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Gatzania, planting and care in the open field. Planting gazania in open ground

Gatzania, she is - African chamomile, midday gold, gazania - beautiful plant, the leader in decorativeness, vitality, unpretentiousness. All that is needed for this sunny flower for a prosperous and long existence, warmth and sunlight. In its African homeland, gazania grows on sandy soils, on gravel, in dunes, does not have enough moisture. all year round, but every new morning joyfully opens the petals of its beautiful flowers towards the sun.

The plant has been known in Europe since the 17th century. Named after the Italian clergyman Theodore Gaza. He was not a famous botanist, but he translated many Aristotelian works into his native Italian. So the Europeans decided to perpetuate his name in the name of the "golden" flower. The gazania family is Asteraceae. Flower represented by Magpie various types and countless hybrid varieties, each more beautiful than the other. There are canary-yellow, sunny-gold, orange-orange, two-tone, striped, variegated, spotted gazanias. The color of the flowers is dominated by a warm range.

Plant height is small - only 25-30 cm. All their vitality and received solar energy Gatsania invests not in the stem and not even in the leaves, but in the flowers. During the flowering period, the bush is completely strewn with huge bright-colored daisies. The leaves are thin, dull green. In most species, they are covered from the inside with a silvery “bloom”, like a fluff, which allows the plant to save moisture.

This perennial, develops and grows in the homeland for about twenty years. In our flowerbeds, it acts as an annual, as it does not tolerate winter.

Advice! If gazania is transplanted into a pot in autumn and transferred to a room (to a heated balcony, to a greenhouse), the next year the bush can be planted again in the garden.

Gorgeous gazania inflorescences fully open only by noon, in the bright sun. As soon as the sun hides behind the clouds or begins to decline, the gazania closes the petals. There is only one kind of plant that leaves its flowers all open a day, regardless of the presence of the sun, is Talent.

The main types of gazania, popular in cultural floriculture:

• shiny or harsh;

• one-flowered;

• pinnate;

• long-range;

• white;

• peacock.

Type name	Characteristics
long rifle	Low - 15-25 cm. The flower is seven centimeters in diameter. The color is bright yellow. The bases of the reed petals are brown
brilliant	Maximum height - 30 cm. Medium flowers - 4-6 cm in diameter. The colors are interesting - dark red, intense orange, sunny yellow. The base of the flower (tubular petals) is black-red. At the base of the reeds - black, brown, white, spots
Peacock	Very narrow leaf shape, different from other varieties. large flowers over eight centimeters in diameter. Height - 30 cm. Color - black base, to the ends of the reed petals - orange-yellow. Tubular center - canary yellow
pinnate	A bush 25-30 cm high. It is distinguished by pomp, multi-flowering and an unusual color of large flowers. In the center of each reed petal, a stripe contrasting with the main color passes from the base to the edge.
White	It is to this species that the variety belongs, which can bloom without the sun and closes only at night. Flowers and shrub of medium size. Reed petals are snow white, tubular petals are yellow-brown.
Single flowered	The most compact of all types. Reaches 15 cm. Flowers - no more than five centimeters in diameter. Petals - pale yellow

Agricultural technology of gazania

The plant reproduces mainly by seeds. But for especially valuable terry varieties propagation by cuttings is possible.

cuttings

Cuttings begin no earlier than mid-summer, when the mother bush is already sufficiently formed and has gained leaf-stem mass.

1. A side escape is selected.
2. Cut to a length of at least 10 cm, obliquely.
3. The cut is processed with a stimulant - root.
4. The lower leaves are torn off.
5. The cutting is planted in a suitable container (about 12 cm in diameter is enough).
6. The soil around the cutting is moistened.
7. For rooting, the plant is sent to the conditions: + 18 ° C, indirect sunlight, ventilation, humidity about 60%.
8. Watering is necessary regular, after the topsoil has dried by 3-4 cm.
9. The cutting will take root for a long time - 1.5 - 2 months. Then the bush is kept in indoor or greenhouse conditions until spring planting in the garden.

seed propagation

1. Seedlings develop slowly.
2. Seedlings are afraid of spring cold.
3. Flowering occurs only 3-4 months after sowing seeds.

The best way to grow ganation - seedlings

Therefore the only best way get healthy blooming gazania on the site as early as possible - grow seedlings.

Growing seedlings

Since the period from sowing to flowering in gazania is, depending on the variety, from 80 to 110 days, the first flowers from seedlings can be expected already in June, only by sowing gazania no later than February.

By the way! Gazania is a late flowering plant, but new flowers appear on it until the end of mid-autumn, especially if September and October are sunny.

Sowing seeds for seedlings

It is optimal to sow gazania seeds at the end of February or at the very beginning of March. It's rocking early varieties. Late ones, which bloom in August, can be sown in closer to the middle of spring - March - April.

