If you need shrubs for your garden or patio that are easy to care for and that also produce curious flowers, one of your best options is known as bird's tongueas it will look very pretty throughout the year to have evergreen leaves.
Next, I'm going to talk to you about him so that, when you finish reading this article, you know what are its characteristics and care.
Origin and characteristics
Our protagonist is an evergreen shrub native to the Madeira archipelago and the central and western Canary Islands. Its scientific name is salicin globularia, but popularly it is known as the tongue of the bird or the common fly. Reaches a height of up to 2 meters, and has lanceolate, whole, glabrous and long leaves that measure 3,5-7 x 0,5-3cm.
The flowers are grouped in inflorescences in the form of a dense white globular head with a bluish center. The fruit is a nut with a 1mm seed of dark brown color.
What are their cares?
If you want to have a copy, we recommend that you provide it with the following care:
- Location: outside, in full sun.
- Earth:
- Pot: universal growing substrate mixed with 30% perlite.
- Garden: the soil must be fertile, with good drainage.
- Irrigation: 3-4 times a week in summer, somewhat less the rest of the year.
- Subscriber: from early spring to late summer with ecological fertilizers. If you have it in a pot, it is important to use fertilizers in liquid form so that the drainage continues to be good.
- Multiplication: by seeds in spring. Direct sowing in seedbed.
- Planting or transplanting time: in spring. In case of having it in a pot, it has to be transplanted every two years.
- Rusticity: does not support cold or frost. The minimum temperature that it holds is 5ºC.
What did you think of this plant? Have you heard of her?