Cleoma cherry queen planting and care in the open field

Cleoma or cleome (Cleome) is a one-, biennial herb belonging to the Cleomaceae family. There are about 70 types of cleoma, they can be found all over the world in warm and temperate climatic regions. Due to the peculiar form of flowering, in German the name of the plant sounds "spinenpflanze" - means "spider plant". It is impossible not to pay attention to the glue: its unusual inflorescences look like splashes of champagne, exude a peculiar aroma, flowering lasts all summer.

Botanical description

The root system of the plant is powerful. Stems are strong, erect, branching, reaching a height of about 1.5 m, covered with down. The lower leaf plates are divided into 5-7 elongated lobes, can be covered with small spines from below, the apical leaves are small, whole. The leaves are arranged alternately, colored light green.

Corolla with four-petals with long stamens gather in racemose inflorescences at the top of the stem. The color is white, yellow, purple, all shades of pink. In place of flowers, single-nested polysperms appear in the form of pods about 3 cm long. The aroma of flowering will surprise you - in its natural habitat, it attracts small bats as pollinators. But in the fresh air in the garden, he will not annoy you, so feel free to grow a beautiful glue on the site.

Is Cleoma an annual or a perennial?

The plant is perennial, but does not hibernate in the middle zone: it freezes out. Therefore, in our gardens it is grown as an annual.

Growing glue from seeds When to plant

Cleoma flower propagates exclusively by seed.

When to sow glue in the ground

How to sow glue in the soil photo of seedlings

• Sowing seeds in open ground can be carried out before winter from late September to December (depending on climatic conditions). The seeding depth is 2 cm. Mulch the bed with a layer of humus.
• Sow in late April or early May in spring. Plant the seeds to a depth of 1.5 cm. Water abundantly.
• Thin seedlings, weed from weeds. For the prevention of diseases, spill 1-2 times with a weak solution of potassium permanganate.

When to plant glue for seedlings

Seedlings of cleoma in peat tablets photo of seedlings

How to grow glue from seeds through seedlings?To do this, you should start sowing seeds at the end of February..

• Pre-soak the seeds for 12 hours on a damp cloth in a growth accelerator solution.
• Plant with a toothpick in boxes with a mixture of 1 part sand + 2 parts each of garden soil and humus.
• You can plant seeds in peat tablets.
• Spread the seeds over the surface of the soil, sprinkle with a layer of soil 1.5 cm thick.
• Cover crops with transparent film or glass.
• Ventilate the greenhouse regularly, moisten the soil with a spray gun.

In a couple of weeks, seedlings will appear. It is necessary to remove the shelter, move the container with crops to a bright place, provide additional lighting with special lamps in the evening. Water so that it dries out between waterings.

When the seedlings get stronger, give up additional lighting, water more abundantly. Add a solution of potassium permanganate of low concentration.

With the appearance of a pair of real leaves, dive and plant in peat pots. A couple of weeks after the pick, you should feed with complex mineral fertilizers, using half the dosage recommended by the manufacturer. In order for the seedlings to develop evenly, from time to time you should turn them relative to the light source.

Video about growing seedlings of cleoma from seeds:

There can be many ways of sowing cleoma seeds for seedlings, the main thing is to provide good lighting and timely moderate watering.

When and how to plant cleoma seedlings in the ground

Planting cleoma in the ground photo

Transplant seedlings into open ground in late May-early June. Choose a sunny site, out of the reach of strong drafts.

Cleomes grow best on fertile soils with a neutral reaction. If the soil is depleted, for digging, add 1 bucket of rotted manure and 2 tablespoons of granular fertilizer for flowers for each square meter of the plot.

Plant in planting holes together with peat pots. Maintain a distance of 50-70 cm between plants. after planting, pour a solution of humate.

How to care for glue in the garden

Cleoma photo of flowers seedlings when planting in the ground

Watering

Cleoma categorically does not tolerate excess moisture. Water only in extreme heat, abundantly, but not often. It is better to mulch the surface of the soil, then the moisture level will be constant and sufficient.

Top dressing

• Apply complex fertilizers intended for flowers, vegetables and seedlings (for example, Fertika-combi or Fertika-lux) every 2 weeks. Dissolve 2 tablespoons of fertilizer in 10 liters of water.
• For spraying weak bushes, use a solution: 1 teaspoon of fertilizer for 3 liters of water.
• Before setting buds to stimulate flowering, plants should be sprayed with the following solution: 1 ml of Zircon per 1 liter of water.

