Buttercups. Planting and caring for the plant

Buttercup is a beautiful flower that is planted inGardens and flowerbeds around the world. The buttercup flowers are so beautiful that they are used to make magnificent flower arrangements, including wedding bouquets. In the scientific literature buttercup is called Ranunculus, and today more than 400 species of this plant are isolated. Despite such a variety of varieties, in the flower shops you can find not many varieties of buttercups of Asian, the most common variety.

As for the color palette, it is also verydiverse: you can see white, and yellow, and red buttercups. Planting and caring for the flower is not very difficult. It can grow not only on a flower bed in the open ground, but also at home in pots. Most beautifully the buttercups look like groups in the flowerbed. If you decide to grow a flower at home in a pot, give preference to low-growing varieties. More popular is still the buttercup garden, planting and care for which is somewhat different from care at home.

Types of buttercups

In general, several species of this plant are distinguished: chalmoid, Persian, French and pion-like buttercups.

Chalmoid flowers remind, how it is possibleto guess from the title, turban. The head of this flower has a spherical shape and is large in size. Persian buttercup - short. His flowers are simple, but there are also terry inflorescences. As for the French buttercup, its flowers are half-mahogany, and the flowers of the pion-shaped representative of the plant are fully dressed. The most beautiful are the pion-shaped buttercups.

Planting and care

Залог успешного выращивания лютика – правильный choice of a place for planting. If the place is chosen successfully, the flowers will work for you all summer. It is important to remember that buttercups love bright light, so they should be planted in a sunny place and in fertile soil, away from drafts.

The soil for planting must be prepared withautumn. First, you need to make compost or manure in the soil. In the spring, bone meal should be added, and only in spring the root cones are planted, previously soaked in cold water.

Plant flowers about 30 apartcentimeters from each other, to a depth of up to 5 centimeters. Buttercups (planting and care, transplanting and reproduction of flowers) will give the gardener a real pleasure if he follows all the mentioned rules. In addition, to the fruits of your labors surely pleased you, buttercups need to be fed and watered regularly. However, when buds appear, watering should be reduced. Buttercup can suffer from the rot of root cones, which occurs in cases of too frequent and abundant watering. It is better to start it only after germination.

Обычно лютики цветут на протяжении всего лета, However, in specialized shops flowering plants grown in the room, you can buy in the winter. By the way, wedding and simply festive bouquets are increasingly added to buttercups!

Planting and leaving (photos show this) are very simpleand effective: beautiful flowers will not leave anyone indifferent and will only inspire the gardener for new experiments and planting. Listen to our advice, and you will be pleased with your blooming rustic garden!