Woolly chisel

Use in landscape design

Quite often when creating landscape design uses pubescent plants... They cover the entire soil, creating an amazing "canvas". Since the purse forms a silvery "carpet", it is ideal for creating contrasting compositions with other plants. For example, "bunny ears" look great in an ensemble with a yaskolka or a two-color cross. They form a wonderful tandem with a Carpathian bell or lavender. The combination of silvery stachis and orange marigolds looks very beautiful.

Woolly net is used for carpet planting or for the formation of borders in flower beds and flower beds. This plant looks good in rockeries, it can be used for alpine slides, since it creates a contrast with stone, and is also unpretentious to light and soil.

Stachis flower stalks are used to create bouquets. Velvety leaves with silvery hairs are used as the basis of a bouquet arrangement. They give it color and splendor.

See the next video for even more information on the purist.

Application area

The scrub is used in different directions due to its unique biological composition.

Landing of the Byzantine purge

The Byzantine chastetz is a beautiful and decorative bush that fits perfectly into any landscape design. At the same time, planting a culture will take a minimum of time and effort, and in the future, the purist will delight you with its unusual beauty.

To get a healthy and strong plant, it is important not only to properly plant the seedlings, but also to carry out competent preparatory work. Consider the whole process of planting the Byzantine purifier in separate stages

Stage 1. Choice and purchase of planting material of the Byzantine cesspool

First of all, every gardener needs to purchase high-quality and healthy planting material.
If an adult plant of this species is already growing on your site, you can use one of the above propagation methods.
If you do not have an adult bush and you have no desire to engage in crop cultivation, then you can buy ready-made seedlings or seedlings of the Byzantine purse in specialized garden stores or nurseries that are professionally engaged in plant breeding.
Most often, the stores sell seedlings in the form of seedlings in separate pots.
Before buying, it is important to carefully check the appearance of the planting material. Young seedlings should be free of visible damage, yellow or rotten areas.
The soil in the pots must be clean and moist.
When choosing planting material for the Byzantine purse, pay attention to the botanical features and appearance a specific variety

So you can choose a plant suitable for you, both in height and in the color of foliage and flowers.

Stage 2. Choosing a place for planting the Byzantine purifier

The second important step is to choose the most suitable place for planting on your site.
Byzantine Chistess prefers grow in open sun places where there is always plenty of sunlight and heat

This allows you to get a beautiful neat bush with large and silvery leaves.
You can plant this crop in light partial shade, but in this case, the size and color of the foliage will be more scarce.
It is important to plant seedlings of this variety on small hills or slopes, where there is no constant stagnation of water, which can have a detrimental effect on the plant itself.

Stage 3. Selection and preparation of soil for planting the Byzantine purse

• The Byzantine purse is considered an unpretentious plant that takes root well on any soil. It will grow on sandy soils, rocky or loamy soils.
• Ideally, it is recommended to plant young seedlings on light, moisture-permeable soils with a neutral or alkaline reaction.
• If the soil of your choice is acidic, then it is recommended to deoxidize it using charcoal or lime.
• The main condition for choosing a soil for planting a Byzantine purse is good drainage, since this plant does not tolerate stagnant water at the roots.
• Before planting, you need to carefully dig up the place you have chosen for about two bayonets of a shovel, since the root system of the plant is quite long.

Stage 4. Technology of planting the Byzantine purse

It is recommended to plant seedlings of this plant in open ground in May after the threat of recurrent frosts has passed.
On a site selected in advance, it is necessary to prepare planting pits, the size of which should be slightly larger than the root system of the seedlings.
It is important to remember that the planting holes must be placed at a distance of 15-20 cm from each other in order to make room for the growth of bushes.
At the bottom of each pit, place a small layer of drainage, which may consist of small stones or gravel.
Next, add a layer of potting soil consisting of sand, peat and humus.
Seedlings in pots must be watered abundantly before extraction, and then rolled into the holes together with an earthen clod.
On the resulting mound, place a seedling of a chasteer and carefully sprinkle it with soil.
After planting, young plants are watered abundantly.