Diseases and pests

The plant can be considered invulnerable. If during planting all agrotechnical conditions are met, watering is moderate and there is no groundwater nearby, cleome diseases are not terrible. When root rot appears, it is necessary to remove the affected areas, treat with a fungicide. In advanced cases, it is better to dispose of diseased plants.

The peculiar aroma of cleoma protects it from pests. Aphids very rarely appear - wash off insects with soapy water, treat with insecticide.

How to collect seeds

In the fall, start collecting seeds. Ripe seeds will be round, about 1.5 cm in diameter, colored yellow or brown. When the pod bursts, the seeds are scattered around; they cannot be picked up from the ground. You can use gauze bags on the pods to get the seeds into them.

Types and varieties of cleoma

Cleome Hassleriana and Cleome Spinosa are two cultivated species. They are very similar in appearance, differing only in the color of the corollas.

Cleome Hassleriana

Cleome the purple queen Cleome hassleriana ‘Violet Queen’ photo

Champagne splash is a popular Hassler variety of Cleoma. The bush reaches a height of 1.2 m. A spherical racemose inflorescence with a diameter of about 20 cm consists of large flowers (3-4 cm in diameter) of a milky or pinkish color.

Cleome Rose Queen - Cleome Hassleriana photo

The Queen series of various shades is interesting, the most popular forms are the Pink Queen, Purple Queen and Cherry Queen. Pink Queen or Rose Queen - all shades of pink.

Cleome hassleriana Cherry Queen

Cherry Queen is the most popular variety. The stem height reaches 60 cm. Cherry-colored corollas are 2-3 cm in diameter.

Delicate shades of pink and cherry elegantly complement the airy structure of the flower, literally soaring over the bushes on almost invisible peduncles.

Cleome White Queen White Queen Cleome Hassleriana

The White Queen variety is no less elegant. Noble white echoes with thin filaments of stamens extending to the sides, and virgin whiteness is effectively set off by the rich dark color of green leaves.

Cleoma prickly Cleome Spinosa

Cleome spinosa ‘Cherry Queen’

Varieties of prickly cleoma:

• Hellen Campbell - white flowers;
• Rozakenigin - the corollas are painted in a pale pink shade;
• Golden Sparkler - a variety of short stature, yellow flowers;
• Giant Pink Kewsen - large, dark pink flowers;
• Sparkler Lavender - lilac inflorescences;

Cleoma in landscape design

Cleoma in landscape design photo of flowers

The tall cleoma plant is used as a hedge. Bright flowers are beautiful in solo plantings. In groups, combine different shades to create interesting flower arrangements. Good neighbors of cleoma will be fragrant tobacco, lavater, lilies, marigolds.

Cleoma on a flower bed mix of flowers photo

Cleoma splashing champagne photo

There are about 70 species in the genus, wildly growing in North Africa and the tropics of America. At the moment, only 2 of them are of cultural value - the prickly cleoma and the Hassler cleoma, defined in some reference books as one species.

Outwardly, they are very similar, differing only in the color of the flowers, and therefore flower growers call them both cleoma prickly. The Germans and the British see in this plant a resemblance to the most famous representatives of arthropods, therefore, in the literature, along with the official name, a comparative one is often found - "spider plant".

Varieties and types

Cleoma prickly - a shrub, growing like an annual in our country. Its stem reaches 1.5 meters in height and branches strongly at the top. Sticky villi are located on the shoot and foliage. The flowers are very peculiar - in the form of a spider, painted in pink-purple or white, they are collected in a tassel.

The smell of cleoma deserves special attention, which not everyone will like, but this is no less important for the plant itself, because it is he who attracts not only insects, but also small bats to pollination. Flowering is lush, begins in June and ends in September.

