Velhets perennial, landing and care

Velhets - bright unpretentious flowers that can be found in many summer cottages, in parks, urban flower beds. These charming decorative flowers in juicy orange, solar colors will decorate any garden and create a fun, cheerful mood in it. Very popular velvets in Ukraine, they are called "blackheads" here. Velhets have been used for decorating rural courtyards and streets. They are so organically fit into the rural flavor, that they are considered to be a symbol of Ukraine, although the birthplace of flowers is America. National Love Velhets deserved not only due to their attractiveness, but also unpretentiousness in care, even the newcomer will be able to grow these charming flowers.

Velhets Perennial: Description

Velhets (Lat. Tagetes) - annual or perennial plants belong to the Astrov family or complex family. The birthplace of blooming unpretentious culture is America, where they are widespread from the southern US states to Argentina. The velvets fell into Europe thanks to Spanish conquerors in the XVI century and soon spread throughout the continent. To date, there are up to 40 species of this plant. Latin name Tagtess (Tagetes) Flowers received in honor of the grandson of Jupiter - Tagés (Tagteta), which possesses the gift of the predictor.

TAGETES is a compact bush with a reprehensible, branched stem, whose height reaches from 20 to 130 cm. Leaves of velvetsev - openwork peristracial or peristra-separate, are opposed, sometimes in the next order. Leaves, depending on the plant species, painted into a light green or dark green shade. The velvetsev urine root system.

Plant inflorescences - baskets: terry or simple, can be collected in inflorescences. The median rolling flowers have a tubular shape, and the edge flowers are false-language, there are five stamens. Coloring flowers bright and catchy. There are velehats bright yellow, orange, red, golden, brown coloring.

Flowering velvetsev - abundant, long-term, starting with June, ending with the first frosts. The fruit of the plant is a linear seed, narrowing to the base, the flowers are perfectly multiplied by self-sowing, keeping its germination for 3-4 years. A distinctive feature of flowers is a strong spicy little tart fragrance, illustrated not only by flowers, but also leaves of the plant. Not everyone likes the aroma of velvetsev, but it is this pronounced specific smell that scares the pests from the plant, which can harm him.

Types of velvets perennial

The species variety of velvetsev is a huge amount, the most common in our region three types of plants:

Tagetes deflected (Tagetes Patula), another type of type - French, small beds, low. A low compact plant that achieves a height is no more than 60 cm. Spanish branching bush with side deflected shoots is covered with numerous small flowers in diameter up to 8 cm. Flowers, depending on the variety can be terry or assembled in simple inflorescences with a pronounced disc in the center. Color color can be yellow, orange, golden or two-color. Small-ceiling velvets are often used to decorate lawns, flower beds, flower beds, they are planted as a curb or grown in vases, containers. Unpretentious type of velvetsev grows everywhere, is a cold-resistant look.

The most common varieties of rejected velvetsev:

• Carmen is a variety with bright terry flowers having corrugated petals. The color of the petals is a yellow-orange core framed by a red-brown edge. The height of the sprawling bush is up to 30 cm.

• Gold Bol - the height of the bush of plants up to 60 cm, the color of the flowers is a bright yellow core with a red border.
• Lemon velvets - have bright lemon painting of petals, terry flowers. Great looks in the monochrome flower bed.

• Bolero veciatts - a low-speed plant, up to 20 cm tall with lush inflorescences, wavy petals, painted in yellow-red gamut. The most common variety of velvetsev is growing perfectly in the shade.

Tagtetes Tricultural, Mexican (Tagetes Tenuifolia) is a miniature type of velvetsev with original openwork foliage. There are about 70 hybrids of this type of plant. Kusta height is about 20-40 cm, minor inflorescences up to 2 cm in diameter. Color of petals - golden, orange, red, yellow.

Popular varieties:

• Ursula - a bush tall up to 50 cm with golden flowers.
• Paprika - the height of the bush up to 25 cm, blooms with red or orange.
• Lulu - the height of the bush to 25 cm, blooms yellow-golden floral baskets.

TAGETES PRESENTED ERACTA or AFRICAN (Tagetes Erecta) is a kind of tall velvetsev. The height of the bush is from 30 cm to 1 meter. The peculiarity of this species is luxurious large terry flowers up to 15 cm in diameter. As a rule, the color of flowers is monophonic: yellow, cream, golden, orange.

Popular varieties:

• Vanilla - bush up to 70 cm high with creamy terry inflorescences up to 12 cm in diameter.

