Gaylardi, landing and care

If you are a beginner flower and dream of a plant for your garden, which can only be planted, and it will grow and please you with abundantly blossom, choose Gailardia. She has no competitors among perennial flowering plants on the duration of flowering (summer-autumn), drought resistance, frost, diseases. It belongs to Astrov (AsteracEae) - a very large family of ornamental plants.

Gaylardia in his homeland, in America, is called a flower blanket for the fact that during the flowering of Prairie is covered with a fiery carpet of these colors. She is a short perennial with flowers in the form of daisies of bright orange, yellow and red flowers. Latin name Gaillardia received named French nerd Gayara de Bondarua.

In this photo of Gaylardia Parra (Gaillardia Parryi) - a wild view from South America.

Gaylared description

Gaillardia Pulchella, which is common in the southeastern North American continent, was crossed with Gaillardia Aristata, Prairie flower to create a Gaillardia X Grandiflora. Most of the modern species that are grown in the gardens are the Gaillardia X Grandiflora hybridia.

Gaylareda is low (35 cm) and tall (up to 1 m). In one place, it grows for a long time (up to 4 years), can independently grow across the garden. Samosov does not repeat the parent plant. Leaves - gray-green, lancertoid, sometimes blade. Gaylardia flowers have large - up to 12 centimeters in diameter, they are painted in yellow-red colors. This bushy plant with durable stems has a long period of flowering - from the beginning of summer and to frosts.

Gaylared grows in many gardens and parks. The main advantage of this plant isasuchowability, winter hardiness, inconspiciency in cultivation conditions. Tall varieties of Guylardia are used as plants of the second plan, they need to be taped. The lowest are beautiful in containers, garden vases, in mountaineering, curvature landings. Very beautiful lush Khilardy's bush on a green lawn. Beautiful Gaylardia and in a bouquet, it is used in cutting.

Gaylared species and varieties

Gaylardia is an annual, two-year or perennial plant.
Three types are distinguished: Gaylardi Beautiful, Gaylardia Ostnoye and Gaylared Hybrid.

Gaylardia Beauty (Gaillardia Pulchella)

These Gaylareds are annual plants, up to 70 cm high, form a wide bush, flowers 6-8 cm in diameter, located on high blooms. Different with decorativeness, has terry views.

• A plume variety (plume) has terry flowers of red or yellow, petals of funnels.
• Lorenciana variety (Lorenciana) is characterized by spectacular terry flowers.

Gaylardia Ostrich, or Gaylareda Large (Gaillardia ARISTATA)

A perennial plant, tall, with large colors (10-12 cm) bright coloring.

Popular varieties of oest gaylared:

• Mandarin (Mandarin) - has unusual flowers with red-yellow tongue petals.
• Virral Flame (Wirral Flame) - There are yellow border on the flowers.
• Dazzer (Dazzier) - the base of petals of dark red, the tips are yellow.

Gaylardia Hybrida (Gaillardia Hybrida)

Received from crossing Gaylardia beautiful with other types of this plant. Hybrid Guylardia is low plants with large flowers. They can be grown in garden vases, containers. Hybrid Guylardi is easy to grow with seeds, it blooms already in the first year - 4-5 months after sowing. This is the most decorative Guylardia. Varieties that can be raised from seeds:

• Arizona (Arizona) - a dwarf grade 20 cm high, with lush flowering from the end of spring and to frosts; The variety blooms earlier and blooms longer than other Guylardia.
• Mesa (Mesa) - distinguished by high decorativeness, superraged abundant blossoms, flowers are full, large. This hybrid has good characteristics: growth strength, bush branch, the number of floral shoots, drought resistance, the tolerability of high temperatures.

Gaylared Growing

Gaylardia has long been rapidly grown in all gardens.

1. A landing place is suitable well lit, it grows better and blooms on the sun itself.
2. The soil is necessary drained, not very fertilized, without manure. You can make a little ash and mineral fertilizers in the ground, sand.
3. Watering is moderate, or at all without watering. He is poorly growing on acidic, swampy soils and in the shade, does not like to oversupply moisture.
4. Well tolerate drought. It is capable of blossoming all summer without watering, only bushes will lower in growth and flowering less abundant.

