Brunner and forget-me-not (photo) - differences and cultivation
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Brunner and forget-me-not - different plants
Sky blue flowers, like little stars, revitalizing spring flower beds - is it forget-me-not or brunner?
Brunner is a powerful plant with delicate blue flowers. His generation is called forget-me-not - and completely wrong. Forget-me-not is a completely different plant. Let's learn to distinguish between them!
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Brunner
Homeland: Caucasus, Asia Minor, Siberia Plant type: herbaceous perennial
Family: Borage illumination: shade, partial shade Soil: clayey, moist Watering: abundant Temperature regime: cold-resistant Flowering: May - June Height: up to 60 cm Reproduction: by seeds, dividing rhizomes, rhizome segments
Forget-me-not (chicken)
Homeland: Europe, Asia, America Type of plant: herbaceous annual or perennial Family: Borachaceae Illumination: shadow, partial shade. Soil: moist, fertilized Watering: regular Flowering: May - June Height: 10-40 cm Propagation: by seeds, cuttings.
Gemini of the flower world
Brunner and forget-me-not are quite difficult to distinguish from each other, because they bloom in the same time, their inflorescences are of the same color. They even together prefer shady areas in the garden.
Leaves
But it is worth taking a closer look - the main clue to their differences in leaves.
They have large, wrinkled, heart-shaped brunners. The size of the leaf blade can reach 20 cm. In turn, the forget-me-not leaves are not so large (up to 7 cm in length), narrow, lanceolate.
Flowers
Another secret in flowers. Take a closer look: the blue brunner flowers inside are painted white, and the middle of the forget-me-nots is yellow.
Габитус
The forget-me-not plant is tender, airy, whereas the brunner is powerful and strong, with large, expressive leaves.
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Composition
Forget-me-not and brunner, as a rule, use in completely different compositions.
Brunner is good as a part of perennial shadow mixborders, in curbs, arrays in the depths of the garden, and also in shady, well-moistened parts of rockery.
Forget-me-not looks great with spring bulbous, massifs with lilies of the valley, under the canopy of trees, near water bodies, as well as in vases on the porch or the terrace of the house.
© Author: O. Pupasova-Maksimova
FORGET AND BRUNNER - LANDING, GROWING AND CARE: TIPS AND FEEDBACK FROM FLOWER GROWERS
DON'T FORGET ABOUT FORGETTING
At first glance, her inexpressive bushes are akin to youthful love - pure and real. The delicate blue petals of flowers, like the tender gaze of a chosen one, warm the soul ... Plant a plant at your place, you will not regret it!
The Alpine Forget-me-not is most in demand in gardens - no more than 15 cm high. Unlike most species, it loves well-lit places. It is easy to propagate by seed.
The swamp forget-me-not is almost a giant, from 30 cm high. It is charming from mid-May and summer: fading and replacing each other, flowers maintain beauty until the first frosts. For her, the shore of a reservoir with wet soil is perfect, where the plantation is growing literally before our eyes. This species has a "descendant" - the magnificent Thuringen variety.
Forget-me-not loves light, but grows well in partial shade, preferring moist soils. She is the progenitor of numerous cultural forms, striking in the range of colors - from pink to dark blue, almost black.
This plant will become a lifesaver when decorating the shaded part of the garden. Forget-me-nots will find themselves in rockeries and rock gardens, in a flower garden, and to revive the landscape - in Moorish lawns. It is quite possible to decorate a balcony or loggia with a small curtain.
Few people know that tall varieties are cut. In order for the bouquet to live as long as possible, I advise you to dig up the whole bush, wash the roots from the ground and put it in a vase in this form.
FORGET-FORGET FROM SEEDS AND CHERENKOV
The seed method is suitable only for annual forget-me-nots and their specific forms. In addition, the plant gives amicable self-seeding.
Varietals are best propagated by green cuttings. To do this, at the beginning of summer, the tops of the shoots are cut off with a length of about 5 cm and planted on a bed with nutrient soil shaded at noon.
© Author: Nikolay KHROMOV, Cand. agricultural sciences, Michurinsk. Photo by Valentina BONDAR
STOP THE CHOICE ON BRUNNER
If you dream of planting a shade-loving and frost-resistant plant on your site, opt for a brunner.
This perennial unpretentious plant is decorative from the moment the leaves appear in late April until the very frost. And they are large, heart-shaped and silvery, with green veins and a narrow green stripe along the edge of the leaf. Brunnera's young leaves appear throughout the season, which is why it is always elegant.
In April - May, the brunner blooms with small blue flowers collected in a loose panicle. She looks great next to primrose, hellebore, fern. During flowering, brunner is often confused with forget-me-not. But if you look closely, you can find a difference: the brunner has a white eye in the middle of the flower, while the forget-me-not has a yellow one.
Brunnera is indispensable for decorating shaded moist areas in the depths of the garden, where it clogs any weeds. Varietal brunners grow well in places where only the morning sun hits them.
