About smart cousin Iris: for those who love bright colors
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Yes, the charm of the proven and popular ornamental plants, no one disputes: how nice the heart of the Russian people peonies, chrysanthemums and gladioli! But it is necessary to open the garden door for the new owners who are ready to become a highlight of the flower collection. I suggest you subscribe to my RSS feed to every weekend to learn about new ornamental plant 💖
Familiarity with Tigridia
Today I decided to introduce you to Tigridia peacock (Tigridia pavonia). Front flower is derived from the family Iridaceae. Sometimes they write that this bulbous plant that is not quite true. Underground part represented corms.
Interesting fact : In the homeland of the flower, in Central America, the Aztecs grew it to power and a no, but traditional medicine. After the bulb is very nutritious: containing 21% starch and 13% glucose.
The plant of average height, from 30 to 70 cm. All summer bush form thin sword-shaped leaves with a sharp tip. But green is transformed, when the buds are disclosed.
Flowering Tigridia - it is always bright and pompous mini carnival in the flowerbed. It is in July-September. It seems to me that the flower Tigridia something reminds daylily. Business Card Tigridia - bright colors and their exotic combination.
The main feature of Tigridia perfectly conveys the catch phrase "Caliph for an hour." Term life one flower record Nedolya - only 8 hours. And flowering period falls exactly on the first half of the day. But this is compensated by opening Fleetings plenty of new buds. Tigridia better to plant in flocks, while the owner of the garden every morning, going to a morning flower bed, will see some colorful flowers:
Tigridia easy to grow, if you know the basic recommendations. It is important to remember that in the wild she grew up in sunny Mexico and Guatemala in the rivers in the wet ground. And modern hybrids are very well remember his American past!
Top tips:
- Put Tigridia on a well-lit area. We, in the northern latitudes, it needs bright sunlight.
- Successful cultivation Tigridia - is primarily about watering. Land on the depth of planting corms should always be slightly damp. Yes, the summer drought will have to be watered every day. But nothing can be done, such beauty it deserves.
- Tigrdiyu feed the complex mineral fertilizers to corm "otel" by the autumn.
Tigridia but not so easy to feel good in the cold for her Russian. To corms have time to ripen in autumn, in March, they are put into containers and then switch to a bed. In October, harvested, and stored as well as the usual dahlias.
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