If you want to erect a delightful flowerbed on a plot, paint the plot with multi-colored paints, add delicious aromas to it - turn your eyes to the beautiful digitalis. Someone will say - but the rose is much more beautiful! Maybe so - the tastes are different for everyone. But you cannot fill your eyes with roses alone, you also want variety, a riot of colors and shapes, because digitalis, planting and care in the open ground are not at all difficult - the best option. We will consider the photo now, and you will see that it is a beautiful grateful flower, find a place for it in the garden.
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Digitalis landing
It’s a pleasure to grow it from seeds - it has no special requirements, it grows well in the sun, and it feels fine in partial shade, if only the soil is drainage and not water-resistant, and it should be watered periodically, that’s all the requirements of our beauty.
The seeds are tiny, that dust, therefore it’s better to plant it, diluting it with sand, so that it doesn’t work out much heap. In May-June, dig up a bed, scatter seeds on it, gently shake it in a sand, cover it, and after a week or two they will please you with friendly shoots. Do not despair if it seems to you that they are growing slowly - this is the first month. Then the digitalis as it accelerates, so you do not even have time to look around, as it extends up to 1-1.5 meters.
How will the month after germination, when the plant begins to grow actively, is the time to thin out. Do not spare seedlings, thin out actively, leaving 12 centimeters between individuals, otherwise they will be small and worthless.
If you got what a rare variety, use the seedling method, peck it in pots and plant it later in the fall. Cover carefully with lapnik, and next spring, digitalis will already delight you with its delightful flowering. Seeds, by the way, she scatters herself, so that later she comes up to you on the site, for joy and admiration.
Tip: make sure that in spring the plants do not fall into stagnant water - digitalis does not like this, and can rot. Choose a site on a hill at least a little, and then her growth will be excellent. You can also drop our beauty in near-trunk circles, she loves it.
It is interesting - marigolds, growing from seeds when to plant.
Types of digitalis
Purple: the most popular among gardeners is tall, grows up to one and a half meters, usually blooms already in the second year, looks very beautiful and bright. You can admire her flowers for a month and a half.
Tip: if you clean the faded inflorescences in time, it will bloom longer.
Foxglove - a very bright and festive beauty, similar to an orchid, a lot of color variations. Winters beautifully, unpretentious, two-year.
Yellow digitalis - It’s better to tolerate winter from all species, besides the plant is perennial, June-July-August is in bloom.
Looks beautiful digitalis large - pubescent leaves, delicate yellow flowers, June-July pleases with its beauty in the garden.
But - despite the beauty and unpretentiousness of this plant, you need to remember - it is poisonous, therefore, if there are kids in the house who drag everything in their mouths, it is dangerous to let them into the garden to the flowers.
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