Perennial Mediterranean Grass-Shrub, Issop, grows in wild conditions in territories with a variety of climates. Crimea, Italy, Georgia, Siberia - An unpretentious drug field flower grows on these and many other territories.
Blue Flowers of Issop have an expressive smell. Use Issop as honey, spice and medicine. In an alignment form, the plant is actively grown with the target of landscape design.
Hisop grass
In the commoner, the plant is known as Blue St. John's wort, hisssop grass, journal or north lavender.
There are three main types of plants of the genus of Issop.
- Issoop ordinary.
It grows in the mountainous regions and in the steppe. Different with medicinal properties and high growth. This shrub decides from the root and has relatively small leaves. One of the properties of the plant is its fertility: bloom occurs continuously throughout the season, which lasts from the middle of the summer until the middle of the autumn. Earls can be cut off without fears - white, pink and blue flowers will appear again. The duration of the flowering of each inflorescences is about a week.
The branchy stalks of the plant reach a height of 80 cm. The oblong foliage is located on the stalk, differing in color: from light green closer to the root to the dark green above.
The plant gives nutty fruit with oblong seeds of dark-brown color up to 2.5 cm in size.
- Chalk Issop.
He got his name from the place of growth: in the wild, it can be found on chalk sediments, but it is extremely rare, as it is listed in the Red Book.
If you compare externally with the previous type, this type of plant practically does not have distinctive features. In addition to the fact that the maximum height of the shrub does not exceed the half-meter, and sometimes remains at 20 cm. Flowers most often blue. The most characteristic feature of the chalk Issop is a strongly pronounced balsamic fragrance.
- Anisessianssop.
A branched half-meter Kuste of Issop has leaves with anise aroma. This variety is used in culinary purposes as a spice, both in dry and fresh. Eating leaves, stems and flowers, like spice, when the dish need to give a mustard.
Selection varieties
Hybrid Issop is characterized by a variety of color gamut. There are about 10 popular varieties, each of which has a specific color. Amethyst, Nikitsky White, Pink Fog, Inay - These and other varieties speak for themselves.
The cultivation of several varieties in one section can lead to crossing, since the semi-stabiliar is pollinated. In order for this not happening, Issop is needed spatial insulation.
Issop, growing
Shrub is quite stable to any cultivation conditions. However, it has some preferences:
- access to the sun rays;
- moderate humidity;
- loose soil;
- neutral and weakly alkaline soil;
- cold protection in winter with a thick layer of snow.
Plant perennial. It is capable of growing from one root for 10 years. Medieving vegetatively (stalling, fission of rhizomes) and seeds will be multiplied.
Reproduction of Issop Seeds
Ripen good seeds only in the second year of the plant's life. Seed collection occurs in this way: the fruits on the long stems are cut, they are binding to the beam and hang down the head over a sheet of paper for several days so that the separation seeds are poured independently.
You can store seeds up to 4 years. Sow them directly into the open soil or pre-green. Time to landing seeds to Greenhouse - March Month. In the open ground - May. Seyss Issop and in the middle of autumn.
If the seeds to germinate in the tray, you need to pour into the container of the Earth, sowing the seeds by furrows with an indentation of 5 cm and pour out the ground on top of the layer are not thicker than 0.8 cm. To prevent freezing, the greenhouse can be equipped inside the greenhouse - a greenhouse, or a tray covered with a film. Shoots grow no later than in 2 weeks. A week later, seedlings can be breaking up with an interval of 5 cm or plant in pots.
The disembarkation can be started as only the leaves on the sprouts will appear more than 5 pcs. It will happen approximately 1.5 - 2 months after the appearance of the first shoots.
Before boarding the open ground, the soil is pre-explode: leaving the shovel and cultivated with a forge. You can use an electromechanical garden tool. When planting seedlings, sprouts are picked and planted at a distance of about 10 cm apart.
If the seeds are sowed immediately to the flower, it is worth preparing an explosive soil and sung seeds with rows, shallow powder sprinkling them. There should be no less than half a meter. As soon as 5-8 leaves appear on the shootings, the rows can be broken, leaving the distances between the plants of about 20 cm.
Flowers will appear in the first year, but there will be few of them, and the seeds will not be capable of performing the reproductive function.
Issop, landing in a vegetative way
It is possible to dissemble a semi-walker by germinating the branches, fission of the root or landing of the root segment. Make it mainly in the spring.
To refresh an aging 4-year-old plant, it is digging it, and the root is divided into several parts. In this case, the special antimicrobial processing is not required - the Issop is hurt to change and unpretentious. Parts of the root land in the ground is not very deep.
