8 Review (s)

  1. Elena Potapova, Smolensk

    I heard about unusual shrubs: the sucker is silvery and narrow-leaved. What is their difference?

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    • Summerman, gardener and gardener (anonymous)

      - The species you named are the most common in the Sucker family. Shrubs have a similar appearance, but have different qualities. The silver goof has no thorns, it is used only in landscaping, and its fruits are inedible. But the narrow-leaved sucker - a tall thorny bush, has delicious sweet fruits, which are popularly called the wild or northern date. This is a light-loving and drought-resistant species, undemanding to soils, even tolerates their significant salinity.

      It blooms in late May and early June. During flowering, the air is saturated with a pleasant sweetish aroma. The fruits ripen in August. It begins to bloom and bear fruit from the age of 5. Propagated by seeds, cuttings, layering. In culture, there are several forms with large edible fruits.
      Both species are successfully used in single and group plantings; their silvery foliage looks spectacular against the green background of other plants. L. narrow-leaved tolerates a haircut, suitable for creating prickly hedges.

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  2. Nikolay Dmitrievich ERMIKOV, Bryansk

    There are plants that are nothing special. They are not included in the assortment of fashionable Dutch catalogs, they are not ordered in the winter, they pass by them on the marketplaces, and in the old Soviet times they might have been given a load to the scarce goods - peonies and roses.

    These include anaphalis - it is just not one of the brightest representatives of the flora. As they say, dullness that literally corresponds to the appearance of the plant. But, strangely enough, anafalis is able to play the first violin in the design of the garden, you just need to find suitable partners for him.

    Features
    If you do not have time to care for flowers, and the soil in the garden is sandy, then
    anaphalis is your plant. It is drought tolerant, likes open dry places, is frost-hardy in central Russia, and is not affected by pests and diseases.
    Anafalis is growing rapidly - already at the end of August the tops of shoots of the next year are visible. Therefore, plant reproduction is not difficult, it is enough to separate these shoots in spring or autumn and transplant to a new place.

    Advantageous combinations
    In my garden, it grows with oats, katran, monard, basil and Dicentra. Moreover, Schmidt's wormwood was supposed to be planted, but Anafalis took its place.

    According to the saturation of gray color, the young foliage of anaphalis is not inferior to both wormwood and pure woolly. That is why I put them together. Good anaphalis with orange heleniums, successfully closes their “legs”. Try to use it in gravel gardens along with ground cover phlox and the entire detachment of gray cereals - fescue and Kalerii, sheep, schizachirium and gorzovnik. Gray will never hurt gray.
    Its blooming and brown inflorescences in autumn are of less interest. Still, the foliage is more important, so you can not bring to flowering and constantly cut the buds. You can also use it with bright sage and yarrow, lupins and cornflowers, adding asters and stonecrop as structural plants.
    Dry flowers
    These flowers make me happy in the winter. To create compositions, I cut the stems and dry them, hanging them down with inflorescences. After such an operation, they do not change color and are not showered in dry bouquets. But if in a few months you decide to change the location of such an “ikebana” or rearrange the plants in another vase, light feathers will fly from the flower.

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  3. Zinaida Skvortsova, Voronezh

    When and how are seedlings planted with a brachicum and a plaque? How to care for crops? What place in the garden does this flower prefer?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      - Brachycome iberidifolia (Brachycome iberidifolia) - an abundant and long-blooming annual of the Astro family. Low (up to 25-30 cm in height), strongly branched bushes are covered with small blue, lilac or pink "chamomile" flowers. The seeds grow well when sowing directly into the open ground in April, for an earlier flowering, the brachicum is grown through seedlings (see Table). But if you have the opportunity to light the seedlings on the windowsill, you can begin seeding in January.

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  4. Arina Mihailovna Karaseva, Tula

    Vein-sharp, in my opinion, the most beautiful ornamental grass. The first time I

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  5. Yana Tsar

    I like it, but the neighbors consider this plant a weed. How to grow it?

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    • OOO "Sad"

      About the darkness (Lamium) can not be judged as a weed, it is a remarkable soil cover perennial with wintering leaves. The species are characterized by growth patterns. It grows well on loose, drained, moderately nutritious soil in scattered shade. Soaking and heavy soils do not fit. For the accuracy of the curtain and stimulate the growth of young shoots, the plant needs to be sheared. Faded shoots cut to the base, the rest periodically shorten. Veil is planted throughout the season - it is enough to separate and plant a well-rooted escape. If various plants of different varieties grow in the garden, you can get interesting seedlings with different colors of leaves and flowers. They develop quickly.
      Where to plant a windmill
      Varieties of plants with long shoots look good on the edge of the retaining wall. In this case, the net can "run away" to its base.

      In the flower beds planted in the foreground, combining with perennials, which have leaves of dense texture, without a pattern: primroses, hosts (effectively a combination with "blue" varieties), ferns (wolves scopopendrovye and Japanese), hellebore. If you need to "lighten" the area, dilute the greens with silver, plant a mottled cherry (L. maculatum). The shoots are easily rooted in the knots. The rate of growth depends on the variety, but is generally small.
      For large shady areas, powerful retaining walls, the Yellow Clearweed is suitable, or Zelenchuk (Lamiastrum galeobdolon). It survives on any soils. A stunning growth rate! Regular haircut can be kept within the specified limits. The nature of the growth of his brand Hermann's Pride is radically different. It is a neat, non-aggressive perennial, forming a bush 30-40 cm in height.

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