Many have got used to see lungwort on forest clearings and on meadow raznotrav. On the seasonal dacha it is also possible to create gentle beds of blue, pink, white primroses. In May the color nimbuses will please eye in shady places of garden. The plant not only is beautiful, but also it is known the curative properties.
Get acquainted: lungwort
Distinctive feature of lungwort – ability of nimbus of inflorescence to change color. At forest plants the hanging buds on brushes at first pink, after blooming become blue, and eventually gain violet-blue color. Therefore on the same bush the raznotsvetya can observe cheerful.
Decorative grades of lungwort differ in richness of palette of lobes from white to pink and dark blue, besides poecilophyllous species of plant meet. For example:
- buds of Sissinghurst White become white when blooming, at the same time have beautiful spotty leaves;
- Cambridge Blue grade nimbuses in process of blooming change pink coloring for light blue;
- the grade of Blue Ensign differs in violet-blue flowers;
- Mawson's Blue – dark blue;
- Opal – light blue;
- White Wings - white nimbuses with pink serdtsevinka;
- Trevi Fountain grade (""Trevi fountain"") is attractive by blue-lilac nimbuses and large green-blue foliage with silvery shrikha and stains on plates;
- at Roy Davidson grade the flowers at first blue, turn pink then, and leaves silvery and spotty;
- Margery Fish are pink-violet lobes and silvery foliage on which specks are located at the edges.
The lungwort is perennial and primrose as its buds are dismissed in May-April. This small plant with the soft lowered leaves and shchetinisty small stalks which grow as much as possible to 30, at some grades – up to 40 cm. As follows from the name, flowers melliferous. The plant attracts the ants carrying its seeds – small nutlets.
In the nature the lungwort meets in the forest, high meadow raznotrav, shadow of bushes – she does not transfer direct beams of the sun, to heat and looks for shady place. In midland frequent guest is the blue-violet lungwort medicinal, also high-quality plants with white, pink and blue colors are popular.
Application of lungwort
The lungwort is called not for nothing medicinal: all land part after drying can be used in curative national recipes. First of all, broths of plant are perfectly proved expectorant cure for pulmonary diseases. Long since the lungwort is applied to mitigation of cough and as resolvent at infection of mucous. Besides, broths of plant use as diuretic, and fresh juice quickly stops bleedings and helps healing of wounds.
Are part of lungwort:
- complex of vitamins and microelements;
- the tannins having the knitting properties;
- alkaloids;
- complex of organic acids;
- natural glycosides.
The fresh juice of lungwort added to shampoo for washing of the head and broth of land part of plant for rinsings at course application help from hair loss.
Young escapes and foliage near roots can be used for preparation of salads and soups, to scroll in puree, to add to food as the seasoning impacting relish of Vermouth – wine on herbs.
The lungwort is contraindicated:
- to pregnant women;
- feeding;
- to people with fibrillation pathology;
- at loss of tone of intestines.
The basic rules on care for lungwort
- The lungwort needs to be planted in the shaded places of the site, for example, under magnificent bush or before house wall. In landshafny design it perfectly adjoins to coniferous trees, crocuses, snowdrops.
- The plant will well take root on the trained soils, clay and limy, loves humus.
- It is the simplest to make multiple copies lungwort at the end of summer piece of rhizome or division of bush. Between allotments it is necessary to leave distance in 20 cm, at the same time it is enough to plant plant on five-centimetric depth, without burying it.
- The earth around lungwort is recommended to be mulched chips, peat approximately on 8 cm.
- During drought and in hot weather of landing of lungwort it is necessary to water, but to remember that the plant prefers moderate humidity.
- Deflowered nimbuses of lungwort can be cut off with peduncles and after that to bring complex mineral fertilizing in soil.
- At the first signs of brown spottiness of leaves of lungwort and emergence of mealy dew it is necessary to powder plant ashes.
- The frost-resistant lungwort does not need to be covered for the winter. On spring as snow will descend, it is necessary to remove the darkened foliage.