The timing of sowing depends on the climatic features of your area. If the spring is cold and protracted, there is no need to rush with sowing - the sprouts will stretch and overripe before planting in the garden.

Vieo - We sow the seeds of gazania

For sowing, it is necessary to prepare the soil, boxes, seeds and lamps for artificial lighting. The gazing sun lover needs it from the very birth.

Growing seedlings

While the gazania seedlings are growing up, there is little trouble with them. Immediately after mass shoots, the shelter is removed and the temperature of the content is reduced by two degrees. Since the case takes place in March or even February, 3-4 hours of illumination are organized daily. Optimally - two hours in the morning and in the evening to extend the light day of the sprouts up to 12 hours. On cloudy days, lighting is around the clock. At night, the lamps must be turned off.

Gatsania needs a pick. Especially if the depth of the seed box is insufficient. They dive later than the other flower seedlings, with the appearance of four sheets. Transplanted into deeper personal pots. Water and reduce the temperature of the content by another two to four degrees, leaving the same amount of light. Picked gazania seedlings are best formed when kept in the temperature range of +12°С…+16°С.

Planting in a flower bed

Hardening is traditionally required before planting. Although adult gazania can withstand a short-term temperature drop to -7 °, young seedlings do not have such abilities. Therefore, a few weeks before taking it out into the garden, you need to start hardening it, first opening the window, then taking it out to the balcony or courtyard.

Planting seedlings in the soil of the flower bed begins in mid-May. It is important to choose a suitable place - open to the sun, otherwise the flowers of the plant will be closed most of the time, and you will not be able to admire them.

The soil should be nutritious and not heavy. It is better if the soil is dry than wet and swampy.

Planting seedlings in the ground

Planting will have to be done very carefully. It is difficult to damage a powerful tap root, but besides it, gazania has many roots of the second and subsequent orders. If the main root extracts water from the depths for the plant, making it drought-resistant, then small roots allow the gazania to breathe. Therefore, they should be minimally damaged during transplantation.

1. Soak the soil in a pot or box if you have grown seedlings without picking.
2. Remove the plants from the pots without disturbing the coma.
3. Carefully remove each seedling from the boxes with all the soil adjacent to the roots with a long scoop.
4. Prepare holes in the loosened soil. Water. The distance between them is 20 cm.
5. Lower the seedlings into the holes, sprinkle the voids with peat mixture with soil. Lightly crimp the surface near the root collar.
6. Water again. If frost is likely, cover overnight with plastic wrap.

Gatz care

This culture is a real gift to the florist. She does not ask for water, showing wilted leaves, is not naughty, does not get sick. If there is sun, gazania is good. But a few conditions should be observed so that the African guest in our flower beds is more comfortable.

Care activities

Event	Description
Soil drainage	As already mentioned, glazing does not like stagnant moisture.
moderate watering	Better rare, but deep. The plant will extract water from the lowest soil layers, if necessary.
Weed removal	The area of ​​nutrition that we provide the plant in the garden is already small. Why would he "share" food with weeds
loosening	After each watering, you need to loosen the soil at the roots for access to air
Removing dry flowers	The procedure is required not only to maintain aesthetic appearance plants, but also for the speedy formation of new flower buds
top dressing	The soil must be initially highly fertile. But twice a season, gazania will have to be fed - with a mineral complex fertilizer in the amount of 25 g of granules per square meter. If the soil is poor, you need to feed every two weeks.

Possible problems with glazing

Usually gardeners have the least problems with this flower. But still, some, especially beginners, complain about the following troubles.

Gazania not blooming

This can only happen for two reasons:

• seedlings are still too young to bloom;
• the plant does not get enough sun.

In healthy specimens, flowering is active, it is difficult not to notice it. The plant blooms by variety - from June to September. Flowers are formed in stages. The life of each flower is about three weeks.

Gazania is sick

This is also an unlikely phenomenon - it is difficult to imagine a plant more resistant to diseases and pests. However, sometimes, if care is completely run, gazania can be affected:

• gray rot;
• spider mite;
• aphids;
• snails (slugs).

Snails are harvested by hand, without waiting until they destroy all the leaf mass. It is not very laborious and quite effective. If bugs, caterpillars and other pests gather on the foliage and gazania bush, the branches must be shaken well so that the insects fall to the ground, from where they can then be collected (lay a film or cloth).

Beer is good for catching snails and slugs. A deep vessel is filled up to half with this healthy and tasty drink and buried in the soil in places where slugs accumulate. Slugs, attracted by the intoxicating smell, "dive" into the beer, but cannot get out.

Actellik, fitoverm and other preparations help against aphids and mites.

Gray rot can be destroyed by treating plants with phytosporin.

