Badan
Description. Badan is a plant with a thick, slightly branched rhizome, located close to the surface, and large basal skeletal shiny wintering leaves of rounded shape, forming rosettes and retaining decorative until the end of the vegetation of the plant. Bright pink flowers are collected on the top of low stems in dense racemose inflorescences and very beautifully stand out against the background of the dark green foliage. After the end of flowering, the plant remains decorative throughout the vegetative period, forming a dense cover of 15-20 cm in height. Blossoms in May, the flowering period lasts up to 3 weeks.
In gardening, the most common 4 types of hood are used.
Badanow medium-leaf and tadastapistane are very similar, differ only in somewhat different structure and form of leaves.
Badan Pacific is characterized by a more rounded form of foliage, receiving in October a bronze shade. Very decorative.
Badan Hybrid is a variety obtained from crosses of various kinds of bassan. This group consists of several varieties with flowers of dark purple, light pink and white.
In various types of floral decoration, the banana can play the role of a dominant( dominant species), forming a decorative permanent dense overlying soil. Decorative bananas when planted in the form of small groups among the lawn in combination with low bushes, along the tracks on the Alpine hill, near the pond. It looks good under the trees with other herbaceous plants and ferns, in stony gardens.
Cultivation and care. Badan is unpretentious, and its cultivation does not cause trouble. Baden is undemanding to soils, light, moisturized, drained, humus-rich soils are best suited for its cultivation.
Low raw places with stagnant moisture for badana are not suitable. It can grow in the sun and in the shade, but it develops better in places with slight shading.
The plant does not tolerate a lack of moisture, as its roots are located close to the soil surface. Therefore, during droughty periods it should be watered. However, a short period of inadequate moisturization, bianade transfers easily.
Badan is propagated by seeds and vegetative - root segments. The rhizome of badana is thick brown, slightly branched. To divide it into segments is better in spring in the period of the beginning of vegetation or at the end of summer. Each root segment after division should have a bud of renewal, the segments are planted in the ground at a distance of 30-40 cm from each other. You can grow plants from rhizomes in pots with light nutrient soil( a mixture of sand with compost or humus).It is possible to propagate the bassan seeds, sowing them in the ground under the winter. With the winter crop, shoots are more amicable and numerous. Seedlings develop slowly, forming in the first year a small rosette of 4-5 leaves and very thin tender roots. In the first year, beds with seedlings must be pritenyat, watered and carefully weed, so that the weeds do not drown out the small plants. By the end of the first year or the second one, they can be discarded. For the winter, the seedlings should be covered with a thin light mulch layer. Seedlings bloom for 3-4 years. Badan is a perennial plant, so it can grow in one place without a transplant for more than 10 years.