Gelenium growing from seeds when planted. Spring protection of garden plants from pests and diseases

What kind of flower gelenium, and also where exactly such a name came from, can be found below. This article will talk about this long-standing gelenium, its landing and departure. You will also learn what varieties are and how to grow them from seeds. Photos will be presented below.

Gelenium culture (from Latin Helenium), serves as a family of annuals and perennials of the Compositae unit, which carries 32 subspecies. Similar plants grow in Central and North America, especially in the Western United States. It is believed that the name of the culture was able to get in honor of the wife of Tsar Menelaus, beautiful Helen, because of which the Greek war with Troy began, described by Homer in the Iliad. What is remarkable in this plant? Initially, it was its own unremarkability. When summer comes, the saturation of colors in the garden begins to fade, but you can find that a modest plant stands aside, which you could not notice yesterday. On this day, he, along with his golden baskets that know how to change their own color, begins to delight your eyes with a not very elegant, but lukewarm, calm and cozy disposition.

A culture that has been growing for many years has the following peculiarity - its root system dies in winter colds at the same time as peduncles, but from the buds that grow underground under a stalk that lives for one year, a leaf rosette with roots appears for this period of time, which for the future year can give a brand new flower stalk.

What many consider to be a shrub of gelenium, in truth, are closely growing independent cultures with straight, branched stems at the top, the height of which can be up to 1.5 m.

In this gelenium, the leaves are lanceolate, alternate. Baskets are single or collected in corymbose inflorescences, consisting of marginal reed flowers. The latter are orange, brown, yellow, red and purple, centrally tubular are yellow or brown. The fruit is a pubescent achene, which has an oblong and cylindrical shape.

How to grow a seed crop

The presence of freshly picked seeds of this culture, without starting a topic already for stale seeds, has low germination. However, if you have a desire to experiment with seed propagation of a flower, you can feel free to try, and we will try to help by telling you how to do it. It will not be superfluous to notice that the plant is able to reproduce very well using the vegetative method - that is, when the bush is divided, as well as leaf rosettes.

Sow the seeds themselves in the autumn period of time, directly into the soil, or in the spring - in boxes for seedlings. However, when planting in spring, stratification of the seeds is necessary: \u200b\u200bthe container with the seeds sown on top of the soil is wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in the refrigerator, in the vegetable section, forgetting about it for about one or a half months. When the deadlines are nearing completion, they can be taken out of the refrigerator and put in a warm place under artificial lighting.

The temperature regime, so that there is a growth process, should be about 18-22 degrees Celsius. After the seedlings begin to develop 2-3 real leaves, they will begin to dive.

How is planting carried out

In this section, we will learn when to plant a crop. Planting a flower on open soil must be done at a time when there will be no night frost, approximately this month is May or early June. A soil site should be selected of the solar type, although a similar culture can grow in the shady zone. It is desirable that the soil is light, but nutritious, contain a neutral reaction and well-drained. Before planting, it would be nice to dig the earth, adding compost to the distance of the bayonet of the shovel.

How is Gelenium planted? A hole for seedlings must be made a couple of times larger than the root lump. Even before you start lowering the flower into the pit, its roots need to be lowered a little into the water so that they can nourish moisture, and then plant the seedlings at the same depth as it grew in the container. It should be planted so that between the flowers there is about 30 cm of distance, and between rows not less than 35 centimeters. Following the landing, it is necessary to mulch a piece of land with peat or humus.

A plant that is grown by seedling by seed will begin to bloom only in the second year. Also, it will not be superfluous to recall that in order to propagate species gelenium, the seed method is suitable, and in order to propagate a varietal plant, it is already necessary to use the vegetative method, since during seed reproduction, species characteristics of parents will not be saved.

How to care for Gelenium

How to grow a flower. Landing and caring for Gelenium is not so difficult if you know its features. But the main difference in culture consists in the fact that it does not like dry soil, on the basis of this, the most important point in caring for a plant is its watering. After the onset of sultry dry days, it is necessary to water the helenium quite often and without sparing water. However, the culture does not like too much wet soil, on the basis of which, we can conclude that the soil must have good water permeability. The presence of shallow loosening of the earth, together with weeding, should be included in the required action to care for the plant, although mulching the area of \u200b\u200bthe earth makes the weed war much easier. If we talk about the nutrition itself, then in one summer, feeding the flower using mineral and organic fertilizers takes place about three times.

