Chinese name:Hornsey ball

nickname :Court mustard, small white flowers, butterfly ball

Latin name:Lobularia maritima

Section is:Cruciferae

Flower language:Sweet memories

About 2450

Suggested Sowing:2.5 g / m2

Attributes :Perennial herbs

Hornsey's main habits:

Hornsey, origin of the Mediterranean coast. Hi cold, avoid heat, require Zhaoguang adequate, slightly shade, should loose soil, avoid waterlogging, more resistant to arid barren. Perennial herbaceous flowers, often for one or two years of cultivation.

Hong snowball growth conditions:

Like cold weather, bogey hot, resistant to frost. Winter temperature is not very strict, as long as not frost can safely winter; in the late spring and early summer when the temperature is as high as 30 above death, the most suitable growth temperature of 15 ~ 25 . As far as possible in the autumn and winter planting in order to avoid the summer heat.

Seeds of Hornsey:

With sowing or cutting propagation. Sowing, should be autumn sowing, emergence fast and tidy. Germination suitable temperature of 20 , the seeds sown in the loose sandy loam, a little repression, watering to maintain humidity, 5 to 10 days emergence, 3 to 4 true leaves when planting on the basin. Potted soil is best pre-applied a small amount of compost or phosphorus and potassium fertilizers.

Hornsey ball shorter and more branches, distributed bursts of fragrance, attracting a large of bees, is the layout of the rock garden of fine flowers, but also flower beds, flowers border fine edge material, potted ornamental is also very good.