Of the most common varieties of prickly cleoma, the following should be distinguished:

• cleoma color fountain with flowers of various shades;

• cleoma white with white flowers, including varieties Helen Campbell and cleoma the white queen;

• cleoma splash of champagne - a typical representative Hassler's cleomas 1.2 meters high, with white or pink flowers and a flowering period from mid-summer to the arrival of frost;

• cleoma Serpent Gorynych with pink flowers, little branching, bred by Russian breeders;

• cherry cleoma includes the most popular variety called “cherry queen”, Of short stature (up to 60 cm), with fragrant flowers of the color corresponding to the name, and the variety cleoma victory with flowers of a paler shade;

• cleoma pink - these are varieties rose queen with pink flowers and cleoma lace with flowers from pale pink to darkish pink shades;

• cleoma lilac queen with pink, lavender and white 4-petal spider flowers;

• yellow cleoma represented by a dwarf variety golden sparkler with yellow flowers;

• cleoma purple with grade violet queen, the inflorescences of which are colored dark purple.

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Cleoma planting and care outdoors

Relatively little information is needed on how to grow glue in your own flower garden. The most important thing is to choose the right planting time, which comes when the spring cold snaps end. As usual, this period falls on the end of May - beginning of June.

The best place for growing is considered to be a well-lit area that receives a lot of sunlight and is free from drafts. This is a thermophilic plant that copes well with drought and is not recommended to be planted densely - it is better to place the seedlings at a distance of 50 cm from each other.

Cleome likes neutral soils; it develops worse on waterlogged soils. Immediately after planting, you need to clear the soil from weeds and mulch it.

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Watering cleoma

Moderate watering, as well as timely weeding, loosening of the soil are important components of glue care. Watering the plant should not be often, only in the heat, but abundantly enough.

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Cleoma transplant

The plant is very difficult to transplant, and therefore the pick must be carried out immediately after the appearance of 2 leaves. Children are planted separately to a considerable depth, for which cups are great.

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Fertilizer for cleoma

The soil for cleoma should be fertilized before the planting procedure with a small amount of mineral and organic fertilizers. Then top dressing is applied every 14 days, using complex fertilizers such as Fertika Lux in proportions of 2 tablespoons per 10 liters of water.

Particular attention should be paid to weakened cleoma bushes, which need to be sprayed with a liquid consisting of a teaspoon of fertilizer dissolved in 3 liters of water.

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Cleoma pruning

It is recommended to prune the peduncles only when the flowers have withered and the formation of pods has begun, in order to avoid abundant self-seeding. For seed collection, it is better to leave only a few inflorescences that bloom first.

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Cleoma in winter

Since under the conditions of our climate, cleoma grows like an annual plant, with the onset of frost the time comes for its disposal.

Sowing the seeds collected in the fall can be done in November or December, planting them in the ground 1.5 cm deep and covering them with spruce branches. The shelter is removed when spring comes, and the seeds that have waited out the winter begin to grow.

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Cleoma growing from seed

Cleoma seeds can be planted directly in open ground - as mentioned above, in the spring in May-June or in the fall in November-December. But the standard method of growing has one significant drawback, which is that the new plant will bloom a little later. It is for this reason that flower growers prefer to pre-grow seedlings.

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Cleoma sowing for seedlings

In the case of seedlings, sowing is carried out earlier - at the beginning of spring or even at the end of winter, in a greenhouse or at home (it is possible in pots, but better in wooden boxes). The soil is selected on the basis of 40% ordinary garden soil, 40% humus and 20% sand.

Before sowing seeds, it is recommended to treat them with a growth promoter. The depth of the planting holes is kept at a level of about 1 cm. A covering of ash or compost will give the crops additional protection and serve as fertilizer.

After 3 weeks from the moment of planting, the cleoma will germinate, which can happen earlier if the seeds were previously soaked in a growth stimulator (after 1.5-2 weeks).Then they make moderate watering and make sure that young plants receive large amounts of light - in principle, it is enough to keep them in a sunny place during the day, and turn on a lamp over them with the onset of evening.

After the first full-fledged leaves appear on the shoots, the plants can be planted individually in peat cups. Given that such containers are buried in the soil along with the plant itself, the roots cannot be damaged when planted in a flower garden.

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Diseases and pests

Now, after it became known when to sow glue and in what ways, a few words should be added about the pests and diseases of this plant. In fact, due to the not quite floral scent of cleoma, harmful insects are afraid to even approach it.

Therefore, it gets sick extremely rarely, and only in those cases if the florist unknowingly planted it near the places where groundwater flows or watered it too abundantly.

