Millions of shades of a flower or such an amazing garden geranium

Fashion for geraniums led to the fact that every year hundreds of new varieties are hatched. With small and large flowers, thousands of colors and shades, monochrome and multitone, smooth and torn edges of the flower, smooth and velvet flowers, with wintering and non-wintering leaves - varieties of this delicious flower so much that no catalog can accommodate all varieties. For cultivation in summer cottages, geranium garden is most often used, which is characterized by lush and colorful bushes.

Terms of cultivation of the queen of the garden

Most of the varieties of this family are light-loving. Even if forest geranium was used for breeding new varieties, still the finest and most luxurious samples will be on the light side of the site (Renard geranium, Himalayan, flat-flecked, ashy, Endrasa and others). But these flowers grow beautifully, bloom and bear fruit and in the darkened parts of a flower bed or alpine hill. Also, varieties that carry practically constant darkening are also derived. These include geranium forest, red-brown and Roberta. They like fresh air, dark places and moderate humidity.

From geranium, the excess moisture is preferred only by marsh geranium and its derivatives. The rest of the representatives feel most comfortable with moderate moisture. They can tolerate long enough to overflow, but at the same time the growth slows down, the plant starts to ache, rot and is not enough - the edges of the leaves turn yellow and dry, the entire leaf gradually withers, then the entire plant dies. Among the resistant to droughts, the following varieties are distinguished: Renard geranium, ashy, Endrasa, Dalmatian, geranium ivy, and coarse-grained.

Soil is preferable to light and fertile soil. Most varieties grow well on slightly alkaline soil, geranium garden prefers soil with a pH of about 8. But the abundance of varieties allows you to pick a variety for any type of soil. So, on the acidic, peaty soils, the black-eyed geranium feels great. On clay, heavy, but rich soil - geranium meadow and sukovataya.

To lower the temperature geranium garden is normal. Sometimes the outer part of the plant dies as a result of frost, but in the spring new shoots grow. For wintering geraniums (red-brown and blood-red), you do not need to trim the leaves before hibernation. But still it will not be superfluous to hide flowers for the winter and warm it. But geranium ivy is not afraid of cooling, but from the frosts instantly lose its juicy and fleshy leaves.

Care for a multi-colored blooming beauty

To look after geraniums it is simple. With good watering and weeding, the flower grows in large lush bushes, crushing weeds. Therefore, until the plants grow, regular weeding and fertilizer are needed. It is good to fertilize this flowering shrub in a period of rapid flowering and fruit formation. Loosening the aisles is mandatory, since dense, clogged soil depresses growth and flowering. It should be monitored that one type of fertilizer was not in excess, as, for example, nitrogen fertilizers strongly drive the leaf mass of the flower, but badly affect the flowering.

Weaknesses and diseases of geranium

Most plants suffer from violation of growing conditions: excess or lack of moisture, very high or low air temperatures, insufficient amount of light and nutrients. Eliminate such deviations easily, and then the geranium garden will soon recover.

We propagate beauty

Representatives of this family reproduce very easily.

Seeds are formed closer to the end of summer and are independently scattered, thus, already to a cooling in the garden there will be a bunch of new seedlings. But it is more effective to sow the seeds closer to the cold, so that in spring they choose the optimum period for the shoots. Blossoms geranium garden, obtained from seeds, usually in the second year.

It is very convenient to sow seeds in homemade micro-greenhouses, germinate them before the appearance of real leaves and plant them at a distance of at least 40 cm from each other so that they do not subsequently be planted. Sowing seeds is so as to plant adult seedlings in the soil at the first warming, otherwise the flowering will begin only towards the end of summer.

Perfectly take root and cuttings of plants put in water before the appearance of a full-fledged new root system. To accelerate the process of root germination, you can soak the cuttings in a growth stimulant or special solutions.

It is possible to divide a bush into cuttings and a root with a kidney of division. Kidneys should be juicy and healthy, then in a month you will have a rejuvenated plant.

Plant the first geranium, and you can not stop. You will want to admire new and new varieties of these beautiful flowers!