Statica: planting and care in the open field, description of 24 varieties and species, growing from seeds

Statitsa is widely cultivated by experienced and novice gardeners from the countries of the former USSR. The plant is famous for its unpretentiousness in care, it is practically not attacked by pests and diseases. It is often grown by summer residents, as the flower does not require regular watering, loosening and feeding. There are many varieties, but only 24 species are cultivated in the CIS countries. For successful breeding, you should familiarize yourself with all the intricacies of planting and caring for statice.

Description and features

Statica is a perennial or annual grass.It has large, basal foliage that forms a large rosette. Erect stems from 30 to 90 cm high, they have no leaves. The flower is a representative of the Svinchatkovye group, there are about 350 of its species. Thickets grow up to 0.5 meters high in almost any place. They have been cultivated since 1600. Semi bushes are grown at home, in a vegetable garden or in a greenhouse.

Flower calyx five-membered, various shades:

• white;
• yellow;
• blue;
• bluish;
• pinkish;
• apricot;
• purple;
• purple.

Flowers are collected in spikelets, forming corymbs or panicles. Pollen starts in July and ends with the first cold snap, the seeds do not lose their germination for 4-5 years. Dried flower does not require reverent care, grows like a weed.

Culture is extremely resistant to diseases and harmful beetles, lack of moisture, adverse weather. It just does not tolerate stagnant water in the rhizome, shade, severe frosts below 20 degrees.

In the middle and northern strip, the flower is grown as an annual. Statica propagates by self-sowing, blooms profusely.

Methods of growing flowers

You can breed statice at home or in the open field. Generous, high quality seedlings, obtained only by seed. Vegetative propagation is not recommended as the rhizome is sensitive and may not survive transplanting into open soil.

From seeds

Growing statice from seeds means airing them daily. After the formation of seedlings, regular watering is required, gentle loosening of the soil around.

Collection from planting material

Seeds are small, oblong, they can be harvested in July. During this period, the statice forms fruits, parietal seeds are located in them. They are placed in airtight containers, kept dry until spring.

Date of sowing flower statice

When growing seedlings in a greenhouse, sowing seeds is carried out in the last days of March and until mid-April. The earth should warm up to 0.5 meters deep. When it comes to planting a plant in a room, start sowing at the end of February.

Scheme of planting flowers for seedlings

Seeds should be planted in separate containers, so as not to damage the tender rhizome later. You can use peat pots. For planting, a special mixture is used, which is pre-prepared:

• a bucket of sand is added to the ground;
• sift the soil substrate so that it is cleared of small debris;
• heated in an oven for 2 hours at a temperature of 100 degrees;
• water the soil with a manganese solution, this will protect future plants from harmful beetles and diseases;
• the earth is slightly moistened with warm water.

Prepared seeds are placed in the soil, laid out in advance in separate containers, sprinkled a little with soil. After that, cover the containers with glass or polyethylene, leave for 10 days in a cool room. In order for seedlings to form faster, raise the hoods daily to start oxygen and check soil moisture.

Temperature conditions

The room where the seeds are before germination should be with an air temperature of up to +20. Usually it is a balcony, loggia, basement, greenhouse. The optimum humidity is 50-60%.

Static dive

When breeding seedlings in a box, container or cassettes of small sizes, after the development of 2 leaves in seedlings, a pick is carried out. From mid-April, they are hardened by taking them out to fresh air for 1 hour.When the statice spends the whole day outside, it can be planted in the garden.

Timing

Planting in the garden should be in early June, or late May, when there is no threat of frost. Choose an open place, it can be blown by the wind, the culture is not afraid of it. The optimal soil is well-drained, loamy or sandy, with a neutral level of acidity.

Preparation of flower seeds

Soak statice seeds in warm water or growth stimulant solution according to instructions. Keep in container for 2-3 hours.

Statica seedling planting procedure

Plant the statice according to the steps below.

1. Dig holes with the depth of the planting scoop, maintaining a distance between the bushes of 30 cm.
2. They take it out of the container with an earthen lump, trying not to damage it. Dip it in a rhizome stimulating solution for half an hour.
3. Pour gravel on the bottom, add prolonged nutrient, sprinkle with sand.
4. The land remaining from digging is mixed in a separate container with sand and dolomite flour.
5. Seedlings with soaked rhizomes are placed in a hole, covered with soil mixture.

After planting the flowers, they are watered with settled water. 1 bush accounts for about half a bucket.

Flower thinning

It is necessary to thin out the aisles of flowers 2-3 times a month, depending on the rainfall. The procedure contributes to the saturation of plants with oxygen, the removal of weeds. You can use a chopper to plow the soil 3-5 cm deep.

Features of caring for limonium

It is easy to take care of the statice, you just need to water it in time, feed it, prepare it for wintering. Additionally, after pollen, pruning is carried out, removal of wilted inflorescences.

How to water statica

In summer, irrigate the statice once every 1.5 months. Pour settled water under the rhizome after 16.00. One of the waterings should be s alted liquid, 6 tbsp is taken. s alt per 1 bucket.

Feeding

It is not necessary to feed the static, but if it grows in poor soil, it is better to add nutrient mixtures periodically. The first procedure is carried out with a solution of a mineral substance, 1 week after planting seedlings in the garden. Then, the culture is fertilized 1 time in 4 weeks. From September, the events will stop.

