Lavater is one of the most beautiful perennials, which even a beginning gardener can easily grow on his own plot. This plant is completely unpretentious to the conditions of germination and further care it rarely hurts and is almost not susceptible to pests. This material will introduce you to the peculiarities of working with this flower.

Flower description

Perennial laureate is a variety of malvaceous flowering plants. A characteristic feature of this group of hybrids is a powerful root system, which grows up to 1-15.5 meters deep. Thanks to this, the laureate can maintain vitality and survive significant frosts on open ground in the winter.

Depending on the variety, lavater can reach a height of 0.5 - 1.5 meters, giving strong stems and large lobed leaves.

Laureate blooms usually from June to the end of the warm season. With proper care of the flower, the gardener manages to achieve the appearance of numerous large buds with a diameter of up to 7-10 cm of pink, purple, white or lilac flowers. Flowers, as a rule, have up to 5 petals of conical or rounded shape. Lavatera planted for cutting or as the main perennial flower beds.   Varietal diversity of this plant species allows it to be used as widely as possible for the various needs of landscape design. The appearance of the perennial laurel is shown in the photo below. What Lavatera garden rose looks like can be understood by viewing this

Main varieties

Perennial laureate in gardening is represented by several bright hybrids:

  • Ai Catcher   - plants with flowers of intense pink color;

Ai Catcher

  • Barnsley baby   - a gentle hybrid with light pink flowers;
  • Bregon Springs   - One of the largest hybrids, reaching 1.3 meters in height. Gives abundant blooms of mauve flowers with crimson streaks;

Bregon Springs

  • Lilac Lady   - lilac variety of perennial laurels;
  • Burgundy Vine   - a hybrid of pink tone with purple veins.

Burgundy Vine

All these hybrids retain their qualities well in each subsequent generation of plants, because gardeners can breed them freely using their own material collected from plants last season, or borrowing it from their colleagues.

To produce spectacular plants, it is enough to properly plant and germinate the seeds.

Plant propagation methods

In our latitudes, lavaters reproduce by planting seeds on open ground at the beginning of the warm season. It is also permissible to pre-germinate seeds in greenhouse conditions and then transfer them to the ground. Uh this method is applicable if the gardener wants to achieve an earlier flowering of the plant.How does Lavatera grow from seeds can be found in this

Work with seeds when using different methods of reproduction laurels spend:

  • in February-March for flowers grown in greenhouses;
  • in April-May, if we are talking about samples planted directly into the ground.

Seeds of laver

The choice of a particular breeding method of lavaters largely depends on the climatic characteristics of the region, as well as the timing of the planned flowering. The earlier it is, the more preferred is the seedling method.

To opt for the cultivation of seedlings in February-May, it is advisable for many gardeners also for the reason that in recent years there have been frequent cases of frost on the ground in May and even June. For seeds, they can be disastrous. But grown up seedlings stand them well.

Features of landing in soil

Regardless of whether the gardener is to work with seeds or seedlings, planting the plant on the ground is carried out not earlier than the end of April - beginning of May, when the threat of frost on the ground already passes. Choose for this loose, not fertile soil. In this area, the flower is not too stretched in the stem, but it gives a particularly bright, spectacular flowering. Landing in the ground here is carried out as follows:

  1. If work with seedlings is foreseen, special wells with mineral complex of fertilizers are prepared for it. Seedlings in them are moved together by a root tuber of the earth. Lavateru placed on the site according to the scheme 20 to 25 cm in a checkerboard pattern. Thanks to this arrangement, the flowers will continue to grow quite freely in the future, while at the same time, they will look heap. When working directly with seeds, they act differently: they prepare grooves for them, place them at a distance of 20 cm from each other and sprinkle with earth no more than 1 cm in a layer, after which they moisten the soil. Also, when planting seeds on the ground, it is recommended to cover them with a film.
  2. Further, during the week, conduct daily watering of flowers.   When it is, however, it is important to ensure that the soil is not excessive moisture, otherwise the seedlings will die.
  3. When germinating seeds on open ground, they also wait until the plants reach 5 cm in height.After that, the covering material is removed from the seedlings and the first loosening of the soil and repeated fertilization are carried out.

Plant picking when planting lavaters is not envisaged, even if the seedlings were previously prepared in a greenhouse. Doing it, you can only harm the plant.

With proper care of the plant, within 30 days after the emergence of the seedlings, the plant begins to bloom. At this stage, re-feeding is carried out and transferred to the usual mode of caring for the laweater.

Care

La Latera is an unpretentious flower and even when landing on poor soils it requires a minimum of care measures.

These include:

  • watering.   It is necessary only during dry periods, as this flower does not tolerate high humidity. In the hot summer months spend it once a week. In the driest period, spraying of plants is also added to the irrigation.   However, in the course of its treatment, the gardener must be very careful to ensure that only the leaves and the stems are moistened, since the soaked buds very quickly fade and fall off;
  • top dressing.   It is carried out only on poor soils no more than once every 5-8 weeks. In addition, it may provide for the introduction of a mixture of nitrophosphate and urea in the ratio of a tablespoon to 10 liters of water immediately after planting the flower, as well as directly during the formation of the first buds;
  • loosening the soil.   It is carried out only until the plant reaches the meter height. It is worth holding this event once a week;
  • removal of wilted buds.   During the period of active flowering, it is better to hold this event once a week and be sure to remove the soaked old buds after the rain, since under the influence of moisture they very quickly turn into burning leaves mucus.

