Plant Flower Bulbs For Beautiful Container Gardening

As a group, flower bulbs are outstanding plants-colorful, showy, and generally easy to grow for container gardening. Many of them are evergreen leaves, and others, the leaves ripen after flowering and the bulbs are stored and again, year after year. Some flower bulbs are hardy, and others, gentle, but what is and is not hardy, in a given area is the average temperature in winter. In cold regions, tender types, tuberous begonias, gloxinias and calla lilies-can be interpreted as a summer container gardens. This gives the gardener a wide range of increase from early spring to late oseni.Gollandsky crocus flower bulbs include snowdrops, eranthis or winter aconites, chionodoxas, scillas, grape hyacinths, leucojums or snowflakes, Dutch hyacinths, daffodils, tulips, the pride of northern spring gardens. Although hardy, they are not adapted to garden containers outdoors where temperatures drop much below zero. They need the protection of the shed, unheated cellar or cold frame. Gardening Pots can also be useful in the trenches in the ground for the winter, covered with a thick blanket of marsh hay or straw. If the temperature falls below freezing, Dutch flower bulbs can be left outdoors in gardening pots for zimu.Dlya achieve the best results in a container garden, start with fresh, firm, large flower bulbs each fall. Ensure good drainage at the bottom of each garden pot, and use light soil with bone meal added. If clay pots, plunge during rooting in damp peat to prevent rapid drying. If this happens too frequently, roots will be injured and flowers will be poor. When the weather allows, after the danger of freezing passes, put a container garden outside, where they flower or in a children’s line until they reach the bud stage. After blooming, move the container garden, where the leaves may mature nezamechennym.Dlya flavor concentrate on Dutch hyacinths, excellent for bedding large planter boxes or raised beds. Daffodils look well grouped around the trees or large shrubs, birch trees and forsythias. Tulips, a formal character, combined with delightful pansies, violas, wall flowers, forget-me-nots, daisies, daisy, English, and the annual candytuft container sadov.Kak already noted, at low temperature, Dutch flower bulbs can be potted or planted in small window boxes and left outdoors unprotected for the winter. They may, however, set out in large pots and boxes, a deep and wide enough to contain a large amount of soil. Garden pots should be one and one-half to two feet deep and about two feet in width. Set bulbs at least six inches of soil above them, planting them early enough to fall so that they can make root growth before freezing of the soil is difficult. In penthouse gardens in New York City, Dutch bulbs have been grown successfully in this way, but it is always a risk. It makes no difference garden pots are made of wood, concrete or other material, the number of soil, they believe that rasschityvaet.Na Actually, it does not freeze the soil, which causes damage to bulbs (this occurs in the open field), but this pressure and reaction pressure from the frost on the sides of containers that are rigid and do not give. As a result, flower bulbs, worn out and pulled from the soil, their roots torn. Where there is no hard freeze, but rather cold weather, hardy flower bulbs can be grown successfully in garden containers small razmerov.Vot partial list of flower bulbs that thrive in container gardens. They will help you with your garden design konteynerAchimenes are heat-loving plants back with neat leaves and tubular flowers in blue, lavender, red and white. Related to African violets and gloxinias, they are good in hanging baskets and window boxes or in garden pots on tables, shelves or wall brackets. Start small rooms tubers and plants provide a sheltered spot with protection from strong winds and sun. Achimenes, an old standby in the south of the country deserves more frequent posadki.Agapantus or Blue Nile Lily fleshy roots of the evergreen plant, with strap leaves, often grown in tubs and urns on terraces and steps during the summer, when tall blue spikes unfold. Culture is not easy, but the plants require well-lighted, frost proof room or greenhouse in winter. This is an old-favorite, often seen in gardens in Europe. This is the perfect flower bulb for container ozeleneniya.Kalla Lily spectacular, and outdoors in warmer regions, but the plant is tender bank in the north. Most of the familiar white with large, shiny, heart-shaped leaves. Start bulbs indoors in February or March in the rich soil and when the weather settles, transfer of large pots of gardening and take in the open air. Calla lilies do best in full Sun or part shade, heavy feeders and require plenty of water. There is also an exquisite yellow with white leaves. Put the flower bulbs after the leaves mature and grow snova.Krasochny and free flowering dahlias provide sufficient flowering cut. Tall, large-flowering species can be grown only in large pots and boxes, but the dwarfs, even freer flowering, excellent in small garden containers. Achievement of 1:59 feet, they grow easily from tubers in the soil, on average Sun or part shade. They can also be raised from the room seed sown in February. If the tubers are stored in peat or sand in a cool place frost proof, they can be grown over the years. Check bulbs during winter, and if Shriveling, sprinkle slegka.Gladiolusy summer-plant has spear like leaves and spikes of many hues. Corms can be planted in the garden containers outdoors after the frost is passed. Set of 6 cm from each other and 5:56 inches deep. The best way to use them in container gardening is to plant several times in two or three weeks, ensuring continuity of prosperity in your container garden. Proportion of flower stems before the open. After the leaves are brown, or there is a frost, lift corms, cut off foliage and dust with DDT to control the tiny sucking thrips. After deposition, store corms in a dry place at 45 to 55 degrees F for future posadok.Gloxinias other summer-flowering plants and tender with large tubular flowers of red, pink, lavender, purple, white, wide velvet rosette leaves. Start tubers indoors and do not take outside until weather is warm. Because the leaves are easily broken or injured by wind or rain, put plants in a protected location. The low broad eaves of modern houses with limited Sun, offer appropriate conditions for a number of pots or window boxes with cheerful gloxinias.Teper you have some great ideas for your container garden design. It’s time to start planting your flower gardening container lukovitsy.Schastlivy! Copyright © 2006 Mary Hanna All Rights zaschischeny.Eta article may be distributed freely on your website and in ezines as long as this entire article, copyright notice, links and resource box remain unchanged .