For the device, various plants are used for a truly beautiful flower beds. One of the bright colors that can make a highlight in building a landscape design is a Mordovnik. About the agrotechnology of Mordovnik and the peculiarities of its cultivation on the household plot, let's later tell.
Description Mordownik
Description and distinctive characteristics of this culture are as follows:
- Mordovnik is a herbaceous plant, the height of the straight stems of which can reach 2 meters. The central escape in the last part of it is branched to several branches.
- Western chartly inflorescences that are collected up to 400 small tubular colors. The diameter of the ball varies from 3 to 5 cm. On one individual, up to 30 inflorescences can be collected.
- Basically, the plant of Mordovnik blooms white and blue, there are still dark blue varieties. Blooming the plant begins in May and lasts just over a month.
- After the end of flowering, the fruits of the plant ripen. They are glandular seeds of cylindrical shapes in which small mordean seeds ripen.
- The leaves of Mordovnik are mainly located at the base of escape. Sheet plate can grow up to 20 cm long and up to 5 cm in width. Above running leaves are much smaller. The upper part has a glossy surface, and the bottom is covered with a dense pile.
- The leaves and flowers of the plants are collecting during its flowering, and seeds - during the formation of a seed bag. Late in the fall before the onset of frosts dig roots. The latter can maintain their healing properties of more than 2 years, but leaves, stems, flowers and seeds should be used in the first year after the workpiece.
Types of Mordovnik
Mordownik has more than one and a half hundred different types, while only a few are most popular for cultivation and have decorative value.
- Mordovnik Chairolar. This plant is very popular. It is a flower with a high branching central escape, which is crowned with white-blue inflorescences of a ball shape. Their diameter ranges from 4 to 7 cm. The height of the central escape can reach 2 m. Sheet plate is divided into several minor fractions, at the ends of which are small spikes. Flowers Mordennik Chairph in June-July.
- Mordovnik ordinary. Compared with other species is more modest. The height of the central escape rarely exceeds 60 cm. The leaves are not covered with spikes. The upper part of them is smooth, and the bottom is covered with small silver darisons. Flowers Mordovnik ordinary at the end of July either in early August. Small spherical inflorescences have predominantly blue and reach size 2 and more see.
- Mordovnik is widecatized. This is a perennial plant that does not differ in high height. Its shoots do not grow more than 75 cm. The leaves of the broad-sized muzzle reaches 20 cm long and 10 cm in width. At the ends of the leaves grow spiny spikes. Plant blooms at the end of May with blue-purple inflorescences.
How to grow Mordovnik
Morder's cultivation is usually carried out from seeds. After the flowering is over, the plant seeds are collected and dry well. You can buy Morder's seeds in any flower shop. They must be stored in a dry place, protected from sunlight. The seed storage period cannot exceed 3 years. After that, they lose their ability to germinate so seeding the result can be unpredictable.
Order and landing rules:
- The landing of Mordovnik is carried out immediately into the open ground. It is advisable to do it in the fall, however, often sow the seeds of the Mordovnik in the spring. It should take into account the fact that the plants sitting in the spring are developing slower and blew up much faster.
- In front of the autumn sowing, it is desirable to conduct a cold stratification procedure. For this, seeds are laid out for gauze, wetted with water and put in a cold place for several days. Thanks to this procedure, the seeds will be better prepared for previous frost.
- Sowing is carried out in a groove to 3 cm deep. The distance between the sowing rows should be at least 60 cm.
- Sunny seeds are covered with soil and level the site with robble. No additional shelter of flower bed with Mordovnik is not required. If the club in the winter is a sufficient layer of snow, the plants will go much earlier.
If the flowerbed is small, and the winter in the region is very severe, it makes sense to grow seedlings. The procedure for planting seedlings Next:
- Begin to land seeds at seedlings in early March. To do this, several seeds plan for separate containers with a sandy peat mixture.
- Soil must be moderately moisturized. After the appearance of germs, they are thinned by choosing the strongest plant.
- Seed out in the middle of May, when the probability of frost occurs significantly decreases.