Seat selection

Stakhis is a rather unpretentious plant to care for. The culture will feel great in the open sun and, at the same time, will not fade. It tolerates drought well enough. If you plant a purse in partial shade, he will also not mind.

Under constant sunlight, the stachis grows very large, distinctive leaves, which are slightly whiter than their shade-dwelling counterparts.

However, to think that this culture can live in complete drought, like a cactus, would be a fatal mistake. This threatens that the bush will simply throw off all its leaves in order to survive, because it will not be able to saturate them with trace elements and water.

Therefore, if the summer is too hot and dry, then the soil needs to be moistened from time to time. However, flooding the plant with a lot of water will be no less a mistake than not watering it at all. More than a severe drought, the culture does not like only stagnant moisture.

What kind of soil should our woolly friend choose? In this case, most of the known soil compositions are suitable:

• sandy;
• stony;
• alkaline;
• black soil.

An ornamental plant does not take root too deep. Basically, the root system is superficial, which is what makes the crop so versatile in soil selection.

In addition, you do not have to replant stachis from place to place every year. He will feel great in one place for several years. However, in the fifth or sixth year of the growing season, the middle of the plant's flower bed may begin to thin out. The purifier will help save additional cultivation of new seedlings in other places, a complete transplant of the flower bed in a place that is more saturated with useful minerals or fertilization of the soil.

Stakhis will be ready to move to another "place of residence" as soon as the spring night frosts are over, but it will be best to wait until May. When transplanting an entire flower bed, it must be borne in mind that each seedling should be at a distance of about 20 cm from its neighbor. Before planting, it is recommended to apply fertilizer to the soil; this can be done with the help of manure, humus, or simply add chalk to it.

If you are replanting a stachis that has lived a carefree life for five years, then you need to dig out a part of the earth under it and add a new one, rich in microelements, in its place. After that, it remains only to plant our seedlings in a fertile place.

Growing stachis from seeds using seedlings

This plant is ideal for growing as a decorative ornamentation or as a slide in relatively warm climates. Outwardly, it is light, it seems covered with a white bloom.

If you step on it with your bare foot, you can find yourself in paradise - it is so pleasant, silky and soft. In order for you to have such a decoration in your garden, you need to grow it correctly.

Did you know?
Stakhis or Byzantine chisetz, or sheep's ears is a perennial plant. Its height barely reaches 60 cm. Usually the leaves spread along the ground, covering it with a velvet blanket.

This plant can be propagated by seeds. They are distinguished by good germination. February or March is suitable for planting seeds.

They are sown in prepared closed soil, which can be fertilized with organic matter or minerals, and watered.

Now everything needs to be covered, to create a greenhouse using oilcloth or glass. About 30 days
grains are enough to sprout from the ground.

Therefore, you need to know with whom he will make friends and will not compete. Among his companions:

• silvery wormwood;
• sheep;
• astrania;
• bushes of pink roses.

Quite unpretentious plant stachis woolly
and in planting, and in the choice of soil, place, and care. But still, it keeps several secrets.

Watering, weeding and loosening the soil

As we have already noted, it is good for stachis in dry soil, where there is no stagnant water. He still needs to receive watering only in the case of a very dry and hot summer.

You will notice his discontent by the fall of the foliage. in the evening, when the sun no longer shines on the plant. Young seedlings can be planted in the soil in spring, since the old ones can stretch upward, discarding the lower leaves and thus creating voids in the flower bed.

If the stems or leaves are too elongated or completely dry, then their need to cut
... Do the same with the rhizomes throughout the summer that go outside.

In summer, in addition to watering, stachis requires soil care. It needs to be loosened occasionally, despite the fact that the plant does not give very deep roots. This can be done through every 14 days
.

