There are cute plants that, once settled, very unobtrusively continue to wander around different corners of the garden, while the tongue never dares to call them weeds. We are talking about pyrethrum. When they open their cheerful “faces” of flowers, you understand that this particular plant is mine, and I will never deprive myself of the pleasure of contemplating its discreet beauty and unprecedented generosity of flowering.

Other types of pyrethrums, thanks to new varieties, can be called exquisite plants, and they have their own more specific requirements.

The most popular is Pyretrum parthenium, or Matricaria eximia, which can be grown as a perennial or annual.

Typically, a perennial bush does not live long, two to three years, and every year in terms of decorativeness it is increasingly inferior to lush annual bushes, whose leaves grow much larger, not to mention the flowers. That is why this plant is often grown as an annual.

And what’s so attractive about this Matricaria is that you only need to place it in your garden once, and then it will take care of itself. It is only important not to forget to replant the self-seeding plants to the right place every spring.

Pyrethrum maidens grows to a height of up to 50 cm, varietal plants more compact. There are simple single-row “daisies” or double ones with a diameter of 2 cm, and there are pompons whose inflorescences consist of tubular flowers. In appearance, such varieties look dotted with small but very attractive “buttons,” white and yellow: Dubl white Golden boll.

The most attractive varieties are Schneeball and Goder\ball, as well as pompom varieties - White stars, Snow ball, Wise kugel. Terry pyrethrums can also be grown in containers, since the bushes are very compact, no more than 25 cm. In breeding forms with yellow leaves, breeders did not ignore maiden pyrethrum. And since the plant is not tall, the border formed from it looks very decorative - the result is a frame like a coleus with yellow and carved leaves. If the border is not planted in a lowland, is illuminated by the sun and is covered with snow in winter, it will still serve the next season.

Pink pyrethrum (P. roseum) blooms in rather large “daisies” - up to 6 cm in diameter, and in hybrids they are even more luxurious - up to 12 cm. The lesser known pyrethrum beauty, called Caucasian chamomile, “participated” in the creation of hybrids. By the way, there is also Dolmatian chamomile - pyrethrum cinerarifolia, which is used more for medicinal purposes.

In suitable conditions, pink pyrethrum bushes (also called Persian chamomile) grow to 60-80 cm in height.

This plant is a perennial, but gardeners consider it a minor. It requires division or renewal from seeds after about three to four years, but only if the bush does not waste energy on the formation and ripening of seeds. To do this, after flowering, the flower stalks are cut off (or even not allowed to bloom at all, so that the bushes grow faster) and the plant is fed.

The rosette of leaves of pyrethrum itself is not large and looks like a rather attractive “bush”. You can find a lot on sale hybrid varieties, for example: James Kelway (scarlet-red color of flowers), Vanessa (Vanessa) - double inflorescences, Pomegranate star, Brenda (Dense pink), Aphrodite (Aphrodita), W.M. Robinson (E.M. Robinson) - pale pink, Atrosanguinea (Atrosanguinea) dark red and others.

Pyrethrum (P. corymbosum) is popularly called chamomile. It is more suitable for natural types of gardens. The height of the plant can be different: from 40 to 120 cm. It begins to bloom in June.

Features of growing pyrethrums and caring for them

This is a plant for busy people, as it does not require much care. Loves open sunny places or partial shade, where the bush grows slightly higher. Planted in the shade, it does not show off its compactness and abundance of flowers, but fights for light - it stretches out and blooms poorly.

When planting feverfew, there is no need to prepare a special planting mixture; it will easily adapt to the garden soil that is available. True, if self-seeding lands on cultivated vegetable beds, the bushes grow very powerful, and in one summer. It will not grow only in damp, swampy places.

But pink pyrethrum for good growth The soil should be nutritious and easily drainable. If it is sour, you need to add a handful or two of ash when planting. The bushes of this pyrethrum grow quickly, and the rosettes become smaller. Therefore already in early spring they are dug up and divided. For this species, the distance that must be maintained when planting neighboring plants is important.