In order for these activities to be as effective as possible in the care of la Lavatou, they need to be carried out not often, but regularly. To do this, it is recommended to make a detailed schedule of garden work and follow it. Even if it has large enough windows in a week or two, the plant will suffer little from this - it is resistant to drought and grows well on poor soils. Much more negative phenomena for him will be uneven watering and an arbitrary feeding schedule.

The intensity of these activities is fully focused on the growth stage of the laureates. So the most active watering and dressing should be carried out during the period of active growth of the stem, as well as immediately before flowering, but closer to winter, the frequency of these procedures should be reduced, gradually preparing the laureate for the rest period.

At the end of the season, the perennial plant also needs to be properly prepared for wintering.   It is carried out in this case on the ground - the laureate tolerates cold fairly well, especially with plenty of snow, and does not require transplanting to the vases at this time. For the same, so that the flower does not suffer during severe frosts, the gardener needs to collect the remains of buds, bend the stems to the ground, fix it in this position, if possible, then cover with covering material: leaves, spruce leaves. Other specific activities of caring for the laver does not provide.

Fight against diseases and pests

The main problem faced by growing gardeners growers, is the appearance of rust on the leaves and stalks. This disease manifests itself in the form of brown or brown spots usually located on the underside of the leaves.

Rusting leaves

If you find such a problem, it is urgent to remove the affected plant fragments, and treat it with topaz or Bordeaux liquid.

In the event that the plant is severely affected by this ailment, it is recommended to remove it from the site and burn it. This will allow you to avoid infection of neighboring buds.

As for pests, here the laureate has practically no natural enemies. Flower is mostly affected only by aphids during a general invasion of the garden.. Such combined drugs as Actellic or Akarin effectively cope with them. For complete disposal of pests is usually enough one processing of flowers.

Conclusion

In general, the cultivation and care of perennial laurels in the garden or summer cottage is not difficult, even for a novice gardener. For him to properly conduct it is quite enough to properly germinate seeds and planting on the ground in the future rarely, but regularly providing care for the flower. And then this perennial will certainly take root on your soil and will delight for a long time with its bright intense flowering.

The melodious romantic name Lavater actually means the last name Lavater (Lavater). Worn her family of wonderful doctors who lived in Zurich in the 18th century. They were respected by the well-known naturalist and biologist Karl Linney. He came up with the idea of ​​giving such a name to a flower to perpetuate the Lavater family. Linney was also not bypassed - one of the species of this wonderful plant was called “Lavater or Malva Linnaeus”. The people of the flower are more known as hatima or dog rose. By the way, the dog rose name and well known dog rosewith which the laurel has absolutely nothing in common. Photo: Lavatera - flower after rain
LAVATERA ONE-YEAR-OLD - Lavatera trimestris

It is difficult to say how popular it is among gardeners and flower growers of the laureate, some are delighted with it, while others bypass it. The fact is that there are two main types of laureates, one year old   and many years   . Although they have the same name, they have significant differences. One-year-old (it is often called three-month) can be safely called a beauty. It grows lush bushes up to 1.2 meters. The flowers are solitary, rather large, up to 10 cm in diameter, “sit” in the leaf axils and resemble gramophone notes. The corolla consists of five petals with a well-distinguished center, in which are a fluffy pistil and many stamens. To some, the flower of the annual laureate remotely resembles a hibiscus, only in a smaller version and with a shorter pistil. The color of its petals is white, red, lilac and all shades of pink. The annual laureate blooms very lushly, which is why it looks unusually impressive. The leaves of it are also pretty, saturated green, the lower ones look like hearts, the upper ones look like sharp triangles. This beauty of its owners pleases with a magnificent bright carpet from the beginning of June to the first frost. How can you not love her? Photo: Lavatera annual - three months

Annual laureate, or "three-month", boasts an abundance of varieties. Most popular in Russia:
- "Mont Blanc" - stretched to 1 meter in height, densely covered with white flowers;
- “Silver Cap” is a low variety with pink and carmine petals with darker, easily visible veins, the height of the bushes is up to 70 cm;
- “Pink Beauty” - the name itself says that these laureates have petals of rich pink shades;
- “Tanagra” - bushes up to 50 cm tall, petals saturated red;
- “Barnsley” - in one bush there can be a lot of buds of different degree of opening, which creates the illusion of roses;
- "Parade" - grows up to 90 cm in height, the petals of the flowers are white, red and all shades of pink;
- “Twins Hot Pink” is a low-growing variety, bushes only up to 40 cm high, the petals of the corolla are richly pink. Very spectacular flowers, perfect for borders;
- "Pretty Woman" - bushes up to 60 cm tall, petals of pink shades;
- “Novella” is one of the most short-growing varieties, the height of the bushes barely reaches 20 cm, the flowers, however, are large, pink shades;
“White Cherub” is also a low-growing variety, the height of bushes is up to 35 cm, the flowers are white.

