The charming Chinese woman is named after the missionary from France, D'Incarville, who studied the plant world there in China.
This genus consists of fourteen species living in Central Asia and China, there are both annual and perennial shrubs. The plant is distinguished by beautiful large tubular flowers - yellow, pink, red. The rhizome is the same as that of a dahlia, and propagates in the same way.
Incarville Delawey is from Southwest China. Rarely (and completely undeservedly!) Is cultivated. A beautiful bush more than a meter tall with magnificent lilac flowers with a bright yellow center delights the gardener for more than a month with their flowering. Amazing, amazingly beautiful plant. The garden variety of Delaware - Snowtop - is no less good: a bush strewn with purple flowers with snow-white corollas in the midst of dark green leaves.
But Chinese Incarville is more popular, it has been cultivated for several centuries in all countries of Asia.
This beauty is transformed both in form, in color, and in size, depending on the region of growth, but always attracts the attention of those passing by. It is lower than the rest - up to half a meter, but blooms due to the formation of ever new shoots for a very long time.
But Olga Inkarvileya - Incarvillea OlgaeRegel, - born in the Pamirs, stretches to the sun up to one and a half meters and her flowers, red and pink, gather in panicles up to twenty-five centimeters long and do not stop flowering for more than one and a half months! In the middle zone of Russia, such an incarville is willingly growing; landing is not so difficult, but it has to winter under shelter. In the suburbs, amateurs say that even sheltered does not always survive. It is better to dig and store until spring like dahlias.
Incarville: planting and care
Plant well in a bright area. Some shading can be tolerated, but bloom more abundantly when there is a lot of sun. Five years can grow in one place if the soil is fertile and light. By the way, as a potted culture is cultivated with much less effort. Not in vain, many call this flower garden gloxinia, and not the Incarville. Planting and care are mainly in watering and preservation in the winter.
Every year, you must necessarily mulch under the winter or dig a root.
In June, you can already propagate the incarville leafy cuttings. And in the spring - by dividing the bush. Propagated by incarville and seed. They are sown at room temperature in pots in March, and seedlings that appear in about a week are dived in order to be planted in a permanent place in the ground in July. At first, you need to shade and water the young seedlings daily. Be sure to shelter for the winter. But many gardeners sow the Incarville from April to July directly into the ground. Shoots do not appear so soon, after two weeks. Seedlings will bloom in the second or third year.
What is good about incarvillea - planting and care are easily tolerated by it. That is, if you cherish the plant, you can not risk it and dig up the rhizome every year. It is better to endure a transplant than not to wake up in the spring after a winter cold. For this, he will thank the Incarville with large, bright gramophones of his many colors. Landing and care are not so difficult for such a return. How pleasant it will be to walk along the path in the garden along which these fabulous flowers will bloom.