The Use Of Decorative Bows In Landscape Design. Part 2

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The Karatavian onion has very showy leaves, reaching a width of 15 centimeters. They are colored gray-green and sometimes have an anthocyanin strip along the smooth edge. No less impressive is the large inflorescence - a spherical multi-flowered umbrella. Usually, after flowering, pink boxes of fruits are formed, which are also quite decorative.

The akaka onion is also remarkable for its glossy gray-green leaves and a large hemispherical umbrella, which consists of many bell-shaped flowers. Schubert's bow is so amazing that when you see it for the first time, you won't immediately guess that it is a bow.

Its low peduncle is literally crowned with a very large umbrella, sometimes reaching 20 centimeters in diameter.

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And pedicels have different lengths from 1 to 15 centimeters. The bluish-green leaves are wide and flat, almost spread over the ground and curved in waves. This onion is very often used in rock gardens, where it is planted in the foreground, where it attracts attention with its originality.

A little later, Christophe's bow blooms. This is a beloved garden plant with balls-inflorescences reaching a diameter of 25 centimeters. The star-shaped and bright purple flowers with a metallic sheen, located on long pedicels, very much resemble fireworks rockets. Tepals are narrow, triangular-pointed; after drying, they become leathery and remain on the flowers. Amateur flower growers sometimes call the inflorescences of this onion - porcupines.

The whole bulk of decorative onions blooms only in the middle of summer. At this time, you can admire all kinds of colors. From pure white to black and purple. For a long time, bouquets of onions can be purchased in the markets of Italy and France, where Neapolitan onions grow in abundance in olive groves, characterized by graceful hemispherical umbrellas consisting of white flowers on flexible peduncles up to 60 centimeters high. In a temperate climate zone, this onion blooms in late June - July.

The large-flowered variety of Zebdan onion is very popular, as well as its garden form, which is distinguished by white or pinkish flowers. Stunningly beautiful types of onions that came to us from Southern Europe - pink onions and pretty onions. They bloom in July. Rosaceous is characterized by very beautiful large pink or creamy pink flowers located on slender peduncles reaching a height of 60 centimeters.

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It is often used for cutting. Simple bouquets with sprigs of asparagus or other openwork greenery are made from this onion. The flowering of pretty onions attracts the eye - this is an elegant umbrella with small crimson-pink bells of flowers drooping on long pedicels, similar to the jets of a fountain.

This species looks great in rocky gardens and is suitable for cutting. There is a form with white flowers. The yellow onion is very similar to the cute onion, which blooms at the same time and is distinguished by the golden color of the flowers. These bows are often used in stitched plantings.

An interesting daffodil onion, it comes from the Alps and the Pyrenees. This is the undoubted aristocrat among bows. Above the gray lanceolate leaves, an inflorescence rises on the peduncle, consisting of several large drooping bell-shaped flowers of dark pink or wine-red color. This onion is thermophilic and blooms in July in the temperate climate zone.

Interesting forms of onions, distinguished by blue flowers - this is a blue onion and a blue-blue onion, they bloom in July, both are characterized by a thin peduncle, towering over triangular slightly pubescent leaves, ending in a thick spherical umbrella. Both species reproduce very easily with baby bulbs.

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flowered onion The range of colors of flowering onions would not be complete without red and dark purple colors, which are characteristic of southern European species - round-headed onions and black-purple onions, which grow well here in Central Russia. Both of these species bloom in July and have high (up to 80 centimeters) peduncles that end in very dense, spherical, sometimes oval umbrellas. The bloom of such an umbrella begins from the top, gradually moving downward, and its "head" turns from light green to purple-red.

Landscape designers use bright carpets of low-growing bows with colorful flowers to decorate lawns and lawns. For these purposes, they use very beautiful bows - Moli and Ostrovsky - the oldest representatives of this species. They are fairly easy to grow in a perennial crop in a dry corner of a garden with well-drained soil. In flower gardens, these bows are usually placed in the foreground, although their flowering period is rather short.

