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Unpretentious Gypsophila will decorate any type of flower garden. With her modest appearance, she will emphasize the beauty of bright red roses or delicate flowers of a lavender. Gypsophila can "land" as an independent light cloud on a green lawn. It is also very popular in cut flowers to decorate bouquets
The genus Gypsophila or Kachim
The genus Gypsophila or Kachim combines herbaceous plants with branched stems, simple lanceolate leaves and numerous small flowers. Flowers bloom gradually, decorating the garden from the last spring days until late autumn.
Sprawling wide inflorescences, collected from small white or pink gypsophila flowers, look like a light cloud that descended from heaven to earth. Some people identify them with the "wife's veil."
Gypsophila are annual and perennial, capable of growing in one place for up to 25 years.
Varieties of gypsophila
The classification of gypsophila is based on the type of use of the plant.
Gypsophila for borders
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Gypsophila elegant (Gypsophila elegans) is a popular medium-sized (40-50 cm tall) species for edging. Its elegance is provided by the gray-green lanceolate-spatulate leaves and inflorescences, collected from white, pink or red small flowers. It blooms profusely from May to September.
The most popular varieties are: "White large-flowered" and "Covent Garden", pleasing with white "clouds", or "Pink" - with inflorescences of pink flowers.
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Gypsophila paniculata (Gypsophila paniculata) is a highly branched, almost spherical, perennial shrub with a height of 30 to 90 cm, equipped with powerful roots. The branches are covered with lanceolate leaves, and rare inflorescences bloom in June-July. Their paucity is made up for by the abundance of small white flowers.
Gypsophila paniculata gave birth to varieties that are grown for cutting. Flowers on them can be not only simple, but also double or semi-double.
There are varieties with very compact bushes that are suitable for growing in pots, making an excellent gift for the holidays. They are called “Pink holiday” and “White holiday”.
Gypsophila for rock gardens
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Gypsophila cephalic (Gypsophila cerastioides) is a perennial plant that dissolves from June to October, rare plates of inflorescences collected from white small flowers with purple veins. Gray elliptical leaves form basal bunches.
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Wall gypsophila (Gypsophila muralis) is a highly branched annual plant. Bright green linear leaves and pale pink flowers blooming in abundance from mid-May are especially good for wall decoration.
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Gypsophila creeping (Gypsophila repens) - perennial with creeping shoots, forming a dense ground cover 20 cm high from dense bushes with narrow-lanceolate dark green leaves. In June-July, the carpet is covered with pink or white flowers. The most famous variety is "Fratensis" with abundant pink flowering.
Growing
Loves sunny places, but also tolerates partial shade.
The unpretentiousness of gypsophila allows it to grow well in dry places, on calcareous stony soils, on poor loams. Watering is needed only for young plants, as well as during prolonged drought. Cold-resistant.
For bushiness, the tops are pinched at a germination height of 10-12 cm. Peduncles after flowering are cut off to give a beautiful shape to the bush.
Propagated by seeds, perennials - by cuttings and dividing the bush.
Usage
Gypsophila is often used as a pot plant, decorating balconies, gazebos and terraces, as well as for outdoor cultivation.
Tall varieties are suitable for mixed plantings, used on lawns, planted on dry slopes.
Low-growing varieties find shelter in rock gardens, on rocky areas, from which they arrange borders, decorate the walls.
Gypsophila is widely used for cutting, decorating bouquets of decorative flowers, including, suitable for winter bouquets.
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