What is a silver dollar?
A very popular plant for arrangement dried flowers is a plant of silver dollars. Botany classifies the plant as Lunaria Annua when it is an annual plant and as lunaria bienis for the biennial. Other common names are honesty or cash race, penny flower and bolbonac. Many gardeners consider the plant of silver dollars to be an attractive majority of the year. It has distinctive leaves, especially when it is varied and beautiful flowers.
Technically, l. Annua and lunaria biennis belongs to the Brassicaceae family. The plant that comes from Europe is growing easily in many places where temperatures are similar to the hardiness chart for the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States (USDA), five to nine. Some gardeners in zones four and 10 or 11 successfully cultivated a flower, although they often need special care outside their comfort zones. At the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th century, the famous herbalist John Gerard the silver dollar of the English Garden in Holborn in the center of London. They are roughly gear and light to medium green. The leaves usually grow about 6 inches (15 cm). Some varieties, such as the "Variegata album", have variegated leaves. The "Variegata albums" and "Variegata" are very similar. While the "Variegata albums" have white flowers, "Variegata" has quite purple or reddish purple flowers.
Most plants bloom at the end of spring. The flowers are generally cross and white to dye purple. "Munstead purple" sports dark reddish purple flowers. Individual flowers are often up to 0.5 inches (1.5 cm) across. The masses of these flowers are carried in wide leaf gulls, which measure up to 7 inches (18 cm) long.
After the flowering period with a silver dollar race for its flat seeds usually measure 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 8 cm) across. They are round and brown. Playing silver dollars are inside. The outer walls must fall or be removed to reveal silver inner walls.
Many gardeners increase the plant of a silver dollar in a pot or on the back of border planting. The plant usually reaches heights of 36 inches (90 cm) with a span of 12 inches (30 cm). In some climate people behave like a houseplant, a greenhouse plant or a container plant. If the grower lifts it as a container plant, he can move it to the shade during the hottest parts of the day in a tropical environment. In a colder climate, it can move to warmer areas to survive low temperatures.