When landscape designers create another project of the Alpine hill, and florists collect luxurious floral compositions, both those and others are remembered among the first ornaments about carnations. Sorts of these wonderful flowers exist an infinite variety. They are diverse in colors and unpretentious in care, they retain freshness for a long time after cutting, and how the landscape is animated, can not be conveyed in any words. One of the representatives of this flower brotherhood is the Turkish carnation, about the growing of which seeds we will talk today.
Turkish carnation: varieties and species
But before talking about how to grow a Turkish carnation on your site, let's get acquainted with this amazing flower closer. The second name of this kind of carnation is the bearded carnation. It is near the very flowers there are jagged edges of the edges, very much like a small beard. The native land of the plant is the Mediterranean. It multiplies both by cuttings and seeds and is considered a biennial. In the first year the carnation of Turkey produces rosettes of bright green leaves, and in the second year in June-July, a bright, carpet-like carpet spreads on the earth.
About the colors of a carnation Turkish I want to say separately. They can be as single-colored from white to burgundy, and whimsically colorful, like a flock of exotic butterflies or a fancy carpet-plane from the eastern fairy tale. And each time from the seeds of the same variety, you can get completely new unexpected colors. Cultivation from the seeds of Turkish carnations is an exciting and not difficult task, and now you will see for yourself.
How to grow a turkey carnation from seeds?
As already mentioned above, the Turkish carnation can reproduce both cuttings and seeds. Cuttings can completely repeat the color and pattern of the previous generation, and growing from seeds allows each time to receive something new. And the second variant of carnation multiplication gives rich soil for landscape design, even if the owner of the site refers itself to beginners in this matter.
It should also be said that a Turkish carnation can grow both on an open sunny and in a shady place. However, the soil in both cases should be light and consist of sand, sheet humus and peat land in roughly equal proportions. Seeding of the seeds of the Turkish carnation is made at a distance of not less than 15 cm, because this plant in the future can greatly expand, and it will not have enough nutrient surface.
By the way, when the clove grows, it will completely displace the weeds, so it will not have to be weeded. The depth to which seeds should be drowned upon planting is no more than 1-1.5 cm. After that, the bed is well watered and covered with a film. If the shoots are too thick, they can be thin or transplanted to more sparse places.
When is it better to sow a Turkish carnation?
As for the question, when it is better to sow a Turkish carnation, then there are two options. The first is to sow in the spring, in May, and in August, the young plants to be divorced for permanent residence. And the second is to sow the seeds for the winter in October. With the winter variant, the planting takes place according to the same scenario as the spring one, only grooves with seeds are not watered. In the spring, the seeds sown for winter will rise and in June-July young carnations can be disintegrated.
Further care for the Turkish carnation
If in your area the soil is loose, light and fertile, then all care for clove plantings will be reduced to a single feeding in May and periodic minimal watering of plants under the root. In general, they tolerate a drought well, but from excessive dampness they can get sick with radical decay and die. So in this case it is better to undercharge than to swamp.
In order to make the carnations bloom longer, cut off shoots with biodegradable bunches. The plant will "think" that it is necessary to give birth to seeds, and flowering will resume. If the boxes with seeds are not cut, the flower garden will update itself and in the future will please you with new combinations of patterns and colors.