Monarda - growing a plant

Monarda, also known as American balm, bergamot, citric lemon, is an essential oil plant belonging to the family of labial flowers. The height of the straight stem reaches about ninety-one hundred centimeters. The leaves have a dentate shape. Small flowers form an inflorescence with a diameter of 8 cm. Monarda is an excellent honeycomb with a variety of forms and colors of fragrant flowers. Stems, inflorescences and leaves emit various strong flavors: mint, lemon, etc. There are a huge number of annual and perennial species, hybrids of this plant. Monard, the cultivation of which takes place in our gardens, it is mainly tubular and dvuhchataya, which are perennials. Monarch blooming occurs approximately from July to August and forms by about 5 years about 100 flowering shoots. This flower is insensitive to pests and diseases, unpretentious and frost-resistant. Monarda, which grows mainly as a medicinal, spicy and ornamental plant, because of the nondescript colors - "fraying" - is not appreciated by many gardeners, but it has a special charm. This flower looks very unusual in solitary and group plantings of garden flowers on flower beds and rabatki.

Monarda: cultivation

The plant is very unpretentious, it grows well both in the penumbra and under the scorching sun. He does not like raw and strong acid soil. Monard is well established on those lands where once- flowered annual flower crops with a small vegetation period, for example, gypsophila, Iberis.

Care

Care for the flower is watering, loosening, frequent weeding and feeding. Top dressing is done 2 times a year - when planting (lignohumate and nitrophos) and after the flowering (potassium sulfate and superphosphate). Monard, whose cultivation is easy to care for, requires at the end of the season only cutting off the above-ground part of the bush, to be reborn again in the coming spring. The roots of the plant are frost-resistant and perfectly tolerate winter cold.

Monarda: growing from seeds, dividing bush and seedlings

Reproduction of the monad occurs with the help of seedling, division of the bush, and also seeds. In order to grow seedlings, in March-April, the seeds are sown to a depth of about 1 cm. After about 5-10 days, the seeds germinate. The sprouts dive once every 16-20 days in pots with a diameter of 10 cm. In this case, they get better and blossom days by 15 rather. Saplings need to be poured several times with a solution of nitrogen fertilizers. Landed monarch in the open ground in mid-May. When multiplying by seeds, the soil is slightly compacted, furrows are made and watered. Dry seeds are sown and sprinkled with nutrient soil, rammed and covered for three weeks with a film. By dividing the bush, it multiplies in the spring time 5-6 years. At this age, a part of the bush in the center begins to fall out of the flower, it loses its former shape. Monk propagation by means of root segments is also practiced. This method is considered the most convenient. Monard, which can be bought in any flower shop, has special medicinal properties that will pleasantly surprise you.