Top dressing

After flowering, the inflorescences should be cut off immediately and the bushes should be fed complex fertilizer. It is well replaced by an infusion of weeds, which has stood in the sun for 2-3 days and the grass in it has already settled to the bottom. The resulting nutritious “tea” is loved by many plants and responds to feeding with active development and a healthy appearance. Well-groomed rose pyrethrum bushes bloom again by autumn, but we must remember that if this is a rare beautiful variety, the plant will weaken and will not have time to prepare for winter, as a result of which it can be lost.

Watering

During drought, if the plant is not watered, the leaves of the pyrethrum pyrethrum become smaller, turn brown, and the flowers quickly fade. He also doesn't like being overwatered.

When there is a lack of moisture, pink pyrethrum grows weakly and after flowering almost “falls asleep” and only germinates. next spring. As a rule, such bushes are very weak, and the most interesting varieties and completely die. And if the planting site is chosen correctly, the soil contains nutrients and rose pyrethrum had at least minimal care; the plant does not need winter shelter or additional spring feeding.

Pyrethrums bloom for quite a long time, especially feverfew. Its overwintered bushes already open their first inflorescences at the end of May and beginning of June. When flowering dies down, the plants become ugly due to the abundance of withered flowers, and this usually happens already in August, the pyrethrum needs to be cut. This will provoke the plant to form new shoots ending in new flowers. Its bushes can be an “ambulance” when you need to close the voids formed in the flower garden, since they can easily tolerate replanting in a blooming state.

Rare interesting varieties or forms are usually propagated by dividing overgrown bushes. Pink pyrethrum needs more frequent division; its bushes become soggy faster and may die in one of the unfavorable winters.

It is more convenient to divide pink pyrethrum immediately after flowering, especially bushes that already produce few inflorescences and their quality is not impressive. Parts of a weakened plant planted in summer will have more time to take root and grow rosettes in the new nutritious soil, and this is a guaranteed success! And, as experience shows, there is no need to divide into single rosettes; it is better if the divisions are somewhat larger, with three or four rosettes.

In plants planted in the spring, it is wise to remove the emerging baskets of inflorescences; this is when pyrethrum will quickly grow lush bushes and you can expect the declared variety decorative effect leaves and flowers. It can also be planted in the fall, it is only important that there is enough time for full rooting before frost. If the pyrethrum variety is rare, it makes sense to cover it with dry leaves for the winter. By the way, adult specimens of pyrethrum tolerate replanting well at any time of the season and at different stages of development; you just don’t need to completely shake off the soil from the roots and plant it in a hole well watered, almost “in the mud.”

Green cuttings are usually used when propagating very rare and slow-growing varieties. Starting from the end of May and until mid-summer, cuttings are cut - young shoots growing from the rhizome. They are planted in a shaded garden bed.

If the bed for planting cuttings is not yet ready, but you need to plant them urgently, then you can plant them in a pile of sphagnum moss near the concrete wall of the house.

Moss Smooth the moss on a thick layer of river sand, make a “blanket” about 3 cm thick out of it. Moisten the sand under the moss and the moss itself, if it is dry, and plant all your cuttings. Place pegs along the edges and throw thick spunbond over them. The conditions will be almost ideal - heat, accumulated concrete wall, sparse shade and antibacterial effect of moss. Here's a little discovery in own garden you can do it.

In two to three weeks the cuttings will take root. Plant some of the pyrethrum cuttings in pots, and transfer the other in September, although if there is a layer of sand under nutrient soil, you don’t have to do this.

The easiest way to propagate pyrethrums is by seed. Seeds remain viable for approximately three years.

Sow in March in light soil, while the seeds are buried quite a bit. So that later you don’t have to bother and dive once again, it is better to sow at a certain distance, for example, 2-3 cm. They germinate in warmth and in the light. Caring for crops and sprouted seedlings is as usual as for any seedlings - ventilate, do not over-moisten or over-dry. To prevent the seedlings from becoming too elongated, after germination they need to be moved to a cooler and brighter place. For example, change the south window to the east and use a cardboard screen to isolate the plant from the heating radiator.

And yet, seedlings sown before winter have stronger seedlings and better germination. In order not to lose the variety you like, they are sown in a container with a lid (for example, a cake box), which is buried in the garden in October and covered with leaves on top. Even if the winter is snowless, the crops will be comfortable in such conditions. If you dig it in a cold greenhouse (polycarbonate shelter), already in March these seeds need to be transferred to the windowsill, where they will germinate.