• Kilimanjaro - bush up to 70 cm tall with charming large spherical flowers of white.
• Antigua is a low bustard up to 30 cm tall with bright floral baskets: golden, orange, lemon.

What velvets choose: annual or perennial?

Decorating the country site, many flowerflowers are asked what is better than the varieties of velvetsets to choose for cultivation. Choosing between annuals or perennial velvets, it is necessary to determine for the purpose of growing colors. For a permanent place near the house, the veranda or for the decoration of the flower beds will suit the lowest perennial velets. It should be remembered that by multiplying by self-sowing, perennial species have a feature to seize new territories, and every year, the bushes of the plant develop better, and the flowers become magnificent. Such varieties can be attributed to: Carmen, Bonaz. Very velvets can be used in flower shops or assemble yourself.

Annual hybrid varieties multiply the division of the bush or by digging. Every year more and interesting bright annual velets appear every year, who do not have time to bother, surprising the new coloring or flower shape. New hybrid varieties for the summer period can be planted in flower beds, in suspended porridge, vases, pots, decorate the windowsills. They can be both short and tall. Among the famous annual varieties can be allocated: Mandarin, Tiger's eyes, Kilimanjaro.

Velhets Perennial: Growing

Unpretentious velvets can be raised in several ways: to sow seeds immediately into the ground or grow through seedlings.

Cultivation of velvets through seedlings

Sowing seeds to seedlings of a represented Taghetse is carried out in March, small-bedroom and thin colors are better to plant on seedlings in the initial number of April. For an earlier landing, in February, it will take the illumination of seedlings, since the light day in February is still short.

Stages of planting seedlings:

1. Prepare containers with drainage holes for growing seedlings. To board the marriage seeds, choose a loose soil, which includes: peat, humus, nervous land and half of the sand. Ideally, the substrate will fit the substrate for growing seedlings, bought in a flower shop. It is very important to prepare the drainage on seedlings, the ceramzite is suitable, a mixture of rubble, sand, pebbles, broken brick. The drainage layer must be 2-3 cm.
2. For successful landing, land and seeds need to be disinfected. Independently prepared soil is recommended in advance, flow in the refrigerator in winter or on the balcony. And before sowing it is to pour it with a saturated solution of marathansya. Also, the seeds of the plant should be soaked in a weak solution of manganese.
3. Disabled seeds before planting need to be germinated in a saucer. To do this, place them on the wet fabric and cover the film. Keep saucer with seeds warm, three days later they should germinate.
4. You can start planting seeds: in the rammed soil, along its entire surface, seeds are not very thickly unfolded. The velvets rose well, with too thick landing, the seedlings will have to cut forward. Some flower products advises not to lay the seeds on the surface of the Earth, but stick them like sticks.
5. Next, you need to sprinkle the seeds with a small layer of soil and set containers into a warm room, where the air temperature is at least 22 degrees. To cover the seeds lined with glass or film or film, creating "greenhouse" not necessarily, since the velvets rose quite well and without additional conditions. In case you decide to use "Greenhouse", one or twice a day, the film must be removed for ventilating to prevent the condensate accumulation on its surface and the development of mold.
6. Watering soil with seeds follows as drying. It should be moderately humid, but not very wet. After 10-14 days, the first shoots will appear, the containers will need to be transferred with a cooler (15-18 degrees of heat), but the bright room. Watering seedlings is carried out strictly under the sprouts, it is desirable to use a pipette or syringe for watering. If the seedlings climbed too often and densely, they should be switched, removing weaker sprouts.

In May, when night frosts leave, seedlings are ready for landing into an open ground or in vases and containers for growing on the windowsill, balconies, verandahs. To transplant seedlings, it is enough to touch the spatula and transplant to a permanent place on the site, observing the distance between the landings of 30-40 cm. The low-spirited varieties are planted according to a 20-cm scheme. The soil for landing should be nutritious, saturated minerals, neutral or drum. For flowers lined in soil with low fertility, in the future, during the growing season, feeding will be required.

Watering young plants should be moderate and regular, lack of moisture in the soil affects the further growth and blossom of velvetsev.

Sowing seeds of velvetsev perennials immediately in open ground

Plant perennial velets can immediately be in open ground. For the first planting, the seeds can be bought in the store, and then collect planting material after flowering for the dilution of velvets on the plot, also the seeds of the velvetsets are abundantly multiplied by self-sowing. The seeds collected in the fall are stored until spring, and then planted into the ground. Optimal time sowing seeds - mid-May, when the soil warms up enough.

