Home flowers with large bells of the name. Bergenia with red leaves, varieties, forms
Home flowers with red flowers enliven any interior, bringing energy, enthusiasm and, of course, love into it! They bring comfort and warmth to any room. On a subconscious level, they prevent melancholy, stimulate the psyche, improve mood.
zygocactus photo
One of the most popular home indoor flowers is zygocactus or Decembrist. This flower is a native of Brazil. But he got used to our apartments perfectly.
Zygocactus (Decembrist) at proper care lives for about 20 years. Zygocactus blooms from November to December. Its flowers can be not only red, but also pink, white. Flowers diameter - 2.5 cm.
If you want to achieve excellent flowering from zygocactus, provide it with the necessary care, namely:
- pinch or remove new leaves to enhance flowering;
- do not cut cuttings from the plant when it is preparing for flowering;
- do not move the plant when buds have formed on it. If permutation cannot be avoided, then the plant must be placed in relation to the light in exactly the same way as it stood in the old place;
- 1-1.5 months before flowering, arrange a drought for the zygocactus.
Watering is an important part of Zygocactus care. He does not like overdrying of earth or stagnant water! In summer, the plant needs abundant watering, and in winter it is scarce. From October to December, the plant should be fed once every two weeks. Fertilizer for cacti is suitable for Zygocactus.
Once every three to four years, the zygocactus (Decembrist) needs to be transplanted.
Another of the popular indoor houseplants with red flowers is hippeastrum indoor.
hippeastrum red photo
Its flowers can be not only red, but also white, orange, Pink colour. In diameter, flowers can reach 25 cm. The flowering period of hippeastrum is winter-spring. The belt-like leaves of the plant can reach 70 cm in length. Leaves fall off in autumn. Hippeatrum varieties with red flowers: Dutch Bells - dark red flowers, Self Scarlit - bright red flowers, Somon Orange - orange-red flowers.
The ideal window for indoor hippeastrum is southeast or southwest.
And, of course, we can't help but mention hibiscus plant or Chinese rose. This indoor plant flowers can also be of a wide variety of colors, including red.
Hibiscus usually bloom from March to October. For some growers, it blooms all year round. The hibiscus plant can be grown as a bush, or as a tree. During the growth period, hibiscus should be abundantly watered and fertilized once a week. The soil must be constantly moist. The Chinese rose reacts to a care error by dropping buds. Possible problems associated with caring for a Chinese rose are shriveled leaves, falling buds,.
Other houseplants with red flowers: spotted abutilon (indoor maple), cyclamen, pelargonium,.
Home indoor flowers with red flowers are sources of positive. Fill your life with positive emotions and growing plants on the windowsills that will delight you with red, yellow or blue flowers.
In the comments you can write about flowering plants that you have in your house.
Good afternoon. Gave me for my birthday indoor plant with red flower. It is large, sticking out of the rosette of leaves. The plant has exotic look. I like it very much. Tell me what it is called and a little care.
Answer.
Your plant is called Guzmania. This is an epiphytic plant from the Bromeliad family, it came to us from South and Central America. What you call a red flower are actually bracts, and spike-shaped inflorescences appear in their axils. So Guzmania remains decorative for a very long time.
houseplant with red flower
Guzmania is a tropical plant. It needs high humidity, read how to raise it in the room.
The temperature should not be lower than 18 ° C, the lighting should be bright diffused light, shade from direct sun in summer.
Soil for transplantation - specialized for Bromeliads or a mixture of fibrous peat, leaf and sod land and sand in a ratio of 2: 1: 1: 0.5. You can also add sphagnum to the soil. Good drainage is required.
Water abundantly, the water should be soft. It is poured into an outlet, but the substrate is moistened moderately, but not allowed to dry out. Fertilize guzmania twice a month during flowering with fertilizer for orchids.
Guzmania is a houseplant not only with a red flower, but also with yellow and pink inflorescences. But after flowering, the maternal rosette dies. But don't get upset. With normal care at this time, new daughter ones are formed at the base of the maternal outlet. They are separated and planted in separate pots.
