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Tsipella (lat. Cypella) Is a luxurious tuberous plant belonging to the Iris family.
Description
Cipella is a surprisingly beautiful plant, the height of which rarely exceeds sixty centimeters. Its stems cannot boast of a large number of leaves, but the already existing xiphoid leaves are collected in pretty pretty bunches.
The flowers of the zipella are characterized by a very bizarre shape - three bright petals extend in different directions, and their color can vary from ocher to apricot with spectacular purple specks and the same stripes. The lifespan of each flower is exactly one day - in the morning the flowers open, and by the evening they already fade. However, a beautiful plant produces so many flowers that its flowering does not stop for several weeks. Tsipella usually begins to bloom at the very beginning of summer, perfectly combined with Incarvillea, aquilegia and a wide variety of ground cover plants. In total, the zipella genus has about twenty species, and they are all very good.
Where grows
The homeland of the zipella is the South American expanses. In nature, this beautiful plant can be found, from Mexico to Argentina itself.
Usage
Since the cipella has gained fame as an exotic plant, it is most often grown for purely decorative purposes.
Growing and caring
It is recommended to grow Tsipella in greenhouses or in sunny areas that are well protected from any harmful external influences. Zipella bulbs are usually planted annually in early spring, and this is best done in sandy light soils. You can also plant the bulbs in compost, deepening them by about eight centimeters - no more than one bulb is planted in each pot with a diameter of eight to thirteen centimeters. Then the pots are placed in a sunny place, into which insidious drafts are not able to penetrate. After planting the bulbs, the compost is watered abundantly so that it is thoroughly saturated with water, and subsequently, throughout the spring and summer, it is watered so that it simply remains well moistened. As for fertilizing, the cipella does not need them, because the bulbs are planted annually exclusively in fresh compost, which provides them with proper nutrition.
In the autumn-winter period, when the cipella has faded, it should not be watered - the compost should dry out thoroughly. If the pots with zipella were on the street, then they must be rearranged in a place reliably protected from rain and thoroughly covered from the sides. And as soon as the compost and foliage are completely dry, the bulbs are immediately dug up and placed in boxes filled with dry sand or peat until spring. By the way, the cipella is quite thermophilic - it does not tolerate winters very well, which is why it is recommended to dig the bulbs for the winter.
The cipella is usually propagated by children - with the onset of spring, tiny children are removed from the parent bulbs. Parent bulbs are planted separately, and the children are placed in a common pot (three to five pieces per container with a diameter of thirteen centimeters). In the spring-summer period, they will form large bulbs, which can be easily preserved until next winter.
As a rule, zipella is not affected by diseases, however, excessive waterlogging of the compost can lead to rotting of the bulbs. And pests, in most cases, are also indifferent to this plant.
