2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Fragrant rosemary is more to their liking a hot climate, but lovers of Mediterranean aromas grow the plant in flower pots, or even outdoors, protecting the bush from the cold wind and high humidity at low temperatures
Rod Rosemary
Low evergreen shrubs, exuding a refreshing aroma, are combined into a genus
Rosemary (Rosmarinus).
Among the representatives of the genus there are healers, perfumers and culinary specialists who supply people with medicines, aromatic cosmetics and spicy seasonings for exquisite dishes.
Rosemary, which loves a hot climate, survives in cold regions, if a person takes care of its protection, planting it closer to the wall of the house, facing south, and in winter it will carefully cover it with improvised means.
Among the types of rosemary, the most famous is
Medicinal rosemary
Medicinal rosemary
Medicinal rosemary or
ordinary (Rosmarinus officinalis) has many benefits:
* Rosemary -
ornamental plantfilling the garden with a pleasant refreshing scent. Its two-lipped blue flowers begin to bloom in the last month of winter, ending flowering with the arrival of autumn frosts. The compactness of the bush, which is favorable to shearing, makes it possible to use Rosemary for growing bonsai.
* Double-lipped blue rosemary flowers, forming whorl-inflorescences, produce
nectarcollected by hardworking
bees, taking care of their food, and, at the same time, supplying a person with healing honey.
* Universal
healing abilities plants based on the content in leaves, flowers, young shoots of substances that can suppress the activity of pathogenic microbes, increase blood pressure for a short time, revive the nervous system upset by stress …
* The oil contained in the leaves and stems of Rosemary is in demand
perfume industry
* The tops of flowering shoots together with flowers and young leaves of the plant are used
in cooking as
spices with a sweetish smell and pungent taste for a wide variety of dishes from: meat, poultry, fish, mushrooms, vegetables and even dough.
Growing
Perhaps the love of the warm climate is Rosemary's only whim. Loamy soil, including lime, is suitable for him, as long as it is loose and with good drainage.
The planting site is preferably sunny, but, given the need for protection from the cold wind, the bushes are often planted near the wall of the house, condemning Rosemary to partial shade, against which the plant does not protest.
Gardeners manage to replace the love of drought and the hot sun with additional protection of the plant from low temperatures by planting on the south side of the house and covering the bush with transparent protective materials.
A drought-resistant plant in the open field does without additional watering, and when growing in pots, watering is carried out when the soil dries out. For potted plants, liquid fertilizer is added to the irrigation water every couple of months.
The plant easily tolerates shearing, which is used when creating hedges from Rosemary, or when growing bonsai. In other cases, cutting is necessary to remove branches damaged by winter frosts or dry branches.
Reproduction
Rosemary can be easily propagated by summer or autumn woody cuttings, which are planted for rooting either in containers filled with a substrate of sand and peat, or straight into open ground.
When grown in pots, containers that have become cramped are changed to more spacious ones in the spring, filling them with a similar soil.
Ready-made plants are not uncommon in shops selling garden crops. As for decorative species, it is better to contact flower nurseries for them.
Enemies
Rosemary has two main enemies - frost and excess moisture. Frost kills shoots, and excess moisture provokes root rot.
Soil with a low iron content provokes leaf chlorosis.
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Medicinal Rosemary
Medicinal rosemary is one of the plants of the family called Clarice, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Rosmarinus officinalis. As for the very name of the medicinal rosemary family, in Latin it will be like this: Lamiaceae.
Rosemary
Rosemary (lat.Rosmarinus) - a genus of evergreen dwarf shrubs or shrubs of the Lamiaceae family. In nature, rosemary is found in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Cyprus, as well as in some European countries, more precisely, in Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain and France.
The Benefits And Harms Of Rosemary
Rosemary is a truly unique plant that deserves the closest attention, because it is considered both an excellent spice and one of the most powerful and effective medicinal herbs. This attractive herb is successfully used in cooking, and in folk medicine, and even in cosmetology! Nevertheless, despite the huge number of useful properties, not everyone can use rosemary. So who will it do a good job, and who better to abandon the idea of using it?
Marsh Wild Rosemary
Marsh wild rosemary belongs to a family called heather. In the Latin version, the name of this plant sounds like this: Ledum palustre L. Description of marsh rosemary Marsh rosemary is an evergreen flowering shrub, the height of which is most often about seventy to ninety centimeters, and sometimes the height of this plant even exceeds one meter.
Large-leaved Wild Rosemary
A plant like wild rosemary belongs to a family called heather. In Latin, the name of this plant is as follows: Ledum macrophyllum Jolm. Description of large-leaved wild rosemary Large-leaved wild rosemary is an evergreen shrub, the height of which fluctuates between fifty and one hundred centimeters.