Today, in the dachas, no, no, yes, and you will see brightly colored coleuses, geyhers,. But in fact, the assortment of decorative leafy herbaceous perennials and annuals (varieties, decorative forms and varieties with purple-red or purple leaves) is much richer. The wide use of plants (planted in open ground for one season - from spring to autumn) in the southern regions allowed me to include them in this material. The collection includes various plants, as accessible as possible for summer residents, so that you can experiment more boldly, composing with bright accents.
In some plants, the red color, due to the presence of chromoplasts containing a red pigment - anthocyanin, is stable from the very beginning of the appearance of leaves until leaf fall. In others, it is ephemeral: it appears in young shoots, and then fades, or vice versa: evergreen leaves turn red, purple in autumn, when the air temperature drops. For many, the red color "turns green" in the shade and vice versa - it becomes bright, saturated in the sun. This feature allowed breeders to single out forms that are resistant in this regard to the status of varieties.
Seed is preferred for most plants, but red leaves in seed offspring often result in splitting and you may not get exactly the same plants as their "parents". For an exact copy, they resort to reproduction, most often -.
The output of plants in "royal clothes" is always spectacular, luxurious and mysterious, but you should not oversaturate the cottage with such species and varieties. The exception is borders, carpet flower beds, where they themselves create a pattern or participate in underlining lines. But there should definitely be few large plants with red or purple foliage.
Large red-leaved plants (, Rogersia, amaranth, cannes and others) are tapeworms. They only need a background, green is better (the combination of dark red, dark purple with green is perfect). A single-row planting, a backstage of such plants is already an amateur, a person who is more restrained than impulsive.
I have already talked about some plants, so they will be given short info with indication of varieties, nuances of care and a link to previously published articles.
We will talk about others in more detail, but a meeting with red-leaved vegetable, cereal and woody plants awaits you in the following posts. So let's meet:
Alternantera multicolored
Multi-colored Alternantera (Alternanthera ficoidea ‘Versicolor’, syn. A. versicolor) is a direct relative of amaranth, celosia, gomphrenia.
This seasonal plant is 30 cm high and wide. The leaves are elliptical to oval, copper red to maroon.
Growing featuresand use
For a more juicy color, it requires a sunny location and poor drained soils; it does not tolerate stagnant water. Before the onset of autumn (temperature minimum +5 ° C), mother plants are transplanted into containers and brought into a frost-free room, watering is moderate. Propagated by cuttings in spring. Rooted cuttings are prepared for planting in open ground after the threat of return spring frosts has passed, in June.Previously, on the southern coast of Crimea, alternantera was very widely used to create carpet flower beds. Today it can be found less and less, and this is sad, since its possibilities are practically unlimited. It perfectly tolerates a haircut, so it can be introduced not only into parterre flower beds, but also ridges, arabesques, where in a low molded border, the alternantera keeps the shape of the pattern and retains its decorative effect until autumn. She is good in the company of an ever-flowering.
Panicled amaranth, tricolor amaranth and their dark-colored varieties
To say that these are unusually interesting plants is to say nothing. They must be seen, only in this way it will be possible to understand their beauty.
Panicled amaranth (Amaranthus cruentus, syn. A. paniculatus), its ornamental varieties:
- ‘Zwergfackel’;
- ‘Gruene Fackel’;
- 'Pygmy Torch';
- ‘Roter Dom’.
- ‘Flaming Fountains’;
- 'Illumination';
- ‘Joseph’s Coat’ is extraordinarily effective.
Their becoming allows you to "lead in the dance" other plants, flower beds, achieving real harmony in contrast with cabbages or nuanced combinations with beets. High dark red amaranth borders, backstage - for an amateur.
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Begonia everblooming, red-leaved cultivars
Ever-flowering begonia (Begonia x semperflorens), its red-leaved cultivars is a rather conditional name, which today is understood as modern hybrids resulting from the cross-pollination of several species.
All of them are low, up to 15-30 cm. The leaves are juicy. The flowers are medium-sized, up to 3 cm in diameter, simple, collected in loose inflorescences; bloom from June.
Features of use and cultivation
Grow through seedlings. Seeds are sown in January, at a temperature of +18 °С...+21 °С, superficially. They are kept in the dark, constantly moist (covered with glass), they must be ventilated 2 times daily.
