Each owner of a personal plot or cottage seeks to decorate his personal piece of nature with flowering plants. For these purposes, you can by the way have an unpretentious, but fragrant iberis. It is a cruciferous herb from the Spain. Externally, it looks like a small shrub with rich green leaves, blooming in white, red, pink and purple. Much less common purple flowers of Iberis. In nature, there are two types of Iberis: one-year and perennial. Let us dwell on each of them in more detail.
One year old iberis
The annual Iberis is a thermophilic herbaceous flower, well branching. Some flower growers call him a stennik. It is easy to grow it - it is enough to sow seeds in your plot in spring. After 10 days, shoots appear that need to be thinned for more comfortable growth. If you sow iberis in mid-May, by August the plant will give the first flowers. Annual Iberis require pruning of faded and withered flowers. Such species of one-year-old Iberis, bitter and umbrella, are most in demand. Flowers in these types of stennik small, combined into inflorescences.
Did you know? Annual Iberis bloom longer perennial.
Iberis bitter (Iberis amara)
The bush of iberis bitter reaches a height of 30 cm, the shape of the stem is branching. Inflorescence looks like a hyacinth, is a group of bright white crown flowers. Bitter white iberis in cut form can stand in water for up to 10 days. Use it in the design of bouquets and in the composition of flower beds and flower beds.
Eisberg - a variety of bitter stennik whose bush resembles a candelabrum up to 40 cm tall. The leaves are toothed, large. From large white flowers are formed elongated brush inflorescences.
Empress - Candelabra-shaped bush of a stennik up to 30 cm high. Large leaves are lanceolate, with jagged edges. Inflorescence of white flowers looks like a hyacinth flower.
Iberis umbrella (Iberis umbellata)
Iberis umbrella can reach a height of 15-40 cm. The plant blooms with small umbrellas of various colors: bright purple, rich carmine and more gentle tones of purple and pink shades of iberis. Umbrella Iberis is applicable as a border plant and decoration of an alpine slide.
Albida - a popular variety of umbrella iberis. Bush up to 30 cm in height, hemispherical. Small white flowers form dense dense inflorescences.
Dunnetti - grassy bushes reach 25 cm in height. The leaves are pointed, long, lanceolate. Umbrella-shaped dense inflorescences are formed by small purple flowers.
Important! Young shoots of iberis are susceptible to pest attacks: mealybug, cabbage aphid and ground flea. Timely treatment of seedlings with insecticides is required.
Iberis perennial
Perennial iberis is also called the "dissenter" for the unusual shape of the flower: two petals are longer than the next adjacent petals. Iberia is a frost-resistant plant that blooms profusely from the second year of life. Growing is simple: at the very beginning of spring, plant Iberis seedlings from seeds in pots or a box, deepening 10 mm into the ground, and since May, transplant sprouts to the right place on the site.
Perennial iberis loves stony and sandy soils, needs a sunny and open place of growth. These features make it a frequent resident of complex flower gardens, stony hills and rockeries. The most common types of perennial Iberis, as evergreen, Gibraltar, Crimean, rocky.
Iberis evergreen (Iberis sempervirens)
Evergreen Iberis comes from Asia Minor, reaches a height of 35-40 cm The leaves are oblong in shape with solid edges, dark green in color throughout the year remain green. This feature and gave this variety Iberis name. Small white flowers are collected in umbellate inflorescences with a diameter of 4-5 cm. When blossoming, the inflorescences hide the foliage of the plant, and it looks decorative throughout the warm season of the year. This species is suitable for growing in flowerbeds, as well as in pots and tubs.
Iberis Dana - A variety of evergreen Iberis, blooms thickly. It is a bush up to 15 cm in height.
Little Gem (Little Jam) - lush undersized shrub up to half a meter in diameter, shiny evergreen leaves measuring 30 * 5 mm. Begins to bloom in April with white flowers up to 15 mm in diameter. A group of 30-40 flowers collected in the inflorescence, about 200 inflorescences per plant. A large number of inflorescences makes iberis similar to a cap of foam.
Findel (Findel) - the bush is highly branched, forms an evergreen carpet with white radiant flowers. It blooms thickly, but rather quickly fades. Reaches a height of 25 cm.
Winterzauber - one of the earliest varieties, flowering of small white flowers begins in March.
Climax - a shrub up to 20 cm, growing, forms carpet thickets with small fleshy shiny leaves and a scattering of small white flowers. Gardeners like this variety for the possibility of crown formation.
Zwergeschneeflocke - The shrub 15 cm in height grows with pillow carpets with small fleshy leaves. Medium numerous white and blue flowers adorn the plant for a long time.
Iberis Gibraltsky (Iberis gibraltarica)
Morocco and Spain are considered to be the birthplace of the Gibraltar Iberis. The plant is compact, its height is up to 25 cm, it blooms in the spring with a scattering of small pink flowers. Good growth requires drained soil in a sunny place.
Candy tuff - lilac-purple flowers form a large inflorescence, resembling a dahlia.
Iberis Crimean (Iberis simplex)
The name of this type of perennial Iberis speaks of its homeland - the Crimea peninsula. The second name is Crimean Iberian. Low-growing plant 5-10 centimeters in height with gray-green slightly pubescent foliage. Blooming flower buds purple, blooming - white. It blooms in spring. It is well suited for the growth of sunny areas of Alpine hills with drained soil.
Did you know? ANDBeria - the ancient name of Spain, from it comes the name Iberis.
Iberis Rocky (Iberis saxatilis)
Iberis rocky came from the part of southern Europe, whose territory is covered with cliffs. It is an evergreen plant, the height of which is not more than 15 cm. Flowering shrub resembles dense white curly clouds.
Pygmaea - A variety of rock Iberis, undersized bush with a maximum of 10 cm height. The leaves are cylindrical needle-shaped. A small variety of white flowers form short umbrella-shaped shields.
Weiss Riesen - A variety of rock Iberis, the bush reaches 30 cm in height with white flowers. Hyacintenblutige Risen is a rocky wall-wall with a bush 35 cm high, blooms with lilac flowers.
Tom tumb - undersized variety of rocky iberis with white flowers.
Important! The iberis root system is of the rod type, it does not tolerate the transplant.Having planted any kind of Iberis in your summer cottage, you will receive a ground cloud of flowers, the fragrance of which will give pleasant emotions for a long time.