LAVATERA MANY YEARS - Lavatera thuringiaca

The long-term Lavater is more modest, looks more like a mallow, to the family of which it belongs. She is known as a dog rose or khatma Thuringian   . In height, the perennial laureate can stretch up to 3 meters. Her flowers are not solitary, but gathered in loose brushes. The diameter of the corolla is smaller than that of the one-year-old laureate, in some varieties it barely reaches 1.5 cm. The color of the petals varies from white to deep pink or lilac. Perennial Lavater is not as spectacular as her one-year-old “sister”, but she helps her masters cope with their ailments. From its roots, decoctions are prepared with which cough, headaches, joints, muscle, stomach pains, rheumatism, colds, scrofula are treated. Perennial laureate flowers are also used to treat stomach pain, and the leaves help with boils, rheumatism, boils, boils. The medicine is prepared very simply - the sheet is torn off, washed well under running water, crushed and applied to the diseased part of the body, and the top is wrapped with cellophane and something warm. It turns out a kind of compress. Dry leaves laureates can be crushed and mixed with oil. Get healing ointment. So in vain some flower growers do not pay enough attention to this flower.

Photo: Perennial Lavater - Thuringian "Barnsley Baby", landing in a container

Perennial laureate is also honored by breeders. Most often in Russia they grow Thuringian Khatma. The most popular varieties of perennial beauty:
- “Lilac Lady” - flowers of lilac shades;
- "Ai Ketcher" - a plant with pink flowers;
- “Barnsley Baby” - the flowers are very delicate, barely pink;
- “Mystic Merlin” - up to 1.8 meters high, flower petals from purple to violet, very effective variety.

LAVATERA BIBLE - Lavatera arborea

Rarely, but in our gardens you can meet biennial   Lavateru, or tree. Its natural region of residence is the Mediterranean and the islands of Macaronesia (Canaries, Madeira, Azores). This plant is quite powerful, for which it received its name. The lower leaves of the biennial laureate can reach 22 cm in length. The stem is pulled up to 3 meters, the flowers grow in bundles of 2-7 in one, sometimes singly. Their diameter is small, up to about 5 cm. The color of the petals is purple, pink, purple. The most famous varieties:
- "Candy Floss" - petals of the corolla gently pink;
- “Rosea” - flowers of a spectacular salmon shade;
- “Lavatera Linnaeus” (“Malva Linnaeus”) is a biennial, and in northern latitudes an annual. The plant is up to 3 meters tall, single flowers are located around the stem, the diameter of the corolla is 3-3.5 cm, the color of the petals is pink and lilac.
At home time of flowering tree laurel April-June, but breeders brought varieties, pleasing the lush color until September.

Photo (davesgarden.com): Laevater tree "Variyegata" in the Arboretum of San Francisco. 5 zone of frost resistance, grows up to 1.8 meters in height.

GROWING LAVATERS

Care

Each type of laureate has its own zest. But the one-year, and perennial, and tree have a unique color quality - absolute unpretentiousness and impartiality. Lavatera is almost the only garden flower, which is satisfied with any conditions of detention. All she needs is land, air and some moisture. It can be planted as a curb, in the center of a flower bed, around bushes and trees, along the walls of buildings, near fences, where other colors are heavy, anywhere. Lavater will grow and bloom in any light, on any soil. It does not matter if the owner left for a long time or simply forgot to water it, plus, did not bother to fertilize. Both the modest and the beautiful laureate will endure everything, will forgive everything, will also grow and bloom, producing seeds and waiting for attention. Nevertheless, like any living creature, the laureate is pleasant care, to which it responds with a more lush and prolonged flowering. Caring for her unusually simple. Although the flower is not capricious about the light, it feels more comfortable in sunny or slightly shaded areas. He loves the soil, too, not every, only light, loose, rich in organic matter and well drained. Watering the plant is also needed, at least once a week. Here, in principle, and all the difficulties of care. Even the owners of the laureates do not have to deal with pest control, since this flower has almost none. The only thing that can sometimes happen to him is the attack of caterpillars and rust. Get rid of pests by spraying the flower bed with the appropriate preparation. If the plant is affected by rust by more than 40-50%, it is removed from the flower bed. It is not recommended to re-sow the laureate in the area where rust was noticed.

How can you "pamper" your garden beauty? First, feedings. Mineral mixtures are suitable for this, but the flower will not refuse organic matter. It is best to feed the plants in spring and summer, when seeds begin to form. Also caring owners should watch out for weeds. Here it is necessary to take into account that the roots of the laureates are located close to the surface, therefore weed grass should be removed with care, and it is not necessary to loosen the ground near the flower bushes. And the last little nuance of care - it is desirable to tear fading flowers from a laver. This is done to improve the appearance of the flowerbeds and to extend the flowering time.