Picking 2 months after sowing. At least one top dressing or fertilizer is needed. In June, the seedlings are planted in open ground, in fertile loose soil, keeping a distance of 12-15 cm. Further care consists in regular watering, fertilizing, loosening the soil.
In partial shade on moist soils, this mountaineer, like a plant, copes well with the task assigned to it - decorating the space; distribution control is required.
Dolichos lablab grade ‘Ruby Moon’
Dolichos lablab, or purple lablab, or hyacinth beans (Lablab purpureus, syn. Dolichos lablab 'Ruby Moon') is a beautiful annual vine up to 3 m high with bright purple flowers collected in loose inflorescences and dark green (with a red tint) leaves on reddish-purple petioles.
After flowering, the decorativeness of dolichos does not decrease, as the flowers are replaced by spectacular maroon flat beans that adorn the plant for a long time in autumn.
Features of cultivation and use
Sow scarified seeds outdoors from the end of April, keeping a distance between plants of 15-30 cm. It requires a sunny location with fertile, well-drained soil, regular watering and fertilizing every 2 weeks (until flowering) with a full mineral fertilizer. It is immediately necessary, the direction of growing shoots to it, if necessary - a garter.Purple dolichos is an excellent choice for annuals (for one season) for vertical gardening, house walls, buildings, trellis,; grows quickly, decorative throughout the growing season.
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Oregano smooth grade ‘Herrenhausen’
This is still a rarity, but I'm sure that after you see it, be sure to put the name of the variety in your "Wishlist".
Oregano smooth grade ‘Herrenhausen’ (Origanum laevigatum ‘Herrenhausen’) - young leaves are purple-red, shoots turn red in winter.
Features of cultivation and use
Sowing seeds (we cover with a very thin layer of soil substrate) for seedlings in March-April or in May - immediately in open ground. At a temperature of +13 °С...+18 °С shoots appear within a month.Like all oregano, this red-leaved beauty grows well both in open and semi-shady places with fertile loose soils, but the leaves are brighter in the sun. Good in a mixborder with other herbs:,; an unusual exotic composition will turn out with red and.
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Tenacious creeping and its varieties
But this red-leaved beauty has already settled with some of our seven-dacha residents, and they do not regret it.
Let's start with the fact that the creeping tenacious itself (Ajuga reptans) is the same "fashionista" who puts on her purple outfit by autumn. Plus its varieties:
- ‘Burgundy Glow’ (leaves are white-green, with a rich purple hue);
- ‘Catlin’s Giant’ (leaves up to 15 cm long, bronze-purple);
- ‘Multicolor’ (leaves are bronze-green, with whitish and pink spots).
All of them are interesting throughout the growing season.
Features of cultivation and use
Propagated vegetatively in spring, by daughter rosettes, which are formed on elongated shoots.An excellent ground cover plant, which in the semi-shady and shady corners of the dacha with loose fertile soils will spread multi-colored carpets for you, decorated during the flowering period with additional decor - purple spots of flowers.
The color of the leaves in low light conditions does not disappear.
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Irezina Herbsta, red-leaved varieties
Extraordinarily bright seasonal plants up to 60 cm high and up to 50 cm wide, which designers of the southern regions love.
Irezina Herbst cultivar Brilliantissima, photo from Online Plant Guide and Wallisii, photo from Wisdom
Varieties:
- ‘Brilliantissima’ (leaves intense crimson);
- ‘Wallisii’ (dwarf, dark purple leaves with bright red veins).
Features of cultivation and use
In autumn, mother plants are transplanted into containers and brought into the house (winter temperature minimum +10 ° C). Contain as a houseplant in a cool but bright place. In the spring, they begin cuttings. Rooted cuttings are planted in open ground in early June.Iresins are luxurious in carpet flower beds, discounts. In combination with ever-flowering begonia, dwarf varieties, they give beautiful drawings flower beds, rabatok, arabesques. A particularly rich color of the leaves is obtained when planted in open sunny places with fertile soils. For greater bushiness, plants are pinched. They tolerate pruning well.
Flax purple grade ‘Canon J.Went’
For lovers of landscape flower beds, this flax is a real find.
