GODETIA
Name: in honor of Swiss botanist C. X. Year. There are about 20 species growing in North and South America.
Description: herbaceous plants, annuals, with erect, branched stems 20-60 cm tall. Bushes compact, narrow-pyramidal or spreading. Leaves lanceolate, entire, arranged in regular order. The flowers are large, bell-shaped or cup-shaped, simple, with four petals, or double, to 3-10 cm in diameter, on short stalks, white, pink, salmon-pink, carmine, purple, lilac, red, gathered in racemose inflorescence, which extends as far as the new blooming flowers. Fruit - a cylindrical, square box. In 1 g to 3500 seeds remain viable for 3 years.
Annual highly compact, bushy plant covered with fine hairs. Stems are erect, 20-40 cm tall, or recumbent, smooth, delicate, at the end of flowering woody bottom. Leaves entire, or broadly lanceolate, tapering to the base. The flowers are large, up to 10 cm in diameter, bell-shaped or cup-shaped, single or double, in dense leafy arms, located at the ends of shoots in the axils of the upper leaves, petals silky white, purple, pink. scarlet, crimson, red, dark red, shining. Flowering from July to October. Seeds ripen well, remain viable for up to 3 years. In culture, since 1867. Has many hybrid varieties as double, tall (60 cm) and lower and bushy, azalietsvetnye, dressing with a wavy edge, dwarf varieties for borders.
Examples of the most common varieties:
('Blitzshtrahl') - sredneroslye bushes, spreading, 45-60 cm tall, branching. The shoots are green with reddish-brown tint. Leaves lanceolate. The flowers are simple, cup-shaped, dark red, 5-6 cm in diameter, the edges of the petals slightly wavy.
('Weisser Schwann') - low bushes, spreading, 30-35 cm tall, silnovetvisty. Green shoots at the base of brown. Leaves broadly. The flowers are simple, satin white, cup-shaped, 5-6 cm in diameter, with entire petals.
('Jork') - low bushes, spreading, 35-40 cm tall. The shoots are reddish-brown. Leaves broadly. The flowers are simple, cup-shaped, large, up to 6 cm in diameter, carmine-purple, white at the base, petals entire.
('Meteor') - low-growing bush, compact, 25-30 cm tall. The shoots are green with reddish-brown tint. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers double, broadly, large, up to 7 cm in diameter, dark crimson. The edges of the petals entire or slightly wavy.
('Orange Room') - bush middle hight, semi, 40-50 cm tall, branching. The shoots are green with a reddish tinge. Leaves narrowly lanceolate. The flowers are simple, broadly, up to 5 cm in diameter, dark orange-red petals edged.
('Rembrandt') - low bush, compact, 30-35 cm high, hemispherical. The shoots are green with a pink tinge. Leaves broadly. Doubled flowers, pink with carmine large spot on each petal, 5-6 cm in diameter. Petals on the edge wavy, finely dissected.
('Sybil Sherwood') - low bush, compact, 30-40 cm tall. The shoots are green with a pink tinge. Leaves lanceolate. The flowers are semi-double, salmon-pink, with a lighter edge, up to 5 cm in diameter. Edged petals.
('Feuerkenig') - low bush, compact, 20-23 cm tall. The shoots are green with a pink tinge. Leaves narrowly lanceolate. The flowers are simple, bell-shaped, 4-4.5 cm in diameter, red at the base of each petal a small white spot, solid edge.
Godetsiya lovely - G. amoena (Lehm.) G. Don
Homeland - California.
Very elegant plant to 60 cm tall with erect, slender, smooth, brittle stems, poluodre-vesnevayuschimi the end of flowering. The leaves are narrow, pointed or lanceolate. The flowers are cup-shaped or bell-shaped, about 5 cm in diameter, purple-crimson, reddish-pink or red, various shades with satin petals shiny shovel shape. Flowering from July to September. Seeds ripen well, keeping the germination 2-3 years.
Location: Requires a sunny position.
Soil: well-developed and bloom profusely in loamy soils, but can not tolerate dry. In the rainy summer suffer from damp, and dry - the heat.
Care: Grow with regular watering and fertilizing every 10 days. In order to maintain an abundant and long-term (to fall) blooms, be sure to pinch off the ovary.
Diseases and pests: the weedy soils are damaged leaf-eating pests, and therefore must be clean landings, avoiding the development of weeds.
Propagation: seed, sowing of which is produced in April and May, or directly in the ground in March and April, in a hothouse or greenhouse, pick performed in pots 3-4 seedlings. Seeds germinate in 2 weeks. In southern winter cropping is possible. Transplant is carried only at an early age and with a lump of earth. Crops are planted and thinned seedlings, keeping a minimum distance of 15-20 cm between plants
Use: in perennial borders, flowerbeds, group plantings, mixborders. It is suitable for planting in outdoor vases, containers on balconies. Capacity preferred light color, it will reduce their heating (and hence the ground) the sun, that would be beneficial for the duration of flowering. High grades are good for cutting.
