Convolvulus
Description. This plant would be correctly called not a Russian, but a Latin name - convolvulus. The bush is not curly and only in the shape of a flower it looks like a familiar convolvulus growing in the field. Herbaceous annual, branchy plant 40-50 cm high. Leaves are lanceolate, entire, dense, large flowers, up to 4 cm in diameter, funnel-shaped, tricolor - yellow-white-blue, open only on a sunny day. Flowers of bindweed are also white, pink, blue and purple, and they are often grown in a mixture. The plant is undemanding to soils, cold-resistant and easy to grow. Smart looks on the balconies, in vases, mixborders and on the rabatkah.
Cultivation and care. Propagate the convolvulus by seeds, which are collected as the boxes of grayish brown color appear. It is produced in May in open ground. Seedlings appear on the 8th day, they are thinned to a distance of 15-20 cm. Flowering occurs after 70-80 days in July and lasts until late autumn. With excess moisture and nitrogen fertilizers grows well, but weakly blooms. Fodder with a full mineral fertilizer( 20-30 grams per bucket of water) at the beginning of budding. Watered only with a strong drying of the soil.
Carnation
Description. The history of carnation is more than 2000 years old. The first description of it was made by Theophrastus in 300 BC.The clove genus belongs to the clove family, the resinous subfamily. This genus has about 300 species. A large number of clove species is found in the countries adjacent to the Mediterranean.
Representatives of the genus cloves - one-, two- or perennial herbs.
Carnation - branchy plant, stems herbaceous or semi-lignified, knotty, brittle, smooth with a bluish coating. Leaves opposite, without stipules, green, gray or bluish. The flowers are regular, bisexual, solitary or collected in dense or loose inflorescences. Corollas of 5 free petals. The petals are brightly colored, often white or pink. In cultural forms - in yellow, red, purple and other colors. Fruit - cylindrical, pointed at the end, single-cavity, multi-seed box. The root system is furry or rod-shaped.
Of the annual carnation species in the middle band, it is easiest to grow the carnation Chinese and its variety with larger flowers - clove Geddevig. The plant is cold-resistant, it tolerates frosts up to -3 ° С, light-loving, but stops blooming during overdrying. Carnations with bright flowers and long flowering are suitable for curbs and flowers, balconies and containers. Cut flowers last long in the water.
Varieties of carnations Geddeig
Hybrid White ( white, non-standard), Snow ball ( white, terry), Fireball ( dark scarlet, double), Lucifer ( charlakh, terry), Diamond red, double).
Carnation is a herbaceous perennial plant with upright simple or branching stems with a height of 20 to 50 cm, compact or sprawling. Flowers single or collected in corymbose inflorescences simple or terry, white, different shades of pink or red color with a spot in the base of the petals or without it, sometimes with a strongly dissected edge of the petals. Another annual type of carnation, widely used in ornamental horticulture and grown on cutting, is the clove of Shabo. This species was obtained in France by the Toulon pharmacist Shabo at the beginning of the 19th century. The height of the plant is 30-
50 cm, the shape is pyramidal. The plant forms many shoots of the first and higher orders, ending with flowers. Shoots are roundish, knotty, glabrous, gray-green. Flowers in clove Shabo are large, 5-7 cm in diameter, fragrant, various colors - red, white, pink and yellow. Flowers are simple and terry.
Varieties of clove Shabo
Red
Etinselian ( bright red), Lejden dounner ( dark cherry red), Ruby ( dark red), Fiery king ( bright red with orange shade), Foyer Koenig ( pure red).
Pink
Aurora ( salmon-pink), Pink ( bright pink).
Yellow
Marie Shabo ( pastel yellow).
White
Jeanne Dionys ( pure white).
Purple
Mikado ( pure-lilac).
Cultivation and care. Seeds carnations Geddevi, collected in the previous year a month after the beginning of flowering when the bouquet are brewed, are sown in March - early April. Seedlings appear after 5-7 days. Picks take place after 3-4 weeks. Landing in the ground is carried out in the beginning - middle of May at a distance of 15-25 cm from each other. This species prefers light with high humus content of the soil. Feed Geddewig's clove with full mineral fertilizer in seedlings( 1-2 times 10 grams per bucket of water) and on the soil( 2-3 times 20-40 grams per bucket of water).Abundant watering is necessary when the soil is dry.
