Chamomile garden, landing and care

Chamomile Sadovaya - a modest beauty that is capable of decorating any flower at all the flower. This flower sees a romantic mood. For beginner flower, chamomile is a real find in terms of unpretentiousness. Since ancient times, this sunny flower has a beautiful legend of its origin. People believed that chamomile grows on the spot of a fallen star.

Initially, the chamomile was a wild plant. It costs once in his life to see a chamomile field, and you will certainly want to transfer at least part of such an unforgettable beauty to your site. Effective chamomile varieties are no less beautiful. They bloom long due to numerous shoots, which allows you to enjoy the beauty of this cute flower for a long time. Chamomile carries not only aesthetic value, but also practical. Experienced flowers know that chamomile gardening can be successfully used in traditional medicine, cosmetology and even cooking. From this flower make various info, decoction, which have anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, antiseptic effects. Chamomile has a famous "whitening" property, so it is included in creams, tonic, face lotions, shampoos for light hair, etc. Young stems and chamomile shoots will be able to elegantly complement the summer salad or sauce. The article will try to illuminate the most important aspects of growing chamomile garden, the secrets of the care of this plant and much more.

What looks like a garden chamomile

Chamomile is known to man since ancient times. In ancient Rome, this flower was associated with the God of the Sun, for which he got his second name - "Sunny Flower". It was believed that the chamomile is growing where the God of the Sun passed. Translated from the Polish chamomile also translates as "Roman flower". Chamomile can not notice in the garden or confuse it with another plant. It has the following characteristic features:

1. It consists in the Astrov Perennial Family.
2. Can reach a height of 30-100 cm.
3. Smooth petals neatly arranged around the core.
4. The flower can reach up to 15 cm in diameter.
5. Leaves are smooth, two-meter beautiful green.
6. Flowers all summer, starting from June, until September.
7. The flower is unpretentious enough, it can grow both on sunnyide and in the shade.
8. By the fall, the ground part of the plant dies, and in the spring grows again.

Popular varieties of chamomile garden

Of course, breeders made a huge contribution to the variety of sorts of garden chamomile, which we can watch now. Flowers are distinguished by the height of the stem, shape and location of petals, the duration of flowering, there are terry and smooth varieties. The secret of beautiful flower beds depends in many respects what kind of variety you select. Therefore, it is simply necessary to know the minimum information about the peculiarity of the growth of a kind of garden chamomile.

North Star

This snow-white beauty can be a real decoration of any site. The stem can reach a height of 60-70 cm. Prefers a sunny side, easily transfers drought. It can be seeded both in the spring and autumn. But this chamomile will give you blossom only for the second year.

Garden Princess

This variety of garden chamomile has a lot of advantages. It grows in a compact form at the expense of a huge number of lateral shoots that reach 35 cm long. Another advantage is that the garden princess can be sown directly into open ground. The color period will delight any flower - from the beginning of summer and to autumn frosts. Prefers terrain protected from drafts with loose and air soil.

Nyondyan.

The largest garden chamomile is nyondic. Often it is grown for commercial purposes, i.e. For sale on bouquets. Powerful and strong stems reach 80 cm height. Brightly outlined yellow core is surrounded by beautiful snow-white petals. It is propagated by the division of the bush, which is better to spend 1 time in 3-4 years or seeds.

Silver princess

This variety of garden chamomile can be successfully used in group landings. Flowers in the fully opened condition reached 10 cm in diameter, and the stem grows up to 30 cm. Snow white smooth petals are located around a yellow middle of a single row, giving a flower a cute and simple image.

Large-flowered Alaska

Large-flowered Alaska is the most real giant among garden daisies. Can grow up to 90 cm in height! The advantages of this variety can be considered its drought resistance, unpretentiousness and the possibility of landing closer to winter. Next year you will already admire lush flowering. Buds bloom up to 10 cm in diameter.

Winner

Another popular among the flower breeding variety of garden chamomile is a grade winner. He also, like large-flowered Alaska, refers to giants among daisies. It reaches a height of 50 cm to 90 cm. Flowers are slightly smaller in diameter - 8-12 cm. Blooms the next year after landing and grows about 3-4 years.

