LEWISIA in pot 14cm

It has cute daisy-shaped flowers, small leaves and low stems, you can safely grow it in small pots.

It is a plant flowering herbaceous belonging to the family of Portulacaceae, easy to cultivate, loved for its splendid flowering both in pots and in gardens, even rocky ones.

Its genus includes about 20 species, they are perennial, evergreen. It has a dozen flowers gathered on top of a single stem, very suitable for rock gardens, in flower beds but it is also very well grown in pots.

Lewisia is a plant succulent composed of numerous rosettes of fleshy and shiny dark green evergreen leaves while its I flowers they have a corolla composed of wide and flat petals in shades of white, salmon pink. This beautiful plant starts flowering as early as the beginning of March with a prolonged flowering which lasts until summer.

CARE

Choose a place for her in dim light, is a plant that suffers from excessive heat and rain. Prefer a ground loose mixed with sand and peat, well drained, moderately fertile and rich in humus. Add gravel to the ground and sprinkle it on the surface as well. They go protected from winter humidity while in the summer they go kept away from excessive rain. Under a canopy, or on the veranda I find their perfect place.

Water regularly throughout the flowering period, decrease the frequency during vegetative rest. When you see the dry earth or the most shriveled leaves, and after watering they become pretty firm.

Fertilizer Lewisia throughout the flowering period every 15 - 20 days with a specific liquid fertilizer for flowering plants, will guarantee her a luxuriant growth. Take care to get rid of dried flowers and stems.

CURIOSITY'

Lewisia bears the name in honor of Meriwether Lewis, a famous American explorer who first described its characteristics.