2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Closer to autumn, buds of large daisies with white elongated petals and a yellow fluffy middle bloom on the garden plots. The plant is called levcantemella (autumn chrysanthemum). What properties does an unusual flower have?
Biological characteristics
Herbaceous perennial bushes grow up to 1, 6 m per season. Stems are fragile at the beginning, thicken by the middle of summer. The leaves are similar to classic chamomile, narrow, elongated with a jagged edge of a juicy green hue.
The petals are white, the middle is yellow-green, forming baskets. The diameter of the inflorescences reaches 7.5 cm. The buds bloom from the end of August until frost.
Preferences
In the wild, it lives in the floodplains of rivers and lakes. Loves moderate humidity, without stagnant water in the root zone. It is difficult to tolerate prolonged drought. For planting, they choose places that are closed from the wind: near buildings, decorative hedges, along the fence.
It grows better on loams loosened with humus with a neutral reaction of the environment. In sunny places forms powerful clumps with long thick stems. Delivers light partial shade. In shady glades, it lags behind in growth, forms small inflorescences. Over time, it dies from a lack of light.
Good winter hardiness. But it can freeze a little in snowless weather with low temperatures.
Reproduction
In central Russia, the seeds do not have time to ripen. It reproduces mainly by dividing adult bushes in early spring after the growth of the vegetative mass.
The plants are completely dug up, carefully disassembled into pieces with 2-3 buds, keeping fragile shoots from damage.
The operation is performed every 5 years. Too large curtains lose their decorative properties: the growth of the stems decreases, the inflorescences become smaller.
Landing
On wet soils, drainage is arranged from broken brick or crushed stone at a depth of 30 cm. A layer of river sand is poured. The young are planted at a distance of 50 cm from each other. Fall asleep with fertile soil mixed with sand, garden soil in a ratio of 2: 1: 1.
Watered with water to shrink the soil, then compact it around the trunk with your hands. They put a decorative support (high stems require a mandatory garter in an open blown area). Mulch from above with peat or straw cutting.
Care
In the spring, seedlings of Levcantemella appear late, not amicably. Inexperienced gardeners sometimes think that the plants died during the winter. Be patient, wait for the beauty to come out of peace.
Bushes are fed several times during the growing season. At the beginning of regrowth with a complex complex fertilizer "Zdraven" or "Kemiroi Lux" (a tablespoon for a bucket of liquid). In the middle of summer, a phosphorus-potassium composition for the full formation of buds.
In dry weather, additional watering is required to keep the plants healthy. With a lack of moisture, the flowers droop, the leaves wither, which can lead to the death of even adult specimens.
Timely removal of weeds helps to destroy "competitors" for nutrients, creates favorable conditions for full growth.
After the first frost, the stems are cut, leaving the hemp 5 cm in height. To be on the safe side, they fall asleep with fallen leaves.
Use in the garden
Leucanthemella decorates flower beds until late autumn, when most of the plants go into dormancy. Looks great with perennial asters, rudbeckia, gailardia, stonecrop, erigeron.
Curtain planting against the background of the lawn, framed in decorative "flowerpots", create the effect of living bouquets, placed on the site. Serves as the original design of the recreation area: next to the gazebos, benches, swings.
Autumn chrysanthemum has a rare combination of unpretentious care and excellent decorative properties. She brings a “piece of summer” to the garden in the middle of late autumn, pleasing the eye with large snow-white inflorescences. Plant the mysterious Leucanthemella on your property to extend the charm of the hot months!
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