How To Create A Moorish Lawn And Other Questions

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Moorish lawn

Heard a lot about the Moorish lawn. What is this lawn, is it difficult to care for it, is it possible to create it yourself?

Moorish lawns are also called herbaceous-floral, oriental, Arabian or Japanese lawns. These are picturesque lawns created in completely open, sunny, large areas.

If the Moorish lawn is arranged in the form of separate small clumps or blotches of flower plants on an ordinary lawn of a small area, then the decorative effect will not work, since an unattractive grass stand will form.

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Moorish lawns are single-color and variegated. They are created from a mixture of low-growing sod-forming grasses and beautiful flowering plants. They can consist of plants that, even after the end of flowering, retain fresh foliage and give the areas a decorative look. Such stands are mown only once during the growing season after the end of the mass flowering phase.

Plots for such lawns are prepared especially carefully and carefully. Fertile soil is brought up, well-cultivated and weed-free.

To create Moorish lawns, you should set aside completely open, sunniest places. It should be noted that the creation of Mauritanian lawns is a rather complicated and painstaking business. They require a lot of money and need constant, caring care throughout the growing season (watering, fertilizing).

To create Moorish lawns, the following assortment of plants is recommended: common bent - 20%, white bent - 10%, fragrant Carpathian spike - 10%, sea alyssum - 10%, samoseyka poppy - 10%, pink pyrethrum - 10% and red clover - 10 %.

Carnations - annual and perennial

I want to breed a carnation on the site, but I don't know which one is considered perennial and which one is annual.

The genus Carnation belongs to the clove family, uniting about 300 species of herbaceous plants. In general, all carnations are perennial by nature, but due to climatic conditions, many are cultivated as biennial or annual.

Perennial carnations are suitable for alpine slides: herbal carnation, sand carnation, lush carnation.

For flower beds of perennial carnations of European origin, you need: Fischer's or mound carnation, feathery carnation, fragrant carnation, short-stemmed carnation, grayish-blue carnation. As a biennial, Turkish carnation, garden carnation, Shabo carnation are grown. Chinese carnation is grown as an annual.

I love asters very much, but this year the trouble: many of my plants rot at the bottom of the stem, the leaves turn brown, curl, dark stripes and cracks form on the stems. What attacked my flowers?

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Fusarium in asters

According to the signs listed above, we can say that your asters have a very harmful disease - fusarium. The causative agent of the disease is a mushroom. A pink bloom appears on the root thread - sporulation of the fungus, darkening of the vessels will be noticeable on the cut of the stem, the roots become brittle. The plant withers and perishes from exhaustion. The infection persists in the soil and is especially dangerous during long-term cultivation of asters in the same area.

From the soil, the fungus penetrates the roots and spreads through the vessels to the stem, preventing the movement of moisture and nutrients. The pathogen is also stored in the seeds.

Control measures: use of resistant varieties; crop rotation; liming of acidic soils (20-50 g of lime per 1 m2); planting an aster with petunia through a row; disinfection of seeds; good plant care; avoid excessive nitrogen application; foliar dressing; destruction of diseased plants with a clod of earth. For prevention use - Fitosporin M.

Bacterial burn of apple trees

A neighbor at the dacha said that there is a bacterial burn on apple trees, but how to determine it, and is it very dangerous?

Bacterial burn is a dangerous disease that first appeared in England in 1957. Pome trees, fruit trees and certain types of ornamental trees are especially susceptible to this disease.

Symptoms of the disease can manifest in different ways. Large inflorescences and branches begin to wither, gradually turning brown, at an advanced stage, their color changes to black. Later, stronger branches and trunk may become ill. The result of the defeat is twisted shoots, which is caused by a lack of water. These shoots also die off. In summer and autumn, in humid warm weather, yellow-red blisters may appear on the affected fruits and processes. In the affected areas, thickenings appear on the trunks and branches.

Tetrastigma Vuanye

I planted tetrastigma and found some kind of plaque on the back of the leaves - like balls, what should I do?

Tetrastigma Vuagnier is a powerful ligneous vine from the Vitaceal family. Thick, fast-growing stems are attached to the support with antennae and bring out to the light large, regular polchaty-complex leaves of 3-5 oval or rhombic, dark green above and below with a rusty coating, serrated the edge of the leaves. Young stems, antennae and leaves are covered with delicate short silvery-white hairs that turn brown over time. On the underside of the leaves there are resinous glands, very often they are confused with various pests. You don't need to do anything with them - this is a physiological feature of the plant.

In a specialized flower shop "Rosemarin" you can get any advice from a biologist, phyto-help.