Lightness and grace gives the bouquet the presence of gypsophila. Small, as if floating in the air, flowers form lush, like white clouds, starry inflorescences. The most delicate plant, beautiful, like the whiff of the wind in a hot hour. Any flowers in the bouquet supplements. And in the winter gives warm memories of summer adventures, without fading in a dry bouquet. Gypsophila - Gypsophila - from the family of Carnations. The people are called affectionately and aptly: roll the field, swing, and also - the breathing of the child. This plant is poetry itself. And everywhere - her homeland: gypsophila is found in Eurasia, and in Australia, and in Africa.
Types of gypsophila
Usually this is a naked plant with an unshaped stalk, which can be either straight or stretched along the ground to a length of up to half a meter. But there are almost shrubs up to a meter and a half. Flowers are usually white, tiny (five to seven millimeters). There is a pink gypsophila of different shades. Venetian varieties can be both white and pink. The plant has been cultivated since the eighteenth century and has still not lost popular love. If you connect two Greek words - "gypsum" and "friend", you get one word - gypsophila. Planting and nursing are directly related to this name. This plant lives with lime and grows mainly on limestone.
Gypsophila. Planting and care
In early spring, sowing and planting of gypsophila begins. It is necessary to plant it in water-permeable soils. It is in the early spring to take care of crops and perennials, and annual varieties. As soon as you survive the spring of the gypsophila, the planting and care associated with it will end, you need to prepare the supports. Bushes grow quickly. In nature, they creep on the ground, and in the garden you need to support the weight of plants on weight - it's so beautiful, and even grow gypsophila will be much better. In summer, immediately after flowering, the bushes need to be cut off, then new shoots are more actively formed. In autumn, there is only a transplant to the main place of seedlings, which have grown enough since the spring, as well as mulching and shelter for the winter - frost is afraid of gypsophila. Planting and care this year are completed. Not too much trouble with this wonderful plant. But what flowers all year round! Gypsophila is a real garden decoration. How beautiful are her patterned shadows, how the rays of the sun refract in these cloudy colors! In the shadow, do not be naughty, but give her more light! In well-lit places grows by leaps and bounds, and by the hour of the gypsophila. The photo clearly demonstrates the charms of this plant both in bouquets and on the vine. The only danger to it is close groundwater. If there is no other place, you need to raise the ridge high, otherwise your gypsophila may die, the landing and departure of which are elementary. Perfectly neighbors with marigolds, eschol'tsiey, godetsiyu. Propagated by seeds, and terry forms - and cuttings, grafting. This business is rather troublesome, the percentage of rooting is rather low. And care for the cuttings needs a special one.
Elegant gypsophila. Planting and care
This is an annual plant, generally speaking, for the lazy. To grow gypsophila elegant - Gypsophila elegans - even more simply. It is really exceptionally elegant, not as high as a perennial, it is never terry, but its flowers are not only white, but also pink, lilac and even crimson. It grows exceptionally quickly - in a month and a half it will be pleased with extremely abundant flowering. True, the flowering graceful gypsophila is not very long, but this defect can be forgiven. Just sow in the spring every two weeks little by little. And in the summer, some will end - other bushes will arrive in time. Flowering can be done continuously.