Liatris - Blooming From Top To Bottom

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

I never cease to amaze and admire the diversity and generosity of God's creativity. It seems that it is difficult to surprise a modern person who easily overcomes kilometers of the globe in real life or on the Internet. But every day you come across something still unknown, sometimes intricate, sometimes very simple, but sweet

"Zest" Liatrice

Liatris arrived in our flower gardens from North America, where the climate is not much different from ours, and took its rightful place among the simple, but attractive and smelling flowers and herbs. Every simplicity has its own flavor. Liatrice also has one. Unlike most plants that start to decorate their stems with flowers from the bottom up (for example, garden gladioli or wild willow tea), lyatris blooms from top to bottom. Shaggy delicate petals, like wax flowing down a candle, gradually envelop their spike-shaped refuge.

Unpretentious perennial

Liatris can grow for several years in one place. In order for the abundance of its fluffy ears to please you every summer season, after three to four years it is advisable to thin it out by simply dividing the roots. It easily takes root in a new place, even when transplanted during flowering.

When planting with roots, it blooms in the same year, through seeds - in the third year.

Best of all, a sunny meadow of a Moorish lawn is suitable for a lyatrix, on which everyone has enough sunny attention, and does not threaten the roots of stagnant water. The plant is not afraid of drought. Any unpretentiousness prefers loose soils, Liatris is no exception. The acidity of the soil is preferably low.

Plant care

The advantage of most perennials is that they are relatively easy to care for. But you always read with a smile information about unpretentious garden plants, in which after the word "unpretentious" there is a list of works necessary to maintain a plant in a healthy and abundantly flowering state.

This is not a paradox, but a normal phenomenon. After all, a person will not be able to maintain life in his body if he does not eat, drink, breathe, at least sometimes wash his body (yogis do not count, because although they can do without food, drink and air, it doesn't matter, such a period lasts a short period of time, not a lifetime). And everyone needs the sun. Even the great ascetic Diogenes, when asked by Alexander the Great, what he could do for an unfortunate man living in a barrel on the seashore, asked Alexander to just step aside a little so as not to interfere with the sun's rays from pouring out his grace on the hermit (I would like to look at the brave Diogenes, if he sunbathed not on the warm seashore, but on the permafrost of the Yakut expanses).

Plants are living things that need food, moisture, air. Therefore, any plant, no matter how unpretentious it may be, will respond gratefully to the loose and fertile soil, watering friendly neighbors in the flowerbed during the hot period of summer.

Flower garden neighbors

Violet-purple, reddish-purple, white ears of liatris flowers on a strong stem surrounded by linear pointed leaves, look great as a separate small group against the background of a green lawn, and will also decorate a Moorish lawn in collaboration with echinacea and echinacea-rudbeckia, herbs, phlox …

Also, neighbors of lyaris can become:

* anaphalis, the growing conditions of which are similar to those of liatris (there is one problem - the roots of anaphalis quickly conquer neighboring territories, so you need to take care of barriers to their growth);

* vervains are touching and not fastidious perennials;

* Gaillardia - whose flowers are saturated with bright summer colors, pleasing for a long period;

* gypsophila - with white stellate small flowers, abundantly enveloping its graceful bushes;

* sedum (or sedum) is a succulent plant, a godsend for novice gardeners, since it itself takes care of supplying moisture, storing it for future use in its leaves.