Incarvillea - unpretentious flower for your site

Inkarvilleyu rarely come across in our gardens, it is a rare plant in the middle lane. But in vain, because the flower is very beautiful. He's gorgeous and leaves, and flowers.

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This undemanding plant, and it is too much hassle you do not take the care of them. It can grow as the bright sun or in partial shade. Taproot system. It resembles a carrot. Flowering abundantly on one spike may be up to 5 flowers. The foliage is very beautiful, carved.

Best neighbors - a heather, hosts, daylilies and violets. It blooms in July and flowering lasts for 1.5 months. Propagated dividing the bush, cuttings (most optimal methods) and seeds.

How to plant

Incarvillea likes fertile and loose soil, so the landing is better in the hole to make humus and compost, a bit of sand. The tuber is placed in the ground to a depth of 3 cm and covered with soil.

You can plant the tuber and the house in a pot in the middle of April, and then planted in open ground, when the pass by frost.

After planting, water well shed, and in the future to monitor the humidity, not to give to dry land, but can not pereuvlazhnyat. Therefore recommended to mulch after planting. In this case, the soil is almost always wet.

The most common varieties

incarvillea Delaveya, Her height and 70 cm, with pink (but are white and violet) color, and within calyx colored in yellow tint. Flowers 6-7 cm in diameter.

incarvillea compact, The flowers are larger than in the first grade, are mauve color.

incarvillea Chinese. The height of the flowers of 30 cm, a miniature variety cream colored flowers.

Care

At one point the plant can grow up to 4-5 years without a transplant. The soil should always be moist. Feeding in the form of phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are applied only in the fall in the first year of planting. For the second year in the spring to apply nitrogen fertilizer and fall as phosphorus-potassium. No more feedings during the season do not contribute. Carried out hoeing and weeding.

Put yourself in such a magnificent plant. Ask at your local gardening stores or can be ordered from online stores.

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