Amazingly beautiful, delicate and defenseless flowers from ancient times conquer human hearts. Make life brighter. With their help flowerbeds are created, arbors are decorated. Bindweed, an unpretentious plant of the Vyunkov family, enjoys special love among gardeners.
Features of loaches
The homeland of the bindweed are the coastal zones of Italy, Sicily and northwestern Africa. The Latin name is Convolvulus. Loach flower spreads between dry limestone rocks, covering them with a lush colored carpet and is considered a weed annual plant, numbering about 250 species. Has long (from 50 cm) plentifully branching shoots. The stems have good flexibility, easily cling to vertical surfaces, supports, wrap them around forming a dense mass. Abundant continuous flowering is another quality for which the florist handsome fell in love with flower growers. Over many years of experimentation, several new varieties were developed with an unusual leaf shape and funnel-shaped flowers of various colors.
Thick carpet of bindweed flowers
Florists are delighted with perennial curly flowers for the garden. With their help, it is easy to close unsightly bald spots on the site, decorate the slopes, create a hedge. One-year-old bindweeds are no worse at this task (we are not talking about weed grasses, which include white bindweed and ordinary street bind flower).
Fast-growing looms of flowers are good in the design of temporary screens, arbors. One has only to make imagination, choose the right color scheme and get a wonderful shady corner for relaxation. A beautiful saturated cascade of greenery is diluted with pretty flowers that open in the morning, with white, pale pink, bluish or purple hues. Decorative views of loaches, with juicy bright colors of petals and limbs, are very popular.
Decorating facades with perennial loaches (girl's grapes)
For giving, perennial plants are indispensable "natural" decorators of the facades. Here you should give preference to winter-hardy varieties: different types of girl's grapes (including cultural types); Chinese Wisteria; ampelopsis, climbing roses. Due to their ability to weave and branch, plants form a lush green vertical, beautifully framing the terrace (porch, balcony).
Interesting! Ponds, paths, slides of a summer cottage will perfectly decorate all the same curly perennials: actinidia, wisteria, petiole hydrangea.
Types of Garden Bindweed
Planted in flowerbeds and in flower beds, loaches of flowers form a colorful flowering carpet. In curly frames - outlandish weaves. They are used for decorating rock gardens, borders, rockeries, arrangement of pottery gardens.
Moorish Bindweed (Convolvus sabatius)
For the ability to create picturesque falling cascades, the flower won the title of the most spectacular culture for hanging baskets and containers. The stems, framed by delicate gray-green leaves, reach a half-meter length. The flowers are in the form of a gramophone, usually light lilac, blue or ultramarine.
Three-color bindweed
Three-colored bindweed (Convolvulus tricolor)
It has abundant branching, capable of giving it the shape of a “cap”. It reaches a height of 50 cm. The shoots are thin, densely dotted with bluish oval leaves. Large funnel-shaped flowers with a short peduncle and a wavy edge reach 4 cm in diameter. It got its name because of the three-color combination: the corolla stands out with a bright saturated blue hue, the middle is white (light), the pharynx is a bright lemon color. Tricolor sharply distinguishes the plant from other species. Three-color bindweed growing from seeds differs in a long flowering period (from the first days of summer until the beginning of September).
Additional Information! In addition to the basic form, there are other varieties: Krimzon Monarch (with raspberry flowers); Royal Ensin (ultramarine flowers with a golden pharynx); Blue Flash (a low spherical bush with pale blue flowers). They also have a three-color bell flower and are in great demand among gardeners. First of all, due to the beautifully forming compact bushes and unusual flowers.
Bindweed (Convolvulus bicuspidatus)
Discreet, ordinary plant. A guest who descended to the central part of Russia from the Caucasus Mountains. It is rather a creeping than a climbing plant, similar to a street loach. There are few leaves, they all have an arrow-shaped shape, due to which the plant cannot form a flat carpet of greenery. Peduncles long, sparse, with single pale pink axillary flowers.
Greening a hedge with bindweed
Features of planting bindweed
Even an inexperienced grower can plant and grow an annual plant. Seeds for seedlings are sown in open ground (they are not afraid of frost) in the second half of April, or in seedlings in the first days of March, after soaking in water for 10-24 hours. Soil composition for seedlings: 2 parts of nutrient soil per 1 part of peat. Seeds are covered with a thin layer of earth and slightly compacted. After 2 weeks, shoots appear. They are watered and fed as necessary 1 time in 2 weeks with a weakly concentrated solution of mineral fertilizers. Hardening is done, daily taking out pallets with seedlings on the street for 1-2 hours.
Landing at a permanent place occurs immediately after the end of frost, usually in mid-May. The distance between the holes can withstand 20-25 cm.
Planting seedlings in the ground
Important information! In ampelic boxes, flowerpots, hanging baskets planted only 1 plant. With a larger number of planted roots, abundant growth leads to rapid depletion of the soil, lack of moisture and wilting with the subsequent death of the flower.
Features of gardening
The quality of the soil should be paid attention to when growing loaches in pots and flowerpots (pallets, boxes).
