Types of daisies - flowering border perennials

Probably everyone knows what a chamomile looks like. Delicate white petals and a bright sunny core evoke memories of children's fortune-telling like “love - not love”. It is a particularly unremarkable, ubiquitous flower. In fact, the classification includes more than 25 types of chamomiles, ranging from the well-known to everyone chamomile pharmacy to blue chamomile, the petals of which range from pale blue to bright blue shades.

Description of the flower

Chamomile (in Latin "Matricária") belongs to the Asteraceae, or Compositae family. It can be either an annual or a perennial, depending on the variety. So, for example, tongueless or medicinal is an annual, garden species of daisies, such as Snow Maiden or Felicia, will delight the eye for more than one summer.

Everyone knows beautiful daisies

These flowers are double, semi-double, with thin, wide, straight, curved petals, and without them at all, of different sizes and shades. Some will have a pronounced fragrant aroma, while others will be barely noticeable.

Where do daisies grow?

Chamomile seeds have very small seeds that are easily blown by the wind over long distances, so glades or free-standing bushes of these flowers can be seen almost anywhere in the world. Unpretentiousness and the ability to adapt to any conditions play a key role in the ubiquity of these plants.

These flowers can be found throughout the Eurasian continent, Australia, southern Africa and America. Wild daisies are frequent companions of road shoulders, bright sunny meadows and foothills. In addition, representatives of the Astrovs have long fascinated gardeners with their beauty and ease of care.

When field daisies bloom

Chamomiles bloom during the entire warm period, from the second half of April to September. Most of the buds bloom in the summer period June - July. In places with a milder and warmer climate (Mediterranean, Crimea, Caucasus), chamomile begins to bloom in early spring (late February - early March) and continues until late autumn in October. With the advancement to the north, the inflorescences begin to appear closer to summer and fade much earlier.

Field

The most popular is field chamomile, which has many beneficial properties. Based on the research of the science of pharmacognosy, it was found that the essential oil in its inflorescences has disinfecting and antiseptic properties that have a beneficial effect on the mucous membrane. Vitamins and minerals strengthen and nourish the hair, which promotes its growth, giving a healthy silky look. In addition, the components of the chamomile collection help to treat colds and gastrointestinal diseases, relieve itching, redness and flaking on the skin.

Types of beautiful daisies

Gardeners often plant these unpretentious plants on their plots. Below in the article will be listed several varieties of chamomile, which will be a wonderful decoration for any flower bed, as well as a brief description.

Tongue chamomile

Tongue chamomile is a herbaceous, annual plant with a pronounced fragrant aroma, for which it began to be called fragrant. This chamomile does not have white petals, unlike other fellows. The heart of these flowers is an inflorescence, has a rich yellowish-green color and a more convex structure.

Another distinguishing feature is the many thin leaves-strings, densely sitting on a thick stem, which gives the flower a denser and more fluffy appearance. These flowers do not tolerate shade and love open sunny space, due to which they are often found on roadsides, wastelands, abandoned and crumbling areas, which are characterized by the complete absence of trees and weak vegetation. On the backyard, the pleasant greenery of the annual will emphasize the brightness of other flowers.

Felice

Perennial blue chamomile, or Amellid Felicia, is native to South Africa, where it grows in the wild. In Russia, it is bred by gardeners. An unusual color for chamomile petals from pale turquoise to deep blue shades, sometimes with purple veins, goes well in a flower bed with yellow flowers.

This small plant up to half a meter in height has small leaves, which are hardly noticeable under large inflorescences 5 cm in diameter. Blue chamomile grows profusely and continuously in flowering shrubs. Blue Felicia needs regular, moderate watering and feeding at least once every three weeks.

Berger

Meadow chamomile, or daisy, usually grows in bushes up to 80 cm high, depending on weather conditions. Each branch on the stem of such a plant necessarily ends with a white-yellow inflorescence. They begin to bloom profusely and for a long time in the first months of summer, less often they can bloom again in the second half of August.

Nivyanik is a perennial plant that grows rapidly around the area. Therefore, it is recommended to separate and plant the roots every three years in the spring or at the end of summer after flowering. If this is not done, chamomile may die in the fourth year.

The plant needs moderate watering, open light spaces and frequent loosening of the soil.

Ordinary

Common chamomile mainly grows in meadows, while it takes root well in garden plots after sowing with seeds of wild flowers. This is an annual. Inflorescences up to 3 cm in diameter have a pleasant fragrant aroma.

Has such healing properties as antibacterial, sedative, analgesic, antihistamine, hemostatic. To make a decoction, chamomile flowers must be properly prepared. The first step is to cut off the inflorescences that are already starting to fade. Further, the flowers are laid out in a thin layer on paper, which is recommended to be pierced, and dried on a table under a ventilated canopy without access to sunlight.

What Roman chamomile helps with

Roman chamomile, or noble navel, is a short perennial that is not afraid of frosts. Popularly, this herb is called field due to creeping roots and miniature size. The smell of Roman chamomile is somewhat reminiscent of an apple.The dried bundles used to be hung from the ceiling and served as a kind of freshener, which also drove insects out of the room. Roman chamomile differs from ordinary chamomile in the aroma and shape of the core (at the umbilical it is more convex, voluminous). In Russia, it is found only in the Crimea.

Curb perennials, stunted and blooming all summer

Snow Maiden is a terry chamomile of traditional white and yellow colors. Its appearance is more like a chrysanthemum than representatives of chamomile. The Snow Maiden is a large plant, each stem from half a meter to a meter high ends in a large boiling white inflorescence with a diameter of 10-12 cm with a bright sun in the center.

Snow Maiden

This is a very thermophilic flower, it does not tolerate shade and closed spaces. Without enough sunlight, the Snow Maiden begins to wither, the flowers become smaller and lose their terry, and the bushes become less fluffy. Both single plantings in a flower bed and among low-growing green shrubs look advantageous.

Maiden chamomile grows in fluffy green bushes completely covered with small white flowers. She is unpretentious in care, so the girlish bushes grow quickly, for which they were nicknamed weed.

Maiden daisy

Maiden chamomile is one of the favorite plants in women's monasteries, not only because of its delicate, discreet beauty, but also due to its many useful properties. In the Middle Ages, these flowers were called "uterine grass" (in Latin "Parthenos"), which clearly indicates the beneficial properties. Decoctions of dried herbs relieved pain during menstruation, facilitated childbirth. In addition, it is an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent.

Maiden grass is not afraid of drought, temperature extremes and frost. Excessive moisture, including after the melting of snow, has a detrimental effect on the root system, which leads to the death of the plant. Therefore, in the spring it is recommended to remove snow from the flower bed where this variety of chamomile grows.

Many florists plant perennial border flowers - Banana cream chamomile. Their main advantage and difference from other representatives of the Astrovs is their unusual color. From the buds, first, fluffy yellow inflorescences bloom, which eventually brighten and acquire an ivory color. The bright yellow heart only emphasizes the noble hue of chamomile.

Banana cream

Under suitable weather conditions, these plants release new shoots, thus provoking long flowering during the summer.

Usually chamomile Banana cream grows in one area for two to five years, since the constant flowering expends the strength of the plant. Cream chamomiles love bright sunlight and open spaces, and wither when water stagnates in the soil. They are not afraid of frost and do not require shelter for the winter.

Thus, this is not quite an ordinary flower, as is clear from the article. There are a huge number of varieties with buds ranging from pure white to blue. Each variety has its own characteristics and planting requirements, which must be taken into account before growing on the site.