Even the ancient Greeks noticed a therapeutic effect on human body plants - pyrethrum.

It replaced aspirin and was widely used to treat headaches, rheumatic inflammations and as an antipyretic.

This is where the name came from medicinal plant. After all, pirethos translated from Greek means heat, temperature, fever.

Plant characteristics

Pyrethrum, popularly nicknamed Popovnik, Chamomile, or simply chamomile, is a representative of the Asteraceae (Asteraceae) family, belonging to the genus of herbaceous and shrubby perennial plants.

It is found in Asia Minor, northern Africa and southern European countries.

More than 50 species grow in the mountainous and southern regions (alpine meadows of the Caucasus) of the former Soviet Union, of which 45 representatives grow in Russia.

The table shows the most common types of pyrethrum that have strong therapeutic properties. A powder is made from parts of many representatives and is used to treat psoriasis.

Pyrethrum shield can be found on the edges, in thickets of bushes and in clearings of deciduous forests in the south of the European part of Russia and western Siberia.

The inflorescences of this type of chamomile are dried and insecticidal powder is prepared.

Types of pyrethrum	Latin name	Features of the plant	Flowers	Medicinal parts of the plant
Feverfew (girl's tansy, Matricaria)	Pyretrum parthenium	The bush is compact and lush. Height 50 cm. Branched, erect stems. Leaves are carved, with a scent (like chrysanthemums)	On long peduncles there are double or simple white or yellowish flowers.	Leaves and grass
Pyrethrum pink, Persian chamomile	Pyrethrum roseum	Height up to 60 cm. Short root. The shoots are erect with pinnately dissected leaves (the lower ones have long petioles, the upper and middle ones are sessile).	The baskets are mostly single. Reed flowers are presented in different shades of pink.	Inflorescences, stems and leaves
May Robinson	Pyrethrum	Corresponds to pyrethrum rosea	Single flowers in soft pink shades
Red pyrethrum, Caucasian chamomile	Pyrethrum coccineum	Pinnately dissected leaves	Red flowers	Aerial parts and inflorescences
Pyrethrum maiden "Golden ball", Matricaria	Pyretrum parthenium, Matricaria eximia "Golden boll"	Strongly branched, compact, cold-resistant bush. Plant height 50 cm.	Flowers golden yellow, double
Pyrethrum coryptosum	Pyrethrum corymbosum	The erect, single stem has branches closer to the apex. The root is thickened. The leaves are oblong, pinnately dissected.	Corymbose inflorescences. The yellow receptacle is wide. The flowers are white ligulate at the edges and yellow tubular in the middle	Inflorescences
Cinerarifolia, Dalmatian chamomile	Pyrethrum cinerariifolium	Short multi-headed root. Silver-gray ribbed stems with pubescence, up to a meter in length. The ovoid leaf blades have deep pinnate dissections.	Complex loose corymbose inflorescences with a bare receptacle. Reed white flowers at the edges, yellow flowers in the center.	Flower baskets

To prepare medicinal raw materials, baskets, leaves and stems are collected at the time of flowering (June-August). Parts of the plant are dried in well-ventilated places (attics, covered gazebos, special dryers).

Application of the plant

Caucasian chamomile, as well as Dalmatian and Persian chamomile (Pyrethrum rosea) are a strong insecticidal agent due to the presence of active substances: pyrethrin, essential oils, cinnerin.

From the flower baskets of these plants, pyrethrum powder and liquid flicid extract (kerosene extract) are made, used both in medicine and veterinary medicine to combat blood-sucking (lice, fleas) and other types of insects (barn, household and garden pests). Pyrethrum (suppositories and powder) is prescribed in homeopathy for erysipelas, felons, purulent wounds, and is used as an anthelmintic drug.

Dalmatian chamomile (powder from flower heads) is recommended for the treatment of scabies.

Pyrethrum maiden in the form of an infusion is used for:

The flower of feverfew has antimicrobial properties, as it contains essential oil, which includes: camphor (about 50%), camphene, borneol.