For landing it is necessary to prepare wide wells in advance, a depth of 5 cm, at a distance of 15 cm from each other. Seed seed into moisturized wells, and then topped with a small layer of land, about 1 cm. Watering is neat and moderate before the appearance of the first germs that will appear pretty quickly. If young marigolds rose too thickly, they should be switched and transplant to another place.

Velhets Perennial: Care

Marketing for velvets is not complicated, only compliance with simple conditions for their cultivation is enough:

1. The landing garden should be open, sunny, but not under scoring sunshine. The velvets grow remarkably at any lighting, but with insufficient refreshment, the plant will not be abundantly and fluffy.
2. Special requirement is given to watering the plant. The velvets need regular, abundant watering during the period of active growth and more moderate watering during the formation of buds and blossoms in order to prevent moisture stagnation in the soil, which can lead to fungal diseases and reinforce the root system.
3. Flowers need periodic loosening of soil around bushes and removing weeds.
4. Unpretentious flowers do not need feeding, although they respond positively. Supporting complex fertilizers is carried out three times: during the growth of the plant, when it is reached 10 cm in height, when the first buds appears and at the beginning of flowering. Fertilizers feeding more benefits will bring plants planted in vases and containers.
5. It is worth paying attention to the timely removal of the blurred inflorescences so that the formation of new buds is not delayed.
6. Tall grades need to form a support, since the stems of velvetsev can break under their own weight or from a strong wind.
7. At the end of the season, during the first autumn frosts, the flowers need to be covered with observer material.
8. To extend the flowering in the fall, the velvets can be transplanted into the containers and put into the room.

Reproduction of perennial vertexes

The velvets can be multiplied not only by seeds, but also by rooting the stem cutting in water or soil. In addition, adults of the velvetsev bushes perfectly determine the division of the bush. It is enough to dig a maternal bush and divide it into several parts with root and foliage.

Collection and storage of seeds Perennial velvets

To collect landing material, it is necessary to wait to wait for the inflorescences on the bush completely dried. Then, in dry weather, the inflorescences break and extract them seeds. You can store the seeds of velvets in a paper package in a dry, dark and ventilated room. When collecting seeds of a certain variety, it should be borne in mind that only three of the four seeds inherit parental signs.

Diseases and pests Perennial velvets

Velhets are rarely subjected to diseases. Their specific aroma is a kind of plant protection from many diseases and pests. Thanks to the large content of phytoncides, the plant can protect not only itself, but also others surrounding its cultures.

But, if the summer was rainy, raw, flowers attack slugs and snails that feed on leaves and plants stems. To combat pests, traps from a chlorine solution are used, which are packed around the perimeter of the site.
Another disease associated with the rebuppiness of moisture is gray rot. Infected bushes should be removed so that there is no infection of healthy instances.

With arid summer, flowers can attack the web tick, in the fight with it is used in the onion, which sprinkles on the bushes. To prevent the appearance of a spider tick, flowers in dry weather need to regularly spray, artificially increasing the humidity of the air.

Possible problems in growing perennial velvets

• With insufficient humidity of the soil, the plant will not fully develop, also this indicator affects the size of the flowers.
• Excessive humidity leads to reinforcement of the root and fungal diseases.
• In the rainy summer, there is a possibility of getting the sworded inflorescences, so they are recommended to remove regularly.
• When the air temperature is reduced to 10 degrees, the plant ceases to develop.

Velchatts Perennial in Landscape Design

The velvets look great in any garden plot, decorating floweries, lawns, borders with bright juicy and magnificent inflorescences. Tall varieties look harmoniously in the center of the flower beds, and low-spirited as the juggling of curbs and the side of the flower beds or the lawn. Mountain velvet flower beds from yellow velvets or bright multicolored flower beds look very impressive, with drop-down velvets of various colors.

Velhets are the perfect option for decorating even the smallest site, if the area for planting colors is limited. Bright, unpretentious flowers can even be grown on the beds, among potatoes or other vegetable crops.

Very beautifully, velvets lined in vases, containers on the verandas, in arbors look. Cheerful flowers will give a good mood until the autumn.

Velchattsy is an unpretentious and universal plant, which is under the power to grow newcomer. These bright flowers with fragrant aroma fill your garden with warmth, joy and happiness.

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