If you like smallish plants with brightly colored flowers that are also easy to care for, you are sure to love the Nemesis. Although it has a drawback and that is that it is seasonal, it produces petals in such quantity that everything is compensated.
So, if you want to discover it, you already know: do not stop reading to know everything about her 🙂.
Origin and characteristics of the Nemesia
Our protagonist It is an annual herbaceous plant native to South Africa that reaches a height between 20 and 50 centimeters. It is made up of oblong leaves, with a serrated margin and a size of 4 to 8 cm. The flowers appear distributed in inflorescences, and can be of different colors: yellow, red, orange, white, with a yellowish or spotted center.
Its time of splendor is in spring, when a large number of small flowers 2-3cm in diameter make their appearance. Now, there is still much, much more you need to know.
What are their cares?
If you would like to get a copy, we recommend providing the following care to have it perfect:
- Location: indifferent. It can be both outdoors in semi-shade and indoors in a very bright room.
- Substratum: mix 70% of universal culture substrate with 30% of perlite, washed river sand or similar.
- Irrigation: frequent. It does not withstand drought. You have to water every 3 days in summer and every 5-6 days the rest of the year.
- Subscriber: from early spring to early autumn with liquid fertilizers rich in potassium and phosphorus.
- Planting time: in spring.
- Multiplication: by seeds in spring. Direct sowing in seedbed. It germinates in 15-20 days at a temperature of 12 degrees Celsius.
- Rusticity: it is very sensitive to cold and does not tolerate frost.
Did you know the Nemesia? Without a doubt, it is a different plant that you can have in any bright corner of the home. 😉