A plant similar to a chamomile with thin petals. Perennial garden chamomile and care for the plant in the open field.

The spark of the sun-chamomile,
Over the cliff by the river,
I Narva bouquet Natasha,
That eyes - cornflowers.
The one that is more beautiful in the world,
Radiant and sweet.
Like woven from summer,
All of the sunshine,
All of happiness and warmth.

Description and features of chamomile garden

Chamomile garden  - This is a perennial, which has long been loved by all gardeners. Its title garden chamomile   Received thanks to the word "Romana" in Latin means Roman.

In ancient books, it was called “Roman Chamomile”. In ancient Egypt it was believed that the sun god created the daisy. People in the old days used to say that chamomile grows in that place where the star fell.

Chamomile is considered a popular flower that grows in the garden, in the forest and in the meadows. Slavic girls wove wreaths from this plant, wondered at the guy, or simply collected the bouquets. To this day, the daisy girls trust their innermost secrets and ask her one and the same question “loves or dislikes”

Chamomile is considered the national flower of Russia. After all, only Russian girls went to the Russian - folk dress with a wreath of daisies on their heads or wove them into their braids. Russian artists often depict Russian camomile fields in their paintings. About daisies sing songs, poets devote their poems to them.

In the photo garden daisy

Photo of chamomile garden can once again prove its natural beauty. Chamomile - not capricious to the conditions of planting and growth. She is ready to delight all summer with her beauty. People call the daisy a princess. And this is true, she is like a gentle, elegant princess with a light and pleasant aroma trail.

Chamomile garden princess  belongs to the group of astrov plants. The height can reach up to 100 cm. The flowers of chamomile can be of various sizes, on average 15 cm in diameter.

Size depends on the variety. Beautiful, white petals adorn the yellow and bright, like the sun, the core. Each flower can be placed a different number of petals.

Varieties of daisies

North Star  - perennial garden chamomile, which relished all gardeners. Easy to grow and maintain. The height reaches 70 cm. This variety loves the sun's rays and calmly tolerates dry weather. You can plant them at any time in the spring and autumn.

In the photo garden daisy north star

Garden princess- This species grows up to 35 cm. The flowers are large, reach 10 cm in diameter. The plant is light-loving, loves a good, fertile soil. Be sure to feed them. Plant better where flowers are protected from the wind. Grow large and lush bush.

In the photo daisy garden princess

Nivyanik  - this is the most large garden daisy. Flowers in diameter reach up to 15 cm. They reach a height of up to 80 cm. Large, yellow core and large, flat, white petals. Reproduction occurs most often by seed or division of the bush.

In the photo garden chamomile cornfield

Planting and breeding garden chamomile

Plant a daisy on household plot  or flower bed, even a novice. She is absolutely not whimsical and not demanding on the soil and further care. For those who wish to receive flowering in the first year of life, it is recommended to choose the method of planting by dividing the mother bush, and for those who are not in a hurry, the seed method of planting will do.

Grow a garden daisy  can be from seed. It is recommended to sow the seeds in mid-May. Sowing of seeds produced in open ground at a distance of 25 cm from each other, a depth of 30 cm, lightly sprinkled with earth.

The desirable temperature for sowing is +15 degrees. After the first sprouts they can be transplanted to permanent place  residence. In the first year of life, the plant will only gain its strength and the flowering period may not occur.

Chamomile garden seeds

Chamomile seeds You can also put them in boxes or containers in the beginning of March, cover them tightly with film and put them in a lighted place. Sprouting seed begins after 3 weeks.

With the emergence of the first, young leaves, seedlings are seated in separate containers. Chamomile should be planted in open ground after the last night frosts, when the weather returns to normal. In this case, camomile blooms may begin at the end of the summer season, depending on the soil and climatic conditions.

At the end of flowering chamomile drops petals, and in its core begin to mature seeds, which later go to reproduction. Often matured chamomile seed spreads the wind or birds, getting into the ground, the seeds take root, germinate and in the future can suddenly please with their flowering. There are two main methods of chamomile breeding: seed and dividing the mother bush.

