Watka: landing and caring for him in his garden

Many are not familiar with such an interesting plant as the Syrian cotton wool. Planting and caring for him are well known only to experienced gardeners. This is a very beautiful and spectacular plant. It reaches a height in human height, has large ornamental leaves and beautiful flowers of dark wine color, collected in large brushes. Vatochnik (photos on which the plant is not depicted in full size, does not give a complete idea of it) is known to man since ancient times. In addition to its beauty, it is very useful both as a honey plant and as a medicinal plant.

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Its name was given to this plant in the eighteenth century. Only then did the botanists confuse the country from which the cottonbread came from (planting and caring for this plant was not yet very much interested in specialists), and indicated Syria instead of North America. Later the error was discovered by Linnaeus. But the name was left unchanged.

The roots of the vat are very deep in the ground. If you cut a leaf, it comes from a whitish juice. Because of this, the cotton wool is also called milky grass. He blooms in the middle of summer, fructifies in September. Fruits - elongated boxes, reminiscent of the shape of the body of the swallow. It is necessary to water abundantly the plants at the time when flowers are formed on them. Care for them at the rest of the time is no problem.

Use of the liquidator in medicine and industry

After the fruit ripens, long white fibers resembling cotton form inside. They were mixed with wool to produce yarn. Fibers fiber for a long time stuffed furniture - before the invention of foam rubber. Modern industry uses a cotton wool in perfume compositions (its essential oils have a pleasant and very stable aroma). This plant is very useful for beekeepers. The apiaries are often surrounded by whole plantations, on which the cotton wool is planted. Planting and caring for him is not at all complicated. But there are a lot of benefits - this is one of the most effective honeycombs. Bees are very fond of the plant and often visit it. Honey, collected from the colors of the vat, is fragrant and useful. But most often this shrub is still used for decorative purposes.

Ваточник: landing and caring for him on the backyard

This shrub is beautiful not only during flowering. Thanks to the lush foliage, it is very aesthetic almost all year round. It can be effectively used in mixed compositions of flowers, to plant a perimeter of hedges to improve the appearance of the garden. A hawker can successfully disguise an unsightly structure or a poorly maintained garden plot. When planting, a subterranean restrictor is often used to prevent excessive growth of milky grass and increase the density of the bush. It may be an unusable tire or an empty iron tank of small size. Vatochnik rather unpretentious, loves the sun, well tolerates drought and lack of feeding. Reproduces in the end of the summer cuttings. The only thing that can require a cotton wool - periodically conducted weeding.