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A flowering cleoma bush reminds me of a fireworks. Glowing lights leave a trail in flight, and cleoma flowers - at the end of the shoot, lights, and the stems - the remaining trace. Such fireworks are easy to grow in your flower bed. Filigree flowers on prickly glue appear from mid-summer until frost.

From such a small seed, shoots grow in a short time, at the end of which the lights of the flowers glow. Even the thorns located along the entire length of the stem do not diminish the charm of the flower; the thorns seem to protect the delicate inflorescences with long stamens from any encroachment.

Description of the flower with photo

Cleome spinosa is an annual shrub belonging to the caper family. South America is considered his homeland. Many tall stems are formed on it, at the end of which buds bloom. Herbaceous shoots become woody by the end of the season.

Kleoma prickly is also called a pedicel that grows up to a meter in length, with four petals on long legs and blue or purple staminate filaments that create the volume of the inflorescence. The diameter of the brush can be up to 20 cm. At the end of the inflorescence, new buds appear all summer and flowers bloom, lengthening the shoots. The corolla of each flower can open up to 3 cm.

There are so many such flowers on the peduncle at the same time that each individual shoot can replace a whole bouquet. More than a dozen flowers can grow and bloom on one bush at the same time. To keep such a bush from falling apart, it is recommended to use supports.

The pods-bolls ripe after the end of flowering can be used as dried flowers. The most interesting thing is that ripe pods do not reduce the number of flowers that open on the shoot.

The color of the corolla of the flower is very diverse - from snow-white to deep purple. There are varieties with flowers of two shades in one inflorescence. The leaves of the plant consist of seven lobes.

As on the stem, and on the leaves, there is pubescence with odorous glands. The unpleasant smell of these glands scares away insect pests and therefore the glue should not be planted near the house or resting places.

However, bees like this aroma and they gladly visit glue. In the homeland of the plant, the smell is very popular with small bats, which pollinate the flowers.

The plant itself is very hardy and can survive sharp fluctuations in air humidity and temperature.

Types and varieties

Florists currently grow only two types of cleoma -Cleome Hassleriana andglue prickly (Cleome Spinosa). Both species are difficult to distinguish and therefore they are united by the common name prickly cleoma. To develop new varieties, both of these species are crossed with each other. The most successful varieties of prickly cleoma:

Hellen Campbell

Cleoma with white flowers

Helen Campbell cultivar

Pink Queen and Rose Queen

Cleoma "Rose Queen" - The Pink Queen

Attractive varieties with pink flowers.

Golden Sparkler

Cleoma "Golden Sparkler"

Low-growing variety with unusual yellow flowers.

Giant Pink Qusen

Variety with large dark pink flowers.

Sparkler lavender

Cleome hassleriana "Sparkler Lavender"

Variety with purple inflorescences.

Violet Queen

Cleome "Queen Violet"

Plants with flowers of inky purple color.

Cherry queen

Cherry Queen variety

Variety with fragrant flowers 2-3 cm in size on long pedicels. The petals are carmine pink and turned to one side, and the stamens and pistil to the other.

Splashes of champagne

Can grow up to 1.2 m in height. Flowers ranging from white to pale pink, open up to 4-5 cm in diameter. Blooms from July until frost.

Colored waterfall

Cleome "Color Fountain"

Camellia

Planting and leaving

Site and soil preparation for planting

No matter how glue is grown - by sowing in the ground or seedlings, it is better to prepare a place in the flower garden in advance. The annual grows and blooms better in areas exposed to the sun for a long time, without stagnant water after rain.

At the end of April, the selected area is dug up, the roots of perennial weeds are removed from the soil, organic fertilizers are applied in the form of compost or complex fertilizers - up to 2 tablespoons per 1 m².

When planting seedlings in open ground, 40-50 cm are left between the plants. Cleomes planted at such a distance bloom magnificently and are well ventilated, preventing the outbreak of infections.

When sowing seeds in autumn directly into the ground, the site is prepared in early autumn. They also dig up and fertilize. Seeds are sown in rows, followed by thinning in the same way as seedlings.

Growing seedlings, when to plant

Cleoma can be grown through seedlings. After the end of flowering, the seed pods with ripe seeds are collected and stored until spring. Self-seeding cleoma reproduces reluctantly. Seeds are sown for seedlings in early March. You can speed up the germination of seeds and increase their germination by soaking them in a stimulant diluted according to the instructions.