Moli's onion forms peduncles reaching a height of 30 centimeters, above flat lanceolate leaves folded along a light green central vein. Large and bright yellow flowers with orange anthers are collected in hemispherical loose umbrellas, reaching a diameter of 4-6 centimeters. In Ostrovsky's onion, on the contrary, the peduncles are thin and low, shorter than narrow dark green leaves. The inflorescences of this onion are very similar to the Moli onion, but the flowers differ in that they have a carmine-pink color and a very pleasant sophisticated aroma. There are varieties and garden forms of this onion with varying flower color, with large flowers of carmine red color.

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August can also please us with flowering bows. After all, the garden variety of goblet onion is an elegant plant with purple inflorescences that blooms in this month. It is grown on a large scale in the Far East.

And finally, summer is drawing to a close. During this period, the flowering of decorative bows continues mainly due to species originating from Southeast Asia and North America. As for the North American species, they are still little known in Russia. For example, bowed onion, it is very similar to slug onion, although it has drooping hemispherical inflorescences-umbrellas, painted in purple-pink color and edible narrow leaves. The bell-onion also blooms almost at the same time. It is a short, elegant plant with rounded umbrellas of lavender flowers.

The laurel onion stands out for its delicate pink flowers. Originally from California, he is thermophilic and requires shelter for the winter. The bows of Southeast Asia are represented by beautiful species with blue and blue flowers. Cornflower onion is a miniature plant with very thin blue-gray leaves and dense hemispherical umbrellas of bright blue flowers with protruding stamens. Very late - in September - the bezianum and Sikkim onions bloom, they are still very rare in our country.

The bezianum onion is very beautiful, has grass-like dark green leaves and bright blue drooping inflorescences on thin flexible peduncles. In Sikkim onion, hemispherical inflorescences are painted in a pale blue color. Such late-flowering onions are indispensable for rock gardens, since their bright colors revive the composition after most of the plants have faded.

Reproduction of bows

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For the successful cultivation of ornamental onion species, it is simply necessary to take into account the biological characteristics of plants and their growing conditions in natural conditions. The belonging of one or another onion to the group of bulbous or bulbous-rhizome species determines the methods of its cultivation and reproduction, as well as agricultural technology. All onions are easily propagated by seeds and vegetatively, for example, bulbous species - by dividing the bulb, bulbous-rhizome - by dividing the bush. In both species, small bulbs can form on inflorescences - bulbs, which are also used for planting.

Planting decorative bows

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onions For planting onions, it is advisable to select well-drained light sandy loam soils with a soil solution reaction close to neutral. Almost all types of onions are light-requiring, therefore, it is better to choose a place for them that is not shaded throughout the day. Good lighting is necessary for the full color development of flowers and onion leaves.

In ornamental horticulture, bows are mainly grown in a perennial culture. Therefore, it is extremely important to thin out the planting and prevent self-seeding, in order to avoid blocking the site. After 5-6 years, the plants need to be transplanted to a new place, dividing bushes and clumps. The optimal time for this procedure in a temperate climate zone is spring or the very end of August. Bulbs of ephemeral species are dug up after the end of the growing season and then planted again in the ground in September-October.

These bows come from warm arid zones, where it hardly rains in summer. In the temperate zone, if the summer is rainy, the bulbs often rot. Before planting, these bulbs are well dried and stored at room temperature. The bulb should be planted to such a depth that above its top point there is a layer of earth equal to two or three times the height of the bulb itself, and large bulbs should be planted much deeper than small ones.

In autumn, root growth continues until the soil temperature drops to 2-3 degrees. Bulbs of a number of species, for example, Moli, Ostrovsky, blue, can be planted in autumn and spring after storage in a cool dry room. When planted in spring, the plants bloom two weeks later. But this is also a plus that gardeners often use to extend the flowering season.