Siberian spelling is a harbinger of spring, because its charming flowers are the first to open on the flowerbed. Hardly the spring thaws the soil and warms the sun, glades are covered with delicate buds.
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Description and features of the flower of the bluebell
You can recognize the plant by stems that are quite tall and long. One flower has 6 petals. Mostly Siberian scilla (Scilla siberica) blooms with blue, bluish and snow-white flowers. Each of them in diameter can reach 3 cm, the fruit is a box. In summer, the plant rests, flowering begins at the very beginning of spring.
This plant prefers direct sunlight and does not open its flowers on a cloudy day.
Species, varieties of rare plants
The flower has several varieties.
- Siberian grows in the forest-steppe zone. It produces peduncles up to 15 cm high. It blooms in the second half of April.
- An Armenian appearance is growing in the Caucasus. The plant prefers shade. Launches an arrow up to a quarter meter with flowers of a deep ultramarine color.
- At the edges of the forests of Transcaucasia, Caucasian Scylla lives, throwing enchanting purple and blue buds. Brief description of the species: bulbs up to 1.5 cm, gives 5 flowers up to 3 cm in size.
Basic landing requirements
Although the flower is very sun-loving, it can come to terms with partial shade. The main thing is that the selected site is not too dry. But too much dampness is destructive for Scylla. The best place is the southeast slope. In the shade, the plant will delay the onset of flowering.
Bluebell flowers grow well in loose soil, rich in rotted humus. If the earth is dry sandstones, then the bulbs should be planted deeper.If the plant will be grown not in open ground, but in a flowerpot, then at the bottom arrange good drainage.
Blueberries do not like acidic soil. The low acid reaction of the soil is optimal for them. A flower loves mulching. You can use foliage, bark, straw or even pebbles.
As a mulch, you can not sprinkle with needles or bark of conifers.
When planting between the bulbs, a step of 10 cm is left. Scylla is planted to a depth of about 7 cm. The forest sprouts only bloom in the second year.
Caring for Siberian sprouts
The plant loves watering in the morning. When watering, you need to make sure that water does not fall on the inflorescences, since they will quickly lose their decorative effect because of this.
Charming flower should be fed with nitrophos.
The solution is added:
- magnesium;
- iron;
- calcium;
- copper.
After fertilizing in the spring, the plant begins to bloom profusely and continuously.
Siberian Scylla is so unpretentious that it can grow in the garden like a weed. It is fair to say that this plant can be forgotten immediately after planting. Only sometimes do weedings need to be weeded, carefully loosening the soil simultaneously and sometimes watered. A layer of mulch will help preserve moisture near the bulbs and save the grower from troublesome care.
Breeding
Blueberries can reproduce as bulbs, and self-sowing. A bush can produce about 4 onions per season. They are planted early in the fall immediately into the soil to a depth of 8 cm in increments of 5 cm.
Young bulbs at the bluebell can grow at different depths, so it is often difficult to dig them all up right away. In the place where the spells lived, they will grow again. Young bulbs are dug up for the first time only after three years.
Planting material is not stored for a long time. You must plant the dug bulbs immediately.
When propagated by seeds from the time of sowing until the first flowers appear, at least two years will pass.
Diseases and Pests
Every experienced florist knows that it is easier to prevent the emergence of diseases than to treat plants later. Therefore, before planting the bulbs, they must be carefully examined.
- Inside the bulbs can live larvae of the beetles, which gnaw them from the inside. Before planting, the soil is sprayed with insecticides, especially carefully in those places where there are signs of onion mite habitat. Love Scylla and the Bears, as well as the Khrushchev. These parasitic insects are manually collected and their larvae removed.
- The death of Scylla can lead to stagnation of water during excessive watering. Dampness causes the development of molds and fungi, leading to rotting of the bulbs. To save diseased onions is possible only at the very beginning of the development of the disease. This requires wetting the material in a solution of manganese or fungicides. In the spring, these solutions spill bushes for prevention.
- Another spill can get sick with gray rot, which affects onions and leaves. First spots appear, and then the plant dies. Sick spills need to be destroyed immediately.
Bulb rot can cause fungi. The first symptom is yellowing of the foliage. Sick plants will have to be destroyed.
- A flower bed with Scylls can be destroyed by rodents that feed on bulbs. To prevent the attack of mice, you need to make a groove around the plants, and put poison in it and sprinkle with earth. It is necessary to hide the poison so that birds cannot find it.
Combinations with other plants
To create a colorful flower arrangement, contrasting plants or plants of different flowering periods are planted on one flowerbed.
- Very impressive, Scylla looks next to lush, late-waking ferns and lush peonies.
- Successfully combines a scam with modest snowdrops, blooming bright crocuses, graceful white daffodils.
- Scylla is often planted near trees; it is used in borders.
- The compositions with stones in rockeries look great.
- This “blue eye” is also appropriate on an emerald lawn, lawn, among only shrubs that wake up in spring and still bare trees.
In general, the touching, charming Siberian Scylla is unpretentious in culture. The plant will survive on most soils, tolerate poor soil, put up with sparse watering.
Spawn breeds very quickly, especially self-sowing. But only Scylla will not tolerate complete indifference to himself, and in response to a little attention and care he will thank the sea with shy blue flowers.