This chamomile is part of the orthomolecular complex for the treatment of psoriasis - Psorilen.

It is produced by a Russia-US joint venture in the form of tablets of 90 pieces per package and is sold here for 1876 rubles (www.ortho.ru).

The active substance of the extract isolated from matricaria is parthenolide (content in flower baskets 11.2%). He:

• Stops the release of serotonin and arachidonic acid from platelets, reduces spasm of smooth muscles, which prevents attacks of migraine and asthma;

• Blocks the production of histamine and pro-inflammatory prostaglandins.

  This explains its anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating qualities, which justifies the use of pyrethrum for the treatment of psoriasis;

• It has an analgesic (analgesic) effect, which is also important for mitigating the signs of psoriasis, especially in its complicated forms, as well as during painful menstruation;
• It has antipyretic and antispasmodic properties.

2 ml of extract can be purchased for 225 rubles. on the website - http://www.terra-aromatica.ru/piretrum-romashka-devichya-p-448.html

Precautionary measures

Pyrethrum flower is not recommended for use:

• Pregnant;
• Women who are breastfeeding;
• People taking anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents;
• Patients preparing for elective surgery;
• Children under 2 years old;
• Patients who are allergic to plants of the Asteraceae family.

Unground raw materials can be purchased here: fitoledy.ru.

Conclusions: Considering the activity of the active components of some types of pyrethrum, we can recommend the use of products (extract, powder, dry raw materials, tablets, capsules) containing them for the treatment of psoriasis. However, do not forget to consult with your doctor.

This is what it says on the bag : Blooms profusely and for a long time annual plant up to 30 cm high. The bush is compact, with many double white fragrant inflorescences, similar to cushions, up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Perfect for group plantings, flower beds, ridges, borders, pots. Seeds are sown directly in open ground in April. Prefers a sunny place, undemanding to soil. Tolerates light frosts. Gives self-seeding.

The flowers are really cute, like tiny chrysanthemums, with a delicate scent. They do not require any maintenance at all. And it turns out that this is the same uterine herb with the help of which women gave birth more easily in the past.

They are also called snowflakes of summer.

Description: “Matricaria, which also goes by a huge number of other names - pyrethrum, popovnik, maiden chrysanthemum and tanacetum belongs to the family of Asteraceae, Asteraceae.

Pyrethrum is translated from Greek as fever or high heat, and since ancient times it has been used by people for medicinal purposes - most often it was the most effective remedy helping pregnant women during childbirth - hence another name for uterine herb.

The culture is quite common in areas of North Africa, the Middle East and Southern Europe. Matricaria exceptional - refers to perennial crops, but very often it is grown as an annual.

It is a densely branched, spherical plant, the height of which reaches thirty centimeters. By the way, there are also varieties that are more than half a meter in height, and there are also short ones - only ten centimeters, or, more simply, dwarfs.

At the very bottom of the shoots, cute, feathery, dissected leaves with rounded ends are collected in a rosette. On rather long peduncles, at the top, there are inflorescences, the diameter of which is up to three centimeters.

Matricaria flowers are usually found in cream, yellow and white, typical simpletons and terry ones. Of course they look more impressive terry varieties. The crop begins to bloom in early June and lasts until late autumn, right up to the first frost.

Growing and propagating Matricaria

In general, growing matricaria does not create any particular difficulties. This crop, when young, is relatively resistant to light frosts, and mature plants are able to withstand minus temperature up to four degrees.

They can be in partial shade, but still, they develop better in a brighter place. The plant does not have too many requirements for the composition of the soil, but it will be better if the soil is calcareous. Matricaria normally tolerates drought, but does not tolerate waterlogging.

Growing Matricaria from seeds should begin in March if you want to get seedlings. The seedlings are planted in special boxes or flower beds, and then the grown ones are planted outside in open ground.

This is done at the end of May, after the weather has stabilized and the threat of frost has passed. Matricaria are planted at a distance of twenty-five centimeters from each other.

If sowing is carried out directly in open ground, it is necessary to sow in early May. You will see the first shoots, perhaps even in ten days, and three months later, after the day of sowing, you will admire the first flowering.