Purple toadflax (Linaria purpurea ‘Canon J.Went’, syn. ‘Canon Went’) is a very interesting perennial. Leaves and peduncles maroon, flowers pale pink; bloom in June-July. To preserve the decorative qualities, spatial isolation is needed within a radius of 200 m from the original view.
Features of cultivation and use
Propagated by sowing seeds immediately in open ground in May (in the southern regions - in April).Flaxseed with dark leaves will certainly attract attention not only in a mixborder, but also on a motley lawn. Unpretentious, drought-resistant, grows well in open sunny places with drained soils.
Canna garden, red-leaved varieties
Large ornamental plants, decorated with bright inflorescences, seem to be filled with southern charm.
On the southern coast of Crimea, you can most often see the following varieties of garden or hybrid canna (Canna hybrida hort.) with a reddish or purple tint of large leaves:
- ‘Livadia’ (height up to 1.5 m, purple leaves);
- ‘Flame of Crimea’ (height 1.4 m, purple leaves);
- ‘America’ (height 1.2-1.5 m, leaves are dark purple.);
- ‘Andenken an Wilhelm Pfitzer’ (height 1.5-1.8 m, dark purple leaves);
- ‘Labe’ (height 0.9 m, purple leaves) and others.
Features of cultivation and use
Cannes are good in any flower beds well seasoned with rotted organic matter.
More often propagated vegetatively - by delenki, seeds - less often. Seeds before sowing need scarification (mechanical damage with a file), or soaking in water for 4-6 hours. The term of germination at a temperature of +21 °С...+24 °С differs significantly: from 1 to 3 months.
They are light and heat-loving, the leaves of colored-leaved varieties look better in partial shade, and flowering is more luxurious in the sun. Cannes love regular watering and fertilizing. The rate of fertilizer application per 1 m2 is approximately 50 g of a mixture, of which: 12 g of nitrogen, 25 g of phosphorus, 10 g of potash. At the end of summer, watering is gradually reduced, stopping by the time the rhizomes are dug up, which ensures their maturation.
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Creeping Clover ‘Purpurascens Quadrifolium’
Mysterious, beautiful, mysterious - and that's all - about clover.
Creeping clover ‘Purpurascens Quadrifolium’ (Trifolium repens ‘Purpurascens Quadrifolium’) is a fast-growing viable perennial up to 10 cm high and infinitely wide. The leaves are 4-fingered, 2-3 cm long, with a dark purple center and a thin green border. Small flowers are white, collected in capitate inflorescences, 1.5-2 cm in diameter; bloom in May-September.
Creeping clover ‘Purpurascens’ (Trifolium repens ‘Purpurascens’) - leaves are trifoliate, with a dark purple center and a yellow-green border.
At a cursory glance, it looks like the previous variety, but take a closer look - it is completely different!
Features of cultivation and use
Spring (in May) sowing seeds immediately in open ground.These varieties of creeping clover will give amazingly beautiful multi-colored ground cover carpets and rugs. In the second year of life, they will reach "flourishing" or, as botanists say, will enter the phase of optimal development. They will find a place in rockeries and flower beds; expansion needs to be controlled.
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An exquisite and mysterious plant-accent, which will not get lost even among flowering species, and in rockeries will “revive” the stones. From afar, the oxalis is very similar to the red-leafed clover, but upon closer examination, you can’t confuse them.
Oxygen trapezoid (Oxalis triangularis) will definitely not become a weed, since this species is compact, does not spread. The dark purple leaves are often folded in a "butterfly" pattern, which is sure to delight young children. Lovely pink flowers add a little "rustic" charm to this beauty.
Features of cultivation and use
There is never too much such acid, so it is used in flower beds, on slides and in flowerpots. It combines well with other plants: stonecrops, ophiopogon,.
Propagated by division in spring.
On the southern coast of Crimea and the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Territory, it winters in warm, calm places in summer cottages even without. In other regions, it is planted only for the season, and in the fall it is brought into the house and grown as a houseplant.
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Coleus Blume, red-leaved and purple varieties
Interesting, luxurious to infinity, and breeders create more and more new varieties, amazing our imagination.
