Vein creeping is decorative, curative and unpretentious

Vein creeping (in Latin Ajuga reptans) - a plant belonging to the family of the clearing. Occurs in the wild in the forests and steppes. She has a lot of folk names: a hump, a hearty herb, young, a hernia.

The name of the plant fully reflects its characteristics: the soil, perennial, well expanding. If in the spring to plant 5 small chunks, they quickly acclimatize and go into growth. Green oval leaves grow, and by the middle of summer will acquire a brownish hue. There will be new shoots, and from them - and young plants. By the fall you will get a beautiful carpet, which will tighten an area of about 1 square. M.

Vein creeping is unpretentious, hardy. In the hot summer, it can do without water for about 3.5 weeks. After such an extreme view it will not be the best, and it will have to be "soldered", but it will not die! Sunburn is not afraid.

Throughout the season, up to the snow, the decorative vyzhichka creeping. The photo of its abundant flowering and elegant leaves confirms the opinion of gardeners that this plant is able to decorate any flowerbed or trunks.

It is able to settle on any soil. But if she had a choice, the zhivotchka would prefer well-moistened, humus-rich loam. In one place can grow several years. The root system is superficial, that is, deep loosening is unacceptable. The height reaches 20 cm. It is quite frost-hardy.

The ciliate blooms in May and blossoms for about a month. Its flowers are small, arranged stepwise. The color may be blue, blue, white and pink. Seeds ripen in July-August, depending on the weather conditions.

With reproduction, no problems arise. You can share the overgrown bush from spring to autumn. If a small rosette has a small spine, it will take root. When planting, do not plug the outlet. The optimal distance between plants is 20 cm. After planting during a week, watering is necessary daily.

A wonderful plant - a vivipar creeping. Cultivation of it is possible in any place - and in the sun, and in the penumbra and in the shade. Harmoniously it looks under the trees, it can cover the soil under wicker roses, clematis and many other vines. Will add zhivichka and in the rock garden, and any unsightly corner of the garden zadekoriruet.

Currently, many varieties of vivacity have been bred with variegated leaves and multi-colored flowers. The leaves can be gray-green, green-reddish-brown, purple-lilac, brownish-purple, with a white pattern on a green background and edging, etc. You can collect a whole collection of different vitality and design an original flower bed. It should only be taken into account that variegated varieties show their beauty in full only in the sun.

Zivuchka creeping to all the above listed pluses is also useful. It is used in folk medicine as an antiseptic, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and diaphoretic. It refers to medicinal plants, through which improve metabolism. Basal leaves and young shoots of viticulture are added to salads.

Planting this plant in the garden once, you will love it so much that there will certainly be other places where the creeper will become necessary.