Propagation of garden chamomile by dividing the bush

It is very useful to propagate chamomile by dividing the mother bush. This simple operation is performed at the beginning of autumn or at the end of summer. Scrub gently to not damage as much as possible root systemneed to be divided with a sharp shovel, entirely with roots. Then, the dug-out bush is planted in a new place, and fertile and nutritious soil is added to the old one.

The following year, the newly planted chamomile is ready for flowering. The bush is considered ready to divide when it reaches 3-4 years of age. Attention! If you make a division of an adult bush annually, then the plant will produce beautiful and large ones. In the absence of a rejuvenation procedure, the flowers become smaller.

Care for chamomile garden

Despite the fact that the garden chamomile flower is not capricious, but like everything alive, it requires competent care. The first condition is to choose the right place  for planting chamomile, it should be as sunny and windless as possible.

Watering. Moisture is an important factor for any plant. On hot days, the plant needs plenty of watering. The most important thing is not to pour a flower. In this case, the roots are capable of rotting and this can lead to various diseases or even to the death of chamomile;

Nutrition. Chamomile loves to be fertilized with mineral and organic. Timely podkorma-guarantor of abundant flowering.

Tillage. Do not be lazy to weed the soil from weeds and loosen it in a timely manner. Loosening allows the root system to get enough oxygen.

Rejuvenation. To rejuvenate - it means to separate a little bush and transplant to a new place. Where it turned out an empty place must be filled with earth (preferably fertile). Every 5 years it is recommended to rejuvenate the flowers.

Perennial garden daisies  are frost resistant plants and tolerate the harsh Russian winters without additional shelter. However, there have been cases when in spring the flower did not come to life after the cold.

Therefore, a small chamomile cover does not hurt, for example, with fallen leaves, spruce branches or dry sawdust. At the end of autumn, the bush of a beautiful chamomile is cut, but not at the very root, but before the first leafy rosettes. In this state, she goes to winter and gain strength for the next flowering season.

Garden chamomile diseases and pests causing them

Common garden chamomile diseases are widespread fungal infections: powdery mildew and gray rot. In order to prevent diseases, chamomile flowers need time to weed and loosen the soil. If the plant is already sick, it is recommended to spray it with a fungicide solution.

Insect pests may also like tasty, green leaflets and rhizomes of chamomile. Most often, chamomile is attacked by various types of aphids and wireworms. To combat them exist folk remediesFor example, a weak solution of vinegar or an infusion of wormwood.

Chamomile garden price

Garden chamomile buy  can be on the Internet - shop or at any flower market. The price for 1 sachet of seeds can be from 20 to 35 rubles, depending on the company of the manufacturer and the selected grade. The cost of 1 adult camomile bush is 250-300 rubles.

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They have a classic image - a yellow center, like a button, framed by narrow long petals that look like rays radiating from the sun. In fact, the daisy flower is a complex inflorescence, which is called a basket. The yellow center of the basket consists of small tubular flowers, and on the edge there are long reed flowers, what we take as petals. In the old days, these beautiful wild flowers with a yellow button framed by snow-white petals were called “chamomiles”, and later the word “daisies” appeared from the Latin name and came into use. There were other names for these flowers - nursery, sunflower, whitehead, hen-party, chamomile, marching.

Kinds of daisy flowersmany botanists can easily distinguish them by their individual characteristics. To decorate your garden and flower beds, you can choose several types of daisies. The most expressive and large are the white inflorescences of chamomile in nivyanik.

In the wild form can be seen in the fields and forest edges. There are many ornamental varieties of cornfield, which are massively used in culture. it perennial  4-5 years are grown in one place, then the expanded rhizome should be divided and transplanted.

Nivyanik blooms continuously from July to August. On the tops of strong stems, 60-100 cm in height, camomile inflorescences are formed, up to 15 cm in diameter. Simple varieties of daisies have one or two rows of white petals around the yellow buttons. Semi-double daisies have a lush framing of petals around the center, while terry yellow varieties are not visible at all.

