Growing penstemon will decorate your garden

Many unusually beautiful plants can decorate a garden plot. Unfortunately, some flowers that deserve the love and devotion of many gardeners are not yet well known. So growing penstemon For many, it remains an untapped pleasure. After all, this plant is truly a real treasure for those who strive to decorate their garden with flowers.

This flowering plant belongs to the Norichinaceae family, and the Penstemon genus itself includes more than 250 varieties. These flowers are tall and small, climbing, creeping, and tall upright. Many varieties of penstemons are perennials. But in Russia, penstemons are most often grown as annuals. You can decorate almost every corner of the garden with these flowers, choosing exactly the variety that will be comfortable both in a sunny place and in a quiet shaded corner.

The most common cultivation of penstemons from seeds. They are sown on the surface of the earth, without deepening, in February or early March. The seeds can only be sprinkled with clean sand, disinfected with boiling water, since they need sunlight to germinate. The soil for seeds must be moist. The container with seeds must be covered with film or glass. The optimal temperature for germination of penstemon seeds is 18-24 degrees Celsius. For better growth, seeds can be subjected to cold treatment before planting - stratification.

If necessary to provide earlier flowering penstemons, then the seedlings after germination must be planted in peat pots and create a temperature for growth of about 15 degrees heat. Higher seedling growth temperatures will slow down future flowering.

Penstemon sprouts can be planted in open ground at the end of May, choosing fairly dry places, since this plant does not tolerate stagnant moisture.

If you have chosen a perennial variety for planting, then you should take into account that this plant is not long-lived - 3-4 years of growth and flowering is the maximum after which the plant needs to be renewed.

Good luck!