Flower Nasturtium: how to grow from seeds, how to care, beautiful photos
Nasturtium has long been fond of flower growers, for itsunpretentiousness and beauty. The homeland is its Central and South America, where you can meet perennial species. It is a very pleasant fact that its flowering is bright and lasting. She is one of the best assistants in decorating gardens and summer cottages.
Description
This flower, which is called capuchin in another way,- an annual, weaving plant. They grow on the beds, and on the balcony in boxes. Its corollas with a spur of orange and yellow color exude a pleasant fragrance. The plant also has buds, flowers, seeds. When the latter ripen, they spontaneously fall off. Large enough seeds about 7 mm in diameter, which are covered with a thick shell. Their germination lasts up to four years. Gathering "peas" is better still unripe. The main thing is that they are easily removed from the plant. Having collected a sufficient number of seeds, the rest as they are tied off, to prolong the flowering. You can grow a flower by sowing it in a permanent place. Or in boxes for obtaining seedlings. But the first option is preferable, because capuchin does not tolerate transplantation.
Kinds
In total there are about 90 species, however, infloriculture is cultivated only about 25. Such species are widespread: large, climbing, bush, dwarfish, foreign, terry and others. Almost all species have different varieties.
Nasturtium foreign (canary)
Stems that wriggle like a creeper. They are long enough and they need a backup. If you want to hide something, for example an unsightly wall, or hide the gazebo from prying eyes, it is worthwhile to plant this curly flower next to it.
Nasturtium curly terry
The curly capuchin blossoms very beautifully and abundantly,has the form of a bush. Stems grow to three meters, with round leaves of light and dark green hue. Flowers large, terry can be yellow, red, pink.
Nasturtium "Paradise birds"
It is a mixture of different colors. The plant is formed by a neat bush of green leaves, over which there are many bright, fragrant flowers. This variety will be a wonderful decoration for a loggia or dacha.
Nasturtium "Canary"
The variety is derived from the species of foreign. As well as others, deduced in our strip, this fast growing liana grows from June to September, the stems grow to almost 4 meters. Its flowers are small, canary-yellow with corrugated petals and green spurts up to 3.5 cm in diameter.
Nasturtium "Cherry Rose"
This species is the most common amongall kinds. Stems can be either upright or trailing from 25 cm to 250 cm. Flowers can be simple, terry, semi-double, pink-crimson, have a pleasant smell.
Nasturtium ampel
Decorative plant, grown in flower pots andvases, suspended at altitude. It has many varieties with curly, wobbling, creeping stems, so it is often used as an ampel plant. It is decorated or allocated by the areas of the room, window and door openings, porches, verandas, make compositions in parks, on streets, squares.
Nasturtium "Brilliant"
Lianopodobnaya with shoots 3 m long. Blossoms abundantly from early summer to autumn. Her flowers are dark red 5-6 cm in diameter. He likes warmth and light. Like all those wickering it is good to decorate vertical surfaces, and grow in flower pots.
Nasturtium "Purple Gloss"
It grows one year. Curly stems grow to 1.2 meters. It differs in thick flowering and large bright red terry flowers 5-6 cm in diameter. The well grows in height can also be used as an ampel plant with flowing shoots.
How to Plant Capuchin
So, the crop is produced in this way:
Soak the "peas" in the water for the whole day.
We put three pieces in one hole.
Regularly watering the planting.
Seed emerges about 14 days. But flowering begins in 40-45 days.
When is it better to plant?
Capuchin is very thermophilic, so it should be sown in May, when late frosts pass. To sprout quickly grew and developed well they need to be fed every week.
Nasturtium in a pot or pots
Not all have a dacha or garden plot, at home, onown balcony can also arrange a green corner of nature. Having hung around the perimeter of a balcony of pots with a planted nasturtium, or by placing pots on the windowsill, you can achieve the effect of a "blossoming" balcony. This kind will please not only you, but also create a good mood for your neighbors.
Therapeutic remedy
All parts of the plant, except the roots, can beused as a medicine. It contains essential oil - tropeoline, which can improve blood circulation. The carotene and sulfur present in it are preventive substances for sclerosis. It is used as an antitussive and expectorant, soothing and diuretic.
A few secrets that will help in the cultivation of Capuchin
Planting seedlings is necessary when you are sure that the minus temperatures have already ended. If the crops are slightly frozen, they will surely die.
The flower refers to those plants that suffer a transplant very badly, so they grow seedlings in peat glasses.
Although Capuchin loves to grow in the light, plant iton the sun is not recommended. Find for him the wet areas under the delicate rare crown of trees. When grown in a dense shadow, shoots become weak and weak, and the bloom is completely absent.
If you grow capuchin in a fertilesoil with excessive humus content, it will have succulent leaves and strong shoots. But flowering can not happen. To get both beautiful greenery and bright orange shpots, you need to use moderately enriched with manure, to feed with phosphorus and potash fertilizers.
Young plantings are abundant and regularly watered. And when the color is typed, the earth should be slightly moistened. Watering should be carried out only with complete drying of the soil. Otherwise, bud formation will be bad. And if the plant is planted in hard soil, rotting of the roots may occur.
Capuchin is an edible and medicinal plant. Leaves and flowers are added to salads. They also decorate gourmet dishes. And the green fruits are marinated, serving instead of expensive capers.
Pests
Like many plants, capuchin is prone topests. These are aphids, cabbage moths, cruciferous fleas, spider mite, and bear. Fight with them will help insecticides, and from folk recipes, good reviews use the method of spilling ash.
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