Spiked loosestrife "Red and Rosy Hybrids" (milk willow-herb, purple lythrum)

Spiked loosestrife "Red and Rosy Hybrids" ("Rosy gem", "Red Beauties") - Lythrum salicaria.
Great plant for shady places!
Flowers or seedcapsules for cutting.
Flowering season: Juni-September.
Winter hardiness zone: Z3-Z9.
Height: 100 cm. Blooms continually.
Shrub for gardens with moist soil. He is loved by bees and butterflies.
Straight, strict bush 80-120 cm high. Leaf lanceolate, green, red in autumn. The flowers are collected in dense candle-shaped spikes, purple-red, star-shaped, small and up to 1 cm in diameter.
Blooms in June-August. It is an excellent honey plant. The fruit is an oblong-oval capsule, the seeds are small. 1,0 g = 24000 seeds.
The plant is winter hardy.

Location: grows well in a sunny or semi-shady place, unpretentious, tolerates drying out of the substrate.
Soil: fresh, moist, aerated, rich in nutrients. Moisture-loving. They tolerate stagnant waterlogging well, but only in the summer, when they can be immersed in a reservoir to a depth of 30 cm.
Care: water and fertilize well. Remove faded inflorescences immediately to prevent seeds from getting into the soil. You can mow it. They live for many years without rejuvenation. If there is an excess of nitrogen in the soil, it may lose vertical growth.
Reproduction: vegetatively by dividing the bush and root cuttings in early summer. Can be propagated by seeds.
Sow seedlings in January-March. The optimal temperature for germination is +15+18 °C, seedlings appear 20-30 days after sowing. Pre-sowing treatment and stratification are not required. They bloom 2-3 years after sowing.
If you want to propagate an old lythrum bush vegetatively, you will have to arm yourself with... an ax. In an adult plant, the rhizome becomes woody.
It is best to propagate varieties by root cuttings.
Application: for cutting, used in group plantings, various flower beds, including near ponds. Valued for long-lasting abundant flowering.

Spiked loosestrife, milk willow-herb, Purple loosestrife, purple lythrum, purple willow-herb.