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The onset of spring is always associated with bouquets of tulips. This exquisite flower is a favorite of women. Spring holidays are not complete without bright bouquets. One of the most popular varieties is the Barcelona tulip, a product of Dutch selection.
Description of Barcelona tulips
Barcelona is a Dutch variety that catches the eye of gardeners and arouses interest in the market. Main characteristics:
Description | Indicators |
Class | Triumph |
Flowering period | April May |
Bud shape | Goblet, dense |
Diameter | 7 см |
fragrance | Sweet, intense |
color | Pale pink |
Height | 60 см |
Bulb diameter | 10 см |
Application | For cutting and ornamental horticulture |
Resistant to spring temperatures | High |
When compiling flower arrangements, florists often use the Barcelona Beauty variety.
Tulips are combined with peonies of darker tones, roses of any color. In addition to floristry, culture has found wide application in landscape design. Tulip Barcelona Beauty is used to decorate urban flower beds, combining a variety with undersized varieties.
Planting and caring for tulips Barcelona Beauty
Barcelona Beauty start planting in the fall, in the last days of September.
To get an ornamental culture, you need to familiarize yourself with the basic rules for growing Barcelona Beauty tulips.
Selection and preparation of the landing site
When choosing a place for Barcelona Beauty tulips, you should pay attention to the following factors:
- Plants love an abundance of light, so the flower bed should be placed in a well-lit and wind-protected area.
- At the landing site of the Barcelona Beauty tulip, rainwater and moisture formed after the snow melts should not accumulate.
- Avoid places in the garden where asters, melons, tomatoes and other bulbs grew.
- The soil for Barcelona Beauty tulips should be well-drained. Fertile loamy or sandy soil is suitable.
The soil is cleaned of weeds, then dug to a depth of up to 35 cm. For the procedure, it is better to take a pitchfork, which will achieve uniform looseness of the earth.
At high acidity, lime is added. Too dense soil is mixed with sand.
The preparation of the beds is carried out a month before the expected date of planting tulips Barcelona Beauty. This will allow the soil to settle down and connect all the components. The day before planting, the beds are watered abundantly.
Rules of landing
Before planting, the bulbs are carefully sorted, the sick are discarded. To protect healthy planting material from infectious decay, it is treated with special agents (Merpan, Sumileks, Kaptan) or a solution of potassium permanganate.
Planting pattern and planting depth depends on the size of the bulbs
Up to 30 cm is left between adjacent rows, and up to 10 cm between the holes. In this order, the seedlings will not inhibit growth, and there will be enough nutrients for everyone.
Bulb planting depth:
- small (children) – from 3 to 10 cm;
- medium – up to 12 cm;
- large – up to 15 cm.
When planting Barcelona Beauty and Pink tulips, it is important to consider the size of the bulbs, as small ones give undersized flowers, and tall flower stalks grow from large ones. Therefore, small ones are planted around the perimeter of the flower beds, and large ones – in the center.
The bed is mulched with sand and thoroughly watered. Other covering materials should not be used, as Barcelona tulips may wake up and start producing a flower bud, which will die in late autumn.
Watering and top dressing
Tulip Barcelona Beauty is a moisture-loving plant, but with a strong stagnation of water, the bulbs begin to rot. Regularity is important, so water as the soil dries completely.
Do not subject tulips to shock therapy and water them with ice water. Bulbs can suffer, so it is better to use warm, pre-settled liquid.
Top dressing is important for Barcelona tulips. The quality of peduncles and the duration of flowering depend on their timeliness and compliance with dosages. It is better to use mineral complexes in which the ratio of components has already been calculated.
Fertilization is carried out in several stages:
- The first top dressing is carried out in early spring on the snow, which has not yet left the garden. Scatter dry nitrogen at the rate of 35 g per 1 m2.
- When the flowers begin to sprout, make complex mineral fertilizers for bulbous flowering plants.
- At the time of budding, they are fed with any fertilizer that is responsible for the intensity of growth.
