2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
To soften the cloudiness of the autumn sky, forests, parks, gardens and flower beds choose bright yellow-orange sunny tones for painting nature. Unpretentious chamomile-shaped inflorescences-baskets of Calendula stand out with bright suns against the still green background of flower beds and powerful tops of vegetable beds
Rod Calendula
Among the twenty plant species of the genus Calendula (Calendula) there are grasses and shrubs, perennials and annuals. They write that Calendula can be found in the wild, although it's so hard to believe it. After all, the souls of people have long become akin to her red hats, classifying them as home favorite flowers.
The breeders managed to multiply a single row of delicate sunny petals, creating varieties with double flowers that can safely compete with fragrant lush roses. But the simple Russian soul is closer to simple and modest inflorescences created by nature.
Varieties
* Calendula officinalis (Calendula officinalis) - the most faithful companion of man since ancient times, healing and decorating life. A herbaceous plant up to 60 cm high, living only one summer, but every spring it is easily revived with the help of self-sowing.
Branchy, thick, but very fragile, the stems are covered with hairs and lanceolate-obovate leaves. Orange-yellow bright inflorescences consist of two types of flowers. In the middle of the inflorescence-basket, the flowers are tubular. The flowers surrounding the middle, popularly called petals, look like a golden crown. No wonder in some countries Calendula is called the "Queen". The plant pleases with abundant flowering from spring to the very frost. Calendula officinalis flowers are actively used in medicine, cosmetology, and also in cooking.
Many varieties have been bred, differing in the height of the bush, and most importantly, in a variety of sizes, types and colors of inflorescences.
* Calendula bicolor (Calendula bicolor) is a very ornamental plant with large bright inflorescences and pubescent stems and leaves.
* Field calendula (Calendula arvensis) - in the spring, sulfur-yellow flowers bloom on a stem that creeps along the ground, rising 15-20 cm above the surface.
Growing
Calendula, like its relative in the Astrov family - Tagetes (marigolds), is one of the most unpretentious plants to care for.
Unpretentiousness does not negate the love of sunny places and regular moderate watering. The heat and dry soil shock Calendula, and it shows the world very small inflorescences, or even stops blooming altogether. He treats the cold more favorably.
Calendula has no special requirements for soils, but it is recommended to add iron and potassium sulfates to the soil when planting.
Calendula is grown not only in the open field, using it as borders for garden paths, arranging rabatki from the plant, planting in other types of flower beds, but also in containers and flower pots, decorating balconies, terraces and garden gazebos.
When grown in containers, soil is prepared by mixing one part of peat with two parts of sod land, not forgetting to enrich the soil with iron and potassium sulfates.
Reproduction
Unpretentious Calendula reproduces well by self-seeding. But when arranging certain flower beds, seeds are sown in early spring or before winter immediately in open ground. The April sowing of seeds will delight you with sunny flowering in June.
Enemies
Healing Calendula is not always able to protect itself from pests. Microscopic fungi that inhabit the soil can cause powdery mildew on the leaves. Treatment of a plant with a chemical preparation "karatan" can serve as an antidote.
Viruses do not sleep, provoking the disease "mosaic of cucumbers", causing deformation of the leaves and drawing yellow specks on their surface. In such cases, it is necessary to remove the diseased parts of the plant.
Of the pests that can be seen with the naked eye, leafworms, western flea beetles, gluttonous aphids, and lovers of green leaves can be found.
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Calendula
Calendula (lat.Calendula) - is a medicinal and ornamental plant; annuals belonging to the Asteraceae family, or Asteraceae. Another name is marigold. Under natural conditions, the plant is common in the Mediterranean, Asia and Western Europe.
Field Calendula
Field calendula is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Compositae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Calendula arvensis L. As for the name of the field calendula family itself, in Latin it will be like this:
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