The plant in question has several names. Its "legal" name - montbretsiya - these flowers were given in honor of de Montbret, a botanist from France. However, in the people the flower is called mambre, crocosmia, Japanese gladiolus, newt, and even lucretia, although this is a completely different kind of plant. Today, more than a dozen different varieties of this amazingly beautiful plant are known, able to decorate any flower garden with their graceful inflorescences. They differ not only externally, but also the requirements for care, cultivation.
Mambrezia is the result of crossing two varieties of Crocosmia (Pots and Golden). Her in 1880 brought Lemoine, a French breeder. The garden hybrid with graceful bright flowers of star-funnel-like shape, gathered in ears of orange-red color, fell in favor of European florists. Cultivation of mambreas is justified on open flower gardens, since from July to the first frosts it pleases with abundant long flowering. If you put cut flowers in a vase or include in a bouquet, then for two weeks the mambreia will not lose its freshness.
If you are interested in the subtleties of planting, growing and caring for mammering, you should read some rules.
Features of landing
Mambrery multiplies and seeds, and children, and bulbs. Seeds are planted in pots with a substrate at the end of February. When young seedlings grow, they must be dived. And on the beds they planted in May with a lump of native substrate, so that the seedlings are better established. Plants grown in this way, after two or three years you will be pleased with the flowering.
Planting of mambre babies is carried out in May. After a year or two, the mambre will bloom. But the bulbs, soaked in advance for two to five hours in a weakly-potted solution of potassium permanganate, are planted two weeks earlier so that they can "wake up". Mambrezia is very fond of the sunshine. In areas with high humidity, the plant grows poorly, stretches, and flowering may not occur. Ideal option - fertilized with humus, fertile, loose and moist soil. To increase the chances of survival of young plants, in the autumn add sand and mineral fertilizers to the soil.
Watering mambrezii should be carried out infrequently. After the rain, the ground around the bushes must be weeded and loosened. Please note that the flower stems of mambrea are rather thin, and the flowers are heavy, so supports are needed. When the mambre will fade, the peduncles should be trimmed so that the bulbs mature better.
For the winter, mammers from the ground are excavated, but do not rush to do it before the end of October, so that the young children grow up on the bulbs. After digging, they are dried in a room with good ventilation. In the future, the bulbs are stored in a room with an average moisture level and a temperature of about 10 degrees Celsius. It is worth noting that in the land for wintering mambreziya can remain in the event that the average daily temperature does not drop below 30 degrees below zero. To secure the bulbs, which are in the ground,
If you do not plan to breed the mambrea, then once in three years the bulbs should still be excavated in order to separate the children. Ignoring this rule, you will turn an exotic elegant plant into a thickened overgrown bush of an unattractive appearance. Having planted a mambrement with cannes , salvia, chrysanthemums or daylilies, you will get an amazing flower garden, which will create a good mood by its appearance.