Bearded Carnation

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Carnation bearded, or Turkish is a biennial herbaceous ornamental plant, whose name in Latin sounds like this: Dianthus barbatus. This flower culture belongs to the Carnation family, its homeland is Central Europe and the Caucasus. One of the most popular flowers among landscape designers, gardeners and florists, as it is unpretentious, has a long and colorful flowering period, as well as a delicate refined aroma.

Characteristics of culture

The bearded carnation has a straight knotty stem that rises 40 centimeters in height; linear - lanceolate foliage of dark green color, accreted at the base of the stem; miniature flowers, collected in dense velvety paniculate inflorescences, and consisting of five petals, have a long narrow marigold. The fruit of this plant species is a cylindrical box with numerous teeth. Carnation bearded is very popular among breeders and many hybrid varieties have been bred with its participation.

Varieties

Schneeball - a bush of this variety has a rounded shape with a diameter of about 40 centimeters. Leaves and shoots are deep green. Snow-white double flowers, serrated at the edges, about 10 centimeters in diameter. Looks most beautiful when creating bouquets.

Kupferrot cultivar (Kupfcnot). The spherical bush 38 - 45 centimeters in diameter has rather large bright red flowers, the diameter of which does not exceed 3 centimeters, forms tight lush inflorescences, as well as rich green linear-lanceolate foliage collected at the base of the peduncle.

Diadem (Diadem) is represented by a very tall hybrid, it reaches a height of 50 centimeters, a distinctive feature of this variety is its foliage, it has a bright green color with a rich burgundy overflow. The flowers are bright crimson with a white eye and deeply jagged petals along the edge, the size does not exceed 2 centimeters in diameter.

Reproduction

The considered flower culture has several breeding options, the most used of them are: seeds, green cuttings and bush division. Starting from the third decade of May, the seeds are sown in rows in the prepared soil, after about 10 - 15 days the first shoots appear. Towards the end of the summer period, small shoots begin to develop, which must be planted in a permanent place, keeping the distance between the bushes at 20-30 centimeters. It is advisable not to delay the transplanting of seedlings, since the bearded carnation tolerates the winter period more easily, when the bush has managed to take root and grow firmly.

When breeding this type of plant with seeds, there is a high probability of obtaining heterogeneous material, you can lose very valuable qualities of a particular variety, for example, the height of the bush or the terry texture of the inflorescences. To preserve the uniqueness of each variety of bearded carnations, it is best to propagate young cuttings. They are cut at the beginning of June from an adult biennial bush, and planted in a shaded, coolest place. With constant maintenance, which includes regular spraying and moderate watering, young shrubs take root within three weeks of transplanting and can be planted in their permanent growing area by early September.

Dividing a bush is not the most relevant method of reproduction, it is used mainly when it is necessary to rejuvenate the rarest varieties of the presented flower culture. For this method, an adult perennial plant is selected and divided into several equal parts, the number of which depends on the original size of the bush, and then planted in open ground. The separated parts of the plant begin to bloom in the same season, but until the plant fully adapts, you should not expect abundant flowering. In order to get the most colorful and abundant flowering, it is necessary to pick up a sunny plot of land and fertilize the soil well, for this it is best to use humus in a proportion of 4 kilograms per square meter.