Beautiful flowers - Flox, but, to great regret, not all gardeners who grow them, know how to properly care for them, which often leads the death of such a beautiful and gentle plant. Let's talk today about how to pruning phloxes for the winter.
Causes of the need to trim phlox
In order for the phlox to grow beautiful, and this is not one year, the gardener must be aware of when cutting them, for which it needs and how it is done. In this case, it does not do without special secrets and approaches that you also need to know all fans of Flox.
Floxes, besides the fact that they are very beautiful flowers, are also frost-resistant plants and fairly enduring. It is these factors that make some think that you don't need to care for these plants at all. Such an opinion is erroneous, so let's consider the issue of care of them, more.
To begin, it is necessary to find out for which reasons phlox need trimming:
- First of all, pruning contributes to the improvement of the plant. To enormous regret, almost always in the summer on the leaves of phloxes to settle all sorts of pests. Among other things, often these plants are sick from infectious diseases, which is why, cutting the stalks of the plant, you get rid of it from problems.
- After trimming, the flowers becomes very simple, when the garden is engaged in the fall of the garden, dry stems on the flocks are very disturbing. It is worth noting that these flowers need not only to trim, but also to process special compositions, and it is very inconvenient to carry out such a process among dry stems.
- When the gardener cuts the old shoots on the phloxes, the root system can accumulate more energy for the spring to put them on the development of new fresh, healthy stalks.
- Among other things, when you cut phlox, you save a floral bush from the freezing. In the event that it does not cut the stems of phloxes, the root system will continue to develop (and the roots are sufficiently close to the surface of the soil), and when the root system will be above the ground surface, the bush simply freeze at the first low temperatures.
Thanks to autumn trimming, spring fresh, new and healthy shoots will develop very quickly, because they do not have to break through the huge amount of dry branches. Among other things, cropped bushes and look much aesthetically overgrown and dry sticks.
Trimming time bush
It should be noted that it is necessary to crop phlox after they blend. This process must be carried out on time so that there is no early, nor late. At that time, it ripens the green on the bush, the root system gets nutrients to release new stems in the new season, so the greater the greens over the soil surface, the more nutrient substances go to the root system.
If you decide too early to get rid of the greenery, then the bush will continue to grow and the root system will spend the mass of energy to update the bush and put new stems, but in the spring the roots will not be for the reproduction of healthy and new stems. It is for this reason that it is necessary to cut unnecessary stems only when the growing season is finally ended. It happens when the cold occurs, and already stable.
But here there are nuances here, if you start trimming Flox's stems, when frost hit, the plant simply can die completely. If we talk about the late grade of Floxes, then such flowers ends bloom at the end of the first autumn month, so you need to cut them in the first half of October.
If you grow phlox in areas where snow is very small, cut them better in the spring. In this case, you need to catch the moment when the plant is, in fact, is at rest, otherwise such a process will become a strong stress for Floxes and will negatively affect his health.
In the regions where snow cover is excessive, it is better to produce the process of cutting the trunks on the flocks in the fall, because in the spring, when the snow starts to melting, the level of humidity becomes elevated, and the bacteria and fungi are developing very quickly in this case.
The method and timing of the trimming of phlox will depend on the variety and the region in which they grow (climatic conditions). Where snow is a lot of snow, Flox trunks are cut on the very base. It is possible to leave in this case only a pair of stem centimeters from the base.
In the southern regions, where snow cover is not too big, the stems can be trimmed a little higher, leaving centimeters 8 from the soil. To certainly save the root system of phloxes from the cold, the best after trimming the trunks is also to produce the mulching process.
Flox Shiloid, despite its small sizes, also needs regular trimming. Only here you need to trim shoots on a bush half, but no more. In order to overlook such a flower, it did not die normally, the optimal option to fall asleep the soil over the roots of the bush spruce. Under such a cover, the root system of phlox will feel comfortable, because it is well holding warm.
For cutting of Flox stems, a sharp shaft secret is used, and after trimming the stems they will need to immediately decorate to destroy all bacteria and diseases that could "settle" on them.
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