Bulbous flowers, as the name suggests, have a bulb-a modified underground stem that retains liquid and feeds the plant in arid and cold seasons.
It is the bulbs that gardeners use to plant perennial bulbous flowers on their plots. But there are not only garden species of plants, there are also domestic bulbous flowers that grow beautifully in pots on the windowsill. But first things first.
Garden bulb flowers
In the garden, almost all bulbous flowers are perennials, for which gardeners love them. After sowing them once, for several years you can enjoy the beautiful design of your site. In addition, the cultivation of such flowers does not take much time and cost.
The most popular flower growers are plants such as lilies, gladioli, hyacinths, irises, daffodils and tulips. Among the spring bulbous flowers a special place is occupied by snowdrops - peculiar harbingers of heat and sun. They appear from under the snow first in February-March. Lovely and delicate, they please us, bored for beauty and grace for a long gray winter.
But where to get the bulbs for growing flowers? There are several options - you can buy it in special shops, borrow from friends or reproduce by yourself.
Before planting bulbous plants, it is necessary to prepare the soil, dig it, apply mineral and organic fertilizers, correct the soil composition in accordance with the needs of a particular plant and wait a couple of days for the soil to settle.
The most important thing is to choose the right time for bulb planting. Spring bulbous flowers are planted between September 20 and October 7, beginning with daffodils and ending with tulips. And the summer bulbs are planted in spring: the end of April and the beginning of May.
Under each bulb is digged a hole 2-3 times larger than it, the bottom is sprinkled with sand. Do not confuse the bottom and top of the bulb. Watering and fertilizing bulbs should be moderate. After the end of the flowering period, the yellowed leaves and the stem must be cut to the base of the soil. Most bulbs do not need to be excavated, they perfectly survive the winter in the ground even without shelter.
Home bulbous flowers
To room bulbous flowers include azalea, amaryllis , anthurium, begonia, room spindle, room geranium, hibiscus, gloxinia, guzmania , eschinanthus and many other species.
To grow at home one or several species of these plants, you will need, first of all, their bulbs, knowledge and a little patience.
To quickly multiply bulbous plants, you need to cut the bottom of the mother bulb with a sharp knife, without damaging its middle, remove the base. All sections must be treated with a fungicide. Place it on a metal wire mesh or on a saucer with dry sand bottom up and hold for 2-3 months at a temperature of 21-22 ° C. In the places of cut small bulbs are formed.
Mother bulbs are planted bottom up in a prepared substrate, sprinkled with sand and placed in a cold place. When the baby bulbs grow a little, they need to be separated from the mother bulb,
Some bulbous plants can be propagated and their scales - leaf cuttings. To do this, it is necessary to break the scales in the wilted bulbs as close as possible to the Donets, extract them from the soil, expose the bulb before that, treat them with a fungicide and dispose of them in a heated mixture of peat and sand, taken in equal proportions.
We put the pot in a plastic bag and keep it in a ventilated room for 6-8 weeks until bulbs are formed at the base of the scales. We transplant them into separate pots and wait for them to please us with their growth and flowering.