Many gardeners for the beautiful appearance love garden long-term spurge, planting and caring for the plant do not cause special problems. The second name of the euphorbia culture, it has gained popularity with its unpretentiousness, decorativeness, medicinal properties, is spread throughout the entire planet - from the tropics to the tundra.
Garden Euphorbia - varieties
The family has about 1600 species, which have a variety of colors, but all of them are related to the structure of the flower and milky juice, which acts at the site of damage to the stem. Garden perennial spurge is a shrub that has the shape of a ball, which in diameter can reach 1.5 m. With good care the plant is covered with flowers, greenish at the beginning and bright yellow throughout the season. The rosettes are lined with elongated leaves, giving them the appearance of a small bouquet. Euphorbia - varieties of garden perennial species, planting which produce for landscape decoration:
- Cypress. The stem height reaches 50 cm, the shoots are covered with thin leaves resembling needles. The flowers are small, have a white, yellow or red color, exude a pleasant aroma.
- Almond. It is characterized by the presence of thin, lanceolate leaves and scaly shoots. About 10 salad flowers are gathered in the socket, they have a yellow-green wrap when they blossom (April-June).
- Multicolored. Original looks because of the leaves of different shapes, located along the entire length of the stem. Flowers have a yellow color, are wrapped in an orange wrapper.
- Multiflorous. The bush grows to 70 cm, the most frost-hardy of all varieties. Blossoms from May to June, until late autumn, pleasing decorative leaves, gaining a bright lemon color.
- Mediterranean. The shrub reaches a size of 1.5 m, during flowering in May, the plant throws out yellow-green brushes, oblong leaves acquire a bluish original tide.
Garden perennial spurge - planting
Decorative garden perennial spurge - light-loving, planting and care for it should be on an open solar plot or in partial shade, then the green mass and flowers develop evenly. The plant likes light soils, well drained, loose, alkaline or neutral. Sour earth must be preliminarily lime. Rules of planting of garden perennial milkweed:
- Plant the plant in autumn or spring, the second option is more reliable - so the bush can better take root for the winter;
- for planting a pit of 30 cm and 50 cm in diameter is required, the distance between the milk is 1 m;
- a bucket of humus is added to the hole, a broken brick or expanded clay is laid on the bottom as drainage, a layer of wood bark should be placed on top;
- planting the seedling in a hole is produced together with a clod of earth on the roots, sprinkled with soil mixture. Substrate composition: leafy soil, peat and sand in equal proportions;
- After planting in the soil, the seedling should be watered and covered with mown lawn grass.
Euphorbia - Care and Growth
To grow a beautiful garden perennial spurge, planting and caring for it should be in watering if necessary, make-up, timely pruning. In addition, the plant needs weeding, systematic removal of weeds. Molochia frost-resistant, but growing at home requires care in the form of mulching in the spring, summer and autumn in preparation for winter. Peat or humus in the amount of 1/2 bucket per 1 m 2 is used for powdering. A large bush for the winter can be wrapped with lapnik or cover material. Transplant the culture no more than once every 5 years.
How to water the spurge?
When deciding how often to water the spurge, it must be taken into account that it is a drought-resistant plant and well tolerates a lack of water. Humidify it should be infrequent, only if the summer was dry and hot, then the bush needs care - it should be watered moderately in the morning or in the evening, when the heat will subside. Excessive moisturizing of spurge is not worth it - this can lead to decay of the root system.
What to feed spurge?
The long-term gardener's milk is recommended to care in terms of fertilizer application three times a season - in April-May, in July and in late August-September. This will ensure its full growth and development. On the question of how to feed spurge at home, experienced gardeners are advised to use traditional mineral compositions for flowering plants, for example, Fertik Lux. When diluting the concentrate, it is better to reduce fertilizer consumption twice or to increase the amount of water when preparing the mixture.
Euphorbia - reproduction
Cultivation of culture is carried out in a seed or vegetative manner. How to propagate the spurge of a garden:
- Seeds. To obtain the seed material, the bushes are planted in pairs, the female flowers are broad with pestles, on the male they are elongated with stamens. Seeds need preliminary care, they are subjected to scarification - grind with sandpaper to wipe the top shell. Then put in a light primer and placed for two weeks in the refrigerator. In April-May, seeds are planted in the soil to a depth of 0.5 cm and mulched.
- By dividing the bush. The plant is cut in April-May into hotel rooms, so that each one has 1-2 shoots. Twigs immediately put in separate holes. Sharing a bush is recommended no more often than once every 2-3 years.
- Cuttings. In July-August cut off the tips of shoots 10-12 cm long, removing the lower leaves. The stalk is placed in water for 2 hours (to get out the juice), dried for a couple of days, sprinkled with a stimulant for the roots and placed in a mini-greenhouse in moist sand or perlite.
Euphorbia garden - pruning
Decorative perennial garden milk is periodically required care in the form of pruning. Produce it immediately after the wilting buds and buds. During pruning, remove dried branches and shorten the inflorescences that have emerged from the general appearance. The procedure preserves the attractive appearance of the milkweed, its health and vital functions. Pruning should be done carefully, because the stems produce a poisonous juice, which causes skin irritation.