Incarvillea delavayi (Incarvillea delavayi) - seed cultivation

Owners of private houses try their best to decorate their plots. The main decoration of any yard is a lush flowerbed, in which elegant flowers are planted, effectively complementing each other. When creating garden compositions, homeowners often use incarvilia a delight that strikes with delicate and exquisite flowering and does not require complicated care.

Plant description

Incarville delaway belongs to the category of herbaceous plants, the height of which can reach 180-200 cm. Depending on the variety of decorative culture, annual, biennial or perennial plants are distinguished.

Incarville Delaware

The root system can be woody or tuberous. Stems, according to the description, growing upwards, are branched or simple. Leaf plates can be arranged alternately or assembled in root sockets.

On the foliage you can see the finely serrated edge. On the flowers are tubular nimbuses and a bell-shaped cup.

Incarville flowers, painted in red, yellow, pink shades, can be collected in inflorescences of both paniculate and racemose type. The fruits are bifid polygonal capsules containing winged pubescent seeds.

Incarville: planting and care

Incarville refers to unpretentious plants. Soil for planting a decorative culture is suitable for any. It is important to provide a drainage system in each well to avoid stagnation of water. For this purpose, you can use:

• coarse sand;
• small gravel;
• expanded clay.

Experts recommend that the regime of irrigation of the Delaware incarville flower be adjusted so that the soil does not have time to dry out.

Top dressing must be applied once every season. It is advisable to fertilize the soil in mid-May, when the green part of the plant enters the active phase of growth. As a top dressing, a complex mineral fertilizer or mullein infusion is used. The dosage indicated by the manufacturer should not be exceeded so as not to provoke a decrease in frost resistance of the decorative culture.

Planting and caring for the Incarvillea delave is not difficult, so even an inexperienced grower can do plant growing.

Winter preparations

The plant can hibernate in the ground. To prepare the flowers for the winter period, it is necessary to mulch the land into which the culture is planted. As a mulch, you can use a layer of sawdust or spruce branches. The layer thickness should be between 7-10 cm. At the end of March, the mulch must be removed to avoid the occurrence of fungal diseases.

Gorgeous flowering

Bloom

The period of plant budding falls on the last month of May. The tops of the stems are literally dotted with buds, which at first look twisted and completely do not resemble the appearance of future flowers.

Every day, the shape of the ovary changes, gradually transforming into funnel-shaped flowers that can be colored in:

• coral
• purple
• soft pink shades.

Diameter of flowers reaches 55-60 mm.

Flowering is observed in early summer. In the absence of normal lighting, the bases of the colors, resembling gramophones, are painted in a pale yellow tone. Under normal conditions, the shade of the bases is more saturated. You can admire the flowering of the Incarville for two months. Gradually instead of flowers, fruits with the presence of winged seeds are formed on the grassy culture.

Propagation of the incarville

Seeds of decorative culture can be sown both in pots for seedlings at home, and directly in the open ground. Experienced growers recommend performing planting work in the spring and autumn months.

If there is a desire to achieve lush flowering in the year of planting, it is recommended to use the seedling method described below.

1. Seed is stratified. To this end, a couple of months before planting, the seeds are placed in a peat substrate and transferred for 45-60 days to the lower shelf in the refrigerator. The stratification procedure is usually carried out in the middle of winter.
2. After a specified period of time, it is necessary to prepare containers with drainage holes in order to plant seeds.
3. Pots are filled with self-prepared soil on the basis of sheet soil, peat and river sand. Before you fill the containers with soil, you must send it to the oven for 25-30 minutes. After this, the soil should stand for a couple of days to restore the natural microflora.
4. The seeds of the incarvillia are distributed on the surface of the earth, covered in pots. A small layer of sand is sprinkled on top of the seed material, the thickness of which should not exceed 8-10 mm.
5. The soil is moistened with a spray gun.
6. Containers with incarville plantings are covered with film material and transferred to a room in which the temperature is in the range of 18-20 ° C.
7. The first shoots appear 10-15 days after planting. Film material is removed from containers.
8. After that, you can transfer the pots with seedlings to a well-lit area, the temperature in which reaches 19-21 ° C.
9. Every day, the soil is slightly moistened with a spray gun. As soon as 3-4 leaves appear on the seedlings, it is possible to peal incarville in separate glasses / pots. Planting seedlings on an open bed is carried out in early summer, when the threat of night frost is over. A few weeks before planting flowers in open ground, it is necessary to systematically take out pots for hardening on the street. It is not difficult to take care of the plant, if you follow the recommendations of specialists.

Delaware decorative culture

When choosing a place for landing incarville, it is worth giving preference to slightly shaded areas.

If there is a desire to sow seed material directly into the open ground, these events are best carried out in early May. Flowers grown in this way will receive maximum hardening and will not suffer from night cooling. After planting seeds in open ground, seedlings can be expected after 14-21 days.

Transfer

Incarvilleia needs a systematic transplant, which helps to extend its lifespan and lush flowering.

Transplantation is carried out, as a rule, every 3-4 years. The procedure is best rescheduled to the last weeks of August. When planting bushes, it is worth paying attention to the root neck rising a few centimeters above the ground surface.

Growing problems

Incarville often suffers from ailments and pests. It is very important to systematically inspect the bushes in order to timely identify the problem. Quite often, a decorative culture suffers from:

1. Powdery mildew, in which the foliage of plants is deformed, red-brown spots and white spider plaque appear on the green mass. With the formation of a mosaic color, the sheet plates begin to die.
2. Black spotting, which can be determined by black spots on the foliage, the diameter of which can reach 10-15 mm. The spots gradually merge with each other, and the leaf plates die off.
3. Gray rot. The stems against the background of the disease begin to grow brown. A fluffy smoky coating forms on them. If no action is taken, the plant will soon die.

Incarvillea delavayi

To cope with diseases, experienced growers recommend timely:

• remove fallen leaves;
• crop affected shoots;
• to carry out the processing of decorative plantings by special means.

The most effective drugs that help to cope with ailments in a short period of time are funds of the type:

• Topaz
• Thanos;
• Vectra;
• Gamair

In addition to these diseases, when growing an ornamental culture, problems such as:

• yellowing of foliage, indicating improper care of the plant;
• browning of foliage that occurs against the background of systematic waterlogging of the soil;
• rotting of the root system, indicating an incorrect irrigation regime.

Incarvillea is often invaded by spider mites, mealybug and aphids. To cope with pests, it is enough to carry out processing using insecticidal preparations.

Incarville is able to become a real decoration of any garden plot. Gorgeous flowers will fit perfectly into any landscape design. Especially good are the compositions of the decorative culture, planted near the catnip, the Incarville of Snowtop, the Incarville of China (White Swan) and hydrangea.