Calendula flowers "Kiss butterflies" Terry, o, CP, 0.5 g

A bright annual with a remarkable combination of valuable characteristics: high decorative qualities, healing properties, a long flowering period. Unpretentiousness and cold resistance allow you to grow calendula everywhere. Businesses are strongly coasted up to 50 cm high with erect shoots. The inflorescences are large densely bright, with a diameter of up to 8 cm, yellow-orange coloring with a small dark disk in the center. They have a specific pleasant aroma. It looks great in single and group plantings on lawns, flower beds, in borders, medicinal kindergartens. For a long time retains freshness and decorativeness in the cut. A photophilous, cold -resistant and rather unpretentious plant. Makes frosts to -5ºС. The greatest decorativeness reaches in open sunny areas with light fertile drained soils with sufficient hydration. They grow sowing seeds in open ground at the end of April or under the winter. The depth of seeds of seeds is 2-3 cm. At the soil temperature +18 ° C, the seedlings appear after 10-14 days, they are thinned out with an interval of 20-30 cm. Flowering begins after 8-10 weeks from seedlings, from July to September. Removing wilted inflorescences extends the flowering time.