Legislia, landing and care

Legislia, landing and care

A blooming lion externally resembles an excellent magnolic magnolia, so no person can stay indifferent to such beauty. The fact is that the leftisla is a distinctive flower and unique. In essence, it is a miniature herbaceous long-term shrub with large beautiful inflorescences. It can be planted in the open soil, and in the house pot. Legalism is very demanding in care, but it is worn out and winter-resistant. In this article, we will tell in detail what it is a landing and ledge care in the open soil and in a homely pot.

Levizia: Botanical Description of the Plant

Legisla flower is rarely found in a natural environment. It grows only in those places where there is no high humidity (West of North America, Canada, Mexico). Most often, the leftis is growing on mountainous slopes. However, in our country, the Reduction is also really growing if it is for this to create special greenhouse conditions.

Reduce is a perennial shrub of the Portulak family. She has a very powerful root system (roots have tubers who are well deepened in the soil). Shrub likes warm because it is evergreen. Especially beautiful color leaves are purchased in October. In April, the Leisena begins to bloom. Her flowering continues until September.

The maximum height of the flower stem is 35 cm. Plants leaves have an oval shape. Near the root system, they form a circle with a diameter of 40 cm. Their edges have a dark green color, they are very smooth. And the stem, and the leaves of the leftis are tight enough in thickness, because moisture accumulates in them.

Coloros reaches a height of 20 cm. It has many buds, which, turning into flowers, reach the size in diameter 5 cm. The flower petals are long enough, but they are not wide, they can be yellow, pink, red, lilac and purple color. The core of the inflorescence is small, there are stamens and pestle on it. When the flower falls, in place where the bud was formed, seeds are formed (size of one seed 4 mm maximum). A cup of seeds looks like a snail shell.

Lion: Photo.

Types and varieties of red

There are a lot of varieties of varieties of red. They all deserve special attention to the gardeners, because their flowers are bright and beautiful. Modern botany, which are engaged in breeding Reduction in our climatic conditions, plant and evergreen varieties of plants and leaf falls. Approaches to the cultivation of these plant species are different primarily because evergreen varieties require special care during the winter period. Consider this when you decide to buy a leisure for disembarking it in your paralisian. We will present you a few varieties of hybrid lionis, which you can give preference:

  • "Magic Fuchsia" - leftisna, which has a bright saturated pink color;
  • "Pinky" - a lion, who has a pink, but it is more gentle, soft;
  • "Pearl ash" - lion with white color, which blooms plentifully;
  • The Red Elliot is almost the same as the "pearl ash", but it blooms for almost 3 months;
  • "Matthew" is the leftislary of dazzling bright oranges;
  • "Sunset Strain" is an orange color, its inflorescences have a large size;
  • "Gin Norma" - leftisla, which has a pastel pink color and the ability to form multiple sockets and colors;
  • "George Henley" - leftisla, the flowers are large, they have a saturated color of Fuchsia;
  • "Treosy" is a lion with a melon-apricot color and the same pleasant fragrance (mainly grown in pots).

We recommend that you stop your choice on such varieties of Lencies in order to grow at home:

  1. Levisia quotileon. She is very simply grown and is inexpensive. Therefore, it is the most common plant species that is used to create hybrid varieties.
  2. Long-beed lion. It looks outwardly resembles pita, because she has the same inflorescences and thin stiffs. An essential difference in the color is a long-happiness levity has a pink color.
  3. Levizia is short-oxid. It has a leaf falling crown. Its leaves are covered with a gray bloom, which does not spoil the appearance of the plant at all. She has a very beautiful watercolor color (pink-white mainly).
  4. Levizia Colombian. She has a high slim blossom, having white-pink flowers not very large size. It blooms mainly in the summer period.
  5. Levisia Teddy. It is also called "blooming cabbage." It grows in rocky terrain, the color of its leaves and colors is quite quaint, has fruit shades. This lion is the most spectacular compared to the rest. However, it does not withstand winter weather. It is necessary to dig a plant during the period of dampness.
  6. Sierra's leisure - flower with large pink flowers and green jested leaves. Outwardly, this type of leftisan reminds Lily.
  7. Levizia Nevadskaya. It has thick fleshy leaves, which have a deformed form. Snow-white flowers, they dissolve only in sunny weather. This type of leftis is perfectly multiplied.
  8. Dwarfs. It grows only 10 cm in height. Her inflorescences have the shape of umbrellas. They are very light and tiny. It seems that the flowers are simply lying on the ground.
  9. Kongdon's leftis - a flower that has high colorless shoots growing in a height of 60 cm. The color is delicate, pastel, predominantly pink.
  10. The lounge "Pink shadows" is a plant that in the flowering period covers stem inflorescences so much that the green flower outlet is not visible.
  11. Kellog's leftislant - she has snow-white flowers that are flowing in July, but in September begin to bloom again.
  12. The Lux "Alice Mix" - do not have thick leaves having a cylindrical shape, and the inflorescences are collected in bundles resembling panicles.