Planting laureates. Growing from seed

  Do you already dream of having a smart girl in your garden? There is nothing easier. It is well propagated by seeds, which are freely sold in flower shops. They sow the laureate for the winter or spring, as soon as the snow melts, and the soil moves a little away from the frost. The seeds of this flower are large enough to put them in the ground carefully, while respecting the required distances. Most often, gardeners make shallow, but wide holes at a distance of 30-40 cm. 2-3 seeds are placed in each hole approximately 15 cm apart. With this method, the bushes are especially lush and beautiful. In general, the distance between seeds depends on the variety. For dwarf lavender, this is only 7-10 cm, and for large-growing varieties, especially tree and perennials, the distance between plants of 40 cm should be minimal.

To lavatera bloomed earlier, it is planted seedlings. For this, seeds are sown somewhere in the end of March in boxes or in special plastic cells. You can keep them in the house on the windowsill or in the greenhouse. Approximately 10 days later, seeds sprout from the seeds that quickly begin to gain strength. Terms of landing in open ground in each region of their own. This can be done, when not only during the day, but at night will the air temperature be stably established from +7 and above.

Photo (Udo Schröter, commons.wikimedia.org): Perennial Lavater - Khatma Thuringian - Dog Rose

Planting perennial laurels

Perennial laurel propagated and rhizomes. They are sold in flower shops in special packages with peat. Lavatry flower growers will have to tinker with planting only for the first time. In the future, an intelligent plant saves its owners from this, as it reproduces well without help from other people by self-sowing.

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If you are wondering what flowers to plant on the site, so that it is beautiful and easy to care for, then it is better not to find laureates. Flowering plant from June to the most frost. It is extremely beautiful, unpretentious in care, requires minimal labor costs, drought-resistant: in a word, a find for very busy gardeners. How to grow the laureate in the open field without hassle will tell this article.

Varieties and varieties

The name of the laureate received from the word of Latin origin "lavatum" - to wash, because the color of the flowers is very clean. People call the lama hatrama or dog rose.

In gardening, three types of laureates are used:

Lavatera annual   or in another way it is called a three-month laureate. It grows up to 120 cm in height and the whole bush is abundantly covered with flowers, which gives it a special decoration. It blooms from July to frost.

Lavatera annual

The most popular varieties in our latitudes:

  • Silver Cap with flowers of salmon color;
  • Mont Blanc is a variety with white flowers;
  • Lavlines flowering pink flowers;
  • Pink Beauty has bright pink buds;
  • The ruby ​​queen is distinguished by carmine-colored flowers;
  • The sun goddess is a mixture of laureate seeds with a wide color palette of flowers.

Lavater long-term

Lavater long-term   or Thuringian. Most popular varieties:

  • Lilac Lady - has a lilac flower;
  • Bregon Springs –with rosebuds;
  • Burgundy Vine - blooms pink flowers;
  • IKatcher is a variety with beautiful pink flowers.

Two Year Laureate

Two Year Laureate   or tree laureate. It grows up to two meters in height and has a slender stem with reddish-purple flowers, similar to hibiscus inflorescences. Grades:

  • Candy Floss - has light pink flowers;
  • Rosea - with beautiful flowers of salmon color.

There are three more types of laurels, which are designed for warm latitudes, but you can also grow here:

  • seaside laureate, which has lilac flowers of two shades;

Lavatera seaside

  • cretan laureate has pubescent felted stems and purple or purple flowers;

Cretan laureate

  • moorish laureate is the most thermophilic with pubescent stems and purple flowers.

Moorish laureate

Attention! Lavater is not only an ornamental plant. Perennial Thuringian laureate - medicinal culture.

Reproduction and planting laureates

Propagated by seed laver. Seeds are harvested in early autumn, by which time the inflorescences of the plants turn into brown boxes. If the box is shaken, the contents will rustle, which means that the seeds are ripe and ready for harvest.

Seeds of laver

Grow a plant in two ways:

  1. Seeds are sown immediately in open ground in May. Before planting, they dig up the ground, bringing in a bucket of humus and a spoonful of nitroammofoski per square meter. Then seeds are sown to a depth of 1 cm. Seedlings appear after a couple of weeks.
  2. Seedlings. First, you should decide on the term of planting seeds for seedlings. If the flower garden is to be arranged in May, then the seeds should be sown in early March. Earlier sowing will allow to obtain larger plants. Before sowing the seeds, the laureates on the bottom of the boxes must be poured drainage, and above the ground. Seeds need to be buried in a moist soil 1 cm, then cover with glass. When the seeds germinate, the glass should be removed. Further care of the seedlings is to moisten the soil. Grown up plants are planted in rows in rows with a distance of 20 x 25 cm and regularly watered.

Seedling laver

Lavatera reproduces perfectly by self-sowing, which greatly facilitates the task of the gardener.

Council To get one big bush of laurels, seedlings or seeds, it is necessary to plant in a circle at a distance of 20 - 25 cm between the holes, placing five seedlings in each.