Coleus Blume, or Solenostemon scutellarioides (Solenostemon scutellarioides, syn. Coleus blumei var. verschaffeltii) and its varieties. In the south, this ornamental-deciduous annual beats all records in popularity, and this is not surprising: the richness of colors, combined with the most diverse leaf pattern, is unusually large.
Among all the coleus splendor, red-leaved and purple-colored varieties are especially interesting.
Features of cultivation and use
In autumn, the best specimens (as mother plants) are transplanted into pots and brought into the house, cared for like houseplants. In the spring, cuttings are removed from them, which easily give roots in water.Coleus (we will call these plants in the old fashioned way) are good in flowerbeds, rabatka, in containers, trunk circles in the sun and in partial shade on fertile, well-drained soils.
They are excellent partners for begonias, which are well combined in open ground and garden vases.
To preserve the decorativeness of the plant (in the south), the inflorescences are removed on time.
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Kupyr forest variety ‘Ravenswing’
The English are crazy about him, and we have yet to get to know him better.
Kupyr forest variety ‘Ravenswing’ (Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’) - spectacular perennial with dark purple leaves and stems, white flowers with dark purple pedicels.
Features of cultivation and use
It is not picky about the soil; in dry summers, watering is necessary.The openwork of the dark purple texture of the plant is interesting in itself, and in contrast with its own white inflorescences, umbrellas, baskets and annuals, it gives interesting compositions filled with simplicity and grace.
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Orchard quinoa ‘Rubra’
It can be treated differently.
Garden quinoa, or Finnish quinoa ‘Rubra’ (Atriplex hortensis ‘Rubra’) is not for everyone, as many still perceive it as a weed, and grandmothers remember it (along with the original view) as a savior from hunger in the distant war years. Slender annual up to 1.5-2 m high with initially red leaves.
Features of cultivation and use
Sow seeds in a permanent place in the spring (in May). It is not demanding on soils.If you dare to have a garden quinoa in your country house, then it is better to send it “to the backyard” - to the economic zone or to the background of the mixborder.
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Amazing plants that seem to be inanimate alien creatures.
Rejuvenated roofing (Sempervivum tectorum), in which the leaves acquire a warm red tint in autumn, plus varieties of hybrid origin with red, dark purple leaves collected in rosettes - unusually interesting plants 15-45 cm high (together with a flowering shoot).
Features of cultivation and use
Extremely photophilous. Propagated by daughter rosettes. Naked slugs do not eat young.
As if specially created for rockeries, juveniles, planted in small recesses of the shell rock, are harmonious on stones, dumps, which, in turn, protect drought-resistant succulents from getting wet.
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Euphorbia sweet ‘Chameleon’
Extraordinarily good!
Euphorbia sweet ‘Chameleon’ (Euphorbia dulcis ‘Chameleon’) is a very showy rhizomatous perennial 30 cm high and wide. Leaves and sepals are a rich purple-purple hue.
Features of cultivation and use
Propagated by seeds, which are stratified at a temperature of +3 °C ... +5 °C for a week (minimum), a well-drained soil substrate is used, seedlings do not dive. At a temperature of +18 °С...+21 °С shoots appear within a month. Like everything else, it is drought-resistant and very photophilous. He wears his luxurious clothes only in open summer cottages with well-drained fertile soils, does not like waterlogging.Stonecrops with red leaves
There are several of them, and it is impossible to pass them indifferently. Today, due to their unpretentiousness, they are included in a wide variety of modern gardening options.
Since this is one of the most favorite plants of the users of the site, and there is already information about it in our favorite information and horticultural field, we will limit ourselves to listing the varieties:
- white stonecrop (Sedum alba ‘Coral Carpet’);
- stonecrop false (Sedum spurium ‘Voodoo’, ‘Fuldaglut’, ‘Coccineum’, ‘Purpurteppich’, ‘Rubrum’);
- Stonecrop Telef (Sedum telephium ‘Purple Emperor’);
- stonecrop hybrid (S. x ‘Pinky’).
Perilla shrub Nanjing (Perilla frutescens var. crispa, syn. var. nankinensis) is characterized by dark purple or dark bronze leaves with a wavy edge.
