Recently Geiger flower is widely used in landscape design. He comes from North America, popularly called the "handsome root" or "coral bell". The plant received its name thanks to the German botanist and professor of medicine Johann Heinrich von Geiger. In one form or another, the plant is found all over the world.
Geiger in landscape design
At modern landscape designers the geiger began to occupy leading positions on the role of curb, accent, fascinating eyes of flowers. The plant is beautiful all year round, and in autumn, after the lawn dims, the culture remains the only bright spot on the flowerbed. Geiger in design is used in the following compositions:
- in flower and wood-shrub mixborders;
- in rockeries and rock gardens;
- as companions for roses, lilies, irises;
- in the form of a decorative border.
Geiger - varieties
Decorative Geiger flower is a perennial plant. It is valued for beautiful leaves of various shapes and colors - not only green, but also cream, purple, brown, purple, silvery. The bushes are compact and low, retain decorativeness even in winter. Flowers are small, bell-shaped, collected in lush rosettes, grow on high stems, have different colors. Modern breeders have brought out a whole line of original hybrids of geicher, species and varieties are different foliage and corollas.
Geiger Marmalade
The flower has a yellowish-orange bright amber foliage with a red underside. The plates are strongly corrugated, they look very positive and fun. In June-July, the bush produces small white flowers with a greenish tinge on high stems of 25-35 cm. Geiger Marmalade - the plant is winter-hardy, with mulching it can withstand temperatures of -35 ° C, it develops better in the penumbra. In the flower gardens gives the impression of a festive fireworks, is widely used in curbs.
Geiger Caramel
Decorative geyehra Caramel has a unique color of foliage - honey-yellow. This is one of the best varieties, rarely blooms, sometimes in late spring the plant pleases with small white-cream petals. Fast-growing shrub, reaches 30 cm in height and width. The variety came to us from the south of North America, so this geiger in the garden feels well in the summer heat and in a damp climate.
Geiger Purple Castle
This is an old, long-known variety with large dark purple pointed leaves with a metallic ebb and covered with whitish stems. The purple geychera looks chic and decorative, the culture looks beautiful in numerous plantings. The adult plant can reach 60 cm in diameter, peduncles have a height of 45 cm. Cream corollas, collected in rosettes, are like bells and blossom in the middle of summer. The leaves are preserved until the spring under the snow.
Geiger Mirakl
This low ground cover plant reaches a height of 20-30 cm. Peduncles rise 15-20 cm above the main crest. The leaves of the Mirakl variety are velvety, three-lobed, with a deep dissection, they look spectacular. When they are blossoming, they have a greenish-yellow color, turning into red-terracotta with age, with an elegant lemon edging along the edge. Flowers in the plant are pink, small, collected in loose panicles, blossom in the second half of summer. Such undersized species are used in curbs and flower beds - where geometric forms of decoration are needed.
Geiger Green Spice
One of the popular varieties of green Geiger flower. It is distinguished by rounded leaves that change color from light green to dark emerald with contrasting silvery spots. The plates have a pattern - purple veins with burgundy divorces around them. The height of the bush is 30 cm, the diameter is 45 cm, the size of the peduncle is 50 cm. Perennial flowers the Green Spies are winter-hardy, like the sun, they are distinguished by their unpretentiousness and endurance. In mid-summer, they produce small pink-cream rosettes.
Geiger Tiramisu
Amazing compact (up to 35 cm in height) plant with three times per season changing color. The sort is loved by designers, as Geihera Tiramisu looks decorative all season - in the spring its leaves are light green, in summer - yellow with red-brick flame in the middle and along the veins, in autumn they turn orange with a lemon rim. The plates are round, have a serration. The height of the stem under the coronals is 35 cm, the flowers are small, lace, cream-yellow, appear in July-September.
Geiger Obsidian
This is a popular variety with almost black glossy foliage, which does not change its color even on sunny areas. The height of the bush is 25 cm, the diameter is 30 cm, the size of the peduncle is 60 cm. The leaves are large, roundish, wavy, smooth and shiny, with a serrated margin. Crohn gives the plant a luxurious appearance. Delicate cream flowers blossom in June-July on reddish stems, beautifully contrasted with black and violet foliage. The flower of the garden dark Geiger Obsidian grows well in shaded places, under the trees. It beautifully highlights the brightness of other plants in the design.
Geiger - landing
An important advantage of a Geiger flower is shade tolerance. In conditions of good watering, the culture can also grow on sunny places - in purple varieties, then the foliage becomes darker, and in green - more saturated. But the best for cultivation are suitable areas with scattered shade from deciduous trees or shrubs. Description of the varieties Geicher contains soil requirements - the culture grows more abundantly on the fertile, drained land with the presence of lime. In loamy soils, it is necessary to add the overgrown wood bark or compost.
