How to grow a chamber (anemone)

Any grower divides flowers into beloved, unloved and just flowers. Personally, in the top ten of my favorite plants I will definitely have this fluffy miracle - lumbago, or dream-grass (more about shooting from the Encyclopedia of Plants).

I can explain my love for him very easily. There are beautiful, but cold plants, and there are warm and some cozy ones. That lumbago is just like that!

The lumbago belongs to the genus of herbaceous perennials of the family Lyutikovye.

Other names lumbago - sleep grass, urgulki, anemone (more about anemone spring and anemone and caring for her).

In Siberia shooting is often called anemones (although these are quite different plants of the same family).

Since the flowers of the lumbago appear almost immediately after the melting of the snow, often it, like other spring-spring plants, is called the universal word "snowdrop".

Useful properties of lumbago

The lumbago is often referred to medicinal plants, because the plant has strong bactericidal and fungicidal (antifungal) properties.

Also well-known sedative anemones (not for nothing that it is called "sleep-grass") - it is a beautiful sleeping pills and soothing that is not inferior to any of these properties by any tablet.

But no initiative! Because in certain doses, a crossache is poison and, moreover, quite strong.

On the types of lumbago

In all, the genus of lumbago has about forty different species, many of which can still be found in nature. The height of plants varies from 5 to 40 centimeters, and their charm lies not only in flowers, but also in charming pubescent (in most species) leaves and even in fluffy seeds.

In most gardens, most often common lumbago, as well as numerous interspecific hybrids.

Where to plant and where to grow a lumbago

The best place for lumbago is an alpine hill, a rockery or a flower bed with low perennials.

The best option is areas with slight shading, although it grows well in open areas. But the lumbago does not tolerate.

The best places are in the area located in the south, even better, if this place has a small slope that does not allow the water to rain after the rains in the area that you took under the lumbago.

Soil, as well as for other flowers of this genus, should be well-treated (preferably as deep as possible), loosened (before planting) and fertilized (you can fertilize this area from autumn).

As a fertilizer suitable lime, a little nitrogen, but potassium and phosphorus - make several times per season as an easy nutriment. However, my chamber grows on rather poor sandy soil in the rock garden and feels good without any fertilizers.

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See also: The most beautiful varieties of anemone и Planting and caring for anemones

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Reproduction of lumbago

Since adult plants do not tolerate transplant and division at all, propagation of the chamber can only be seeded. Well, or buy in the garden center is a ready-made plant, grown in a pot.

There are many misconceptions about seed propagation. Somewhere I recently read that supposedly when growing and propagating from seeds, the crossblock blooms in the fifth or eighth year of life. Maybe I have some kind of wrong lumbago growing, but he gave his first flower in the second year, and in the third he already became a fully grown flowering bush.

However, it is fair to say that some high-mountain species can really blossom only years after sowing. But ordinary lobster, the seeds of which are often sold in our stores, just will not make you wait that long.

Another point is related to the germination of seeds. Although it is believed that it is stored 2-3 year, I always just came up with just bought or just harvested seeds. Therefore, it is better not to postpone sowing in the long box.

Most species are recommended to sow newly harvested seeds in June or even July (however, it is possible in the spring, but only in the already warmed spring sun). The best temperature for germination of lumbago + 21-25 ° C.

However, for some species, autumn sowing is desirable, since their seeds need stratification. These emerges will appear in May.

I myself usually sowed a chamber in the early spring in boxes on the windowsill, and in the beginning of summer transplanted into the open ground to a permanent place (I repeat that these plants do not like transplanting).

Yes, if you shoot different kinds of trees and different colors in the garden, then, by collecting the seeds, you can get very interesting combinations that will not necessarily repeat the parent forms.

Coloring flowers lumbago

The most familiar and traditional colors of lumbago - all shades of blue, cyan, purple and lilac. However, you probably will easily find the seeds from which the plants will grow in two more colors: purple-burgundy-red-pink and yellow-cream-white. The shape and size of the flowers may also vary.

They can be both drooping, and looking up, with varying degrees of pubescence.

Grass lumbago: other species

Lumbago 'Alba' (Pulsatilla vulgaris)

Description. Extremely attractive perennial plant with pubescent stems up to 20 cm.

Leaves lace, pinnate, also strongly pubescent, bloom immediately after the beginning of flowering.

