There are lots of trees, shrubs, grasses, or elements thereof, at the mention of which is immediately an association with a particular country.If an ordinary birch mentioned, she's white or silver, immediately appear before the eyes of the vast expanses of Russia.This tree reaches a height of 15-20 meters in height, and excites the imagination of a simple unassuming beauty.Age, usually does not exceed 100-120 years.Birch, in addition to beauty, bears and benefits.
First of all, this bark or bark of the tree.It has long been the peasants were made of her shoes, household utensils.The trunks and branches used to make furniture, build houses, they stoked the furnace, knit brooms for a bath.In addition, in the spring birch sap is collected.Birch ordinary possesses healing properties.Very useful for hair decoction of birch buds.Of them, or extracted from birch bark birch oil.To obtain used two ways.
first way - using steam distillation decoction of birch buds.The second - with the help of birch tar distillation.Birch oil is very good for skin diseases: eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis.Due to its composition, which includes substances such as cresol, betulin, phenol, cresol, by-products of this tree has a tonic, antipyretic, antiseptic, diaphoretic, choleretic and anti-inflammatory properties.
Birch tar still is widespread.In the last century it was used as lubricants for the different mechanisms as well as for the production of leather.Since the beginning of the 20th century it began to be used in perfumery.Today, ordinary birch serves as raw material for tar, which is used in medicine, cosmetics, perfume and soap making.
simple beauty of this tree is sung in the poems of Russian poets and artists captured on the canvases.Eli did you like or birch grove, you should think about using it in landscape design of your site.Birch seedlings can easily be purchased at nurseries.They are not too demanding for soil fertility, but the first time they need abundant watering.
ordinary Birch will delight the eye throughout the year.Even at this time of year, as autumn, nice to see how the tree every day resets yellowed leaves.However, birch on site should be located so as not to interfere with the growth of other plants.It is very much dries the soil, so it can not be planted around moisture-loving plants.But fallen birch leaves secrete substances that can inhibit the growth and development of other trees, shrubs or flowers.
Another argument in favor of the cultivation of birch - it is a beautiful honey plant.Kidney birch appear at the beginning or in the middle of spring.At this time, the bees were already awake, but the plant from which you can already collect nectar and pollen, is still very small.That kidney and attract these insects like honey before flowering and during it.With these bees collect propolis and pollen, and from trunks or stumps - birch sap.
