Campion - annuals, biennials or perennials, widespread in much of the Northern Hemisphere. Pyatilepestnye tubular flowers with bracts and small densely pubescent foliage of many varieties smolevok can decorate the rock garden, tall and S. dioica (S. dioica) and S. fimbriata (S. fringed) revive the corner of the garden in a natural style.
Activities listed below - a relatively cold-hardy perennials.
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Recommended species and varieties
S. acaulis (S. acaulescent)
Evergreen perennial with very short peduncles, forming a continuous carpet of greenery and flowers. Flowers light or dark pink color with a diameter of 1.5 cm bloom in early summer (plant, however, abundant flowering not always). Collected in the outlet leaves are bright green, linear, up to 1 cm. The height and diameter of the plant - 5x15 cm.
Alpestris (S. alpine)
White flowers up to 2 cm diameter with several large teeth on the petals bloom from early to mid-summer. A few light green leaves taper to the top and reach a length of 5 cm. Herbaceous perennial forming high air courtines of straight of branched stems. The height and diameter of the plant - 30x20 cm.
Dioica (S. nettle, red Sandman)
The reddish-pink flowers with petals bilobed diameter 2 cm bloom in early summer and collected in loose panicles. Egg-shaped bright green leaves on long stalks sit and reach a length of 5 cm. The height and diameter of the plant 60x30 cm.
Elisabethae (S. Elizabeth)
Semi-evergreen perennial giving in late summer single spike, which usually sits just one purplish pink flower diameter of 3 cm. The height and diameter of the plant - 15x20 cm.
S. fimbriata (S. fringed)
Herbaceous perennial with inflorescences of large white flowers 4 cm in diameter. Flowers with fringed petals sit on the arched flower stems and bloom in early summer. Decorative inflated calyx remains on the plants and after wilting flowers. Leaves ovoid, dark green, pubescent a length of 10 cm. Trim stems of wilting after the flowering is repeated at the end of the season. The height and diameter of the plant - 60x60 cm.
S. keiskei (S. Keyski)
Herbaceous perennial with branched peduncles, in which mid-summer to early fall pink flowers bloom in diameter to 1.5 cm. Oval leaves 2 cm thick courtines form. The height and diameter of plants -15h20 cm.
S. maritima
Bushy semi-evergreen perennial pink flowers with a diameter of 2 cm, continuously emerging from the middle of mid-summer to autumn. Undemanding plant with thin stems covered with narrow oval light-green leaves of a length of 2 cm. The height and diameter of the plant - 15h30 cm.
Uniflora (syn. S. maritima) (S. floral, S. Maritime)
Herbaceous perennial brushes with white flowers with a diameter of 2 cm deep incised petals and swollen cups, blooming in late spring. Leaves lanceolate, grayish green, a length of 4 cm. The height and diameter rasteniya- 10x15 cm.
Herbaceous perennial with a tassel of white flowers
cultivation
Plant plants in fertile, well-drained soil in spring or summer. Most species prefer a sunny location, a S. dioica and S. fimbriata grows well in partial shade. S. keiskei require cool, moist place with acidic soil. S. uniflora can be grown in coastal gardens.
reproduction
Sow the seeds in a greenhouse in early spring; Repot seedlings in open ground in early summer. Possible self-seeding. rosette S. acaulis separated in the first half of summer. Stem cuttings and cut the roots in the beginning of summer, share the bushes in the spring or fall.
Pests and diseases
Usually not affected.
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