Rudbeckia perennial - the sun in your garden

For the owner of the villa site, the flower garden is a special pride. With what pleasure the owner of a colorful flowerbed can show to friends and neighbors own bright, unusual plantings! Especially the heart is pleasing to plants, similar to the colorful suns. This is a long-term rudbeckia - a herbaceous plant, which can reach a height of one and a half meters. Flowers with inflorescences-baskets - large, from ten to fifteen centimeters in diameter, their coloring combines yellow, orange, black and purple colors. The birthplace of the flower is North America. There are thirty varieties of it.

It attracts this plant with its unpretentiousness. The composition of the soil is not exacting. But as the best option suited soil sandy loam or loamy, its acidity should be neutral. It is easy for a long-term rudbeckie to tolerate drought and extreme heat. She is not afraid of temperature changes. When planting for a flower, you need to choose a well-lit area, since he loves the sun. Seeds can remain germinating for two to three years. In April, to obtain seedlings, the seeds are sown in boxes and closed at a depth of three millimeters. The first shoots appear after nine to twelve days. For hardening, they can be taken out on a balcony or an open veranda. The plant is planted in open ground from May to July. Between plantings should be a distance of twenty-five to thirty-five centimeters.

Rudbeckia blossoms for many years in the second or third year. The flowering period continues until the frost. For the winter, the plant does not need to be sheltered. To prolong the life of the flower, it can be rejuvenated, multiplied by dividing the bush. This operation should be carried out after three years. Between the bushes during the landing it is necessary to observe a distance of forty centimeters, as the plants grow strongly in plants.

To ensure a longer flowering, it is necessary to feed the planting with manure. You can not change the flower, then the long-term rudbeckia grows every year, the bush becomes thicker and more flowers appear on it. It is necessary in time to remove already discolored inflorescences. Care is required traditional. We need to clean the weeds, water them regularly and carry out fertilizing with humus. As a fertilizer for young seedlings, mixtures for flowering plants are suitable. Twenty days after the first feeding, a solution prepared on the basis of ten liters of water can be added to the soil, into which it is necessary to add "Rosa" fertilizer and nitrophos (1 tablespoon).

A remarkable addition to the decorative design of the garden is a long-lived rudbeckia, the photo shows how profitable it looks as a background for a flower arrangement. It can be planted on the south side of the garden fence. The flower is suitable for tapeworm, as a curb, it will look great on the flower bed.

The plant does not suffer from pests, it has unusual vitality, it is stable to spring frosts. In winter, the perennial rudbeckia does not need shelter. Since autumn, its stems have been cut off to the root, then mulching is carried out by humus, and it is applied by a layer of five to seven centimeters.