Plant care, fertilizer and fertilizing

Lavatera prefers to grow in sunny areas, but develops well in partial shade. It can grow on any soil, but develops better on organic-rich soils. Drought-resistant, watering is necessary as the soil dries once a week in extreme heat. It is frost-resistant, well transfers decrease in temperature to-3 degrees. Tall varieties require additional support and garter stems.

Do not water the laver too often. Once a week will be enough

At the beginning of growth it is necessary to remove the weeds and loosen the soil, when the laureate reaches vegetative maturity, then she will cope with the weeds, taking a place in the sun. By timely removing faded inflorescences and seed boxes, you will simultaneously stimulate the plant for further long-term flowering, as well as replenish your seed fund for future years, as the seeds do not lose their germination until five years old.

Nutrient fertilizer laureates are needed only if the crop grows on very poor nutrient soil. Feed the plant no more than once a month. The first feeding is done at the beginning of the growing season with a solution of urea and nitroammofoski: a tablespoon per 10 liters of water. The second time the laureate is fertilized with the appearance of flower buds with potash and phosphorus fertilizers.

Attention. The older the plant, the darker its foliage becomes. Pale green leaves signal a lack of nitrogen and phosphorus.

Diseases and pests

Fortunately, the laureate belongs to those plants that practically do not get sick and are not damaged by pests. Sometimes a plant can come to love for aphids. It is enough to wash it off with water with the addition of soap, or spray the systemic drug.

Rust on the leaves laureates

May be affected by a fungal disease - rust. On the leaves from the lower side, yellow or orange blooms (pustules) appear, which darken when cracked, crack and spores spill out of them, which infect healthy plants. The fungus feeds on living tissues and leads to the death of the plant. If you find a diseased plant, then remove the infected parts, and the rest should be sprayed with fungicides, such as "Topaz" or "Hom." If the damage is significant, it is best to get rid of such plants completely.

Council Observe crop rotation for disease prevention. Do not put the laureate in the same place for 4 years.

Combination with other plants

Lavateru can be combined with a huge number of other plants that grow in traditional flower beds. A laver with pink flowers looks good in combination with cultures that bloom blue and purple flowers:

  • verbena;

Lavatera on the plot

  • brachycom;
  • delphinium.

White varieties Lavater are versatile and suitable for almost any color, but they look especially good with lilac petunia and blue ageratum. But with Lanster looks great sort of laver "Ruby carpet"

In landscape design

Lavateru often used in landscape design in single plantings or group, it looks good bright spot on the grass lawn at the foot of large trees and shrubs. Tall grades perennial laurel can be used as a screen for the decoration of the fence or outbuildings on the site.

Lavatera looks great in mono landings

In group compositions, it is incredibly beautiful if you plant the plants according to a certain color palette. For example, first plant a group of laureates with white flowers, then a group with pink, and the next group from a mix of pink and white flowers. It is also good to combine plants in height, using different varieties. Perfect for cutting bouquets. Lavatera is able to transform the most dull landscape with its lush flowering to the very frost.

Other uses are laureates

Perennial Thuringian Lavateru is used as a medicinal plant in traditional medicine. The roots of the plant contain a lot of mucus and vitamin C, therefore, in terms of its pharmacological properties, lavender is close to Althea Drug.

Lavateru is also grown for use in traditional medicine.

A decoction of the roots is used for colds, coughs, hoarseness, various gastrointestinal ailments and female diseases. Infusion of the root is used as an anti-inflammatory agent for dermatitis. When rheumatic and neuralgic pains use the leaves of the plant. Apply poultices from the leaves with purulent skin lesions, boils, lichen.

Caring for the garden laureate: video

Varieties and types of laurels: photo



The dream of many gardeners is an elegant flower bed that does not require hassle. In this case, the real find is Lavater, or a garden rose. A flower as attractive as it looks, as unpretentious as it is, does not require complicated care, it has no demanding conditions of life. Growing Lavatery, garden roses - even a novice and extremely busy gardener.

It is better to get acquainted with this garden flower - charming, unassuming and varied.

Varieties and Benefits

Lavatera belongs to the family Malvaceae. In nature, it is found in southwestern Europe. It has various folk and semi-official names - garden, wild or dog rose, botanical name - hatima, some gardeners call it a stock rose. Perennial and annual flower varieties are grown in culture.

Variety of varieties and species

Herbaceous, shrub species and small trees are known. Stems erect, sometimes pubescent. Corollas funnel-shaped flowers from 6 to 10 cm in diameter. The color of the flowers is varied, from white and pale cream to carmine and salmon-pink, in some varieties - with contrasting veins.

Low-growing varieties of plants do not grow above 60 cm, some shrubs and trees reach a height of 2 m. This, as well as an extensive color palette of flowers, allow you to create spectacular compositions both in company with other garden plants and mono-ensembles.

Compositions in the center of which are Lavatera, a garden rose, are represented in the photo by designers and amateur gardeners.

