Carnation

Carnation

The sort totals about 300 kinds, long-term kinds enter into it as annual, biannual, and. The carnation grows as a grassy plant, seldom it happens a semibush. Petals are with a long nail, with the integral or bahromchato-made an incision, gear plate.

The Carnation exacting enough plant, especially it suffers from early frosts, therefore in a moderate strip and to the north grow up all some kinds such, for example, as the Carnation Chinese, the Carnation bearded or Turkish, the Carnation garden, the Carnation Alpine and a number of others.

The carnation prefers a solar places and raised places. The soil should be fertile, not sour, but the flower prefers loams. Doesn't transfer rehumidifying and especially stagnation of water. Serious danger traps carnations in the early spring when within days the temperature sharply varies: In the afternoon warms the sun, and starts to freeze at night. Shelter remove after the termination of regular frosts. High-quality carnations very positively react on top dressing by fertilizers, humus entering (it is impossible to apply fresh manure). Unblossoming stalks at all carnations cut off on 10-15 sm from an earth surface. After that introduce complex mineral fertilizer, water, loosen soil. Approximately in a month new runaways grow, and in the autumn at some kinds secondary flowering begins. In perfect conditions longevity of long-term kinds makes only 4-6 years.

The carnation breeds by seeds. Carnations also breed by bush division (especially creeping away kinds). Seeds sow in May in an open ground or in boxes in hothouse conditions, in January-March. Seeds sprout for 10-14 day. Crops of biannual carnations spend in June.




See also Types of Flowers