What are the characteristics of fake bibcock flowers?

False faucet is a perennial herb. The stems are clustered and erect, quadrangular, and the plant height can reach 0.8 meters. The single leaf is opposite, lanceolate, bright green and serrated. Spike terminal, 20 cm to 30 cm long. 2 flowers per round, the tube is about 2.5 cm long, the lips are short, and the color is purple. Because its flowers are arranged on the inflorescence like sesame flowers, but the density is thicker, it is also called sesame flowers.

Fake bibcock originated in North America, and likes warm, sunny, loose and fertile sandy loam with good drainage. Cold resistance, frost resistance, fertilizer tolerance and strong adaptability. Its underground creeping rhizomes are well developed, and after flowering, the plants will age and the aboveground parts will wither, while the underground rhizomes will sprout many new buds and form new plants. Because the seed setting rate of sesame flowers is not high and seeds are scarce, most of them are propagated by dividing roots. Rooting takes place in early spring or after flowering. Dig out vigorous plants and plant their underground creeping rhizomes respectively. Because of its strong germination ability, it is easy to survive after branching. When the seedlings grow to 4-5 leaves, coring once, applying thin fertilizer once after coring to promote axillary buds to sprout branches, and coring once when axillary buds grow to 5-6 cm high can reduce the height of plants and increase the fullness and uniformity of potted plants.

In hot summer, we should pay attention to watering in time to keep the soil moist. Apply nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium compound fertilizer once every half month to make it spend more. Generally, about ten pairs of single leaves can be opened. In order to blossom ahead of time, it can also be cultivated through promotion. The method is as follows: when potted in spring, 3 plants per pot. When it grows to 3 pairs of single leaves, pick it once and leave stubble 2 knots high. When it grows to 5 pairs of single leaves again, it is treated with prolonged sunshine (more than 12 hours per day) and high temperature above 25℃, and it blooms 20 days later. In late autumn and early winter, the branches of peanuts were cut off, moved to the greenhouse for wintering, and planted one by one after the next spring.

False bibcock flowers have neat leaves and bright colors, which are very suitable for potted viewing or planting in flower beds and flower borders. Because its color is light purple, belonging to the cool color system, and then planting a bunch of warm red cockscomb flowers, the beautiful color can show the unique charm of herbal flowers.