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Verbena


Category: Balcony flowers

24 Jul : 12:21

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verbena-mix.jpgFamily: Verbenaceae
Latin name: Verbena
Origin: Rodina plant is South and Central America.
Verbena is one of those garden flowers that bloom without much care from spring to autumn.
It is generally an annual plant.
Growing on tufts, and reaches a height of 15 -25 cm
Blooms in purple, white, pink, peach or red.
Is very popular for growing in hanging pots, rockeries or in sandacheta on a window ledge.
Leaves: Verbena is a retail flower with elongated, serrated leaves that grows very slowly.
Colors: Verbena are beautiful in particular colors. They are in the form of stars, small and bright colors. Dyes are numerous: from nezhnorozovo to cyclamen from Lyulyakovo to dark purple from orange to fiery. In principle, vervain blooms in summer.


Location: The most suitable for this plant is a sunny place, but it must of course protected. This condition applies to garden cultivation, and the pot. If in a pot and holding it in your home, it surely place it in the sunniest window.
Tolerance to cold: In winter, the flower needs a light, airy and cool room.
Irrigation: Verbena is watered thoroughly but not so the soil gets a little swamp. It is important for soil and plant roots are constantly wet, no dust to podgizva. Furthermore, it is well occasionally spraying with water to the leaves. In winter watering sparingly.
Soil: The most suitable is the garden soil, rich in humus.
A spectacular species:
- Verbena aubletia: blooms in purple, pink and white from June to November, up to 4 cm in height;
- Verbena hybrida: blossoms in all colors, guess where, from May to October, reaching a height of 30 centimeters;
- Verbena rigida: orange blossom in the range from June to October reached 40 cm in height.
Propagation: If you want to pinch vervain seed instead of cuttings, you should anticipate it will take quite some time, until the seeds germinate, so do not give up in advance. Seed planted in late winter or early spring. Use peat pots with a top cover them with some form when pochva.Chak 3.4 leaves, chopped most - a healthy plant nurseries and then in other pots.
Before you outsource your plants outdoors, it is good to be conditioned, first export them in several chasa.Kogato are fastened, pristegnete secondary stem on each plant to begin to grow as a shrub.


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