One more the easy way Matricaria propagation is by cuttings or dividing the bush. With the latter, the crop should be replanted with a clod of earth, even during the flowering period.

Matricaria care and feeding

When the weather is dry, it is advisable to water the plant, and before the expected flowering period, the complex should be applied mineral fertilizers, periodically it is necessary to loosen the soil around.

Matricaria responds very well to feeding, responding to the owners with generous flowering. Be sure to tear off the faded buds - this way they will be preserved. decorative look and the flowering period will extend.

In late autumn, you need to carefully inspect the stems, remove those that are broken, dried out, and on which the buds have faded. You should do a little preparation for winter - mulch the soil around the plant. You can cover it with spruce branches just in case.

An important advantage cultivated plant Matricaria is that, in addition to its therapeutic effect on people, it can also improve the health of the soil.

She feels great in a shady place where trees and all kinds of shrubs grow, thereby scaring away various pests from them. An infusion made from the plant can rid the garden of caterpillars and sawflies.

This solution is prepared very simply - pour the buds and leaves from two medium-sized bushes into a bucket of water for a day, and then, after filtering, dilute it with water one to one and spray necessary plants. To make the liquid stick better, add a little laundry soap to it.

The Matricaria flower is used in groups with other plants, in the design of borders, lawns, edges and on the balcony."

These are the little fragrant white balls.

The most commonly used scientific name for this plant is feverfew ( Pyrethrum parthenium (L.) Smith). You can find other names for it in the literature:

• girl's tansy (Tanacetum partenium (L.)Schultz-Bip.);
• chrysanthemum maiden (Chrysanthemum partenium Benth.);
• Maruna maiden, Matricaria exceptional, or excellent (Matricaria eximia hort.).

A little history

Although feverfew is perennial, in Ukraine it is grown as an annual crop.

The plant was first brought to Eastern Europe from South America as a medicinal plant. In ancient times, it was used to prevent and treat diseases such as puerperal fever, as well as to stimulate labor.

The genus Pyrethrum has about 100 species, originating from the Mediterranean, Asia, South and North America. Most of them are perennial (less often annual) herbaceous plants with fragrant leaves.

The name of the genus comes from the Greek word pyretos - fever, heat, since infusions from the leaves and inflorescences of some plant species can reduce painful heat.

Another name for pyrethrum - Matricaria - comes from the Latin word matrix- uterus, apparently because infusions from this plant were used in the treatment of gynecological diseases.

Not only beauty, but also benefits

The biologically active substances contained in it, by their chemical nature, belong to terpenoids (parthenolide, parthenide, pyrethrins I, II), which have antitumor, anticancer (carcenostatic) properties.

Some of them (parthenide) are used as an adrenergic blocker and depressant in the treatment of the central nervous system, others (pyrethrins I, II) - as insecticidal, acaricidal and anthelmintic agents.

IN essential oil The plant contains 24-50% camphor.

Hacker features

Today, pyrethrum is grown mainly as ornamental plant. Shoots 20-60 cm high form a compact, highly branched, erect bush.

The main decoration of pyrethrum is its pinnately dissected or deeply cut, petiolate, softly pubescent, light or yellow-green leaves, emitting an aroma pharmaceutical chamomile or chrysanthemums.

Throughout summer season Beautiful inflorescences are formed on the plant - small simple and terry (diameter 2-4 cm) baskets.

Sterile reed flowers are white or yellow, and fertile tubular flowers located in the center of the basket are yellow. The inflorescences are collected in umbrella-shaped, rather dense shields.

Fruits: wedge-shaped, ribbed, grayish achenes. Pyrethrum blooms profusely and for a long time - from June until late frosts.

Where is the best place to plant feverfew?

This plant is very unpretentious:

• develops well under the scorching rays of the sun;
• does not suffer from drought at all (can grow in partial shade);
• cold-resistant, easily tolerates frost;
• prefers loamy and sandy loam soils containing lime.

Reproduction methods

Pyrethrum is propagated by seeds. They are very small (5,000-7,600 pieces in 1 g), and remain viable for 2-3 years.

When growing seedlings for decorative design plot, seeds are sown in late March-early April in seed containers and placed in a heated greenhouse.