It is better to huddle at your own discretion, but not more than 3 times. This gives space for the plant to develop. You should not rush to loosen the soil. Do this when your leaves are about 20 cm
long.

Fertilization

It does not need frequent addition. It is enough for him to receive a portion once a season. Young seedlings can be planted in such soil in spring.

Pruning inflorescences

As you noticed, stachis by its description decorative plant
... It is ideal for curbs and streams.

Of course, the deciduous part is valued more than the thin stems with a cap of small and impenetrable flowers. Can you imagine how much effort the plant gives in order to shoot such an arrow?

Naturally, all this is compensated by new arrows, new leaves die or do not develop. To decorate, we need everything the other way around.

To save deciduous velvet, you need to cut off the arrows of the inflorescences. The shorter you do it, the better. The optimal time to trim is the period immediately after the wave of the first color has passed.

If you didn't have time, then next year in early May or even late April, watch how new shoots are formed - they must be cut immediately
... With the onset of warm and sunny days during the period of active growth, the plant will give all its strength to the foliage, which will cover the earth and will delight you with its luxurious appearance until the first frost.

Stachis care, fertilization and feeding

Woolly chisel is an example of unpretentiousness on the site. Caring for it is simple:

• Watering - once a week in small doses. During a prolonged drought, the volume of water and the frequency of its application should be increased, otherwise the plant risks dropping its foliage.
• At the beginning of flowering, stachis will need hilling. Also, periodically loosen and weed the soil.
• Pick dry old leaves every spring. Watch out for overgrowing root shoots in summer. If they are not removed in time, they will creep up and take over neighboring territories.
• Prune inflorescences regularly. Due to ripe buds, the bush may decay.

Water the sheep's ears regularly, but little by little.

• To avoid bald spots in carpet planting, periodically plant young bushes in bare areas.
• Chisel is resistant to light frost. However, it is better to cover the plant during severe frosts. Pay close attention to winter weather. As soon as there is a thaw, remove the protective cover. Otherwise, the bush may flare up.
• With the aging of the plant, a void will appear in the center of the leafy rosette. Once every 3-4 seasons, new soil should be poured into this place and a young seedling should be planted.

Advice. Cut buds can be used for bouquets as dried flowers in combination with other flowers.

The scrub is unpretentious not only in care, but also in feeding. Fertilizer growers advise to make 1-2 times a year, in the spring. Use chicken or cow dung in combination with ammonium nitrate. Sometimes organic matter is replaced with complex mineral mixtures. Fertilizer will help increase the plant's resistance to frost.

Rules for caring for an "alien" from China

Although stachis is an unpretentious culture, there are still several important procedures. Without them, it will wither and lose its decorative appearance. After planting, the stachis is carefully monitored. The top sphere of the soil is fluffed regularly. Remove weeds.

Water several times a week. Much depends on the climatic conditions of the area where it grows. In drought, the soil is moistened in the morning and after sunset in small portions. After 5-6 hours, after each procedure, the soil is fluffed.

Top dressing is carried out in three stages. In March, when the growing season begins, a solution of ash and nitrogenous substances are introduced. Before flowering, the plant is fed with rotted manure and complex fertilizers. In late summer and early autumn, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium preparations are used. This will help the culture to survive successfully during the winter cold. In the fall, almost all the foliage is cut off. Leave several pieces in the center of the outlet. In northern latitudes, stachis are covered with mulch or agrofibre.

Stachis: combination with other plants

Delicate and fluffy sheep ears look great in many landscape compositions in the garden. They are used in decorating flower beds, paths, borders,. The purist will emphasize and highlight bright flowers:,

Purist

) Is a perennial herb belonging to the Yasnotkovye family. An extensive genus that includes more than 300 species of a variety of plants, including many common wild-growing herbs. Some of them (such as Stachys officinalis
(pharmacy cleaner), Stachys sylvatica
(forest cleaver), Stachys palustris
(marsh purse)) have medicinal properties.

