For the different parts of one ’s garden there are many good diverseness of Lychnis . Two of these are know asAgrostemma . Double Ragged Robin and Cuckoo Flower are both common name of Agrostemma , Lynchis Flos - cuculi . This plant , with narrow , grass - like , grayish leaf , grows from 12 in to 18 inches high , forming a tuft , and producing many small , fragile , tassel - similar flowers in short sprays of blush wine or soft garden pink , which are very attractive to the bee of the neck of the woods . Ragged Robin is in bloom continuously from May through August . The Mullein Pink , Dusty Miller or Rose Campion ( L. or A.coronaria)is a very prominent plant . The stems and leaves are a downy , silvery gray and the pinkish - like flowers are a cherry-red scarlet . It develop 2 foot or 2 1/2 feet tall and is in peak during July and August .
The Maltese Cross , Jerusalem Cross or Scarlet Lightning(L. chalcedonica)is a marvellous , loose growing plant with hairy stems and leaves . The leaf is similar to that of Sweet William and from each plant several square , strong efflorescence stem rise to a height of 12 feet or 3 metrical foot and have immense head of scarlet - scarlet efflorescence . This is one of the most brilliant of the old - fashioned flowers . There are tittle flowered form of this metal money . The German Catchfly(L. Viscaria)grows only about 12 inches high , has dull growing , evergreen leaf and fragrant inscrutable cerise flowers . There is a awkward , viscid area below the flowers . L.Haageanahas exclusive , orangish - blood-red flowers , shaped like those of Maltese Cross , and grows a invertebrate foot tall . Most of these variety have double forms which are really as interesting as the single one .
UTILIZE . All of these varieties are used for gelded blossom , in perennial borderline and rock gardens . They make a fine bedding plant because the period of bloom is extend over the Summer months .
GENERAL . Lychnis is very easygoing of finish . The plants like sandy , well manured loam in full sunlight . Those miscellany suited for the rockeries develop well in wry soils . These are one of the best groups of plants for hold up drouth .
PROPAGATION . The best method is by division of the plants in Spring , although all the smorgasbord are easily grown from seed which blooms the second year after being sown .
Lychnis – Rose Campion , Mullein Pink , Flower of Jove , Double Ragged Robin , Cuckoo Flower , Corn Cockle , Jerusalem Cross , Maltese Cross , Scarlet Lightning , German campion
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