Debut goes in May. Must be bred in 10 liters according to Art. spoon urea, potassium sulfate and organic fertilizer Effekton. Everything should be so calculated that for 1 m (2) 3-4 liters of such a mixture were required.

The second nutrition takes place during flowering. It is required to dilute a liter of liquid mullein and according to Art. spoon of liquid Agricola-7 and Fantasy Agricola in 10 liters of water, taking into account the fact that about 2 to 3 liters of solution will go per 1 square meter.

The last meal will be held in October. One tablespoon of superphosphate, as well as potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water is required, at a flow rate of 5 liters per 1 square meter.

To optimize the appearance of buds, it is initially required to spray the culture with the bud growth regulator. For 10 liters of water you need to dilute 10 grams of the drug.

If there is a desire, so that the flowering of the plant is magnificent, it will be necessary to remove wilted flowers during. It will be possible to increase the branching and density of the bush by plucking the top of the shoots. By cultivating a culture is meant the planting of 2-3-year-old flowers, combining transplanting with propagation of the crop by dividing the plant. It is better to perform this procedure during spring.

If you monitor the water balance of the soil in a timely manner, then diseases will not threaten the plant.

Culture after flowering

How and when to collect plant seeds. If you need to collect the seeds of this culture, you need to have time to carry out this procedure before the long autumn rains, otherwise the seeds will begin to rot. The fact that the seeds are already ripe will tell you the presence of darkened reed flowers and blackened tubular. However, it is logical to conclude that it is best to purchase plant seeds from specialized stores, since those that you collect yourself may not come up at all, no matter how hard you try, and if they do, you cannot guarantee that in the end you will get what you sowed. Therefore, you should not waste your precious work in vain, but rather use the vegetative methods of propagating the culture.

Gelenium in the winter. During winter, crop stems should be cut almost to the surface of the soil, leaving only 10-15 centimeters of stems. After pruning, the area is mulched with moss or sawdust and covered over with lutrasil, if there are severe frosts, or winter without snow.

The presence of varieties and varieties of culture

There are more than 30 varieties of culture, but growing is only 5. Below, a short description of the most famous varieties will be presented.

Gelenium Bigelow. This is the most non-widespread variety in vegetation, whose origin is the West of North America. It has straight stems, which can reach up to 80 centimeters. There are lanceolate leaves, whole, inflorescences up to 6 centimeters in diameter, tubular (middle) flowers of brown color and reed - yellow. Flowering occurs in the summer months (June-July).

Gelenium spring. He has stems that are straight, which can reach one meter in height. It has the presence of whole leaves, lanceolate, inflorescences up to 7 centimeters in diameter, reed flowers of orange color, as well as tubular with brown color. Flowering continues for one month, which begins in mid-May.

Gelenium Gupes is up to 90 centimeters in height. It has the presence of whole lanceolate leaves with a grayish-green tint, long peduncles, single inflorescences of a yellow color, which can reach 8-9 centimeters in diameter. Flowering begins in the summer months (June-July).

Autumn Gelenium is the most popular plant species, which has received great popularity in the culture and has become the most important for breeding a large number of varieties. The stems are tall, reaching 160 centimeters in height, strong and lignified. The plant has a small foliage with serrated edges, baskets, which reach from 3 to 5 centimeters in diameter and are collected in inflorescences of the corymbose shape up to 30 centimeters transversely. The presence of reed flowers is represented by yellow or reddish colors, and tubular ones have a dark yellowish color. Flowering begins from July to September, and lasts a couple of months.

Gelenium hybrid. This is a prefabricated sample in which there are species of uncertain origin, although the initial samples of all varieties of this sample are considered to be just the autumn gelenium mentioned above.

The most desirable varieties in culture are:

  • Gelenium Rubinsverg, which is a very famous variety of dense bush, whose height is about 65 centimeters and in which there are baskets of ruby \u200b\u200bcolor. This variety begins to bloom in late July. Rarely can they confuse him with the look of Rosie Jam;
  • The cockade, which reaches a height of 120 centimeters, and baskets are 4.5 centimeters in diameter. There is also the presence of reed flowers of a red-brown hue, the edges of which are yellow, but closer to the center, the redness becomes clearer. Tubular flowers are tan. Flowering begins in August and lasts about 1.5 months;
  • Moerheim Beauty. This is one of the most popular types. It differs in that when it blossoms, its flowers have various shades, where there is the presence of red, yellow, golden, copper color. However, at the time of disclosure, they turn into red-brown. The bush reaches a height of about 90-120 centimeters. Its flowering begins in the summer month of July and ends in November.