A nivyanik is a light-loving flower, therefore it is necessary to grow this plant in a sunny place, even in a small shade a nivyanik will bloom badly. Land before planting this plant must be deeply dug, fertilized with humus and complex mineral fertilizer. Nivyanik loves fertile, well-developed loose soil, does not tolerate low swampy areas. Nivyanik is drought-resistant, but at the time of formation of inflorescences and flowering it needs regular watering in dry weather. After flowering, the stems of the vineyard are cut, if you do not need to collect the seeds. In winter, the plant can be covered with dry leaves, stems, but in the early spring the shelter must be removed.

Nivyanik well propagated by seeds, division of rhizome and rooting cuttings. Plant seeds can be sown from spring to mid-summer, so that young plants have time to get stronger by the winter. The shoots will bloom in the second year.

Large white daisies are beautiful in themselves, the flowering bush of daisies looks great on the lawn. White daisies will be well combined with blue bells, cornflowers, delphinium.

Chamomiles can be not only white, but also bright. All shades from pink to dark cherry color can be coloring daisy flowers in pyrethrum pink and pyrethrum redThese flowers are also called Persian daisies.

A perennial plant with stems 40-70 cm tall and pinnately dissected leaves. The central part of the pyrethrum flowers is always yellow, and the marginal flowers - the petals are pink, purple, dark cherry. Pyrethrum flowers are slightly smaller in size than those of the nivyanik, up to 6-7 cm in diameter.

There is another popular species in floriculture -   feverfew. This annual plant behaves like a perennial, as it is well propagated by self-sowing. Fallen seeds in the fall, in early spring, sprout, by the summer branched leafy stems develop. One plant forms a real bouquet of small white daisies, 2-3 cm wide. The feverfew girl has several varieties with flowers of different shapes. Terry camomiles of a pyrethrum maiden or with tubular flowers similar to buttons modified in the center look beautiful. The color of the flowers pyrethrum maiden mostly white with a yellow center.

Feverfew is an unpretentious and undemanding plant in the care. Well, pyrethrum will only bloom in a sunny place, prefers fertile, loose earth, does not tolerate waterlogging and stagnation of water, and often lows out in low places.

Pyrethrum bloom begins in mid-June and lasts until August. Propagate pyrethrum easily by sowing seeds in the spring immediately into the ground. After 3-4 years pyrethrum bush is recommended to divide and transplant to a new location. Bright flowers of pyrethrum look good in mixed flower beds next to the bells, yarrow and Oriental poppy.

Fluffy Flowers - Chamomilepopularly called girl eyelashes. These flowers have a lot of fine marginal flowers around the yellow central part, which look like thick lush petals. In flower beds most often grow the beautiful-growing beautiful. This perennial plant is originally from North America. From the rhizome grows many direct branched stems up to 70 cm high. At the ends of the branches, medium-sized inflorescences bloom - baskets with a yellow center and light lilac petals. The small beauty bloom about a month in the middle of summer. In the hybrid varieties of the small-bloomer, the coloration of marginal flowers in the inflorescences is purple, blue, pink and white.

It is frost-resistant, well winters without shelter. It blooms better and develops in a sunny place with fertile loose soil, although it can tolerate a little shading and poor soil. After flowering, the plant stems are pruned, forming a small squat bush, so that it looks decorative in a flower garden. It is recommended to divide and replant the small-bloomer in 5-6 years. Transplanting should be carried out in early spring or late summer after flowering. The plant is easily propagated by seeds and rooting of green cuttings. The small-scale painter will be a wonderful companion to the slender and lush inflorescences of liatris and veronica.

Yellow daisiesthey radiate heat and light, like little suns, and it is precisely such associations that arise in the form of calendula flowers. They have a yellow-orange color, the central part may have a dark brown shade.

  - annual plant, at traditional medicine  These flowers are widely used. The plant forms a branched, erect stem with oval leaves. Green marigold covered with glandular hairs, so sticky to the touch. At the end of each shoot a basket inflorescence is formed - yellow daisy. There are decorative varieties of calendula with flowers of different shapes and colors.