Shoots appear in 7-11 days. In the phase of two true leaves, the seedlings are planted in peat pots measuring 5x5 cm and kept at a temperature of 15-18 ° C until the end of May, and then planted in open ground.

Our advice:

When grown for seeds or for cutting, pyrethrum seeds are sown directly in open ground in early spring or autumn. In this case, the plants must be weeded, leaving a distance of 20 cm between them, and 25 cm between rows.

Pyrethrum has cross pollination. To obtain pure-quality seeds, individual varieties are grown with a spatial isolation of 100-300 m. The soil must be nutritious and moist; on depleted soils, double forms degenerate into non-double forms. Before flowering, young plants are fed 2-3 times with complex fertilizer.

Pyrethrum blooms 80-100 days after sowing. Since the seeds ripen well (20-30 days after flowering) and easily fall out of the baskets, they need to be collected as they ripen every 5-6 days.

Decorative use

In floriculture, pyrethrum is used in decorative groups, mixborders, borders, and carpet plantings. Tall varieties grown for cutting for bouquets. Low-growing, terry forms are suitable for borders, as well as container and potted crops.

Especially appreciated garden form pyrethrum with yellow-green leaves. It is used in carpet flower beds to border the design and is usually cut to the desired height, preventing flowering.

Popular varieties

The most popular varieties of pyrethrum are those that lack reed flowers, and their densely double inflorescences resemble fluffy balls. For example:

• Snow Ball - plant height 30-35 cm, white inflorescences;
• Golden Ball - plant height 30-35 cm, inflorescences orange-yellow, double.

They are not cut, they are used in borders, edgings, rocky gardens, planted in groups and arrays on the lawn, as well as on balconies. In seed catalogs, these varieties are identified under the name Matricaria eximia, or Matricaria capensis.

No less decorative are varieties such as:

• Snow Dwarf - dwarf variety, plant height 20-25 cm, white inflorescences;
• Tetra Weiss is a tall, large-flowered variety (height 60 cm) with pure white double inflorescences (diameter up to 4 cm), with long peduncles; they are grown for cutting and used in arrangements.

In the National Botanical Garden. N. N. Grishko NAS of Ukraine grows the following varieties of pyrethrum: Altus Simpliflowered, Aureum, Golden Ball, Phlora Pleno, Snow Ball, Snow Dwar, White Gem.

Svetlana Mashkovskaya, Candidate of Biological Sciences
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Pyrethrum is a perennial plant with herbaceous shoots. It belongs to the Asteraceae family and grows in Eurasia and North America. This unpretentious plant Daisy lovers will definitely like it, since the shape of the flowers is very similar to them. But at the same time they differ in their lush core and bright colors petals. Except high decorative properties, Pyrethrum is known for its ability to repel harmful insects such as fleas and bed bugs. Sometimes the plant can be found under the names “Dalmatian,” “Persian,” or “Caucasian chamomile,” which reflects the growing area of ​​a particular species.

Botanical description

Pyrethrum has fibrous root system and erect herbaceous shoots 50-70 cm high. The pinnately dissected leaves are painted bright green. Largest quantity they are collected at the base into a dense rosette. Also, several leaves are alternately located on the stem, but they are smaller in size.

The top of each shoot is crowned with a large “basket” inflorescence with a diameter of 3-6 cm. It has long petals and a lush core consisting of reed and tubular flowers. Reed flowers are concentrated along the edge, often they have a pinkish color. Yellow tubular flowers are located in the very center of the inflorescence. Smooth linear petals can be white, yellow, pink, crimson or purple colour. Pyrethrum blooms in June-July. By cutting, you can achieve longer flowering.

After pollination, the fruits ripen - light brown achenes. They have up to ten ribs and a lobed or serrated crown. Long small seeds remain viable for 3 years.

Types of pyrethrum

Some botanists claim that there are about 50 plant species in the pyrethrum genus, but other experts are confident that their number has exceeded one hundred. The most common types and varieties:

Dense, erect shoots branch in the upper part. In terms of the structure of the bush and leaves, they resemble chrysanthemums. The 50 cm tall vegetation ends in beautiful inflorescences with a swollen, pom-pom-like core. Inflorescences with a diameter of about 2 cm are painted white or yellow. Varieties:

• White Stars - a compact bush up to 25 cm high, blooms snow-white, pom-pom-like inflorescences;
• Gold Ball is a dense compact bush with yellow double flowers.

