Scummy: planting and care, rearing and breeding

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 fivemeters in height. Branching trunks with a brownish-gray bark are crowned with reddish shoots. The most interesting and attractive of what scumpia has (the landing and care of it will be described below) are the leaves. In the spring they are greenish, during the summer they gradually change color to yellow (without losing the elasticity and contrast of the veins), and closer to the colds acquire an intense orange or purple hue, becoming a true ornament 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 at the end of spring, lasts until July. After it ripen small dark fruits. In the nature of scumia (planting and caring for cultivated species allows you to preserve and multiply their decorativeness) lives a very long time, up to a hundred years. It occurs in the Caucasus, in the Crimea, in the southern regions of Russia.

Growing scum on your garden plotshould start with the choice of its location. It must be necessarily sunny. With regard to the same fertility of the soil, one can not 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.

Scummy: planting and care, rearing and breeding

If you already grow one such plant onyou will certainly want to have two. Without problems, you can multiply the 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 branches startto form roots. Then it can be separated from the main plant - now this is a new scumbia. Planting and caring for her begin with watering. If you are a supporter of reproduction with green cuttings, then you should know that it is better to prepare them in the 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 scum, you should remove dried shoots - this only stimulates branching.

Benefit for health

The leaves of the scum 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 mush from the skimpie leaves is mixed with butter (creamy) or glycerin in the proportion of one to two. The obtained ointment is treated with wounds twice a day.