Unusual flower of Lantana in Your garden Bashny.Net

Few gardeners know such a flower as Lantana. Meanwhile, he is so handsome and unpretentious that to grow it everyone can.



Planting and care lantanas
When choosing a place for planting the Lantana, keep in mind, this water-loving plant and sensitive to water shortage. Prolonged dry weather in the absence of sufficient watering can cause Bud drop and flower. But the rains are dangerous for plants. In summer, Lantana thrives in the fresh air.

Due to the high rate of growth of the cuttings planted in spring, bloom the same summer. Therefore, lanthanum in the garden can be grown as annuals. In the second half of may, when the night frosts her planted in open ground in a Sunny, protected from the wind.

In the shade of a Lantana bloom poorly, flower color is less bright, shoots elongated.

For abundant flowering Lantana requires fertile, humus-rich loam or sandy loam soil. On clayey, heavy soils it is advisable to make a drainage layer at least 10 cm in the Ground hole can be completely replaced by a loose mixture of clay and sod land, leaf humus, peat and sand.

The plants are planted at a distance of 20-40 cm from each other (depending on variety).

In the period of active growth and flowering Lantana 1-4 times a month, apply mineral and organic fertilizers (mullein infusion in a ratio of 1:10 or bird droppings 1:30). From mineral it is better to use (especially during flowering) fertilizer low in nitrogen and high in potassium and phosphorus.

The Lantana can not be planted in open ground, and to put in the garden in pots. So they don't overheat in the sun, they are best added dropwise. For it is better to use a ceramic unglazed pots, their porous surface ensures good capillary contact with the soil and the plants do not suffer from overheating. Bury pots in the ground almost to the brim. Poles under them make a few inches deeper than the height of the pot. Fossa it is better to fill with ash, expanded clay or brick chips to prevent the stagnation of water in the pot and will not penetrate through the drainage hole rain worms. Autumn pots before making the room it is advisable to shed a 1% solution of copper sulfate to get rid of worms, if they do penetrate inside. The Lantana that grow in the ground, transplanted in pots.

Reproduction Lantana
The Lantana is propagated mainly by cuttings, which are cut with the spring shoots. Make slices with a sharp knife at a distance of several millimeters from the lower buds. Cuttings root easily and quickly in coarse sand or perlite, in a mixture of peat with sand, and in water. The use of stimulants rooting accelerates the appearance of roots. Rooted cuttings are planted in pots with a diameter of 7-9 cm and the growth rolled over in the tank larger. Seeds of the Lantana can be propagated, if there is a desire to obtain new hybrids. To do this, you must have at least two plants of different varieties. published

 

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