Portulak - the rules of planting and caring for the plant. Portulac, growing outdoors and at home
Portulac is an ornamental herbaceous plant,which is an amazing intertwining of low green stems and needle leaves with bright flowers that spread on the ground, like a luxurious carpet with bizarre patterns. It is not surprising that the aesthetic appeal of this ornamental plant has found wide application in landscape design: modern gardens and parks rarely dispense with bright compositions from portalak. On the peculiarities of growing this unusual flower and about caring for it, and will go further.
Amazing Portulac: Features and Applications in Landscape Design
The birthplace of this charming "flowering rug"are the tropical forests of the American continent. But the Portolac has long migrated to other continents and managed to subdue gardeners around the world with its beauty and unpretentiousness to the conditions of growth. This plant perfectly tolerates the heat and is considered to be the best option for creating summer flower beds in the garden, since for a long time it pleases with amazing colorful colors, blossoming from the beginning of June to the onset of the first autumn cold.
Portulac is a very sun-loving plant. Its flowers open only on clear sunny days, and in the shade it does not blossom at all. Given such a feature, portolac is best planted in the most sunlit places of the garden. But this sun-loving plant in landscape design is used not only as an ornament for summer flower beds. Portulak is also considered a good solution for decorating the southern part of the alpine hill in the garden. In addition, this plant is rather unpretentious and easily takes root even on dried soils, so it is often used to decorate curbs.
Another popular use of portolac inlandscape design of the garden - replacing them with standard garden lawns. The advantage of this design is that there is no need to permanently crop the grass. In addition, landscape designers and gardeners are attracted by the ability of the porters to quick self-recovery. Even if someone drowns in such a lawn, there will be no special damage to its beauty and attractiveness.
A carpet of flowers: how to plant and grow a seahorse
Planting and caring for pestilence is quite simple. For the reproduction of the plant you can use both seeds and cuttings. The first method is more popular. Curiously, it is with seeds that the Latin name of this flower is associated, which translates as "collar". The thing is that when the seeds ripen, their box opens like a gate. Plant the seeds of the seal of the sea from the very beginning in a pot, usually in February-March. When the air starts to warm up every day no less than + 10 ° С, and frosts will not be foreseen, the stronger sprouts are moved to the open soil.
Planting the seeds of the seal on a regular flower soilfrom packages is not recommended, because it contains peat, which this plant does not like. The ideal option for planting a sandpiper is an ordinary garden soil, mixed with a small amount of sand.
Attention! A garden primer with sand must necessarily be decontaminated. To do this, just fill it in a baking sheet and warm it in the oven for half an hour.
It is also possible to plant the seeds of theOpen ground, but it is desirable to do this not earlier than mid-May. Portulak loves the sun, so shaded places when landing should be avoided. It should be remembered that shoots are undesirable to water until they are stronger. Watering for portfolios is required regular, but infrequent, since excessive soil moisturizing is contraindicated for it. It is enough to moisten the soil every 5 days.
For landing portfolk best suited drysandy and stony soils. On the chernozem soil, the pestilent turns into a solid green carpet of thickened stems and leaves with very rare flowers of dim color. For the same reason, do not use any additional fertilizing, otherwise the plant can completely stop flowering, which will destroy all of its visual appeal to the garden.
You can grow porcelain not only in the garden, but also on the balconies in the flowerpots. For example, this plant looks very impressive in hanging baskets and pots.
