There is a wonderful unpretentious and seemingly plain-looking flower - matthiola, which in the evenings smells so sweet that you just want to sit and inhale its aroma. Mattiola gray-haired is one of the most popular among 50 odd species of matthiol. Still Mattiola bicorn, better known as Levka, is also popular.
The botanist Pietro Mattiola gave his name to the flower, and even the ancient Greeks decorated halls for festivals with armfuls of this flower, which gave visitors magical aromas. Originally from the south of Europe, flowers are from white to pale purple, stems erect, blooms profusely.
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Seed planting
Mattiola gray-haired can be planted with seeds in May in the ground, and seedlings grown in March to bloom faster. Two-horned can only grow seeds, transplanting seedlings can not stand. Soil loves drainage, moistened (but without stagnation of moisture), and the place is sunny. There is one caveat - to plant away from cabbage, and choose a place where cruciferous ones were not their predecessors, because immediately the same pests take over their illnesses that they eat cabbage and they are not given rest.
Mattiol should be planted with seeds like this: as the weather is already warm, in April-May, the seeds are sown on the prepared plot, after 2 weeks the seeding is repeated on the other plot. So you prolong the flowering of matthiola, you can plant it for the third time, so until the fall you will be with aromatic matthiola.
In March, seeds with a mixture of turf and sand can be planted in boxes, and lightly sprinkled with soil on top. Do not water as the sprouts appear - then only spill into the cool room, where the temperature is not above 12 degrees, transfer. After two weeks, dive, and at the end of the month with a lump of earth (it would be better in general in peat glasses to transfer to the ground.
Mattiola Care
Water regularly - but do not fill, remove faded inflorescences, feed with minerals. Here's the trick for taking care of matthiola.
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