Useful garden decoration - barberry ordinary

If you have your own plot and reflect on its decoration, then find a place to plant an ordinary barberry. A wide variety of varieties will allow using this plant in any compositions.

Barberry - a shrub up to three meters high, which is perfect for creating a hedge. Rapidly expanding and forming a dense wall of bright foliage, it protects you from unnecessary dust, strong wind and extraneous views. The branches covered with a light brown bark are decorated with large spines, so the barberry wall will become a real protector of the site.

Barberry ordinary - an ornamental plant, decorating the plot first with thick foliage and bright yellow flowers, and then with bunches of red berries. When choosing this hedge fence, combine it with other ornamental plants, for example, lilac and honeysuckle.

Try not to plant barberry ordinary close to home. With all its many merits, he has only one drawback - an unpleasant smell of flowers, attracting flies. But if you combine planting with other plants, you simply will not feel it.

The common barberry is an excellent honeycomb. The time of its flowering is at the end of May and the beginning of June, and the fruits hang on the bush all year round and become an excellent treat for the birds.

Each variety of barberry has its own color of berries: red, blue, almost black and ruby. Berries are used for culinary purposes - as a seasoning for meat and fish dishes, for compotes, drinks, jam and confectionery. They normalize the increased pressure and have a calming effect on the body, stimulate the appetite and are used to prevent various diseases of the stomach and intestinal tract.

The roots and leaves of barberry contain a very rare plant extract called berberine, which can only be obtained from plant material and can not be synthesized. This substance has a strong hemostatic and choleretic, excellent anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.

By planting a purple-colored barberry on your site, you will always have at hand an excellent remedy for strengthening the vessels. Its leaves have all the properties of barberry and, in addition, contain a large amount of vitamin R. The fruits of barberry help with vomiting in pregnant women and diarrhea, jaundice and liver diseases.

The most important thing is to properly plant the barberry. Care of the plant in this case will not be burdensome for you. For seedlings, you should choose a sunny and well drained place, rich in fertile and loose soil. If clay soil predominates on your site and groundwater is close , but you really want to have such a shrub, you will have to create favorable conditions for it on your own. From excess water, barberry will die, and on heavy soil it will grow poorly and bear fruit.

The minimum time during which the bush should be well illuminated is about five hours. The lack of sunlight in decorative species with purple leaves will change the brightness of the color or make it green. For planting in the shade, only the barberry of the Amur is suitable.

You can multiply barberry seeds, but it is best to buy ready-made seedlings, adapted to your area in the nearest "Zelenchoz". Barbaris blooms for the fourth year after planting. Transplant the shrub to a permanent place in the first four years. The older he becomes, the stronger he gets sick and the worse he suffers from a transplant.

It is problematic to multiply the planting of barberry by dividing the bush. To do this, you must first dig out the entire bush, cut its main root in half and plant several seedlings. After such procedures, the bush is ill from several months to a year.