Lavatera is an excellent solution for arranging flower beds and flower beds. This is a bushy plant that blooms all summer. It gives the lawns a unique look and grooming. Lavatera flowers have a conical shape and cover the entire bush, forming lilac, pink, white carpets. The leaves and roots of the plant are considered medicinal. They are used for colds, bronchitis, pulmonary diseases. This is a honey plant, in summer, bees, wasps and bumblebees constantly curl around a flowering bush. At the same time, Lavater is quite unpretentious. Planting and care will not cause difficulties even for beginner gardeners.
Lavater got its name from the Swiss naturalists - the Lavater brothers. These flowers, originally from Central Asia, are also called hutma and wild rose. Nowadays, the plant can be found all over the world, both wild and selective.
Lavatera in the garden
Gardeners willingly decorate their plots with this plant. And this is not only dictated by the fact that such a plant as a lavater, planting and care is quite simple. Photos of flower beds with a hut, given in the article, look very picturesque. Large foliage sets off light and delicate flowers. This plant reaches 1 meter 20 cm in height. And flowers in diameter can be up to 10 cm.
Florists are very fond of Lavater. After all, it is unpretentious and does not require complicated care. It does not need to be watered often, it is not afraid of frost, it grows well in shaded places.
Haymah leaves are like Canadian maple foliage. They have an angular shape. Plant flowers come in two groups: large single or inflorescences of a racemose-paniculate shape.
Lavater, the landing and care of which will be discussed below, adorns the lawns. Magnificent plants are planted around trees, make up original compositions for flower beds from them. Wild rose decorate balconies. In any case, this plant gives the flower beds a unique palette and saturation.
Varieties and types of lavaters
Many varieties of plants are known.
The following are considered the most common and beautiful:
- Thuringian Lavater. Perennial plant, with a stem reaching 2 m in height. Wild rose is distinguished by large flowers, pink or purple, forming beautiful inflorescences.
- Lavatera is three months old. Planting and care of this plant have small features. Such a hutma is in great demand. This is a sprawling annual plant with a low stem. From its large white, carmine or pink flowers, it forms a real carpet on the flower beds. It is usually planted in early May. By July, the flowers bloom. After all, a plant needs 3 months for its development. The bush in diameter reaches a meter. Therefore, to form a beautiful flower bed you need only a few plants. Lavater blooms from July to frost, delighting people with its colors.
- Pink Beauty (Pink Beauty) An annual plant with a stem up to 60 cm high. This variety got its name due to its unusually colored flowers - pale pink, with delicate dark veins.
- Novel. This variety is recommended for cultivation in pots. The bush grows no more than 20 cm. When planted in open ground, this plant reaches a greater height.
- White sherub (White cherub (eng.)). Another great variety for planting in pots. Such a plant is most often grown on balconies. It reaches a height of about 30 cm.
- Silver Cap (Silver Cup ) Grows to 70 cm, has bright pink flowers, with dark veins.
- Lavater baby barnsley. Planting and caring for this species will delight every gardener. After all, this is a real forest diva. A beautiful strongly branched and vigorous plant has amazing flowers, a shade of flamingo. They reach a diameter of 10 cm. The whole plant is simply strewn with magnificent flowers, which it will delight from July to autumn.
When choosing seeds for planting in the garden, you need to pay attention to the color of flowers in future plants. For example, if you buy a variety of “Ruby Carpet” (inflorescences have a ruby hue), it can be planted with a wild rose, characterized by a pink or white color. In this case, you get a flower bed with a thoughtful color scheme.
Plant propagation
This question arises especially sharply if an annual maneuver grows on a flower bed. Planting and care has some subtleties. Consider them.
In autumn, the seeds of a beautiful wild rose ripen. This is the period when the plant fades. In place of inflorescences, seed bolls are formed. They can be picked and sown in the spring in any corner of the garden. If you leave them on the bush, then over time they will open. In this case, they will independently plant the same flowerbed. Next year, the flower garden will blossom again, and will delight the eye with a wonderful combination of colors.
