Medinitsa sugar: landing, care, description, photo

Sidewalk medinitsa - a perennial evergreen shrub, a modest forest primrose, optimally combining decorative and medicinal properties, known since ancient times. Perhaps that's why people call such a plant a "legoknitsey" - for the ability to help with respiratory ailments, from which one of the first began to treat people Hildegarda Bingen - the famous herbalist, who lived in the XI century. Medunica plant is called for the ability to give bees nectar in large quantities.

In natural conditions, the sugar beetle (or spotted) forms elegant green carpets with clearly visible silvery spots on the leaves and beautiful violet-pink flowers. From this species, a large number of cultural cultivars, among them Cambridge Blue, Mrs.Moon, Sissinghurst White, have been selected by the selection science.

Medunitsa: photo and description

A unique flower that grows on the forest edges after the descent of the snows has firmly established its niche on the private plots and flower gardens. Its early appearance, prolonged flowering (about 30 days) and decorative appearance, accentuated by neat leaves and beautiful flowers, have made popularity among florists such a modest but very attractive plant.

Medunitsa in cultural cultivation

Relating to the family of the Bumarchs, the lungwort in height reaches 30 cm and is a rhizome bush, usually growing in groups. Sheet Medunitsa lanceolate, oval-cuneate, completely pubescent.

Medunitsa in cultural cultivation

How does the sugar candy flower blossom? This plant is a real find for the early spring compositions, because it starts to please with flowering, when the leaves have not yet appeared on the trees. The flowers of the Medunica are always paired, located in the apical part, in one inflorescence at the same time several different shades can be located: from pale pink to dark purple. This is due to the presence in the herb of plant pigments - anthocyanins, responsible for the coloration of the petals. The spectacle when the sugar candy blossoms is truly fascinating. Pink and purple spots on the background of a green garden and spring flowers look original, charming and breathe freshness into the surrounding landscape.

Seduce: the advantages of the plant

The advantage of sugar litter is exceptional shade tolerance, high frost resistance and a long period of vegetation with preservation of decorative properties. In one place a bush of a charming plant can grow incredibly long: about three decades.

Planting a lungwort sugar is recommended in the shade or penumbra - it is in such conditions on its leaves that the original pattern appears as much as possible, and the flowers acquire a more saturated color. If it is impossible to place the flower in the shade, it can be planted under bushes and trees, thus providing partial protection from sunlight.

Features of care

Medunitsa - a flower that does not require a special approach to the soil and feels comfortable in any soil. The plant needs to be fertilized especially during the period of intensive growth of leaves (approximately in July).

Being a moisture-loving culture, the spotted mongrel poorly tolerates stagnant water. Therefore, the plant should be watered regularly (especially during the formation of buds and flowering), but without excess. In order to avoid bare bush and loss of their attractiveness, the plant needs to be planted once in 3-4 years. At the end of flowering, it is necessary to cut off the inflorescence (this action is aimed at activating the growth of young shoots) and to cut out (not wring out) the old dry leaves in a timely manner. Soil should be regularly weeded and remove excess shoots leading to thickening. It is desirable to conduct mulching of the soil, aimed at preventing the growth of weeds and maintaining the necessary moisture. For the winter, a medlina, photo and description of which causes an increasing interest of flower growers, needs shelter with peat or leaves.

Medunitsa in the garden is a fine hardy plant, which does not require expenditure of energy and time and is capable of pleasing its flowering for a long period.

Ways of reproduction of lungwort

The sugar beet grows by seeds, divides the bush and rhizomes. The seed method is not very in demand, because it is quite long-term (the flowering of plants is observed 2-3 years after planting). In addition, young bushes can not retain the signs of a mother plant and significantly differ from them.

Division of the bush is a method more popular, preserving the purity of the variety. In early spring or after the end of flowering (July-August), the adult plant needs to be divided into parts, which are placed at a distance of 30 cm from each other, previously pruning roots. The land around young seedlings is recommended to be covered with humus.

Also, the plant can be multiplied by dividing the rhizomes. To do this, at the end of the summer from the main root it is required to separate its small part with the obligatory presence of the kidney of renewal. Planting is carried out at a depth of 4 cm at a distance of about 20 cm between plants.

Diseases and pests

Medunitsa is a flower resistant to diseases and pests, however, stagnation of water and sharp temperature changes can cause the appearance of powdery mildew and rot. In this case, the affected plants need to be removed and burned, and the remaining bushes should be treated with sulfur preparations. If the moisture is too much, the wizard can be affected by snails and slugs eating her leaves. Struggle against them is carried out by agrotechnical methods (moderate watering, avoiding thickening of plantations, careful tillage of soil, removal of weed plants), preventing the creation of a microclimate that is comfortable for such pests.

Medunitsa in folk medicine

Seduce litter is a plant widely used by folk medicine due to the content of a large number of useful vitamins, tannins, macro- and microelements, carotene. For medicinal purposes, buds, leaves and plant roots are harvested. Drying them is required in a well-ventilated room at a temperature of not more than +40 С⁰. It is recommended to store the ready raw materials in fabric or paper bags.

From this healing herb decoctions and infusions are very effective, possessing diuretic, antitussive, wound-healing and anti-inflammatory properties. Attached to the wound leaf of such a plant will determine its speedy healing.

Seduce is used to treat diseases such as:

• bronchitis;
• bronchial asthma;
• tuberculosis;
• pleurisy;
• uterine bleeding;
• BPH;
• Thrombophlebitis;
• pneumonia;
• laryngitis;
• cystitis;
• anorexia;
• pneumonia.