VIDEO: Phlox pruning after flowering
Phlox - plant care and needs
Like every plant, the phlox also needs the right location, fertilizer and the right soil quality to develop healthily.
- The flame flower, as phlox is also called, comes from areas with high rainfall and moist soil. With a height of up to 1.5 meters, the plant becomes relatively large and forms a large number of strong flowers, so that the high nutrient requirements should be covered with natural fertilizers. Compost is ideal for positively influencing the growth of the phlox. Horn meal as an organic fertilizer can also be used to supply nutrients. You can do this in the growing season Garden soil work in with.
- Since the flowers "pull" a lot of moisture, you should water the plants vigorously in the morning, especially on hot summer days, so that the flowers do not go limp.
- The location should be light to partially shaded; full sun can burn the phlox flowers. With a planting of 3-5 phlox per square meter, you can ensure that the plants grow densely without competing with nutrients or light. The planting distance can be approx. 60-80 cm.
How to cut the flame flower correctly - tips for trimming
When pruning the phlox, you should perform this measure correctly, because you can also intensify or intensify the flowering with the pruning. extend this even longer backwards.
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- You should take a few days or Weeks before the buds develop in June, shorten some flower stalks to half or two thirds of their original length. With this pruning before the blossoms are formed, you can ensure longer-lasting blooms in the garden or front yard, because the trimmed stems develop and train the flowers later, after some of the flowers have already faded.
- In addition, it is advisable to remove flowers immediately after they have withered with sharp cutting tools, because under the dried up Plant material immediately starts the formation of new inflorescences, which can develop better in direct sunlight and thus for a more abundant flowering can worry.
- Otherwise you should only subject phlox to the usual perennial pruning, which means that you are cutting them Plants hand high back before the start of budding in spring, i.e. from the beginning of February to March into it.
The flame flower does not need winter protection, so with the plant you have a perennial and strongly flowering garden plant with a high decoration factor.
