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Gypsophila creeping (Gypsophila repens)
- otherwise called"
Swing creeping
”, Is a herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Gypsophila (lat. Gypsophila), or Kachim, belonging to the Clove family (lat. Caryophyllaceae). Creeping shoots of the plant cover the surface of the earth with a dense carpet of dark green undersized bushes. During the two summer months, the green carpet is decorated with white or pink flowers with loose petals. Breeders have bred varieties with lush double flowers of a delicate pink color.
What's in your name
The plant got the Latin name "Gypsophila repens" for its passion to live on the chalk mountain slopes along which its shoots spread. The literal translation of the Latin name means "creeping chalk admirer" or "creeping chalk admirer".
In English literature, the plant is known under the name "Alpine gypsophila" ("Alpine gypsophila") or under the funny name "Creeping baby's breath" ("Breath of a creeping baby").
Description
Gypsophila creeping is a herbaceous flowering plant that grows on the dry chalk slopes of the mountains of Central and Southern Europe. This is a perennial creeping along the surface of the slopes, forming a grassy mat up to twenty centimeters high and spreading in width from thirty to fifty centimeters.
Light green pointed-nosed leaves have a narrow-lanceolate shape and grow in dense communities, growing in length up to two centimeters. A dense deciduous carpet can be used as a ground cover, rather unpretentious, plant.
For most of the summer period, the green rug is strewn with star-shaped flowers that form paniculate inflorescences. The color of the traditionally free flower petals that distinguish the plants of the Carnation family can be white, pink, light purple or lilac.
The fruit of Gypsophila creeping is the seed capsule.
Usage
Gypsophila creeping is a very popular plant grown on alpine slides, rocky gardens or dry stone walls. For her services in gardening, Gypsophila creeping was awarded the prestigious award of the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain.
The most popular variety is "Fratensis", which is distinguished by abundant flowering of pink delicate flowers. Breeders have bred varieties with semi-double and double flowers.
The attractiveness of the flowers of the plant makes it popular when drawing up flower bouquets, and therefore Gypsophila creeping is grown in gardens and greenhouses for cutting.
Growing conditions
Gypsophila creeping has been known to gardeners since the end of the 18th century. Its unpretentious disposition, combined with abundant long flowering, is the guarantor of the plant's popularity among florists and gardeners.
Unpretentiousness to the composition of the soil allows you to grow Gypsophila creeping even on clay soils with neutral or alkaline acidity. In this case, possible stagnation of water that provokes fungal diseases should be eliminated.
The plant is very photophilous, and therefore it needs places open to the sun's rays for most of the daylight hours.
To stimulate the growth of fresh basal shoots, the plant is pruned at the end of flowering. Reproduction of Gypsophila creeping is carried out by sowing seeds, or by cutting fresh shoots.
A fairly cold-resistant plant can freeze out in winters with little snow. But, the ability of Gypsophila creeping to reproduce by self-seeding easily makes up for winter losses. Under especially favorable living conditions, this ability can turn a plant into a weed, if you do not pay attention to it.
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