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Sutera (Latin Sutera) - a light-loving annual or a biennial from the Norichnikov family. Another name for the plant is bacopa.
Description
Sutera is a very beautiful ampelous herb, the height of which ranges from ten centimeters to half a meter. Its thin creeping stems can be either creeping or lodging, while the bushes of this plant grow mainly in width. The small green leaves of the suter are either broadly elliptical or ovoid. They are both linear and alternate, endowed with bizarre serrated edges.
Sutera blooms with small bell-shaped or tubular flowers of white, lilac, purple or blue, and its flowering begins approximately in the second half of summer, and ends only with the onset of frost.
In total, the genus of suter has from seventy to one hundred species.
Where grows
Sutera grows mainly on swampy shores, as well as in small marshes and bodies of water in the subtropical or tropical regions of America, Australia, Asia and Africa. This amazing plant came to us from subtropical and tropical America, as well as from North India, from Africa and from the Canary Islands.
Usage
In regions with a temperate climate, sutera is widely used in balcony landscaping and as an ampelous plant in flower pots. In addition, sutera are often planted in open ground in flower beds and as a ground cover plant in winter gardens. It will look no worse than being planted along the edges of various reservoirs. And aquatic varieties of suters are grown directly in aquariums!
Growing and caring
Sutera is best planted in slightly acidic garden soils, in areas well-lit by the sun. It is important to take into account that it does not tolerate drying out of the soil. As for the moisture-loving varieties, they are usually grown on moist soils (marsh or muddy), but also always in sunny areas.
This plant should be watered abundantly, preferably with settled water and either in the morning or in the evening, in addition, once a month (and in the summer season, during the period of active growth, and once every one and a half to two weeks), the suter should be fed with liquid complex fertilizers specially designed for flowering plants. Regular spraying from a spray bottle will not be superfluous for a pimp. And to stimulate additional shoots in young plants, you need to systematically pinch their growth points.
It is practically incapable of hibernating in the open ground in the middle lane of the sutera, therefore, with the beginning of the winter season, it is recommended to transfer it to cold greenhouses or ordinary cool rooms.
Sutera is propagated by sowing seeds freshly harvested from a given plant, while the crops are tried to be kept at a temperature of thirteen to eighteen degrees. It is quite permissible to propagate sutera and dividing the bushes in the spring or by cuttings - as you like.
As for various pests and ailments, the excellent sutera is very resistant to them. True, severely weakened plants can occasionally be affected by whiteflies. This happens especially often if the irrigation is insufficient, and the dryness of the air is increased.
And one more important feature of this plant is that the white-flowered varieties of suter can boast of the strongest growth and abundant flowering. And they are also characterized by the highest survival rate of cuttings, as well as impressive resistance to diseases and pests.
