Charming Campanula: Home Care

Campanula (or bell) is a perennial herbaceous plant. Of the 300 known species, only southern ones can survive, and only under certain conditions.

Its shoots are up to 40 cm long, thin, flexible, creeping or hanging down. Leaves - cordate-round, with small notches, are located on long petioles. Campanula at home can bloom for a long time, from May to October, if she manages to create the required conditions and remove the faded flowers in time. Flowers of simple form, small, about 3 cm in diameter. Currently, breeders are breeding hybrids with double flowers.

In the people plants with blue flowers are called "grooms", and with white - "brides". "Falling stars" is also its name, which indicates that it is an ampel, and tie up shoots to the top does not follow.

There is an opinion that the acquired flowering plants quickly perish. It's not so, it's not such a hopeless one - it's campaigning. Care at home to ensure it is quite possible. To do this, place it in a bright place, but not in the sun. It is the lack of lighting, as a rule, that causes poor flowering. To moisten the flower during the growth period should often, it is better in the morning, so that the next time watering the earthen cloud it has dried out. It is advisable to use slightly warmed water.

For a comfortable existence, moist air is simply necessary for such a plant as the Campanula. Care at home should provide for regular spraying or placing the plant on moistened expanded clay. In addition, periodically you need to wash off the dust from the leaves, not allowing moisture to enter the flowers. To feed it it is necessary in a period of growth every two weeks by complex fertilizers in a dosage slightly smaller than indicated in the instructions.

The winter is hard enough for the campaigner. Care at home during this period is necessary more attentive. After the blossoming of its shoots it is necessary to cut off by a third, and if they are very stretched, then half. Places of sections to treat something disinfectant, for example, pounded coal. Place the plant in a cool place, with a temperature not exceeding 12 degrees. Irrigation during rest should be reduced. In spring, the restoration of the terrestrial mass will come from sleeping buds on old shoots.

Sometimes it is attacked by pests (spider mites, scutes) campaign. Home care is the adoption of appropriate measures, timely treatment with insecticides, for example, "Aktelikom" or "Fitoverm."

If necessary, the Campanula can be propagated by young cuttings when they grow to 10 cm. Cut the Rostock with a heel, remove the lower leaves, pinch the top and plant it in a moistened substrate (1: 1 peat sand with sand), covering it with a packet. Periodically, it is necessary to air the planting, and when new leaves appear, the package can be removed. In addition to propagation of cuttings, apply for breeding and division of the bush.

If there is a desire to plant in one pot a plant with white and blue flowers, you need a septum in an earthen coma. Otherwise, a more active "bride" will survive the "groom".

Home plants on the windowsill, among which the campaign, create a positive energy in the house. It was not for nothing that they gave the "groom" and "bride" to the young for the wedding, wishing peace and a happy life.