Koreopsis perennial - garden decoration

Is it possible to imagine a garden without flowers? Multicolored bright splendor pleases the eye. The beds and alpine slides are surrounded by a wide variety of flora. Beautiful in the garden looks koreopsis. In combination with ornamental plants, these flowers can be part of a unique garden decoration.

The numerous genus of Koreanopenes from the Astro family includes more than a hundred of the most diverse subspecies of plants. Perennials and annuals hail from South and North America are quite popular among florists. Koreopsisy have gained popularity thanks to bright flowers and a long flowering period. Tall and undersized, versatile plants are great for flower beds and wings, flower arrangements and bright flower beds. Flowers with short stems are grown in vases or boxes. They feel great on the balconies in suspended flowerpots.

Koreopsis long-term unpretentious. It has good frost-resistant, drought-resistant qualities. The plant does not require shelter for the winter period. The flowerbeds on which the coreopsis will grow for many years should be well lit. This plant is photophilous. Watering in the flowering period is moderate.

They multiply the coreopsis for many years, either by seeds or by seedling method, or by dividing an adult plant. Plant flowers on a permanent place at a distance of fifty centimeters. For a good flowering, they should not obscure each other. Stems are periodically shortened, after which the plant is fed with mineral fertilizers. This ensures good flowering all season. For wintering, the stems are cut out completely. In spring, many years of renewed growth. All agrotechnics of growing plants are repeated in the new season.

Among perennials, the large-flowering coreopsis is particularly effective. This is a powerful, branchy plant, the stems of which grow to a meter long. Leaflets of a large flower. Inflorescences reaching 8 centimeters in diameter, are painted on long peduncles. Large ligulate petals are bright, like the sun. They are colored yellow or orange.

Blossoming large-flowering perennial will please from the beginning of July to the first frosts. The large-flowered subspecies grows in one place for not more than three years.

Effectively looks and decorative plant koreopsis whorled. It resembles small bushes, the stems of which grow to sixty centimeters in length. Thin leaves of a flower in a combination to narrow tabular petals of inflorescences of yellow color give to a plant the refined effective kind. The coreopsis of this subspecies is drought-resistant and durable. In one place they will delight in bright flowering for 6 years.

Unlike perennial, one-year coreopsis grows only one season. These flowers are sown in early May. Suspended crops are planted in a permanent place. Low-growing plants should be planted at a distance of twenty centimeters from each other. Tall sub-species are not very densely planted. Between plants should be at least thirty-five centimeters. Care for them is the same as for perennials, except that at the end of the season the plants die.

Coreopsis is quite a practical acquisition. It is not only the decoration of the garden plot, the balcony in the city apartment, but also the magnificent bouquets of fresh flowers.