Balsam, especially new hybrids, can be successfully grown in hanging pots, used in the design of balconies, terraces, windows and flower beds. Balsams are unpretentious and grow well in partial shade.
Balsams cannot "boast" of such a huge variety of varieties as the beloved petunias. But new hybrids will not be inferior in beauty of color coloration, terry, compactness. Unpretentious care, large flowers, long flowering and adaptation of plants in conditions of diffused shade are important qualities of modern balsams.
You can grow plants from seeds or cuttings. Balsams have always been considered home flowers. Today they are used to decorate flower beds and city flower beds. Lovers also appreciated them and began to use them in the design of the garden. Seed companies offer many varieties for flower beds and planting in hanging pots, containers.
Having planted lobelia, petunia, geranium, ivy, asparagus to balsams, you can make beautiful flower arrangements. The choice of modern balsams, which are compact bush and do not give long elongated internodes, is simply huge, for every taste. Ampelous species for growing in hanging pots are very effective. Their shoots branch strongly, growing up to 30 … 35 cm, the size of flowers reaches 5 cm in diameter.
Flowers appear continuously throughout the summer season until the very autumn cold, do not crumble for a long time. Hanging "gardens" look extremely elegant.
It is only important to protect the pots with plants from wind and drafts, since balsam's shoots are quite fragile.
Hybrids of double varieties do not produce seeds when flowering. Given the high cost of seeds, in the future, the specimens you like can be multiplied by rooting cuttings. In the fall, even before frost, the pots are moved into the house and stored as mother plants. In early spring, pieces of stems are cut into cuttings that easily root in water.
