Lavender small-leaved

Lavender is an evergreen plant. Lavender flowers exude a strong and pleasant aroma, while depending on the type, they can be used in various areas - for making essential oils, soap fragrances, colognes or lotions, for decorating the interior and garden or fighting insects. Lavender native-borne refers to medicinal varieties, it is used both in traditional and in folk medicine. There are no contraindications to the use of the plant, except that individual intolerance to substances contained in flowers - essential oil, coumarin, flavonoids, phytosterols.

Lavender narrow-leaved is a semi-shrub plant up to half a meter in height. Stems upright, the arrangement of leaves on them is opposite. Flowers are collected in the inflorescence - an intermittent ear. The plant is winter-hardy, perennial. The most common product of processing is essential oil. For these purposes, the plant is grown on special fields and farms.

Due to its aroma, lavender narrow-leaved was known to the ancient Romans. It was used to take aromatic baths, considering the plant an excellent means for maintaining a tonus. Her homeland is the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This kind of lavender is more frost-resistant, so it spread to the eastern Europe. In the Middle Ages, it was used to decorate houses, and dry bouquets were used as a remedy for moths. Even today, lavender oil can be used as a natural remedy for mosquitoes. It is enough to add one drop to the aroma lamp with a lighted candle-tablet, and insects within a radius of 5 meters will not bother. However, this method is suitable for an open veranda or terrace, as well as a well-ventilated room. That mosquitoes were not disturbed indoors, on wrists and on ulnar folds it is necessary to put some essential oil of a lavender.

But lavender narrow-leaved and products made from it are used not only to repel insects. Alcohol tincture is used for grinding and compresses for rheumatism. In Germany, doctors prescribe the flowers of this plant for adding to tea with such symptoms of a nervous breakdown as insomnia, lack of appetite, anxiety, flatulence, nervous irritation. In folk medicine lavender is also used for diseases such as disorders of the central nervous system, colic, toothache, gout, heart disease, joints, gynecological diseases.

But not only in the field of medicine the plant has found its application. Lavender in the garden is used for landscape design: splitting fragrant gardens, rosaries, decorating garden paths, arranging benches or arbors. It looks great as a hedge, especially during the flowering period, which occurs in the second half of the summer. Grow lavender can be using seeds or petioles. Seeds are planted in the ground in the second half of autumn. For growing in enclosed spaces, stratification of seeds must be carried out, which are then planted in prepared containers. The sprouting of lavender is dived after the formation of two adult leaves. In the middle of spring, plants are planted in a permanent place.

With cuttings, the lignified stem is bent to the ground and buried. A year later, the established new plant is separated from the old one and transplanted to the intended site. Lavender is narrow-leaved and does not require special soils or special care. Adult plants do not require watering. After flowering it is necessary to cut off the dried up inflorescences, and for winter cover with lapnika or dry leaves.