Datura flowers - an unusual and magical plant in your garden

Datura, or dope, is a garden flower, very interesting and unusual. It refers to annuals. It is noteworthy that in spite of some poisonousness of the plant, it is becoming more and more popular both with beginner gardeners and with florists with great experience.

If you decide to plant a dope in your area, you just need to know some of the features of this plant.

Dandelion Flower: Planting, Care

The place for planting is better to choose sunny, although this plant tolerates well and partial shade. The area on which the dope will grow should exclude the presence of drafts. As for the soil, the more fertile it will be, the more abundant the plant will bloom.

The main care for the dope is in regular daily watering. In arid and hot days, the plant should be watered at least twice a day. Datura flowers, like most plants, especially need fertilizing with mineral fertilizers, especially during the period of active growth. It is necessary to bring them into the soil every week. You can alternate with organic fertilizers.

In order to obtain a sufficiently abundant flowering, it is required to produce a constant pruning. This applies only to perennial plants, since dolman flowers are formed only on young shoots.

This plant is propagated by cuttings or seeds. The first method is preferable, because it retains the varietal properties of the flower. When multiplying by seeds, this happens rarely.

For cuttings in September, cut off young shoots and root them. Future seedlings easily and quickly give roots in both water and directly in the ground. If you are planning to plant a few plants, then be sure to leave a distance between them no less than 1 meter.

When growing seedlings because of insufficient illumination, the seedlings can stretch out a lot. In this case, you can cut off the tip and put them in a lighter place, then the plants will give lateral shoots and quickly come back to normal.

The truth and fiction about the properties of the datura (datura)

Flowers dope attract the lovers of everything unusual. This plant looks really quite unusual and even magical. If you decide to grow a denture on your site, then think about the fact that if you have small children in your family, such a plant is very risky. After all, all its parts are poisonous, and this can be very dangerous.

An interesting fact: there is a legend according to which the flowers of the dope smell with their fragrance of random travelers. The intoxicating odor causes travelers to have fabulous visions that dissipate when the time has already begun to count down.

In fact, the aroma of flowers does not affect human behavior in any way. But if the poison of the plant enters the body, illusions and delusions are indeed possible. Therefore, it is necessary to work with the plant very carefully.

Flowers can be grown at home. True, given its size and rapid growth, you should immediately take care of a spacious pot. The flower is unpretentious even in the room, all that is required is heat and high humidity.