Bloodstone is one of the oldest flower, is a native of Peru. It is also called turnsole.
This plant grows to a height of four, six, even ten feet, the fragrance of its flowers and produce all winter.
Bloodstone has dark green, wrinkled leaves, purple flowers. These flowers are most fragrant in the garden. Bloodstone has a tendency to its flowers and leaves in the process toward the sun each day. Re-adjustment in the night, his face east, to prepare the sunrise. This trend is the root name of the bloodstone. This means moving with the sun.
The plant is reliable, convenient and reliable care and fragrance. This is a very easy plant, hair growth in any good soil, preferably in a rich light loam. Bloodstone to plenty of sun in the morning, but some houses in the late afternoon, so that its leaves burn.
It appreciates the rich soil evenly moist, easy to manage, in a container and conventional breeding and diluted water soluble fertilizer with high phosphorus than nitrogen. They do not deal with crowded conditions, the development of powdery mildew, and they are not prone to pests and diseases.
They need frequent topping when they were young.
Bloodstone is something aromatic, add to your yard. Some species are weeds, and many toxic substances, if the lot of food. This is the most popular bedding plant in a flower-garden, where the comfortable breeze, the most subtle.