2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
About people who left our world early, they say: "Those whom the gods love die young." How should the Almighty love a simple and unpretentious flower of a plant called "Bindweed", which looks at the world with its tubular corolla for only one day
Characteristic tubular corolla
About three hundred species of diverse plants include the genus Bindweed. These are grasses, dwarf shrubs and shrubs, curling and non-climbing, perennial and annual, deciduous and evergreen, prickly and profusely branching.
The curly representatives of the genus are best known to gardeners, although many upright species are also very decorative. Bindweed flowers are funnel-shaped or bell-shaped with a tubular corolla characteristic of this plant. The life of a flower is short; it adorns the plant for no more than one day.
Plant varieties
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Bindweed tricolor (Convolvulus tricolor) is a widespread annual plant. Creeping shoots 30-40 centimeters long are covered with lanceolate leaves. Basal or basal leaves are ovoid. Flowers are usually tricolor, but there are also two-tone flowers. Tricolor flowers have a yellow center and white-blue petals. When the world, tired for the day, comes to the evening, Tricolor Bindweed opens its funnel-shaped flowers.
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Bindweed marshmallow (Convolvulus althaeoides) is a semi-cover resistant plant with climbing shoots up to 150 centimeters high. Pink flowers and dissected, pubescent silvery leaves on the stems give the plant a decorative effect. Basal leaves are ovoid or triangular in shape.
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Bindweed kneorum (Convolvulus cneorum) - the tops of an evergreen plant 60-90 centimeters high in the spring-summer period are covered with clusters of white flowers. The pubescent leaves appear silvery and have a lanceolate or spatulate shape.
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Bindweed moorish (Convolvulus mauritanicus) is a creeping, not very resistant species, grown in coastal areas, in areas well protected from the wind. Small blue flowers and round leaves adorn the creeping stem.
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Field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) or birch - pink-white flowers of this species are well known to gardeners for their indestructibility and intrusiveness when two-meter tenacious stems of Bindweed entangle ornamental plants. The taproot, which goes to great depths, helps the perennial plant to revive every spring, even where it seems that all accounts have been settled with it.
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Bindweed resinous (Convolvulus skammonia) or asiatic scammonia is a poisonous plant growing in Asia Minor, with white-pink flowers, similar to our Field Bindweed, but with larger leaves. Used in medicine.
Growing
They prefer sunny, open places.
They are unpretentious to soils, only good drainage is required. When grown in a pot, the soil mixture is prepared from one third of peat and two thirds of fertile soil, plus a little sand, plus a complex mineral fertilizer. They are planted in open ground in April-May.
The plants are fed every three weeks by adding 15 grams of complete mineral fertilizer to 10 liters of water for irrigation. Immediately after planting, young seedlings are watered abundantly. Potted bindweed is watered regularly, and outdoors only during the dry period of summer.
Annual species are propagated by spring sowing of seeds. Perennial - by layers, cuttings or parts of the rhizome.
Bindweed can be attacked by fungi.
Usage
Bindweed is grown both outdoors and as a pot plant for balconies and terraces.
Curly species are used in trellises to cover gratings, as well as to disguise unsightly walls.
Resistant creeping bindweed found a place on rocky hills.
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