Growing marigold is easy, this plant can multiply by self-sowing. Ripened seeds, falling into the ground, overwinter, and sprout in early spring, and in early summer, young plants will open the first flowers. Flowering calendula will continue throughout the summer, as the plant constantly forms new shoots with inflorescences.

Calendula loves sunny areas with fertile loose soil. This plant has antiseptic properties. Next to calendula, other plants are less affected by fungal diseases, such as blackleg. Also calendula frightens off pests - ticks, thrips, butterflies. Bright yellow camomile daisies in the flower garden will be beautifully combined with the blue flowers of sage, lavender, delphinium and ageratum.

It offers many kinds of flowers very similar to daisies. The most popular flowers in gardening - annual or chinese aster, it has large, spectacular inflorescences similar to large daisies. Simple varieties of annual asters have a greater resemblance to daisies; they have a large yellow center of small ribbed flowers and one two rows of long marginal flowers that can be white, pink, red, or purple. The inflorescences of annual asters are very large, can be up to 15 cm in diameter. On the branched, upright stalk of aster, each shoot ends with a lush flower.

Annual asters are grown from seed, conducting sowing in early spring immediately in the ground or on seedlings in boxes. Plants grown through seedlings bloom earlier; however, those that grew in fresh air are more hardened and disease resistant.

Perennial astersrequire minimal attention in the care, they bloom profusely in the summer - this is aster chamomile, alpine and Italian. Flowers of perennial asters can compete with any daisies in beauty, they are very expressive, with a prominent yellow center and light purple petals along the edge. Basket inflorescences are formed at the ends of thin stems, up to 30 cm high, they grow from basal leaf rosettes. Abundant flowering of perennial asters lasts about a month.

Low-growth perennial asters will look good along the tracks and on alpine slides. Asters are cold-resistant plants, we are not afraid of our winters, they like abundant watering, but they cannot stand constant waterlogging and water stagnation. It is better to feed these flowers with complex fertilizer for abundant flowering. It is possible to propagate the perennial aster by dividing the bushes and through sowing seeds.

Chamomile is a perennial plant whose flower petals are always painted white. If you see multicolored "daisies" in the flowerbed, most likely, these are gerberas.

Externally, the gerbera strongly resembles a daisy. Only the petals of its flowers can be painted in a wide variety of colors - yellow, pink, crimson.

There are several dozen types of gerberas, most of which grow in Africa and Madagascar.

Discovery history

The very first gerbera was described by the Dutch botanist Jan Gronovinus in the 18th century. He named a flower in honor of his friend German botanist Traugott Gerber. Later, Karl Linnaeus, engaged in the systematization of plants, used this name in his works. From the end of the 19th century, the gerbera began to be widely cultivated.

Botanical description

Gerbera, like chamomile - a perennial plant. Unlike the latter, gerbera leaves have an elongated shape, are pointed at the end and grow from the rosette. Peduncles of this plant can reach a height of 60 cm. Flowers are collected in single inflorescences baskets. The inflorescences of some species of gerberas can be up to 30 cm in diameter.

Gerbera has a long flowering. Often a flower bed with these flowers pleases the eye for several months. Due to this feature, gerberas are often used in gardening of cities and suburban areas.

Gerber growing

Now gerberas are grown mainly in the form of hybrids. They are successfully cultivated in almost any climatic zones. Because of the spectacular shape of flowers, this plant is often used in bouquets. Cut gerberas can be kept in water for up to 20 days. To keep them standing for a long time, it is recommended to pour only a small amount of water into the vase so that the stem does not have time to rot.

More than 1000 varieties of gerberas are known, each of which differs in the shape of the inflorescence and the color of the petals. There are varieties with pink, white, orange, red, yellow, black color of flowers. Breeders have not yet managed to achieve only one color of the petals of the gerbera - blue. Some gerberas can have petals of different colors on one flower.

Gerbera prefers to grow in a sunny place. It should be watered so that the water does not fall into the rosette of leaves - otherwise the plant will rot and die.

If high gerberas are good in a flower bed, in closed rooms they prefer to grow dwarf varieties of this plant. For a gerbera to blossom, it needs a short daylight day and good ventilation.