Features of cultivation and use
Propagated by seeds: sowing either for seedlings, or immediately in open ground; gives self-seeding.Perilla is good in borders and flower beds; she is tolerant. Grows best in rich, moist soils.
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Plantain large red-leaved
You will probably be surprised - to grow plantain in the country? Isn't this a mistake? But look what plantain I recommend to you.
Large plantain (Plantago major cv. Atropurpurea, syn. cv. Rubrifolia) is a very beautiful perennial. Its maroon leaves will bring the necessary contrast to the monochrome green composition.
Only in well-lit places will this plantain reveal its beauty to you; undemanding to soils. Gives a variety of self-seeding, which is better to remove. We collect seeds only with full confidence that there are no more nearby (within a radius of 200 m) with which he can pollinate and lose the purity of the variety.
Rogersia pinnate, red-leaved varieties
With enough space and the presence of moist soil in the country, Rogers is your plant.
Rogersia pinnate variety Chocolate Wings, site photo and Superba variety, site photo Perennial Farm Marketplace
Rogersia pinnate (Rodgersia pinnata) varieties: 'Chocolate Wings' and 'Superba' - large rhizomatous perennials up to 1.2 m high and 75 cm wide. The leaves are palmately divided with 5-9 lobes, up to 90 cm long. The first cultivar has them intense red, in the second - only young purple-bronze color, sometimes with fewer leaves than the main species. Small flowers are white or pink, fragrant, collected in large paniculate inflorescences; bloom in July.
Features of cultivation and use
Propagated by division of rhizomes.These are soloists, accents of compositions. They realize their potential in semi-shady summer cottages on constantly moist loose fertile soils.
Setcreasia pallidum ‘Purple Heart’
Almost an ink plant, and this is its charm.
Setcreasia pale 'Purple Heart' (Setcreasea pallida 'Purple Heart', syn. Tradescantia pallida 'Purple Heart') is a seasonal plant that is often used in compositions open ground. This is a herbaceous perennial with erect (rising and then decumbent) greenish-purple shoots; 20 cm high and up to 40 cm wide. The leaves are sessile, oblong, up to 15 cm long, fleshy, purple-purple, with a bluish tint. On the southern coast of Crimea and the Black Sea coast of the Krasnodar Territory, in warm places protected from the winds, it can overwinter, insulated with dry leaves. In central Russia and to the north, netcreasia is grown as a houseplant.
Features of cultivation and use
Propagated by cuttings (it is necessary to grow before planting in the ground) and by dividing the rhizomes in the spring. Even from one copy, you can get enough rooted cuttings for country flower beds:- netcreasia is easily propagated by cuttings;
- mother plants must be constantly rejuvenated.
Netcreasia is spectacular in flower beds and garden flowerpots, it is not demanding of light, it grows better on loose, fertile, constantly moist soils.
Houttuynia cordifolia ‘Hameleon’
ground cover beauty, which is familiar to some summer residents as a houseplant.
Houttuynia heart-shaped, or heart-shaped guttuinia ‘Hameleon’ (Houttuynia cordata Hameleon, syn. ‘Tricolor’) is a perennial plant up to 30 cm high, grows indefinitely in width, forming a beautiful multi-colored carpet. Brightly variegated leaves in shades of light yellow, red, green.
Features of cultivation and use
It can grow in partial shade and give green-leaved shoots, which should be removed in time. She has the same picture with age, so every 3-5 years she is transplanted to a new place, removing green shoots. It is brighter in more open sunny summer cottages with well-moistened fertile soils. Propagated during the growth period by dividing the rhizomes. Can be damaged by naked slugs.Celosia silver, red-leaved varieties
The brightest, in the sun they dazzle with their beauty.
Celosia silver (Celosia argentea), its varieties:
- ‘Impress’;
- ‘Imperialis’;
- ‘Atropurpurea’;
- 'New look'
Features of cultivation and use
Propagated through seedlings (sowing in early April, at a temperature of +18 ° C ... + 24 ° C, the seeds are barely sprinkled with earth; hardened seedlings are planted in open ground in early June) or immediately sown in open ground - in May. Responsive to top dressing every 2 weeks with a complete mineral fertilizer.Cimicifuga simple Brunette photo of the site Plant Lust and it is in bloom, photo of the site Main
Cimicifuga simple ‘Brunette’ (Cimicifuga simplex ‘Brunette’) is a perennial rhizome plant with purple shoots up to 1-1.2 m high and 60 cm wide. The leaves are complexly dissected, 30-75 cm long, brownish-purple. The flowers are fragrant, off-white, with a purple hue, collected in compact racemes up to 20 cm long; bloom from the second half of summer.
