Heathers, planting and care for many who are interested - the legendary plant.They grow in many European countries, and connected with them a few myths.From the nature of this plant is hardy, unpretentious, and is one of the best honey plants.Those who are fanatically landscape design of your site, just have to pay attention to the heather.Planting and care of simple, look very effective.A flowering continuously.Moreover, even after flowering heather shrub is very ornamental.Since his brush after drying do not lose their bright color and shape.
Heathers.Planting and care of flowers
This plant is not very high - it is never more than a meter.Foliage heather can be a variety of colors: in addition to the green, it is a bronze, yellow and even red.Flowers small, goblet.They are collected in a medium-sized florets resembling brush.In nature, they often have a soft lilac shade.
Decorative heather (planting and caring for them are simple) can bloom white, crimson, cyclamic flowers.The first half of the year - approximately August - plants adorn the garden mainly foliage.But after flowering until late autumn they delight the palette of bright brushes.Gardener to take care of a number of conditions that will enable it to grow bright and magnificent heather on the site.Moderate sun or partial shade small, acid reaction of the soil, high humidity - part of them.But it is not necessary to feed the heather.In winter, its a good idea to insulate using mulch of sawdust, compost, shredded bark or pine needles.Also hiding it also slightly acidified soil as well as delay the moisture therein.Heather multiplies air layering in spring before pruning.Branch bends to the ground, secured and covered with earth.Slips quickly develop roots.We just need to carefully monitor the level of moisture.Heather - a plant that is very resistant to almost all pests except Phytophthora.Formative cutting bush is held once a year after flowering.It stimulates the formation of a lush brushes for the following year.It should be avoided to give a balanced view of the bush too.Its beauty is a kind of "shaggy".
Heather in the culture and traditions of different countries
wasteland, overgrown with this plant, cover a large part of Europe.There is also in Siberia, in northern Africa, in North America (where he brought migrants from the UK).In Scotland, the heather is widely used for the production of mattresses, brooms.A dye which is extracted from this plant have been used to decorate national clothes.Heather - honey plant.It is often planted near apiaries.Heather ale - traditional drink produced in Scotland from the second century AD.Dabetsiya and Andromeda - two plants of the heather family, which are similar to each other.They are more hardy.By the way, Heather used in homeopathy - it has the property to lower blood pressure and a slight diuretic effect.
