The national flower of Finland, kielo, fits well in a forest garden. In autumn, it can be dug into a pot to bloom.
Prohibition (Convallaria majalis) is Finland’s national flower, which grows wild almost all over the country. It can also be grown in the garden, where it spreads quickly into a dense growth.
You can buy sedges as rhizomes, which are sold in garden stores in the spring. Both traditional white-flowered and pink-flowered specimens are available. Flowers are found in simple and multiple flowers.
It is good to remember that language is poisonous throughout. The plant should be handled with gloves.
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Kielo blooms at the beginning of summer
Kielo grows fresh green leaves that grow in pairs from the rhizome. Flower stalks 15–20 cm high rise between them.
Kielo blooms in the wild between May and June, and garden strains bloom around the same time.
At first, the buds on the tongue are small, but they increase in size before they open. Sleeping bells are located on one side of the curved flower stem and are strongly scented.
The number of bells varies, but there can be up to a dozen of them on a stem. After flowering, red berries form on the tongues, which are poisonous.
In a vase, the strings last from a few days to a week. The vase should not be left within the reach of children.
Kielo is at its best in forest gardens
Kielo thrives best in semi-shady places and moist soil. It can’t bloom in very dark shade, and even in the heat, only tiny leaves emerge.
Humus-rich garden soil is suitable as a growing medium for kielo in the garden. Many cover plants thrive with it, such as little talvio, taponlehti, squirrel berry, foxglove, ferns, rock sedges and sedges.
Plant the rhizome so that the root system is below the soil surface. If the seedling has leaves, the growing point will be on the surface of the ground. Water after planting and as needed during the rooting period. Later, the languages will manage on their own.
The natural tongue is an excellent ground cover plant, but sometimes it spreads too much. Especially in a favorable growing place in garden soil, it forms such dense growths that they even have to be weeded out.
The only way is to dig out the rhizomes with a shovel to make room for other species.
Kielo has been moved from nature to the yard, but seedlings may only be moved from foreign land with the landowner’s permission. In the garden, old tongue growths can be lifted up and divided.
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Kielo is also a Christmas flower – this is how you can make it bloom in winter
Putting strings on flowers for Christmas is an old Finnish tradition. If you follow the instructions exactly, it’s easy to do.
- Lift the rhizomes from the ground with a shovel in September–October. When you look at the rhizome, you can see bulbous flower buds among the tendrils. Choose the chubbiest of them for your benefit.
- Keep the flower buds outside for a few weeks until you want to start using them. If you lift the buds from the frozen ground, you can start harrowing right away.
- Soak the rhizomes in 35-38 degree water for about 10 hours, and then plant them in about 12 cm pots with 3-5 flower buds each.
- At first, keep the pots in a warm and dark place. Craft a newspaper hat over the pot to give the buds a dark treatment. When the flower buds start to stretch in length, remove the cap and move to a bright place.
- Kielo blooms 4-6 weeks after the start of the harvest. When you look at the pipe against the light, you may see a flower bud. Then you can be sure that the benefit has been successful.
- Keep the rhizome moist throughout the useful life.
- If you manage to keep the rhizome alive until spring, it can then be planted in the garden.
Source: kotiliesi.fi
