Undemanding beauty of verbena in Your garden Bashny.Net

At home, in South and Central America, the flower refers to perennials; in Russia he is known as a beautiful annual plant. Verbena is low (from 15 to 60 cm), its small inflorescences have a variety of colors: white and pink, red and dark cherry, Burgundy and even Navy blue.

Flowering annuals for a long time — from July until late autumn. It is very good for decoration of bouquets because of the brightness of their inflorescences, consisting of 20 – 30 simultaneously open flowers and long (up to 10 days) of preservation in water after cutting.





In landscape design verbena is used widely: for planting in flower beds, on beds, ridges and on the balconies and in hanging baskets.

It reproduces by means of seeds, not demanding to soil, easy to tolerate cold, a light frost and drought.

Planting marigolds and care for her is very simple. But since profuse flowering garden plants – it's still the result of constant care and attention, let us examine the character of this beautiful annual.





 

Undemanding plant requires moderate watering. It does not tolerate strong waterlogged soil and too quickly fades at irregular watering. Verbena is susceptible to some diseases and effects of pests. May be affected by whiteflies, aphids, powdery mildew, and root due to lack of iron. Flowers prefer sour and moderately fertilized soil, full sun.

Vervain is usually grown seedlings. Sowing the seeds produced in late February – early March, pre-soak them for 2 hours in water. The soil should be loose, breathable and moisture. Well suited for planting a mixture of sand and peat (2: 1), watered, leveled and slightly compacted the soil evenly spread seeds, slightly press down and cover with a box or plastic wrap, or glass.

 



After 10 to 12 days, when sprouts appear, remove the covering and set the box on the bright windowsill. Not too wet soil, very tender shoots have not been ruined "blackleg".

Swordplay seedlings produced 3 to 4 weeks when true leaves appear. Sprouts planted at a distance of 2.5 – 3 cm from each other. Soil can be slightly enriched by adding humus and a small amount of wood ash. In late may, the seedlings planted in open ground at a distance of 20 – 30 cm Below the plant was bushy, do the nipping on the third or fourth leaf.

If the flowers of aphids is sick (this happens usually with young shoots and inflorescences), they need to be treated: with a small infestation of aphids or wash with soap and water or infusion of tobacco. With heavy infestation sprayed with actellic or newroom. The leaves, which have a barely noticeable white fuzz affected by powdery mildew. This means that soon they will begin to deform and curl, so sick leaves needs to be removed urgently, and the plants treated with sproles or fundazol several times.





 

Not such a difficult growing verbena and care for her. If a wonderful the plant is not left indifferent gardener, and usually are, his seed the next year you can stock up on in September.

Adherents of the popular treatments be useful to stock up on sprouts during flowering. Its decoction helps with inflammation of the mucous membrane, at elevated temperature, headaches, as well as diseases of the liver and spleen.

This flower in Greece is considered a sacred plant that brings happiness. And in Russia it was even said that is sewn into clothes dried vervain protects against the spell.published

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