Rudbeckia is one of the unpretentious perennial plants that decorate their personal plots with abundant and long flowering. Rudbeckia is a genus of annual, biennial and perennial herbaceous plants of the family Srednotsvetnykh, which has up to 40 species. In the article you will learn about long-term rudbeckiy, features of planting and care.
Rudbeckia long-term - description
The advantage of this garden plant is that the bush even without flowers has a decorative appearance. Rudbeckia of different varieties grows from 60 cm to 2.5 m in height. The stems are branched, leafy and covered with hard hairs. Leaflets are beautiful, saturated green in color, oval in shape, whole or pinnately-dissected, up to 20 cm long.
The flower of a long-lived rudbeckia is an inflorescence of bright coloration, which is a basket with a diameter of 8-15 cm. The tongue marginal flowers are orange, yellow, half red from the center to the periphery, sometimes dark brown, almost black. In the middle - tubular from yellow to purple-black and brown.
In flower beds and flowerbeds grow different varieties and hybrids of rudbeckia for many years: simple and terry, curbs and tall ones. The most common of these are:
- Rudbeckia giant (Gloriosa Desy, Duble Desy);
- Rudbeckia purple (Cherry Brandy, Terry cap and Echinacea purple);
- Rudbeckia cut (Goldball - Gold Ball, Goldguelle - Golden Spring);
- Rudbeckia glossy (Goldschirm, Herbstsonne, Juligold);
- Rudbeckia hairy (Prairie Sun, Moscio).
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Rudbeckia perennial - growing from seeds
Rudbeckia can be propagated by seeds, by dividing a bush and by cuttings.
Seeds are sown in April in a mixture of peat land and sand. Top with a layer of ground in 2-3 mm and moisturize the spray. Covered with a film or glass pots are placed on the windowsill. If the temperature is maintained at 18-22 ° C, the shoots will appear for 9-12 days. Next, you need the sun and abundant regular watering. Before transplanting, it is necessary to temper the young plants, taking them out in the daytime to open air. On the first or second weeks of May, the seedlings are planted in a prepared place.
Rudbeck seeds can be sown directly into the open ground. Do it in the summer in June-July. In the autumn of the same year, a bush will form, and next year it will bloom.
Such varieties of garden hybrids of rudbeckia, as a hairy, dissected, glossy, multiply in May-August cuttings or the division of a two-year bush in the spring.
Rudbeckia perennial - landing
She loves light, warmth and abundant watering, but at the same time this plant tolerates short droughts, slight shading and is not exacting to the soil. For abundant and long flowering during planting, it is best to choose solar areas without wind with drained and fertilized humus earth.
Seedlings are planted in holes at a distance of 0.5 m, for tall varieties, we increase the distance to 1 m. Plants must be planted so that later it is easy to organize the support.
Starting from the end of June, Rudbeckia will please you with its flowering for 2 months. Planted in partial shade plants grow higher and bloom later, but bloom longer.
Rudbeckia long-term care
It consists of the following events:
- weeding;
- copious watering;
- garter of tall varieties to the support;
- removal of yellowed leaves;
- fertilizing 3-4 times in 15-20 days with complex mineral fertilizers;
- preparation for wintering: in autumn cutting "on the root" and mulching humus by a layer of 5-7 cm.
Rudbeckia is perennial resistant to most diseases and pests of the garden. In one place the bush can normally grow no more than 6-8 years. Also, Rudbeckia lives well with many other colors: asters, armies, marigolds, faiths, gypsophiles, heliopsychics, koreopsis, chamomiles, etc.
Perennial varieties of rudbecki will perfectly decorate your flower beds and flower beds with their bright flowers and ornamental bushes for a long time.