Preparing for wintering

In regions with an average climate, statica is grown as an annual, the issue of wintering is removed. If we are talking about the south, she is covered before the onset of cold weather in this way:

• cut leaves, stems;
• cover bushes with straw or dry foliage;
• put burlap on top, press spruce branches to the ground.

Shelter removed in February, along with non-woven fabric.

Types of statics

Many varieties of limonium are cultivated, each of them differs in bud colors, sizes. The principle of planting, care - the same.

Regular

Statitsa vulgaris blooms all summer, with miniature, purple buds-shields. Height is about 60 cm. Leaf plates are ovate.

Flat-leaved or broad-leaved

The variety grows up to 75 cm high, with large basal leaves. Panicled baskets, sprawling, blue-lilac tone.

Gmelina

Winter-hardy variety of statice grows up to 50 cm tall. The flowers are blue-violet, paniculate. Leaves basal, large size.

Tatar

Perennial reaches a height of 0.3-0.4 meters, resembles a ball in shape. It is popularly called "tumbleweed". The rhizome is powerful, rod-shaped. At the base, leathery, oblong leaves are collected, forming a rosette. Flower stalks branch out from it with spikelet inflorescences. The flowers are small in size, shaped like a bell or funnel. They are white with a reddish halo. Pollen occurs in June-July.

Caspian

Heat-loving plant reaches 70 cm in height. The buds are formed small, pale purple in color. The variety is not grown in the garden in the CIS countries, but only as an indoor or greenhouse flower.

Notched

The variety is an annual, its stems reach 60 cm in height. The leaves are basal, elongated, light green. Small buds with a diameter of 1 cm have cups with a spikelet-shaped edge. The color is pinkish, white, blue-violet with a light yellow corolla.

Perez

The height of the bushes is about 60 cm. They are densely decorated with purple inflorescences, small petals like lilacs.

Flicker

Variety grows up to 80 cm high, flowers of various tones. The cups have corrugated edges, the color is pinkish, purple, white or yellow. The variety is widely used due to its zest in landscape design.

German

The plant has a dense, whitish bloom. The bushes look like a snow-white cloud. In the middle of the inflorescences there is a burgundy star. The scutes are shaped like an ear. The species is grown preferably by seedling method from March to May. Perennial grows 40 cm tall. Pollen falls in mid-June and continues until the end of July.

Supreme Pink

The stems are straight, powerful, crowned with ash rose flowers. The bush grows up to 75 cm high, funnel-shaped buds, 1 cm in diameter.

Crimean mix

Flower height is 30-80 cm, erect stems. The bushes are pinkish, blue, yellow or purple.

Blue

The height of the shrubs is approximately 75 cm. The flowers are dark blue, the buds are snow-white.

Suvorov

The variety is medium tall, grows up to 60 cm tall. The flower color is pinkish and lavender. The petals form elongated, like an ear, baskets.

Violetta

This is a subspecies of broad-leaved limonium, the bush grows up to 75 cm tall. The flowers are deep purple in color, densely cover the stems.

Blue Cloud

The representative of the broad-leaved statice is distinguished by lavender flowers. The bush grows up to 75 cm tall, the leaves and stems are light green.

Bondwelly

Delicate stems with loose buds consist of large yellowish or white flowers. The variety has been cultivated since 1859. The seeds contain flower mixtures. Bushes grow up to 90 cm tall.

Confetti

Shrubs up to 50 cm tall, erect stems, emerald green. Pleiochasium white-cream, like shields.

Elegant

A variety of limonium grows up to 70 cm in height. Inflorescences are creamy white, similar in shape to a spikelet.

Mixed Highbreeds

Bushes grow up to 45 up, sprawling stems, emerald. The flowers are purple, white, bluish or pinkish.

Fortress

The height of the bushes is about 80 cm. Pleiochasia are purple, yellow, white, blue or pinkish.

Compindy

The variety is distinguished by bluish, blue, pinkish inflorescences. Bushes reach a height of 0.5 meters.

Petite Bouquet

Small size bushes, growing up to 30 cm. They are covered with flowers of pastel colors: whitish, bluish, lavender, soft pinkish or cream.

Talisman

The variety is the product of domestic selection, bred by the agronomic company Poisk. This is an annual, reaching a height of 60 cm, two-color color of the petals. The culture blooms from July until the first frosts.

Kermek of Sarepta

Sarepta statitsa is famous for its yellow-blue flowers, densely covering the bush. The plant reaches 50 cm in height, the stems are emerald green.

Diseases and harmful bugs

The flower sometimes suffers from botrytis - rot, when gardeners sin with frequent watering, or rainy summers have fallen. Destroy the pest with a fungicidal solution. Statica is also subject to mold, oidium disease. It is recommended to resort to spraying with sulfur-containing compounds. With proper care, pest attacks and disease development should not occur.

Cutting and drying flowers

When the plant begins to turn yellow or wither, leaves, stems and flowers should be cut at ground level and then dried. They can be used to make dry flower arrangements.

To properly dry them, it is worth keeping the specimens upside down, hanging, in a ventilated, dark place until completely dry. Dried flowers keep the saturation of the color of the cups for more than 1 year.

Garden decor with statics: good advice

The article will serve as a wonderful decor for the garden. It is planted in a company with other flowers or several varieties separately. The plant is great for border decoration, rock garden, it can be planted in front of rose bushes, next to the aster family.

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