The Ährige Prachtscharte in the garden cut properly

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• The Ährige Prachtscharte in the garden cut properly
• Removing withered plant parts before the winter
• The pruning of cultivated pollen in the tub
• Stimulate a second flower with a targeted pruning
• Tips

Withered parts of the plant should be cut off before winter

The Ährige Prachtscharte in the garden cut properly

The Ährige Prachtscharte originates from North America and belongs despite its unusual flower form with the bloom from top to bottom inflorescences to the plant family of the Asteraceae. The perennial shrubs that grow up to 1 meter high at suitable locations can be cut for specific reasons, but there is no need for a cut.

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Removing withered plant parts before the winter

If you are visually disturbed by the slowly withering flowers after the bloom of the Prachtscharte, then you can cut back the plants down to the green leaves. These leave you but until the wintering of the plants, as they can so still recharge your energy and later wither. Withered flowers and leaves should be cut off at the latest in early spring with a sharp knife, so that the young shoots receive enough light and have room for their development. If the Prachtscharte is regularly cut, this promotes a bushy appearance of older specimens in a consistent location. In addition, the cutting out of withered flowers after seed maturity is to collect the fresh seeds immediately with the resulting cut material.

The pruning of cultivated pollen in the tub

In the cultivated in bucket specimens of Prachtscharte offers before winter cutting back on the plants to a few inches above the ground, as the plants better in a protective cover of garden fleece or bubble wrap can be packed. These flowering plants usually tolerate it completely easily, if individual flowers are cut as cut flowers for the vase. Should no mulch layer be applied to the perennial plant bed in exposed locations, it may make sense to let the dead plant material stand up to a hand's breadth over the winter. Thus, the withered foliage itself serves as winter protection for the plants.

Stimulate a second flower with a targeted pruning

Actually, all gardeners particularly like to plant perennials in their gardens that either bloom for a very long time or several times. Therefore, there are a total of four possible times for a cut in the Prachtscharte:

Cut back your pollen splinters in the garden right after the wilting of the inflorescences down to the green leaves. If you're lucky and the plants have good planting conditions, then you may have a second, smaller bloom.

Tips

If a single eruption in the garden becomes too large for you, you can slow its growth by splitting the root rhizome for multiplication purposes.