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- Enchanting Bellis - information about the heyday
- From March to October is the main flowering season
- Location quality influences the flowering time
- Cleaning up prolongs the flowers - that's how it works
- Tips
Bellis have a very long flowering season
Enchanting Bellis - information about the heyday
Among the numerous Bellis species from the Mediterranean, it has made the Common Daisy (Bellis perennis) to Central and Northern Europe. Where it pleases like Tauschön, they accompany us with their white-yellow ray flowers through the beautiful season. This guide will provide you with useful information about the heyday.
From March to October is the main flowering season
Behind the dainty figure of wild daisies hides a robust constitution, which gives us a never-ending flowering. Bellis perennis has learned to stand up to freezing temperatures. Consequently, the small perennial puts her flower dress long before their Mediterranean species. When you can look forward to the charming flower heads, summarizes the following overview:
Since various regions are completely free from the frost as a result of global warming, the white-yellow tongue flowers can be admired all year round. This is true for vineyards or along the Lower Rhine as well as in gardens with a protected microclimate.
Location quality influences the flowering time
Daisies are among the sun worshipers. Assign a sunny to absonnious location to darlings, fulfilling the heyday in practice, which the theory promises. In shady areas with heavy, wet clay soil, Bellis struggle only to a sparse and shortened flowering time.
Cleaning up prolongs the flowers - that's how it works
If you prefer undemanding flowers in your creative garden design, do not miss the easy-care Bellis perennis. Strictly speaking, you can leave daisies in the bed to themselves. Watering takes over Mother Nature with summer rain. Fertilizer is superfluous anyway.
To keep Tauschön, what the name promises, withered flowers should be removed regularly. If the cleaning of individual flower remnants is too time-consuming, the mini perennials cut back immediately after the main flowering time to elicit a pretty after-flowering.
Tips
Bellis perennis uses a clever survival strategy to survive in the Central European climate. The flower beauty thrives as a biennial, hardy mini-perennial. This property implies that it survives the first winter as a green leaf rosette, blooms continuously for the second year, and then dies. Previously, the ingenious survivalist has proliferated by self-sowing numerous.