2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Russian cornflowers, sung by Russian poets, covering endless meadows and fields with a solid elegant carpet, littering vegetable beds of gardeners, are associated with the color of the sky, blue beloved eyes. But, tireless breeders gave the world cornflowers and other colors, domesticated them and handed them over to caring summer residents to decorate flower beds and front gardens
Rod Cornflower
The amazing Astrov family has a numerous genus called "Cornflower". This genus has half a thousand species with different life cycle lengths. Among them there are annuals, biennials and perennials. Regardless, all cornflowers bloom during the summer. From the general row, only the blue cornflower stands out, which blooms in spring.
The cornflower inflorescence is designed by nature according to the same "drawing" with other relatives. The inflorescence basket consists of two types of flowers:
• Funnel-shaped marginal petals, which, depending on the variety, are colored white, blue, purple, blue, pink or yellow.
• Tubular median flowers, colored to match the marginal petals.
Garden forms and varieties
Garden forms and varieties of cornflowers can be conditionally divided into two groups, taking the height of the stem as a basis for dividing.
Tall species (with a height of 60 to 80 cm) are grown for cutting, decorating them with flower bouquets.
Plants with a stem height of 15 to 30 centimeters are referred to the "low" group. They are used in flower gardens, to create flower borders, for growing in pots.
Popular types of cornflowers
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Blue cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) - the most familiar annual cornflower grows up to 50-80 centimeters in height. Its abundantly branching bush is covered with rather large (5-8 cm in diameter) inflorescences-baskets, painted in blue in the original species, and in white, pink, red and purple colors in garden forms.
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Cornflower of babylon (Centaurea babilonica) is a two-year-old cornflower with yellow baskets of inflorescences, originally from the countries of the Middle East.
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Whitewashed cornflower (Centaurea dealbata) is a perennial plant. The branched stem is decorated with purple-pink inflorescences. He came to us from Asia Minor. The inflorescences of the John Coats variety are surprisingly beautiful. Its bright pink outer petals frame a light or pale yellow center.
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Cornflower large-headed (Centaurea macrocephala) is a perennial tall (up to 1, 2 m) plant with up to four dozen peduncles on one bush. Large (up to 10 cm in diameter) yellow inflorescences firmly adhere to peduncles for a long time. The birthplace of the cornflower is Armenia.
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Cornflower mountain (Centaurea montana) is a perennial with lilac-blue inflorescence baskets that prefers the foothills and mountains of Europe.
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Musk cornflower (Centaurea moschata) is an annual blooming all summer long. Light green leaves dissected along the edge cover the densely branching bush. It does not have extreme wide petals, all flowers are tubular. White, reddish purple, lilac, purple flower tubes give off a cinnamon-like scent.
Growing
Cornflowers are very unpretentious, cold-resistant, but they love sunny places. They do not bloom profusely in partial shade. They are planted in early spring or autumn. Annual seeds are sown outdoors in September or early spring. With dense seedlings, thinning is done.
The soil is needed for them loose, fertile, with good drainage, since stagnation of water is contraindicated for them. Watering plants in containers in spring should be regular, and the water should not be too cold. In the summer, watered in the early morning during the dry season.
To maintain the appearance, remove faded inflorescences and dry leaves.
Cornflowers can be attacked by fungi.
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