Dahlia flowers in the photo or what a real queen of flower beds looks like
Every gardener dreams of having a beautiful well-groomed area with gorgeous flower beds and various flower arrangements. Some plant flowers in any free space on the site, others arrange separate flower beds. Choosing flowers becomes a whole ritual and takes a lot of time. Usually we start looking at photos in magazines and on the Internet, and we look at everything in a row, from the simplest types to exotic ones.
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And as soon as a photo with lush dahlias, all doubts disappear. Dahlia will forever become a favorite flower. This plant looks like a king. You can spend hours looking at images of magnificent dahlias of various colors and shapes.
Description of the flower
Dahlia is a rather interesting and varied flower that will be a wonderful decoration for any garden. It blooms later than other flowers, usually at the end of July and continues to bloom until the first frost.
The varieties of this plant differ in height: there are high border varieties, the inflorescences of which are about 25 cm in diameter, there are undersized flower beds and dwarf varieties with small flowers.
Even a novice gardener can handle the cultivation of dahlias. These flowers grow well in grassy areas and in the garden. The main thing is that the place where the dahlias will grow is well lit by the sun. Although nothing terrible will happen if the site is a little shaded. It is advisable that the water does not stagnate in the flower bed with dahlias. In the summer, regular watering is important.
In order for the flowers to be lush and look really royal, it is necessary to thin out the bushes. In dense bushes, flowers will be small. For the whole season, flowers need to be spud and fertilized a couple of times.
Planting dahlias
You can grow chic dahlias on your site from seeds, root cones or cuttings. The soil for dahlias, it should be well-drained, since tubers will develop poorly in dense black soil or clay. If the soil in your area is still dense, you can mix it with river sand or peat to make it looser.
Before planting, approximately three weeks in advance, you need to get the tubers from the storage area and carefully divide along the root collar. They must do this before the tubers sproutso as not to damage the roots.
You do not need to divide the tubers into too small parts. The finer you separate them, the worse they will develop and the fewer flowers they will have.
In order to germinate already divided tubers, they are laid out on a damp cloth, moistened with abundant water on top and covered with foil. The film should be lifted every two days and the tubers should be moistened. After some time, your tubers that have dried up over the winter will regain their healthy appearance and germinate by 4-5 cm.
In early spring, as soon as the snow melts, they begin to plant the tubers in the ground.
Since the ground is still very cold, before planting the tubers in the ground, they make a hole 30x30x30 cm in size and leave it open for several days so that the ground warms up. Organic fertilizers are added to the bottom of the dug hole. You can put compost mixed with urea at the rate of 2 liters per 1 tablespoon of urea. A peg is immediately stuck into this hole, which will later be used to tie the flower stem.This procedure is done immediately, so that later this peg does not damage the roots.
Dahlia tubers are planted deep enough so that the root collar is 15 cm from the top of the pit. Immediately planted tubers are not covered with earth. This is done gradually. After planting, sprinkle with warmed earth with a layer of about 3 cm.When the shoots begin to grow, sprinkle the earth. It is not necessary to fill the hole in the level with the ground; it is better to leave a small hole for watering.
Dahlia care
In order for the queen of flower beds to grow well and give an increase in tubers, it is still necessary to follow her look after... Before the plant begins to bloom, you can add a solution of mullein and superphosphate 4 times in proportion to 10 liters of water 1 liter of mullein and 20 grams of superphosphate. You can feed with the following solution: for 10 liters of water, 50 grams of superphosphate and 0.5 liters of wood ash. This top dressing will provide lush bloom and large flowers.
It is important not to forget about the formation of the bush. In this case, the processes that appear in the axils of the leaves are removed.
If the weather is hot outside, it is advisable to spray dahlias with warm water only in the evening. So you will protect the bushes from diseases of powdery mildew and aphids. It will not hurt to feed with urea. Closer to autumn, dahlias are spud up to a height of 10 cm in order to protect them from the first autumn frosts.
With the onset of autumn, the plant ceases to be watered and fed, allowing the tubers to ripen well. Then they are dug up, dried and stored.
These simple tips will help you grow gorgeous flowers on your site that will look like in the photo, and delight the eye with their multi-colored lush inflorescences for a long time.