How to cover chrysanthemums for the winter? This question worries the gardeners

In Europe, chrysanthemum appeared only in the 18th century, but the Chinese know about it for more than 2000 years. A great variety of shapes and colors is characteristic of autumn chrysanthemums. They are pink and orange, red and white, "double" and ordinary form (as in chamomile). The Russian climate does not like all the flowers. The most popular cold-resistant perennial varieties that can survive is not warm autumn and winter frosts. Not everyone knows that young inflorescences of chrysanthemum are edible. They can decorate a fish or salad. Do not use mature inflorescences - they are bitter.

Chrysanthemum (dendratema) is the queen of the autumn garden. It blooms before the onset of cold weather. Choose plant varieties should be so that they blossom one after another, decorating the flower bed from August to November. The combination of bright colors with autumn foliage of trees and shrubs in the garden looks amazing among the falling asleep nature. Therefore, the shelter of chrysanthemums for winter requires increased attention. It's a shame not to keep such beauty for the next year.

How to cover chrysanthemums for the winter correctly? This question often tortures summer residents. Basic requirements for colors for successful wintering:

- Only healthy plants should be selected. If the flower is a sign of the disease, it must be treated with a special drug.

- Plants in the beginning of autumn need to be supplemented with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers.

- After flowering, the bushes should be cut to 10-15 cm.

Chrysanthemums keep in winter either in the ground, or in a trench, or in a cellar. Experienced gardeners practice the combination of these methods, one part of the flowers are left to winter in the open ground, and the other part of the collection is stored in the basement. This allows you not to lose valuable varieties under adverse conditions.

1st option - storage in the open ground

Korean dendrites, flowers of small selection, can be left in the ground. How to cover chrysanthemums for the winter in this case? Trimmed bushes should be bored from all sides higher, covered with an inverted box. From above you can fall asleep fallen leaves or branches, cover with roofing material, plywood or film. That is, it is required to make a shelter, which will not let moisture get to the roots. When the snow comes down in the spring, the branches and the film need to be removed, so that the plants are not preli. When returning frosts, it is recommended to cover the seedlings with lutrasil.

The second option - wintering in the trench

This method is used in more northern regions of the country. How to cover chrysanthemums for the winter in a trench? Dug up the bushes densely in a previously prepared groove to a depth of 50-70 cm, empty places to sprinkle with earth. Immediately close the trench should not be. The first frosts will kill all fungal diseases on the roots, if they are. From above also cover with slate or plywood, then leaves and film.

The third variant of wintering

How to cover chrysanthemums for the winter, grown in greenhouses, large-flowered, or new foreign varieties, grown in pots? Unchecked delicate varieties of flowers must be stored in the cellar. For this purpose, the dendratem bushes should be carefully excavated from the ground, transferred to a cellar. There you can put them in a box with the ground, in a pot or just on the earthen floor, then cover up so that the roots do not dry out. The optimum temperature in the storage facility for wintering flowers is from 0 to -4 ° C, high humidity is desirable.

As the temperature rises, the bushes ahead of time can begin to grow. Plus this option - the opportunity at any time to start germination and cuttings of flowers that are used for an earlier and lush blossom chrysanthemums.

Choose the correct type of wintering (cellar, trench, ground) is not easy. A horticulturist for each variety, each bush, must decide where to put chrysanthemums for the winter, applying his experience and our advice.