Features landing and care for incarvillea

In bouquets of incarvillea are very short-lived - its delicate buds will wither the very next day. But in the garden design she will find a place in any flower bed: at least the border, even the framing of the avenue, even the rock garden, rock arias, mixborders or ordinary rabatka. In any case, this delicate flower will be a bright decoration of your monastery. What is incarvillea in planting and care, how it is grown in open ground, what to do with it in the winter - we will tell about all this later in the article.

Botanical description

Incarvillea is a representative of the vast family of the Bignoniums. and includes about 20 varieties. People call it "garden gloxinia". In the wild, the flower is found in the vast Central and Eastern Asia and near the Himalayas.

Incarvillea can be grown both as an annual and as a perennial. It has a tuberous or woody root system, roped dark green, feathery leaves and bright paniculate or raceme-shaped inflorescences. The appearance of the plant depends on its type and variety.

This greatly helps gardeners to translate their ideas into reality when creating a landscape garden design. There is something to choose a culture from: there are specimens with upright, branched, smooth and shaggy stems, the length of which varies from 30 cm to 2 m.

Bloom garden gloxinia begins in the summer. Its inflorescences consist of single bell-shaped flowers with a tubular corolla. They are purple, scarlet, yellow, pink, purple-violet and white. Opened buds delight the eye for about one and a half months, and then in their place begin to ripen seed boxes with pubescent grains. It is possible to collect incarvilles seeds starting from the last decade of August.

Incarvillea is characterized as a thermophilic and undemanding plant. Some of its species can withstand 15 degrees of frost. In temperate latitudes most often cultivated:

• "Myra" (mairei) - blooms with bright red buds, inside which are yellow spotted corollas;
• "Dense" (compacta) - short and the most winter-hardy type with large purple, white and combined inflorescences, can winter without shelter;
• "Olga" (Olgae) - tall plant, blooms with red-pink buds of medium size;
• "Delabey" (delavayi) - has large colors, the diameter of which reaches 6 cm, there are different colors.

Where to plant a flower?

Species characteristics of the plant dictate their conditions for its location in the garden. To make the flower comfortable, it is important to take into account the amount of light, water and soil features of the site. Otherwise, even winter-hardy specimens may not survive to spring.

Bright sun or shade?

Garden gloxinia loves sunny areas and, despite the fragility of delicate inflorescences, can withstand long heat. It also adapts well to the partial shade of the terrain, but the lack of ultraviolet is displayed on the timing of flowering culture. Well, if the Asian guest falls into a solid shadow, the colors can never wait.

The main thing for incarville is to cold winds did not blow, drafts, and that its roots did not freeze. Proceeding from these beliefs, experienced flower growers choose elevated zones for the plant, where melt and rain water never gather, and also flows freely during irrigation.

Soil type

For the culture to fully develop, it is important nutrient light land and good drainage. It is advisable to plant the flower on a pre-formed layer of broken brick or crushed stone. The oxidized areas will need to periodically alkalify with lime or dolomite flour. In the absence of these materials, you can use the usual old plaster. Depending on the pH, per square meter of the site will need to make from 150 to 300 g of substance.

For garden gloxinia, choose fertile, loose soils, otherwise it will develop poorly. Well, if you got a plot on unsuitable loams and sandstones, you will have to correct the situation with a special fertile soil mixture.

Landing features

When grown in seed or vegetative way in the open field and further daily care, incarvillea does not pose any difficulty. Let us see in more detail what a gardener should know and be able to have in order to bloom lush lush flowers on his bed.

From seed

Experienced housewives who have already dealt with street gloxinia, advised to collect her grains unripe. Because in many cases it happens that they get enough sleep and there is nothing to collect.

Sowing on seedlings is better to plan in March, and in open ground - in May. For the first variant, peat tablets are often used, which are soaked in plastic cups, after which a grain is deepened in them by 1 cm. Considering that the Incarville seed is highly germinating, distribute one specimen into each container. Then cover the container with an identical cup and send in heat.

The second option - the cultivation of incarvilles from seeds - is less troublesome, but loses later in flowering. Planting material is sown in centimeter grooves directly on the flowerbed. If a stable warm weather with a temperature not lower than 20 ° C has been established on the street, the first shoots will appear in a week.

