Gazania (gatsaniya) - low groundcover, flowering almost the entire season. Numerous varieties of hybrid forms of plants are distinguished by large romashkovidnymi flowers.
Description and care
Beautiful spectacular flower is popularly known as African daisies. Under natural conditions gatsanii grow on poor rocky soil of South Africa and on other continents are often populated with sand dunes and roadsides. Feature plants - Easy to fertility and soil moisture.
Gazania light-requiring. When choosing a place for their landing, better to prefer sunny areas. In the shade of bushes stretched, but they do not bloom. In suitable conditions in early to mid-June bushes 30 cm tall disclosed flower 1-2 to 8-12 cm in diameter.
Depending on the variety, petal color can be red with a dark band at the center (Grade Copper King), different shades of yellow (cv Kiss, triad etc.). Breeders use property of forming hybrids of any color shades with contrasting dark stripe on the middle of each lobe (variety Talent, sunlight, Garden star and t. P.). Manufacturers often provide callers seed mixture (sortogruppy Ministar, Daybreyk, Shansonet et al.) To obtain a colored mat Gazania on a bed.
For abundant flowering plants need loose, permeable soil. They get moisture from great depths, using their long taproots. They do not grow on heavy clay and loamy soils in lowland areas with stagnant water.
When grown in the garden during dry years it is recommended moderately watered gatsany landing. This will enhance flowering plants, make baskets emerging as bright and big as the first buds. Shed their best to remove by cutting the stalk close to the base.
If the station with Gazania soil sufficiently fertile plants can feed only 1-2 times during the summer (4-6 weeks after planting, and even after the same period). On poor, stony or sandy loam soil feeding is carried out in 2-4 weeks. Use a complete fertilizer (Fertikov, Kemira-suite, Agricola, etc.).
Although Southern origin Gazania well tolerated fall frosts (up to -5 ° C). Thawing, they even continue to bloom, but not so abundant as in the summer. At the end of the season can be transplanted particularly beautiful bushes in pots for the winter: in nature gazania - perennial plants, but in Russia are grown only as annuals. Transplanted bushes, put them into a light room and kept at a temperature of + 10 ° C. In winter, the plants watered, but moderately, avoiding stagnation of water.
How to multiply?
Much of the most beautiful hybrid varieties do not form seeds and planting material will have a year to buy or grow overwintered bushes for a few years.
Seedlings seeds are sown in March, closing up the soil layer of about 1 cm. If 2-4 of these pieces of paper are seated in the peat-compost pots and were grown to mid-May. Planted on the street is better together with the container, so as not to damage the roots.
The most valuable varieties are propagated by cuttings, cutting off the side shoots at the base of the stem in the middle of July. Sections were necessarily handle stimulants rooting (IAA, NAA, IBA) and planted in moist lightweight substrate made of peat, sand and fertile soil. Before rooting close from the bright sun and drafts (use a greenhouse, mini-greenhouse). When touched by a growth accustom to light and subsequently grown under conditions of intense light at + 18 ° C.
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