, sprinkled with sand on all sides and the remaining hole is filled with soil. If the soil is of good quality and fertile enough, then for 1-2 years you can forget about fertilization. However, in the future, do not forget about feeding, water-soluble fertilizers are suitable for this, these plants do not tolerate manure and ash. Lily is very afraid of dampness, so in the fall it needs to be protected from rains, for this it should be covered with foil. Since the lily is resistant to frost, the film can be removed in November. The color spectrum of exotic lilies is quite wide, from white to dark red and burgundy, there are also a huge variety of varieties and varieties.
In addition to the decorative effect, some exotic plants have edible fruits and shoots. Anguria or Antillean cucumber is an annual plant from the pumpkin family that has oval dark green fruits with dense, fleshy thorns. Reminiscent of a cucumber with needles. The plant is very prolific, up to 200 fruits can be harvested from one plant, it tastes like a cucumber, young fruits with soft thorns are eaten. Anuria has medicinal properties, its juice is used to heal wounds and to prevent diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Antilles cucumber is a very thermophilic plant, the optimum temperature for its development is 25 degrees, at temperatures below 12 degrees the plant stops bearing fruit, and at 5 degrees it dies. The seeds of the plant are planted at the end of April under a film and are opened only if there is no threat of frost. Anguria stretches up to 3 m in length and has beautiful leaves with a fringe, therefore, even without fruiting, this plant can decorate your site.
In a garden where most of the space is devoted to paths, and the free soil is successfully planted, exotic plants can be placed in tubs. The homeland of such plants is mainly the sunny Mediterranean. Exotic plants are thermophilic, so they are moved indoors for the winter, and again decorate the garden with them in the spring. An important plus of plants in tubs is that every year they can decorate any sunny corner of the garden and even verandas and terraces. During wintering, southern plants often begin to dry out, shed their foliage, because the cold for them is not a small stress and care for them at this time should be appropriate. After wintering, it is advisable to transplant the plants into fresh soil, feed them with fertilizers and cut them off. Citrus fruits are suitable for growing in tubs - they bloom with beautiful flowers and smell great, cacti - successfully surviving drought, chrysanthemums - whose main care is to remove wilted flowers, laurel noble - an evergreen plant that grows both in the shade and in the sun. In order for the plants in tubs to harmonize with each other and fit into the overall composition of the garden, the pots should be chosen from natural materials in the same color scheme or style.
If you are not afraid of difficulties and the beauty of your garden comes first, do not be afraid to experiment with exotic plants. They will become the pride of your garden and will delight and surprise you and your guests.
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