Landing of astilba in the ground. Astilba in the open ground. Care

But to grow there, it should be planted there. And even earlier - buy.

From here comes the paramount importance of the recommendation: when it is possible to consider the plant through transparent packaging, one should choose specimens with an inexhaustible, juicy rhizome, with sprouts only appearing( or even just emerging).Good preservation of the rhizome is the guarantee of the health of the future bush.

If the rhizome is not too exhausted by the sprouts already stretched and repeatedly bent inside the pack, it will get accustomed( but it is not necessary to expect special beauty in the first year from such a bush).

Rhizome with visible damage, overdried, moldy or decayed, or with young sprouts and leaves already withered, and even more so - do not buy rotten ones.

Store the purchased material before the time of planting should be in the refrigerator.

Planting of astilba in nuances

When planting an astilbe in the ground, the hole is digging deep enough to allow free placement of the rhizome( no deeper than 30 cm), with organic fertilizer or a fertilizer complex( 30 g / m beds), humus and bone meal ( 2 handfuls / m beds).It is highly recommended to use Bionex , which is based on fermented chicken manure. If soil moisture is poorly retained, insertion of hydrogel into the pit is beneficial.

Landing of astilba in the ground. Photo

The watering is extremely important in such an issue as planting astilba. When the contents of the purchased seedlings are kept in the pot on the eve of the planting, it is necessary to water it, after repeating this procedure after planting the plant in the soil.

The rhizome spread in the pit is filled with soil with a slight compaction, but without penetrating the plant. It is planted at the level at which it was planted in the pot, otherwise - so that the root neck was level with the soil, and so that after watering and settling the soil the roots of the plant are not exposed.

Landing of astilba in the ground. Photo

Planted cautiously, but abundantly watered, filling the water with a circular groove, dug so that water does not spread. In dry weather, watering is repeated at least a day before the time of complete plant survival.

Landing of astilba in the ground. Photo

Complete the aspiration planting by mulching with bark( crushed), or composting, or sawdust, leaving free space around the shoots.

The symbol of successful completion of work is the installation of a label with a brand name.

The main varieties of

There are at least 40 species and at least 400 varieties with altitudes from 0.15 to 2 m in the genus. The main ornament of the plant is the inflorescence of panicles or brushes with a length of 10 to 60 cm. The flowering time of the culture from June to August(depends on the type and grade).

The varieties include:

• David's astilba;
• Astilba naked;
• Astilba Chinese;
• Astilba Japanese;
• Astilba Thunberg.

Each variety of astilba differs from the other in habitus( bush form), coloring of flower haloes and leaves, aroma of flowers or its absence, height, and also time and duration of flowering.

For Astilba David - a bush blooming from July to August, a broad, luxuriantly sprawling structure, reaching 1.5 m in height, with lilac-green( with pale brown veins) wrinkled leaves of complex shape are characterized by flowers of pink-lilac shade,the axis of which is deflected to the side at an almost right angle.

bare shrub is only 12 cm high, its diameter is 15 cm. The ornamentation of the plant is the bronze shade of leaves;flowering time( June - July).

Astilby flowers Chinese can have a coloration of both white and pink and lilac, the length of the inflorescence can reach 30 cm at a height of the bush to 1 m. The brilliant leaves of the fishnet pattern are covered with hairs of light red color. It has a long flowering period( June-August).

The flowering plant of Japanese with light green pinnate leaves with a glossy luster( up to 70 cm high) is spread out in a wide circle, and white( or pink) fragrant flowers collected in rhombus inflorescences reach a length of 30 cm;the duration of flowering is one month( July).

Collected in long( 25 cm) inflorescence-brushes, having a diameter of 10 cm, numerous flowers of Astibe Tunberg white color along with complex leaves with jagged edges form a plant up to 80 cm high, blooming from July to August.

Conditions for growing astilba

Special cropping culture does not deliver to your gardener - in addition, once planted, it survives from the place of growth, any kinds of weeds and weeding is not required. But some features of agricultural technology should be taken into account.

For the planting of an astilbe in the open ground, the site should be with a light( rarefied) shadow or semi-shaded - open sun to the health of the plant is not conducive. But even when planted under large trees with a dense shadow, it also grows and blooms badly.

Astilba feels well in places with increased air humidity , near the water: near the pond, near the fountain. But a moderate constant soil moisture is also enough. If the groundwater in the site of planting is high and the soil is highly humid, then it is not worthwhile to think of the best conditions.

In addition to its dependence on the level of soil water, the Astilba respects the deeply buried ground or dug( for the purpose of removing weed rhizomes), fertilized with humus compost, peat( well decomposed) or manure( enough peregrested), based on a 2 bucket / m2 calculation.