Seedling method
So that the lavater bloomed as early as possible, you can use a different method. It is recommended to grow seedlings. But even in this case, it is completely uncomplicated to grow such a magnificent plant as Lavater.
Landing and care, however, require compliance with some points:
- Seeds at the end of April are planted in a greenhouse or in film-covered soil.
- Before planting, add to the soil: humus, compost, urea and phosphate-potassium fertilizers.
- The soil is watered with warm water.
- Seeds are planted to a depth of 1 cm.
- Then cover with mulch or peat.
- Sprouts appear in one and a half to two weeks.
- Shoots lavatera from time to time must be watered.
- At the end of May, seedlings are transferred to the place intended for the plant.
A lavater planted in this way grows very quickly. And for a short period, it adorns lawns with a scattering of flowers of various shades.
Care for various types of maneuvers
Despite the fact that the plant is completely unpretentious, some growing rules should be observed. After all, only in this case can a magnificent lavater be able to please a riot of colors.
Planting and plant care are carried out taking into account such tips:
- The plant prefers light and loose soil.
- It is better to plant it in sunny places.
- It is infrequently watered to the laver. About once a week, when the earth is completely dry.
- Fertilizing with fertilizers is carried out only two times: before planting, and during the formation of buds. Fertilizers accelerate growth. After their application, the flowers are painted in a brighter, more saturated shade.
Looks great on the flowerbed of the Thuringian Lavater (long-term). Landing, care include several important points. In addition to watering and top dressing, withered flowers should be cut off. After all, they not only spoil the appearance of the flowerbed, but can also harm the plant. Under the influence of moisture (rain or dew), faded buds begin to decompose. They turn into a sticky mass that burns the leaves of the bush.
Observing such simple rules, you can enjoy the beautiful Thuringian Lavater, which the people nicknamed the Dog Rose, all summer. Your flowerbed will be decorated with bushes with flowers in the form of bells of white, yellow, burgundy shades, before the onset of frost.
Soil requirements
What soil does the lavater need?
Planting and care in the open ground is a simple process, provided that some "requirements" of an unpretentious plant are met:
- wild rose can tolerate drought;
- the flower does not like clay soil at all;
- beautiful hatma grows better in sunny areas.
Highlights of growing Lavatera:
- Before planting, the soil needs to be loosened and fertilized. They feed the earth with humus, compost, potassium sulfate, urea or superphosphate.
- Then water the soil with warm water and make grooves into which the seeds are placed. The nursery is covered to retain heat.
- They plant the lavater in late April or early May.
- At the end of spring, the sprouted sprouts are dug up and transplanted into flower beds and flower beds.
- In order for the bush, the lavatera was thicker and larger, make a group landing. Several sprouts are planted in one hole at once.
- For early flowering, you can use the greenhouse cultivation. Sown in March in a greenhouse. And in May they transplant.
Lavatera grows rapidly and begins flowering by July.
Flowerbed creation
To form a beautiful and lush bush, it is recommended to plant sprouts in a circle in holes located at a distance of 15 cm from each other.
Moreover, 4-5 sprouts are planted in each hole. This will provide greater splendor to the future plant.
Diseases and pests
Bushes, flowers and plant roots are very viable. They are not afraid of either drought or frost. And their aroma and chemical composition repels garden pests. Therefore, the flower of Lavater is practically not exposed to diseases. Planting and caring for such a plant is a real pleasure.
Only long rains can harm the lavater. In waterlogged air, the leaves of the plant begin to become covered with rust. In this case, a wild rose needs help. Rusty leaves should be torn off or cut off on affected branches. If the whole bush is sick, then it needs to be dug up and burned.
Conclusion
Lavatera is a magnificent plant that can become a real gem of a flower bed. Beautiful placers of flowers, silver, pink, lilac, carmine shade, are visible from afar. And the sensual delicate aroma published by a wild rose is simply not capable of leaving anyone indifferent.