"Are you still fiddling with annuals?" The comrade rebuked and showed a problem-free, grateful flower with a scent
Do you want to plant flowers once so that they will delight you for many years? Then a fiery fireworks, lazy florist! Today on the agenda is a spectacular perennial, so similar to short, bright annuals.
Instead of fiddling with microscopic lobelia seedlings, you can watch 3 issues of Male / Female. Instead of occupying the windowsills with treacherously stretching petunia seedlings, you put tomatoes there. Sounds tempting, right? Especially about "Male / Female".
And all this will become reality. If you plant one flower in a flowerbed, which was shown by my friend Broom - Dianthus barbatus. Kidding! Turkish carnation is a unique perennial with an attractive aroma.
Plant exterior
Wherever you spit - some pluses:
- Lively greenery from early spring paints the flower garden with a light green carpet. Grows up to the "golden mean" - about 30 cm. Not too little to miss. Not too much to beat the neighbors in the flower bed.
Note to a friend: There are undersized varieties - 15 cm: ideal for a border. And tall ones - 50 cm: suitable for framing a fence, middle tier of flower beds, mixes and just for creating flowering bushes. Or thickets? Make your choice, comrade!
- Turkish carnations are numerous large balls of flowers with a perky double border. They keep on erect peduncles, not afraid of either wind or rain.
- Turkish carnation is a variety of varieties with bright colors. From monochromatic (for example, crimson) to contrasting (like white and burgundy). It always looks elegant and advantageous!
- Oh yes: the flowering time of the Turkish carnation lasts from June to August. All summer long you will be the owner of a bright floral carpet.
Cherry on the cake: a fragrant carpet! Turkish cloves have the most pleasant aroma.
The easiest Turkish carnation care
The Turkish carnation is one of the few plants that doesn't need any kind of careful maintenance. She will be glad if you water her in a severe summer drought. And the rest of the time it will be content with precipitation. She will be glad if you give her a handful of fertilizer once or twice. But it will delight you with bright colors without it.
Ideal for those looking for a vibrant garden. But she doesn't want to look after him too much.
Note to a friend: Turkish carnation grows so densely that it displaces most of the weeds.
However, the plant has one nuance: it will bloom only in the second year after sowing in open ground (this should be done in May). But then it will delight year after year: sow yourself. You will only have to pull out the extra plants that were sown in the wrong place. Or not pull it out!
I urge citizens to throw a couple of Turkish carnation seeds on their flower beds next spring. I will definitely do it. And in the summer you will be glad that you waited a year. Now you have an endless cycle of bright beauty, and even fragrant!
Do you like a Turkish carnation? Press, comrade, "Thumbs up"! Yours sincerely, lazy Fyodor Tyapkin-Sklyankin.