For sure, many of us, when choosing a bouquet, paid attention to small, gently-colored flowers that resembled lilies in appearance, but much inferior in size. The name of these cute alstroemeria flowers. Alstromeria refers to the herbaceous perennial plants that came to us from the tropics of South America. But, despite this exotic origin, it is quite possible to grow it in our latitudes. On the subtleties of the technology of growing alstroemeria in the garden and will be discussed in this article.
Alstroemeria - planting and care
Since alstroemeria is a tropical plant, it needs to create certain conditions for successful growth and flowering.
- Plant alstroemery in a well-lit and drained area, leaving between the plant intervals of 30 cm and deepening them into the soil by 20-25 cm.
- Alstromeria is very demanding regarding the temperature of the environment. In the period of budding and flowering, the comfort temperature for it is about + 16 ° C. When the soil is heated to a value above + 22 ° C, alstroemeria stops flowering, putting all the forces into the formation of powerful tubers.
- Watering this whimsical beauty is necessary with a certain degree of caution, as the overflow for it is very dangerous and can cause the death of the plant: in summer, as a result of it, root rot may start, and in the autumn alstroemeria may become frozen.
- Monthly care for alstroemeria must include 3-4 feeding with full mineral fertilizers with a high content of potassium. As soon as the buds begin to be laid on the alstroemeria, it is necessary to completely exclude the nitrogen constituent from the nutritional composition.
- For the winter, alstroemeria needs a special shelter. In this case, young plants must be excavated for the winter and, together with the earthen lump, stored until spring in a cool dry place. The older alstromeria bushes can be left to hibernate in the open, carefully covering them with tar, dry branches and leaves.
Alstrometry - varieties
There are a lot of varieties and hybrids of this wonderful flower. But most often there are the following:
- Alstroemeria golden - has flowers of yellow-orange color and reaches a height of 95 cm;
- Alstroemeria Peruvian - cold-resistant, excellent for growing outdoors;
- alstroemeria Brazilian lily - tall variety, reaching a height of 1.5-2 meters;
- alstroemeria blood-flowering - a variety that is distinguished by magnificent inflorescences (about 15 flowers) and fleshy rhizomes;
- alstroemeria parrot lily - fast-growing variety, which has the ability to grow rapidly.
Alstroemeria - growing from seeds
There are two ways to grow alstroemerias: from seeds and dividing rhizomes. When growing alstroemeria from flowering seeds, one should expect no earlier than three years. You can plant seeds both directly in the open ground, and grow seedlings from them. On seedlings, the seeds are sown in late February-early March, placing them in small pots and covering them with a plastic wrap. Within a month, pots with seedlings are tempered at a temperature of + 5 ° C. And in the open ground seedlings are transplanted at the end of May, when finally the danger of nocturnal frosts will finally disappear. For planting seedlings, it is better to choose a warm, but not a hot day, and a time when direct sunlight will not reach the site. Immediately after the landing, the site with alstroemeria must be thoroughly watered up so that the soil retains moisture as long as possible.
Grow alstroemeria and in pots at home .
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