Collection of gazania seeds

Seeds ripen after full flowering for about two months. Usually, the time remaining before the onset of cold weather is not enough for the seeds to ripen. But if there is a great desire to get your own seed, especially from beautiful terry large-flowered varieties, you can try. It is necessary to put on one of the first flowers, after it dries, a bag made of light breathable fabric. If this is not done, it is easy to miss the moment when the seeds spill out of the box and scatter in the wind. Store the collected and dried seeds in a cool place and no more than two years.

Gatsania (Gazania) is a plant from the Compositae family native to Central Africa. It looks like a large chamomile of all shades of yellow and orange, and blooms almost all summer.

Its distribution area is quite wide - from mountain meadows to the sands of South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania and Angola. Some species do well in the Mediterranean, Australia and New Zealand.

Gatsania attracts flower growers not only with its bright beautiful flowers, but also with the fact that it is extremely unpretentious: it can grow in the open sun and in poor soils and is resistant to lack of watering.

Popular types of gazania from flower growers with descriptions and photographs of flowers

In total, there are nineteen species of this plant of a wide variety of colors, but only gazania rigins and its hybrids are bred as a garden flower.

Gatsania Rigins, Gatsania harsh (shiny) grows up to 30 cm in height. Its foliage is dull, gray-blue, the flowers are shiny, with contrasting stripes around the heart of the flower. The natural color of gazania is yellow, it is not for nothing that it was nicknamed "midday gold", and hybrid varieties can be almost any color - white, pink, red, burgundy, etc. Gazania blooms throughout the summer.

Rules for caring for a gazania plant

Gatsania grows in almost any conditions

Among the many types of gazania, you can find varieties adapted to almost any conditions. In regions with temperate climate gazania is grown as an annual and requires little maintenance.

You can admire the gazania in all its beauty only in solar time of the year. It is unpretentious, in order for the plant to be comfortable, there is enough sun, well-drained soil and infrequent watering.

Like any other plant, she likes good soils, but if there are problems with fertile land in your region, gazania will calmly adapt to poor soil with a large proportion of sand. In the future, she will need timely weeding, loosening the soil and watering. Watering "African chamomile" is better rarely, but a lot, only after the top layer of soil has dried.

It is enough to fertilize gazania once every one and a half to two months. if the soil in your garden is fertile enough. If not, then you will have to fertilize much more often: once every two to four weeks.

Abundant flowering of gazania contributes to the timely removal of faded inflorescences.

Flowering is possible only in the sunny season. She loves the sun so much that she closes the flowers at night and even in cloudy weather.

If the gazania does not bloom, most likely it does not have enough light. and it is worth transplanting it to a more sunny place.

Adult gazania is an unpretentious plant, but growing it from seeds is a laborious process requiring precision and care.

When growing seedlings, it must be borne in mind that it begins to bloom no earlier than three months after sowing. The optimal time for seed germination is March or April, depending on the region of cultivation.

Growing Gatsania from seeds is a rather complicated process.

It is best to plant seeds in deep boxes, from which it will be more convenient to dive seedlings in the future. If there is no deep box on the farm, the usual one will do, but then, after the appearance of the first four leaves, you will have to plant the sprouts in separate peat pots.

Gazania seeds are spread on the ground, keeping a distance of 3 cm and pressed down with a hand or sprinkled with earth on top. After that, you need to abundantly moisten the seeds from the spray bottle, and cover the box with seedlings with glass or a transparent film.

Gatzania seedlings should grow in sunny places at a temperature not lower than +18 C º. Moisture from glass or film must be removed daily, and seedlings should be ventilated, every day increasing the ventilation time by a few minutes, so that small sprouts gradually get used to the temperature around them.

If everything is done correctly, in one and a half to two weeks the first shoots will appear. At first, they will grow slowly, but gradually, with an increase in daylight hours, the growth of newborns will also accelerate. It is time to transfer three-four-month-old seedlings to open ground.

Landing

Start growing gazania on outdoors possible only after the final establishment of warm weather. The flower comes from Africa, and frosts are contraindicated for it, although it tolerates temperature drops to +10 C º relatively calmly.

For landing best suited sunny areas with loose soil. Weeds must be carefully weeded out and holes prepared for seedlings. The hole should be about twice as wide as the root ball and as deep as your seedling box. To improve the quality of the soil, you need to make organic fertilizers. Seedling bushes should be planted in a checkerboard pattern, at a distance of 20-35 cm.

Gazania should be transplanted very carefully so as not to damage the young roots of the plant. If, before planting, the seedlings grew in peat tablets or in separate peat pots, you don’t have to worry about the integrity of the roots. After placing the roots in the watered hole, you need to fill it with earth and prepared compost.

Gazania cuttings

Propagation cuttings are taken from side shoots as close as possible to the base of the leaf rosette. Cut the stem very carefully, small sharp knife or scalpel, bottom sheet delete. Dust a fresh cut with root powder to stimulate root growth. The cutting is planted in a container with a diameter of 8-10 cm, watered and covered with a glass cap or bag. It is best to put the resulting mini-greenhouse in a bright, ventilated room, but not in direct sunlight. Rooting usually occurs in about five weeks, and after the formation of a bush around the cuttings from young shoots, the plant can already be planted in open ground.

