Cluster carnation: variety of varieties and their description

Cluster carnation is used to ennoble the flower beds and garden areas. A variety of shades and ease of care made it a very popular flower for growing at home. This plant is also called branchy or spray-carnation. It is in demand among florists and is one of the leaders among the plants that adorn the garden.

Carnation is a flower that prefers sun and heat, so you should plant it in places where all the necessary conditions are available. If the plant is grown in the shade, it will not completely dissolve during the flowering period.

Varieties and ways of reproduction

This species belongs to the perennial plants of the clove family. In the world there are more than three hundred varieties of cluster cloves. These flowers are common not only on the territory of Eurasia, they can be found in the cold regions of the American continent, and in sultry Africa.

Carnation, planting and caring for which require certain skills, multiplies in several ways:

1. With the help of seeds. They are sown in pots and only after germination are planted in open ground. If you have sowed in May, then from the middle of August the bushes are to be weeded out or planted.
2. Cuttings. Applicable in the event that the reproduction of the same type of plants is required. If the cuttings are carried out regularly, the flower is blooming.
3. Reproduction by layers. This method is suitable for almost all plant species. In the places of the internodes an incision is made, which must be placed in a mixture of soil with sand. The landing site itself must be constantly moistened, this will accelerate the growth of the root system.

Leaders in the cultivation of cluster cloves domestic florists divided between four main varieties:

• Garden clove perennial.
• Carnation clover cirrus.
• Chinese.
• Turkish.

In order to understand why they became the main ones in growing on the territory of our country, it is required to look more closely at each of them.

Garden clove perennial

The variety is derived by artificially crossing the most beautiful and healthy plants. In our country, the named carnation was brought from the Mediterranean countries. Its main difference is continuous flowering, which begins in the middle of June and ends only with the first frosts.

In the beginning of autumn flowers should be transplanted into garden pots, and the soil should be fertilized with a special balanced composition of microelements. During the growth period, care of the plant is required in the form of cutting off new sheets, forming a bush.

Carnation bush pinnate

The homeland of this kind of carnation is the slopes of the European mountains, from where it got its spread. The plant is planted by a bush method. The flowering period begins in the second year of growth. Inflorescences have two varieties: simple and double, while the flower itself has an unusual aroma that spreads throughout the garden.

A variety of color palette in pinnate cloves is the richest: white, pink, red, purple and maroon. Bushes on the flower bed are well combined with other plants.

Chinese Cluster Carnation

Homeland of this variety are the northern parts of Asian countries: China, Japan, Korea. This plant has been grown since ancient times - already in the eighteenth century, a Chinese clavic clove appeared in our region. The flower has a variety of shades and is excellent for growing on the territory of the Russian Federation. By the way, although this plant is perennial, Russian gardeners grow it as annual flowers. Carnation is formed in separate bushes with a length of shoots from 10 to 20 cm.

On the stems, in the places of formation of nodes, leaves are placed. Buds can be either monophonic or multi-colored. Chinese carnation is planted exclusively in places where there is a lot of sunlight - on open areas. The best for planting are sites with loamy soil.

The flowers are propagated by seeds, which are sown in a soil fed with microelements. Transplanting of seedlings from greenhouses is carried out during the warm season, the best for this procedure is the middle of May. About a month after the plant gives the shoots, the clove needs to be dived. The soil is fertilized twice for the entire period: after transplantation and during the tying of buds. The flowering period is at the end of summer.

Turkish carnation

Her homeland is Southern Europe. The flower has a bright inflorescence, a pleasant aroma and unpretentiousness during planting and growing. Reproduction and breeding of Turkish carnations is possible both for professional gardeners and beginners. The plant is easy to care for, it has several different colors, but it blooms, like most carnations, in the second year after the planting. When bush propagation is recommended to leave a small space for a good formation of plants.

The Turkish cluster carnation develops rapidly after the landing. It tolerates frosts well and is not capricious to soil selection, so it can be grown on any land.

What is useful to know

If you liked the described flowers (cluster cloves), then you should also learn some nuances of caring for them:

1. Plant cloves on the flower bed next to the tulips can not. The plants have similar diseases, which will negatively affect the development and formation of the flower.
2. When the plant infests parasites should be processed by chemical means. There are these flowers and quite dangerous for them diseases - it's fungi.
3. Excessive watering can be detrimental to carnations.
4. It is important not to leave the bushes without tillage and not forget to feed the soil in time.

Properly courting, you can grow a beautiful flower, which will be an ornament of any garden.