The name of this unusually decorative delicate flower translates from Greek as “flame”. Want to summer your garden warmed the lush flowery torches? Then it’s time to get down to business!
The slender stems of Phlox, topped with a fragrant foam of blossoms decorate our areas, making them bright and showy. Purple, cherry, blue, white-their color palette is incredibly wide. They are extremely diverse: there are about 50 species of these plants in the world. We can say that this is a must have in any garden collection, and every year there are new varieties, so that the selection of this species we are ahead of the rest. Phlox very reminiscent of his bright coloring variety of the finest petals. And if you want to have a lot of varieties of this handsome man in your flower garden, now is the best time for cutting.
Usually cut the Phlox to multiply your favorite varieties or have on hand copies for gifts to friends and neighbors. After all, a rare guest of the garden in the flowering season of Phlox will not ask for a ” growth as a gift.” Sharing a Bush is not always convenient, besides it injures the plant.
- Rooted cuttings in the open ground or in cold greenhouses and greenhouses can be from late may to mid-summer, but best until the end of June.
- That leaves do not fade, do everything at one time: cut and planted. And the sooner you put the cuttings in the ground, the more likely that by autumn the Phlox will bloom.
How to reproduce Phlox?
1. Shanks is better to take the average part of the escape with a healthy plant.
2. Cut the escape into segments with two interstices (places of attachment of leaves). The lower section should be done under the lower node, the upper-0.5 cm above the upper node.
3. Remove the leaf blades from the lower node, keeping the kidneys, which are in the leaf sinus, and cut the upper half.
4. Carefully immerse the stalk in the soil until it reaches the top node.
5. Next to him, stick in the ground dive peg and press them to the ground cutting.
6. As a rule, cuttings are planted in transverse rows, leaving 8-10 cm between the rows and 5-6 cm between the cuttings in the row.
7. After landing to make a shade cuttings as long as they don’t give sprouts. The first week, water the planting with warm water up to 5 times a day, then if necessary.
8. After 3-4 weeks after planting, the cuttings will take root, and one or two shoots are formed in the axils of the leaves of the upper node.
Briefly about different
And at the end of our story briefly about how diverse varieties of Phlox paniculate.
‘Archangel’
White flower 4 cm, height 120 cm, average flowering period (from late July to mid-August).
‘Strawberry souffle’
Flower 3.5 cm, height 110 cm, average flowering period. The buds are so beautiful forms that they can and will not flourish.
‘Forget-me’
Flower 4.3 cm, height 70 cm, mid-early. Mauve by day, bright blue at dusk.
‘Odile’
Red flower 3.5 cm, height 100 cm, average flowering period. Unlike many other red varieties does not fade in the sun.
‘Bud’
Height 60-70 cm, the average period of flowering. This Phlox is amazing because its buds are not disclosed-for this he got his name.
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