Sowing containers with a depth of about 15 cm are filled with a nutrient mixture consisting of compost, garden soil and sand in a ratio of 2: 2: 1. Wood ash is scattered over the soil surface. Seeds are sown to a depth of about 1 cm, which are covered with humus. The container is covered with glass or polyethylene. Treated seeds begin to germinate after 15-20 days.

Seedling care is the same as for other annuals

- watering, airing seedlings, diving in individual containers, hardening before planting in open ground. The emerging seedlings are kept in a bright cool room and illuminated in cloudy weather or prolonging daylight hours.

When two true leaves appear, the sprouts can be cut into individual containers, deepening them to the cotyledonous leaves. Correctly transplanted plants begin to grow vigorously. They don't even need a backlight.

After ten days, the seedlings can be fertilized. It is better to use nitrogen fertilizers to build up green mass. You can repeat feeding in two weeks.

A very important point is watering. Water should be plentiful, but infrequent. The soil should be moist without stagnant water. A small amount of potassium permanganate can be added to the irrigation water to prevent possible diseases.

Sowing in open ground

You can sow seeds directly into the soil in late autumn. This is the easiest way to propagate cleoma. In the selected area, planting holes are prepared with a depth of about one and a half centimeters. Seeds are laid out in them and sprinkled with earth, and on top they are covered with spruce branches or other covering material. Then the seeds will safely endure the winter. In the spring, the shelter is removed. In this case, seedlings will appear with a delay.

Another method is to sow seeds in open ground in the spring, when the spring frosts pass and the soil warms up to the sowing depth. Rows for sowing are prepared with a depth of no more than 1.5 cm, into which the seeds are laid. The soil is kept constantly moist until germination.Plants grown outdoors will flower faster.

How to care for plants

Flower care is the same as for other annuals - watering, loosening, weeding and feeding.

The most difficult thing is with watering. It is very important not to overdo it - cleoma does not tolerate excessive moisture. It will more easily tolerate a slight drought than stagnant moisture.

How to properly fertilize the glue?

It depends on the composition of the soil. At the initial stages of development, complex fertilizers are applied, with a predominance of nitrogen. When buds appear on the plant, fertilizer mixtures for flowering plants are used. In them, the amount of nitrogen is reduced, and the content of potassium and phosphorus is increased. This fertilizer mixture is applied once every two weeks, observing the recommended dosage. To increase decorativeness, you can apply foliar dressing with the same mixture.

Things to remember when planting seedlings outdoors:

• The landing site is chosen illuminated by the sun and closed from the wind.
• It is possible to plant seedlings in a flower garden only after the end of the frost - cleoma is very thermophilic.
• The distance between the planted plants should be about 40 cm.
• At the selected site, humus or complex fertilizer must be applied to the soil.
• When planting seedlings from a seedling box, it is advisable to treat the roots of plants with a solution of Epin or Kornevin.
• It is useful to water the plantings with solutions of humates and spray with a means to relieve stress.

Blooming cleoma adorns the flower bed from June to mid-autumn. The smell attracts bees, butterflies and other insects to the garden. When the flower withers, a pod filled with seeds is formed in its place. There is no need to cut them off to improve the appearance or extend the flowering period - this does not affect the flowering time. The boxes are harvested after the end of the season and used for sowing the next year.

Cleoma care in summer

Cleoma growing in a flower garden needs to be watered, fertilized and removed from weeds.

Watering. The plant needs watering only in extreme heat. Watering is necessary rarely, but abundantly.

Fertilizers. Once every two weeks, the root glue is watered with a solution of complex fertilizer or a mixture for flowering plants. It is useful to spray weakened bushes with a solution of Zircon, which strengthens the plant and accelerates flowering.

The soil under the plantings must be kept in a loose state, weeds must be removed in a timely manner. It is possible to reduce efforts on these works if the soil under the bushes is covered with a layer of mulching material - the earth will remain moist, and there will be less weeds.

Summer Cleoma Care Memo:

• Moderate soil moisture is necessary to maintain decorative properties.
• Fertilization once every ten days.
• Arrangement of supports around the bush.
• Weakened plants are supported by foliar feeding.
• Application of Zircon will accelerate flowering.
• Loosening and mulching the soil.

Cleoma seeds did not sprout. What to do?

