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Coastal tidytips
Coastal tidytips - Layia platyglossa (elegans) ceras.
An unpretentious and abundantly flowering annual!
It will delight you with its abundant and colourful flowering from mid-June to autumn frosts.
Plant height 50-70 cm. Inflorescences 4.5-5 cm in diameter on long peduncles. The ligulate flowers are golden yellow with white tips, and the tubular ones are small, dark yellow.
This graceful plant will decorate your curbs, rocky hills and flower beds, and is also perfect for cutting into bouquets.
Agrotechnics.
Graceful tidy tips prefers open, sunny places with light, well-drained sandy loam or loamy soils. Seeds are sown in April in open ground or in cold greenhouses.
Seedlings appear in 2 weeks. Seedlings dive 3 pieces into pots with a peat-humus mixture.
The seedlings are planted in a permanent place at the end of May (always with a damp lump of earth), leaving 20 cm between the plants.
An unpretentious and abundantly flowering annual!
It will delight you with its abundant and colourful flowering from mid-June to autumn frosts.
Plant height 50-70 cm. Inflorescences 4.5-5 cm in diameter on long peduncles. The ligulate flowers are golden yellow with white tips, and the tubular ones are small, dark yellow.
This graceful plant will decorate your curbs, rocky hills and flower beds, and is also perfect for cutting into bouquets.
Agrotechnics.
Graceful tidy tips prefers open, sunny places with light, well-drained sandy loam or loamy soils. Seeds are sown in April in open ground or in cold greenhouses.
Seedlings appear in 2 weeks. Seedlings dive 3 pieces into pots with a peat-humus mixture.
The seedlings are planted in a permanent place at the end of May (always with a damp lump of earth), leaving 20 cm between the plants.
* Layia elegans Torr. et Gray = Layia platyglossa.
Title: in honour of the naturalist Georg T. Leia.
Description: the genus has about 15 species that grow in the southeastern regions of North America.
Homeland - California.
Location: requires open, sunny locations.
Soil: thrives on a variety of soils, but prefers light, well-drained, sandy loam or loamy soils.
Reproduction: by seeds, which are sown in April in open ground, or for growing seedlings - in cold greenhouses.
Seedlings appear in two weeks. 3 seedlings dive in 9 cm pots or in peat-humus cubes.
Seedlings are planted in a permanent place at the end of May, always with a damp lump of earth, between the plants there should be at least 15-20 cm.
Usage: recommended for curbs, ridges, rocky hills and cutting.
Eng.: Tidy Tips. Bot. syn.: Callichroa platyglossa Fisch. et C.A.Mey., Layia elegans Torr. et A.Gray, Layia ziegleri Munz.
