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Peltiphyllum (lat. Peltiphyllum) - decorative leafy flowering perennial from the Stonefragment family. The second name of the plant is darmera.
Description
Peltifillum is a spectacular long-rhizome perennial with a height of ten centimeters to half a meter. Its rounded large leaves, reaching thirty centimeters in diameter, sit on rather long petioles (up to half a meter long). The color of these leaves is uneven, mosaic.
The peltiphyllum is characterized by the presence of a rather powerful rod-type root system, equipped with knotty and rather massive central rhizomes.
The small pink flowers of the peltiphyllum form incredibly pretty dense paniculate inflorescences that rise high above the ground. And this plant blooms even before the leaves appear on it (however, during a cold winter, the peltiphyllum can bloom later). Moreover, the flowers of the peltiphyllum are much smaller than its leaves.
Seeds in the Russian middle lane of this plant do not always ripen, but if this does happen, then usually in June.
Where grows
The homeland of peltiphyllum is considered to be North America, and to be more precise, the forests located in its northwestern part.
Usage
Peltifillum is widely used in ornamental gardening. Also, a varietal dwarf white-flowered variety of peltiphyllum is grown in culture - the height of such plants almost never exceeds forty centimeters. Peltifillum will look great in both group and single plantings. It combines very well with many other perennials, while ideally, you should try to plant all the plants in such a way that they contrast in height. And the best neighbors for peltiphyllum will be meadowsweet, anemones, irises, hosts and any perennial shrubs with foliage painted in purple shades.
Growing and caring
It is recommended to plant peltiphyllum in semi-shaded or shaded areas with rich, nutritious, loose and moist soils. Especially well suited for these purposes forest sod land with the addition of sand or peat. It is very good to plant this plant on the banks of mountain rivers or lakes, but this can be done only in such corners where the likelihood of waterlogging of the soil is completely excluded.
Peltiphyllum's winter hardiness is very good (however, on the eve of frosty winters, it is still recommended to cover it with sawdust, spruce branches, dry foliage or straw), and it needs moderate moisture, but at the same time regular. And the more sun there is on the site, the greater the amount of moisture this handsome man should receive. Also, in order for the peltiphyllum to boast of a particularly high decorative effect, it is important to provide it with increased air humidity.
From time to time it does not hurt to feed a beautiful plant with useful minerals and organic matter, while fertilizers can be not only dry, but also liquid. Dry fertilizers are usually applied before the start of flowering at the very beginning of the growing season, and liquid fertilizers are applied once a month directly under the bushes simultaneously with watering. As for organic matter, the most suitable fertilizers from this category for peltiphyllum will be forest humus, bird (ideally chicken) manure or dry manure. And it is still better not to dilute organics intended for fertilizing with water!
Peltiphyllum reproduces either by dividing the bushes at the end of the summer season, or by leaf petioles with "heels" at the very beginning of growth. It is quite realistic to propagate this plant with seeds - they are usually sown before winter, but seedlings in this case bloom only in the fourth or fifth year.