Flowers large, cup-shaped, white with a golden center, blossom at the end of July and blossom until mid-May. Seed boxes on maturation become like fluffy balls, the plant during this period looks very decorative.

Agrotechnics of cultivation.

It prefers sunny or slightly shaded areas with rich organic and mineral fertilizers, well drained (by no means raw), better containing lime.

The landing site should ideally be slightly inclined to the south. Normally grows in one place for a long time.

Reproduction. Propagation can only be propagated by seed method. But do not forget that varietal plants in this case do not always retain the signs of the mother plant.

Partners. Lumbago are decorative both during flowering, and during fruiting, and even in the autumn, when their leaves are painted in orange tones. Used to decorate rockeries and rocky hills, in gravel gardens and compositions with dry-loving plants (carnations, lavender, wormwood and many others).

Lumbago ordinary 'Violet' (Pulsatilla vulgaris)

Description. Perennial herbaceous plant with stalks up to 20 cm. Leaves are delicate, petiolate, collected in a basal rosette. Flowers single, rather large, in diameter reach 5 cm, bell-shaped, purple, blossom before the appearance of leaves, in April. All parts of the plant are pubescent. The flowers are covered from the outside with hairs, which protect plants from spring frosts.

Fruits - multi-ridges with rather long stems, also pubescent - add decorativeness to the plant during fruiting.

Agrotechnics of cultivation.

The maximum decorativeness of the lumbago is reached on slightly shaded areas, they feel quite well in the sun. Soil is preferred well drained, fertile.

When planting it is necessary to make lime and periodically feed the plant with mineral fertilizers. Reproduction. Propagate exclusively by seeds. The adults can not tolerate transplantation.

Partners. Very beautiful and unusual plants decorate the spring garden.

Lumbago look good along the tracks, in group plantings, along with spring-springing onion-botanical tulips, narcissuses, crocuses, woodlands, hionodox. Also, plants are used to decorate stony hills.

Mountain chamber (Pulsatilla montana)

Description. A species plant comes from the mountain regions of Central and Eastern Europe. Perennial with height up to 20 cm with basal twice pinnat-dissected leaves. Flowers are campanulate, up to 4 cm in diameter, single, dark purple. Blossom in early May, flowering continues for a month. Fruits - pubescent leaves, ripen in July.

Agrotechnics of cultivation.

It grows well and develops on slightly shaded areas, but it also tolerates open sunny places. Soils are needed fertile, rich, seasoned with organic and mineral fertilizers, loose, drained.

Breeding.

Seeds, they can be collected after 1 - 1,5 months after the end of flowering.

They sow under the winter. Seedlings bloom for the second year. To transplant to a permanent place young plants should be as early as possible, no later than two years after sowing. In lumbago, the root system is root, so adult specimens do not tolerate transplantation. Partners. This decorative plant is organic in compositions of landscape style, in group and single plantings, on rocky slides and in rockeries.

It looks beautiful in a joint planting in small-mouthed - the woods, chionodoxes, crocuses, as well as botanical tulips, small narcissuses.

Lumbago ordinary 'Rode Klokke' (Pulsatilla vulgaris)

Description. A perennial herbaceous plant up to 20 in height. All parts of the plant are strongly pubescent. The leaves are very elegant, openwork, collected in a rosette rosette. The flowers are large, solitary, open, purple-red with a yellow center. Petals of the perianth are silky from the pubescence. They blossom in May, simultaneously with the leaves or before their appearance, flowering can continue until the end of May.

Agrotechnics of cultivation.

Maximum decorativeness reaches on open solar or slightly shaded areas.

The soil prefers fertile, well drained, friable, sandy. It does not fit raw at all.

At one place can grow a very long time, up to 20 years. When planting the soil must be filled with lime and nitrogen. Needs fertilizing - phosphorus and potash.

Breeding.

Due to the vertically located thick root, it does not tolerate transplants and fissions at all. Propagates only by seeds (sowing under the winter), which can be harvested after 1 - 1,5 months after flowering. Seedlings bloom for the second year. Partners. Cultivated in rockeries, gravel gardens, on rocky slides, used for single and group planting. Suitable for cutting. Planted together with drought-resistant spring-spring plants.

Lumbago grass - photo

E. Chernysheva, Photo by the author.

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