Gentle, graceful and charming buttercup scientifically called Ranunculus. These beautiful plants with a bright and diverse coloring in tying buds are a bit like tea roses, and when opened - on the magnificent inflorescences of poppy. So, it's about planting and caring for the garden buttercups.
Planting a buttercup garden
For planting plants are selected solar or semi-shaded areas, where there are no drafts. For cultivation of garden buttercups weakly acidic or neutral soils , lungs, with excellent drainage properties are suitable.
Plant plants are not seeds, but seedlings-babies. For them, pits are prepared at a distance of 15-25 cm from each other, to the bottom of which a drainage layer 4-8 cm high is placed. These may be small pebbles or expanded clay. Then fill some land, pour it and go to planting. If you bought a Ranunculus in a pot, transplant it to a new place together with an earthen lump. Earth compact, and then pour again. Unfortunately, in the first year of planting the long-term garden buttercup will not bloom, what you should be ready for. But with the appropriate care in the next season, your lawn will be decorated with a magnificent scattering of buds.
Care of the garden buttercup
Watering Ranunculus should be regular, but not abundant, because the rhizome of the plant slopes to rot, and therefore do not overdo it. If you still notice mold on parts of flowers and dropping buds, remove spoiled leaves, stop watering and loosen the soil near the buttercup stem.
To the plant was pleased with the flowering during July-August, we advise every two weeks to make top dressing beds with garden buttercup. As a rule, in the early spring, when the growth of foliage occurs, nitrogen fertilizers are introduced into the ground near the bush. From the beginning of budding and until the fall - potassium-phosphorus compounds.
Since these plants are sensitive to an excess of moisture, caring for buttercups in the garden is impossible without periodic loosening. After the flowering of the panicle begins to decrease gradually in August, reduce the watering frequency and its volume. By the middle of the month, when the leaves of the bushes begin to turn yellow, the flower garden is completely stopped. In regions where winters are harsh, the rhizomes of plants are excavated in September, cleaned of residual land and dried in a room with a temperature of + 19 + 21 ° C. After this, the rhizomes are wrapped in the edges of natural tissue and stored in a cool place with a positive temperature until spring.