When choosing a plot for sowing Mordovnik, you must give preference to loose and fertile soil. On acidic soils with high humidity, as well as heavy clay soils, Mordennik grows very badly. That is why it should be planted from water bodies and sections with a high arrangement of groundwater. All the varieties of Mordenove love the sun, so the plot for his sowing should be in the open space. The burning sun plant is not a hindrance, it takes the heat very well, and in the shade it develops very badly and can perish.
Most varieties and types of Mordovnik are perennial plants. In the first year, the plant is increasing the root mass and forms a green outlet. For the second year, a long branched escape grows in the middle of the bush, which blooms at certain times. In the future, with each subsequent year, the bush continues to grow up, and the bloom of Mordovnik is becoming more and more lush.
Mordovnik: care
Morovnik's care is needed only in the first year of plant development. It is mainly in the fight against weeds, which at the initial stage can slow down the development of the plant.
- Further, the flower bed does not require much care. It will only be necessary to ensure that Mordovnik does not scatter all over the garden, as it grows very well by self-saming. However, in this case, the plant will degenerate. To avoid self-sewn, the flowers of the Mordelnik are cut to the formation of a seed bag.
- In watering the plant does not need. Natural moisture with the rains is enough to him, especially since it has a very powerful root system. Morovnik's feeding is carried out once a year - during flowering. With watering, mineral fertilizer with a high content of nitrogen (ammonium nitrate) is made.
- In front of the wintering stems of the Mordelnik completely cut off. New plants appear on the spring by the roots. Winter roots are very easy, while freeing frost to -40 ° С That is why it is not required for special shelter.
Mordovnik: pests and diseases
Reviews of Mordovnik indicate that it is very resistant to the effects of various diseases and pests. The main problem in the cultivation of this plant can be the development of fungal diseases. Often it occurs with the wrong (too frequent) watering or with rainy and low-spring weather. Diseases such as malievable dew, gray rot - manifest themselves a specific raid on the leaves of the plant. I am striking the disease of the root system of culture, after which it just dies.
In the manifestation of signs of the disease, it is necessary to remove the affected plant from the flower beds and burn it. The soil should be treated with solutions of fungicides to destroy the remnants of fungi.
Insects and parasites do not harm the Mordovnik, so the efforts to fight them do not have to.
Mordovnik - Medonos.
This plant is a very famous and popular among the butchers. In comparison with other floral plants, Mordovnik brings twice as much honey. So, with 1 hectare of the sealing Mordelnik landing, you can collect up to 1 ton of high-quality honey. Other types of plants bring a little less. At the same time, the perennial species of Mordovnik every year the number of nectar only increases. The plant can not reduce the amount of selected nectar even under cloudy weather.
Honey from Mordovnik, which is part of the dispersion, has strong therapeutic properties. When using it, the body's tone increases, the nervous voltage is reduced, blood pressure is normalized. At the same time, Honey from Mordovnik is distinguished by a beautiful amber color and an excellent aroma. That is why many butchers try to find fields with wild landings of Mordenove, or agree with farmers and sowed it in the fields that are planned to be left under the ferry.
Medical properties of Mordovnik
- Due to the high content of echinopsin alkaloid inside the roots, leaves and plants, Mordennik was often used to prepare drugs. They treated violations of the motor function, which are associated with the failure of the central nervous system. A few years ago, they refused to be refused from its use in Pharmacology, as Mordovnik was too toxic. However, in folk medicine, it continues to be used to prepare healing tinctures and decoctions.
- With the help of brands from the grass of Mordovnik, his stems and colors are struggling with epileptic seizures (they stop the attack), with a decrease in blood pressure, headaches.
- Oil, pressed from the seeds of Morder, helps from psoriasis, inflammation of skin cover, bacterial skin infections. This plant is often used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
Since Mordovnik is very toxic and able to cause serious problems in the body (stopping breathing, muscle spasms), its use must be coordinated with the doctor. It is also strictly forbidden to apply drugs based on Mordovnik during pregnancy and impaired respiratory function.