Lightness and grace gives the bouquet the presence of gypsophila.
Small, as if floating in the air, flowers form lush, like white clouds, stellate inflorescences. The most delicate plant, beautiful, like a breath of wind in a hot hour. Supplements any flowers in a bouquet. And in winter it gives warm memories of summer adventures without withering in a dry-colored bouquet. Gypsophila - Gypsophila - from
the clove family. The people called affectionately and aptly: tumbleweed, swing, and also - the breath of the child. This plant is poetry itself. And everywhere is her homeland: gypsophila is found in Eurasia, and in Australia, and in Africa.
Types of Gypsophila
Usually this is a bare plant with a leafless stalk, which can be either straight or spread on the ground up to half a meter long. But there are almost bushes up to one and a half meters high. The flowers are most often white, tiny (five to seven millimeters). There are pink gypsophila of various shades. Panicled varieties can be either white or pink.
The plant has been cultivated since the eighteenth century and still has not lost folk love. If you connect two Greek words - "gypsum" and "friend", you get one word - gypsophila. Planting and care are directly related to this name. This plant is friends with lime and grows mainly on limestone.
Gypsophila. Landing and care
In early spring, the sowing and planting of gypsophila begins. It is necessary to plant necessarily in water-permeable soils. It is in early spring that you need to take care of the crops of perennials and annual varieties. As soon as he survives the spring of gypsophila, the landing and care associated with it will end, you need to prepare supports. Bushes grow fast. In nature, they creep on the ground, and in the garden you need to maintain the weight of the plants in weight - it's more beautiful, and the gypsophila will grow much better.
In summer, immediately after flowering, the bushes need to be cut, then new shoots are more actively formed. In autumn there is only a transplant to the main place of seedlings that have grown enough since the spring, as well as mulching and shelter for the winter - the gypsophila is afraid of frost. Landing and care this year are completed. There is not much trouble with this wonderful plant. But what flowers all year round! Gypsophila is a real decoration of the garden. How beautiful her patterned shadows are, how the rays of the sun refract in these cloudy colors! The shadow is not naughty, but give her more light! In well-lit places it grows by leaps and bounds, not by the day. The photo clearly demonstrates the charms of this plant both in bouquets and in the bud. The only danger to her is near groundwater.
If there is no other place, you need to raise the ridge high, otherwise your gypsophila may die, landing and care of which is elementary. Perfectly adjoins with marigolds, eshsoltsii, godetsia. Propagated by seeds, and terry forms - also by cuttings, grafting. This business is quite troublesome, the rooting percentage is quite low. And care for cuttings need special.
Graceful gypsophila. Landing and care
This is an annual plant, generally speaking, for the lazy. Growing elegant gypsophila - Gypsophila elegans - is even simpler. She is really exceptionally elegant, not as tall as a perennial one, she is never terry, but her flowers are not only white, but also pink, lilac and even raspberry. It grows exceptionally fast - in a month and a half it will already delight with extremely plentiful flowering. True, elegant gypsophila blooms not very long, but this flaw can be forgiven. Just sow in the spring every two weeks a little. And in the summer some will end - the other bushes will arrive in time. Flowering can be done continuously.