When buying a flower in the store, before planting it is pulled out of the pot. The root system is laundered from the substrate, straightened, its tips can be cut. If the plant has a lot of leaves, the old and large ones can be removed so that the bush is more likely to take root in a new place. In the process of planting it is important to ensure that the central part of the socket does not land on the ground.
Geiger flower - cultivation and care
Garden Geiger - unpretentious, growing it does not cause special problems. Care for the flower is to observe certain rules:
- In plentiful humidification the plant does not need. The soil beneath it must be moist to the depth of the layer in which the roots are located. Overabundance of water is dangerous for them - there is a risk of rot. Irrigation regime - morning or evening. Water should be poured under the bush, not falling on the foliage. To prevent evaporation, the soil is mulched with foliage or peat.
- Geiger flower - the plant is frost-resistant, hibernates in the open ground. The culture must be prepared - its roots are hilly, and the soil is covered with a heater (sawdust, oak leaves). Young plants can be protected with agrofiber. For the winter, the foliage is forbidden to cut off to avoid bush disease. Manipulation for the removal of patients or dried out parts is better to postpone for the spring.
- The culture is resistant to diseases. Snails or slugs stop grooves with lime, tobacco dust. When the leaves are damaged by spotting or downy mildew, the diseased plates are removed, and the bush is treated with a fungicide. Stagnant water can cause root rot, in which case you should cut the rosette to a healthy tissue, root the resulting stem.
Transplant Geiger
Growing the flower is accompanied by an important drawback - stretching the stems after 5 years of life of the bush. At the same time, his lower leaves die, and the upper leaves shrink. To restore the original appearance of the plant, he is recommended a transplant with a breakdown of the bush into parts or pruning every 2-3 years. Such procedures will help to rejuvenate the bush and restore its splendor. The geyher is transplanted in the spring before flowering, after the leaves on the shoots just begin to dissolve, with some rules:
- the peduncles are removed, the exposed above-ground parts of the stems are cut with a sharp knife to obtain cuttings;
- slices on shoots are sprinkled with ashes;
- on the processes, the number of leaves is reduced, the cuttings are treated with stimulants for the roots - they must be planted in a greenhouse;
- sand is suitable as a substrate;
- the flower is rooted so that the center of the rosette remains above the surface of the soil;
- After the young plant gets strength, it is planted in the open ground.
Top dressing geyheers
In nature, a flower grows in the mountains, in a land not very rich in nutrients. Therefore, if the soil on the site is fertile and watering is normal, then the plant develops normally and without additional fertilizing. If desired, twice a year (before and after flowering) to stimulate the development of the geiger is fertilized, care in terms of feeding it needs a moderate. To this end , complex mineral fertilizers with a low nitrogen content are used, which in large quantities provokes the appearance of many renal buds. The concentration of fertilizing is half that of other plants.
Geiger - reproduction
You can increase the population of geyer with the help of seeds or cuttings. Species varieties are grown in the first way to obtain a quality planting material. Hybrid varieties multiply by dividing the bush. Breeding methods:
- Seeds. Shelf life of the inoculum is six months after harvesting, if kept in foil - 1,5 years. Rules of cultivation:
- planting is carried out in March, 25 days before the time of the expected flowering of the variety;
- a wide 5 cm high tank with drainage holes is suitable for sowing;
- soil for growing seedlings is disinfected, for this purpose it is kept in an oven or microwave for at least 5 minutes;
- The soil for sowing is needed loose, sand can be added to it;
- the seeds of the flower are very small, they evenly spill over the entire surface of the pot on a moist substrate from above. They do not need to be sprinkled - just squeeze a little, so as not to wash off with water;
- containers with seedlings are installed in a well-lit, warm place without drafts and covered with a film. It should be removed for airing every day for 30 minutes. The optimum temperature for germination is + 20-22 ° C. Watering is replaced by spraying to avoid injury, flooding and flushing of seeds;
- shoots will go through in 2-3 weeks. In this case, the film can not be removed, but to make holes in it, so that the shoots pass through them and at the same time stay warm. At the stage of 2-3 leaflets, the seedlings are dived at a distance of 5 cm from each other;
- Seedlings need to be hardened. After the threat of frosts passes (in mid-May), they can be taken out into the garden and dig a container in the shade;
- In June, young flowers can be planted on a permanent place of growth;
- In the first year young seedlings are especially in need of watering.
- dig a flower and divide it into several parts;
- The bare stalk is shortened to the young part, the dried shoots are cut to the living kidneys located in the axils of the leaves;
- long roots can be shortened, rotted areas can be cut to a healthy tissue. Slicers are sprinkled with wood chopped coal;
- a fossa of 30x30 cm size is prepared, ashes and complex mineral fertilizer are added to it;
- after planting, the flower is watered, shaded from the sun;
- After 6-7 weeks the plant will release new roots, then it can be transplanted to a permanent place if necessary.