Tulips in photos, in bouquets and in the garden

For me, and probably for most people, tulips are flowers that announce the arrival of spring. You are always more pleased with a bouquet or a whole armful of these lovely flowers in early spring, when it is still cold and snowing outside.

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• How to grow tulips
• How to preserve tulips in a bouquet

Tulips in photos, in bouquets and in the garden will always delight the eye because their bright buds and blooming flowers fill the room or garden area with brightness and a variety of flower shapes.

Not everyone decides to grow tulips in their dacha, because they will still need to tinker with their bulbs. But still, this process cannot outweigh the pleasure of seeing a flower bed of tulips.

How to grow tulips

In order for the tulips to produce green leaves faster and then bloom, it would be better to apply fertilizer while there is snow on the flowerbed. You just need to take into account the fact that the abundance of salts in fertilizers can adversely affect the growth of tulips, so apply a dose of fertilizer that is half that indicated on the product label.

The second feeding is best done at the budding stage. This gives the plants strength and the flowers become larger. For the third time during the season, tulips are fed after flowering, about a week later.

It is worth observing your plants, which helps to determine what substances the tulips lack.

• if the leaves become very narrow, are unable to maintain a vertical position, and acquire a reddish tint, the problem is a lack of nitrogen in the soil;
• a greenish-blue edging along the edges of the leaves appears when the soil is poor in potassium and phosphorus.

In the spring, after the snow has melted, it is necessary to carefully inspect the tulip planting sites. Sick plants need to be dug up along with the bulbs so that the disease does not spread to healthy tulips. It is advisable to spill the hole from such a plant with a solution of potassium permanganate at a temperature of 70 to 100 degrees to kill the pathogenic flora.

It is worthwhile to carefully carry out all procedures for caring for tulips so as not to damage their foliage and, most importantly, the bulbs. After all, through even a slight damage, unwanted microbes can penetrate into the bulb, and a disease will begin.

At the stage of ripening buds and flowering, tulips need abundant watering, since a lot of nutrients are consumed by plants for flowering.

The condition for the formation of a strong bulb is the removal of faded flowers. It is better not to cut the flowers, but to pick them with your bare hands. If the seed pod is allowed to form, the bulb may develop so that it consists of a mass of small disintegrating bulbs. This will not allow you to get strong plants with large flowers next year.

Tulips are preferable plant into the lungs, with good soil drainage, in sunny places. Typically, tulip bulbs are dug up every year. stored until autumn. But you can dig them deeper, apply fertilizer regularly, and then you can leave them to grow in one place for three to four years.

How to preserve tulips in a bouquet

When people give us flowers, we all want them longer. save and admire their beauty.There are several techniques that allow you to save cut tulips in a bouquet or in a vase.

• If you are cutting tulips from a flower bed, it is best to do it in the morning, when it is still cool. This way the flowers retain their turgor better. This condition is especially important for cutting in the hot season. If the weather is cool, then cuttings can be made at any time of the day.
• It is better to cut off those flowers whose buds have acquired their characteristic color and have slightly begun to open.
• After cutting, you need to remove the lower leaves from the stems so that they do not affect the rapid deterioration of the water in the vase.
• The vase for tulips is preferably not very deep; the water in it should be cool, but not cold straight from the tap, but settled.
• Water sweetened with sugar preserves tulips in a vase very well. One aspirin tablet is often used as an antiseptic.
• To prevent water from rotting, you can throw a small piece of charcoal or a crystal of potassium permanganate into it.
• You should not place a vase of flowers near central heating radiators or in a place that is too exposed to the sun.
• To make the tulips in the vase please you longer, change the water to fresh water every day, washing the walls of the vase.
• It is necessary to shorten the stem a little every day, leaving a fresh cut. This should be done under running water with a very sharp knife. After making the cut, you need to firmly hold it with your finger so that no air pockets form, then bring the flower to the vase and immerse it in water.

If you want to see not only tulips in the photo longer, but also a bouquet of them in a vase, do not put them together with lilies, roses, carnations, lilies of the valley and orchids in the same container.