Soil preparation
Since the bulbs are planted in the fall, there is usually enough time over the summer to properly prepare the soil.
Soil preparation activities include:
- Deep digging of soil;
- Arrangement of drainage of excess irrigation water and precipitation through external or internal drainage, otherwise the bulbs may get wet and rot;
- It is necessary to add organic matter to the flower bed: rotted manure, humus, add complex mineral fertilizer.
The application of fresh manure can cause fungal diseases of the bulbs and the development of mold. Manure attracts earthworms and moles to the flower bed, which cause significant damage to the bulbs.
Tulip variety Sweet Lady
The Sweet Lady tulip variety is very late, it can start blooming towards the end of May, and bears fruit after a month. The flower is usually placed separately, in large groups in gardens and flower beds, it serves to decorate paths and borders. It is not used for forcing due to its slow growth and long development.
Tulip Sweet Lady is up to 30 cm in height, its goblet flowers are up to 7-8 cm in height. They are painted in a very unusual way - red-pink, with hints of orange, as well as with a light stroke at the base. Leaves with reddish lines, wide with a pointed edge. Sweet Lady prefers sunny areas and fertile but loose soil.
Growing and care
Orange Sunrise barberry seedlings are purchased in the nursery or obtained independently from cuttings or in other ways. For planting, you can choose both a sunny place and partial shade. The soil can be almost any, but the best option is fertile and light loam. The main requirement is that the bushes should not grow in the lowlands, where melt and rainwater accumulate.
Landing is most often scheduled for May, when there will be no return frosts. In the south, it can be planted at the end of April. It is advisable to prepare the soil in the fall. The site is cleaned and dug up. If the soil is depleted, you can add a 2 m2 bucket of compost. If the soil is clay, 1 kg of sawdust or sand is covered for every 2 m2.
Landing Algorithm:
- The roots of the seedling are soaked in "Epin" or "Kornevin".
- Dig a hole, focusing on the length and width of the rhizome: it should freely enter the hole.
- Barberry is planted and buried so that the root collar is slightly deepened (by 1 cm).
- Then the soil is lightly tamped and watered with 5-10 liters of water.
- Lay a layer of mulch.
Attention! The color of the leaves of the Orange Sunrise barberry largely depends on the lighting. If you plant a bush in bright sun, the leaves will be colored as much as possible (red, purple)
If the barberry grows in the shade, the foliage will be orange with a greenish tint.
At the bottom of the planting pit, you can lay a layer of expanded clay or small pebbles for drainage
To grow a beautiful Thunberg barberry Orange Sunrise, which is shown in the photo and in the description, it is enough to follow simple care rules:
Watering is recommended only in drought - weekly, 1-2 buckets per bush. Also, water is regularly given to young seedlings. In other cases, rainfall is enough for barberry.
In order for the soil to retain moisture longer, it must be mulched with peat, sawdust, and spruce needles. In addition, mulch protects barberry from weeds and from sudden changes in temperature.
Fertilizers begin to be applied only in the second year. This can be done three times per season: in April, add urea (20 g per bucket of water), in June and August - complex fertilizers. For the last time, formulations without nitrogen compounds are used.
Weeding and loosening are carried out periodically
It is especially important to loosen the soil after heavy rainfall or watering.
In preparation for winter, young seedlings need to be spud and mulched. Many summer residents note that the variety is not too winter-hardy.
Therefore, even in the middle lane, it is better to cover the bushes with spruce branches or burlap. First, the shoots are tied and bent to the soil.
When caring for the Orange Sunrise barberry, special attention is paid to pruning. It allows the bush to remain healthy and beautiful for a long time.
The haircut is carried out in several stages:
- Weak shoots are removed after planting.
- In the second year, in the spring, all branches are cut under the stump, leaving 1-2 buds so that the plant will give more new shoots.
- In the third year, they are again pruned under the stump.
- Further, every spring, sanitary pruning is carried out. You can also thin out the crown by removing shoots growing inward.
- If the Orange Sunrise barberry is used in a hedge, in July and August they pinch the shoots that are very protruding beyond the general outline.
