- Heather is beautiful plants that require specific care to bloom lush in the garden or on the balcony.
- The key to success is the appropriate substrate (acid and permeable) and proper watering, which prevents dryness or pouring.
- Learn how to prepare the perfect position for heather to enjoy a purple carpet until the first frost.
- Discover all secrets of heather care and check where in Poland you can admire the breathtaking heaths!
On the largest heaths, purple carpets stretch to the horizon and look so phenomenal that we would like to have such a view in our garden. However, often, after bringing flowers home, heather is dying. Why is this happening? How to water and how to care for them to enjoy your eyes with beautiful flowers?
When and how to plant heathers in the garden? Don’t forget about it, and they will bloom for a long time
The best date for planting heather is the beginning of September. However, if we fail, we can also plant them in spring, at the end of March. Heather is very demanding in terms of ground, so if you dream of a beautiful heather in the garden, sometimes you have to replace the soil. When choosing soil for heathers, you need to consider several factors. Heather that grows in forests feel great on sandy soil, but garden heather varieties have greater requirements. The best will be caries-permeable and fertile with acidic reaction (pH 3.5-5.5). If the soil is rather heavy and clay in our garden, it will have to be replaced. In the place where we want to plant heathers, choose the ground to a depth of about 20-30 cm. Pour gravel to the bottom, and fill the rest with soil suitable for heathers mixed with peat in a 1: 1 ratio. When preparing a place for a heath in the garden or on a plot of fertile soil, just add about a 15 cm layer of sour peat, and then mix and plant heathers. We plant shrubs in the hole twice wider and deeper than they reach the roots. It is important that the roots are well spread. That heather blooms every autumn and need a sunny and shielded position for many years. You also need to remember about regular watering. Heather does not like excess water and sprinkling leaves, so you need to water them quite abundantly, but rarely. Plants have a shallow root system, so it is worth sprinkling them with bark, which will prevent the soil from drying out in the summer, and will protect against frost in winter. It is also worth supplying them with a micory vaccine. The preparation contains the remains of mushrooms that strengthen the root system. Thanks to this, the plants are healthier and luxurious. Instead of a ready preparation, you can use a handful of soil from a forest heath (if a forester allows us).
Heather on the balcony. How to care for them?
Heather in a pot is an ideal autumn decoration of balconies and homemade window sills. They bloom beautifully until the first frosts, but it is rare for them to survive until the next season. Nevertheless, potting heather can also be perennial. They must be watered regularly and moderately and set in a light sunny position. In winter, we must protect the pot against frost. Styrofoam will work. It is also worth setting the heathers in a place sheltered from the wind, rain and snow. Unfortunately, if we dream of heather at home, it will be difficult to keep them for more than a month. At home, they dry quickly.
Heath near Warsaw
Mostówka is delighted and brings to mind romantic scenes from “Wichrowe Hills”. Some call them Polish Yorkshire, but completely subjectively, the Ocean of Wrzosów near Warsaw has much more to offer. This is one of the most interesting and unusual places in Poland. Mostówka heather is perfect for a one -day, autumn trip from Warsaw. Just less than an hour in the car to move into a completely different, fairy -tale world that can be used as a shooting outdoor. It is particularly beautiful here in early autumn. Heathers stretch to the horizon, here and there are individual birches, whose white trunks diversify the purple rug of flowers. Mostówka heather, despite the fact that it is becoming more and more popular. This is one of the largest and most beautiful heaths in Poland, extending in the area of over 400 hectares. The area of this unusual heath is within the borders of Lucynsko-Mostowiecki dunes inscribed in the Natura 2000 area. And here the red lamp should light up here-you must not, tread, pick and destroy flowers. Let’s remember this during walks and posing for photos. In 1993, the fire destroyed a significant part of the forests, heathers grew up, but also by Medical Medical. The latter is a heather -shaped plant. In Poland it is under strict protection. By using it for medicinal purposes, she disappeared from many places. Lucynsko -Mostowieckie dunes, or Mostówka heather, is today one of the largest positions of this plant in our country. In addition to heather carpets, the treasure is also sand with a unique composition desired by glazers. Wrzosowisko Mostówka lies northeast of Warsaw. More precisely in the Wyszków poviat, in the Zabród commune, in the village of Mostówka. Depending on where we leave to cover, we have about 60 km, which is about 40 minutes in the car. The easiest way to get there by car. It is enough to enter the name of the place in the navigation and follow the S-8 route. Information boards appear just behind the tracks. Here, it’s best to park the car, especially with low suspension. You can also reach Mostówka from Warsaw by train from the Vilnius station with a change in Tłuszcz. The route lasts about an hour. It is worth paying attention to return trains, which are definitely less.
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