Leo
Description and varieties. This is a herbaceous annual, also called matthiol, with very fragrant flowers, more commonly known as by the summer saucer.
Leone summer - single-stem or branched plant in height from 20 to 80 cm with fragrant flowers of various colors - white, yellow, pink, red, purple and cream.
Gilly plants come with simple and double flowers, collected in dense or loose racemose inflorescences. Flowering of a simple flower lasts 4-5 days, a terry flower - 15-20.The latter are very decorative, the number of petals in them reaches 30-40 pieces, and in some varieties - 100. But such plants are sterile, in their flower there are neither stamens nor pistil, so they do not give seeds. For the reproduction of gillyflowers, plants with simple, non-primary flowers serve. More than 400 varieties of summer gillyflowers are known, among which are branched. To decorate the flowerbed, it is best to choose varieties branched. In this case, numerous lateral shoots can be used for cutting as the buds bloom. One-nostebelnye varieties are better for using for bouquets.
Leucoseans know more than 10 groups and subgroups, differing in the height and type of branching of plants, the shape of the bush, the size of flowers, the flowering period;varieties differ in the coloration of flowers.
Levkoy is a light-loving, cold-resistant plant that does not tolerate excess moisture. In general, it is characterized as a plant that is demanding of the conditions of growth. It grows well and develops on sunny plots, fruit Varieties of gillyflowers
Group Bouquet or Victoria
Bouquet of carmine - flowers of carmine, thick, fragrant, plant height 30 cm.
Bouquet - blood red, flowers dark red blood,height of the plant 25-35 cm.
Bouquet white - flowers are pure white, thick-flowered, plant height 30 cm.
Victoria purple - flowers are dark purple, terry, plant height 30 cm.
The Kedingvingburg group, orAll-hot
Gelb - flowers are light yellow, large, plant bushy, plant height 40-50 cm.
Celdelingburg - carmine pink, flowers carmine pink, large, plant bushy, plant height 50-60 cm
Lazurnlau - flowers azure-lilac, large, single-stem plant, plant height 50-60 cm.
Rubinroth - flowers garnet-red, large, plant bushy, plant height 50-60 cm.
Excelsior Group, or Single-Wall
Terracotta - flowerslight terra50-60 cm
Hamoperosis - flowers are bright pink, large-sized, very large, plant height is 50-60 cm.
Gelgelb - flowers are gentle-light yellow, terry, plant height is 60 cm.
Sensational - flowers are dark red, terry, plant height is 60-70 cm.
Rosette - flowers are pink, terry, plant height is 55-60 cm.
Group Erfurt, or Short-branched
Erfurt - pearly pink, flowers dark-frozen, large, terry, plant branched, inThe height of the plant is 35-40 cm.
The Erfurt is dark blue, the flowers are dark blue with a violet hue, the flowers are dark blue with a purple hue,large, convex, plant branched, plant height 30-40 cm.
Group Large-flowered gigantic
Tsartroza - flowers gently pink with dark pink erosion, large, thick-stemmed, plant height 70 cm
Fakeltraget - flowers bright red, veryLarge, thick-leafed, heighttaenia 70 cm
:. Reynvays - flowers are pure white, very large, gustomahrovye, plant height of 70 cm
. Diana - pink flowers with a dash, large, thick-flowered, height of the plant 70 cm.Illusion - flowers brightly-karmazinovye, large, dense-colored, plant height 90 cm.
Group Pyramidal
Arctic - flowers kipno-white,terry, plant half-high, height 30-
35 cm.
Silvery pink - flowers are soft pink, large, terry, plant half-high, height 40-45 cm.
Taicher - flowers are dark red, large, terry, dwarf plant, height 20-25 cm.
Giant - flowers are white and pink, large, terry, giant plant, height 50 cm.
; Giant white - flowers are pure white with a greenish center, large, terry, gigantic plant, height 50 cm.
; Giant bodily pink - flowers credit-IOHE-pink, large, terry, gigantic plant, height 50 cm
Group sprawling
unites classes Levkoev Dresden, or remontant, and Bismarck, or Krupnotsve. Ticks.
Aurora - flowers pink, large, plant bushy with lateral inflorescences, height 40-
50 cm.
Canariengelb - flowers cream-yellow, large, plant bushy with lateral inflorescences, height 50-55 cm.
Karmazin - flowersmedium-sized, bushy plant with lateral inflorescences, height 40-50 cm.
Bismarck - flowers blood-red, large, plant powerful bushy with lateral inflorescences, height 40-50 cm.
Dunkel - flowers blood-red, large, bushy plantwith side inflorescences, height 50 cm.
: Dunkelbau - flowers are purple, velvety, large, plant bushy, height 50 cm.
Zilberlila - flowers are pink-lilac with dark erosion, very large, bushy with lateral inflorescences, height40-50 cm.
native neutral medium-loamy, soil-friendly soils, reacts well to the introduction of mineral and organic fertilizers, with the exception of fresh manure.
Use of gillyflowers in various flower beds, flowerbeds, in group plantings, for Moorish lawns. Combine different in height and color, as well as in terms of flowering varieties. Tallies are good for cutting inflorescences.
Cultivation and care. Seeds are sown for seedlings in late March - early April in a greenhouse, picking seedlings spend in the open ground. Because of the core root system
, the gillyflowers do not tolerate the transplant because of possible damage to the main root. In the open ground planting is carried out in May. For planting it is better to choose a sunny place and a piece of land where there is no stagnation of water. The optimum distance between the plants of branching varieties is 30 cm, of short stems and one-stem varieties - 15-20 cm. Care of leavings consists in loosening, watering, fertilizing and weed control. Blossom plants depending on the variety on the 70-100th day after emergence, that is, in June and July. When sowing seeds in the soil in May, gillyflowers bloom only in August. Cut for the bouquet of plants, in which in the inflorescence completely bloomed 7-10 flowers, and the upper buds were painted and slightly separated. It is better to pull the whole plant together with the root, so that it lasts longer in cut form. The soil is shaken off, the lower leaves are torn off, the roots are washed. In this form, with a constant change of water and the washing of the roots, the plants noticeably no longer lose their decorativeness and remain fresh for 8-10 days in the room.