Garden window in April – time to bet, transplant and not lose your head

How to cut lavender

Lavender is a Mediterranean semi -boy who loves heat. Like all hemispheres, it creates a woody part. It must be cut to maintain a compact spherical shape. When and how much to cut it depends on the species.

Lavender is the first to cut. If you want to change it, you can cut it behind the first new, young tickets. If you just want to shorten it, just a third. With this lavender, you can afford to cut into the old wood, but you always have to see new leaves.

A narrow -leaved lavender take the paškal at the end of April. Never cut it into the old wood. In the spring, it is cut only very easily, it is shaped into the spherical hill only after flowering.

Lavender is cut at the latest. It is very sensitive to late spring frosts, so you could endanger it early. As with lavender narrow -leaved, do not interfere with the old wood and cut by a maximum of 5 cm.

What lavender should you plant? If you have enough space Lavender Middle Grosso. It is used in cosmetics, for the production of fragrant bags and bouquets. It is grown in our country on the Moravian lavender farm Lavandia and their lemonade or fragrant cushions I recommend to try. With the owner of the farm Stanislav Bíza, we filmed a video interview, which you can find on YouTube (about lavender – ears in clay).

Put on Plamének

Smokers are a popular climbing plant that will surprise you with a wide range of colors and shapes of flowers. In April it is the ideal time for their planting. Before that, however, you should know what the species is – not only because of the conditions in which he will do well, but also for subsequent care. Most need support, but some are ground cover. Dry flowers of clematis resemble hairy heads and are beautiful even in winter.

Where to plant it

• He thrives in the shade and in the sun, the roots must have in the cold shadow (you can solve it by hanging perennials).
• The soil is suitable fertile, permeable, neutral or slightly alkaline.
• When planting in a container, the size of 45 × 45 cm should be (do not forget the drain holes).
• In spring, mulch with compost or mature manure.
• Slugs like fresh young men with.

We divide the flames into three groups

1. Early flowering species and their cultivars (blooming on old wood):

• Fully frost -resistant species are grown in our country (C. Montana, grows to a height of 7 to 12 m)

2. Early flowering full -flowered and semi -full cultivars (blooming on old wood):

• They bloom on the short stems of this year, which grow from mature last year’s wood, grow to a height of 2.5-4 m.
• Grow cultivars with fine colors with pink or purple striped flowers in indirect sun to avoid fading.
• Cultivars with dark red and purple flowers belong to the sun, then have a deeper color.
• They are remontant – at the end of summer smaller flowers bloom again.

3. Late flowering large -flowered and herbal species (blooming on this year’s shoots, so it is cut almost to the ground):

• It is suitable for growing climbing or shrub roses or shrubs, C. Viticella is suitable for growing between heath plants (heather, heather and dubbits)
• C. Jouiniana grows as a ground cover,
• C. Tangutica is a powerful species that needs a large wall or a large tree where it can grow unlimited,
• C. Heracleifolia var. Davidian is not denied, fits in mixed or perennial beds,
• C. integrifolia (herbal, grows to a height of 70 cm, rare) looks great in combination with polyants.

What to plant instead of a lawn

The lawn usually fails in the shade under the trees. Place the space with shadow -loving perennials that are not demanding on moisture – the three -cinema or peephole, nodal cocoa or classy thickness (thrive in acidic soil). In wetter soil, the ungulates will be successful in the European, the cushions, the red scorpion, the yellow deaf, the Modonach, Kokořík Kokořík or the smaller color.

What to do when the weather does not wish

Room plants finally have enough light and after winter they are doing a lot better. It’s best time to transplant them. Each plant has different demands on the size of the container, but every few years will benefit the replacement of the substrate and enlarge the space. You can divide tufts of growing plants, and you can also plant plants that already have sufficiently large roots.

Perennial of season 2025

The Czech Association of Perenari annually announces the perennial of the season.

The perennial of the season 2025 is the scorpion. This fine but very durable perennial blooms in April under deciduous trees and shrubs. It impresses with its fine flowers from white to yellow to orange. The leaves usually color most in autumn.

It comes from China and Japan or from the Mediterranean. Asian varieties require more humous soil and higher humidity, Mediterranean can handle drought. The scorpion can be ground cover or cluster, in both cases it grows slowly.

Do not forget the insects

Small insects in the garden are useful and little enough to keep it on it. You can buy or make insect houses. Bees of loners are sufficient to drill holes into the block. In the corner of the garden you can also leave a pile of dry brushwood and branches.

O Author

Magda H. Švarcová advises on Instagram gardening Flos. He loves peonies and roses. Perennial beds would like to plant everywhere.

Source: Recipe magazine