In the genus Astrov there is an annual and perennial plant Gelenium. The root system of the plant is not perennial, in late autumn it completely dies in a place with flowers and stems, while leaving a small leafy rosette in the ground with a rhizome, which will subsequently turn into a new plant in spring. His homeland is America, its north and center. In vivo, it grows on moist soils in marshy areas. Externally, the culture does not have the form of a clearly defined bush. It has many single-stem processes, more likely more like several completely unrelated plants.

In the spring, a bright flower is reborn thanks to the buds (leaf box with rhizome). In height, it can reach up to 150 cm. Erect stems are lignified and densely covered with oblong foliage. Each of the stems is decorated with many thyroid inflorescences. Flowers look similar to chamomile, but with a convex core. In varietal variety there are terry and semi-double specimens. The color palette is diverse:

  • yellow;
  • purple;
  • brown;
  • orange.

Gelenium is a famous honey plant that attracts striped toilers with its exquisite aroma. The flowering period is long: from August to November. The fruit is an oblong seed box.

Use in landscape design

Gelenium, like no other, is able to turn the most unprepossessing garden into a bright, lush landscape. Thanks to its long flowering from the end of August, it seems to extend the summer when most plants have long lost their decorative appearance. Solar inflorescences burning in the garden are actively used by gardeners to create luxurious and solo-plantings (). A tall perennial planted as a bright background for more restrained colors. Or it occupies a central place in a group ensemble, and “neighbors” are selected under its color palette.


In addition to the decorative function, the perennial also performs camouflage. It is planted to hide traces of communications, few aesthetic buildings, etc. Undersized representatives adorn garden paths as a curb.

Combination with other plants

The sunny representative of the flora perfectly coexists with many perennial crops that share his love for plentiful watering and sunlight. When choosing plants, do not forget about the height of Gelenium. Its high growth can cause the formation of an undesirable shadow for sun-loving undersized flowers.


The most harmonious partners:

  • marigold;
  • yarrow.

Plant propagation

Seeds

A complicated method with medium efficiency. They are planted in open ground in regions with a mild climate and warm winters in April. Mid latitudes pre-grow seedlings. Before planting, seeds are stratified for a long time. This increases germination. The process begins in February with a mixture of planting material and moist sawdust. The resulting mass is placed in a refrigerator for 15-20 days.

Soil is easiest to purchase in a specialized store. It should be high in peat. Seeds should not be deepened. It is enough to evenly distribute them on the surface of highly moistened soil. Cover the pot with glass or plastic wrap. Shelter is systematically removed for spraying and ventilation.

Shoots appear after 4 weeks. After the appearance of 2 leaves, you can dive into separate containers.

Landing and care

Seedling selection and preparation

Planting material is safer to buy in a specialized store. It must be in a separate container. In the market or with a stranger, there may be defective goods. Prior to the acquisition, it is worth familiarizing yourself with the features of the selected variety. The seedling should be strong, healthy, without damage, with moistened soil in the pot.

Choosing a place for planting, preparing the soil

The most favorable for lush and prolonged flowering will be a well-lit area. A slight penumbra is acceptable. When choosing a site, it is important to consider the future role of the perennial in landscape design.

Best culture grows in a permeable, light and fertile soil. The reaction is optimal neutral or slightly acidic. Although the gardening is not moody, preliminary preparation is still necessary. The site is dug up to a depth of at least 30 cm. With moisture stagnation, the root system begins to rot. A thick drainage layer is introduced into the landing pit. Brick fragments, small stones, pebbles, sand are suitable for it. After a small amount of compost is introduced.

Landing requirements

The most suitable the period for carrying in the open ground is the end of May, the beginning of June. Unacceptable frost on the soil. Seedlings are pre-soaked in water for 10-15 minutes. The root system must absorb a sufficient amount of moisture. The size of the hole should exceed the parameters of the root system with a lump of earth 2 times. Depth is the same as it was in the container. The optimum distance between planting pits is 35 cm. The process ends with mulching with humus or dry peat.

Loosening is carried out after each watering, not more than once a day. At the same time get rid of weeds. They can deprive plants of much-needed minerals. The soil is not deeply loosened and mulched with sawdust.

Watering and feeding

Watering is a must. In arid soil, long-term gelenium can die. In the summer, with a prolonged absence of natural precipitation, hydration can occur twice a day: morning and evening. It is important to use not cold, and settled water. Sufficient moisture is the key to lush flowering. Favorably affects drip irrigation.

