Mac Biography Flower

Garden flower and a medicinal plant. Mac in history and culture. Growing and care, propagation of poppy seeds, photo poppy - a beautiful and unpretentious garden plant. Mac flowers - bright, silky, simple or terry, are red, white, pale yellow, pink, orange and even black. Mac is easy to grow a flower. Sowing or planted once in the garden, poppies will grow and bloom magnificently for years.

However, poppies planted in the mass create long, bright and abundant flowering. After the flowering ends, the poppy petals fly around and the ripening of the seed box begins. At this stage, the poppy also looks quite impressive and is suitable for use in a dry bouquet or composition of dried flowers. There are about 70 species of annual, biennial and perennial plants with simple or cirrus-dissected leaves in the Papaver.

Poppies naturally grow in the steppes, mountains and deserts in East Asia, in the west of North America, Central and Southern Europe, in Australia and even in the subarctic regions. The Latin name of the plant comes from the word Papa father and is associated with the tradition of the ancient Romans to give seeds of poppy to children to calm. Maxi are still widely used in pharmacology for the production of opium and its derivatives, and in the food industry the seeds are added to baking, and natural food dyes are made from brightly colored petals.

The origins of this tradition are even in the works of Homer, who compared the not long -lived flowers of poppies with the soldiers who died on the battlefield. After bloody battles in Flanders, the territory of modern Belgium few soldiers alive had to bury the dead comrades. MAC: Growing and care to grow poppies is very easy. Plant or sow a poppy in a sunny place or in partial shade on a fairly deep soil in poppies, a mocking root system with good water permeability.

Annual poppies are perfectly without fertilizer, and perennials can be mulched by garden compost before the onset of the cold season. The long -term eastern oriental Mack grows lush greens by the beginning of summer and the bush often breaks up around, form an ugly void right in the middle and stems lying on the ground. To prevent this from happening, arrange support of the bush in the spring with the help of special fencing devices for perennials stuck in the land of branches or imperceptibly tie the plant.

After the end of the magnificent spectacular flowering of the eastern poppy, its leaves turn yellow and fade. I cut the leaves and stems near the ground, and by the end of summer new leaves appear from the ground, no longer as high as at the beginning of the season. If you are planning the seed propagation of poppy, leave the faded heads for the ripening of seeds, which usually occurs in a couple of months.

Macs are occasionally affected by the false powdery delay of Peronospora Parasitica in warm wet weather and the verticillary fungus Verticillium in hot. The affected parts or plants should be completely destroyed, do not add them to garden compost. Of the garden pests for poppies, only aphids are dangerous. MAC: Propagation of perennial varietal poppies can be propagated by the division of the plant in the spring or root cuttings in late autumn.

Due to the rod roots, poppies do not like transplants, so species and annual poppies are easiest to propagate with seeds. Annual poppies bloom a few months after sowing, and two- and perennials - next year or in the same year with early sowing. If you sow poppies in the winter, then in the spring there are stronger plants that bloom much earlier than those that were sown in the spring.

If you combine the sowing of poppies in the winter with several crops next spring with a break of a couple of weeks, then you can achieve ongoing flowering throughout the season. To sow poppies, I just scatter mature seeds from the seed box from selected plants, I leave only a few most beautiful annual poppies on the seeds. I like it when poppies are carelessly scattered here and there along the brothels.

Poppies are abundantly propagated by self -sowing, doing all the work for the gardener. From mature seed boxes, the seeds are spilled through the holes like pepper from a lists. If you do not interfere with Samosev, annual poppies can quickly clog large territory. This can be acceptable and even preferably in a practical, unpretentious garden. If you do not give a self -sowing, then after flowering, cut the seed heads of poppy or immediately pull the whole plant out of the ground when all the buds have faded.

Mack in landscape design as was said, after flowering, the greens of poppies turn yellow, dries and disappears. This should be taken into account when planning plantings in a flower garden, having poppies next to the autumn -fluent plants, bush asters and chrysanthemums, a sedium and others. In the garden, poppies look great both in groups with each other and in a natural disorder scattered among other colors on informal myxborders.

Annual poppies are perfectly naturalized in the meadow area of ​​the garden on the Moorish lawn.Macs are perfectly adjacent to many summer -fluent plants, shrubs, perennials for contrast to try plants with wide leaves, such as host or Rogersia, as well as decorative cereals.

Unfortunately, poppies are not very suitable for cutting. If you still decide to put them in a vase, cut off the just burst, not yet open buds in the morning.