Good flowering cloves Shabo can be obtained with early crops: in December-February. The best results are given by the December crop of cloves in the greenhouse, but the seedlings can be grown on the window, the recommendations for its cultivation are common. In a sowing box 30 x 60 cm, 1 gram of seeds is sown. Seeds are closed with a thin layer of calcined sand. For sowing use a freshly prepared substrate from turfy ground, humus, peat and sand( 2: 2: 2: 1), the acidity level of pH should be 6-6.5.The ground substrate should be poured into the and tanks with a pink solution of potassium permanganate to make the soil wet, but not wet. On top, you need to pour sand in the frying pan. Sand should get wet from
Remove the buds of the clove Shabo
To improve the quality of flowering plants for cutting, the side buds are removed from the clove of Shabo, which develop in the leaf axils of the terminal bud, delay flowering and affect the size of the main bud, so they must be removed.
1. Delay with the removal of side buds. Near the terminal bud, a large lateral bud developed. The bud has already outgrown, removing
is now too late.
2. Premature removal of side buds. Side buds have not evolved enough to produce removal early.
3. Optimal term for the removal of buds. The terminal and side buds are quite developed, now you can remove the competing buds, which will ensure the quality flowering of the
of the earth, but if it remains dry, it must be moistened from the spray gun. Seeds should be placed in grooves 3 mm deep, made at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other, and topped with sand. After this, the box should be placed in a place where the temperature does not exceed 18 ° C.Before emergence, the substrate should not dry out, it should be sprayed as necessary( when the upper layer dries up).At a temperature of 16-18 ° C shoots together appear on the 4-5th day. After emergence of shoots, the clove is moved to the light, the temperature is reduced to 12 ° C.Sprinkle sprouts should be only when the top layer of sand dries up, preferably in the morning and on sunny days.
In early crops, the clove is dived twice. The first picking is carried out in boxes in the phase of the first pair of real leaves 4x4 see
The second picket carried out in the early hotbeds in the second half of March. Dive into the peat pots. The temperature in the greenhouse is 10-12 ° C.In phase 5 pairs of leaves, seedlings are plucked, usually in early April.2 weeks before planting in the soil, seedlings in greenhouses are fed with nitrogen fertilizers. A solution of 0.1% ammonium nitrate water sprouts in greenhouses. Planting seedlings is usually carried out early, as soon as the soil permits. In the middle zone of Russia this is the end of April - the beginning of May. Soils for cloves are needed fertile, early warmed up, neutral. You can grow carnations on any predecessor that does not have Shabo clove common diseases. Since autumn organic fertilizers have been introduced, it is better to repart the mullein( 2 kg / m2), peat-peat and other composts, lime and, if required, superphosphate 30-50 g / m2.Potash fertilizers are brought in the spring to 100 g / m2.Nitrogen fertilizers are introduced into fertilizing: the first - nitrogen fertilizers in a dose of 5 - 6 g / m2 - is carried out after the plants are planted after planting, the second - during tillering and budding( 4-5 g / m2 nitric and 4-5 g /m2 potassium fertilizers).Fertilizers are added based on the active ingredient. Plant cloves with distances of 25x25 - 16 plants per 1 m2.When planting the plant can not be buried. Irrigation spend 2-3 times a month in June, 2 times in July. When growing clove Shabo to cut it, remove the side buds. In cloves, except for the terminal bud in the axils of the leaves, lateral buds are formed. These buds delay flowering and reduce the size of the terminal flower, so they should be removed in a timely manner. The axillary buds are removed simply by tilting them at a right angle to the main stalk and slightly turning. Buds that develop around the terminal, need to be removed at a certain point, when they grow up a bit, but will not outgrow. When frost comes, the clove Shabo is excavated with a lump, brought into the greenhouses, where you can get another 2 months cut. The flowers break off at the 6th node, in the phase of the half-opened bud early in the morning or in the evening.
Diseases and pests. One of the most dangerous fungal diseases to which a carnation is exposed is verticillium wilt( wilt, fialoflora), as well as fusari-oz, rust and viral - mosaic, carpocity, ring engraving. Among pests, aphids, thrips, spider mites were the most common on the carnation.