This gentle and very beautiful flower has long conquered the hearts of most gardeners. Every year, a small seed grows a gentle bud that attracts the attention of passersby with its unusual bright decoration. The one who has ever seen a year old, will want not only to meet this flower once again, but also to put on his summer cottage to admire his beauty every day.
About year is often said - "Flower of love and passion". To whom it is familiar to this feeling, can only compare, as a gentle plant combines beauty, grace and tenderness. It is impossible not to love this flower, it is impossible to forget it.
Historical reference
The birthday flower year can be called California, but the name is a gentle plant in honor of the Swiss nerd. The scientist C. year dedicated a lot of time to bring an interesting grade of this plant and gave him his name. A little later, to smooth the short angular name of the flower, people came up with a different name and began to call him "Godition". Beautiful creation is growing, pleasing hundreds of pairs of eyes in North America and California. In Russia, you can also meet this flower, as actually and grow it on your homestead or house in the pot.
Year is an annual herb plant of the Cylet family. Stems in a flower branched, reprehension. Plants reach growth of up to 50-60 cm. Flowers for God's large, in the form of large bells or cups. Coloring can be different, ranging from gentle pink shades, to bright, dark red. God's inflorescences As they begin to ripen, gradually stretch, become creep and new flowers are blooming. When the brushes are pulled out, the flower is torn off its term, and in its place an interesting fruit appears in the form of a four-granular box, which is like a refined box.
Gardeners loved this beautiful flower not only for large and bright flowers, but also for a long period of flowering. The year blooms for a very long time - starting from the middle of the summer and to the very late autumn.
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When sow year
A gentle flower is multiplied by seeds. It's not so difficult to grow it from seeds, they can be planted directly into the ground or to progress and sow seeds in the seedlings in the cold time at home.
If you missed this moment, but you really want to grow in a seed site, then take seeds and go to the site. You can already do this from the middle of the spring (in April). If you live in the southern part of the country, then the seeds will feel beautifully in winter, then they can be planted in autumn.
To get smooth and friendly shoots, do not be lazy to prepare seeds - before planting an hour or at least half an hour, hold them in a barely pink manganese solution. So shoots will resist diseases.
For year, neutral soil or weakness is suitable, loamy. The place is better to choose open and sunny. Before starting to land, it is advisable to prepare the Earth in advance - it is necessary to deposit on 1m 2 Woodwind (300 g) mineral fertilizer and 5 kg of compost. In addition, it will not be superfluous to step the soil and make it well moistened. Everything, you can now begin to the most important thing - sowing seeds of God.
The rules of sowing are: deepening every seed on a half-meter so that between each flower there is a distance of at least 25 cm. If you have sown a year very thick, then after germs it will be necessary to break seedlings.
The first shoots may appear after a few weeks, but if you do not wait, you can speed up this process and cover the soil with a film. A week later, the first searches will be visible. This method of cultivation of the God's Gardening Amateurs are considered the most acceptable, because when transplanting seedlings of Godition, some plants die or injured.
The cultivation of the year from seeds can be carried out by 2 ways: sow seeds into the ground or grow in a greenhouse. To wait for early flowering, it is possible to sow seeds at the beginning of spring. The soil is better to take a special for seedlings, there are no pests in it, and therefore the plants will feel good and grow. If for any reason it is not possible to purchase a store soil, you can take ordinary garden land, but before planting it needs to be well disinfected.
This can be done as follows:
- Place the ground in a glass container in a microwave oven, pour water so that the soil becomes wet. Time to set 15 minutes.
- Disappear in the oven or in the oven. Place the land in a large saucepan, fill with water and send to steam 30-40 minutes.
It is important that during the preparation of the Earth, windows or doors for conducting, or can be included on the full power of the exhaust. The smell in the room will be present for a while.
We performed this part of the preparatory work. Now it remains to sow one year at seedlings in advance prepared containers (cups or pots for growing seedlings). Seeds do not deepen much, because they are small. Sowing is performed by almost the surface of the soil and slightly cover the earth. Then the container should be covered with a film or glass and put into a warm place. It is better to remove pots from the windowsill and put them on the night under the heating radiator. You can return the containers with the soil to the previous place.
The first seedlings can be expected after 2 weeks. Just from now on and the time comes to gradually teach the plants to other conditions. It is necessary to open a film or glass so that the sprouts gradually hardened. The picking is performed when the first 2 or 3 leaves will appear. Each sprout must be very gently moved to a separate pot so that the roots are not damaged. If they are too long, they can shortly shorten. The large pots are planted at once 3 sprouts.
With the cultivation of God, you will cope easily - the flower is unpretentious, if you do everything according to the rules.
How to plant seedlings and grow year
When the seedlings of a gentle flower will reach height 5, a maximum of 7 cm, it's time to transplant it into open ground. If you put seeds in early March, then at the end of May, the beginning of the first summer month can be seated with seedlings.
