A brief manual for your blooming balconies
Symbol of a beauty which can occasionally be melancholy, the Clone Success Ranunculus is an elegant and delicate flower ready to enrich gardens and terraces and which prefers soft land that is rich of organic substances and well drained.
The bulbs which are supplied to us by the companies Biancheri and Brea can be cultivated like cut flowers in the open ground but nothing can impede one from creating multicoloured vases with this bright sparkling and colorful plant. In order to plant the bulbs you have to dig a small hole and place them at about 5 cm in depth with the roots downwards, keeping a distance of about 10-15cm between each bulb. To cultivate the Ranunculus in vases you generally need to choose fresh soil and rich of organic substances.
The plant can reach a height of about 40cm and its leaves are normally of a light green colour, they have a roped shape and the edges are jagged. The flower particularly loves sunlight and its ideal exposure in order to avoid getting burnt is sunny on average; perfection can be reached if the plant gets exposed to direct sunlight during the less warmer hours and is more protected during the central hours of the day.
During the phase of growth, the Ranunculus doesn’t like temperatures superior to 15°C.
The Ranunculus needs to be plentifully and frequently watered above all during its blooming but at the same time you need to be careful and not leave backwater so as to avoid the roots rotting.
Regarding the manuring you can round out the land with slow-releasing granular fertilizer; later on in order to produce abundant blossoming, the Ranunculus plants must be fertilized from the growing revival at least every ten days with a fertilizer appropriately diluted in the watering water.
It is important to make use of fertilizers which contain a major concentration of potassium during the blooming phase whereas during the growing phase a fertilizer with a percentage superior of nitrogen or with less phosphorus and potassium. You mustn’t forget about the mineral salts which are necessary in order to correctly balance the nutrition of the plants.
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