The problem in obtaining sprouts of cleoma is the low germination of seeds, they quickly lose their germination. Because of this, the seeds germinate for a long time. Another reason for delayed shoots may be poor quality material.

You can improve germination by soaking seeds in an Epin or HB solution.

The germination capacity of seeds sown in a seedling container can be increased by a sharp change in temperature. To do this, during the day, trays with sown seeds are kept in a warm place, on a sunny windowsill, and transferred to the refrigerator overnight. You can leave the box on the balcony, then it will be warm during the day and cold at night.

Diseases and pests

Cleoma flowers exude a fragrance far from floral. This repels many insects. Pests do not damage the glue. If flowering bushes are planted next to food plants, then the smell will scare away pests from there.

A plant can only get sick with excessive watering or close groundwater.

Cleoma in landscape design

Cleoma is a beautiful long-flowering large plant.Most often it adorns mixborders and tapeworms. At the same time, it is suitable for cutting - it can stand in a vase for up to 10 days.

This attractive flower can beautify any corner of the garden with its presence. Blooming cleoma delights with its appearance, reminiscent of an explosion of fireworks or champagne.

Cleoma dominates in a flower bed with annual flowers. She is planted in the background with lower plants in front of her. She successfully performs a solo against the background of lavater or scented tobacco.

In perennial flower beds, cleoma is a bright accent, which is replaced annually.

It is better to create plantings with cut plants among vegetables: there you can cut flowers without thinking about the overall integrity of the composition.

Cleoma prickly combines well with many plants.

Varieties with white flowers fit organically into the composition with a white rose, white cosme and white lobelia. An interesting combination is obtained when cleoma and dicentra are planted together - both plants are tall with unusual flowers.

The ideal neighborhood is made up of plants with flowers of cold shades, namely, forest sage, verbena, monarda, liatris or echinacea.

Tall flowers can mask an unsightly fence or create a low flowering screen.

Cleoma flower - growing from seeds, planting and caring for the cleoma; how and when to plant glue: video

After sowing glue once, it's hard not to succumb to its charm and plant the flower over and over again.

An annual or biennial flower that is often used by gardeners to decorate the landscape design of a site is a cleoma, it is this plant that can often be seen in Russian gardens. All due to the fact that it has quite remarkable characteristics and appearance, which can be appreciated in the photo presented below. Today, let's talk in more detail about how planting and care is carried out and how growing from seeds is different. Cleoma flowers look very attractive even in the photo, and in landscape design they are irreplaceable:

Botanical description of cleoma and a photo of this plant

Perhaps we should start with a botanical description of this garden plant. Cleoma is found in various forms in almost all corners of the world, but mainly its abode is in warm and temperate regions. In general, this plant can grow as a shrub or grass. The shortly glandular-drooping stems have a fairly large branching, on which the leaves are arranged in a regular order. The leaves themselves can have both fairly simple and complex structures, as in the photo below.

As for the flowers, they are located at the very top with brushes and can have a bright color. For example, inflorescences are often seen in pink, yellow, white, or pale purple. According to the Germans, the colors of the cleoma are very similar to the spray of champagne, but not many people like such a plant, since it has a rather specific smell. But, despite this, it does not look bad and decorates courtyards and gardens. After the cleoma fades, you can observe the fruits, which are a pod-shaped capsule, no more than 3 cm long.

The Germans often call such a flower "spider", all due to the fact that its inflorescence has a rather unusual shape - on one side there are long stamens and a pistil, and on the other, four petals. The plant blooms with buds, the diameter of which can reach 20 cm, as in the photo below. At the same time, cleoma can become a real decoration of any garden, many even grow it in a group with scented tobacco and lavater, in such an ensemble, cleoma will be a salt plant.

Popular types of cleoma in the photo and their description

Cleoma is a plant that includes about 170 species, but according to botanists there are actually more than 200 of them. The most popular types of them are Hassler's cleoma, since its trunk has thorns, in everyday life this plant is called prickly cleoma. This species was introduced into the culture and is not particularly different from others.His homeland is South America, where these flowers grew in tropical conditions, but they will take root well with any gardener with proper care. In the photo below you can see the flowers of the most popular species of the cleoma plant today, and then we will try to make a short description of some of them.