How to grow a chamomile at home

If you have already familiarized yourself with the varieties of garden chamomile and have made a choice for themselves, then it is time to study the technology and how to grow it. Garden chamomile can be grown in several ways. It is impossible to say that some of them are easier, and some harder. There are varieties that can be raised, for example, only a seaside way. And others can be seeded directly into open ground. So, if you do not want to mess with a seedler, then consider this fact when choosing a variety. Regardless of what kind of planting method, you select, follow the following selection criteria:

• give preference to sofoc acid soils;
• mostly all chamomile love solar places;
• before boarding any, even the most fertile, in your opinion, the soil should be contrary;
• to reduce the acidity of the soil, you can use a haired soda or a dolomite flour;
• take into account the dimensions of the future adult plant, leave enough space between the plants. So, it will be easier for you to fight weeds and all parts of the flower will get enough sunlight.

Method 1. Growing a garden camomile with a seedy way

The method of growing chamomile through seedlings is not very different from growing seeds. You will have to tinker with plastic cups or similar capacities.

1. Prepare suitable containers in advance. If you choose large boxes, then you still have to dive plants into smaller glasses or pots.
2. At the bottom of the tank, there must be a good drainage. Chamomile will not endure the stagnation of water.
3. Seeds are very small. In order for them to sprout do not need to fall asleep their thick layer of the Earth. It is enough to slightly "impose" the earth or left at all on the surface, slightly giving them. Seed seeds, of course, you need a fertilized earth mixture in advance and moistened.
4. Before the emergence of the first shoots, the chamomile must be sprayed from the pulvelizer and keep under the film in warm and dark room.
5. The first seedlings appear on 10-14 days. After that, you need to remove the shelter and transfer them to a sunny place.

Method 2. Growing a garden camomile seeds

The cultivation of chamomile seeds is a rather simple way, which is especially necessary for novice flowers. However, not all sorts of garden chamomile can grow in this way of sowing immediately into open ground. The peculiarities of this method are:

1. Some sorts of garden chamomile can be suited even in the fall. But most of the same prefers spring. Usually do it at the end of May or beginning of June, when enough warm weather is established. The site should be sunny and mad.
2. The soil must be prepared, namely, fertilized by mineral fertilizers.
3. Chamomile seeds are very small and it is difficult to separate them when landing. Therefore, a thinning method is applied when the plants are growing.
4. Seeds are sprinkled with a thin layer of soil.
5. If we are afraid of the threat of freezing, then it is possible to cover the plantings with a film or other similar material.
6. After the appearance of the first sprouts, a regular irrigation is needed.
7. After 4-6 leaves appeared, you can cut forward plants, leaving 2-3 pieces at one point of growth. Between plants leave a distance of 30-40 cm.
8. Next, the cultivation scheme is the same as when driving seeds into open ground. When the threat of frosts, approximately at the end of May, plant seedlings of 2-3 pieces in one hole.

METHOD 3. Growing garden chamomile with a bush division

The division of the bush is an equally popular way to breed chamomile on the plot. It is better to spend this procedure in the spring. It is necessary to dig a bush as accurately as possible without damaging a single escape. It is better not to use sharp horticultural instruments, but for the most part to do naked hands. Depending on the size of the bush, it is divided into 2-3 parts. Pile for new bushes are digging according to the size of the root system. The bottom of the landing fossa feels with mineral fertilizers and is sprinkled on top of the earth. A new chamomile bush necessarily requires watering.

Secrets of the "Sun Flower" care

So, you successfully planted the beautiful chamomile at home. Although it is an unpretentious flower, it still requires elementary leaving actions to preserve the aesthetic plant and health of the plant. What do you need to know about the "Sunflower" care?

