Our ancestors have always used the properties of plants for the treatment of diseases.Applied decoctions, tinctures, extracts.Healers are very appreciated in Russia.Almost everyone had a basic knowledge about the power of herbs and flowers.For example, everyone knew that wormwood has the capacity to stimulate appetite and combat neurasthenia.Let this grass more.
What is wormwood?
grass belongs to the family Asteraceae.The most common two-and perennial representatives.Wormwood may take the form of dwarf shrubs and height from 3 to 150 cm, with a woody root.The stems are found in two types: short-cut, barren (perennials) and erect, fertile (annual).Location leaves another.Flowers small wormwood, yellow or red color, collected in the baskets of different shapes.Grass usually has a pungent odor and taste.Wormwood is not afraid of frost and drought, are very hardy.
In the world there are 250 species of plants, but according to some reports, they 470. These include, for example, therapeutic, bitter, Australian, North, field and so on.Where wormwood grows?In the former Soviet Union the grass is most common in Central Asia, the Caucasus, Northern Kazakhstan.It is also found in Japan, Norway, Alaska, North America.
Wormwood
Translated from the Latin name means that this plant has a bitter taste and therefore does not bring pleasure.What is wormwood?This is a perennial herb with erect stems.On the rhizome can grow shoots with buds and leaves, as well as the basal leaves.Grass has a brownish yellow flowers and fruits that ripen in early fall.The unusual color is wormwood.Photo shows a large number of compressed hairs give it a silvery-gray.Because of this herb is also called "silver."
Procurement of raw materials used in medicine, the upper leaves and flowering stems.The first harvest in June-August, when there is flowering sage.Grass should consist of basal leaves and leafy tops.At the beginning of flowering collect leaves and putting them in bags and as soon as possible by sending drying.It happens that in the fall collection and other types of sage, such as pine, Sievers.This admixture does not decrease healing properties.
Harvesting ingredients usually lasts 10-15 days.First, all of the carefully review and remove the late flowering blossoms that are brown.Then, in the air or in a ventilated room proceed to drying, the end of which is determined by the brittle stalks and stems.Ultimately, the product should contain no more moisture 13%.Store raw materials can be two years.
Reproduction and care
Cultivation of Artemisia in two ways: by means of seeds and cuttings.In the first case, the collected seeds sown rows.As the weak seedlings are removed, and the plants superfluous.As a result, remain strong sprouts.Wormwood silver transplanted to a permanent place two weeks later.This can be ground or pot.
Reproduction second method is carried out by cutting the stalk with a heel of 10 cm. It is then put into a pot and leave in a cool place.In the first month of spring cuttings with roots planted in flower pots individually, and in the autumn of transfer to a permanent place.
silver Wormwood prefers drained soil.Though the plant and unpretentious, but for good growth it needs sunlight.During the summer the grass watered abundantly, and in the winter - as the drying of the soil.In a period of rapid growth for the sage it is useful to make complex fertilizers, but no more than two times.
Common wormwood
This is a perennial plant that can be found in almost all regions of Russia.The second species name - mugwort.How does mugwort?A distinctive feature of the plant is a brownish-purple color of the stem, whitish-silvery leaves.The height of grass up to 150 cm. The flowers are collected in baskets oval forming paniculate inflorescence.The fruit is a achenes olive-brown, maturing in August-October.Flowering mugwort begins in June and ends in August.The smell of grass specific.This variety, as well as wormwood (picture and description of which are given above), is quite common and quite widely used.
decorative appearance
refers to this type of wormwood Schmidt and Steller.They are grown in the garden plots.Class meets on the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin.Accustomed to live in poor soils, namely, in the mountains and on the coast.What is wormwood Schmidt?It is a rounded, delicate shrub height of 25-30 cm. August-September - is the time of flowering.
Class II grows on rocks Japan, the Far East, Alaska, and in estuaries.This is a perennial plant with silvery-gray leaves.The decor is more often used to decorate the borders.In order to maintain the desired shape Artemisia crop and the annual rejuvenation hilling or division.
color plants varies from green to white, with different shades.Bush added to the dry bouquets, combining a variety of different colors.Low-growing species are mainly used for creating rock gardens, curbs decoration.Tall varieties are used for decorating flower beds.