Mineral and organic complex fertilizers   three times during the growing season, May, August and October. Top dressing is diluted in water and applied during irrigation. The representative of the flora responds well to the introduction of nutrients.

Diseases and Pests

High resistance to various diseases and insects does not interfere chrysanthemum nematode   attack the bush. A signal about the appearance of a dangerous enemy is the yellowing of the leaves. The insect is too small and can only be seen with a microscope. To get rid of it, the affected leaves are cut and burned away from the flowerbed. As a preventative measure, lime is added to the soil.

Shelter for the winter

The perennial must be protected from the approaching cold. The stems are cut, leaving only 10 cm above the ground, and cover with spruce branches, dry leaves or sawdust. For greater moderation, you can use special material.

It is easy to survive the long and cold season with a thick layer of snow.

Species and varietal diversity


The most decorative and popular types:

  • autumn. It is the progenitor of all known species. Tall specimen, reaches 140 cm. Petals are yellow, the core is red or brown. The flowering period lasts from July to September. The most decorative varieties: Buterpat, Pumilum.
  • spring. Growth 100 cm. Early flowering group. The color of the inflorescences is orange, the core is brown. The flowering period is long: from the end of April (May) to June (July). Unpretentious look, perfectly tolerates winter.
  • hybrid. Includes many subspecies and varieties. They vary significantly in shape, height and color. The most famous varieties: Rose, Gartson.
  • Gupes. Reaches 80 cm in height. The flowers are large, similar to chamomile, up to 12 cm in diameter. The color is bright yellow.

Gelenium is one of the most common plants in our area, which attracts with its unpretentiousness in care and will help to significantly ennoble. Today, there are many varieties of this flower, so every summer resident can choose the one that best suits his taste preferences. Gelenium, landing and care   in the open ground for which it is not difficult, anyone, even a beginner grower, can grow it. How to do it right? When and where is it best to plant a plant? We learn answers to questions from this article.

Gelenium, planting and care in the open ground

Landing Gelenium - where to start?

To begin with, we note that this flower is very popular among all landscape designers due to its exclusive beauty, bright colors and extraordinary splendor of shrubs. Depending on the desire, the flowers of the plant can be orange, yellow or red. Gelenium refers to long-flowering perennials, which implies the presence of many advantages, for example:

  • Constant landing at the beginning of the summer season is not required.
  • Perennials better adapt to adverse conditions.

The main feature of the flower can be called the duration of its flowering, since the flowers appear in the middle of summer and bloom before the start of frost. How to plant Gelenium? Let's look at some requirements:

  1. The soil. The flower will grow on any, not even very nutritious soil. The only thing to consider is the friability of the soil. The weak root system of the plant is not able to take root and take root in heavy earth. Peat is most often used to give friability, which is mixed with soil.
  2. Location. The plant grows well in a well-lit, open area. Avoid shaded areas under a sprawling tree or large bush. It is also necessary to ensure that there are no drafts that adversely affect the development of the flower.
  3. Fertilizer. Although Gelunium is not particularly demanding on nutrition, it is best to fertilize the soil before planting to get a healthy, beautiful plant. To do this, you can use organic or mineral fertilizers. As for the first ones, I want to remind you of the importance of observing the correct dosage, otherwise an excessive amount of fertilizer can lead to the death of the root system.

When is the best time to plant a flower? The most optimal time is the horses of May or mid-autumn, when the ground is sufficiently warmed up and frosts are excluded in the near future. Planting material is sold in any specialized stores. Gelenium is propagated by seeds, cuttings or dividing the bush, thanks to which you can save money and plant a flower throughout the territory. Seeds are first germinated at home, after - they are planted in the soil and grown until small seedlings appear. As soon as the weather is stable and warm, the seedlings are transferred to the open ground.

How to care for Gelenium?

It’s easy to care for a flower. This will require compliance with some rules:

  • Watering. The plant does not tolerate drought and lack of moisture, so you need to install regular watering and follow it exactly. In dry times, increase the dose of watering.
  • Loosening. Too much moisture can also adversely affect the root system of Gelenium, so loosening and mulching will be required.
  • Splashing. Pests and infections can attack the plant. When this happens, you can use special chemicals, laundry soap or soda.
  • Shelter for the winter.   Before the onset of cold weather, the flower needs shelter and protection from frost. To do this, the bush is completely cut, leaving on the surface about 10 cm, and covered with sawdust or straw. This will help preserve the plant and in the spring again enjoy its magnificent flowering.
  For winter, the bush is cut, leaving 10 cm on the surface

As we see, Gelenium, landing and care in the open ground   for which it is simple, the strength to grow any, even a novice master. We hope that our tips will help you create an exclusive landscape design on your territory.

