Turkish cloves
At the dacha, to everyone’s surprise, the Turkish carnation bloomed. This happened in the third year after planting the seeds. The plant is now very beautiful, blooming in a lush bush. but I'm afraid that next year there won't be such flowering. How should you care for this flower so that it blooms and grows even more every year?
What a beauty! I planted it myself too. Will wait. As far as I know, this is a biennial plant, but after 2 years of flowering, you can remove the flower stalks and sprinkle the rosettes with soil. And she will delight the eye for many years to come. It's really amazing that it bloomed for you.
Turkish cloves can be sown both in early spring and autumn. If planted in the spring, then with skillful care it can bloom in the fall. But it’s better to sow everything in the fall, then plant it so that it takes root before frost and in the spring it will delight you with abundant flowering.
Can you tell me if such a carnation cannot grow by self-sowing? It grew in our flowerbed for several years and then disappeared. I decided that it sows itself and then germinates, delighting with flowering. But then she disappeared... There will no longer be such flowers and they need to be planted again?
Most likely, when weeding, you plucked all the young bushes. My mother weeded the flower garden one year. And carnations reproduce well by self-sowing; for about 15 years it grew in a lush patch in one place.
An excellent option for a country flower bed.Tell me, does this flower require special care conditions, or maybe it needs a certain soil? I would like you to share your experience of growing cloves.
We have Turkish carnations growing in a flowerbed under the balcony. Nobody really takes care of her at all. In the summer heat, my husband just waters all the flowers, and I weed the flowerbed periodically. so carnation is a wonderful plant. It just blooms in the second year.
It’s a pity that it takes two years to grow such beauty, and then the plant almost completely dies. Although it is possible to renew a plant annually with seeds, the colors of new plants will be unpredictable due to self-pollination.
Turkish cloves do not require special care; in the spring I do not tear off the dry tops, but carefully trim them. The plant has been blooming abundantly for several years now.