Flowers Honeysuckle

Winter- hard berry bushes with surprisingly tasty fruits are of interest to amateur gardeners. There are about 200 of its species. But the fruits of the Far Eastern and East Siberian varieties are suitable for food. Very unpretentious this shrub to the place of growth and care. Use it in group plantings and as hedges. They are durable and not prone to disease. Honeysuckle flowers are very delicious, and berries have not only a wonderful taste, but also contain organic, tanning, coloring substances, pectins, a large amount of vitamin C and P, provitamin A, as well as vitamins B1 and B6, B9. Such a unique combination of use, aroma and beauty is rarely found in nature. Perfect bush, in a word!

The flowers of honeysuckle can be described as captivating. They are of different color and size, and differ not only in beauty, but also in a pleasant smell. In Alpine honeysuckle, they are yellowish with a characteristic dark reddish tinge, while in Maac's honeysuckle they are large, white and fragrant. The American variety has honeysuckle yellow flowers inside, purple outside and fragrant. And the golden-colored look is golden yellow with a delicious honey smell.

Of course, the interest is honeysuckle edible. It has oblong leaves and a light yellow color of flowers. The berries are oval, blue with a bluish bloom, they have a sweet and sour taste, close to blueberries. They ripen a week earlier than strawberries. Very useful berries with avitaminosis, atherosclerosis, scurvy, gastritis, metabolic disorders and as a restorative and restorative force. Fruit broths are used as a rinse with angina, pharyngitis, stomatitis.

Decorative culture of honeysuckle is an economic purpose. It is used to strengthen ravines. She has bright red and juicy fruits, having a bitter taste - they are poisonous. Therefore, in the people this plant is called only "wolf berries". But a small number of fruits of the plant honeysuckle ordinary found its application in homeopathy. The wood of honeysuckle has good hardness and for this feature it used to be used for shoe nails, ramrods for guns and other handicrafts. No wonder the hardness of the plant's wood is reflected in its Latin name, which in translation means "the bone of the tree".

From the decorative forms spread and the honeysuckle winding, shaped like a vine, decorating the gazebos, walls, arches at any time of the year. It looks especially beautiful during the flowering period - a continuous carpet of fragrant elongated tubular spectacular inflorescences at the very ends of the shoots. All this beauty is flowers. Honeysuckle, by the way, is just a wonderful honeycomb. In most of this species of honeysuckle, numerous leaves have an elliptical shape, from below they are gray and dark green from above.

And one more important detail: this type of honeysuckle is growing rapidly and spreading in Southern and Northern Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa. In Russia, this culture grows from the Caucasus to St. Petersburg and is very much loved by gardeners. Honeysuckle winding is more in demand, which ripens later. The period of its abundant flowering begins at the end of August and lasts until the beginning or even almost until the middle of October. This kind of plant likes fertile, moist soil and light, but it can also bloom wherever partial penumbra is.

For cultivation in the central strip of Russia this grade is recommended to shoot shoots from the supports in late autumn and from above to cover with lapnik or dry leaves to exclude their damage by severe frosts. But the time of the year will change, summer will come, and this plant will give amazing beauty and a wonderful smell of its flowers.