In garden culture, widespread Byzantine chastetz

he is stachis woolly

(Stachys byzantiana
(Stachys lanata
)). It is especially appreciated for its silvery, densely pubescent and very pleasant to the touch wide oval leaves. The shoots of the Byzantine creeper are creeping, the peduncles rise up to 30 cm. Depending on the composition of the flower garden, the peduncles are left until the end of flowering or removed - if the cetacean is grown as an ornamental deciduous border plant. Often, during the flowering period, the bush becomes loose, its middle is bare; removal of peduncles stimulates the growth of new shoots, a dense silvery cover is formed.

Byzantine chisel is a fast growing plant that retains its decorative effect until late autumn. It is not picky about conditions and care, it takes root well on poor soil, it is drought-resistant, therefore it is often used for planting in rockeries. The plant is winter hardy, but in regions with harsh climates, light shelter for the winter may be required.

An ideal plant for borders, flower beds. It forms a thick, even and dense border, and the silvery-gray color of the foliage contrasts well with the green of the leaves and the bright colors of flowers. A very wide range of different combinations allows you to get a variety of effects in flower beds.

A few decades ago, woolly stachis could not be found on the plots of local summer residents. And this is not surprising, because from the historical homeland - China, it was brought only at the end of the 20th century. Very quickly, the plant gained incredible popularity. Once you see a purist, you can hardly resist the desire to plant it in your flower garden. But before we start growing this ornamental plant in the open field, let's figure out how the planting takes place, what the care is, whether it needs watering and what varieties of woolly stachis are preferred for our area.

Variety of decorative varieties of the Byzantine purse

The chastetz has spread widely throughout the world and gained popularity among gardeners and landscape designers. This prompted breeders all over the world to start breeding new species and varieties of chitose. This also applies to the Byzantine purebred, in the line of varieties of which there are very unusual and interesting plants, worthy of attention of true connoisseurs of unusual cultures. Consider the characteristics of the most popular varieties of Byzantine purity.

• The variety of the Byzantine "Silver Carpet". One of the most popular varieties of decorative culture, the very name of which speaks about its capabilities and appearance, about the ability to grow in the form of a carpet. It is a compact variety, the maximum height of the plant can reach 15 cm. During the active growing season, the plant grows rapidly and forms a dense and fairly dense carpet of gray-green leaves with a high silvery pile. This variety does not form flowers.
• A variety of the Byzantine "Big Ears". It is a compact and low bush, the main feature of which is considered to be long leaves.In length, one leaf plate can reach about 20-25 cm, which is why the foliage resembles ears. Leaves of a bluish-green hue with a silvery pile on the surface.
• A variety of the Byzantine "Striped Phantom". This variety differs from other representatives of the species in the color of its leaves. Light longitudinal stripes are clearly visible on the gray-green monochromatic surface of the leaf. Due to this, the Striped Phantom variety belongs to the variegated varieties of Chitlet.
• A variety of Byzantine "Cotton Ball". Translated, the name of this variety literally means "ball or ball of cotton". This is due to the fact that the flower whorls resemble cotton bolls during blooming.
• A variety of the Byzantine purifier "Sheila Macqueen". According to some reports, this plant variety was named after a famous florist in the 40-60s, who worked at the royal court in Great Britain. It is a compact, low-growing plant that does not set flowers.
• Variety "Sheep ears". This variety of Byzantine chisel was named in this way because of the similarity of the leaves of the plant with the soft and fluffy ears of the animal. Compact bush up to 30 cm in height. It blooms with delicate purple-pink small flowers, which reach a maximum diameter of 1 cm.
• Variety of the Byzantine purist "Primrose Heron". This plant variety differs from other representatives of the species by the color of its foliage. In the spring, at the very beginning of the growing season, the foliage has a yellowish tint; over time, by summer, the leaves become the usual gray-green color. During flowering, small pink flowers bloom on long peduncles.
• The "Silky Fleece" variety. This plant can reach a height of 25-30 cm. It is a beautiful and compact bush, the leaves of which are white and densely covered with long silvery fibers.
• Variety "Marvel". This is a tall variety of Byzantine chiseta, the stems of which can reach a height of 50-60 cm.