• like any garden plant, chamomile requires watering. It must be regular and quite abundant. On hot days, it is necessary to accurately carefully monitor the humidity level. Some grades of garden chamomile drought-resistant, but the drying level of the soil should not be anyway;
• regular weeding. It is necessary to remove weeds not only for the flower bed to look neat and well-groomed, but also for the health of the plant. After all, weeds can be carriers of different diseases and pests. In addition, a strongly developed and powerful root system of some weeds can harm the chamomile bruises;
• the soil looser. Loose the soil is needed for good access of moisture and air to the roots;
• rejuvenation of the bush. Such a simple procedure should be carried out on average after 5 years of life bush. On the one hand, the bush is clipped, and fertile soil is poured into the resulting hole. After 3 years, repeat the procedure in the same way, only on the other side of the bush;
• most garden daisies love to take sunny baths. Consider this fact when planting plants, avoid neighbors that will create a permanent shadow on a flower;
• romashka should help prepare for winter. Before the onset of frosts, it is necessary to trim the above-ground part of the plant. Young bushes need to be covered with fallen leaves, but adult plants perfectly tolerate frosts themselves;
• if you want to collect chamomile seeds, then it can be performed. Wait for the full flower drying, cut it out, let him get in a cool and dark room. After that, you need to carefully deprive the seeds, sift them from possible garbage, dry and assemble into paper bags. Store such packages with seeds are needed in a cool, ventilated and dark room.

Do I need to feed the chamomile garden

Of course, you can forget about the flower feeding and think that this is not such a necessity. But then do not be surprised why the chamomile looks richer and more effectively compared to yours. Chamomile loves feeding and friendly on them:

• the very first feeding occurs in the process of the preparation of the soil before boarding the chamomile garden. For this purpose, rich organic compositions will be suitable. After making the fertilizer, the root circle should be meditated;
• the second feeding is carried out in the middle of spring ammonium Selutyra. The soil in front of the feeding is better to pour, for a good assimilation of fertilizer. You will need about 20 grams of fertilizer for 1 sq. M.
• during the tying of buds, the urea feeding does not hurt. But it is only needed by birch plants;
• in order to prevent over-oxidation of soil with mineral fertilizers, it is necessary to periodically use nitrogen-containing feeding. For example, a korologist, bird litter.

Possible pests and daisy diseases

Flower water always saddened when their pets on the flower bed are exposed to the invasion of pests or diseases. Violation of the planting technology, infected with pests soil, disregard for weeding or watering - all this can negatively affect the health of the chamomile garden. What to do, so that the snow-white beauty-chamomile pleased with his appearance? To do this, you need to comply with all requirements for the care, even though they are small. In order not to skip the possible flower infection, you must certainly know the enemy in the face. Among the most frequent diseases of the chamomile garden can be allocated:

• rust. Rust can be determined immediately if you have noticed the top spot on the upper side. Spore fungus are on the back of the sheet;
• gray rot. This disease progresses at times faster with high humidity. Brown spots on the chamomile parts are becoming more and more, gradually covered with a gray shade,
• puffy dew. The disease can be recognized by the appearance of white raid on the above-ground parts of the plant. Gradually affected parts of the chamomile become a brown shade;
• fusariosis. This fungal disease begins to hit the roots and root cake. They begin to rot, the plant loses the tone, becomes brown, the stem is thinned and the plant dies.

The plant needs to be regularly inspected, preventing and stagnation of moisture in the soil. For prevention, you can use fungicides that are treated with an overhead part of the chamomile. If most of the bush is already amazed, it is better to remove it to prevent infection of neighboring plants.

From pests who love to enjoy a chamomile garden, can be called the following:

• starry fly. It is just the same pest that can settle on the chamomile, if neglected the rolling. The larvae will settle at the base of flowers, gradually capturing the entire plant;
• tLL and TRIPS. These sucking pests are very dangerous, because Literally pulls all the life juices of the plant. Blesses appear on the leaves, stripes, flowers are deformed, the plant gradually loses the tone and dies;
• wirefronts. These are larvae that feed on the roots of chamomile garden. They live in the soil up to 4 years.

Stock Foto Chamomile garden in landscape design

We hope that this article will help you grow a real highlight of your garden - Garden chamomile. A little patience, effort and, of course, love for nature, and your dream to see a piece of a chamomile field in my own area will surely come true. Successes in flower growing!