Annual "For the lazy" with bright colors. He does not care about missed watering, and top dressing

And again a fiery salute, comrades, restless flower growers! Today on the agenda is a beautiful and unprecedented in its unpretentiousness annual flower.

Bright colors - no hassle of care! Let's find out what kind of plant it is, and how to get maximum efficiency with minimum labor costs. I mean, a beautiful flower bed, but without endless dancing with a watering can and fiddling with fertilizers.

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Imagine a plant that inherited from its ancestor - literally a weed - unpretentiousness. It has all the habits of a succulent, which eliminates the need for regular watering and provides drought resistance. Which blooms without interruption from June to... until the frost kills, and even forms a colorful carpet.

An alluring prospect? Feel free to buy a bag of seeds decorative (large-flowered) purslane. I strongly advise you to take a mixture of colors, because this way the decorative carpet looks even more elegant! Terry hybrids are also on sale, but... they are still a little more demanding.

Indisputable advantages of decorative purslane in applied gardening:

• The plant stores moisture in fleshy leaves. The heat has come - great, it wastes it. And it does not wither from head to toe if the sluggish owner has forgotten about watering. I highly recommend it for summer residents who live on the site in short order!
• Purslane perfectly tolerates direct sunlight. Will grow and bloom in the shade. True, the carpet will turn out to be loose, and the flowers will not be so frequent.

• Purslane grows well in poor soils. More precisely, on any soil. Rich in humus - delicious. Poor, stony, sandy, clayey - someone who, and our hero will definitely not show off and will do what he must: he will begin to bloom for a long time and colorfully.
• The previous point explains why purslane does not need fertilizer. But, if, feeding other flowers, a fellow gardener splashes something on the purslane, he will be immensely grateful and will bloom with renewed vigor. But terry hybrids are still better to feed a couple of times per season - with a complex mineral.

• It is not at all necessary to grow seedlings. I threw the purslane seeds right into the open ground - and you will have to wait quite a bit. An unpretentious plant is distinguished not only by its trouble-free, but also by its rapid growth.

It becomes clear: an unpretentious flower will plug all our petunias, vervains and alyssums in the belt, comrades!

How to grow a purslane

In terms of growing, purslane is exactly as unpretentious as adult plants. There are 2 ways:

• at the end of March-in April, sow seeds for seedlings so that the bright carpet spreads out at the very beginning of summer.
• in May (in the south - in April), sow directly into open ground. But you have to wait for July to see the flowers.

I use the second option to sow empty areas in the country with beautiful and unpretentious flowers.

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