On a note. If the design of your garden allows the presence of planters and flowerpots with plants, it will be optimal to grow gazania from seeds or cuttings immediately in the flowerpot, thereby avoiding the moment of transplantation that is critical for the plant. This method is also good because after the onset of cold weather, you can take the flowerpot into the house and let it winter. So there will be chances to grow gazania as a perennial.

How to collect gazania seeds

Gatsania seeds are very similar to dandelion seeds.

The fruit of the gazania is similar to a dandelion, and its seeds are just as volatile. Therefore, in order to collect them for sowing next season, you will have to work hard. The main difficulty is to collect them just in time, until they are scattered throughout the garden. To do this, you will need to build a gauze bag around the fetus. If the gazania grows in a greenhouse where there is no wind, everything is much simpler: you just have to check the plant every day and collect the seeds.

Wintering

In our latitudes gazing at open field does not hibernate and is grown as an annual plant. It is possible to save the plant until the next season if you take it to a house or greenhouse for wintering with a temperature not lower than +10 C º. For these purposes, a glazed loggia is suitable.

The requirements for the soil in which gazania will winter do not change - it must be light and nutritious. It is better to take a larger and deeper pot, be sure to put drainage on the bottom.

In addition to bright light and rare watering of gazania in winter, nothing is needed. If everything is done correctly, there are very good chances that next season the African daisy will again delight you with its magnificent flowers.

Pests and diseases of gazania, how to care for and deal with pests

If you create all the conditions for proper growth of gazania, then you can not be afraid of pests: the flower will be quite capable of resisting them on its own. But errors in care can create conditions for the appearance of pests and diseases. Most often, gatzania is affected by aphids, gray rot, spider mites, snails and slugs.

Aphid. Aphids are a very common insect pest that feeds on the juice of young plants. Plants infested with aphids weaken, stop flowering and fruiting, and can easily become infected with various diseases. To kill aphids, you can use insecticidal preparations (pyrimifosmethyl, bifenthrin, etc.) or folk remedies- infusions of garlic or tobacco mixed with liquid soap. You can also plant geraniums, onions or garlic next to the gazania, the smell of which repels aphids.

You can protect yourself from slugs and snails by spilling gravel between the ridges

The main biological enemy of aphids is the ladybug, it feeds on these harmful insects. If they live in the garden ladybugs, the invasion of aphids can not be feared.

Gray rot. Gray rot is a botrytis fungus, and fungi need water. To avoid infection with gray rot, you should not plant plants close to each other, and when watering, you should try not to get on the leaves. If the fungus nevertheless “clung” to the gazania, treatment with fungicides, for example, foundationazole or euparen, will help.

These insects eat the shoots and leaves of plants, preventing it from developing normally. Of course, modern insecticidal preparations will also affect snails, but their complete destruction is undesirable for the life of the garden - after all, apart from healthy plants they eat up and recycle their dead remains. Therefore, instead of the widespread destruction of snails and slugs, it is better to protect the most delicious plants from them - set traps, sprinkle inter-bed spaces with gravel, crushed shells or eggshells.

Spider mite. The spider mite is not an insect, so insecticides are useless against it. You will have to use insectoacaricides, fitover or neoron. The spider mite has natural enemies - phytoseiulus and amblyseius, also mites, only predatory. You can buy them at gardening stores.

In addition, watch the video on this flower, we wish you a pleasant viewing.

Bright large flowers of gazania will improve even the worst mood, and growing it is not difficult at all. And the African golden chamomile sun will bloom in the garden to everyone's joy.

Gatzania or gazania is a South African plant that got its name from the Italian priest Theodore Gatz. The flower belongs to the genus Asteraceae and has about 40 species, including new hybrid ones, artificially bred by breeders.

How to grow gazania from seed?

In order to grow seedlings of gazania from seeds at home, you need to be patient, since the process is quite lengthy and requires compliance with many nuances.

The timing of planting seeds depends on the area and climate. If spring is late in your area, planting seeds too early is not worth it, as they will not have enough light. But you don’t need to delay planting, because in this case it will bloom noticeably later. It is optimal to start planting work in mid-April.

If you are growing a flower for the first time, you are curious to know what gazania seeds look like. They are quite large and rounded. Due to the size of the seeds, they can be easily sown individually.

Seedlings can be planted in peat tablets, individual cups or in a deep box. The soil for seeds should be light, well-drained and. If planting a gazania in a box, place the seeds in a checkerboard pattern with a distance of 2-3 cm. Sprinkle the seeds spread out on top with soil or simply press them firmly against the soil.

After spraying them with a spray bottle, cover with a film and place in a warm and well-lit place. Ventilate the mini-greenhouse daily and remove condensation. The first shoots will appear after 1-2 weeks.

