What is Lunaria?
Lunaria, or Money Plant, is a member of the Family Brassicaceae , which is known for its papers dried seeds. They are two -year habit, which means they produce green, leaf growth for the first year and next flowers. Silver Seed Tobos is used in the arrangement of dried flowers and can take years. A European native, now founded throughout North America, grows wild in many areas. It is also known as a dollar, annual honesty, permanent honesty and silver dollar. They have a habit of fading when ripening so they look lavender or almost white. The leaves are large, dark green and toothed and grow in a cluster near the ground and after the stem. These are good garden plants for beginners because they are very easy to grow and are not picky about soil or sunlight.
This decorative plant grows to 2 feet tall (0.6 m) or more and can be the highest heavy, so it is prone to dropping in wind conditions. Burning can help prevent this. It also has shallow roots and maybe it is necessaryIt is to be deeper in the soil to increase stability and help prevent the roots from drying out.
Lunaria is unusual in that it is commonly planted for its flowers, but for its seedpods. After the flowers left in the middle of the soldier, flat green seeds begin to appear. They have a diameter of about 1 inch (2.5 cm), with three to six large flat seeds inside each. As the summer continues, they turn silvery tanned color and become more transparent. Below is divided and browned, they fall to the ground to germinate the following vegetation period, and leave thin, coins similar to the stems.
As soon as Lunaria is for and for years it starts to appear everywhere because it is easy to spread. It transplants well, making it easier to move plants when they grow where they are not sought. They will continue to spread every year, but not to the extent that they will become invasive as his cousin hesperis matOnalis or Dame missile. While they are members of the same family of flowering plants and have a similar appearance, Lunaria does not collide into large swarms of plants as Hesperis.