Rudbeckia Enveloping

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Rudbeckia grasping (lat. Rudbeckia amplexicaulis) Is a flowering plant from the Asteraceae family.

Description

Rudbeckia enveloping is an annual reaching eighty centimeters in height with rather dense pubescent stems. Its sessile hairless leaves are arranged oppositely and can be either oval or elongated, with thin denticles at the edges and with pointed tips.

The inflorescences of the embracing rudbeckia form graceful baskets. Its tubular flowers, located on receptacles that rise three centimeters upward, are characterized by a dark brown color, and the ligulate flowers are always bright yellow.

Usage

Enveloping rudbeckia is often used in landscape design - amazing mixborders are created with its help.

Growing and caring

The grasping rudbeckia can boast of amazing undemandingness, however, it will be undemanding only in the absence of shading that is extremely undesirable for a given plant - the most important thing for it when growing it will be the gentle sun's rays. And she is also intolerant of waterlogging, respectively, watering of this plant should be moderate. But this beauty is extremely resistant to drought (if you do not take into account hybrid varieties) and is almost never affected by any ailments or gluttonous pests.

Almost any soil will be suitable for planting the embracing rudbeckia (and the best option would be medium-heavy soils thoroughly fertilized with humus with good permeability), but the area on which it will grow should be illuminated as best as possible by the sun, and the sun's rays should fall on it for as long as at least eight hours daily. That is, there should not be any shading in the form of all kinds of trees or buildings nearby! It is not necessary to plant enveloping rudbeckia in poorly drained wetlands.

Blooming rudbeckia embracing twice a season must be fed with high-quality complex fertilizers, and it must also be watered monthly with a slurry solution diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10 and thoroughly infused for two weeks.

During the flowering period, the fading baskets should be systematically cut off from the embracing rudbeckia - this will allow the beautiful plant not to lose its decorative effect and make the flowering more abundant and much longer.

In the southern part of Russia, enveloping rudbeckia winters without much difficulty, but in the middle lane it is recommended to cover its roots with hay, as well as spruce branches or some other similar materials.

In general, enveloping rudbeckia is quite resistant to various pests or ailments, but in humid places it can occasionally be attacked by nematodes or powdery mildew. For the rapid fight against nematodes in this case, various insecticides are used, and in order to overcome powdery mildew, you will have to resort to the help of preparations made on the basis of sulfur.

The most popular way of reproduction of the beautiful rudbeckia embracing is sowing its seeds directly into open ground - it is carried out in rows located at a distance of twenty centimeters from each other. Specimens grown from seeds almost always turn out to be very hardy and surprisingly strong, and thanks to the active development of their root system in the deepest soil layers, such plants practically do not need watering. In the southern regions, seeds are usually sown in March, and in the middle lane - closer to the end of April or with the onset of May. However, it is not forbidden to propagate rudbeckia by dividing bushes or rhizomes.