If you grow gazania in a common container, then after the appearance of the 4th leaf, the seedlings should be transferred to peat pots and removed for growing in a cooler place, for example, on an insulated unheated loggia. You can briefly open the window for hardening plants.

With the onset of heat and elongation solar period seedlings will grow faster. Sprouts can be planted in open ground at 12-16 weeks after planting the seeds.

Gazania flower care at home

IN winter period African chamomile can be transplanted into slides and flowerpots and continue to be grown on the windowsill. The soil for the plant should be nutritious and light. At the bottom of the pot must be a layer of expanded clay or vermiculite.

The place for wintering the flower should be bright - a sunny window or balcony. On cloudy days, gazania needs to be highlighted additionally. The overwintered plant can be returned to the flower bed in spring.

The family of aster flowers has about 40 species. Gazania or gazania stands out for its beauty from all asters. The birthplace of the flower is Mozambique, South African countries. Many people call the flower African daisy. Gatzania can be found on the dune-covered coast of Australia. Gatsania came to Europe in the 17th century.

People dedicated it to one Italian priest - Theodor von Gas. He did a great job, he devoted his life to translating the works of Theophrastus and Aristotle. Gazania blooms in the hot sun at noon, attracting with its golden color. In the west of Europe, it was called "midday gold". At night, the African chamomile closes, sleeps.

Description of glazing

Gatzania is annual and, the stem rarely grows more than 30 centimeters, sometimes it does not grow at all. Root leaves form a rosette. The flower is distinguished by dense leaves, rich green, sometimes they have a gray-green tint. The shape of the leaves may vary, it depends on the variety. On inside leaves have villi that protect against cold and dehydration. Therefore, gazania will endure drought. The hot homeland makes itself felt, the flower will pass the test of intense heat and lack of water.

The flower basket has a diameter of 5-9 cm. The color range of flowers varies from yellow, orange to red. The base of each plant has contrasting spots. The middle is covered with many tubular flowers of yellow hues. After flowering, the hairy achene makes it possible to breed. Seeds can be replanted.

Growing gazania from seeds at home and in open ground

Many beginner gardeners are interested in growing African chamomile. They are interested in how to achieve marvelous flowering. The secret is simple, let's try to figure it out.

If we sow in the ground

Gazania flower in the ground Photo of shoots from seeds sown before winter

• When sowing gazania seeds in spring are taken into account climatic conditions. Cool climate, late spring prevents early landing. But as soon as the soil ripens, you can safely sow: the plants will sprout only when favorable conditions are created.
• Seeds can be sown before winter with the expectation that they will not have time to ascend. It could be the end of October or the beginning of November. It is better to mulch the bed with fallen leaves, which also protect the seeds from frost. In the spring, the seeds will sprout as soon as the earth warms up.

Before sowing, the bed is carefully leveled, even grooves are made about 5 cm deep and they try to sow as rarely as possible. Later it will be possible to thin out if it still turns out thick. Row spacing is 20-25 cm if you don't repot plants. After thinning the bushes in a row, we also keep a distance of 20-25 cm.

If the bed is planned as a nursery, you can make grooves every 8-10 cm and leave a distance of 5-6 cm in a row. When the seedlings rise, they are watered and pulled out with a clod of earth. You can use a garden shovel and carefully dig up the plants for transplanting.

If we grow seedlings at home

The optimal time for sowing seeds for seedlings is mid-March or early April. Containers for planting should be deep enough. The roots need to be given space.

• • Gatzania does not tolerate heavy soil. It is necessary to choose a light substrate that passes water well. The acidity index is 5.5-6.5.
  • Seeds are rarely sown (2-4 cm between them), the embedment depth is only 0.5-1 cm, otherwise they will not germinate.
  • To make the task easier, imagine that a piece of land is a chessboard. Arrange the gazania seeds like chess, keeping the distance between them - 2-3 centimeters. Just put the seeds, sprinkle with earth.

• The spray gun will help moisten the crop: there will be no excess moisture, and the water will evenly moisten the entire surface.
• The air temperature should be at least 18-20 degrees.
• It is better to cover the seeds with a film, providing sufficient moisture. But the film must be opened daily. It is necessary to remove the condensate that forms under the film.
• Sprouts appear in 7-14 days.
• We remove the shelter, water it as the earth dries up, excess moisture is not needed.
• Thick seedlings can be pricked into separate cups when 2-3 true leaves appear. You can help yourself with an ordinary fork or a toothpick.
• A week before landing, leaving them outside for a short time at first, and gradually increasing the interval to a full day.

In general, growing seedlings of gazania is not a difficult matter, it is enough just to carry out timely watering. Diligent flower growers can show extra attention and feed the seedlings 1-2 times before planting in the ground, after 10-12 days at least.