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Many summer residents love Gelenium and this is not surprising. A bright, perennial, diverse and fairly easy to care plant is capable of decorating a garden plot for quite some time. The amazing features of the plant include the fact that it is able to change its color. In order to properly and quickly grow gelenium, planting and care of the plant should be as follows.

How to plant and care for the plant at first

Gelenium division

Gelenium propagates by division easily, naturally, for this you need to use adult bushes. Work can be carried out in the spring.


Further care for Gelenium

At about the third year of life, geleniums should be planted, otherwise they may become confused by the roots, as a result of which they will begin to weaken. Planting and dividing is done in the spring, every three years. In May, plants are fertilized for the first time.   The second top dressing should be before flowering, when buds began to appear. The third time the plant is fed after flowering. Geleniums practically do not get sick and are not afraid of pests. To obtain sprawling bushes at Gelenium, carefully pinch the tops. Since the plant loves light, they contain it in a bright, sunny place.

Bright and elegant flower Gelenium in nature grows in North and Central America. Florists of the whole world willingly grow it in their gardens. And this is not surprising, because at the end of summer the flower garden, where autumn helenium grows, is dressed up with bright colors that last until the frosts.

Gelenium flower - description, photo

Depending on the variety and species, the plant can have a height of 80 to 120 cm and bloom in yellow, red, golden, copper and even multi-colored flowers. In our gardens, autumn gelenium is most often grown, on the high stems of which there are small leaves with serrated edges. In July, flowers with yellow petals and a darker middle bloom on the shoots.

Beautiful varieties were bred from autumn gelenium, of which the most famous are:


After flowering, the plants form a cylindrical shape of the fruit, which is a pubescent achene.

By winter, not only flower stalks die, but also the roots of perennial helenium. You should not worry about this, since by this time a leaf rosette with new roots will form on the underground buds of young shoots. It is she who will begin to grow in the spring, and in the summer will produce a flower stalk.

Growing gelenium from seeds

Gelenium seeds are characterized by low germination, so if you already have a bush of this elegant plant in your garden, it is best to propagate it with leaf rosettes or dividing the bush, which we will write in more detail below. Those who want to decorate the flowerbed with new varieties of autumn gelenium and have purchased seeds in the store can sow them directly in the open spring in spring or pre-grow seedlings.

In any case, planting material must first be stratified, that is, lie in a cold place. For this, the seeds are mixed with wet sawdust, placed in a container and kept in the vegetable box of the refrigerator for one or even a month and a half.

If helenium seedlings are grown, then the seeds are sown on the soil surface, the seedlings are wrapped in cellophane and placed in the same section of the refrigerator or in another place with the same temperature.

Sowing seeds in open ground

Choosing a well-lit place for a flower bed, you need to dig it up, fertilizing the soil with compost or humus. The soil should be neutral, nutritious, drained and light.

Sowing of seeds is carried out in grooves, the distance between which should be about 25 cm.The seed placement depth is about 3-5 cm. Plantings are sprinkled with soil, watered and mulched with humus or peat, which will protect the planting material from cold weather and will keep moisture in the soil.

Sowing seeds for seedlings

When to plant Gelenium seeds? This must be done in late February - early March, since planting material must have time to pass stratification. After six weeks, the container with crops should be removed from the refrigerator and placed under artificial lighting in a warm place with an air temperature of about +20 degrees.

After two or three true leaves appear on the seedlings, they are carefully, together with a lump of earth on the roots, planted in separate small pots.

When to plant gelenium?

Around the end of May, when the land in the garden warms up, seedlings can be planted in open ground. Plants are pre-watered, and the bed is fertilized with compost and dug up a shovel on a bayonet.

A flowerbed for planting flowers is best done in a sunny area, although they grow well in the shade. However, flowering with a lack of sun will not be so plentiful and bright.

How to plant Gelenium

The distance between the bushes should be at least 25-30 cm, so the holes for planting seedlings are made with such a distance. The volume of the hole should be made so that it turns out to be twice the volume of the roots.

The plant, along with a wet clod of earth, is taken out of the pots, placed in a hole, sprinkled on top with nutrient soil and watered. It is recommended to mulch the earth around the plantings with humus or peat.