Why choose Lavateru

All Lavaters have several common advantages:

  • they are extremely decorative throughout the warm summer season, and some species can be grown in a pot culture and brought into the room for the winter;
  • plants are resistant to adverse weather conditions - wind and rain, quickly restore a neat elegant look after bad weather;
  • each plant is literally showered with flowers, a set of buds are formed at the same time in a different flowering stage, therefore it blooms continuously and abundantly from early summer to the first serious frosts (below -5 0 С);
  • they grow on any soil, and do not even like excess humus;
  • prefer the sun, and bloom in the sun beds more brightly, but in the penumbra they manifest themselves quite adequately;
  • do not require abundant watering, can withstand a moderate short-term drought, but can not stand the stagnant moisture;
  • sick rarely, endowed with immunity to fungal diseases and high resistance to insect pests.

Attention! Flowering Lavatery brighter and more abundant on soils with average fertility.

Regardless of the variety, the garden rose Lavatera invariably captivates with touching flowers of pure delicate shades.

Annual varieties of plants

More often in the domestic gardens there is a one-year, it’s also a three-month-old, Lavater. Varieties from short (up to half a meter) to quite impressive tall ones - up to 1.5 m. The following flower varieties have gained popularity among domestic gardeners:

  • Silver Cap is distinguished by the complex salmon shade of the petals;
  • Mont Blanc is remembered by lovers of white flowers;
  • Lavlines and Pink Beauty - owners of traditional pink-colored malvaceous buds;
  • The ruby ​​queen blazes with carmine;
  • The Goddess of the Sun is a varietal blend of Lavaters, a garden rose that includes a wide palette of shades.

This photo is another version of the garden rose Lavatery mix - “Silk and Cashmere”, a piquant harmonious composition of intense pink and salmon shades.

No less interesting for gardeners varieties:


Annual varieties of garden roses are herbaceous plants, usually no more than 120 cm.

Perennial flower species

Perennial Lavatera is known under the common name - Thuringian. Common varieties:

  • Lilac Lady with unique lilac buds;
  • Bregon Springs is distinguished by interesting shades of pink;
  • Burgundy Vine with flowers of rich pink tone;
  • The ayketcher is distinguished by complex shades of pink.

These varieties grow to 2 m in height, the stems are strong, stiff. The root system is powerful, developed, sometimes the depth reaches 10 m.

Photos of garden rose flowers Lavaters show off the varied splendor of the palette and forms of this stunning garden plant.

Important! Perennial Thuringian Lavater is not only an elegant decorative plant, but also a medicinal plant, extracts of which are used to treat colds, gynecological, intestinal diseases, cough, joint, muscle and headaches.

Agrotechnical culture

The flower is grown from seeds. Use rassadny method or direct sowing in the ground. Growing a garden rose. LaVaters from seeds begin sowing in early spring.

For early flowering, sow on seedlings at the end or in March.

Growing seedlings Lavatery

A drainage layer (sand, a fine fraction of gravel) is poured into the seedling container, then the soil is added. Seeds are buried to a depth of 0.5–1 cm. The container is covered with a film, and after the seedlings appear, the cover is removed.

Tip! In order not to thin out the shoots of plants, fold the seeds into the grooves at a distance of 2-3 cm.

Wild rose seedlings need extra intense light. So they will not stretch, will be stocky and healthy. The photo shows the stage of growing Lavaters (garden roses) from seeds:

Seedlings are planted in flower beds in May, when serious frosts are bypassed. Between plants leave at least 20-25 cm.

For a beautiful curtain, proceed as follows:

  • in a circle with a distance of about 20 cm arrange small holes;
  • 5–6 plants are planted in each hole.

For tall varieties Lavatery it is useful to establish a support: grown-up plants can be tied to a peg, so it is easier for them to withstand bad weather and maintain decorativeness.

Grow this flower and sowing seeds immediately in open ground. When planting a garden rose to a lavateru depends on the climatic zone and characteristics of the variety, but usually it is the second half of March - the beginning of April.

Caring for Lavateroy

Agrotechnical measures are very simple and not burdensome:

  • watering plants moderate, infrequent; do not allow stagnation of water in the soil;
  • top dressing no more than once every 1.5–2 months; after the rooting of the seedlings, nitroammofoska and urea are applied (30 g per bucket of water), when buds appear, potash and phosphate fertilizers (30–40 g per bucket);
  • loosening the soil - as needed, to ensure breathability;
  • removal of old buds, it contributes to the extension of flowering and protects the plant from burns by the decay products of the faded "boxes".

Lavater in the garden

Lavatera looks great in group plantings and flower beds, in accent and soliternyh groups of plants.

Low-growing varieties Lavatery planted in the borders and in the foreground of flower beds. Varieties of medium height are used to design tracks and center rabatok.

Tall Lavaters draw mixborder backgrounds.

Planting and caring for the laureate (in short)

  • Landing:   sowing seeds into the ground - at the end of April or at the beginning of May: sowing seeds for seedlings - at the beginning of March, planting seedlings into the soil - from the middle to the end of May.
  • Lighting:   bright sunlight.
  • The soil:   loose, light, well drained, not too fertile.
  • Watering:   moderate, but drought - regular and abundant.
  • Garter:   tall varieties need to be tied up with supports that are installed during planting.
  • Top dressing:   only when grown in very scarce soils once every 4-8 weeks with complex mineral fertilizer.
  • Reproduction:   seed.
  • Pests:   aphid.
  • Diseases:   rust.