Gaylared breeding

Gaylardia seeds or the division of the bush is multiplied, the shilling is rarely applied.

Seed method of breeding Gaylared

It is possible to collect overwhelmed seeds from the plant in the fall. Such seeds give splitting, the plants of next year do not always repeat the parent plant, may be less decorative. The same thing happens with the self-saming - the color of the flowers will be the most diverse.

Sewing seeds in the ground

Seen Seeds Gaylardia can be immediately in the ground in April-May. After germinals (2-3 weeks), to ensure that young plants do not die from frosts, they have not flipped out of the excess of moisture. After a month, remove weak plants, leave the strong seedlings at a distance of 30-50 centimeters.

Growing a seaside way

This method is suitable for growing hybrid varieties of Guylardia - such as Mesa, Arizona.
Prepare a container for growing seedlings, fill it with a soil containing turf, peat, perlite (5: 3: 1).

2. Seeds are placed on the prepared land, poured (0.5 cm), slightly appreciate and moisturize the surface (without an overscription of moisture).
3. Sowing with a transparent film or glass and put it in heat (20-25 degrees), periodically remove the shelter for ventilation.
4. After the appearance of germs (up to 1 week), the shelter is gradually removed, and after the appearance of real leaves, it is necessary to break the shoots, leaving healthy plants.
5. Space on the open air seedlings after the seedlings are strengthened and warm weather. During the observing of the plant, it is necessary to regree, but regularly water. Modern hybrids bloom in sowing a year.

Reproduction of the division of the bush

The landing of Gaylardia with the division of the bush is performed in spring and autumn.

1. The plant needs to dig, remove old or sore parts of the stems and roots.
2. Divide the bush for 2-3 parts (it depends on the size of the transplant plant), you do not need to do very little decene, they are badly joining.
3. The prepared parts of the bush are placed in the holes, rush to the ground, watered not abundantly.
   Plants are rooted well. Transplanted bush will bloom the next year. Group fittings 3-4 bush look good.

Gaylardia: landing and care open soil

• It is difficult to find such an undemanding plant growing like Gaylared. The care of it consists in the loosening of the Earth around the bush, running the weeds.
• Zimovka one-year rapid plant - stems cut off, cover with foliage. Adult plants do not need to be covered. The exception is plants in the regions with honest winter. In order not to extinct, they can be covered with foliage, cheese, cut off shoots of garden plants.
• Watch that rainy autumn or winter plants do not flick.
• To increase the duration of flowering, to remove faded flowers on time so that the plant does not start seeds.
• Pretty plants: during bootonization - to bookmark buds; during flowering; In the fall before wintering, so that the plant is stronger. Mineral fertilizers use, you can scatter compost around plants. Fresh manure is not suitable for the fertilizer of these plants. When applying fertilizers, the plant blooms longer, the size of the flower increases.
• For growing Gaylardi in containers, pots of diameter from 25 to 30 centimeters are suitable.

Gaylared diseases

With proper care and suitable conditions, this plant is little amazed by diseases and pests. If the plant is weakened (after wintering, transplantation or convergence), a gray rot or mildew can develop, pests may appear.

• Prevention of diseases and pests in Gaylardia is the same as other plants: a spraying by manganese solution, chemicals, insecticides.
• A accutellik, desisis, are used from the whiteflinkle and tri in Gaylardia.
• With gray rot and pulse dew helps spraying with copper-containing preparations, colloidal gray.

This is unpretentious, beautiful and abundant flowering plant have long grown in the gardens many gardeners. Gaylardia appreciate the good fitness to different climatic zones, flowering duration and timing. Modern varieties of Guylardia are no longer a good familiar to us "Babushkin Flower". Sharply, terry, early blooming hybrids are much more decorative and rustier than old varieties.

So that this wonderful plant appears in the garden, you can buy Gaylardia on the market or in the garden value (part of the bush, in a seedlup) or grow it from seed yourself. This plant will delight you with blossom for many years, coherent well with other colors.

From this video, you will learn all the subtleties of the seed of Gaylared Seeds when growing with a seaside.