Golden Lamarckia

Family Poaceae. Golden Lamarckia is an annual, multi-stemmed plant 10 - 40 cm tall with long panicles up to 10 cm of numerous small spikelets directed to one side, as if the wind is blowing on them. Dried panicles acquire a greenish-silvery color. Flowers in July - August.

Location: the plants are cold-hardy, light-loving, undemanding to soils, but do not tolerate excess moisture.

Care: in dry weather watering is necessary for growth and flowering. Large panicles on tall plants develop if nitrogen fertilizers are applied first, then balanced fertilizers 3-4 times before the start of flowering. A repeat flowering is possible by autumn.

Propagation: by seeds, which are not threshed from the spikelets, so the sowing rate should be 1 - 1.5 g/m². Seeds are sown directly into the ground in May; seedlings appear in 10 - 12 days. They are thinned, leaving 10-15 cm between plants.

Uses: Lamarckia will decorate a rock garden, create a spot of unusual color in a mixed border, advantageously emphasize taller plants in a flowerbed and, of course, will be irresistible in fresh and dried bouquets. For drying, panicles are cut at different stages of flowering to obtain several shades. They are dried in a vase to preserve the original one-sided form. If dried in bunches with the panicles pointing downward, they will acquire the usual two-sided form.

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