Paprastoji šilagėlė – Pulsatilla vulgaris

Paprastoji šilagėlė

PLANT NAME
Lithuanian plant namePaprastoji šilagėlė
Latin plant namePulsatilla vulgaris Mill.
English plant namePasque Flower
TYPE OF PARTERRE
  • Clump, beds (mixborder)
  • Flowerbed, parterres
  • Pods
  • Groups
  • Rockery, retaining walls
  • Cemetery
  • Wild plant parterre
  • Combination with woody plants
ASSORTMENTsupplementary
GROWING PLACE CHARACTERISTICS
Soil
  • dry soils
Lighting
  • Heliophilous
  • Half heliophobic
Spacing, cmFrom 20 to 30
PLANT HEIGHT AND HABITUS
Height
  • very short (foreground plants) – till 20 cm height
  • short – 21-40 cm
Habitusflower with non-expressive habitus, for background
PLANTS ORNAMENTALITY
Leaf color
  • green
Blossom color
  • violet
  • blue, blue tints
Blooming time
  • spring - April Second Decade - June First Decade
Blooming period1 month
General ornamentalityaverage decorative
Ornamentality duration, months4
Grouplogn-lived perennial (grown 7 and more years)
Bioecological groupPerennial
PLANT PROPAGATION
Propagation methods: seeds, scrub division. Propagation by scrub division is not easy; therefore not all species are propagated by this method. Seeds are sown after picking up (in Autumn) or stratified (in Spring). Young seedlings should be covered from frosts. They are replanted to the final growing place at the second year. Seedlings begin blooming in the second or third year. 300 - 500 seeds per 1 gram, 1000 seedlings per 10-20 grams of seeds sown (depends on seed viability).