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Money flower "Silvery coin" (honesty, moonwort, silver dollar plant)
Honesty (silver plate, white satin flower, moonwort) - Lunaria biennis.
Silvery “coins” in the flower garden!
A biennial plant grown as an annual in our cool climate. Unusual fruits - filmy pods with a transparent mother-of-pearl partition. The plant is 80-90 cm high. The flowers are white and reddish-violet, collected in a simple panicle. Blooms from May to mid-June.
Used for work and groups. An original dried flower for winter bouquets.
Agrotechnics.
Prefers sunny places, but tolerates partial shade, loose and fertile soils. Propagated by sowing seeds in June in a permanent place, maintaining a distance between plants of 30-35 cm. The depth of seeding is 0.5 cm. At a soil temperature of +18°C, seedlings appear on the 7-10th day.
Soil: moonwort grows on any sufficiently fertilized garden soil.
Location: it is best to grow in an open sunny area, but light partial shade is also acceptable.
Sowing: in the ground in late spring or early and even mid-summer. Lunaria seeds are large, in the form of flat cakes 5-6 mm wide. (1.0 g = 20 seeds).
They are easy to sow immediately in a permanent place at a sufficient distance from each other, which means that the plant does not need to be replanted later. The distance between plants is 30-35 cm. Seeds germinate in a week.
Care: fertilizing is required only on very poor soils more than once every 4-8 weeks.
Usage: when the boxes turn brown, the stems are cut off at the root and dried in a dry room for two weeks. Then you need to remove the outer plates of these pods by light friction between your fingers, which will leave a thin, parchment-like partition with a pearlescent sheen. If you carefully peel all the pods and remove the seeds, the stem turns into an original flower with many oval translucent leaves, each of which looks like a small moon. In this form, Lunaria is unusually good in winter bouquets.
Money Plant, annual honesty, money flower, moonwort, silver dollar plant, silver plate, white satin flower.
Silvery “coins” in the flower garden!
A biennial plant grown as an annual in our cool climate. Unusual fruits - filmy pods with a transparent mother-of-pearl partition. The plant is 80-90 cm high. The flowers are white and reddish-violet, collected in a simple panicle. Blooms from May to mid-June.
Used for work and groups. An original dried flower for winter bouquets.
Agrotechnics.
Prefers sunny places, but tolerates partial shade, loose and fertile soils. Propagated by sowing seeds in June in a permanent place, maintaining a distance between plants of 30-35 cm. The depth of seeding is 0.5 cm. At a soil temperature of +18°C, seedlings appear on the 7-10th day.
Soil: moonwort grows on any sufficiently fertilized garden soil.
Location: it is best to grow in an open sunny area, but light partial shade is also acceptable.
Sowing: in the ground in late spring or early and even mid-summer. Lunaria seeds are large, in the form of flat cakes 5-6 mm wide. (1.0 g = 20 seeds).
They are easy to sow immediately in a permanent place at a sufficient distance from each other, which means that the plant does not need to be replanted later. The distance between plants is 30-35 cm. Seeds germinate in a week.
Care: fertilizing is required only on very poor soils more than once every 4-8 weeks.
Usage: when the boxes turn brown, the stems are cut off at the root and dried in a dry room for two weeks. Then you need to remove the outer plates of these pods by light friction between your fingers, which will leave a thin, parchment-like partition with a pearlescent sheen. If you carefully peel all the pods and remove the seeds, the stem turns into an original flower with many oval translucent leaves, each of which looks like a small moon. In this form, Lunaria is unusually good in winter bouquets.
Money Plant, annual honesty, money flower, moonwort, silver dollar plant, silver plate, white satin flower.
* The end of this plant's flowering period is eagerly awaited. After removing the pods and seeds, translucent, pearlescent partitions remain on the stems. In winter bouquets, they are combined with hydrangea inflorescences and with grasses.
Growing Lunaria (Honesty) from seeds will take two years.
In the first year, Lunaria develops a basal rosette of leaves. In spring, stems 60-80 cm tall with dark green heart-shaped leaves grow from it.
Fragrant lilac or purple flowers bloom from the end of May to the middle of June. Later, green seed pods form in their place. By September, they ripen and become light brown. At that time, the plants are cut at the root and dried indoors for two weeks. During this time, the seeds also ripen - they are large and dark brown. They are sown in mid-summer directly into the soil.
At the beginning of September, the seedlings are transplanted to a permanent place at a distance of 30 cm from each other. Any garden soil dug to a depth of 20 cm with the addition of humus (3-4 kg per 1 m2) will be suitable.
Lunaria is undemanding and winter-hardy, it grows well both in sun and shade.
