Crowded bell: beautiful benefit

Rarely does a garden plot or flower garden do without flowers such as bells. They are cute, beautiful, unpretentious. Moreover, there are a lot of types of bells. One of the most beautiful, due to its splendor, is the crowded bell.

And what are they like, bells?

We all know the riddle about bells from kindergarten: "The little blue bell hangs, it never rings." And even kids understand that the flower is called a bell for its shape. It was the bells that glorified Ancient Russia that gave this modest inhabitant of fields, forest edges, and now flower beds, their beautiful, sonorous name. There are about 300 species of bells by scientists, most of them are grown in culture. Bells are also divided into annuals, biennials and perennial flowers. Naturally, perennial bells are the most attractive as a decoration for a garden or flower garden. The crowded bell, or as it is also called, the prefabricated bell, belongs to them.

Bell hat

If you do not peer at this plant, but only glance at it in passing, then you will not think that this is a bell at first. After all, a hat made of flowers, which opens at the prefab bell, is very beautiful and unusual. It is due to this decorativeness that this type of bell is in demand in gardening. Such a splendor of the plant is achieved due to the fact that from 15 to 20 flowers are collected in one inflorescence, resembling an ear. Their pedicels are short, therefore the inflorescence does not disintegrate, but is collected in a rounded "cap". The color scheme of the prefab bell varies in lilac-blue tones - from snow-white to deep purple. You can find varieties of a prefabricated bell with a graduated color of flowers, for example, the variety "Carolina" has a white core with a transition to delicate purple at the ends of the petals. Also, the flowers of this type of bells can have different shapes - classic, rounded or elongated. Depending on the shape of the flowers, the appearance of the inflorescence itself will also vary. In order for the prefabricated bell to look decent, it must be renewed in three to four years, best of all by dividing it.

How to grow a prefab bell

Fortunately for flower growers, the prefabricated bell is an absolutely unpretentious plant. After all, it comes from natural conditions, and not the fruit of many years of laboratory experiments. It can grow almost anywhere in the garden. But for better flowering and growth, a sufficiently sunny place with light nutritious soil is most suitable for him. In partial shade, he will feel just as good. This type of bell will gratefully respond to timely watering during a dry season and feeding, although at the beginning of the growing season. Also, for a long and abundant flowering, it is necessary to remove flowers that have withered in time. By the way, some varieties of prefabricated bells are quite high - up to 80 centimeters. And after flowering, they look little decorative, so they can be cut off, if, of course, there is no task to collect ripe seeds. Low varieties of prefabricated bells look amazingly beautiful and harmonious in curbs or alpine slides.

How can a crowded bell be raised?

This type of bell can be propagated both by seeds and vegetatively. The seeds ripen in a capsule, as they ripen, they pour out of it near the mother plant.if the goal is to breed a prefabricated bell with the help of seeds, then they will need to be collected by shaking them out of the boxes and sown in the greenhouse in early spring. much simpler and more convenient - vegetative propagation of this plant. It is best to divide the bush in the spring, when it just wakes up after a winter sleep. With the help of the root system, the crowded bell practically does not spread, and therefore no misunderstandings will arise with the problem of location and seizure of new lands.

Traditional medicine and collection bell

Unfortunately, the medicinal properties of this type of bell are not used as widely as the properties of some other plants. But you need to know about them, because the crowded bell will be a good assistant in the treatment of inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity and pharynx, problematic conditions of the skin. It works well for women's problems - heavy or painful menstruation. A decoction of the leaves of the crowded bell is used even for bathing babies, just like a decoction of a series.

You look at the bell heads and you will definitely remember the verses of Alexei Tolstoy:

My bells
Steppe flowers!
What are you looking at me
Dark blue?
And what are you ringing about
Happy May Day
Among the unmown grass
Shaking your head?