The sowing of upholstery phlox
In the gardening trade, the upholstered phlox is usually offered in the form of strong young plants in planters. These have the advantage that they are relatively flexible in the garden from spring to autumn planted out can be. However, it is with something care it is also possible to grow the upholstery phlox from seeds yourself. However, please note the following:
- the phlox is a frost germ (which is why the sowing should be done outdoors before winter)
- Plants grown indoors at 16 to 18 degrees Celsius can be sensitive to frost
- the delicate roots of small young plants can Transplanting easily injured
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Usually, sowing is only practiced as a method of propagation for annual Phlox species, as the Perennial upholstery phlox can multiply more easily in other species and only to a limited extent when grown from seeds is true to variety.
Strong specimens can be divided like other perennials
After a few years in the bed, you can carefully dig out particularly strong specimens of the upholstery phlox in spring and use a sharp-edged one spade Share gently. Be careful not to make the remaining pieces too small. It can be very sunny Locations Make sense to multiply the division with one Cut back to combine particularly long shoots.
The rooting of cuttings
From May to July, the time is particularly good for cutting cuttings for upholstery phlox. To do this, cut off about 5 to 6 cm long head cuttings from the shoot ends of the plant and remove the lower leaf roots from each of them. Then stick the cuttings in loose substrate in a rather shady place in the garden. Keep this moderately moist for a few weeks until the cuttings have developed their own roots and can be transplanted.
Tips
The upholstery phlox, like many other rock garden plants, tends to let its cushions hang over the edges of natural stone walls and rocks in the rock garden. When cutting off individual parts of the plant, for reasons of propagation, note that often large areas of the plant cushion are not connected to the ground via roots. Always divide the plants so that all cuttings have a sufficiently large proportion of roots.