Perennial autumn heleniums grown from seeds will bloom only next year.

Gelenium Care

Caring for Helenium in the open field will not take much time, but you should be aware that the plant does not tolerate drought. Therefore, when growing it, regular watering is necessary, especially in dry weather.

At the same time, the roots of the flower do not like stagnation of water in the ground. To prevent this, bushes are watered after drying of the top soil layer, and after irrigation, the soil is loosened. Loosening will not allow the crust to form, and oxygen will flow to the roots.

Weeding should also be carried out regularly. Otherwise, nutrients will be spent not only on flowers, but also on weeds. In addition, harmful insects often develop in dense thickets and various diseases develop.

  1. In early May, the plant begins the vegetative season, during which stems and leaves grow and develop. To make the bush beautiful and lush, each square meter of the flower bed is watered with three liters of fertilizer, which consists of organic fertilizer Effekton, potassium sulfate and urea. In total, you need to take a tablespoon and dilute in 10 liters of water. Instead, you can use mullein infusion and any complex mineral fertilizer.
  2. During the budding period, it is recommended to use the Agricola-Fantasy and Agricola-7 mineral fertilizers to stimulate flowering. From organics, a mullein solution can be used. To prepare top dressing, you need to dilute a liter of organic fertilizer in a tablespoon of mineral fertilizer in 10 liters of water. The resulting solution is watered the soil under the bushes, using two liters for each square meter.
  3. At the end of October, geleniums are prepared for winter, for which they are fertilized with potassium sulfate and superphosphate. Each fertilizer should be taken a tablespoon, diluted in 10 liters of water and water the flower bed (5 liters per 1 sq. Meter).

Throughout the season, faded buds should be regularly removed from the bushes. This procedure stimulates the formation of new flowers, and flowering will be magnificent.

In autumn, after flowering, the stems of the plant must be cut. Stems about 10 cm long should remain. In regions with cold winters, it is recommended to cover geleniums for the winter. To do this, sprinkle the soil in the flower bed with sawdust or moss and cover it with non-woven material (for example, lutrasil).

Propagation of Gelenium

Geleniums can be propagated in several ways:

  • by seeds;
  • division of the bush;
  • cuttings.

About reproduction by seeds was written above. But this method is time-consuming, so many gardeners propagate flowers by dividing the bush or cuttings.

Bush division

This method of reproduction can be done in May, or in autumn, as soon as the peduncles and stems fade. You can share the bush when transplanting. Dig the bush carefully so as not to damage the roots. Then the root system is carefully cleared of the earth and using a sharp knife is divided into parts.

Before planting in the prepared hole, the places of the slices are greased with garden varnish or sprinkled with crushed coal. Delenki planted in pits, sprinkled with nutritious soil mixture and watered.

Propagation by cuttings

Geleniums can be cut by cutting for this in June the tops of annual shoots 10-15 cm long. Cuttings are placed in water or immediately in moist nutrient soil. If rooting is carried out in the soil, then the lower cut of the shoots is processed by Kornevin, after which the cuttings are planted in a container filled with moist soil. For better rooting, containers with cuttings on top are covered with a transparent bag. They need to be ventilated every day, and if necessary, moisten the soil. As soon as new leaves appear, the shelter is removed.

Pests and diseases

Geleniums are resistant to diseases and pests. They are exposed to diseases only if the soil on the flower bed is often waterlogged. From this, the roots begin to rot, the flowers fade and the plant dies.

Of the pests, heleniums are often attacked by chrysanthemum nematodes. These worms damage flower buds and leaves. A bush affected by these pests is recommended to be dug up and burned. To protect the plant from nematodes, when planting flowers, you must carefully inspect the ground. If worms are found, the soil is treated with slaked lime or ground sulfur. In late July, plants are sprayed with a solution of Thiophos.

Gelenium in landscape design

Beautiful geleniums with bright colors can be planted on a flower bed without adding other plants. The result is a sunny flower garden, which will be in the late summer and fall to decorate the garden.

Tall bushes can be used for the background of flower beds or planted against shrubs. From them you can make hedges and decorate fences.

With the help of undersized grades, they decorate paths and borders.

High heleniums will look beautiful together with asters and chrysanthemums, since these plants bloom at the same time.

Choosing the same care flowers, together with geleniums, you can plant on one flower bed:

You just need to show a little imagination and you can make an original flowerbed from geleniums and other flowers, which all neighbors will admire.