How to sow gazania for seedlings, the video will tell:

Perhaps the laziest grower and inexperienced beginner can easily cope with such a simple task as growing gazania. At the same time, you will get an excellent planting material and a stunning perennial that can decorate any corner of the garden, make it bright and fantastically attractive.

Surprisingly, many flower growers cannot part with their favorite flower and grow it on the windowsill, decorate balconies with it in summer. There are also annuals specifically designed for this purpose.

Gazania seedling care

Gazania flower hybrid seedling photo Growing from seeds When to plant gazania in open ground

If the gazania seedlings are in a deep container, picking is not needed. A shallow container will not give freedom to the roots. You need to wait for the fourth leaf to appear, plant the plants in separate disposable containers. Before planting seedlings in the ground, it is necessary to support it for some time at home. Young shoots may be on closed loggia, at a temperature of 12-16 degrees. Start hardening the plants by opening the window for a few minutes. Avoid drafts. Hardening has a beneficial effect, the plant becomes strong. When you land the gazania on garden plot or a flower bed, seedlings will not die from the cold.

Planting gazania in open ground

Wait for warm weather, when you are sure that the last frosts are behind, only then plant with gazane. The optimal planting time is mid-spring. These flowers love Sun rays better put them on open area. The soil must be sufficiently nutritious. Gatzania is not afraid of heat and will feel great even if a drought occurs.

• A peat pot with gazania seedlings is planted immediately in the ground.
• Seedlings in a box must be removed along with the root with a scoop, planted in the ground.
• Try not to damage the root system.
• Observe the distance between the bushes - 20 cm.
• Seedlings need 3 months to grow, and they will delight you with beautiful flowers.

Caring for African Chamomile Gazania

• This flower does not require special care. The soil is nutritious, well-drained, the sun's rays will give the plant vitality.
• A cold snap is not a cause for concern, gazania will withstand a slight frost of -5 ... -7 C.
• The soil where gazania grows needs to be loosened, weeds, dried inflorescences removed.
• To avoid problems with weeds, drought, the soil can be mulched.
• Even the most fertile soil cannot provide the flower with enough nutrients. Therefore, you will have to feed once a month. With poor soil, it is necessary to feed the plant every 2-3 weeks. For top dressing, you need to take a mineral complex fertilizer. 25 grams is enough for 1 square meter.

Bloom

After sowing seeds, after 3 months, wait for flowering. At timely landing it will happen in June. The plant will delight with its beautiful flowers until November. Life cycle one basket is about 3 weeks. At night, when it rains, the gate closes. Gazania will not bloom if there is not enough sunlight. With an excess of moisture, a late transplant of gazania may also not open. By providing optimal conditions, you will enjoy beautiful, numerous flowers. But if the conditions are bad, you won't get flowers.

How to propagate gazania cuttings

Cuttings can be cut at any convenient time: it can be summer, autumn or even winter, when the gazania is in the house for the winter.

• We cut the cuttings 10-12 cm long, remove the leaves at the bottom of the trunk, dip the roots into the powder and “plant” them in a nutrient soil mixture.
• For rooting, we maintain high soil moisture.
• After about a month and a half, the cuttings will give roots and begin to grow. After two or three months they will be ready for landing in the ground.

Diseases and pests

Although gazania is not very susceptible to diseases, they sometimes happen. In poor conditions, the plant becomes weak, can get sick with gray rot. Fitosporin helps to defeat the disease. Healthy parts of the plant are lubricated, the sick are simply removed.

snails, spider mite, aphids harm gazania, the use of certain means will help get rid of misfortunes. You just need to clean the snails with your hands, destroy the aphids with a phyto-farm or acarin. Actellik, Fufanon, Ditoxom preparations will get rid of spider mites.

Seed collection

Gatsania rarely survives to bear fruit, as summer ends quickly in our area. But if the summer is hot and long, then it is quite possible to wait for the seeds. Unfortunately, the seeds of hybrid plants do not retain species characteristics. And in our garden plots, mostly only hybrid varieties.

Ripe seeds can fly away from gusts of wind, like dandelions. If you want to collect seeds from varietal plants, then protect the flower from the wind by wrapping it with gauze. When you see the appearance of a light fluff, tear off the basket and leave to ripen for a couple of weeks in a dark, dry place. It is recommended to store the seeds in a cotton bag or paper bag, always at a temperature not higher than 22-24 ° C. But it is better where it is very cool: 15-18 ° С. high humidity is not allowed.

wintering gazagna

Usually, after flowering, the remains of gazania are simply cut off and thrown away, and the next year they start all over again. There is no need to prepare seeds, sow, wait for good weather. An old plant is able to bloom again, delight with its beauty next year. To do this, it can be dug up and transplanted into a pot.

