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The representative of unpretentious plants of the Plantain family with the beautiful name "Linaria" is suitable for arranging a border, snuggles up on an alpine slide, drapes a wall or a slope, and will also be appropriate in any other type of flower garden
Family of Linarius
Most plant species of the genus
Linaria (Linaria) are quite unpretentious. The genus got its name for the similarity of the leaves of most plants with the leaves of Flax, and therefore in Russia the genus is called very gently -
Toadflax
Among the herbaceous plants of the genus Flax are annuals and perennials, ground cover (from 5 cm in height) and erect (growing up to a meter in height), which do not require much attention from the gardener. Flowers can be single or collected in inflorescences. Each flower has a long spur.
Varieties
* Linaria bipartite (Linaria bipartita) - two-lipped irregular flowers, collected in rare brushes, as if teasing with their orange throat against the background of purple petals. Sessile linear leaves form a compact herb, not exceeding 40 cm in height. It is often found in nature.
* Linaria Moroccan (Linaria maroccana) is a medium-sized herbaceous plant up to 45 cm high, perfect for decorating flower borders and as a pot culture. The linear leaves of Linaria are bluish-green in color, and the purple flowers look at the world with a yellow throat.
* Mesh linaria (Linaria reticulata) - just a giant in comparison with the previous two, it grows up to 1.2 meters. Decorates the flower garden with narrow leaves and orange or yellow throat against a background of purple petals.
* Alpine linaria (Linaria alpina) - whoever had to be in rocky alpine terrain, probably met there a creeping dwarf shrub, towering 10-20 cm above the earth's surface. Like a soft pillow of gray-green leaves, painted with purple flowers with a bright orange throat, fell at their feet the traveler, protecting his feet from the rocky terrain. The perennial plant takes root well in rocky gardens.
* Linaria cymbalaria (Linaria cymbalaria) is a herbaceous ground cover plant that differs in leaf shape from other species. They look more like heart-shaped ivy leaves rather than delicate flax. Throughout the summer period, Linaria is decorated with small single flowers, which can be lilac, purple or blue, but all with a yellow throat. Long shoots are able to quickly disguise the wall with their nodular rooting rosettes of leaves.
* Linaria Dalmatian (Linaria dalmatica) is a rather tall shrub (exceeds a meter in height), blooming from late spring to September with corymbose inflorescences collected from large yellow (up to 4 cm in diameter) flowers.
* Linaria purpurea (Linaria purpurea) is a shorter shrub, overcoming a height of 70 cm. The racemose inflorescences are collected from pink or purple flowers with a pharynx decorated with white spots.
Growing
Annuals Linaria love sunny places, and perennials agree on partial shade, since they do not like great heat. But they endure late spring frosts stoically.
Soils prefer neutral, loose, loamy, permeable so that no stagnation of water forms. At the same time, it should be watered regularly, preventing the soil from drying out. Mineral dressings can be avoided if the soil is fertilized during planting by adding 30 grams of complete mineral fertilizer per square meter of flower garden.
Reproduction
The plant is propagated by sowing seeds directly into open ground. The seeds are very small, so they are only lightly sprinkled with earth.
Annuals give flowering after 2 months, and perennial species spend one year in an auxiliary bed, moving to a permanent place next spring.
Enemies
The enemies include stagnation of water, leading to decay, and nematodes, which inhibit the development of a plant, provoking rotting of peduncles and roots. They say that Linaria can be protected from nematodes by planting marigolds next to her.
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