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Uvularia (lat. Uvularia) - a flowering plant representing the Colicumaceae family.
Description
Uvularia is a rather cute perennial, endowed with branched horizontal rhizomes and a huge number of thin, slightly inclined stems from forty to fifty centimeters high. All stems of this plant are densely covered with small oval leaves. As a rule, two or four leaves are located on one shoot. Uvularia leaves can be both sitting and hugging shoots. Their undersides are usually slightly pubescent, while their tops boast a rather rich light green color with a warm slightly yellowish tint.
Uvularia develops in the form of gradually expanding and expanding bushes, forming huge thickets. It is noteworthy that at the very bottom, the shoots of this beauty are never bare.
The incredibly elegant bell-shaped drooping yellow flowers of the uvularia sit on rather long pedicels. Flowers are almost always solitary, but sometimes there are quite bizarre paired inflorescences. Each flower is endowed with a narrow-bell-shaped corolla, deeply dissecting into six yellowish, thinnest petal leaves - from a distance they look like ribbon-like. The flowering of this beauty usually starts in spring and lasts until the beginning of summer.
At the end of flowering, three-winged fruit-boxes, characterized by a triangular shape, are tied on the plants, bursting from above at the time of seed ripening.
Currently, only five types of uvularia are found in nature, while only three of them are used in culture.
Where grows
Uvularia came to us from the subtropical and warm temperate zones of the United States and eastern Canada. Large-flowered uvularia can be found in the deciduous forests of eastern North America, while uvularia is most common in the damp forests of the same regions.
Usage
Uvularia is ideal for shady gardens or for planting along paths. This beautiful plant perfectly complements and sets off periwinkles, forget-me-nots and blue brunners. Uvularia is no worse combined with astilbe, heathers, aquilegia, rhododendrons, hosts and ferns.
Uvularia also looks good on narrow ribbon mixborders located under hedges, as well as in the foreground of almost any hedges. In unnecessarily gloomy corners, it will become a great illuminating accent, in addition, it can also be used to mask the sometimes unsightly bases of all kinds of shrubs.
Growing and caring
It is best to plant uvularia on forest soils, in the shade under the canopy of trees - there it will grow for a long time and grow magnificently, forming stable dense covers. But in open sunny areas, this beauty will look depressed.
Despite the fact that uvularia is very hygrophilous, since the second half of summer it can boast of impressive drought resistance.
Uvularia will never refuse feeding with good mineral fertilizers. With the onset of spring, as well as after flowering, it is recommended to apply standard dosages of complete fertilization to the soil on which uvularia grows, and in the fall it will be useful to additionally feed the plant with potassium salts.
Uvularia usually gets rid of wilting flowers on its own, and it is not at all prone to suppression by weeds. Uvularia is propagated either at the end of summer or in spring by segments of rhizomes, on which there are buds of renewal.
