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Bloodflower Asclepias curassavica

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Care Bloodflower
These plants are shrubs. The development is erect, they tend to grow both in height and in width, giving origin to a rounded shrub. Bloodflower Is an evergreen; during summer iIt assumes a orange colouring; the adult specimens are medium in size and reach 1 m high.

Temperatures BloodflowerSole pieno
Let's grow the The Bloodflower in a luminous place, with direct sunlight. Let's grow the The Bloodflower outdoors; they can bear very harsh minimum temperatures, even when many degrees below zero.When the minimum temperatures are very low we can protec the more sensible brushes by covering their roots with dry leaves or straw.

Irrigation BloodflowerTenere Umido
Water when the ground is dry; in case of prolonged droughts water very often, otherwise every 2-3 weeks can be enough using 1-2 buckets of water ; avoid water stagnations and excessive watering. If we decide to grow a specimen of the Bloodflower in a container, we should remember that it will have slightly different needs compared to a specimen grown in the ground: we should pay more attention to its water and nutritional needs and check more often for possible development of parassites.

Adversity Bloodflower
As the day-time temperatures rise at the beginning of the spring, it is agreeable to practice a preventive treatment, with a wide-range insecticide, which should be applied when there aren’t flowerings in the garden. Before the buds become too large, it is advisable to also treat them with a wide-range fungicide, to prevent the development of fungal diseases which spread easily when there is an elevated environmental moisture.

Substrate Bloodflower
These shrubs need an averagely humid, not too drained soil .

Climate
peat
sand
Soil
Pumice
Bark
S. Organic
alpine
4
1
2
1
0
1
continental
3
2
2
2
0
1
mediterranean
2
3
2
3
0
1

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There aren't any notes. The indications given in this article are related to a medium size plant.

This page concerns the weather continental it is possible to choose another climate area continental mediterranean

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