Features of cultivation and use
Under optimal conditions, flowering is observed by three years. It grows and blooms better in shady summer cottages with well-prepared soils: fertile, loose, moist. For the winter, the plant is cut, mulched with humus. In one place grows up to 20 years. Propagated by division of rhizomes in spring, seeds. Sowing is almost superficial, with a thin covering of seeds with a soil substrate. They germinate at a temperature of +13 °С...+16 °С for a long time, within three months. In the absence of seedlings, the seeds are stratified within 1 month and the seedlings are waiting again, which appear within a year! The complexity of seed propagation is further compensated by vegetative division.varieties
Plants with flowers of scarlet, purple, carmine and other shades of red hold the bar of superiority among other representatives of the flora. This is also due to their excellent appearance, and the fact that red flowers are almost always interpreted as a manifestation of warm feelings. The most interesting and popular colors of red are worth reading in more detail.
Red flowers: photo and meaning
Speaking about red flowers and looking at their photos, one cannot ignore the meaning that they put into them in antiquity. The most famous is passionate, strong love, which meant a scarlet rose. But after all, in addition to it, there were red flowers that had slightly different interpretations. For example, a sun-red gerbera was believed to bring happiness, red gladioli were presented to a young mother who had a boy.
Absolutely any flowers, but always in scarlet colors, in many countries became a farewell bouquet before a long parting. And also, it was believed that a young girl should not be given a bright red flower: this shade "belonged" to a more mature age.
A few more interesting interpretations of the red color and a specific flower, the most common in Europe and in Russia: the poppy was sent to the girl in the gap with whom they yearned, and the tulip - to the one whose thoughts haunted. Red chrysanthemums were considered a declaration of love, more restrained than in the case of a rose. And the carnations spoke of the purity of the feelings of the giver; today in Russia they are presented as a token of appreciation, respect and gratitude to war veterans.
How to find out flower name with red flowers, suddenly caught your eye, but completely unfamiliar? A few more things to remember distinctive features to make the next search a bit easier. For example, the shape and size of the leaves, their color, the height of the bush or stem, the shape of the flower itself. Ideally, even take a picture of the instance you like, since its image can easily slip out of memory. In addition, the presence of a picture can help when searching through Google: if you ask a query through a link to an uploaded frame, you can often immediately find out the name, since the search engine will offer all sources where such an image has been seen. And the name of the plant is often indicated there.
The most popular indoor flowers with red flowers
Most often, the choice of women stops at room flowers in red tones, since this is a great option for both a monochrome interior and a bright one. What are the best ones to buy for your home?
Begonias are the most unpretentious of all other indoor representatives of the flora. They have many varieties, but the vast majority of them have a scarlet color. The 2:1 begonia version is ideal for flowerbeds, as it is represented by squat bushes that grow well in breadth. Its size does not exceed 20 cm, the stem spreads along the ground, large scarlet flowers have no smell. Dr. is called ever-flowering, its height reaches 30-35 cm, the flowers are smaller in diameter than those of the tuberous.
Due to frost intolerance, this perennial is usually grown in apartments: it fits perfectly into almost every interior. It is enough for the plant to be in a lighted area and receive moderate watering. The soil prefers sandy, moderate or light acidity. Blooms from June to September.
Red terry gloxinia of the Brocade variety, which arrived from the American tropics, often adorns window sills in apartments. This is a medium-sized, mundane perennial with dense, large leaves with a velvety surface, located on a thick stem. The flowers are on a long stalk, have a wide mouth and visually resemble bells, but with more actively bent petals. Flower diameter - 12 cm, petals in the amount of 5-7 pcs. may have the same velvety coating as the leaves. On a bush, there are often up to 18-20 buds that have an uneven color: the core is often lighter, sometimes it turns white. Flowering period - May-September, vegetation in the spring-summer period.