The soil
All types of bindweed, although they prefer loose, slightly alkaline soils (with a sufficient content of lime), but easily take root on any of its types. Many of them, in general, are not demanding on breathability, and therefore are able to grow even in clay areas. Mulching, loosening is desirable, but not necessary.
Lighting
They like open, well-lit areas. Street loach is a flower that perfectly tolerates even the extreme periods of drought in the open ground and the mercilessly scorching sun.
Watering
Excessive moisture can affect enhanced vegetative growth and inhibition of flowering, so they are not often watered. Everything needs a measure, a lot depends on climatic conditions. If in the dry season the garden bindweed is rarely, but plentifully watered, it will delight the eye with lush flowering. A completely different story with potato bindweed - soil moisture must be checked periodically and watered as needed. Better in the evening or morning hours.
Top dressing
Top dressing and weeding are carried out as needed. As top dressing of adult plants, ash can be used.
Pruning
To be carried out with excessive growth, if it harms the plant, or to shape the frame cultures.
What is the plant afraid of?
The plant is resistant to many diseases. Occasionally, bindweeds are affected by powdery mildew, or aphids settle on them. In the first case, the plant is treated with fungicides, in the second - with acaricide-based solutions. Otherwise, the plant will bloom weakly. All types of varietal annual bindweed are cold-resistant, but heat-loving. Abundant flowering continues from early June to autumn. Only then do plants require increased attention (especially decorative varieties): with additional feeding and proper, uniform watering, their flowering period increases.
Important information! If it is planned to plant an annual loach plant the next year, they carefully dig it out, cut the greens, leaving 15-20 cm, plant it in a pot. Keep at home, at room temperature 12-15 ℃ above zero.
Annual looms in hanging baskets
Classification of perennial garden looms
All perennial curly flowers, as well as annuals, are divided according to the method of attachment to various supports. There are climbing cultures clinging with hooks or suction cups, crawling, curling, with and without antennae.
When planting in groups, their compatibility with other garden plants, their tendency to be affected by the same pests, and diseases must be taken into account. This way you can avoid the loss of several plants at once.
Types of perennial loaches
All flowering plants look incomparable, able to transform any area beyond recognition. Perennial loaches are no exception:
- Actinidia (Actinidia Colomict; Actinidia Argut; Actinidia Kolosa; Actinidia Polygamus) can not only serve as a decoration of the garden, but also give a crop. For this, 2 plants are planted: male and female. Culture needs support: a gazebo, trellis, etc. Feels great in open sunny areas, loves plentiful watering.
- Ampelopsis is a long climbing climber with a tendril. Very beautiful plant, with medium-sized carved leaves and berries. The decorativeness of the culture gives a varied color of the fruit. Ideal for decorating arches and spans.
- Grape varieties of girls: Vicha, Henry, Himalayan, Thompson - the best assistant to designers in landscaping fences, creating canopies, decorating facades. Weaving strong hedges is its main advantage.
- Wisteria Floribunda and Chinese Wisteria are considered the most beautifully flowering vines. Both species prefer sunny, but well protected from the wind places. They like regular watering, respond well to fertilizing weakly acidic and neutral soils. Heat-loving beauties do not tolerate winters in the middle zone of Russia (they require cover).
- Hydrangea Petiole. Contrary to popular belief, this is not a bush, but a loach. It grows well in open windy places, accustomed to a short daylight hours.
- Wood pliers (round-leaved; climbing; climbing) is a beautiful ornamental plant that does not require any maintenance.
- Dioscorea Caucasian. With the help of a beautiful, but very thermophilic and demanding creeper, landscape artists decorate the exterior stairs. Loach loves well-lit places, needs moderate watering.
Dressing arched openings loom
- Blackberry. The plant is best used to decorate the area around the perimeter. It has spiky shoots that make care and handling difficult.
- Honeysuckle. Almost all of its species are classified as decorative looms. It grows poorly on clay soils, preferring soil enriched with humus. Requires abundant watering.
- Kirkazon, having large leaves, is suitable for creating "green carpets" in large areas. The plant is unpretentious, drought tolerant, grows easily in the shade and partial shade, but does not tolerate drafts.
- Schisandra is famous for its medicinal properties. The scourges need good lighting, and the earthen lump needs protection from direct sunlight and requires heavy watering.
Clematis as a decoration of arches
- Lemonos (Clematis) and their hybrids - beautifully flowering loaches - favorites, and breeders, and landscape designers. With their help, artists decorate columns, create unique garden compositions.
- Ivy is a powerful loach. The only drawback of the plant is that it needs material of sufficient strength as a support.
- Climbing roses. There is no need to talk about their beauty and fragrance. There are many species, with a wide variety of colors, the shape and size of buds and inflorescences.
- Fallopia is able to braid a large area in a short time and make it bloom.
Important information! Some species of perennial and annual loaches are poisonous. Next to them, it is strictly contraindicated to plant vegetable and berry crops. The poison, along with fallen leaves and faded inflorescences, inevitably gets into the soil infecting it.
Annual loach flowers are mostly unpretentious in care. Part of perennial garden vines, on the contrary, are distinguished by their exactingness. But the result of work is always pleasant: a paradise garden of vines and picturesque islets, where the loach flowers are the main characters.
