Puansetiya - Christmas Star

Herbaceous plant aster family originally from South Africa and tropical Asia. History of Gerberas from a wild African plant is one of the most popular and purchased worldwide flowers lasted for half a century. The plant was opened gerbera flower lovers to Europe in 1717 by Dutch botanist Jan Gronoviusom your name Gerbera was twenty years after the German doctor Gerber, but before the end of the nineteenth century in Europe, this flower is popular not used. It was not until as long as one of the varieties of gerbera in the province of Transvaal (South Africa) did not pay attention to the Scotsman Robert jamesonite. Gerber jamesonite (G. Gamesonii) and Gerbera zelenolistnaya (G. Viridifolia) became the source of all types of currently existing gerbera flowers. Through the efforts of breeders of these two varieties received numerous varieties of Gerbera hybrid with simple and double flowers in size from 5 to 12 cm in diameter, white, yellow, orange, pink, various shades of red, blue gerbera are just not yet grown. |

Now you can buy gerbera virtually all flower shops, cut as for a bouquet, and in pots. Gerberas Price depends on variety. Naturally the most expensive are gerbera rare and new varieties, especially flowers with different shades of petals.

Gerbera flowers are rosette, from which the petioles grow light green leaves glubokorazdelnye. Peduncles usually slightly pubescent; a miniature varieties 25-30cm, and a source of up to 60cm in height. Flowers are collected in inflorescence-basket with a yellow middle. Fruit - capsule.

Gerbera is very beautiful flowers, resembling shy gerbera daisy tsvetyili sun flower sunflower. The value of gerbera flowers in the drafting of modern bouquets can not be overemphasized. This is one of the best selling color in the world. Gerber house - it is always a holiday. Bouquet of gerberas suitable as a gift for both men and women. Unusual and elegant bridal bouquet of gerberas, especially if based on the bouquet gerbera are white. Red Gerbera accepted to give to men, and tender pink gerbera - girls and women. Yellow, orange gerbera symbol of the sun, joy, warmth and good humor will bring joy and success in any home.

Not the least role in the popularity of bouquets of gerberas plays and durability of these colors. They may be long enough to keep the attractiveness of free water (in wedding bouquets of gerberas can do without portbuketnitsy). If before you put in the water bouquet of gerberas, remove lower leaves and a little cut peduncle (good to do it under water) and thus cut the peduncle once every three days, the gerbera will be fresh for a long time, especially in a clean, soft (preferably boiling) water .

The only disadvantage of cut gerberas - it is their heavy "head", which tries to go down. With this lack of fighting with wire, which wrapped the lower part of the flower together with part of the stem, so strengthening the flower on the peduncle.

Gerbera plant in our climate are grown in greenhouses as a perennial herbaceous plant in open ground as an annual weed, as this tropical flower makes no frost and no shelter is not able to keep herbera from winter cold in the garden. The only way to preserve garden Gerber - this fall to dig up a clump of earth and send to winter in the basement, but indoors the flowers gerbera successfully grown as flowering potted plants for many years.