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Latin name: Aster Family: Compositae, or Astral Categories: Flowers |
Aster (lat. Aster) - popular flower culture; annual, biennial and perennial herb and shrub.
Characteristics of culture
Aster is a plant with erect, simple or branched stems of green color, the height of which varies from 20 to 150 cm. Casting is elongated, oval, stem-shaped, jagged along the edge. The root system is quite powerful, fibrous, highly branched.
Like many members of the Asteraceae family, asters have a basket-shaped inflorescence, consisting of tubular and reed petals. Depending on the varietal accessory, they can be simple or terry, have a rich color palette - from snow-white and light yellow to deep red and purple. The diameter of the inflorescence is from 2 to 20 cm.
The fruit of the plant is achene, the seeds ripen in about 30-40 days after the beginning of flowering. Aster blooms from early July to late autumn. It is used to create alpine slides, rockeries and other types of flower beds. Terry varieties are used in bouquets.
Popular types
* Alpine aster - a plant characterized by branched, strong and slightly pubescent stems. The lower leaves are elongated, spatulate and dark green in color, the upper ones are sessile, small, linear. The inflorescences reach 4 cm in diameter, depending on the variety, they can be blue, purple, lilac, white and yellow. Alpine aster blooms from May to June.
* Italian aster is a plant with a strongly pubescent stem, reaching a height of about 60 cm. Leaves are sessile, arranged alternately, have a lanceolate shape with jagged edges. Inflorescences are 3-4 cm in diameter, can be yellow or lilac in color. Blooms from the second half of July to October.
* Bush aster is a lush bush, characterized by strongly branching and pubescent stems, with dark green sessile lanceolate leaves. Inflorescences reach 3 cm in diameter, are connected in shields, there can be only yellow shades. It blooms from September to October.
Growing conditions
Aster is an unpretentious crop, it quickly adapts to any temperature conditions. They prefer light areas with loose, loamy, permeable, nutritious soils. They have a negative attitude to soils with high acidity, waterlogged, damp and compacted soils.
Landing features
Asters are planted by sowing seeds directly into the ground. Growing in seedlings is possible. Before planting, they dig up the soil, remove lumps and feed them with mineral fertilizers and organic matter. The seeds are sown in pre-prepared furrows 0.5 cm deep, then covered with soil and moistened with a spray bottle. Before emergence, the crops are covered with foil.
With the appearance of two leaves on the seedlings, they are subjected to thinning. The distance between the asters is 12-15 cm, bush asters suggest a distance of 30 cm. Sowing seeds can be carried out both in early spring and early autumn. Autumn planting allows early flowering.
When growing a culture with seedlings, sowing seeds is carried out in the third decade of March in seedling containers filled with a special soil mixture. Immediately after sowing, the soil is sprayed with a weak solution of potassium permanganate in order to prevent the appearance of various diseases.
With the emergence of seedlings, containers with seedlings are placed on windowsills or another bright place. The optimum temperature for seedlings is 18-20 C. A pick is carried out when three true leaves appear on the seedlings. Transplanting into the ground is carried out when the seedlings form a sufficiently strong stalk bearing up to 8 leaves. Seedlings are planted together with a clod of earth in pre-fertilized holes. As fertilizers, you can use wood ash, phosphorus and potash fertilizers.
Care
Regular loosening, watering with settled and warm water, removing weeds and feeding - these are the main procedures for caring for the crop in question. Until warm weather is established, only the planted plants must be covered with a special material at nightfall. Watering the culture is carried out as needed, trying not to flood, otherwise the aster will die from an excess of moisture.
During the entire growing season, 3 fertilizing is carried out: the first is done a couple of weeks after planting, the second - during budding, the third - during flowering.
Tall forms of culture require a garter. Long stems are pinched. The faded flowers and other parts of the plant are periodically removed.
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Alpine Aster
Alpine aster is part of a family called Asteraceae or Compositae. This herb is a perennial crop. In the soil there is a rhizome, which has a cylindrical shape, this rhizome is oblique, and closer to the top it is branched. Quite a lot of thin and long roots depart from the rhizome.
Aster Heather
Aster heather (lat.Aster ericoides) - a flowering herb; a representative of the genus Astra, belonging to the large family of Asteraceae, or Astrovs. Under natural conditions, aster heather is found in the south and east of North America. In ornamental gardening, it is used, but not often, although, like other representatives of the genus, the culture has many advantages.