This is a great plant for mixborders. True, not all brunners keep their shape all season. Siberian, unlike large-leaved, falls apart after flowering, which is why it takes on a sloppy look. But it's easy to fix. Not later than July, it is necessary to cut the bush to a stump, apply light top dressing and water the plant abundantly. Soon the bush will again be covered with young foliage and will delight with its appearance until the end of the season.
Self-sowing in brunners is rare, but it reproduces well in autumn or spring by dividing the rhizome. Each division should have
at least one kidney, otherwise the brunner will not take root. When planting, I place the root neck of each division at the level of the soil, sprinkle it with earth and water it abundantly. I plant a brunner on the north side of the house near ornamental shrubs, where the site is only partially in the shade. In dense shade, its shoots stretch out, and in direct sunlight the leaves turn pale and fall off.
Care is reduced to watering and weeding. I water the brunner moderately, but constantly, especially on hot days, she loves moisture. After watering, I mulch the soil.
With good care, a brunner in one place can live up to 10 years without transplants and division. And almost nothing gets sick!
© Author: Natalia Karkacheva, Krasnodar kr. Author's photo
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Brunner large-leaved - one of the brightest plants for shade and partial shade from the Borage family. Perennial bushes reach a height of 50-60 cm. In flowers, it is similar to forget-me-not, but the main advantage is the leaves, especially in variegated forms. Brunner is irreplaceable as a border in the shady part of the garden: it grows quickly, forming dense "bumps". Perfect for tree trunks planting.
Moreover, the large-leaved Brunner is completely non-aggressive, in contrast to the usual Siberian Brunner. Especially decorative, in my opinion, are the varieties Jack Frost, Looking Glass, Variegata, Hadspen Cream. The plant needs a moderately fertile soil, clay or loamy. In nature, B. large-leaved grows in regions with subtropical and subequatorial climates. And in a waterlogged area it feels great, on a dry one - the edges of the leaves can curl.
But with sufficient watering, it will boldly take more open sunny places. It is undesirable to loosen the soil - the perennial roots are located close to the surface. The culture does not need special feeding - it receives a complex mineral fertilizer in early spring along with the rest of the plants in my garden. Every 3-4 years in the fall or spring, I divide the overgrown specimens into separate outlets and plant them in a new place.
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It is often complained that by August Brunner, and especially its decorative varieties, falls apart and looks sloppy. Here radical pruning (at the root) will help - no later than the first half of July, followed by top dressing and abundant watering. Young foliage will grow back, and lush bushes will delight you until the end of the season!
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Acquired brunner large-leaved. Where is it better to land?
And how to properly care for the plant?
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Brunner large-leaved grows well and blooms in the penumbra. Likes the sites illuminated in the morning. If it is planted in an open sunny place, then in hot weather, the leaves may fade a little. During the night, the turgor usually recovers. Sometimes you need to help plants and water them in the morning or evening. To the conditions of growing brunner is undemanding and grows well in poor, moderately moist soils.
She has superficial rhizomes, and they fill the soil so densely that there are practically no weeds near the brunner.
By autumn, after blossoming, some leaves die. They need to be removed. That's almost all. But if in the spring, at least once in 3-4, to feed the brunner with a full complex fertilizer and to cover up the exposed pea with peat or the rotted compost, the plant will thank with abundant flowering.
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I got a plant with leaflets, like brunners, but its blue flowers are quite large. It is called trachystemon orientalis (Trachystemon orientalis). They said that this is a relative of the Siberian brunner. Tell me, please, how to grow it?
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Ornamental foliage of this relative brunners is preserved all summer, not at all like the Brunner, whose beautiful curtain in the middle of the growing season turns into a miserable ruin. Until this summer, I was sure that this plant is for growing in the shade, and in the sun its leaves will droop. But this year he went to Valencia and there he visited the local botanical garden. Saw the trachistemon. And that - no he is not shade-loving. It grows there in the rock gardens! That is, in a dry garden in full Spanish sun, under + 40 degrees.
On nutritious soil with sufficient moisture, the foliage grows enormous; on the poor and dry - shallow.
Alexander CHECHUROV, Cand. Biol. Sciences, Moscow
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My brunner last year blossomed twice - in the spring and in the fall. What is the reason for such an anomaly? Just before, it bloomed only in the spring.
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Some perennials (brunner, delphinium, lupine), blooming in spring and early summer, can bloom a second time, in autumn. As a rule, repeated flowering is observed in large, well-developed plants. Sometimes this happens when flower stalks are cut off immediately after flowering. Repeated flowering is favored by abundant fertilizer, as well as a prolonged warm autumn. In areas with a temperate climate buds that appeared in the autumn, it is recommended to remove, since flowering at a later time weakens plants, worsens preparation for wintering. In a warm climate, you can give plants the opportunity to flourish.