Daisies - these are delicate flowers, planting and further care, and the reproduction of which does not take much effort. To grow them in open land, you do not need special knowledge and skills, and varietal diversity will please even the most fastidious florist.
What daisies love, optimal conditions for growing flowers
If you are not one of those who wish not only to contemplate the daisies in the photographs, but to plant them in your garden, then first of all determine the place. It is better that it is sunny, but these flowers can grow in partial shade.
The presence of light and heat
Daisies are very light-loving flowers, so their planting is desirable only in places with a lot of sunlight. In the shadows, they are likely to wither. The best place to disembark is a half shady place.
Under these conditions, the daisies will grow very beautiful and lush, with soft and pleasant to the touch leaves. Flowers that grew in partial shade are higher with more buds. In the frequent sun, daisies grow undersized and with several buds.
Important! When planting flowers in open ground, choose a site where the sun will not be active at noon.
What soil is needed for daisies
Daisies are better suited well-drained and cultured soil. Loamy soils that retain moisture well are preferred. Before planting sprouted flowers in open soil, it is recommended to prepare it in advance. In autumn, it is better to fertilize the soil with manure and humus. This feeding daisies enough for a long time.
Did you know? Daisy is the first plant representative to meet the dawn. For the love of sunlight, she is affectionately called the "eye of the day."
How to plant a daisy landing pattern
Plant flowers in rows at a distance of 10 cm from each other. How to plant a daisy seed? No need to dig deep beds, as shoots will have to wait a long time. The average depth is 1-1.5 cm. In this case, seedlings should appear within a week. A week later, dive flowers.
How to plant daisies with saplings? Daisy seedlings are planted in open soil with an earthy clod. Dig holes of small diameter, equidistant from each other by 20 cm. Place the daisy seedlings in each well in a transshipment way, this prevents the trauma of the young root system. Tamp the ground tightly around the plants and pour water well.
Care rules
It is believed that the daisies do not require abundant care, but still since their landing in the ground is required to take good care of them.
Did you know? In the Middle Ages, the knights on their shields engraved the image of a daisy, when the beloved gave her consent to a marriage proposal.
How to water the flowers
Since daisies are small flowers, their root system is shallow, respectively. Water the plants need regularly and often. If the moisture is not enough, inflorescences of daisies shred, and terry varieties will lose their "commodity" look.
Soil care
Wet after watering the soil should be gently loosened around the daisies. This is necessary for better root breathing.
Having zaomulirovav soil with planted daisies, you will get rid of the need for frequent loosening and weed control. Mulch much longer retains moisture in the soil, preventing its rapid evaporation.
Plus, the mulch plant will not bulge the roots. This phenomenon occurs in cases where the top layer of soil dries.
What and how to feed daisies
Unpretentious perennial daisies, after they were planted, require a slight, but care. One of the main components of care is feeding, which must be performed up to four times per season. We list the main aspects of the introduction of top dressing for these ornamental plants:
- During the flowering period, it is better to feed the flowers with mineral fertilizers.
- The first dressing must be entered immediately after the snow melted in the spring. Sprinkle urea along the beds with daisies, which will feed the actively growing flowers.
- In the summer, in the period of the appearance of the first inflorescences, introduce a nitroammofosk or any other mineral fertilizer.
- During the flowering of daisies, potassium and phosphorus will bring great benefits. The last top dressing in a season should consist of a “mix” of these two substances.
Important! Daisies bloom from May to July. This will give impetus to the second September bloom.
Propagation of Daisies
Each gardener can choose how to reproduce daisies in one of three ways:
- Splitting a bush.
- Cuttings.
- Growing from seed.
How to grow daisies from seed
In flower shops you can buy daisies of different varieties, and growing from seed is the most convenient and easy way, but when should you plant them? Planted plant in open soil at the end of June.
Strongly deepen the seeds do not need, they should be put almost on the surface of loosened and fertilized soil. Next you need to sprinkle with a thin layer of loose earth or sand. Daisies will appear outside a week later, a maximum of ten days after sowing.
The important point is picking young bushes. Before planting daisies in a permanent place, they need to cut the roots. Due to this, the root system will become more extensive, and the plant - stronger and stronger.
Seedlings should be transplanted two months after the moment when you sow daisies in open ground, that is, in August. The distance between seedlings should be at least twenty centimeters.
They will begin to bloom only next year in spring. But if in March to sow the seeds in the greenhouse, the flowering will begin in the same year. In this way, many professional growers use.
Did you know? Daisies were originally used for medicinal purposes. An infusion of daisy leaves and flower baskets is good for coughing and bronchitis, as it has expectorant properties. Anti-inflammatory and wound-healing preparations are also made from daisies.
Plant cuttings
Daisies should be cut in May or early June. Lateral shoots with leaves are separated and planted in moist, soft and loose soil. The roots of the cuttings appear within half a month after planting. Such daisies bloom only next year.
How to grow daisies by dividing the bush
This breeding method retains all the characteristics of a plant variety.
Important! You can only share daisies that have reached the age of two. During this period, the plant grows, only its decorative appearance is lost. Therefore, it needs to be seated.
After division and planting, the plant looks younger and becomes stronger in order to further grow and develop. It is necessary to divide daisies bushes in July, because during this period the plant suspends its flowering. Bushes are dug up and large rosettes with roots are separated from them. From one big bush you can get about twelve small plants. Do the resulting bushes need to remove all the leaves and prune the roots. Flowers and buds break off.
Separated plants are planted in the penumbra. They need to be watered more intensively than adult daisies. But some experienced flower growers believe that it is necessary to divide daisy flowers and ensure their further cultivation in spring or autumn, and not in summer.
Daisy in the garden, disease prevention
Daisies, like all other members of the plant world, suffer from diseases and insect parasites.
In fact, daisies are not very susceptible to disease. Sometimes they can see powdery mildew and sometimes gray rot. These diseases can occur for the following reasons:
- Daisies are planted too close to each other.
- Plots with plants are poorly ventilated.
- An excessive amount of fertilizer has been applied to the soil.
- Excess soil moisture.
- The big difference in temperature regime day and night.
Mealy dew is destroyed by fungicides or the Topaz chemical complex. Fundazol, Skor and Euparin cope with gray mold.
Flowers suffer from some insect pests: butterfly caterpillars, moths and slugs. Caterpillars are effectively destroyed by insecticides: Lepidocide, Fitoverm, Bicol, Aktellik. Metaldehyde works great against slugs.
Did you know? In the twentieth century in France, the last Sunday before Easter was dedicated to daisies. Windows, street lamps, buttonholes of jackets for men and belts of women's dresses were decorated with these flowers.
