Clarkia is exquisite - growing out of seeds. Features of planting and care

Clarkia - an annual plant with a long flowering period, loved by flower growers for their beauty and elegance. Relating to the Kipreiny family, a native of California, its name was given in honor of the priest William Clark, who brought her to Europe in the 19th century. In natural conditions, clarkia occurs in Chile and in western North America and has more than three dozen species.

Clarkey's description

A small bushes with miniature roses (violet, white, purple, pink) strung on the stem - this is how an incredibly elegant clarke looks. The height of the plant is from 30 to 90 cm, the stems are pubescent with small villi, erect, branched, downward incline rarely. Leaves oblong-oval, dark green, with characteristic red veins. The flowers are small, located in the axils of the leaves, either individually or collected in a cyst or spicate inflorescence. A single arrangement of flowers is rarely observed. The fetus is an elongated, multiself.

Sorts of clarkey graceful

In cultural floriculture, special attention is attracted to the flower of the clarke, elegant, characterized by the collected in the brush terry and simple flowers: purple, white, blue, pink, red. Located one by one in the leaf sinuses, in diameter they are about 4 cm. Flowering is characterized by abundance from June to September. The leaves are oval, irregularly dentate along the margins, and greyish-green with veins of red color. Stem less than a meter tall, thin, branched, lignified downward. Seeds are small (in 1 gram there are about 3000 pieces), germination lasts about 4 years. The most popular varieties are:

1. Salmon perfection with terry flowers up to 3.5 cm in diameter. The height of the bush is about 90 cm.
2. Purpleknig on the background of other varieties is distinguished by carmine flowers on a tall bush, up to 90 cm.
3. Albatross - a bush with double white flowers, reaching a height of 75 cm.

Types of garden clarkeys

Also in cultural floriculture, Clarkia is grown:

• Failed. Low-grown variety - up to 40 cm in height. Flowers are both simple and terry. They have different colors. The original form of petals attracts attention: for a wide three-lobed division, Americans call this type of clarkey "moose horns". The leaves are green, long, tapering to the petiole and pointed at the apex.
• Brewery. In height it reaches from 25 to 65 cm. Favorably differs from other varieties of clarkey of incredible beauty with double flowers (about 3-6 cm in diameter), similar to butterfly wings and having a pleasant strong aroma. When looking at clarkey, it seems that the flowers, like beads, are strung on the thin stems of the plant.

Effectively looks Clarke elegant, growing of seeds which is not particularly difficult. The original composition consists of flowers of different colors. Perfectly suited for bouquets of high varieties of clarkey.

Clarkia elegant: growing from seeds

The clarke breeds elegantly in seed. For half a month before the sowing works, produced in April - early May, the site is required to dig and add to each square square 1 kg of peat and a tablespoon of potassium sulfate with superphosphate.

Seeding of clarkey seeds is carried out in several pieces per well, with an interval between the wells of 20-50 cm. The seed material does not need to be deeply buried in the soil, it is enough to press it lightly into the soil and sprinkle with a thin layer of earth. The emergence of shoots tentatively occurs in two weeks. Thick planting should be slightly thin, but without excess, because in a thick bush blooming clarke is much more beautiful. In the autumn planting, the seeds have time to germinate before the onset of frost and are well preserved under the snow cover.

Seedbed method of planting

The most popular way for florists to plant is a seedling that provides protection against temperature drops, frosts, cold rains. Seeds for seedlings are sown in March in a specially prepared container, the soil is slightly sprinkled with water. After sowing, the container should be covered with glass, identified in a bright place (without direct sunlight). With the emergence of shoots, the glass can be removed, and with the first leaflets it is necessary to sprout the seedlings of such a wonderful plant as the Clarke is elegant. Landing in the open ground is carried out in May. Of the planting capacity, the plants should be taken in small groups, with an earthen lump - also in groups and planted. This will increase the percentage of survival. Near each lunochka it is recommended to stick a stick - support for the thin stems of the plant. After landing, the clarkey should be slightly pricked - to activate tillering.

Clarkia is elegant, the mixture of its colors is quite diverse, and also actively multiplies by self-seeding. To collect seeds during flowering, you need to select several flowers, which, when wilted, are tied with gauze, to prevent seeds from getting to the ground. On the maturation of seeds can be judged by the brown color of the seed capsule. It must be cut off, seeds should be poured on some kind of cover, dried and sown under winter, or stored until the onset of spring.

Care and dressing of Clarkey graceful

Clarkia elegant - cold-resistant, light-loving plant. Therefore it is better to grow it in open space. The optimal soil is weakly acidic, friable. In dry weather, it is desirable to water the plant, at other times it will be enough rain water. In the process of budding and flowering, it is required to make fertilizing - twice a month with complex mineral fertilizers. In parallel, we must get rid of wilted flowers and seed boxes, so that the plant spends its forces on the formation of new buds, and the flowering period stretches for a longer period. After the plant has faded, it should be cut to the ground.

Clarkia is exquisite, growing of seeds which is available even to a budding floriculturist, is a plant resistant to pests and diseases. However, sometimes it can be affected by a mealy worm, traces of the presence of which look like a cotton-like coating on the ground part. In the fight against such pests, the drugs "Confidor", "Fitoverm", "Aktara" are effective.

Clarkia is elegant, growing from the seeds of which is considered an easy way to grow a flower, can be affected by fungal disease, which appears on leaves rusty stains with a specific brown border. To destroy the fungus it is required to spray the plant with fungicides "Oxihom" or Bordeaux liquid.