Data sheet lip mouth
Botanical name:
Mazus reptans
Origin:
Himalayas
growth height / size
few centimeters
leaf color:
green
flower color:
blue-violet
behavior/stocking
Location at the pond:
Shore area, border planting
heyday:
May to June
Light requirement:
medium, sunny to semi-shady location
Hardy:
Yes
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Photo by David J. Stang, Mazus reptans 2zz, CC BY-SA 4.0
The lip mouth is a small growth that dense carpet of plants a few centimeters high can train. Mazus reptansas the lipped mouth is called in botany, comes from the Himalayas and grows there as a ground cover.
Especially in the months May and June the juggler flower plant captivates with its blue-purple flowers and the green serrated leaves. The plant prefers one sunny to partially shaded location and should regularly supplied with water become.
Short dry times are not a problem for the cleft lip, but the plant grows up moist, well-drained soils preferably. It is therefore also suitable for the home garden pond, for example as a Shore plant or border ornament for several years.
The juggler flower plant for the pond: the cleft lip
Not only the fish in the pond should be an eye-catcher, the planting should also captivate with bright colors.
The cleft lip is fabulous for this, as it does not obscure the view of the local garden pond and at the same time attracts attention with its small, bell-shaped flowers.
Acquisition and care of the lip muzzle
The juggler flower plant is not only suitable as a border plant for the pond, but also for the garden. Therefore, the popular ground cover in the spring and autumn season in most hardware stores available. This time is particularly suitable for using the plant.
So this one dense cushion can train, should the plants in distance of 20 centimeters to be planted. It should also be noted that the lip muzzle watered regularly must become. If it is dry for a long time, penetrating watering is advisable.
After planting the cleft lip, the growth can occasionally die or disappear. In most cases, this phenomenon is due to voles eating the roots or even pulling the entire plant underground.
The requirement for the pond
The pond should be one large edge area provide on which the lip muzzle can spread. The effect of the plant is particularly effective when it has a comparatively large area to grow on. A Space directly in the pond is not required.
The increase of the lip muzzle
The lip forms a dense cushion. From this alone it can be deduced that the plant extensive foothills forms in order to greatly increase their base area in a short time.
Therefore, no great effort is required to multiply the plant. If you want to move individual perennial parts, you can late summer one root ball separation be carried out and the individual plant parts are placed at any location.
In order to make it easier for the lips to grow after the winter months, im spring just a little liquid fertilizer to be provided.
Hibernation of the juggler flower family
The perennial is considered extremely hardy, since it forms a so-called cushion. This basic structure of the plant can survive harsh, long and extremely cold winters. This fact is due to the origin of the ground cover.
For this reason, at the end of autumn, the cleft lip does not need to be taken care of, as it does not need frost protection or other hibernation measures. In the following years, the plant will get an increasingly dense cushion and in the Drive out again in the spring months.
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