Skimming: planting and care, growing and reproduction

Skin tanning, the photo of which will immediately remind you of the attractive bushes covered with unusual fluff, which you have probably noticed repeatedly, is a long-lived plant. You can grow it on your own site without problems - it will bring you a lot of benefits.

Skinning tanning. Planting and care, plant characteristics

This deciduous shrub reaches at times five meters in height. Branching trunks with a brownish-gray bark are crowned with reddish shoots. The most interesting and attractive thing that has scumpia (planting and caring for it will be described below) are the leaves. In the spring they are greenish, during the summer gradually change color to yellow (without losing elasticity and contrast veins), and closer to colds acquire an intense orange or scarlet tint, becoming a true adornment of the garden. The flowers of this plant are gathered in panicles, surrounded by hairs, making them look like fluffy balls. The color of these hair whiskers is different even in one species of mackerel - from white to reddish. Sometimes they are even multi-colored. Flowering, beginning in late spring, lasts until July. After it ripen small dark fruits. In the nature of scumia (planting and caring for cultivated species allows to preserve and multiply their decorativeness) lives for a long time, up to a hundred years. It occurs in the Caucasus, in the Crimea, in the southern regions of Russia.

Cultivation of scum on your garden plot should begin with the choice of its location. It must be necessarily sunny. Concerning the fertility of the soil, one does not have to worry, to her, the scruple is undemanding. However, it is necessary to prevent the stagnation of moisture near the plant - this can provoke a halt in development.

Skimming: planting and care, growing and reproduction

If you already grow one such plant on the site, you will certainly want to have two. Without problems, it is possible to propagate scummery with layers, cuttings and seeds. Lapping is formed after the shoot is separated from the plant and pressed to the ground with a staple or a small amount of soil. After a while, the roots begin to form at the branch. Then it can be separated from the main plant - now this is a new scumpia. Planting and caring for her begin with watering. If you are a follower of reproduction with green cuttings, then you should know that they should be harvested in summer, soak in heteroauxin for half a day, and then plant in a greenhouse. Rooting will be long. Green cuttings need frequent watering with a small amount of water. Seeds of scumia can be collected in autumn and spring, previously subjected to stratification, planted. Both adults and young plants need mulching. Regularly with the scum, you should remove dried shoots - this only stimulates branching.

Benefit for health

Scumpia leaves are a storehouse of useful essential oils, ascorbic acid, tannins and substances that have choleretic effect. The flavonoids and tannins contained in them determined the use of this plant in folk medicine. For example, to disinfect purulent wounds. For this purpose, the gruel from the scoopy leaves is mixed with butter (cream) or glycerin in the proportion of one to two. The resulting ointment is treated with wounds twice a day.