Gardening Guide: Growing and Caring for Baby's Breath

 

Baby's breath is a famous flower that is found in many places; it is easy to grow, and you can plant both annual and perennial baby breath. These flowers make a lovely addition to any garden, and they can be planted in a variety of ways. Baby breath is grown for its beauty and fragrance, and the flowers are used as cut flowers, dried for decoration, and they are deer-resistant. This article will provide you with detailed instructions for growing and caring for baby's breath.

Baby's breath can be planted in zones 4-9, and it needs full sun to grow well. Baby's breath makes a great ground cover, and it can easily grow over rocks, and it is a creeping flower. This plant likes good drainage. They bloom from late spring through summer, and the flowers they produce are white and pale pink. Baby's breathe can grow from eight inches in height to four feet tall. Growing baby's breathe in your garden is easy if you are in the right zone and you have full sun.

When growing baby's breath by seed it is important to sow the seed after danger of frost has pasted; continue to sow seed every other week until the beginning of July. Lightly cover the seeds with dirt and water generously. After the flowers start to sprout lightly water annual baby's breath and generously water perennial baby's breath. If you are starting your baby's breath inside start the seeds about 10 weeks before you transplant them into your garden. Sowing baby's breath from seed in your garden is easily done, and this plant does not need a lot of maintenance once it gets growing.

When caring for baby's breath there are some easy steps you can take to make your plant more productive. When the flowers of your baby's breath plant begin to die cut back the flowers; this is known as dead heading, and it will cause new blooms to grow. Annual baby's breath likes plant food, and both types of baby's breath enjoy alkaline soils. Taking care of baby's breathes is easy and only requires a slight amount of attention, and these plants are drought resistant so they can handle dry spells well.

Propagating baby's breath is simple, and you can have many of these plants growing in your garden in no time. Start by taking a cutting from your baby's breath plant in early summer. Place the cutting in some water and dip it into some rooting hormone powder before putting it into some dirt. Remember to poke a hole in the dirt with your finger first to make sure the powder rooting hormone stays on the stem.

Growing and caring for baby's breath does not have to be hard. These easy tips and steps will have your garden filled with baby's breathe in no time.