Who doesn't get excited at the sight of a waterfront lined with purple loosestrife? Would you like to bring the lush blossoms into your home garden? Just multiply your plant yourself. With our instructions, you can do it very easily.
The loosestrife takes care of its own reproduction
Leave the purple loosestrife to itself
The easiest way to propagate purple loosestrife is to let nature take its course. The ornamental plant is extremely prolific and does all the work for you: After the inflorescences have faded, there are small seeds in the withered parts of the plant. The purple loosestrife leaves this to the wind in autumn or waits for birds to spread the seed.
Without your intervention, new plants will sprout in the area next spring. However, this is not the case for everyone, since the choice of location for the young plants is purely arbitrary.
Controlled propagation
On the other hand, if you want to increase your loosestrife in a targeted manner, you have two options to choose from:
- the sowing
- the root division
sowing
For sowing, remove the seeds from the withered flowers manually. Carefully remove the remaining dead flowers so that they do not reproduce unintentionally. Allow the seeds to dry out over the winter. The following spring sow the seeds in moist soil in a sunny spot.
tips
By growing the seeds under foil in seed pots on the windowsill, you get robust shoots that establish themselves more quickly in the garden bed.
Division of the root ball
Spring is also the best time to divide the root ball. Dig up the mother plant and split it in half with a sharp spade. You can now put this back in the ground at a suitable location.
tips
The root division is recommended above all if the purple loosestrife is too big for the current location.