If you like plants with curious flowers that can live well in areas where there is not enough light, then what better way than to plant wild collejas. This beautiful herbaceous plant with a curious, and even funny name, produces very beautiful white ones.
In addition, it does not grow very much, so it can be had both in soil and in a pot. Do you want to meet her?
Origin and characteristics
Our protagonist it is a herbaceous and lively plant -lives several years- whose scientific name is silene vulgaris, although it is popularly known as wild collejas. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and Central and West Asia. It reaches a height of between 10 and 100 centimeters. The leaves are lanceolate, light green; Y the flowers are hermaphroditic, composed of white petals divided into two lobes. The fruit is a capsule shaped like a vessel inside which we will find kidney-shaped seeds of a dark color.
It is a stoloniferous plant, which means that new plants sprout from its underground stems. Thus, little by little it occupies an increasing space.
What are their cares?
If you want to have a copy, we recommend that you provide it with the following care:
- Location: the wild collejas have to be outside, in semi-shade.
- Earth:
- Pot: universal growing substrate mixed with 30% perlite.
- Garden: it is indifferent as long as it has good drainage.
- Irrigation: 3-4 times a week in summer, and somewhat less the rest of the year. If in doubt, check the soil moisture before watering, for example by inserting a thin wooden stick all the way in (if it comes out clean, it means that the soil is dry and therefore needs to be watered).
- Subscriber: from early spring to late summer with ecological fertilizers once a month.
- Multiplication: by seeds or separation of stolons in spring.
- Rusticity: withstand cold and frosts down to -8ºC.
What do you think of these plants?