The bell tape (Campanula) is a herbaceous plant from the family of bells, which has more than 300 species. There is a huge variety of charming flower varieties with a wide palette of inflorescertium shades. A touching and gentle flower got its name due to the shape of the inflorescence resembling a bell. In nature it grows as a perennial, but there are also annual species. The flowerflowers have long chosen this charming plant and decorate them alpine slides, flowerbeds, borders. One of the popular species of low-core bells, which can be found on the household plots, is a fire bell. It is appreciated for excellent decorative qualities, resistance to cold winters and good germination. How to grow a bug of a fire in your country, read further.
Fog's bell: Description
The fire bell is a herbaceous decorative plant, the height of which reaches no more than 20 cm. Refers to a shorty long-term form. Wildlife is found in the Balkans. Soothes are dropping, creeping, form pillowed bushes, which grow up to 80 cm long. The leaf of the bell is small, rounded shape, with small jar.
Special charm and charm, the flower gives small inflorescences, which in shape resemble small asters. Coloring flowers is diverse: you can find varieties with white, pink, bluish, blue, lavender, purple flowers. Plant Flowers All July-August, Fragrant Society, which exude a gentle smell of fresh meadows and greenery. The aroma of the bell attracts bees and other insects. After flowering, the fruit is formed - a box with a variety of rounded brown seeds. Abundant blossom of the fire bell and the ability to cover the soil with a bright carpet, applied in landscape design to create flower arrangements, ornaments of flower beds, alpine slides, stony slopes.
Fog's bell: varieties
Most often on sale you can meet the following grade of the charming plant, buy a fire bell in any flower shop:
- Blue Goun ("Blue Gown") is a low variety, reaching a height of 15-20 cm, blooms with blue flowers-star.
- Blue Waterfall ("Blue Waterfall") - low grade 10-15 cm high, small flowers, lavender or lilac color.
- "E.H.Frost" ("E.H.FROST") - the height of the plant does not reach 15 cm, the flowers have a milk-white color.
- Lisdong Variety ("Lisduggan Variety") - bushes with a height of up to 20 cm high, decorated with small flowers-asteristers of a pinkish shade.
- "Stella" ("Stella") - blooms with blue flowers, inside the inflorescence has a white shade.
How to grow a fire bell from seeds
It is possible to grow the bells that can be seeded or used seeds, directly into the soil in May, in a well-hot primer, when the threat of frosts. Seeds of bells do not need pre-training before sowing. If you want to enjoy their fascinating bloom this year, you should sow seeds to seedlings in March, followed by disembarking in open ground.
Fog's bell: Growing from seeds to seedlings
- To sow seeds, you will need a container or a shallow container with a soil mixture prepared. The soil must be nutritious, loose and moistened. You can purchase a ready-made soil for seedlings or use humid, squeezing ground, coarse sand in a 3: 6: 1 proportion. You do not need special fertilizers in the soil for seedlings.
- Seeds of bells are small, therefore it is not necessary to plunge them into the ground, it is easy to uniformly distribute on the surface of the soil. Spray their sputter, and then cover with a film or transparent glass.
- Landing containers are placed in a warm place at a temperature of 18-20 degrees and are waiting for the first germs that appear after 14-21 days. After their appearance, the film or glass should be removed and transfer the container into a bright place indoors, but protected from direct sunlight. Shoots need moderate watering and regular loosening.
- As soon as a couple of leaves appear on young shoots, they can be peeing, dissolving into a large container, at a distance of 10 cm from each other. Before picking seedlings, it is necessary to pour and carefully remove from the ground with an earthy room, so as not to damage the gentle roots of the plant. Subsequent shoot care - regular moistening and substrate loosening. After 10-14 days, the ground can be filled with a complex fertilizer in a weak concentration.
- To landing at a permanent place, you can start in May. Seedlings are planted in an open ground to a permanent place. The low-spirited bell is planted at a distance of 10-15 cm from each other.
Pozharsky bell: landing and care in open soil
Bells can land seeds immediately into the ground, without growing the seaside method.
Place for planting a fire bell
Choosing a place to grow fragrant plants, you should give preference to sunny areas of the garden, where there will be a light half of the crown of trees. However, it is not necessary to plant a gentle flower where there are drafts and strong gusts of the wind are possible. It is also not recommended to place a plant in the shade, as it will go into growth and will not give abundant flowering.
Soil for growing a fire bell in the garden
Bells are perfectly rooted on loose and light soils. Prefers soil with a slightly alkaline and neutral reaction. Before falling down bushes, the soil must be well exploded and moistened, remove weeds. It is very important to provide good drainage in the ground, as the flowers do not wear moisture stagnation. Excessive humidity in the ground can lead to the freezing of the root in the winter, which will lead to the death of the plant.
Pozharsky bell: Care
It is completely easy to care for the plant. The bell is completely undemanding culture.
- Watering the plant is needed as the soil drying. The plant tolerates drought well. However, with arid weather, the soil should be moisturized every day.
- To ensure lush and abundantly blossom, it is recommended to remove the blurred inflorescences. Periodically, the soil should be loosened and remove weeds under the bushes.
- In the spring, it is possible to feed the plant with nitrogen fertilizers and wood ash, produce the mulching of the surface of the Earth with reworked manure. During the bootonization period, the complex fertilizer of weak concentrations into the soil.
- After the bells are wondering, and the boxes are assembled, the plant must be cut.
- In winter, there is no need for the shelter of the plant. The bell tape is a winter-hardy grade, which is withstanding a tall frost to 40 degrees.
Methods for breeding a fire bell
Most often, flower products are breeding bells using a seed or seaside way of breeding the plant. Seeds are collected independently or acquire in flower shops. To prepare the planting material for landing, the boxes are collected in the fall, which are formed after flowering, dried them, and then extract them small seeds.
The cultivation of a fire bell is possible and other methods of reproduction, vegetative way. Vegetative reproduction allows you to get a plant that fully corresponds to the maternal instance, while maintaining all its signs and characteristics.
The method of dividing the bush can be used only for a three-year plant when its root system is already fully formed. You need to share a bush carefully, trying not to damage the gentle root. Each delane must be present kidney.
Diseases and pests of the bell
The touching and cute plant is practically not subject to infectiousness of fungal diseases or the attack of pests, like other garden flowers.
- But with many years of cultivation in one place in the ground, pathogenic microorganisms, which have a negative impact on the root system of the plant can be accumulated. For prophylaxis fungal diseases Use the processing of the soil 0.2% solution of Fundazole twice per year: in the spring and autumn period.
- Another problem that may occur when growing colors - the appearance on the inflorescences of slotting Potnitsa. This pest does not give inflorescences to develop and slows down abundant flowering. In the fight against slumping Pennica, the spraying of the bush is infusable to garlic.
- Since the fire bell is a short variety, his slugs can attack it. Dispose of the unreasonable guests will help spraying the landing of the booze of bitter pepper.
Pozharsky bell - Garden charm
A cute and exquisite flower is ideal for growing novice summer houses, it is also interesting to more experienced flower. Plant care is minimal, and its delicate flowers-star colors of lavender, a delicate lilac or sky-blue color will not leave anyone indifferent. All that he needs is moderate watering, regular soil loosening and a sufficient amount of light. A perennial low-speed plant is perfectly combined with other garden flowers. The bells are perfectly adjacent to the carnation, stamping, floccam. It can be used for both group landings in the flower bed, a flower bed, and grow as the soil plant for decorating borders, alpine slides, rosary. These gentle calls are able to give a good mood and feeling of happiness all summer season!