2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
If your garden requires a plant that blooms profusely throughout the summer season, without causing much trouble for the gardener, then nature has tried just for you, creating a magnificent Lobelia
Rod Lobelia
The ubiquitous plants of the genus Lobelia (Lobelia) can be herbaceous or shrubby, annual and perennial. Summer flowering lasts for a long time, abundantly covering delicate thin stems with small flowers. Green leaves merge into a solid green background, against which a lush cap of small flowers riots. Sometimes it is impossible to see a separate green leaf through the white, blue, blue, reddish-violet cloud of flowers.
Varieties
* Lobelia Erinus (Lobelia erinus) is a South African perennial that has gained popularity in culture. Leaves of different shapes sit on one stem: small oval ones are located at the bottom, and light green linear ones with a sharp end are at the top of the shoots. In different varieties, flowers are painted in a variety of shades of blue, there are red carmine with a white core, and there are also pure white.
* Lobelia dark red (Lobelia cardinalis) - This perennial, native to the northern lands of the United States, is well suited for arranging flower borders in temperate zones. Scarlet flowers, collected in cluster inflorescences, bloom in July-August.
* Lobelia brilliant (Lobelia fulgens) is an unpretentious perennial that came to us from sultry Mexico. Purple leaves and crimson-red flowers, collected in inflorescences-ears, all summer, until October, beautifully decorate garden paths, located on either side of them in the form of a floral border. Rosendale has dark green leaves and intense red flowers.
* Lobelia blue (Lobelia siphilitica) - a resistant perennial native to the East of the United States used to create borders, placed in pots on garden verandas and gazebos, planted in flower pots. Inflorescences-ears of light blue flowers adorn the garden from June to September.
* Lobelia thin (Lobelia tenuior) - a delicate perennial that came to us from Australia, is grown as an annual plant. Light green oval leaves cover erect, thin shoots. From early summer to October, it blooms profusely with bright blue flowers.
Hybrids
Breeders have bred numerous hybrids that differ in a variety of colors of flowers covered with brighter color spots; with different leaf shapes; different stem heights, reaching up to 1, 2 meters.
Growing
Heat-loving and light-loving Lobelias prefer partial shade and protection from the wind. Depending on the type, they are cold-resistant or thermophilic.
Plants need fertile soil, sufficiently moist. During the active growing season, they need abundant watering. Unlike most plants that cannot tolerate stagnant water, Lobelia tolerates temporary waterlogging.
Unpretentious perennials are covered with mulch from leaves and straw for the winter.
Use in the garden
From perennials, flower borders are arranged for garden paths, flower beds. Used to create bright lush spots in flower beds. They are planted in containers, pots and pots, decorating terraces, balconies, the front porch of the house.
Species such as Gerard's lobelia, blue lobelia, dark red lobelia are suitable for planting near bodies of water where the soil is more moist.
Reproduction
Propagated by spring sowing of seeds. Seedlings are relocated to open ground in May.
Perennial species can be propagated by spring division of the bush.
Enemies
Lobelias have a fairly strong immune system, not succumbing to diseases and pests. The plant can begin to dry if there is no regular watering, and the sun beats down mercilessly.
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