If you want to provide your flower garden with a highly decorative look for the next few years, you need perennial plants. All types and varieties of carnations are extremely attractive, thanks to the variety of colors and splendor of flowering, these plants will make a real work of landscape art out of your flower bed. Some species are perfect for curbs, while others make wonderful backdrops for lawns.
Types and varieties of garden carnations
All types of carnations are flowers belonging to the carnation family. They are the most common perennials cultivated in floriculture as annuals, biennials and perennials.
More than 25 types of soda carnations are known, but only 5 of them are widespread, which, in turn, have many subspecies and varieties. Depending on the culture, the cultivation of carnations has its own specifics.
Pinnate carnation is a low plant, up to 25-30 cm, single flowers – white, pink, red. Petals obovate, finger-dissected. Shoots form a dense gray-green sod. Blooms in July-August, loves calcareous, loose, warm soils. Its varieties are: iosotis, (height 40 cm), semperflorence (25 cm) with remontant double flowers.
Clove plumose “Terry carpet” , mix. An incredibly ornamental plant : growing, it forms a neat green carpet, over which a large number of fragrant double flowers bloom. It is widely used in the design of rockeries, borders and other flower beds. Grown in seedlings. At an optimum temperature of + 16 … + 20C, seedlings appear within 7-14 days. Landing is carried out in open ground when the threat of frost return has passed. Prefers light, limed soils, sunny location. Blossoming in June and September. Plant height 30 cm.
Plume carnation (musky) – height 50 cm, is distinguished by multi-colored double flowers with a strong spicy aroma.
Sand carnation is a miniature plant with pinnately-fringed flowers. Her decorative form is “Nostalgia”. Numerous white flowers with fringed edges in abundant bloom will adorn mixborders, curbs, rocky hills and supporting walls. Placed in a sunny place with light, permeable, limed soil. The culture is unpretentious. Tolerates transplantation well. Blooms in July-August. Plant height 20-30 cm.
Carnation herbaceous is a low plant (up to 20-25 cm), the leaves are elongated, dark green, sometimes with redness. Has a wide variety of flower colors (red with a dark rim and light dots, dark pink and carmine). Grass blooms from the beginning of June for almost two months. Many varieties and hybrids have been created on the basis of this species.
Moulin Rouge grayish blue carnation , mix. A vibrant blend of deep pink carnations with a delicate scent. Abundant flowering will decorate any flower garden, border or mixborder. At an optimum temperature of + 16 … + 20 ° C, seedlings appear within 7-14 days. Placed in a sunny place with light, permeable, limed soil. Unpretentious. Blossoming in June and July. Plant height 25 cm.
Dutch carnation is a rare combination of flower beauty, aroma and general unpretentiousness. As a result of long-term hybridization on the basis of this species, large-flowered, double, remontant greenhouse varieties were obtained.
As you can see in the photo, all types of carnations are extremely beautiful and are a real decoration of the garden plot:
Among hybrid carnations, the following varieties are especially popular:
“Breath of Love” is a tall, up to 45 cm perennial, partially blooming in the year of sowing. The flowers are simple, with irregularly colored petals, very narrow at the base and strongly dissected. Has a pleasant smell.
“Spring Beauty” – height up to 30 cm. Fragrant double carnation with pink double flowers.
“White Ladies” – height 25 cm. The flowers of this variety are white, double, with a strongly serrated edge, fragrant. A cup with a brownish border.
“Sam Barlow” – white double flowers with a clearly visible brown calyx. Has a strong odor.
Look at the photo – this variety of perennial carnation is compact, similar to the previous ones, but the petals with almost rectangular short teeth:
Reproduction of perennial carnations in landscape design (with photo)
Carnation is an unpretentious culture, although certain species have their own specific requirements. Common to all species is light-requiring, in connection with which open sunny places are allocated for these flowers, and they are supplemented in closed ground in winter.
Plants are unpretentious to soils, but prefer loams. When growing perennial carnations, it must be remembered that these flowers do not tolerate excess moisture, especially perennials. Watering is required systematic, but not plentiful.
The need for fertilization in cloves, especially annuals, is great, but they cannot stand fresh organic ones. Soils are usually filled with full mineral fertilizer, adding well-rotted manure (humus).
Reproduction of perennial carnations is carried out by seeds, cuttings, dividing the bush.
Seeds are sown in early April in boxes or soil. The emerging seedlings dive into pots of 3-4 pieces. They are planted in a permanent place in May. Plants bloom in the 2nd year.
But the easiest way to reproduce perennial carnations is by dividing the bush, which can be carried out both in spring and in autumn (in September-October). Cuttings of perennial carnations root well when cut in the spring.
In landscape design, carnation is widely used in landscaping, it is a necessary component in gardens of continuous flowering, flower beds, mixborders, rabatki, as it blooms from June to frost. Perennial carnation (feathery and herbaceous), after pruning withered flowers, can bloom a second time.
The lawn is an excellent backdrop for carnations. It is effective among stones, tile coverings, creating free outlines, unpretentious patterns. But a combination with different types of carnations is not recommended. Separate arrays of carnations should be of different sizes and combinations. Carnation is combined with decorative cereals, edelweiss, but it is absolutely impossible to be adjacent to poppy, delphinium and other large perennials.
Here you can see a photo of carnations in landscape design and in bouquets:
Carnation flower beds retain their decorative effect for 3-5 years, after which they need to be renewed. But in the cut, the carnation, perhaps, breaks all records. Its flowers can stand in water for more than 10 days.
