Goose onion is a bulbous herbaceous honey plant belonging to a family of lily plants. Its appearance is rather modest, but the plant looks great in a stony garden and feels great in floral arrangements. Often it is also used as a curb. In nature there are more than a hundred of its species, and most often the plant is found in Eurasia and North Africa. Blooming goose onions in early spring, so it is popularly called the yellow snowdrop.
The flower of goose onions reaches a height of 35 cm. Its inflorescences are umbelliform, and the flowers themselves are small yellow asterisks. The leaves of the goose-onion plant are narrow and long, much longer than the inflorescence. Propagated goose onions with the help of children, which are formed from the main bulb. In summer, the fruits of goose onions in the form of triangular boxes with seeds ripen. After the flowering, the aerial part of the plant dies.
The most common are species such as goose onion yellow, onion, small, reddish. In ornamental garden gardening, goose onions are most often used yellow. The plant is quite hardy, loves sunny places, fertile, loose soil, which does not retain water.
Yellow onion yellow
Yellow goose grows in forests, oak forests, groves and thick bushes. Has a small egg-shaped bulb with a diameter of up to 10 mm, covered with brown-gray scales. Its stem grows to 30 cm. The radical broad leaves are longer than the inflorescence. Under the inflorescence, he usually has two leaves: one growing above the inflorescence, and the second, less large, shorter than the inflorescence. The inflorescence itself consists of 8-10 flowers of pale yellow color, and on the outside they are generally greenish. Goose onion blooms yellow in March-April.
In summer, the plant begins a period of rest. And by the beginning of autumn goose onion is completely formed the next year's escape. The tops of its leaves begin to resemble a solid point, helping the plant to break through in early spring through frozen soil, snow or ice crust.
The period of vegetation in goose yellow onions lasts only 2-3 weeks. Its yellow flowers open at 10 o'clock in the morning, but close at 17 o'clock. In cloudy or rainy weather, they do not open at all.
In the description of yellow goose onions, you can meet interesting periods of its reproduction. During the first period, before flowering, there is increased reproduction and the formation of children that appear at the base of the mother bulb. These formed small bulbs do not grow into the next, but only in the third year. In the spring of the fourth and fifth year, the bulbs continue to grow, and only in the spring of the sixth year the plant blooms and the second period of the life of goose onion begins. The daughter bulbs can no longer form in him, and the reproduction proceeds only with the help of seeds. Such bulbs, grown from seeds, are located for several years on the surface of the soil and are easily washed away by rain or flood waters
Seeds of yellow goose bows are sown under the winter. If you want to grow a plant from children, it is best to scatter onions in the area where the grass grows already and lightly bulb the bulbs to the ground. With this planting you will get a beautiful natural carpet from the star placer of yellow flowers of decorative goose on a green grass field.