A marsh worm is a miracle on your site

Calla marsh is a perennial aquatic plant that looks like a feces, which is why it got the second name - marsh feces. Flowers have a white color, the flower sprout grows to 30 cm. The plant blooms all summer, however it is beautiful all year round. The decorative view is preserved even during the ripening of the fetus.

In the wild, a flower prefers to grow in a marshy area and near rivers in wet areas. Mid-August is the time for fruit ripening. These are red berries , covered with mucus. They like to eat the fruits of the squirrel waterfowl, which carry the seeds of the plant.

The flower-calla flower is known to man since ancient times. His Russian names in the dictionary of Dahl sound like this: snake-grass, serpentine, dewdrop, snake, lake watchman, white companion, hood, swamp, breadbasket, bean, cockerels. Many names are given to the plant in the Belarusian language: guska, shawls. The English call him marsh Arum. There is a mention of this flower in the fairy tales of the Latvian writer Anna Saxe.

Varieties

There are quite a few colors for the flower. In the store you can buy an Ethiopian zanteide with a white veil, give preference to the yellow zanedechia of Elliott, or become the owner of a tender pink flower of the Zantehedchia of Reman. In addition, interspecific hybrids are found in orange, cream, even purple and carmine shades. But the world supplier of this beautiful flower is considered to be New Zealand.

How to care

Calla marsh is quite unpretentious, so it does not require any special care for yourself. Its territory is a shallow and calm reservoir or wet clay soil near the water. He loves the sun, but he feels well in the shade.

A feature of this flower is a very rapid growth in a favorable environment. Therefore, in order to control, you need to cut off new shoots on time.

The plant hibernates in a pond, it does not require any additional warming. Even the middle stripe of Russia fits the flower, it is not afraid of Russian winter. Moreover, a prolonged cold is simply necessary for it to begin flowering.

Labrador tea marsh. Reproduction

The flower is cultivated by dividing the root or seeds. In autumn, seeds are placed in the soil to a depth of 15 cm. No additional care is required. But the roots are divided in the spring. Plant parts of rootlets in containers. The primer is taken with peat, and on top of it you need to cover with a layer of clay to prevent washing away of nutrients. Containers with flowers must be immersed in a pond for 15 cm. Such a method will allow to control the spontaneous growth of the calla. But you can simply prikopat plant in the ground or squeeze the stone is not very tight, so as not to interfere with germination. When the flower takes root, the stones are denser.

By the way

And did you know that the marsh worm is a poisonous flower? Particularly dangerous are his leaves and berries.

Where applicable

The marsh worm, whose photo shows all its charm, is considered the most unpretentious, but very effective decoration of artificial ponds on private plots. Particularly beautiful looks pond during periods of mass flowering plants.