The scheme of the phased pruning of barberry Orange Sunrise will help to carry out the procedure correctly
Greig's tulips general description of varieties
The decorativeness of the representatives of the fourteenth class is impressive. Tulips are small in size and volume, look incredibly decorative, planted in large groups of one or two species. Various varieties from this class are well combined with each other, as well as in harmony in compositions with undersized varieties from other groups.
Greig's tulips are characterized by short stature - their height ranges from 25 to 40 cm, and these are the maximum figures. There are very tiny, miniature varieties that are best planted in single compositions, used for forcing, or exclusively in the foreground.
The leaves are unusual for Greig's tulips - they are wide, juicy green in color, with beautiful dark red or lilac stripes or strokes. Leaves are basal, there may be more stems in length. Flowers of various colors, decorative and large. Among the various varieties of Greig tulips most are painted in all shades of red - such a color feature is inherent only in the fourteenth class.
Flowering time
Greig's tulips also differ in terms of flowering. They can serve as a decoration for a flower garden when all the early and mid-flowering varieties have already faded. Some varieties start flowering in the second half of April, but most bloom in May-June.
Popular varieties
It has already been described above that there are many varieties of Greig tulips - several hundred. In floriculture, only a few are preferred - they are grown en masse and everywhere, used in flower beds, for landscaping park paths, in flower beds. Also, most of the varieties of Greig tulips known today are used for cutting. Below we consider the best and most popular varieties of the fourteenth class.
When and how to plant bulbs outdoors?
Tulip bulbs of the Orange Princess variety need an autumn planting, at a soil temperature at a planting depth of about 10 degrees. For planting, you can purchase a special tool, it resembles a very large diameter pencil with a centimeter scale. The sharp end of this tool is great for making a hole of the desired length in pre-prepared soil.
The minimum distance between the bulbs is 10 cm.
Orange Princess tulips can be grown in one place for no longer than 5 years, even with periods of summer bulbs digging.
Before planting the Orange Princess tulip, a little sand is poured into the bottom of the hole - this will provide more favorable rooting conditions for the bulbs. At the time of planting, you need to carefully lower the bulbs to the bottom of the formed fossa, without hitting hard
No matter which side it falls, the main thing is that the bottom of the bulb is not turned up. The soil above the bulb must be slightly compacted, leveled and mulched so that there are no stagnant areas
Description
A perennial herb belongs to the Liliaceae family.Their flowers are shaped like a glass. The leaves are elongated, pointed upwards, green with a bluish bloom. The height can be from 15 to 90 cm. The range of colors is impressive: there are from white to almost black, yellow, red, orange. However, there are no blue ones among them.
Among the orange flowers, there are many wonderful varieties worthy of attention.
Orange Juice. Belongs to the "Triumph" class, reaches a height of 60 cm, flowering begins in the second half of April and lasts up to two weeks. Has a large red-orange glass. The simplest flower among this type of plant. Most often used for cutting, but can also grow in a flower bed.
"Orange Princesses". Peony variety with double edges, has a bright orange color with purple veins in the middle of the petals, and at the base of the glass there is a needle pattern of the same shades. The diameter of the flower reaches 8 cm, the height is 50 cm. They bloom in different regions in different ways: they can both early and late.
Louvre Orange. The tulip is rich in color, has a color from dark orange to light orange at the edges. Fringed petals with needle-like edges. Height reaches 50 cm. Belongs to the "Triumph" group. Flowering begins in May and lasts up to 2-3 weeks, is not afraid of the sun and wind, has a strong stem.
The Orange Dynasty. Flowers of this variety grow up to 30-40 cm, blooms in April - May. The color of the petals is not uniform: from bright red to orange and almost yellow at the edge. It is oval in shape, small glass. It looks very beautiful both in a bouquet and in a flower bed.
Orange van Eyck. A variety belonging to the class "Darwin hybrids". It begins to bloom in April - May. The size of a glass of a flower can reach 10 cm. The color is red-orange. Classic variety 40-60 cm high, quite common.
Another excellent grade "Orange Imperial". Its coloring is truly imperial: orange glasses measuring 6–8 cm, in the middle of the back of the petal, green strokes, elongated and sharp. They dissolve in April. Due to their low height, up to 35 cm, they are suitable for decorating garden paths or "alpine slides".