Read more about growing laurels below.

Laureate Flower - Description

Thanks to the ongoing work of breeders, today among the representatives of the Lavater genus there are many annual and perennial herbaceous plants, reaching a height of 50 to 150 cm, with a well-developed root system, a powerful crown and strong branches. The leaves of most species are lobed, covered with hairs and arranged in a sequential manner. The flowers are large - up to 10 cm in diameter, yellow, white, crimson, purple or pink, growing singly or in several pieces from the sinuses of the bracts and forming spiky or racemose end inflorescences, bloom in early summer and bloom until mid-autumn. It is said that the laureate flower is a plant for the lazy or for those who never have time, and to some extent this statement is true - the laureate is unpretentious in care, soil-tolerant, drought-resistant and not afraid of strong wind. Flowers laureates look fresh in the cut more than a week.

  Growing a laureate from seed

Sowing laureates.

Planting flowers laureate in open ground in regions with warm climates is carried out in late April or early May. Before planting the laureate, in the ground for one-square-meter digging they bring in a bucket of compost or humus and 2 spoons of nitrophoska each. Then the ground is leveled, the grooves are made in it with a depth of 1 cm, they are shed with warm water and dry seeds are sown, and then they are sprinkled on top of them with a mixture of garden soil with humus in equal proportions, sealed and immediately covered with a transparent film. Latera from seed germinates, usually in a week, and when the seedlings reach 5 cm in height, the shelter is removed, the seedlings are thinned and the soil is loosened with a slight hilling. If you did not have the opportunity to fertilize the garden soil before sowing the seeds, the first dressing in the form of complex mineral fertilizer is applied after removing the covering material.

Seedlings laver.

To achieve the earliest flowering, there is a seedling method of growing laurels. When to sow the laureate?   If you plan to plant seedlings in open ground in May, planting of seedlings is carried out in early March. Before sowing the laureate, it is necessary to put drainage on the bottom of the seedling boxes, and on the top - the soil purchased for the seedlings acquired in the flower shop. Then the soil should be watered with warm water and, by plunging dry seeds into it, literally one centimeter, cover the crops with glass or plastic film and put in a bright place. Remove condensation from the glass and moisten the soil as needed. After two weeks, shoots will appear that may need additional illumination for successful growth - in case of insufficient lighting, the seedlings are too stretched and thinned. As soon as the seeds germinate, the glass can be removed. Care of the lavatera before transplanting it into the open ground will consist of periodically moistening the soil and turning the container with the seedlings around its axis to achieve a uniform development of seedlings.

Pick a laver.

Growing flowers lavender seed method does not provide picks sprouting - grown up and strong seedlings immediately planted in open ground.

  Landing laver

When to plant the laureate.

Landing of launchers in the ground is carried out when the threat of frost has passed - from the end of April in areas with a warm climate and at the end of May in areas with cooler conditions. For laureates, a sunny place with light, loose, well-drained soil is preferable. If you are going to land a tall variety of laurels, you will need to immediately install supports for the stems.

How to plant the laureate.

To plant a laureate, use the 20x25 scheme - this distance between the seedlings and the rows will be enough so that when fully developed, the plants look compact.

  Lavatera - care

How to grow a laureate.

Caring for lavateroy is to water the plant as needed. Lavatera plant is drought resistant, but still it is necessary to drink it - in dry time once a week at the rate of 2-3 buckets for one big bush, and if summer is not too hot, then it can be less often. Tie up large, spreading bushes to the supports so that they do not look sloppy. The soil near tall plants can be loosened only until the plants reach a meter height, because it is possible to damage the superficially located root system of plants. In time, remove wilted flowers that become limp after rain, turning into a slimy mass that leaves burns on the leaves. As for fertilizers for laureates, they feed her for the first time, as soon as she gets stronger after planting, with a solution of a tablespoon of nitrophoska and a tablespoon of urea in 10 liters of water, but this is only if you have not fertilized the soil before planting. If you dug up the soil with fertilizers, you can skip the first feeding. The second time you will need to fertilize at the very beginning of the formation of buds. Ingredients: one tablespoon of sodium sulfate and potassium sulfate per 10 liters of water - this is the norm for one large bush.

Here, perhaps, and all the trouble with laurel.

Pests and diseases laureates.

As you have already seen, landing and caring for lavatero can be done even by a beginner. Pest and disease control will not exhaust you either, since the laureate is affected by those and others extremely rarely. Sometimes there is an invasion of the garden plot of aphids, and then goes to the laureate. It is possible to get rid of this trouble by treating plants with systemic preparations of aktar, biotlin or preparations of the combined action of actellic or acarin.

Sometimes a laureate suffers from a rust infection, which manifests itself as brown, brown or yellow spots on the underside of the leaves. It is necessary to remove all affected parts, and treat the plants with Bordeaux liquid, cuproxate or topaz. It is better to remove the heavily affected specimens from the site and burn them.

  Lavater after flowering

How and when to collect laureate seeds.

