Perennial Turkish carnation is a wonderful decoration of garden beds, flower beds and alleys. What a diverse and motley coloring of these flowers! Bright blue, red, raspberry, purple lights of inflorescences will give a good mood and bring positive emotions. One of the most popular and attractive representatives of this family is Turkish terry clove. Photos of this flower can be seen below.
And this plant is very unpretentious and does not require special care, and bright colors of flowers and long flowering make garden cloves even more popular in gardening. The best place for this plant will be sunny places, you can also allow a small penumbra. It perfectly tolerates the winter period, does not require trimming of stems and leaves. The soil for cloves needs light and low humidity. Before planting in the soil, you must make organic fertilizers.
Planting and reproduction
Perennial Turkish cloves are sown in warm soil in the middle of spring, when sprouts appear. Mineral fertilizers are introduced into the ground, especially during this period, the plant needs nitrogen for good growth and powerful stems. The seed planting depth is not more than one centimeter. Before planting, you need to slightly sprinkle the earth with water - this will accelerate the emergence of seedlings, and after 8-10 days, a long-term Turkish clove will delight the first sprouts. Autumn sowing is recommended at the end of October. You can also plant cloves by dividing the root - an adult flower grows well, releasing many lateral shoots, which, taking root, give new seedlings. Perennial Turkish cloves are well propagated by layering. For this, long shoots are selected and a small vertical cut is made, then the stem is laid on the ground and covered with sand. During the rooting period, the incision site should always have moist soil. The plant will be ready for planting when the roots are formed, and a new stem will appear above the cut.
Care
The main care for cloves is watering the plant, it is carried out once or twice a week. In hot weather, you especially need to monitor this and water the flower as necessary. But it is also impossible to overmoisten the soil, otherwise the plant will die from rot. It is not recommended to water the flowers from above - the watering hose should lie on the ground. After flowering, flower stalks should be cut and mineral fertilizers applied. This will help the plant replenish its strength, and after a while it will delight with new colorful and plentiful flowers. Some varieties of cloves live up to five to six years. Perennial Turkish carnation in our regions is a biennial.
A variety of colors will delight this flower. Turkish carnation goes well with perennial green shrubs, it will create an excellent landscape in landscape design. It can be planted on alpine slides and along garden paths. Carnations with high stems look great in a section, they are formed into bouquets as individual plants, or in combination with other flowers.