Verbaskum - will decorate the garden, and heal diseases

This plant is famous for its inflorescence-like inflorescence, and the people call it differently: either fire-grass and a golden blossom, then a bear's ear and a royal scepter. And it’s not at all sound - a mullein. And all this is verbascum, which is translated from Latin as bearded.

Content:

• Features of the structure of the plant
• Description of the species of verbascum
• Reproduction methods
• Plant care
• Beneficial features
• Verbascum in landscape design

Features of the structure of the plant

This flower is found in the wild in the south and center of Europe, in the Mediterranean, Transcaucasia and Asia Minor. Recently, the plant has been used by designers to create landscape compositions.

Verbaskum is a bright representative of the Norichnikov family, lives from two years or more.

On a straight stem, covered with oblong leaves, there are flowers collected in an ear, blooming from the bottom up. From the beginning to the end of summer, this plant pleases with fluffy, yellow and brown inflorescences, which are then formed into a fruit in the form of an oval box with small seeds.

Many species of mullein are accustomed to living in dry and hot climates, so they do not tolerate a humid environment. In open sunny places, the flower is more comfortable, but sometimes it is content with a light shade, then the flowers do not fall off for a long time. Having finished blooming, the plant completely discards the stem located above the ground.

Description of the species of verbascum

There are more than 250 species of mullein in the world:

• The hybrid verbascum has large flowers of all shades of yellow to pink-apricot on a high, up to two meters, stem. These forms have white flowers and inflorescences decorated with a purple eye on a yellow background.
• The black verbascum is beautiful: on a meter-long stem there are bright yellow flowers, decorated in the middle with a red spot, collected in a long spike, and green leaves with a gray fluffy surface on the back.
• The Olympic type of plant, striking with yellow flowers and silvery leaves, is very effective during flowering in July. He was born in Asia Minor.
• In a low bombuciferum, inflorescences differ in shades of purple and lilac.
• In Russia, you can find a purple mullein with a branched stem, on which there are single delicate purple flowers.
• In the long-leaved verbascum, the rosette of leaves seems to be made of gray felt, and the golden-yellow flowers have stamens with long filaments covered with short purple hairs. His homeland is the Balkan Peninsula.

A person turns a wild plant into an ornamental plant, planting it in his own areas. Any kind of mullein will decorate rock gardens, places along fences and garden paths.

Reproduction methods

Verbascum, like many garden plants, propagates by seed and cuttings. Seeds sown in the soil on warm May or June days, the sowing depth is no more than one centimeter. In the first year, rosettes of leaves appear from them.

If they are located very close to each other, then it is better to plant them at a distance of about half a meter. But transfer for this plant is always painful, so you should try to plant the seeds at once at some distance from each other.

I would like to note that this flower reproduces beautifully by itself, scattering seeds around itself.

features of cuttings:

• Cuttings are made in late autumn, carefully digging out either all or part of the mother plant.
• Seating branches are prepared up to seven centimeters long.
• When planting them in the ground, you must not confuse the top and bottom. stalk, therefore, their cuts must be made different: the top is straight, the bottom is oblique, or vice versa. Kidney formation occurs only at the top of the root part.
• When planting cooked branches in a container, try to keep the direction of their growth vertical.
• Until spring, pots with verbascum shoots planted there are in a cool room.

Rare and valuable varieties of this flower are great for reproduction.

Plant care

The verbascum plant is quite unpretentious, as they say, and the lazy one will grow it. When choosing a place for a flower, you need to know that he is a lover of the sun, a deep shadow is not for him: flowers will not delight with brightness and long flowering... Mullein blooms profusely when the ambient temperature reaches twenty degrees Celsius. Drafts are his primary enemy. But it is not afraid of frost either, it is not required to cover it for the winter.

Too wet soil is not for verbascum.

Moderate watering comfortable for him, and even if the ground becomes too dry, the long roots of the plant will extract life-giving moisture from the ground. But waterlogging will lead to rotting of the roots of the mullein. Top dressing the plant does not need it, it is used for these purposes itself, since it contains the nutrients necessary for green neighbors in the garden. Probably, hence the name - mullein.

Doesn't like verbascum transplants, since usually the root is damaged in this case due to its long length. Mullein prefers low acid soils, which should contain more sand and a little peat. It is advisable to loosen and weed for a plant as needed. Verbascum is a plant that even an inexperienced florist can grow.

Beneficial features

Traditional medicine has long known the healing properties of verbascum:

• For diseases of the upper respiratory tract: catarrh, bronchitis, shortness of breath, as well as asthmatics and tuberculosis patients, mullein preparations will effectively help, since they relieve spasms, alleviate the symptoms of ailments, and have an expectorant effect. To do this, you just need to brew the flowers of the plant like tea and drink, having previously filtered. They effectively help in the composition of breast teas.
• Infusion of flowers helps with various types of neuralgia, especially the trigeminal and facial nerves, and also treats diseases of the skin. He copes with eczema, lichen, abscesses.
• In the form of applications, fresh mullein leaves are used, boiling them in milk, for thermal burns and purulent skin lesions. They have the ability to soothe pain.
• Disorders in the intestines, for example, constipation, hemorrhoids, are cured by the infused leaves of the plant.
• Powdered dry verbascum flowers are sprinkled on open wounds and ulcers.
• Flowers boiled in water will relieve dandruff and make hair lush, they are especially beneficial for balding men. By adding a decoction to therapeutic baths, you can ease the course of diathesis (scrofula) in a child.
• Decoctions from a finely chopped root of the plant are used to treat gout and kidney disease. And they drink it in the morning on an empty stomach and in the daytime between meals, 100 milliliters each.
• The "royal" oil made from olive oil with the addition of mullein flower extract is also famous. They lubricate eczema, boils formed in the ear canals, it is used successfully in the treatment of inflammation of the middle ear. You can make this remedy yourself by pouring a handful of verbascum flowers with half a glass of olive oil. They insist on the sun for a month and, after filtering, are used for problems with the ears.

But not all types of plants can heal, but only those in which the stamens are pubescent with orange or yellow hairs. The purple color of the hairs only looks beautiful on flowers, and such plants do not bring benefits to human health.

Collect useful inflorescences at the beginning floweringwhen they are intoxicated with honey scent.

Baskets of flowers and leaves are dried in a ventilated room, and then brought to a fragile state in the oven. The prepared collection should emit a pleasant honey smell, it is stored in a glass container. Verbascum has beneficial qualities from root to flowers and leaves.

Verbascum in landscape design

Growing singly and in groups, bear ear flowers, or mullein, look great in the curbs along the paths or along the fence. It is better to plant them on the south side of the site.

Compositions of verbascum flowers of different colors will decorate any garden.

Given the plant's ability to independently scatter seeds over the territory, it is possible to create mini-beds from verbascum in completely unexpected places, even in the middle of paths and paths. This will help make the garden original and give it a special rhythm. The plant gets along well with Veronica, salvia, phlox and delphinium, as well as decorative cereals.

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