But, in fact, not everyone knows that prickly cleoma and Hassler's cleoma are two completely different species of this plant. They differ from each other only in a different color range of inflorescences, which is why gardeners often get confused and call one "prickly cleoma". It is worth noting that in conditions where long and cold winters are observed, this flower can be grown for your garden only as an annual. Unlike tropical crops, such a plant will not exceed one meter in height, but it can also often be seen as a hedge.

In general, all types of cleoma plants differ from each other only in the shade of flowers with which they can delight all summer long. So, for example, Cleoma Hellen Campbell has a pleasant white bloom, Rosakenigin - pale pink, Golden Sparkler - yellow. The species of plants that are called Sparkler Lavenden and Violet Queen have light purple flowers and ink-colored inflorescences - they look just magical, so be sure to look at their photo below.

The most popular variety of prickly cleoma is Cherry Queen or Cherry Queen, as it is commonly called in Russia. Its flowers have an incredibly original shape and exude a very pleasant aroma. Plants of this variety can reach no more than 60 centimeters and can be easily grown from seeds for your garden or yard.

Another rather popular type is Hassler's cleoma, the most popular variety of which is the Champagne Splash flower. It can reach no more than 120 centimeters in height and have a pleasant pink shade of flowers, the diameter of which reaches 3-4 cm, while the diameter of the inflorescences can be about 20 cm, they can be observed from the beginning of July until the very frost. Quite often, cleoma can be used by gardeners as a hedge, since it can grow quite tall.

Cleoma Cherry Queen (Cherry Queen): interesting varieties in the photo

A plant that at the moment has just a huge number of interesting varieties bred by breeders is the Cherry Queen cleoma or the cherry queen, which can be seen in the photo below. This species was introduced into cultivation in 1817 and at the moment some of its varieties are quite common. Let's talk about some of them in more detail.

Cleoma cherry queen can reach no more than 60 cm in height, while the effect is given to it by an erect stem without thorns. The flowering of this variety is one of the shortest - it can be observed from early July to mid-September. Quite popular among gardeners is the Cherry Queen Queen series. They can be white, pink, or pale lilac. At the same time, the petals of the flower, unlike other varieties, are more fleshy, and the aroma is softer and more pleasant.

Regardless of which variety of this annual the gardener chooses, it is worth knowing that it requires proper care, which let's talk about further. First of all, it is worth making sure that the cherry queen cleoma has a place well lit by the sun, where it is best to plant it in late May or early June. Before planting a plant, it is necessary to create favorable conditions for it; for this, dolomite flour or wood ash is added to the planting site directly into the soil. This should be done in this way: 1 or 2 glasses of ash or dolomite flour with rotted compost (4 kg per m2).Everything else that is associated with the care of this plant does not differ from the basic rules that apply to any other species and varieties.

The basics of care and planting of a beautiful annual cleoma

Although it is believed that cleoma is a rather unpretentious plant, since it is at least quite drought-resistant and not picky even at home before planting, it is still worth knowing about some of the basics of care and planting of such a plant. This is necessary in order for this annual to delight gardeners with its beautiful flowers, which, for example, can be seen in the photo below.

Care and planting basically does not depend on the variety and type of cleoma, so it is not difficult to understand some of the nuances that you should definitely remember before starting this plant in your garden. Almost all of these annuals reproduce well by seeds, which must be done at home and only then planted in prepared soil. During flowering, cleoma may well form viable seeds that can be used next year. Depending on when exactly the gardener wants to see a beautiful flowering, planting should be done. In some cases, the seeds are immediately sown in the ground before winter or spring, but if you want to see the flowers early, you should first prepare the seedlings in containers at home.

To prepare seedlings, you need to sow seeds in specially prepared soil. Experts advise using loose nutrient soil for this. A mixture of humus and soil from the garden is perfect. After that, the container is covered with glass and artificial lighting is created. After 2-3 weeks, seedlings will appear, which must be soaked in phytoharmon, which can be absolutely anything. Seedlings should be watered very carefully, avoiding stagnation of water in the ground, as the sprouts can react quite sharply to this. In some cases, it is better not to top up than to pour water into a container with only germinated seeds, since the plant is more resistant to drought than to excess moisture.

In any case, planting on open ground should be done as early as possible, since the root system only sprouted with glue more easily transfers the transplant. In addition, these are rather unfriendly plants, regardless of the variety, so the picking is best done as early as possible in different pots.