Long-term garden spurge or otherwise - euphorbia, is an incredibly decorative plant of the family Euphorbia. He is very unpretentious in the care, looks beautiful and is able to decorate himself with any garden plot, for which he liked many florists.
Types of garden milkweed
There are many varieties of this plant, depending on what it can be either lushly flowering perennial bush, or an evergreen shrub, and sometimes a whole tree. Decorate with such a plant you can flower beds, rock gardens , curbs.
In nature there are about 2000 species of milkweed, but the most common of these are spurge-shaped almond, multiflorous, marshy, capitate, cypress and fringed.
Describe each variety of garden flowers spurge can be long and with ecstasy. Everyone chooses what to plant on his plot, depending on which flower he liked and what he would like to see at his dacha. It can be spurge garden fire or Mediterranean, marshy or stone-loving. The main thing is to specify the winter hardiness of the selected plant, since not all of them are able to survive the harsh northern winters.
Euphorbia - planting and care
Many varieties multiply self-sowing, but for this, side by side you need to plant male and female bushes. Identify their sex identity can only be in the flowering period, so you can not guess. Therefore, it is better to buy seeds in the store and drop them in the fall directly into the open ground. After that, the land should be well covered with mulch (saws or humus). They will sprout for 10-15 days.
Propagate spurge garden can and cuttings. This is even easier, since almost all species perfectly tolerate cuttings. Cut the cuttings better in May-June. Sections immediately covered with milky juice, which must be washed off with water, and place cuts with sprinkled activated charcoal.
First, plant the cuttings in boxes with soil and pounded charcoal until the rooting time, maintain a moderate humidity in them. Then the roots can be planted
After planting, caring for perennial garden spur is quite primitive, as the plant is tenacious and extremely unpretentious. Euphorbia tolerates a drought well, it should be watered only during hot summer. He does not tolerate overmoistening.
Twice during the summer season it needs to be fertilized with mineral fertilizer. Since autumn, cover the bushes with sawdust, vegetable peat or humus. Large bushes can be covered with lapnik or dense polyethylene. Do this only if the temperature in your region drops below -15˚С in winter.