Cinquefoil is a miniature compact bush of the Rosaceae family. It can be an original decoration of a small garden or city square. In the summer, the leaves of the plant are colored in different shades of green, and in the fall they acquire a beautiful golden color.
Breeders have bred many decorative varieties, among which there are bush and grassy species. Most of them are characterized by abundant flowering from early summer to late autumn. The colors of the cinquefoil can be various, for example, yellow, pink, white, red or orange.
Planting a seedling in spring
Sometimes it happens that the long-awaited flowers do not appear on the bush. To understand why the plant does not bloom and how to fix it, you need to understand the features of planting the cinquefoil and caring for it.
Wrong landing
One of the main reasons why the cinquefoil blooms poorly is the shaded landing site. The plant loves open sunny places with rich, moist soil.
It is necessary to start planting seedlings at the beginning of spring, as soon as the snow melts, and the soil warms up a bit. If several bushes are planted nearby, then the distance between them should be at least 30 cm. The bushes should be watered abundantly and monitored for 20 days so that the soil does not dry out.
The cinquefoil has a superficial root system, so it does not need to be placed in a deep hole, a sufficient depth is half a meter. A prerequisite is a drainage layer at the bottom of the pit. It is made of expanded clay, fine gravel or broken brick.
Recommendation. Plants with an open root system are best planted in late summer or early spring.
Watering errors
Another reason why the shrubby cinquefoil does not bloom may be its improper watering. The plant is considered unpretentious and drought tolerant, so in the rainy summer it will not need additional watering. In a hot, arid summer, it is recommended that the bush be watered 2-3 times a week.
Important! When caring for the bloodroot, it is important to ensure that the soil does not dry out. To do this, the soil around the plant can be covered with mulch.
There is another mistake - you can not take cold, icy water for irrigation, so as not to damage the root system of the plant. To do this, it is better to use a warm, settled liquid. After watering, the soil must be loosened.
In the dry period, to obtain abundant flowering, it is recommended to spray the plant from the spray gun in the evening. Young seedlings need to be watered more often and with a large volume of water.
Lack of light
Often the solution to the lack of blooming cinquefoil lies in the lack of light. These plants prefer well-lit areas where the sun shines in the morning, and after lunch a slight shadow prevails.
Attention! In a thick shadow, the plant will not develop fully and will be susceptible to specific diseases.
However, a large number of direct sunlight adversely affects the life of the plant. In this case, the flowers burn out, the petals wither and fall. An ideal place for shrubby cinquefoil would be a spot with diffused light.
Scapula shrub loves plentiful lighting
Fertilizer and fertilizing
Flowering shrubs respond well to fertilizer application. When planting young seedlings, you need to know how to feed the cinquefoil. Any mineral fertilizer or ash is suitable for this, and next year you can use such fertilizers for the plant:
- In the spring, during the period of active growth, potassium sulfate and superphosphate are introduced into the soil.
- During the formation of buds, the soil is fertilized with phosphorus-potassium complexes.
Important! The use of nitrogen fertilizers helps to build leaves, but slows down the development of buds.
It is necessary to feed the bush with mineral fertilizers for flowering plants three times a season - in spring, summer and autumn. In the spring, top dressing helps the plant wake up after hibernation, and in the fall, on the contrary, prepare for it.
Many gardeners are interested in the question of how to fertilize the cinquefoil in the summer and during which period it is better to do this. It is best to apply fertilizer in early summer, when the budding of the plant begins. The most popular options for feeding potentilla in June are folk remedies. For example, ash solutions or mullein infusions.
Disease
A common reason why a plant blooms poorly is the presence of fungal diseases. It can be spotting, rust or powdery mildew. To suppress the disease, fungicides are used in the form of Bordeaux liquid, colloidal sulfur or industrial preparations. For the treatment of rust, additional treatments with solutions of potassium permanganate, boron and sulfur will be required. To make the treatment of plants more effective, it is better to carry it out before the formation of buds.
If the cinquefoil is sick, its leaves turn yellow
Good to know. It is better to avoid the proximity of the cinquefoil to conifers, as rust often passes from them.
Pests
Flower growers show spectacular cinquefoil bushes in landscape compositions not only because of their beauty, but also because the plant is resistant to pests. The only enemy of the plant is the scoop. This parasite looks like a moth, resembling it in color and shape of the wings. The caterpillars of scoops do the most harm to the plant; they eat leaves and feed on the plant's juices.
Holes on the foliage and larvae deposited on its lower side are evidence of the presence of the pest. As a result of this neighborhood, the plant ceases to bloom. At the bush on which scoops settled, the leaves quickly turn yellow.
Regular spraying with insecticides helps fight scoops. The most popular among them:
- Fufonon;
- Fitoverm;
- Decis.
You can use special traps for insects or biological products (Lepidocide, Bitoxybacillin, a solution of wood ash or soap). Such products do not harm the plant and do not accumulate in the soil.
After treating the shrub from parasites, it is recommended to transplant the plant to another place, and dig the soil and disinfect, because insects winter and lay eggs in the upper layers of the soil.
Scoop
How to feed and restore a plant
To make the plant bloom, it is necessary to timely apply fertilizers based on magnesium, potassium and phosphorus, avoiding nitrogen. To restore the bush after winter will help spring pruning of dry and old branches, timely moderate watering and complex feeding.
Blooming cinquefoil
Gardeners love cinquefoil for its decorative properties and abundant flowering. If the plant does not bloom in the next season, you need to analyze all the stages of caring for it and examine the flower for the presence of diseases or pests. So that the problem does not appear, it is necessary to water and spray the cinquefoil in the dry period, to loosen and mulch the soil, to make mineral fertilizers. Sanitary pruning will also help.