When planting an astilbe group, the distance between the plants should be between 30( minimum) and 50( maximum) centimeters, depending on the grade height, which can be of the order of 50, and of the order of 120 cm.

How to propagate Astilba

The peculiarity of astilba is the steadily increasingprotrusion from the soil of the rhizome with dense, cords-like subordinate roots( with an annual increase in height from 3 to 5 cm), requiring soil spillage. At the same time, parts of the rhizome, which are deep down, die.

Therefore every 5-6 years, so that the plant does not lose decorativeness, produce its division followed by a transplant.

Division of the bush - the method of reproduction of astilba is the easiest. The excavated bush, after removing the lower, dead parts of the rhizome, is cut into groups with 3-5 buds on each. Parts of the divided Astilba bush are immediately planted, not allowing the roots to dry;they need watering every day. With this variant of reproduction, the autumn astilba is quite capable of blooming.

When reproducing with the help of kidneys, regenerating shoots, cutting off with part of the rhizome, are placed in a mini-greenhouse for rooting in a mixture of peat and gravel in a ratio of 3: 1.Cuttings of cuttings and a mother plant are dusted with ashes. Young plants are planted on a permanent basis either in the autumn or in the spring of the next season.

To propagation of astilba with the help of , seeds of are rarely used - hybrids are not capable of preserving varietal characters. In the method of propagation by seeds, they are not embedded in the planting soil - they are scattered over the surface, and stratification is used to accelerate germination - keeping in the cold( for 21 days at -4. .. + 4 ° C) followed by the usual seedling method - cultivationin a warm room.

Astilba in combination with other garden plants

Being beautifully flowering perennials, astilbs, planted in a compartment with other shade-loving crops, are able to decorate the garden as their large white, lilac, pink, red, burgundy, carmine, purple-red and cherry panicles.and shiny, openwork and lush foliage - the color from dark green to maroon and bronze on petioles reddish color.

Beautiful as neighbors astilbam, opening the leaves in May, can become as early-flowering plants: hollows, snowdrops, woodlands, and adorisian goritsveti, lilies of the valley, irises, tulips, hosts, ferns, aquilegia, kupena, rodzersiya, Volzhanka.

Next to the openwork bushes of astilbe, bushes of podophyllum, badana, hellebore are interesting because of the difference in structure, color and density of their leaf blades.

The culture of the lawns planted along the edges, on the banks of the reservoir, in the rockeries, in the rabbit, located in the penumbra of the mixborders, is beneficial.

Care of the plant( agricultural technology)

Immediately after the planting of the astilba, the work on its cultivation immediately smoothly flows into the next stage - care for astilba: after laziness to water another plant that has not yet been taken, it can be destroyed or significantly slowed down its development.

Watering should be regular, as frequent as possible, and if there is a long absence of natural watering( rains), the culture should be watered both in the morning and in the evening. With a lack of water, the culture begins to dry out the tips of the stems and leaves.

The only grade of astilba that can survive mild degrees of drought is Chinese astilba, this rule does not apply to all other varieties.

For the success of rooting, should remove all the inflorescents generated on the plant both after planting( in the first year of culture) and after dividing-transplanting, then a well-established plant or its segments in the next season will fully show all their best qualities. To preserve the decorativeness of the plantation, the faded brush-inflorescences are also removed.

The thickness of the mulch layer around the crop( created by humus, peat, straw, bark, sawdust, small pebbles) must be at least 2 or 3 cm. It is necessary to prevent moisture loss by the soil, reduce the degree of its overheating, does not allow weeds to growand creates the plant the necessary degree of heat in winter.

In addition to the organic fertilizer applied during planting, it is important to maintain the optimum ratio of phosphorus and potassium in the soil under the culture for the luxuriant flowering of astilba. For top dressing of dry soil, peat or compost is used most often, if it is wet, ready-made complex fertilizers. At the end of flowering, it is necessary to fertilize the plant with potassium-phosphorus compounds.

When growing astilba in one place without transplantation for more than 5 years, there is a danger of exposing the rhizome, kidney restoration and young adnexal roots. Therefore, the planting of such plants should hide with peat, lagnik or compost, otherwise the flowering of bushes will not be so lush or so long. Astilbyes of a younger age easily tolerate a warm winter unguarded.

This method, like weeding, is practically not required when caring for Astilba, because in the adult state, it itself displaces all the weeds from its territory - the density of the leaves on the bush is so great that they create a shadow impervious to the sun, in which no one can surviveplant.

Astilba is not susceptible to damage by any of the known types of diseases or pests, so there is simply no need to protect them from them.