A representative of the genus rhododendron - azalea, whose name is interpreted from Greek as "pink tree" - also has varieties with rich red flowers. In any interior, attention will be riveted to it because of the abundant lush flowering. Buds with a variety of textures - corrugated, velvet, satin - cannot go unnoticed. The shrubs themselves are dwarf, they do not grow above 0.5 m, the leaves are dark green and small.
The complexity of caring for an azalea scares away beginner flower growers from it: it cannot be placed under the sun's rays and it is required to create high humidity for it. If the heating dries the air, the plant must be sprayed several times a day. Watering is carried out with acidified water as needed, the soil should always be moistened. And it is required to keep the azalea away from the kitchen - excessively warm air will harm it. 22 degrees indoors is its maximum.
The blood-red column is definitely an attractive specimen, although not familiar to everyone. The stems are creeping, therefore they are often planted in pots suspended from the ceiling. The bush is sprawling and lush, the leaves are small and oblong, dark, with a shiny surface. Tubular flowers are collected in 1 inflorescence, they can reach 8 cm in size. They have a yellow color in depth, the main shade is scarlet.
Needs good, bright sunlight, warm climate (up to 27 degrees in summer and 18 degrees in winter). The soil should not be overdried, but watering is carried out infrequently. But there is constant spraying. In the spring-summer period, the column must be fed with mineral fertilizers. The end of autumn and all winter is a dormant period for the plant.
Red garden flowers: description
Alstroemeria is an excellent choice for regions with a cool climate. Large flowers, shaped like lilies, located on a tall (up to 1 m) upright stem, do not have a pronounced aroma. But at the same time they are loved by many gardeners. This perennial is easy to grow without seedlings, by ordinary sowing in the ground. Alstroemeria does not impose special requirements on the soil. It is enough to maintain a neutral pH and not hide the bush from the sun. Frequent watering is not recommended, and for the winter it is necessary to wrap it with covering material or dig it up and bring it into the house.
Scarlet chinese roses, whose alternative name is hibiscus, also take root well in the middle lane. The plant came from the subtropics and therefore has certain requirements for caring for it. For example, it does not like the cold, which is why when growing it outdoors, it must be pruned before winter, as is the case with ordinary roses. Its stems are able to stretch up to a plank of 2.5 m, the leaves are rare, but large, and the flowers themselves reach a diameter of up to 25 cm. It blooms actively and luxuriantly with excess sunlight and the presence of fertile soil. When pruning, it is worth leaving a trunk 0.4 m high and additionally spud it. There is no need to cover the hibiscus for the winter.
Ipomopsis is a rare but magnificent inhabitant of the gardens of the middle lane. A tall bush, reaching 1 m, with large flowers, elongated into a tube with bent petals, and sparse leaves, can be annual and perennial. Ideal for borders or flowerbeds exposed to the sun, does not have serious requirements for the soil. Loose earth with a neutral pH is the best choice. Blooms towards the end of August, goes dormant in mid-autumn. Does not tolerate cold.
Coreopsis is a frequent inhabitant of rock gardens and flower beds, it is perfect for the middle lane due to its resistance to frost, it belongs to annual plants. It takes root well on light sandy soil, does not require active moisture, loves sunlight. The bushes are low, up to 0.7 m in height, the flowers are large, deep burgundy. They have no smell, the buds open in July. Outwardly, they look like large daisies with fewer petals and more angularity.
Raspberry-red levkoy have been decorating summer cottages for many years. They bloom from the very beginning of summer, dying only with the onset of cold weather, since they are annuals. The bush is medium in size, stretches up to 0.7-0.8 m, along it with a “candle” with a sharp top, medium-sized inflorescences with a subtle aroma are collected. Levkoy grow well in partial shade and in the active sun, but their soil should be constantly moistened. In addition to open ground, the flower will take root in an apartment or on a balcony.
The list of flowers with red flowers is huge. Here are only the most famous and beloved specimens in the middle lane that can decorate any garden and house. When choosing any plant that blooms in scarlet, purple or burgundy, know that, despite any difficulties in care, it will advantageously emphasize the landscape of your site or the interior of your home.
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