Care and reproduction
main advantage of decorative sage - no need for special care.It will grow on a site with always cold ground and open the hot sun.But the heavy, moist soil is not much for her.Frequent watering is not required.For a better development of the plant in the spring compost.A decorative qualities to keep longer, you need to cut the flower stalks.Decorative wormwood is not affected by disease, pests and bypass its side.But if it's too hot and humid conditions, the plant can be covered with spots - so evident mildew.With this disease will help to cope fungicide.
Wormwood multiplies in many ways: by seeds, cuttings, rhizomes segments, dividing the bush.Parts that give rise to young plants, just put on a new location.Cuttings is best done in late May.The shoots are planted in boxes filled with sandy soil.A year later, they are transplanted into open ground.If the seeds are used in reproduction, they sown in the greenhouse in April.
Tarragon
addition to common names, this type of wormwood called Tarragon, dragoons grass, Turgun and so on.The plant is a perennial herb with a spicy scent.There are views of tarragon odorless.Flavor is due to the presence in the composition of essential oils.Sage leaves contain vitamin C and carotene, as well as mineral salts such as manganese, cobalt, copper.
Special Conditions does not require dilution.But for better growth and accumulation of essential oils need to be planted wormwood unobscured areas with loose, light soil.Propagated by both seed and vegetatively.Caring for planting consists of several stages: hoeing, weeding, watering, fertilizing fertilizers.Grass grows almost everywhere - Mongolia, India, Pakistan, China, Alaska, North America and Russia do not suffer from a shortage of this useful plant.
Features landing tarragon
ideal place to live is a plant site with direct sunlight.The soil is sandy loam is better to use.Heavy earth is broken sand and organic fertilizers.If the soil is sour before planting added wood ash.Tarragon does not like the clay ground too damp.Fertilize in the fall, after digging up land.To plant in the spring and fall.Over time, the leaves become stiff because of this lost taste, the beds so better update every four years.
need to cut plants before flowering.Dry in a warm, well-ventilated place.Well, if in the morning on the grass will get scattered sunlight.After drying tarragon put in containers with a sealed lid that allows you to permanently preserve the flavor of grass.
blank is in the first year of planting.Cut off the tops and leaves of plants that have achieved growth of 20 cm. With this action stems become more powerful.For the second time already cut at the base of the shoot.In winter, the stems can be cut, the better to carry out this action in the first months of autumn.Or you can leave, if they have already removed the spring dry.If there is a danger of freezing, the plant can be hidden in humus.
Grades tarragon
The plant can be identified odorless species and those that have an odor.For example:
1. "French" has a delicate, spicy flavor.The plant does not give the seeds having an average size and dark green leaves.
2. "Volkovskiy" is considered one of the oldest types of tarragon.The smell just heard.The leaves are dull.
3. "Russian" has a weak, spicy aroma.Bushes tall and powerful.
4. "Zhulebinsky Semko" - it is rather a universal form.It can grow in one place for up to seven years.The average size of a bush - up to 150 cm. The leaves are green and the flowers are small, yellow.Frost.
5. "Monarch" is a perennial.It has a lot of side shoots and a large, short-pubescent leaves.
Lemon Wormwood
This cultivar is rich in vitamin C, and its essential oil is the basis for the synthesis of vitamin A Kind naturally grows only in Turkmenistan, and in cultivated found in Moldova and Crimea.Wormwood lemon practically not subject to the action of pests.The plant tolerates drought.Perennial shrub has gray woody shoots.Baskets of flowers form a panicle.Seeds light gray, small size.It has a pleasant lemon scent.
At one point the plant can live up to 15 years, giving rise to a lot of shoots.To increase the number of them in late summer trimmed to a height of 20-30 cm from the soil.This action also increases the frost resistance of Artemisia.The Russian plant is propagated by cuttings, and dividing the bush.Shoots are cut into lengths of 10 cm and planted under the film.In the water the cuttings quickly give rise to the roots, then they can be planted from spring to fall.Seedlings are seated at a distance of one meter from each other.Seeds of lemon wormwood in our territory does not form.As plant care enough to feed him, to cultivate and loosen the soil.Collection is carried out in the bush during the active flowering by cutting the aerial part at a height of 12 cm from the ground.
wormwood plant in all its diversity is a universal remedy for many diseases.In addition to medicinal properties, different grades of appearance.Due to its ruggedness, the plant can be grown in almost any area, and it will delight for its unusual beauty.Ancient Slavs believed wormwood ability to purify the physical and spiritual world.The essential oil of herbs used in the Buddhist meditation for better concentration.Pagans believed that the smell of the plant repels evil spirits and protects against damage.
