2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Several species of mountaineer are known in Russia mainly as medicinal plants, and a certain part of them are also considered weeds. Under natural conditions, you can meet the mountaineer almost all over the world - it mainly grows near water bodies, in forests, in highlands and meadows. Of the three hundred existing varieties of this plant, only twenty are used to decorate gardens
Getting to know the plant
Highlander, also called buckwheat or buckwheat, as well as peach, is a genus of perennial and annual herbaceous plants, a little less often - lianas and shrubs of the numerous Buckwheat family. This genus has almost three hundred species widespread throughout the planet, but only twenty species are still used in culture.
The stems of the mountaineer are mostly spread or erect, but sometimes curly ones are also found. The next simple leaves are lanceolate-ovate.
Small flowers of the mountaineer are formed by few-flowered curls, often collected in paniculate or racemose inflorescences. The fruits of the plant are funny nuts with a huge number of seeds.
The very first to find their application in culture was the related and incredibly attractive snake mountaineer who appeared from Nepal.
Highlander application
In folk medicine, some types of mountaineer are used as an anti-inflammatory, astringent and hemostatic agent.
Also, the highlander has found its application in landscape design and is an integral part of the most beautiful flower arrangements. Some of its types are used to decorate the western and eastern slopes of curbs and alpine hills, as well as to decorate reservoirs. The leader in this direction is the Alpine mountaineer, which looks very organically along the paths and in the foregrounds of rockeries in the community of hosts and astilbe. It will look good in rockeries and rock gardens and related highlander. For cultivation on the surfaces of reservoirs, the amphibian mountaineer is most optimal, and on their banks the serpentine mountaineer will look luxurious. Curly mountaineer varieties are good for vertical landscaping.
Tall species are also often used to mask various outbuildings and fences that do not fit into the overall composition of the site. The highlander looks quite interesting in the cut. And if you plant perennial plants in groups, you can get very bizarre compositions. Just keep in mind that only competitive plants can be grown in the neighborhood of a mountaineer.
How to grow
Highlander is an undemanding plant, but it will grow best on non-acidic soils and in partial shade, in moderately humid places. It is highly undesirable to overmoisten the soil (especially for the sprawling and kindred mountaineer), despite the fact that the snake mountaineer grows excellently even when lying near groundwater.
Highlander reproduces by root suckers and division, less often by seeds. A rapidly growing plant can safely grow in one place for 6 to 10 years. However, the highlander tolerates the transplant along with the earthen clods quite well and painlessly.
The mountaineer is not afraid of drought, he can winter without any shelter - that is why he is considered extremely unpretentious in care. In addition, it is not only frost-resistant, but also shade-tolerant. True, occasionally there are species that are distinguished by a special love of light and are able to thrive only in well-lit areas. And the moisture-loving species of mountaineers must be provided with abundant watering. You can also feed these plants occasionally for better growth. The mountaineer is very resistant to diseases and pests.
A highlander needs an eye and an eye - its aggressive growth can make its own adjustments to the landscape design of the site, turning a wonderful plant into a weed, easily displacing less powerful plants.
At the end of winter, the highlander may slightly lose its decorative effect, however, you should not immediately cut off the old shoots - a little later, oblong narrow leaves will begin to appear on them, to which blooming candles will be added in May. The peak of the highlander's decorativeness is observed in June, at the very beginning of the month.
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