Popular varieties of nasturtium and its cultivation

In almost any garden area, you can find these simple, but such bright flowers - nasturtiums. Even when the buds are not open on the plants, nasturtium still looks decorative on the flower beds due to its beautiful foliage.

Content:

• Features of growing nasturtium
• Caring for all varieties of nasturtium
• Popular varieties of nasturtium

Basically, we are used to seeing very bright yellow, orange, blazing scarlet flowers of this plant in flower beds. They seem to us already familiar, because few people think about the fact that all these plants can belong to completely different varieties, and that there are other varieties with completely non-standard color of the petals.

Features of growing nasturtium

Nasturtiums are not a capricious flower plant. Therefore, it is they who can so often be found growing both in hanging pots, and on the balconies of city apartments, and in flowerpots in parks and squares, and on flower beds outside the city.

These flowers are quite easy to care for and not demanding on living conditions, but, however, there are some subtleties when growing them.

Despite the docile nature of nasturtium, it is still undesirable to sow when there is still a threat of frost. And in our strip, they can freeze the soil even in early May. Young plants will not tolerate even a short-term drop in temperature to zero degrees.

In the Moscow region, it is optimal to sow nasturtium, for example, at the very end of May. In this case, the plants are no longer threatened.

If, with such a late sowing, you still want to see the flowering of nasturtiums before mid-summer, then before planting its seeds, you need to spill the soil in the flower bed with hot water.

In the soil warm from water, then you need to sow seeds, covering the plantings with non-woven material. This will make it faster germinate seeds, which means that the plants will bloom earlier.

If you raised to begin with seedlings of nasturtium or bought it in a horticultural center, during planting it is necessary to carefully protect the earthen lump from destruction. Often the reason for the poor survival rate of seedlings is precisely the damage during the transshipment of an earthen coma, when the root system of tender young plants is touched.

Caring for all varieties of nasturtium

Caring for nasturtium not difficult at all, even children can cope with it. Plants periodically need to be fed, weed out around them and, of course, provided with water.

Most suitable for improving the splendor of flowering nasturtium superphosphate. It is usually diluted in water for irrigation.

Many people know that this fertilizer is rather difficult to dilute in water, however, in this form, it is still more available to plants.

If you want to enhance the growth of green mass on your plants, then fertilizing with fertilizers containing nitrogen is suitable.

It will be useful to spray the plant with a urea solution on the leaf. This is done a couple of times a month using the volume of urea in one matchbox per bucket (10 liters) of water.

Popular varieties of nasturtium

Among the especially bright and beautiful varieties, the following can be distinguished:

Variety "Vesuvius"

Differs in compactness and neatness of bushes and unusual color of flowers - salmon pink with a transition to orange and the presence of bright red spots on the petals.

Variety "Day and Night"

Good small bushes height - up to 30 cm. This variety is named for the spectacular combination of colors of flowers - cream and red.Combined with light green foliage, this color contrast looks very attractive and can add charm to any flower bed in the garden.

Variety "Cherry Rose"

This variety of nasturtium will appeal to fans of the color of flowers that is not standard for this plant - pink-raspberry. In addition to the extraordinary color, the flowers of this variety are also terry.

Variety "Terry mix"

Already from the name it is clear that the flowers of such a nasturtium will be very beautiful, with double petals. Plants of this variety bush well, the bushes are about 40 cm in height. In addition to the beautiful shape of the petals, the plants are distinguished from other varieties by the pleasant aroma emanating from the flowers.

Variety "Alaska"

This variety is very unusual in that the color of the foliage on the plants is not the usual green, but white-green, variegated, like marble. This variety looks decorative even in a non-flowering state. Flowers on nasturtiums of this variety are simple in shape, but their color varies.

Variety "Yeti"

This mysterious name hides a climbing form of nasturtium. Its shoots grow up to 2 meters long. This variety has very beautiful and delicate flowers: they have an unusual creamy-white color, and there are yellow spots in the center.

All types and varieties of nasturtium not only create the mood of the garden, decorating it with flowering, but also useful for the surrounding vegetation. Nasturtium leaves have a specific odor that can repel many species insect pests... It relieves nasturtium very well, for example, from cabbage whitefly and whitefly.

In addition, pollinating insects willingly flock to nasturtium flowers, which obviously will not be superfluous for other plants in your garden.