After the laureate flowers wither and fall off, in their place are green seed boxes that need to be allowed to ripen. An indicator of the maturity of seeds is the dried box, which changes color from green to brown. Open one of them: if the seeds are gray-brown and easily spill out of the box, you can start collecting them. This usually occurs in early fall. The boxes are carefully cut, the seeds are poured out of them onto paper, which are dried in a dry, ventilated room on a newspaper, and then stored in a paper bag or a linen bag.

Annual laureate in winter.

Annual laureate is recyclable, and the area from under it - digging. Keep in mind that the laureate breeds self-sowing, and next spring a flowerbed may be formed at this place without your participation.

Perennial laureate in winter.

Perennial laureate winters in the ground. It is necessary to bend its stems as low as possible to the ground, fix them in this position and cover them with dry foliage, spruce leaves or covering material.

  Types and varieties of laureates

Three types of lavaters are grown in culture: the lavater is a one-year-old, which is represented by a three-month-old lavater, a long-term lavater, represented by the Thuringian laureate and a two-year lavater, the only representative of which is the tree-lavater.

Lavater three months (Lavatera trimestris)

- annual plant up to 120 cm high. The lower leaves are heart-shaped or rounded with teeth along the edges, the upper leaves are three- or five-lobed. Flowers solitary, funnel-shaped, with a diameter of up to 10 cm, growing from the axils of the leaves. The closer to the top of the plant, the thicker the flowers grow and the shorter the peduncles. Five-bladed carmine halo, white or pink. Cultivated since 1620. Blossoms very plentifully since July. Grades:

  • – Silver cap   - laureate pink with burgundy veins and silver shimmer, up to 70 cm high;
  • – Mont blanc   - white flowers with dark veins 60 cm high;
  • – laureate Ruby Queen   - variety with powerful, branched stems up to one meter tall and with flowers of rich carmine color;
  • – lavatera Beauty - a mighty bush with large, sparkling buds of white, carmine or pink color;
  • – lavatera Goddess of the Sun   - a mixture of seeds of tall laureate. The height of the bush is 110 cm, beautiful dark green leaves, the diameter of the flower is 6 cm. Lavater The sun goddess is represented by a wide palette of colors;
  • – Novella   - pink undersized laureate up to 20 cm high, which can be grown in containers, but in the garden it grows to a more substantial size;
  • – White Cherub   - undersized variety up to 35 cm tall with large white flowers. Suitable for growing in containers and pots.

Lavaterra Thuringian, or Dog Rose (Lavatera thuringiaca)

- powerful branched perennial up to two meters high with heart-shaped and rounded hard-pubescent leaves of gray-green color. Lower leaves lobed, upper entire. Single pink flowers with a diameter of up to 10 cm appear on long pedicels from the axils of the leaves. Grades:

  • – Lilac Lady   - lilac laureate;
  • – Ai Catcher   - laureate with flowers of dense pink color;
  • – Burgundy Vine   - pink flowers with dark purple veins;
  • – Barnsley baby   - variety with delicate white and pink flowers;
  • – Bregon Springs   - tall luxurious variety up to 130 cm in height with powerful strong-branched bushes with thick three-bladed leaves of gray-green color. Blooms profusely and for a long time with pink-purple flowers with crimson veins. Drought-resistant, winters under light cover.

Lavatera arborea (Lavatera arborea)

- a two-year-old laureate with a straight slender stem up to two meters high, the leaves are oval up to 20 cm long. Reddish-purple flowers with darker veins look like hibiscus flowers, and the spherical fruits that form in their place after flowering resemble the heads of cheese. It blooms from early June to mid-September. There are variegated forms. Grades:

  • – Rosea   - laureate with spectacular pink flowers;
  • – Candy floss   - light pink laureate.

Lavatera Maritime (Lavatera maritime, or Lavatera bicolor).

In warm regions, another type of laureate is growing - the seaside laureate. The second name it received for the two-tone color of flowers - two shades of purple color. In height laureate seaside reaches one and a half meters.

Cretan Lavater (Lavatera cretica).

It is also possible to grow a Cretan laureate, a grassy plant up to 1.8 m high with erect, branchy felt-pubescent stems, the same shaggy, rounded five-blade or seven-blade leaves up to 20 cm in length, with a heart-shaped base and a dull apex and small teeth along the edge. It has flowers up to 3.5 cm in diameter, purple or lilac, collected 2-8 pieces in the leaf axils.

Lavatera Mauritanian (Lavatera mauritanica).

In the warmest regions of our country, one can grow a laurist Moorish, a small plant up to 80 cm tall. Stems her felt-pubescent, erect, branched, leaves rounded, lobed, with a pointed tip. Purple flowers with a diameter of 3 cm.

Lavater is interesting not only for its decorative qualities, but also for its healing properties: preparations with its content are used in the treatment of cough, cold, headaches, intestinal disorders, with aching joints and muscles, gastritis and gynecological diseases. Fresh leaves of Thuringian laureate are effective in the treatment of non-healing wounds, herpes, boils and other purulent formations.