When buying complexes for tulips, it is important to carefully study the composition. In addition to the main nutrients, it should contain:
- magnesium – responsible for the metabolism in the plant;
- manganese – without it, a violation of the process of photosynthesis occurs;
- boron – necessary for lush flowering;
- copper – resists the defeat of the tulip by viruses;
- zinc – thanks to which the peduncle develops high and strong.
Before fertilizing, it is necessary to carefully study the instructions in order to avoid negative consequences.
Reproduction of tulips Barcelona
Tulips Barcelona do not like to stay in one place, so they start transplanting every 4-5 years. In order not to wait for the aging of flowers on the same bed, they are propagated. The most popular and less time-consuming method is reproduction with the help of babies and small bulbs.
Timely digging, sorting and proper storage allow you to get good bulbs.
When the leaves of Barcelona tulips wither, turn yellow, they start digging. Work is at the end of June, beginning of July. It is advisable to guess with the timing, since early extraction from the soil is fraught with immature material, and with late digging, the risk of losing children increases. Digging is carried out with a shovel, sticking it vertically to the growth of the plant, so as not to damage the bulb.
Planting material is dried, cleaned of soil, damaged, diseased and shapeless specimens are discarded. The rest are soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate. Withstand 30 minutes, and then dry in the shade for two days.
Planting material is stored in a dark, cool place with a humidity of 80%. In the fall, they plant in the garden.
The second method, which allows you to get new colors of flowers, is seed. At home, it is relevant, but less in demand. With the seed method of reproduction, Barcelona tulips gain full strength in 7-12 years.
Diseases and pests of tulips Barcelona
Diseases lead to the ugliness of the buds and the drying of the foliage
Tulips Barcelona have low resistance to pests and viral diseases. When growing flowers, you can encounter various problems.
Disease | Symptoms | Methods of struggle |
Gray mold | Spots on bulbs and leaves, lodging of shoots, curvature of buds, drying of the peduncle. | Treatment with copper sulfate or Bordeaux liquid at the time of the onset of symptoms. Spraying with Kaptan at the beginning of the growing season, during the budding period and after flowering. |
White rot | The bulb is covered with a whitish coating, the seedlings are not friendly, the first shoots turn yellow and wither. | If the seedlings are sick, they are pulled out and destroyed. The soil in the garden is sprinkled with wood ash. |
Fuzarioz | Peduncles are formed low, the buds do not open, brown spots appear on the bulbs. | To prevent disease, it is necessary to choose high-quality planting material and store it properly. |
Penicillosis | The peduncle lags behind in development, the buds do not open or dry out, yellow-green spots appear on the bulbs. | Before planting, the bulbs are pickled in a solution of potassium permanganate. |
Of insect pests, tulips attack:
- root onion mite;
- nematodes;
- aphid;
- purple owl;
- jurchalka;
- bear;
- wireworm;
- crunches;
- slugs.
Each of them pests on a certain part of the flower. To avoid the appearance of insects, the bulbs are treated with fungicides before planting, and the soil is dug up to a depth of at least 35 cm, chalk and ash are added. During the growth and development of Barcelona Beauty tulips, the beds are well weeded, loosened so that there is no stagnation of moisture, and oxygen penetrates inside. Top plantings are mulched with peat.
An effective way to control pests is biological, which involves breeding ladybugs and lacewings on the site. These insects are able to destroy pests. Setting traps and baits will also help to solve the problem with a number of insects, the delicacy of which is the Barcelona tulip.
Photo of tulips Barcelona
Tulips of the Triumph class are actively used by landscape designers in the design of city flower beds. Due to its grandeur, Barcelona looks spectacular in combination with other flowers and varieties of tulips.
Barcelona Beauty is suitable for outdoor and greenhouse cultivation
Growing flowers for the spring holidays is a profitable business
Forcing tulips Barcelona Beauty is often carried out in boxes.
Any woman dreams of getting a gorgeous bouquet of tulips for the holiday of March 8
The duet of tulips and hyacinths looks gentle and unusual.
Conclusion
Tulip Barcelona is a delicate flower that can decorate any holiday. The bud is quite large, so it is difficult to confuse it with other varieties and varieties. In the flower beds, the Barcelona Beauty tulip occupies a central place, and it feels good next to other flowers: hyacinths, daffodils, peonies.
