If you want to plant and care for orange flowers, you don't have to be a great gardener. You should only follow our tips.
This orange flower, which blooms wonderfully in white, exudes a fine hint of orange scent throughout the entire summer season and, with a bit of luck or with the right care, even into October. Precisely because of this scent, the Mediterranean look and its relatively easy care, the orange flower has long since mutated into an insider tip for experienced gardeners.
But even if you are not an experienced gardener, you can plant this great flower. You just have to keep a few important things in mind. So that you too can enjoy the sight and smell of this great flower, we have put together some tips for growing and caring for the orange flower.
Orange Flower Growing Tips
| Orange flower (Choisya ternata) | |
|---|---|
| Growth Speed: | 10 - 20 cm a year |
| Growth: | 80 - 120 cm |
| Growth: | 80 - 120 cm |
| Location: | sun to shade |
| Floor: | acidic, permeable and rich in nutrients |
| hardiness: | good, protection may be necessary |
The perennial orange flowers are available in garden shops in different sizes as container plants. You can continue to keep the flowers in this form on the terrace and the balcony without any problems (height of growth about 1 meter).
You can also plant the orange flower outdoors in soil that is as nutrient-rich as possible but free of limescale. That's no problem at all.
Tip:
When planting outdoors, however, you should ensure that the location is as sunny as possible, to moderately semi-shady and sheltered from the wind.
» Multiply Orange Flower:
Once your orange flowers are fully grown, you can even remove cuttings at any time and use them for propagation. These cuttings should first grow fine roots in a glass of water before you transfer them to smaller pots and grow them into a shrub. From a growth height of approxYou can then move the plants outdoors after about 30 to 40 centimetres.
Orange Flower Care Tips
The orange flower originally from Mexico is one of the evergreen, small ornamental trees. It is also often touted as a scented plant that has an extremely long flowering period. Because it unfolds its impressive blooms from May to June, depending on the climate zone even into August.
» Encourage second flowering:
Let the orange blossom completely dryafter the first bloom
, then in late summer the shrub will even develop a second bloom that can last into October.Tip:
You should always pluck wilted blossoms directly from the ornamental bush. After the last bloom, you can also make a topiary (trimming) if necessary. Orange flowers are even suitable for a ball tree cut.
» casting:
As far as watering is concerned, you only need to water the orange flower outdoors during longer periods of drought, while potted plants need to be watered regularly. However, you should avoid using hard water and waterlogging as far as possible.
» Fertilize:
When fertilizing orange flowers, you have to differentiate between pot plants and outdoor plants. While potted plants can even be fertilized weekly if necessary (from March to August), a moderate application of fertilizer every 2 to 3 weeks is sufficient for outdoor plants.
Tip:
In spring and autumn you can work in compost around the root trunk instead of a complete fertilizer. Which means that a complete fertilizer application can be reduced to mostly once a month.
» Winter protection:
Orange blossoms, including the cultivated forms that are now available, are only partially hardy (to about minus 15 degrees) and must therefore be well protected outdoors during the cold season. We recommend piling up the rootstock with soil and covering the plant completely with air-permeable jute or a comparable garden fleece - you simply have to attach both loosely to the shrub.
Tip:
Potted plants should ideally be kept in a cool room (0 degrees to a maximum of 12 degrees) in winter. bright and dry over the winter and only put outdoors again after the ice saints.
If the outdoor shrub still freezes back over the winter months, it will thrive a bit more intensivelyCare (e.g. by weekly fertilization from March until bud formation) in spring is in most cases again sufficient.
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