A perennial plant with branched shoots grows 60-70 cm in height. The erect shoots below are covered with dissected light green foliage. Single baskets with a diameter of up to 6 cm consist of a bright yellow core and light pink long petals. Blooms in June for a month. Varieties:

• Atrosanguinea - a branched bush 60 cm high covered with large flowers with dark red petals and a bright yellow core;
• Brenda – blooms bright pink double flowers;
• Kelway Glorious - with lush scarlet inflorescences.

The height of the perennial is 1-1.5 m. It is a bush with slightly branched stems covered with long pinnately dissected foliage. Small white flowers with a fairly large core are collected in corymbose inflorescences up to 10 cm in diameter.

Reproduction

Pyrethrum is propagated by seeds, dividing the bush and petioles. Seed propagation quite simple, since the plants produce many seeds every year. However, flowers are often cross-pollinated, so seedlings rarely inherit the varietal characteristics of their mother plants. Even from one seed pod, completely different daisies can grow. In early March, seeds are sown for seedlings in shallow boxes with sandy-peaty soil. When two true leaves appear, the seedlings are planted in separate pots. In May, when the frosts have passed, the flowers are planted in open ground. In the first year, only a few plants bloom.

Pyrethrums constantly grow the bush due to lateral shoots. It is recommended to divide it every 3-4 years. To do this, after flowering is completed, a large bush is dug up, freed from the earthen clod and divided into parts by hand. There is no need to divide the pyrethrum too finely. Immediately after the manipulations, the divisions are planted in prepared planting holes and watered well.

Some types of pyrethrum are propagated by cuttings. To do this, from May to August, young root shoots are cut. They are rooted in partial shade in a loose fertile substrate. It is advisable to cover the cuttings with film so that they do not dry out. It is necessary to regularly ventilate and spray young plants. After 2-3 weeks they will take root and the seedlings can be moved to a permanent location.

Plant care

Even busy or lazy gardeners can plant pyrethrum in their yard, as the plant requires minimal care. For its planting, choose well-lit, sunny places. You can plant pyrethrum in partial shade, in which case the shoots will stretch out a little more. The soil for planting can be almost any. Only heavy, swampy soils do not tolerate pyrethrum well. On fertile garden soil, plants will look much larger. It is recommended to add a small amount of ash to soil that is too acidic.

Pyrethrums are drought-resistant plants. They need to be watered only during prolonged, intense heat, when the leaves begin to lose turgor and the soil cracks. Watering is more important during the flowering period. The rest of the time, plants make do with natural precipitation. Immediately after planting, the soil can be mulched with peat or chopped grass. In this case, after watering, a dense crust will not form, and weeds will also stop bothering you.

Feeding is carried out 2-3 times per season. Plants respond very well to the application of mullein. The first fertilization is carried out in the spring, before flowering begins. Immediately after the inflorescences wilt, apply a complex mineral composition. At the end of summer, you can water the bushes with an infusion of crushed weeds.

Wilted inflorescences need to be cut off. This will prevent self-seeding, and will also allow the plant to accumulate strength and repeat flowering in 1-2 months. Tall varieties in an open, windy area may need a garter.

You cannot grow flowers in one place for a long time, since overgrown bushes interfere with each other with their roots and impoverish the soil. Every 3-4 years they are divided and transplanted to a new location.

Pyrethrum for bedbugs and fleas

It must be remembered that in the light the beneficial substances quickly disintegrate and the effectiveness decreases, so you need to store the powder in a dark place. Repeat spraying of objects every 1-2 days.

Use in the garden

Bright pyrethrum flowers perfectly enliven the flower garden and fill the garden with color. They are suitable for creating a flower garden in a natural style. Bushes are planted in groups on the sides of paths or framed by a flower bed. Pyrethrum goes well with bluebells, cornflower, doronicum, red poppy, basil and cosmos. High grades They are used not only in the garden, but also for cutting and making bouquets.