Gypsy flower (Hound's tongue, dog's tongue)

Dog's tongue (Hound's tongue, Gypsy flower) - Cynoglossum officinale.
Repels rodents from the garden and home.
Unpretentious and cold-resistant, drought-resistant annual.
Excellent honey plant. Height 60-90 cm, diameter up to 50 cm. Stems and leaves are densely pubescent and have a greyish-green colour. Flowers, 1-1.2 cm in diameter, are similar in shape and colour to forget-me-nots. They are collected in original, constantly growing inflorescences-curls 11-37 cm long.
It blooms in the second half of July, blooms for a long time, and is not afraid of cold weather. Beautiful in large arrays, on discounts, with spots on lawns, in mixborders, in high borders.
Cut flowers stay fresh for a long time in the water. Dried plants can be laid out for the winter in garden houses, at the roots of apple trees and plum trees, and mice will not appear in these places.
Caution: the plant is poisonous!

Agricultural technology.
Planting methods: open ground, seedlings. The plant is cold-resistant, drought-resistant and photophilous. Grows well in any fertile soil.
Sow in early spring directly into the ground in nests of 3-5 seeds at a distance of 25-30 cm. At a soil temperature of + 21 + 23 ° C, seedlings appear in 7-14 days.
If grown through seedlings, you can get earlier flowering.
1,0 g = 40 seeds.

Hound's tongue, dog's tongue, gypsyflower.