Perennial Flowers In April

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

Despite the cool weather outside the window, the florists are already starting a hot season. At this time, you need to have time to sow, divide and transplant perennial bushes. You can practice the propagation of flowers by cuttings. You also need to monitor whether the plantings of past years are not affected by dangerous infections

Sowing and planting of perennials in the ground

With the arrival of April, perennials wintering in warm rooms begin to "move" into the ground. First of all, this applies to gladioli, which are propagated by children. They need a longer period of time to germinate than 2-3 year old corms. And the latter are moved to flower beds towards the end of the month. For them, from the second half of April, you need to start preparing the site. To this end, experts recommend deep digging of the soil, cleaning the flower bed from the remnants of perennial weeds. These bright flowers are demanding on the quality of the soil. And it is advisable to apply fertilizers for planting. Superphosphate and potassium sulfate are used - 40 g per 1 square meter. area.

As for chrysanthemums, pelargoniums, you can continue to cut them for rooting. The planting material that was planted in pots and boxes earlier provides a larger area of nutrition.

It's time to sow such crops as aster, aquilegia, rudbeckia, chrysanthemum, Carpathian bell in the nursery. For other flowers, it is better to plant crops immediately for permanent residence. Such perennials include beetroot, gypsophila, lupine.

Reproduction by division and cuttings

Since division is a kind of operation, this method of reproduction must be approached with all responsibility. Diseased plants are unsuitable for this. They will not only become a hotbed for the spread of infection, but will also develop poorly, weakened by disease and mechanical damage. Therefore, before getting down to business, you need to improve the planting material. Moreover, such a procedure is not carried out annually, and the time to save your favorite flower may still be in stock. So, small-petals, the monarda is divided approximately once every 3 years. A peony can grow in one place for a good ten years.

Many perennials reproduce successfully by cuttings. These are such flowers as yarrow, aster, paniculata phlox, saxifrage, sedum. For this, with the arrival of spring, young shoots are selected, which appear in large numbers on the rhizome. Rooting of these babies can take about 2-4 weeks, but often they already have their own roots.

In addition to division, some perennials need a "change of registration". In April, they are engaged in the transplantation of such crops as phlox paniculata, daylily, periwinkle, gelenium, chastets. You can also move chrysanthemum, violet, sedum, aster, carnation, larkspur, dicentra to a new place.

Prevention and control of diseases in flower beds

In April, a florist may be upset by the condition of peony shoots that have appeared from under the ground. When they soon begin to wither and then die off, this is a signal that the flowers are infected with gray mold. A sure symptom is rotting brown spots on the stems. When it's a sunny warm day outside, these wounds dry up and become less noticeable, which can calm the summer resident. But the disease has not gone anywhere and is activated again under favorable conditions, spreading the infection to neighboring plants. For the treatment of ailments, spraying with fundozol is used. Another recommendation is to refrain from introducing large doses of nitrate. Gray mold is a frequent companion of excessive nitrogen fertilization.

Another source of diseases on flower beds is the dry parts of perennials, the leaves of which do not die off before winter. With the arrival of spring, they must be removed in a timely manner so that they do not infect young shoots.