Landing and reproduction of red

Landing of lionis in the open soil and in the pot

Legal cultivation can occur in two ways - in the open soil and in pots. And in fact, and in another case, the seeds are grown.

  1. If you are going to plant a flower in the open soil, then do it in the late spring. In addition, you should follow these rules:
  • choose a shady space so that direct sun rays will not fall on it;
  • prepare the soil, it should be drained, acidic, stony or sandy;
  • when you go to the landing section of the Lencies, support it with a manure or a cow;
  • cut the seeds into the wells in the midcantimeter, close them and climb the dry peat (the peat layer should be thin).

Please note that the seed seeds will give shoots in a few months, but the lionis will bloom only 3 years after landing. You can also land a decision. In this case, you need to adhere to the same rules as we described above, but most importantly:

  • select the right plastic seedlings containers (they should not be large, on the bottom you need to have a hole);
  • seeds must be stratified;
  • after sowing, cover the ground with a film and keep the temperature of 5 degrees of heat under it for 30 days;
  • after the specified time, transfer seedlings into a bright room;
  • as soon as the first sprouts appear, dive them.
  1. Landing a room of Lecuation is practically no different from landing with a decision. It is important to take into account several nuances:
  • the bottom of the pot in which the flower will grow, it is necessary to install high-quality drainage from crumbs, gravel, brick crumbs and small pebbles;
  • the substrate should consist of land, sand and compost (all components need to be taken in the same proportions and mix well);
  • in the summer, the pots in the leftisms should be taken out to the street so that the soil is wet constantly, and in winter they should be taken into a bright room in which the cool air should be stored.

Splitting of Levisia

There are 2 methods of reproduction of Reduction:

  1. Seed reproduction of Redis
  • if you want to sow seeds immediately into the open ground, then pick up in the fall;
  • if on seedlings, then the best time for the reproduction of Reduce - Spring. Please note that at the same time the substrate should be loose and moistage. The box with the substrate must be covered with a film and put into the room where the temperature ranges in the gaps of 0-5 °;
  • after the seeds are sprouting, transfer the box with a seedy to a warm place;
  • as soon as 2 leaves appear on each sprout, they need to be seeded in different containers, and after the frosts are completed, land in open ground according to the instructions we have described above.
  1. Reproduction of the division of the bush. It must be done in the spring when it appears lateral outlets with an independent root system. It is necessary to make this procedure as accurately as possible using a knife. Places of sections on the plant must be carefully treated with charcoal. Cutting sockets need to be rooted into a fertilized soil and keep in a cool room with a small humidity.

Reduced Reduce

Lecity is necessary annually. As soon as the root system of the Reduction will be visible on the surface of the pot, then it will need to be immediately transplanted. Be sure to keep the earthen com:

  • The transplant procedure should be carried out in March.
  • The pot for Lencies should be 2 times more than the previous one.
  • Substrate Use quality. It should consist of a delicate land, leaf land, sand and clay.

Levizia: Care

Legal care must be careful. It is not easy to organize it. The gardener needs to be carefully related to the plant so that it does not die.

Required Lights for Lencies

First of all, you need to find a suitable place, because the plant requires gentle conditions, but at the same time it loves the sun and shadow, moisture and coolness. It is possible to do this if we sit next to a high-level high plant with a high plant that will create the necessary shadow.

Watering Levizia

It is rare to water, as soon as the soil becomes completely dry, then it is necessary to pour it out abundantly. Just make sure that the water does not hit the flowers, the leaves of the plant. Only the root system is moistened. Glow leftislas need to gently spray between irrigation (it's about the soil).

Falker of Levizia

To feed the leftisu only in the summer - 1 time in 30 days. Use for this mainly organic fertilizers, and not mineral.

What pests to fight with what pests?

Make sure that the flowers of the leftis are not eaten by slugs and aphids. Periodically spray the plant insecticides and fungicides.

Preparation of lion for winter

If you grow an evergreen variety of leftis, then take care that it is properly prepared for the winter. Cover it with a glass cap, if it grows in an open soil, or dug up for the winter period. Winter-harden resistant leisure, they do not need even in mulching.

Gardeners are happy to grow red lecture in decorative purposes, because this plant can really become an exquisite decoration of your household plot or a bedroom.

Video: "Legisia"