Beautify
your home with large and colorful flowers
If you take a walk around a nursery
or the gardening section of a supermarket, you will see how the sale of tulips
predominates lately. These plants that we used to know only by photography
evoke us the Dutch gardens, of whose country they are a symbol. But the reality
is that tulips come from Asia and entered Europe through Turkey.
There are around five thousand
species of tulips, so there is a great variety and combination of colors to
form a beautiful garden or flower arrangement. It is also customary to combine
tulips with hyacinths or daffodils.
Tulips produce large,
colorful flowers that appear during spring. If you have planted the tulips, try
abundant watering before flowering; If you planted the bulbs in the fall, the
soil should remain moist during the winter.
The ideal temperature conditions
for tulips vary between 13 and 18 degrees Celsius once they have blossomed.
They should preferably remain in the sun or some shade in a warm environment
and avoid drafts and dry air.
Another option is to grow tulips in
water (hydroponics) and it is done as follows:
Use a glass container or glass jar
that covers the fourth lower part of the bulb; the water must touch the lower
part of the bulb. Change the water frequently to avoid the appearance of fungi.
·
It is convenient that the stem and leaves grow slowly,
so at the beginning the bulb is placed for a month and a half in a dark area
and covered to prevent the passage of light.
· Avoid air currents or high temperatures for the bulb
that has flowered. It requires good light but not to be under the rays of the
sun.
· Tulips are perennial plants and therefore, they lose
the exposed parts but they conserve the subterranean stems called bulbs. We can
take advantage of these bulbs to grow new plants in the next season. The steps
are as follows:
· Before the flowers dry, about three weeks after
flowering, you should trim them but let the stem and leaves dry before removing
the bulbs; This favors the formation of small bulbs that will serve for the
next season.
· Six weeks after cutting the flowers, you extract the
bulbs that should be kept in a cold and dry place. Apply a fungicide to keep
the bulbs in good condition.
· At the time of planting the bulbs that would be in
winter, these should be placed 15 or 20 centimeters deep in new land. Mix the
soil with a good fertilizer and water well.
· Finally, take care that the environment is moist but
protected from the cold and wait for your new tulips to sprout.