Then the glazing should be transferred to a cool room, where the temperature does not drop to 8-10. There should be enough light in this room so that the gazania can develop further. A sleeping plant must be watered, the earth should not dry out. In the spring, you can re-plant the gazane in a flower bed. New, newly appeared shoots, while you need to cut off to half.

New plants are obtained from the trimmed gazania, it is enough to simply lower them into the water until the roots appear, or simply plant them immediately in the nutrient mixture, providing abundant watering. In winter, gazania can be cut off and new full-fledged seedlings can be obtained by spring.

Types and varieties of gazania with photos and descriptions

Gazania long shooter Gazania longiscapa

Able to bloom for only one year. This gazania does not grow more than 15-20 cm. Near the roots are whole-cut leaves of bright green color. They usually go down. In the basket you can find many tubular and reed flowers. The flowers themselves have a bright yellow color, but their base is brown.

Gazania harsh Gazania rigens, or shiny - Gazania splendens

Grows up to 30 centimeters. Baskets of Gazania rigens can be up to 6 centimeters in diameter. The flowers can be tubular, blood-black, and reed, ranging in color from yellow to red. At the base, as expected, are dark spots. The leaves may be entire or pinnatipartite.

Gazania pottsii Gazania pottsii

It strongly resembles a harsh one, but has a larger size. The diameter of the basket is about 12 centimeters.

Peacock Gazania Gazania pavonia

The leaves of this species are different from those of the other gatzans listed above - they are narrow and long. The diameter of the basket is 8 centimeters. The middle consists of only tubular flowers, the base is dark, and along the edges are reed flowers of yellow hues.

When crossing some plant species, breeders were able to get a snow-white, pinnate, hybrid, single-flowered gazania. can please with its flowering even in bad weather, when there is no sun at all.

Gazania hybrid

Hybrid varieties that are popular with gardeners:
Daybreak Red Stripe - yellow flowers, characterized by stripes of a red hue, blooming full daylight hours;
Talent - a mixture that gives beautiful flowers, leaves all sunny day;
Ministar - gives flowers of yellow and white color with special beauty.

Gardeners, and even ordinary people, adore this flower for its riot of colors. Gatsania, perennial or annual, really has a bright exquisite beauty. And it blooms like a colorful daisy. These plants are originally from Africa, which is probably why they like sunny days.

The bright sun, which gives warmth, allows us to admire such a creation of nature. And in the cold season, we can also observe such a plant as gazania. How to save these flowers in the winter, so that later in the summer they decorate the garden plot? Such questions are often asked on the forums of amateur gardeners.

Types of glazing

Gatsania refers to Such plants come in several forms: annual or perennial, semi-shrub or shrub.

They gained fame due to the variety of colors. In fact, there are quite a few varieties of this flower, they can be counted up to fifty.

The most popular are shiny or harsh gazania. Our breeders have bred flowers of various colors. And now, not only a monochromatic chamomile, but also a motley glazing, the photo of which you see in the article, pleases us. The main varieties are single-flowered, shiny, peacock, white, pinnate, and so on.

Plant features

This interesting southern specimen has its own difficult character. It manifests itself in the fact that if it is cloudy outside, the petals close, and the middle of the flower becomes invisible.

Initially, these plants, accustomed to heat and light, could bloom from sunrise to but in bad weather they are kept closed. But flower growers would like more. And then they, through trial and error, began to experiment on responding to weather this plant. And now, thanks to their actions, a hybrid called Talent appeared.

As a result, now the colorful shades of the flower can be admired in any weather. So our specialists, despite the capricious mood of the plant, quickly found a way out.

love African daisies watering. It is advisable for them to arrange it in the heat systematically. If this is not done on hot days, then the flowers will become smaller and smaller before our eyes. And, of course, they will no longer be able to please us with their beautiful coloring pages.

Let's talk about hybrid and long-range glazing

Floriculture uses in our latitudes mainly hybrid and long-shot glazing. The long-range gazania comes from South Africa. This type of gazania is a perennial. It grows with stems short and creeping. Blooms from August to early winter. These flowers are seven centimeters in diameter.

Hybrid glazing has a harsh structure, and the flower is 8 cm in diameter. It can be set in any shade orange color as well as white and yellow. Grows as a bush in a rosette of basal leaves.

The hybrid flower is distinguished by the decor of the leaves. They have a linear spatulate structure. Leaves with a hint of silver below, feel like velvet to the touch. By the way, this pubescence is not accidental. Thanks to him, the plant is not afraid of the cold. In addition, the leaves help retain moisture on the flower.

Hybrid varieties are more in demand among our compatriots. The fact is that they are perfectly adapted to our climate. They have large flowers and a large number of semi-double or double petals. A lot of hybrids and main varieties have been bred. And they bloom in white, crimson, pink, yellow, bronze-lemon, cream, orange, striped and spotted flowers.

Their names fit the color. For example, there are such names of varieties (varietal mixtures): dance, Divnoe divo, Sunshine, Sunshine, Big kiss, Bonjour, and so on.

