Godezia: planting and care in the open ground

If you are interested in godetia, planting and caring for her - a photo of this American beauty will tell you - it is she who is needed in your garden in order to make it simply charming! Choose a sunny area for it, with medium-density soil, preferably loam, you can even arrange it in partial shade, moderate watering, and godetia will thank you with simply amazing flowering.

It is interesting that godetia is translated as a “ray” - it is with such a bright and gentle ray that it appears in your garden shortly after planting. And planting godetia is not at all difficult, moreover, this lady is completely unpretentious, withstands the cold snap, and the diversity of her species even from this plant makes it possible to make a color splash in the garden.

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In order to get the lovely bloom of godetium as early as possible, it can be sown in seedlings in March in a drawer with soil. In order for the plants to be healthy and bloom better, experienced gardeners recommend adding a little white clay to the soil.
See also: planting petunias for seedlings in 2016.

The dear lady will bloom noticeably on the 75th day from the planting of seeds and will delight you with a wonderful variety of colors to the very frosts. To make a beauty longer than color, remove faded inflorescences in time. It is interesting that the flowers of godetia are always open, regardless of the weather, even in the rain and on sunless days they do not close, continuing to delight with heavenly beauty.

Advice:

• Cut godetium is great in a vase, and if you still throw a few crystals of ordinary citric acid into the water, it will also smell like vanilla.
• Watering is often necessary, but without fanaticism, godetia does not like an excess of moisture.
• Although the manufacturer claims that it is possible to sow godetium under the winter, experience shows that you can only transfer seeds! It is better not to be too lazy to grow its seedlings in the spring, and get an excellent result in the form of lush and prolonged flowering in the period July-September.

Godetia is resilient, hardy, blooms very beautifully, abundantly and for a long time. Why not decorate the garden?