Often in well-groomed flower beds and avenues you can see multi-colored decorative bushes - green and red, gray and cream, purple and silver. It is a multi-faceted Geiger flower - perennial native to North America. There are many varieties of this plant, but the conditions of growing geyer are the same. Let's get acquainted with them.
Garden flower geiger - care features
To further the plant pleased you with its bright colors, it is important to choose the right place for planting. It should be sunny or slightly shaded, well protected from winds. Ideally, the geyher should be planted where the sun will illuminate it well only in the morning hours. And since the flower from early spring to the most frost preserves its unique decorative qualities, it is often placed on central flower beds, driveways, etc.
In care, these perennial flowers are unpretentious - the Geiger can grow on any soil, although, of course, he prefers lighter and nutritious soils.
Watering, as well as feeding, Geikhera prefers lean. Regularly "flooding" the flower, you risk ruining its root system, especially if the geyser grows on heavy or marshy soil. Therefore, it is desirable to provide good drainage . As for feeding, they should be done only occasionally, while reducing the concentration by half compared with other garden perennials .
For the winter geyher should be covered with oak leaves. The leaves of the plant can not be cut off before wintering, since it is through their geiger that they keep the heat.
Plant this beautiful decorative flower in your garden, and it will please you for 3-5 years. Then it begins to disintegrate, revealing the middle - this means that the bush should be divided into several parts and planted, thus rejuvenating the plant.
All sorts of geycles are divided into two groups - mountain and forest species. The first include the Geiger blood-red, cylindrical, hairy. The second group is Geiger American, gooseberry, hybrid, etc. In total, there are about 70 species of flower Geicher, the most striking of which are used in landscape design.