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- Knapweed - the right care makes it!
- Does this perennial handle dryness?
- Which fertilizers are suitable and must be fertilized?
- Does the knapweed need a pruning?
- Tips
The knapweed should be watered regularly
Knapweed - the right care makes it!
Knapweeds - while the wild forms have specialized in blue to violet-blue flowers, the cultivars even show white and yellow flowers. No matter which option you choose: To keep this perennial flowering at its location, care should not be neglected!
Does this perennial handle dryness?
The knapweed is not a friend of dry seasons. If it comes to heat or prolonged periods of drought in summer, it thirsts and needs water. Water regularly, preferably with rainwater (do not like lime). The casting is not only important for beautiful flowers, but also protects the plant from weakness and a consequent infestation of pests and diseases.
The soil should be kept moist, evenly and moderately. This is especially true with flakes flowers in the tub, for example, on the balcony. Make sure that the drainage fits, so that it does not get waterlogged and pour every few days!
Which fertilizers are suitable and must be fertilized?
If the knapweed is planted in a compost-enriched substrate, it can be left without fertilizer for a long time. Then in the first two years of gestation a fertilizer is not necessarily necessary. On the other hand, if this perennial stands in the tub, it should be supplied with a conventional liquid fertilizer for flowering plants every two weeks during its growing season.
Outdoor flake flowers greet a fertilizer in spring and a second annual fertilizer in autumn. For fertilizing are among others:
Does the knapweed need a pruning?
Tips
Pests usually do not infest the knapweed. In a humid weather, however, you can play down bad mildew bad. If you are living in a humid area bend with fertilizer of a bog from a horsetail!