Shining need to be started in the fall. Before the onset of cold weather, the bush is perfectly sprinkled with humus, peat and earth. It is watered before the onset of frosts. Soothes in this case will turn out to be more adapted to germination. The cuttings of at least 10 cm are separated from the bush and planted immediately into the ground. They are watered well. The rolled cuttings need to be cut so that the bush is coming out.
Issop, plant care
The plant at an early growth rate requires saturation of moisture, which is impossible without regular irrigation. Since in the wild conditions it does not happen, and the grass continues to grow, it is not necessary to water abundantly. It is enough about 3 times per season to moisten the soil in the drought. The norm of watering is considered 2 buckets per 1 square meter. M. Adult shrubs do not need artificial irrigation - they rain enough.
So that the process of bungeous and flowering occurs more active, you need to loosen the soil - so the root system will be better developed.
Exhausted soil should be fertilized by mineral fertilizers or organic. In the first months of the life of a semi-staple, feeding the useful components is very important. Annoye and many years of special nutrition plant does not require. Adult bushes almost never hurt and look beautiful in any weather without additional vitamin and mineral enrichment.
In order to make Issop more lush flowering, it needs to be trimmed. It makes spring and autumn. In the spring - during the appearance of shoots. In the place of circumcised shoots will appear ears of inflorescences. This not only improves adhesive, but also gives the right geometry plant, which is important for landscape design.
In the fall after abundant flowering at the end of the season, the shrub is cut, leaving the low branches up to 15 cm. The wintering of an adult plant occurs under the cover of the snow. He will not harm almost nothing. But if the plant is planted in the current year, and the winter is very cold and minor, it is worth warning the freezing of the roots of the recently adopted plants and fall asleep the root zones with a thick layer of mulch (peat, dry leaves, branches or sawdust).
Issop value as a plant
Due to the resistant smell, plant essential oil is used in the perfumery industry. The richest oils, like nectar, Issop's inflorescences.
How Medonos Issop is indispens that the period of its flowering falls at the end of summer - the beginning of autumn. At such a time, most colors turn into seed boxes, and the bees practically collect nectar. Issop is a rescue circle for beekens - with him the collection of honey is extended for 1-2 months.
The fact that Medope is a very good spice has already been said. Spice perfectly harmonizes with pea dishes, beans and other legumes. Freshly, finely chopped inflorescences and leaves emphasize the taste of meat and fish dishes, salads, sauces, vegetable preservation. Spicy bitterness of seasoning helps to activate the selection of gastric juice - the first sign of a good appetite.
The grass is collected all summer, dried in bouquets, hanging or folding on paper in a dark ventilated room or in the shade in the yard. The dried plant is stored in dry banks to keep the fragrance.
Medical Grass Mediop
Wild-growing herbs always attracted the attention of the viscars with their healing or poisonous properties. Issop is no exception. Its benefit is quite large.
What is the useful herba isop? Chilled decoction of leaves are used as an anti-inflammatory agent for diseases of the gums, stomatitis, ulcers in the mouth. Swimmed compresses are applied to wounds for the purpose of their healing, furunculam or eczema manifestation sites. Treat injuries on the skin and supresses from dry crushed grass.
The plant is useful in case of such diseases as:
- bronchial asthma;
- digestive disorders;
- rheumatism.
At high temperatures and cough, not only dry, but also freshly plane grass for decoctions. Take 1 tbsp. l. (without a slide) plants, pour 1 cup of water and put on a slow fire. Conduct to boil, insist 5 - 10 minutes and filtered. 1 h. L. Honey.
Exactly the same recipe, without adding honey is used to wip the eyes when conjunctivitis, rinse the throat with an angina. The decoction even helps to cope with the hangover.
Contraindicated reception of the plant in such states of the organism and diseases as:
- pregnancy;
- lactation;
- individual intolerance of the plant;
- kidney problems;
- epilepsy.
Exemplary Hesop on envy all
Issop can decorate areas of private houses as a universal plant. It can be a live fence or a separate decorative component. It will be an element of imitation of wildlife or alpine mountains, or an eclectic component of any other style.
The advantage of the plant is that it is able to maintain decorative attractiveness for a long time, without requiring special attention to itself, or special care. In addition, it looks harmonious with other representatives of the world of plants.
Grass is capable of selling independently on the Summer site. If you do not follow this, impeccable beauty can turn into weed chaos, from which it is difficult to get rid of. For this purpose, it is necessary to cut the matured inflorescences and collect seeds from them. Timely removal of fruits from the semi-staple prevents plant depletion, and it is ready to bloom again.
The Issop is a useful grass that is applicable in many areas: in landscape design, medicine and cooking. She blooms, smells and beautifully looks around the whole season. Take a bright fragrant semi-staple on its site - it will become not only an ornament, but will bring a lot of benefit.
Issop, photo
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