Millet-roasted: description of the variety

The millet is a herbaceous - it is a decorative perennial grass, which has very beautiful inflorescences. In Russia, it was heard about in the 90s of the last century. There was little information about it at the time, only saying that it was a promising decorative medium for the middle belt, which in the European market is represented by many interesting varieties. It will be discussed in this article.

Varieties of millet

Cloudy millet Cloud Nine is a plant with beige panicles. Blossoms from September to October. The plant reaches a height of 190-210 cm, keeps the shape well, does not fall apart. The shape of the bush is funnel-shaped. The foliage is bluish-green in color, in autumn it turns yellow, it looks very impressive.

Dallas Blues is a plant with greenish-beige brooms. Blossoms from September to October, is considered the latest varieties. The height of the plant is 160-200 cm. The shape of the bush is vase-like, the leaves are broad, bluish-green, and become yellow in late autumn.

The rope-shaped millet of Heavy Metal. This plant has a beige whisk with a reddish tinge. The bush is erect, with bluish-green foliage, in autumn the color becomes copper-red.

Heiliger Heine. Panicles in it are greyish-green with a red tinge. Flowering from August to October, is considered a late cultivar. Keeps the shape well. The height of the bush is 110-130 cm. The leaves are bluish-green with copper-red tips, they become copper-red in autumn.

Northwind. Panicles grayish-green color, flowering time - from September to October. The height of the bush is 160-180 cm, it does not fall apart. The leaves are bluish-green, they turn yellow in the early autumn.

Prairie Skye. Panicles of beige color with a silvery tinge. The flowering time is August-October. Blossoms are decorative. The bush height of 140-160 cm, is erect, can fall apart. The leaves are broad, bluish-green, in autumn it acquires slight yellow shades.

Rothstralbusch is a plant with reddish-beige brooms. Blossoms from August to October. The shape of the bush holds well. Foliage of green color. Autumn color is shown early enough. The upper part of the leaves is flame red, and the lower part yellow. The height of the bush is 110-130 cm.

Shenando is a plant with red-purple brooms. Height - 110-120 cm. The bush perfectly keeps the form, it is wide, erect, the growth is moderate. The leaves are greyish-green in color, they become saturated red in the early autumn.

Squaw is a plant with red-purple panicles and green foliage. The shrub is 150-170 cm high, vase-like. Flowering - August-October. The leaves are green, they become rusty-red in autumn.

Stefa is a plant with beige panicles. Flowering from July to September. Blossoms are decorative, abundant. The height of the bush is 150-170 cm. Foliage is matte-green in color.

Strictum. Panicles greenish-beige. Blossoms from August to September are decorative. Foliage of bright green color. The bush is upright, 160-180 cm high.

Sorts of rod-shaped millet are many, below we will consider the most popular ones.

Rotstralbusch

Millet rostout Rothstralbusch combines the cereal crop and decorative plant and is perfect for landscape design: framing lawns and arbors, creating a shadow over the pond and completing the composition of the alpine slide.

Culture with maroon and graceful leaves and a high stem (up to 120 cm). The adult bush is widely growing with light fishnet inflorescences.

Gardener very much like delicate mauve-purple panicles, similar to fabulous flowers.

Rehbraun

Reebvown is a popular variety. It appeared in the 1950s. The leaves of this variety are green, fall red-brown in autumn. Because of this color, it is also called copper millet.

Blossoms Rehbraun from August to September, the panicles of inflorescences of fiery-red color.

This variety is very fond of designers not only because of its appearance, but also because the plant perfectly adapts to the conditions of growth, durable, easy to care for. Therefore, even beginners can grow it.

Heavy metal

Millet-shaped Heavy Metal does not at all resemble a relative of modest cereal culture because of its amazing beauty. With its help you can create a stunning landscape design without investing in it huge amounts. Heavy Metal is a versatile plant for various design. With the help of it frame the lawns, make low fences, independently grow on flowerbeds, in tubs, supplement them with a collage of the Alpine hill. This millet is perfect for layered compositions and for delimiting recreation areas.

The stem and thin leaves of a light blue hue become golden in autumn. A distinctive feature of the millet Khevi Metal are very strong stems, which do not change their straightness and shape even in severe weather. This spectacle is incredibly spectacular.

The variety became so popular because of the affordable price, fast growing season, resistance to weather whims and unpretentiousness in the care.

Dallas Blues

Millet-shaped Dallas Blues with a short-stemmed divergent dernica is also a fairly popular variety. The shrub is narrow, slightly falling apart, loose. Plants in it of different heights, from 120 to 240 cm. Leaves are narrow linear green. Panicles of inflorescence usually pink or red. The flowering time is August-September.

The bush begins to grow late in the spring or even early in the summer, then quickly develops and stands until the winter itself.

The plant likes sunny, as well as warm places, unpretentiously to the soil. Excellent grade for fresh and dry bouquets. For a dry bouquet, the plant needs to be cut at the beginning of flowering, without letting the upper panicle crumble.

Thus, we examined the main types of millet and the photo of these varieties.

Care for the bar-like millet

The rod-shaped millet is a short-grain grass, which has a very powerful root system, penetrating three or more meters into the depth.

The bush grows rather dense, high. Different varieties require different soils: both light sandy and heavy clayey, and dry, and moderately moist. The acidity of the soil for millet is not very important.

Here it is important to clearly understand: to obtain beautiful bushes, brightly colored leaves and panicles, it is better to plant millet on poor, moderately dry soils.

Fertile moist soils are perfect for growth and rapid multiplication of millet-like millet, but the coloring will not be so intense and spectacular. That is why the plant does not require frequent and intensive fertilizing. It is enough to feed one or two times per season with mineral or organic fertilizer.

Planting of roasted millet

A place for planting choose a sunny, blushing foliage in some varieties here will look much better. In the shade, the leaves can remain green.

But the variety with the blue color of foliage can be planted and in a darkened place, and in the penumbra they will look very decorative.

Millet grows late enough, usually by the end of May. Initially, all varieties of leaves are green, and only in July, when the panicles appear, the plant gradually turns into its characteristic color.

At the end of the season, the plants are very bright and elegant. Serious frosts damage them, but they still are no less attractive until the snow, and even in the winter trimmed panicles look beautiful.

Reproduction

The millet is twisted in a vegetative way: once in three years in spring the overgrown bush can be divided.

At the same time, it must be excavated from the soil, divided by a shovel or a sharp knife into several pieces and planted back. Too small delenki to leave it is not necessary, from them bushes happen small and rare.

Application in the garden

The rope-shaped millet is used as an ornamental plant. They can decorate the shores of artificial reservoirs. The bushes on the lawn look original: in the corners, in the center, next to the path, etc. There is where the imagination of the designer goes.

Shrubs of rod-shaped millet can be planted in large flowerpots, making out their patios and other places of rest. For the winter, the vase can be moved to the basement or dig into the ground.