This is just a list of the most popular varieties of woolen beetle among gardeners and landscape designers in Russia, which are often used to create bright and spectacular garden compositions. In addition to them, this plant variety boasts a wide variety of varieties.

Description

The plant is annual and perennial, with a long and spreading root system that penetrates deep into the ground. The root shoot is thickened and has oval tubers. Shoots are erect, up to thirty centimeters high.

Alternate green-gray leaves, with short petioles at the base, lanceolate or heart-shaped. The leaves of most varieties have a dense, silver-colored pubescence, which is why they resemble felt scraps or animal ears.

The flower period begins in July and lasts for several months. At the edge of the shoot, inflorescences are formed on an elongated peduncle.

Intense color scheme of the bud, which has a bell-shaped cup with 5 sharp petals. The surface is smooth, dark and brown.

Stachis varieties

The genus includes about four hundred varieties, but not all of them have received fame.

Woolly stachis. Due to the density and length of the fleecy cover on the leaves, it has earned recognition among flower growers. Shoots are twenty to forty centimeters long. The plant is among the unpretentious and frost-resistant. The lilac-pink bloom lasts about fifty days.

Decorative types:

1. Big Ears - small shoots covered with fluffy leaves about twenty-five centimeters; Silver Carpet is a miniature silver variety that grows up to fifteen centimeters;
2. Striped Phantom - leaves have white vertical lines;
3. Cotton Ball - inflorescences are similar to cotton flowers;
4. Sheila Macqueen - short shoots with bent leaves and no flowers.
5. Wood scrub. Prefers the forest belt of the European and Azaite territories. Erect shoots have four sides, the foliage is shaggy, dark emerald, and the inflorescences are crimson.Found application as a hemostatic and sedative.
6. Byzantine chastetz. Perennial spreading plant with straight sixty centimeter shoots. It is widespread in the South of Asia. It contains a sufficient amount of vegetable oils and vitamin C.
7. One-year-old scrub. Grass with drooping foliage and powerful fragrant flowers. Used as your melliferous plant.
8. Chistets Baikalsky. Light green shoots grow up to one and a half meters. Leaves are lanceolate, covered with light white hair. Purple-red or purple flowers are collected in large inflorescences. In medicine, it is used to create sedatives and to cure hypertension.
9. Marsh chase. The bush is a little more than one meter, with a voluminous stem and serrated leaves. The whole plant is covered with coarse drooping villi. The flowers are pink-purple. It became widespread in folk medicine as a hemostatic and healing agent.

How the purse multiplies

You can propagate stachis at home by seed and vegetative methods... In the first case, seedlings are grown, in the other, several methods can be taken: root the cutting or divide the bush into several parts.

You can grow seedlings in the usual way for plants.

Growing from seeds

Grow from seed garden perennial and annual purse is not so difficult. The main thing is to buy high-quality planting material or prepare it yourself.

Note! Sowing seeds for seedlings is necessary at the end of the winter season, in February. During this period, the day starts to get longer, which will be beneficial for the seedlings to emerge.

A shallow wide container is best suited for planting; for convenience, you can choose an elongated container. The recommended manufacturing material is wood or plastic.

The soil for planting must be prepared in advance. The plant is not very picky about its composition, but it is best to buy a special substrate for plants of the stachis genus. If you do not want to spend money on soil mixture, you can prepare it yourself by mixing turf soil with a small amount of humus and sand.

Each seed should be visually inspected for defects before sowing. If there are too many of them, you can identify spoiled ones by immersing all the seeds in water. Empty and rotten material will immediately float out.

