30PCS Seeds Echinacea White Petals Purple Centre Perennial Flower Big Blooms

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Echinacea is a real find for the gardener, as it has many useful properties. It is a medicinal plant that is widely used in medicine, and protects against colds. If you plant echinacea next to vegetable crops, it will attract bees to them and contribute to pollination. In addition, the culture has many varieties, so it will be an excellent garden decoration. The plant is capricious and undemanding, but the gardener still needs to fulfill some conditions so that the beautiful echinacea lives on his site.
Echinacea is a perennial from North America, which is part of the Asteraceae or Compound–flowered family. This is a tall plant with a straight stem and a rough surface, which grows up to 1.5 m in height, with basal and stem leaves of green color. The wide basal ones form a lush rosette above the ground surface, the stem ones are located a little higher, one after the other, have the shape of a lancet. The root system is strong, branched, so that echinacea can grow in one place for about 10 years.
The flowers of the plant resemble a large chamomile – the center is convex, spherical or cone-shaped with stiff bristles. Thanks to this feature, the culture got its name – in Greek, echinacea means "hedgehog". After the petals, which may have different shades (most often pink, purple or white, but there are other colors), fall off, the flower resembles a hedgehog.
Instructions for planting and care
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Growing from seeds
Echinacea can be grown both with seedlings and by sowing seeds in an open area – the plant takes root well in both cases, but each option has its own characteristics and rules.
Sowing in the ground
In the open, the culture is sown in spring or autumn, but the second option is more preferable, since the seed material has a hard shell, which needs time to soften. The place for planting should be well lit – in the shade or partial shade, the culture grows very poorly, and may even die.
Echinacea seeds can be sown immediately on the site or grow seedlings from them.
Echinacea is undemanding to the composition of the soil, but "does not like" light sandy soils, and feels best on slightly alkaline or neutral soils without excessive moisture. In too acidic soil, it is better to first add lime, and fertilize sandstones with humus and fertile land from another site. Despite the unpretentiousness of echinacea, the place for its cultivation should be chosen carefully, since the plant will live there for at least 5 years.
The soil for sowing echinacea should have a minimum acidity.
The algorithm of actions is as follows:
dig up the soil, level it, make grooves 1-2 cm deep at a distance of 20-25 cm, then sow seeds as rarely as possible;
as soon as the first sprouts appear, they need to be thinned to an interval of 7-8 cm, after they grow up, repeat the procedure, leaving a distance of 10-15 cm. Adult bushes should be placed at intervals of 25-30 cm for dwarf varieties and 40-50 cm for tall plants;
In the first year of echinacea's life, only the root system develops, and flowering begins only the following summer.
Growing seedlings To grow seedlings, you should prepare a nutrient mixture of fertile soil, sand and compost (ratio 2:1:1) or take a ready-made store soil. In both cases, it is better to disinfect it by steaming it well in the oven and watering it with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Sowing should be carried out in early February – then in May you can get healthy, strong seedlings. Any suitable boxes or pots can be used as containers, the only condition is that they must have holes for the outflow of liquid so that moisture does not stagnate at the roots. The optimal temperature conditions for growing echinacea are 15-18 ° C, but the culture grows well at higher temperatures.
Step-by-step instructions for sowing echinacea on seedlings:
1. Put expanded clay or other drainage on the bottom of the selected containers, fill them with a substrate;
2. Before sowing, it is better to keep the seeds in a stimulant preparation (for example, Epin) or just in warm water. They should be wrapped in a damp cotton flap, put on a plate and make sure that the fabric is constantly moistened. This stage can be skipped and seeds can be planted immediately in the ground, but the procedure significantly accelerates growth;
3. Since echinacea seeds germinate unfriendly, it is better to plant them as they are pecking. In the ground, make grooves 7-10 mm deep, lay the seeds that have hatched, lightly cover with a substrate, spray with a spray gun and cover with glass or film;
4. As soon as the first sprouts appear, the film should be removed and put the containers in a well-lit place.
You can expect the first shoots in 35-40 days. The care of seedlings is simple – it needs to be watered regularly as the soil surface dries, and in early May, begin to harden. To do this, the containers are taken out into the air, first for 10-15 minutes, gradually prolonging the time spent outside.
Care of plantings
Echinacea does not require special care, but it is also impossible to leave the plantings unattended, otherwise they will lose their decorative appearance and may die. watering the plantings should be moderate, but regularly, preferably in the evening. Short-term drought plants tolerate normally, but with a prolonged absence of watering, they will dry up. Excessive watering is also harmful to echinacea – when moisture stagnates, the petals will be too pale and will fall off quickly;
on the site where the crop grows, it is necessary to regularly remove weeds and loosen the soil after each watering to improve its air permeability;
it is necessary to feed the plants twice a season, starting from the second year of life. In spring, mixtures with nitrogen content are introduced into the soil, and during the appearance of the first buds – potassium and phosphorus. Mineral fertilizers can be replaced with rotted compost mixed with wood ash;
to stimulate flowering, dried inflorescences need to be cut to the first leaf. If you need to collect seeds for subsequent sowing, you should leave a few of the largest flowers on the bush;
to collect seeds, you need to wait until the petals fall off, and the middle darkens slightly, then carefully collect the seeds, clean them from the dust and dry them. Since the seed material does not differ in good germination, it is better to plant it as soon as possible;
once every 3-4 years, it is recommended to rejuvenate echinacea by dividing the bush – dig out the plant, divide the root so that there are several buds on each part, and plant them; before the first frosts, the entire aboveground part of the bushes should be cut off, the remaining part should be mulched with a thick layer of compost, and cover with spruce branches or dry foliage on top.
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