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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 popular varieties is the Barcelona tulip - a product of Dutch selection.
Description of Barcelona tulips
Barcelona is a Dutch variety that attracts the eyes of Russian gardeners and arouses interest in the Russian market. Main characteristics:
Description | Indicators |
Class | Triumph |
Flowering period | April May |
Bud shape | Goblet, dense |
Diameter | 7 cm |
Scent | Sweetish, rich |
Coloration | Soft pink |
Height | 60 cm |
Diameter of bulbs | 10 cm |
Application | For cutting and in ornamental gardening |
Resistance to extremes of spring temperatures | High |
When drawing up 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 the variety with undersized varieties.
Planting and caring for tulips Barcelona Beauty
The Barcelona Beauty begins planting in the fall, at the end of September.
To get a decorative crop, 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 planting 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 must be well drained. Fertile loamy or sandy loam soil is suitable.
The soil is cleared of weeds, then dug up to a depth of 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 ingredients. The day before planting, the beds are watered abundantly.
Landing rules
Before planting, the bulbs are carefully sorted, the patients are discarded. To protect healthy planting material from infectious decay, it is treated with special agents (Merpan, Sumileks, Kaptan) or with 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.
Planting depth of bulbs:
- small (children) - from 3 to 10 cm;
- medium - up to 12 cm;
- large - up to 15 cm.
When planting tulips Barcelona Beauty and Pink, it is important to take into account the size of the bulbs, since the small ones give low-growing flowers, and the large ones grow tall flower stalks. Therefore, small ones are planted around the perimeter of the flower beds, and large ones - in the center.
The garden bed is mulched with sand and thoroughly watered with water. Other covering materials cannot be used, as Barcelona tulips can wake up and begin to release a flower bud, which will die in late autumn.
Watering and feeding
Tulip Barcelona Beauty is a moisture-loving plant, but with a strong stagnation of water, the bulbs begin to rot. Regularity is important, therefore, watered as the soil dries completely.
Do not shock tulips and water them with ice water. The bulbs can be damaged, so it is better to use a warm, previously settled liquid.
Top dressing is important for Barcelona tulips. The quality of the 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 the components has already been calculated.
Fertilization is carried out in several stages:
- The first feeding is carried out in early spring on snow that has not yet left the garden. Scatter dry nitrogen at the rate of 35 g per 1 m2.
- When the flowers begin to sprout, complex mineral fertilizers are applied for bulbous flowering plants.
- At the time of budding, they are fed with any fertilizer 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 plant metabolism;
- 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 - due to which the peduncle develops high and strong.
Before fertilizing, you must carefully study the instructions in order to avoid negative consequences.
Tulip propagation Barcelona
Tulips Barcelona do not like to sit in one place, so they begin to transplant them every 4-5 years. In order not to wait for the aging of flowers in the same bed, they are multiplied. Reproduction with the help of babies and small bulbs is considered the most popular and less laborious method.
Timely digging, sorting and proper storage will produce good bulbs.
When the leaves of Barcelona tulips wither, turn yellow, start digging. Work falls on 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.
The planting material is dried, cleaned of soil, damaged, sick and shapeless specimens are discarded. The rest are soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate. Stand for 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 land on the garden bed.
The second method that 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 ugliness of buds and drying of foliage
Tulips Barcelona have low resistance to pests and viral diseases.When growing flowers, you can face various problems.
Disease | Symptoms | Control methods |
Gray rot | 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 signs. 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 bloom, 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 bed is sprinkled with wood ash. |
Fusarium | The flower stalks form low, the buds do not open, and brown spots appear on the bulbs. | To prevent disease, it is necessary to choose high-quality planting material and store it correctly. |
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 scoop;
- hoverfly;
- bear;
- wireworm;
- crunchy;
- slugs.
Each of them pests a certain part of the flower. To avoid the appearance of insects, the bulbs are treated with fungicides before planting, and the soil is prepared, dug 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 weeded well, loosened so that there is no stagnation of moisture, and oxygen penetrates inside. Top of the planting is mulched with peat.
An effective way of pest control is a biological one, which involves breeding ladybirds and lacewings on the site. These insects are capable of destroying pests. Placing traps and baits will also help solve the problem of 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 urban flower beds. Due to its greatness, Barcelona looks spectacular in combination with other flowers and tulip varieties.
Barcelona Beauty is suitable for outdoor and greenhouse cultivation
Growing flowers for spring holidays is a profitable business
Forcing tulips Barcelona Beauty is often carried out in crates.
Any woman dreams of getting a gorgeous bouquet of tulips for the 8th of March
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.
