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- How to properly maintain your Gazania - the best tips and tricks
- Plant the Gazania
- Properly pour and fertilize
- The Gazania multiply
- The Gazanie in winter
- The best care tips for the Gazania:
- Tips
The gazany should be poured with caution
How to properly maintain your Gazania - the best tips and tricks
The German names of the Gazania say a lot about their characteristics: "midday gold" and "Sonnentaler" - in the wild form golden yellow, with hybrids also differently colored blooms open in the noon time, but only on sunny days.
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The Gazania needs a sunny spot, which is best protected against rain. But do not plant the midday gold until after the icy saints in May or on the balcony, because it is not hardy. The soil should be well drained but still nutrient-rich. You may loosen it up with some sand or grit.
Properly pour and fertilize
Dryness tolerates the Gazania better than too much moisture or even waterlogging. Therefore, water your plants only moderately. With fertilizer you do not have to skimp too much at midday gold. About every one to two weeks, you may mix some liquid fertilizer under the irrigation water. Some species prefer a slightly poorer soil, they are particularly well suited for rockeries or the planting of dry stone walls.
The Gazania multiply
Gazania can be easily extracted from seeds. However, you should not collect these from your own plants. As a rule, the garden plants are hybrids that form no or only poorly germinable seeds. It is better to buy seeds from specialist retailers if they want to propagate Gazania in this way.
The Gazanie in winter
The Sonnentaler is not hardy and is often sold as a one-year summer flower. She is actually a perennial and if you have the space for it, you should quietly try out a hibernation of Gazania. For this, this plant needs a frost-free bright winter quarters with a temperature between 5 and 10 ° C. During the winter it is only slightly watered and not fertilized.
The best care tips for the Gazania:
Tips
Be sure to plant your Gazania in a sunny sheltered place otherwise it will not open its pretty flowers.