Lobelia flowers "Fountain" mixture, scrap, o, CP, 0.02 g

A charming miniature plant grown in an annual culture. Open or hanging shoots, up to 30 cm long, are abundantly strewn with small (1.5 cm diameter) flowers of a peculiar shape located in the sinuses of leaves. The coloring of the corolla is white, lilac, blue. Flowering is long, from June to September. It looks wonderful in suspended baskets, balcony boxes, vases. Heat, light and moisture loving, prefers loose loamy soils without excess organics (otherwise flowering is weak).

When growing seedlings, crops are carried out in February - March. The seeds are slightly pressed into the soil, they are not sprinkled with earth. The landing container is covered with glass and placed in a lighted warm place. At soil temperature +18 ° C, shoots appear on 7-14 days. Seedlings dive in light land. Seedlings are planted after the end of spring frosts. Abundant regular watering is important. For the best tuft of the top of young plants, they pinch.