Lychnis belongs to the family Carnations. The botanical name "lychnis" translates as "lamp". This bright flower is popularly called a "hot flower" or a "star". Lychnis kronchatyy outwardly has nothing in common with the popular Zorka. It has silver-gray leaves, curved shoots and elegant raspberry flowers. Varieties with white or pink flowers have been bred. It belongs to perennial plants. In the conditions of the middle zone, he often behaves like a two-year-old.
The herbaceous bush of the crowned lichen is low, 40-90 cm. It blooms in June, blooms profusely in summer, and individual flowers bloom in autumn. The herbaceous bush looks openwork, during the summer it manages to grow many branched shoots. It has gray leaves with silver dusting. Autumn does not spoil the attractiveness of the crowned lichen. Individual flowers continue to light up on an ashen background.
Elegance, style and restraint are combined in the lychnyse crown. It looks good as a single plant and surrounded by a variety of flowers.
Two-year-old seedlings, flowering at the time of planting.(//tractor-service.com)
There are also plants that can be used in a composition with lichen: panicle phlox, physostegia, rudbeckia, physostegia, foxglove, delphinium and many more beautiful flowering plants and berry bushes.
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