A bit of history
For many millions of years, tulips have spread throughout the planet. In Russia, wild types of flowers were known back in the 12th century, and garden ones - during the reign of Peter I. Legends were made about them, for example, it was believed that happiness was hidden in the bud of a yellow tulip, but no one could get to it. One day a little boy touched a flower and it blossomed. This is how happiness was found.
Tulips were considered the flowers of rich people, since only in the gardens of sheikhs did whole tulip "carpets" bloom. This flower was even protected by law, it could not be taken out of the country - the offender could lose his head. Turkey hosts an annual holiday dedicated to these flowers.
Tulip cultivar Toronto (Toronto)
The Toronto tulip variety served as an inspiration for breeders - it was on the basis of this flower that several decorative, unusual varieties were created for landscaping and cutting. One of the most famous varieties that was created on the basis of Toronto is Double Toronto. It is a red tulip with double flowers.
The Toronto variety is also very beautiful and versatile - for bouquets and landscaping, looks good with white and yellow tulips, as well as green tulips. The flower has short stems, about 20-25 cm. The glasses are of medium height, tapering towards the top. The petals are of medium density, colored red, which can become dull, fade to a coral-red hue under the rays of the sun. A flower is planted in partial shade, covered for the winter.
How to grow and care properly?
In order for beautiful bright-blooming tulips to appear on your flower bed every new season, you need to take proper care of them.
- The soil should be well-drained, dug 30 cm deep, moderately moist. All roots, weeds are removed. Alkaline reactions are preferred; for this, in addition to compost and humus, ash is added to the soil.
- The planting depth is about 3 times the height of the bulb itself, and if the bulbs are very large, as in the Gesner variety, then 15 cm. In clay soil, planting is carried out slightly higher, in sandy soil - deeper.
- To protect from severe frosts, the beds are mulched with peat, but usually tulips are not threatened by freezing.
- Planting is best done in September - October at a temperature of + 5 ° - + 7 ° C, about 20 days before persistent frosts, so that the plant bulb has time to take root.
- Digging of the bulbs is carried out in August, until the leaves of the plants dry up: this will ensure in the future an increase in the size of the bulbs themselves, as well as their number. After they are dried in a dry ventilated room, examined and sorted, taking away the damaged ones, treated with fungicides, stored until planting.
- During the growing season, it can be fed with mineral fertilizers.
- If reproduction of the bulbs is required, then after the opening of the buds, they are cut off, leaving the stem and leaves. This will provide the bulbs with more nutrients.
- The distance between plants can vary from 5 to 15 cm.
As soon as the tulips sprout, do not overmoisten the soil, as the bulbs may rot, which will lead to the death of the flower. Watering at the rate of 10-40 liters per m², depending on the condition of the soil, once a week. After the end of flowering, watering continues for another two weeks.
How to properly grow tulips, see below.
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An exquisite double tulip flower Orange Princess will not leave anyone indifferent. It remains to admire how nature could create such colors and color this flower so subtly.
So, about its colors. The petals of the Orange Princess tulip are orange on top, with an ornamental-red tint, a strip of garnet-violet shades runs in the center of the petal, in different conditions the color of the strip varies - it may even be green. At the base of the petal, there may be a needle pattern in the same shades as the stripe.
A bit of history
Along with other classes, the fourteenth class was revised by the commission in the 60s of the 20th century. But, it was founded much earlier. Today, the Greig tulip group includes about a hundred varieties and about the same number of hybrid varieties. In addition, almost every year the class is replenished with new varieties that are developed by breeders. However, it all started with one wild species, and it was he who served as the basis for the creation of the numerous Greig tulip class.
This wild-growing Greig tulip was first discovered in 1868, and in 1873 it already received a detailed description and was named after the president of the Russian society of gardeners - S.A.Greig. Since then, the cultivation of this flower has been actively started, and after only 5 years, Greig's tulip was awarded a diploma and recognized as a first-class variety.
Today, Greig's tulips are most common in Holland and Kazakhstan. Of the registered and officially recognized 286 varieties, about 120 varieties are cultivated, the rest are very rare and are present mainly in botanical gardens, among collectors.