Important! To disinfect and strengthen the immunity of seeds, it is necessary to soak them for a couple of hours in a special saline or potassium permanganate solution. It is necessary to deepen each seed by 1-2 cm, with a greater depth, it will not be able to ascend at all

It is necessary to deepen each seed by 1-2 cm, with greater depth it will not be able to ascend at all.

After planting, the box with seedlings must be covered with foil to create a greenhouse effect. Twice a week, you should remove the shelter for a couple of hours and ventilate the emerging sprouts. In addition, it is imperative to weed and moisten the soil.

Before planting seedlings in open ground, you need to pick. When the sprouts reach a length of 3-4 cm, it is recommended to transplant them into separate small containers or peat pots. Covering seedlings is no longer worth it.

Note! In May, young bushes are planted in open ground. It is better to leave a lump of earth at the roots of the plant, so they will take root faster.

The bottom of the holes must be covered with earth mixed with compost and nitrogen fertilizer.

Planting cuttings

It is necessary to cut cuttings from young, but powerful shoots. For each cut, you need to leave 3-4 sheets. Cuttings can be immediately planted in a moistened nutrient medium, or they can be rooted in a container with plain water. It is necessary to transplant seedlings after they give stable shoots.

Dividing the bush

The forest cleaver needs to be updated often; for this purpose, dividing the bush is suitable. In the spring, you need to dig up the plant and use a sharp knife to divide it together with the rhizome into several equal parts.Each of them needs to be planted in a separate place.

Dividing tubers

Tubers are divided in early spring or autumn. After digging up the bush, you need to separate the nodules and leave them in a stimulating and strengthening solution. After that, they can be put away for storage or immediately planted in the garden.

Shrub care is simple, but has its own nuances.

Planting a flower

Byzantine chisel propagates in the form of seeds by dividing the bush and tubers. Seeds are sown in containers with soil in mid-February or early March. After watering, they should be covered with plastic wrap and placed in a warm room. After a month, you can observe the first shoots. And when pairs of leaves have formed, the seedlings can be planted in open ground. But you need to take into account the forecast of frost, otherwise the Byzantine Chisinau will simply die.

An ideal place for stachis can be considered an area with partial shade, where the sun's rays fall well. But the shrub is not picky about the condition of the soil, apart from moisture. Sheep ears (another name for the plant) adapt to any soil. But the most optimal are the lungs, with moderate fertility. If the soil is oversaturated with mineral fertilizers, the plant may lose its decorative qualities, and instead of a silvery shade, the flower will have an ordinary light green color.

Basically, the process is as follows:

1. Plant holes should be 13-18 cm apart.
2. Coarse sand, pebbles or small stones must be poured at the bottom of each depression, and sprinkled on top with a layer of soil with fertilizers.
3. Seedlings are planted in the holes, then watered abundantly.

Next, you need to regularly water the plant, clear the weeds around and loosen the soil. When the first flowers appear, you need to spud it.

It must be borne in mind that it is recommended to water in moderation, otherwise moisture stagnation may appear in the roots of the purée. Experienced gardeners advise watering the woolly stachis abundantly in dry times so that the plant does not shed its leaves.

Some gardeners practice stachis propagation using tubers. The whole process, which is very similar to planting ordinary potatoes, boils down to the following steps:

1. A small depression is made in the form of a groove up to 5-6 cm in depth (if the soil is sandy, up to 7-8 cm), the distance between the rows is recommended at least 50 cm.
2. Tubers prepared and cleaned of dirt are immersed in the ground with an interval of 20 cm.
3. Everything is sprinkled a little with humus or suitable mineral fertilizers.
4. Abundant watering is in progress.

That's it, this completes the procedure. It remains only to wait until the plants sprout first. By the way, the collection of tubers for the next planting is carried out in the fall by simple digging.