How to care

After two weeks of planting, feed the gazania with mineral fertilizers. If the site has poor soil or flowers grow in a container, then use complex fertilizers, but also after a while, within 14 days.

Be sure to fertilize a plant such as gazania at the beginning of the season. Cultivation and care, properly organized, are the actions that will help her constantly delight you with her flowering.

The most favorable soil for gazania is sandy loam. It shouldn't be too wet. And, importantly, it should contain a lot of humus. When the flowers gain strength, top dressing can be canceled. Remove permanently faded inflorescences and flower stalks.

How do these flowers feel in winter

Care, careful and thoughtful, is necessary for such a unique flower as gazania, however, like all plants. But for you it will not be too burdensome. The plant needs light fertile soil with good drainage.

When the flowers mature, they become cold-resistant, they can be admired almost until the first frost. Although gazania, a perennial or annual, is a native of the south, it has almost adapted to our latitudes.

Only when you already feel the onset of winter, carefully transplant your loved ones. If you have a glazed balcony and the temperature there is not lower than +10 degrees, then they will winter well in this place in order to return to the garden plot again in the spring. Don't forget moderate watering.

Try to transplant flowers very carefully so as not to damage the roots. You can also use flowerpots in areas for growing a plant such as gazania. How to keep such flowers in flowerpots in winter? Do not transplant them from pots, but simply take flowers home in them.

Can a flower overwinter?

1. In winter time The flower will do well indoors. It will only be necessary good lighting. The plant is unpretentious. If you live in a region with mild, wet winters and no frost, then you don't even have to take the pot home.

Although they love warmth, as they mature, the flowers adapt to the local climate. You can use special containers to grow them in the garden. And then, with the onset of cold weather after -3 degrees, pick them up, put them on the balcony so that she can get used to the new conditions of gazing.

Wintering of the plant can then continue in warm rooms, but only after the flower gets used to the balcony climate, where optimum temperature for it will be considered 9-11 degrees with a plus sign.

2. But if you live where frosts are fierce in winter, it is best to grow gazanias as annual plants. To do this, you can sow gazania seeds in early spring. Try to water the plants in winter, but very rarely. And make sure the soil doesn't dry out. Gatzania (growing and care in this case will not differ much) can grow if you either did not transplant it from the pot, or carefully, without damaging the roots, tried to transplant it.

Gazania perennial is a low growing bushy plant, so when you transplant it to open ground, neatly divide the bushes.

About seedlings

Gatsania is sown in the first month of spring. After the seeds have erupted, the seedlings must be pricked in greenhouses or in earthen pots. And as soon as it ends spring frosts plant them in the ground.

We still recommend that you use peat pots if you grow a flower from seeds. This is necessary in order not to inadvertently damage the roots. Yes, and in this case it will not be necessary to dive. So you solve the problem of vital activity in the winter of such a plant as gazania. How to save it in winter, as well as how to grow seedlings from seeds, we examined.

And since April, the weather usually allows you to send seedlings to a cold greenhouse or to an open ground area. Seedlings must be gradually hardened off. This can be done from the moment the thawed patches disappear.

The shoots will gradually get used to the cold down to -3 degrees and to the bright sunshine. If you notice that the temperature is lower at night, then use lutrasil to cover the young growth. At an outdoor temperature of more than +17 degrees, shoots should be expected in a decade or a little later.

How to propagate a plant with cuttings

Gazania can also be propagated using cuttings. Mid-summer is just the period when gazania, a perennial or annual, calmly propagates with the help of cuttings that are obtained from lateral shoots at the base of the stems.

First, treat the cuttings with preparations, then plant them in the shade, so that the rays of the sun do not fall on them. They need to get used to the new place. When you see that the cuttings are rooted, take a clod of earth along with the cutting and plant it in the place you have chosen.

This is how glazing will always grow on your site. How to save such a flower in winter, now you already know.

In what places can gazania be planted?

They are planted on curbs, paths. Flower beds are arranged next to stones or undersized flowers. Unique flower arrangements with ageratums, lobelias and other floral creations, they will definitely not leave anyone indifferent. It turns out a wonderful spectacle that can not be immortalized.

No one remains indifferent, contemplating such a gift of nature as gazing. Photos are proof of that.

Does gatzania get sick?

She can catch a disease called gray rot. As you can see, like all living things in the world, the gazania plant can get sick. Growing (and caring for it) during this period will become a little more complicated because you will need to resort to the help of a fungicide.

Treat the diseased flower with its solution. Preventive measures will also be redundant. They are simple: make sure that the flowers grow on non-waterlogged soil.

Also protect them from aphids, snails, slugs, spider mites.

Performing such simple actions, you will constantly enjoy the bright exotic native of Africa, and will delight you at any time of the year. Winter is not terrible for her. So enjoy the view of these beautiful flowers!