Charming freesia. Care, cultivation, reproduction

It is known practically to everyone that freesia is a pretty capricious and wayward plant. Grow it is quite difficult. However, for good care, the flower thanks everyone for its abundant flowering. Named this elegant plant in honor of the man who discovered it. The botanist and German physician, Friedrich Freese, discovered this flower.

The motherland of freesia is in South Africa. Here it grows on very wet shores, covering itself with spreading branches of bushes. Only in the 19th century the flower was isolated as a separate culture.

Very freakish. Care it requires trembling. After all, in her homeland is very damp and hot. This climate, she prefers here. The abundance of water, moist heat is what is so necessary for flowering freesia.

For today in various flower salons the flower is brought from Holland. We rarely see this flower at home. Occasionally it appears in professional gardeners. Often they are grown in winter gardens and greenhouses only real agronomists. Although, you can grow a beautiful freesia and amateur in the garden or on the windowsill. The main thing is to observe all the rules of caring for the plant.

A beautiful sight, when freesia, care of which was carried out correctly, dissolves amazingly beautiful flowers. They can be of very different colors, and the smell from them is carried far and reminds a light lily-of-the-valley fragrance.

How to grow freesia from seeds

In order to get a flowering plant, you can use freesia seeds. In this case, you have to wait a long time to get beautiful flowers. Before sowing, you need to prepare small boxes of wood. Inside it will be enough to pour a special drainage, and on top of the soil. In her, and make a shallow groove. Their maximum depth can be 2 cm. The bottom is exactly the freesia seeds. It is desirable that the distance between the seeds is about 2 cm. Then, when they ascend, they will not interfere with each other. But the picks are produced already when the plant is formed and will release at least 3 leaves.

If you manage to plant freesia in the early days of March, then by the end of autumn it will already disband its wonderful buds. On average, after a period of 200 days, a real flower appears from the seed. Due to the fact that the weather is not so constant and not as warm as freesia likes, it needs constant care. In addition, once the seedlings are strengthened, they are immediately transferred from the boxes directly to flowerpots or to the ground, where constant heating is maintained (this can be an equipped greenhouse or a greenhouse, a winter garden in a room). When freesia is planted in the ground, the spacing between seedlings can not be less than 15 cm.

How to care for freesia

No plant likes heat as much as freesia likes. Care for her also implies a constant and timely watering. If necessary, the plant will need to be tied up. When weeds appear, they are immediately destroyed, so that they do not take the life-giving moisture for the flowers. Of course, fertilizing to strengthen plants is also necessary. And it is held constantly, especially in spring and autumn.

In no case should you not allow the soil where freesia grows to dry completely. However, it should be noted that overdo it and overflow the plant, too. After all, excess water will have a bad effect on freesia. The tip dries considerably. In addition, the plant will be very sick.

We plant the tubers of freesia

If you want to get blossoming freesia earlier than the end of autumn, you can plant corms. When a plant is planted in an open ground, it should be built immediately for him and a youngster. After all, the soil temperature should not be below 18 degrees.

Before planting, all the bulbs should be put in the solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour. Only after this tubers are placed in the ground, which is located in the sunniest place. In this case, the flower bed in the open area should be carefully protected from winds.

And then it remains only to wait for the very moment when the buds are fastened on the plants, and then they will dissolve into tender and beautiful flowers.