Today's topic of our garden investigation: Aubrietta, planting and care, photos, when to sow seeds and in what variations it is better to plant. Aubrietta, beloved by gardeners of the world, has undoubted advantages - it is evergreen, it pleases the eye in winter and summer, and in the spring it wakes up before other plants to life. Her small purple, pink or blue, raspberry flowers are a delightful decoration of the spring-summer garden.
Aubrietta can be covered with a bright carpet, can make a delightful living wall, decorate flowerbeds, mask ugly areas and fences, and so on. There are many options for its use.
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Seed planting
If you want to buy seedlings of Aubrieta - be careful, the transplant can coolly undermine its vitality, it is better to grow it yourself in peat glasses, and then send it to the garden without any dive. So tender roots will not suffer, she will not have to experience severe stress, and she will take root perfectly. Also in May, aobriette in warm regions can be planted directly in the ground.
Aubrietta feels fine on super sandy soil, a rocky ridge suits her, she loves a sunny place. If you are going to breed a rock garden - it has a place in the forefront there. When planting, it would be good to add calcium to the soil in the form of an egg shell or chalk. For sowing seeds, you need to dig a bed, pick weeds, moisten the soil. Seeds on top are not densely scattered, sand down on top, gently pour with a watering can.
Planting by cuttings
If you have managed to grow good shrubs of obrietta seeds, after a couple of years, when they get stronger, you can easily propagate it by cuttings. And so, after a few years, your entire plot can be planted with a wonderful obrietta. And if you choose different varieties, and use it in different versions, both in the vertical and in the carpet, you can decorate the entire garden with a single obrietta.
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How to care
To say that it’s not necessary to take care of the obrietta, we can’t, it is demanding, and wants more attention from the owners. True, she does not like excess watering, only in dry weather it is necessary to water more intensively. Young plants are tender, but, having matured, they no longer require care, and with them less trouble.
Another nuance - the plant loves the sun very much, right so that it is planted on the lightest site, it will not even want to grow in partial shade, and will refuse to bloom. Therefore, we give the sunniest areas to obrietta, if you want to admire its flowering.
Also, a good solution can be called planting obrietta on raised areas, because it does not tolerate stagnation of water. And if in the period of rains or spring thaw the site is filled with water, the plant will surely die.
For the winter, you can safely leave it open in the southern regions, and where it is colder, and winters are milder - you need to cover it well with fallen leaves. Such a fur coat will help your darling winter, and in the spring please you with early flowering. In spring, free the bushes from the fur coat, clean from the damaged areas, form a crown and your plant will come to life again cheerfully, and will enter a new flowering, pleasing to the eye.