Planning Rules:
- It is advisable to work in cloudy weather so that gentle seedlings did not get dirty under the bright spring rays.
- A good time for landing is an early morning, while the sun has not risen, or the evening when the sun was already hidden.
- Space the seedlings of year in the soil along with the land of the earth.
- It is withstanding the distance - 25 cm between each plant.
- If a tall variety of year is chosen, then the distance between each plant needs to be increased.
It is allowed to land seedlings in the winter. Flowers are planted only if the winter in this area is soft and then, only as an experiment, so as not to be upset if the plant perits. Those plants that survived will better resist pests and diseases.
Caring for year
Throughout the season, it is necessary to constantly care for the plant. As soon as the seedlings are transferred to the ground, it is necessary to constantly make feeding and water the flowers. Mineral fertilizers are made every 3 weeks. It is important to know the measure and not to rearrange. It is better to use the fertilizer of nitroposka, on 1 tbsp. Take 12 liters of water.
Strong watering plant can harm, so make sure that the soil does not start. In the heat you need to water more often.
To admire lush flowering, you need to stimulate plants. This is done like this: the appearing marking needs to be pressed, and the soil around the colors constantly loose and free from weeding grass. Blossoms begins 2 months after the first germination for the warm season, right up to frosts. If you want to extend the flowering phase, it is advisable to constantly remove dry flowers.
For tall plants, you need to build a support, for this you can use thin branches, metal or wooden pegs.
Do not try to disrupt the beauty and put in a vase, the year in the water will not be long, only 3-4 days. It is better to put it in the pots and admire the beautiful bloom.
Reproduction and disease
A beautiful gentle flower is multiplied by seeds described above. Ripe seed boxes are collected in October.
Despite the fact that Godcell is considered an unpretentious plant, it often dies due to the damage to the root system with a rot or fungus. Save the plant is impossible, it is necessary to urgently remove a year from the ground so that the disease does not extend further to other healthy plants.
If you have noticed that white spots appeared on the leaves, you can still save the year, it is necessary to process the plants with fungicides.
Varieties of year
In total there are more than 20 types of year, of which most of them are corruptible plants with a compact narrow crown. Among all types of year there are lowered and tall varieties.
We offer to familiarize yourself with popular varieties of year.
Large-flowered year
For the first time, this year of Godition was led back in 1867. The plant is low, in length reaches no more than 40 cm. Year is growing compactly and is distinguished by abundant and long blossom. Large-flowered year is strong branches, and the flowers are very large. You can find a flower with a diameter of up to 10 cm. The color is predominantly bright, monophonic or two-color. Beautifully look at two-color year - with a delicate white middle and pink "terry" edges. You can find a rare year of white or bright violet shade. The flowering of the plant begins in July and ends at the end of October.
The plant in addition to large silky petals is different. The flower shape can be a bell and invasive. Based on this variety, other popular types of year are derived, which differ not only by the shape and size of the flower, as well as painting and growth.
Popular varieties derived from large-flowered year:
- "Weisser Schwan" - a bustice of anyone to 35 cm. Soothes at the base brown, and in the top of the green. The leaves are wide, flowers are large (diameter 5 m) satin and white shade.
- "Orange Room" is a mid-grade plant that achieves 50 cm in height has red shoots. God's leaflets are narrow, flowers are small reddish-orange tone.
Terry year
In nature, it is almost impossible to meet this variety of plants. Exchange only by crossing several varieties. You can see the terry and semi-world flowers of different varieties:
- Siebil Sherwood is an incredibly beautiful plant with gentle "salmon" small numerous flowers. Reaches in growth up to 40 cm. It has a long period of flowering (4-5 months). Year is valued for the stability to the cold, loves the half, but will also grow great and on open, well-lit places.
- Rembrandt - a plant with large flowers, is distinguished by the beauty and tenderness of petals, as if coated with silk. Because of this, God's property has such an unusual name. The bushes grow in a height of up to 30 cm, the shoots of the pink and gentle green shade, the flowers are small, "terry" pinkish-red. The edge of the petal is wavy. The plant is resistant to frosts, calmly transfers temperature to -3 oWITH.
Year of Corrugation
Decorative year is distinguished by unusual large colors of bright colors. The height of the plant reaches 40 cm. Flowers are large, terry. The diameter of colors is up to 8 cm. The plant is steadily on the cold, loves the sun, feels good on an open well-lit terrain or in a half.
Year is an unusual and very gentle, beautiful flower. He will delight you with his bloom for a long time. The plant can be grown on the flowerbeds, in the country area, plant seedlings in pots and admire gentle bloom all year round. Do not be afraid to experiment. And let them talk about year, that this is a gentle and capricious flower, like a woman - contact him carefully, ladt and love it, and then you yourself will not notice how Godrodium will rise and will rejoice you for a long time with their unusual blossoms.
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