If you live near the sea you will not be able to put according to what plants. But that does not mean that you cannot be very pretty, like the one known as loaf. This is a wonderful shrub that resists salinity, the sea breeze, and the insects that cause pests.
With it, you won't have to worry about anything: just showing off your garden 🙂. Read on to learn more about it.
Origin and characteristics
Our protagonist is a perennial shrub native to Europe whose scientific name is atriplex halimus. It is popularly known as gorse, osagra, salty white or marismo. Reaches a height of up to 2 meters, and if it is allowed to grow on its own, it tends to form rounded or oval clumps.
The leaves are evergreen, silver-gray and wrinkled, alternate, ovate-lanceolate, subrombic, with the entire edge, and up to 4 centimeters in length. The flowers are monoecious (there are female and male), they are yellowish-green in color and appear in spike-shaped inflorescences during the summer.
It is important that you know that it is a toxic plant due to its high content of alkaline salts.
What are their cares?
If you want to get a copy, we recommend providing the following care:
- Location: Place your cleft outside, in full sun.
- Irrigation: every 2-3 days in summer, and every 7-10 days the rest of the year.
- Earth:
- Pot: universal growing substrate mixed with perlite in equal parts.
- Garden: grows best in saline soils, but can also do limestone soils.
- Subscriber: from spring to summer with an organic fertilizer, such as guano or compost. Use a liquid one if it is potted so as not to make it difficult for the water to drain.
- Planting or transplanting time: in spring, when the risk of frost has passed.
- Multiplication: by seeds in spring.
- Rusticity: withstands cold and frosts down to -10ºC.
Did you know the gorse?