Heat-loving shrubs or herbaceous perennials come mainly from the Canary Islands. Inflorescences of chamomile type.
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Recommended hybrid is very picturesque - it will give a flavor of summer winter and early spring compositions covered ground. The plant is short-lived, in our climate or indoor hothouse. Cool and wet conditions allow to stretch the flowering period of a few weeks.
Recommended species and varieties
Pericallis hybrida (syn. Senecio hybridus, S. cruentus) (P. Hybrid, Hybrid Cineraria, Senecio Hybrid)
Set of bright colored baskets 2.5-5 cm in diameter collected in dense corymbose flattened or convex paniculate inflorescence, which almost hides from the eyes of the leaves. Boundary ligulate flowers blue, dark purple, purple, white or red, contrasting with the darker central disk (tubular flowers) of any of those shades. Bright green above and below pubescent leaves triangular or heart-shaped, up to 15 cm, rough, slightly lobed, toothed. This hybrid - herbaceous perennial, but most of it is grown as an annual or as a plant for a gift. The height and diameter of plants -25h10 cm.
Available colors are the seeds mixture. By recognized lines with compact growth are hybrids:
Amigo (dwarf)
Cindy
Mini-Starlet
Moll
Hybrids with baskets diameter of 4 cm above and very diffuse, height of 40-45 cm and 50 cm.
cultivation
Planted these plants in pots with soil to a universal colors at + 7-15 ° C.
Ensure spring and summer shade, and in autumn and winter - the maximum lighting (you may need artificial supplementary lighting). Watered regularly.
Fertilize with liquid fertilizer until the pot is filled with roots, but stop feeding if the buds were formed.
reproduction
If you sow seeds in the spring, autumn basket unfold, as if in the middle or end of the summer, flowering will pozdnezimnim and early spring. For germination requires a temperature 15-20 ° C. Pikir shoots at a distance of 7 cm. When boarding starts thicken, seedlings to individual pots. Keep them in a cool, well-ventilated greenhouse, greenhouse or on a light windowsill. In winter, especially not heated, but you can bring copies of flowering in the home if you wish.
Pests and diseases
Serious damage, especially young plants, aphids can cause. Another typical pest - Chrysanthemum leaf-mining fly
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