Cuttings

In the period when the plant reaches the peak of its development, you need to prepare planting material. To do this, cut off about 3-5 cm of the stem from the top.The cut must be oblique.

Then the workpiece is left for several hours in a container with a growth stimulator. The drugs Ekosil, Kornevin and Emistim have proven themselves well. After the done manipulations the stalk is placed in a peat jar, creating greenhouse conditions for it.

Incarvilles planted in this way need to be ventilated every day and ensure that the soil in the box does not dry out.

Dividing bush

This procedure is best done in early spring or autumn. In the second case, it is desirable to have time to land a few weeks before the onset of cold weather. Experts advise not to risk and engage in the division of the bushes of a thermophilic flower in September.

To do this, you need to dig up the entire rhizome, which does not deepen further 15-20 cm, and cut it with a sharp spade or with a knife. At least one sprout should remain on each of them. Planting a new bush, you need to drop the root neck to 3 cm.

Care rules

After the Incarvillea has been planted, and it has successfully settled down, it is important to provide the flower with proper care. It consists in timely moistening, top dressing and processing of the soil in a bed. We will understand everything in order.

Watering and soil care

All types of this culture are supporters of moderate moisture. Like room gloxinia, they do not tolerate excess water. This is fraught with rot and death of the plant. Therefore, organize watering as the surface layer of the soil dries. Do not allow its petrification, otherwise the flower will die. Always plan a moisturizing treatment in the morning or evening. Otherwise, the sun's rays will burn the plant.

Do not forget to loosen the soil after each watering, remove weeds and lay out a layer of mulch. Together, these little things will contribute to improving the nutritional culture and aeration of its roots. Coniferous sawdust and bark are not recommended as mulch, as they increase the acidity of the earth.

Top dressing

This aspect depends on the quality of the soil on the plot where the plant grows.If it is fertile, you can do without fertilizer. On poor substrates, it will be necessary several times a season to make mineral complex substances or to water a flower with a solution of mullein and chicken manure. It is important not to overdo it. After all, an excessive amount of organic matter in the soil will not so much improve your beauty, as it will lower her winter hardiness. This option is suitable for those who grow garden gloxinia as an annual.

Experts advise to make sure to fertilize when planting delenok and transplant culture.

Transfer

Incarvillele periodically need to replant. This is due to the fact that perennial sucks from the soil all the necessary nutrients for growth. His discomfort in the exhausted substrate is noticeable due to delayed development and poor flowering. Transplantation is the impetus for the rejuvenation of the bush. Experienced growers advise you to repeat the procedure every 3-4 years.This is done in the second and third decades of March.

At the new site, it is recommended to carry out a deep digging and put compost or humus on the flowerbed. Then, taking into account the size of the root system of the excavated flower, make a depression. Its bottom must be filled with drainage, and then pour into the pit mixed in equal parts deciduous soil, river sand, peat and some mineral complex fertilizers. After the done procedures, you can plant a flower.

Inkarvillea Shelter in Winter

Incarvillea does not like cold and is very afraid of sudden changes in temperature and snowless winters. That is why many housewives cultivate it as an annual. However, helping the flower to winter is quite realistic. To do this, protect its roots with a mulch cover. Florists are advised to make flooring of peat, compost or humus with a layer not lower than 6 cm.

Some gardeners share the experience of a successful wintering with a flowerbed of fallen leaves.This should not be done, because the plant under the mulch and so warm, and from an overabundance of protective materials, its roots can zatryat. In the spring, as soon as the snow melts, the mulch needs to be removed from the flower bed. After all, a sharp warming can spoil the roots of the plant charms.

Pests and diseases

Improper care, in particular excessive soil moistening, can provoke fungal diseases of the root system of the garden gloxinia. For her, this is the most dangerous and undesirable phenomenon, since there is little chance of recovering from it. Act immediately at the first sign of rot. In such cases, you need to save the plant with any fungicides. Impeccable reputation among the drugs: "Fundazol", "Topaz", "Maxim", "High".

In addition to this danger, the plant can be threatened by spider mites and mealybugs. They often extend to bushes from other infected plants in a flower garden. You can get rid of parasitic insects with the help of insecticides ("Aktellik", "Aktara", "Bi-58 New").

If you take the correct plot for incarvilleia on the flowerbed and at least occasionally pay attention to it - a lush perennial will decorate your garden for a long time.