The saxifrage throat is best known as a wild plant that attracts attention mainly due to its healing properties. However, this bush is grown for decorative purposes at home.
What does the Saxifrage Thigh look like, to which family it belongs
Hemisphere Stonefinch (Pimpinella Saxifraga l) is a perennial spicy-aromatic plant in the Umbrella family. Due to the high content of essential oils it is widely used in pharmaceuticals and cosmetology.
Thigh - Healing Plant
The shrub itself reaches a length of about 1 meter, has cirrus leaves. On top of the stem is a large inflorescence of white color, which is its main decorative part.
Common varieties
The appearance of new species and varieties is affected by the areola of the plant. Arends variety has a special decorative effect, which is inferior in size to the thigh, but is widely used in landscape design. It grows in the form of a creeping shrub with dense and small foliage. Another variety - Soddy - has yellow-white flowers and light green lush foliage.
Healing properties
The rich chemical composition of saxifrage can help cure many diseases and ailments. The history of its use as a healing remedy dates back many centuries.
The healing properties of the thigh:
- relieves inflammatory processes;
- boosts immunity;
- has expectorant properties;
- treats a runny nose or catarrhal diseases;
- improves the digestive tract.
Important! Before using tinctures and extracts from saxifrage as a medicine, a person needs to be checked for allergies to the plant.
Briefly about the history of the appearance
The very first mention of the saxifrage was documented in the 16th century. With the help of tinctures from shrubs in Europe, plague and cholera were treated. The birthplace of the flower is Eurasia, more precisely, all territories with a temperate climate: Crimea, Western Siberia and the Urals.
Features of home flower care
The thigh is characterized by its resistance to adverse environmental influences. The shrub is rarely sick and absolutely not capricious in leaving.
Temperature
The flower grows best at moderate temperatures, although it tolerates hot periods.
Lighting
An undemanding shrub grows well both in the shade and in open areas. In the heat of summer, saxifrage can be obscured by any construction.
Abundant watering is needed only in the very first year of life
Watering
Water the plant only after the soil has dried, excess fluid will harm and provoke the appearance of diseases.
Note! Abundant watering is necessary immediately after planting in open ground, in the second year the plant is watered less often and in smaller volumes.
Spraying
During a drought, you can spray the thigh with water every other day to help comfortably transfer the heat without serious consequences.
Humidity
To indicators of humidity, the plant is not very demanding. However, you should not allow sudden jumps in humidity, especially in the dry season.
Priming
The land on which the plant will be grown should be of medium acidity and fertile. Before planting a saxifrage, organic fertilizers are necessarily introduced into it: manure, compost, bark or humus.
Top dressing
Feeding Berdenets is enough every two months. For this, it is not necessary to use special complex fertilizers, you can do with a mullein solution or Superphosphate.
Features of winter care, rest period
The thigh tolerates winter well, therefore it does not require shelter. It is enough to cut the bush from dried stems and leaves.
note! A week before pruning, fertilizers in the form of organic matter and mineral preparations are applied for the last time this season.
Large inflorescences are composed of many small flowers
When and how it blooms
For decorative purposes, the thigh is grown precisely because of its large inflorescences. Its flowers are small, similar in shape to five-petalled daisies, in the middle they have small pale yellow stamens.
The thigh begins to dissolve the flowers in the first half of May. This process continues until the end of summer - about three months.
During flowering, the care of the saxifrage does not change. It is important not to overfill the bush and protect it from direct sunlight.
Pruning
In the second year after planting, the bush begins to bloom for the first time. During this period, it is necessary to prune drying flower stalks in order to accelerate the formation of new flowers.
How saxifrage thigh propagates
A plant can be bred in many ways. All of them are easy to use, but vary in duration.
Seed germination
In the fall, the plant has fruits with seeds. They are cut off and seeds are taken out, which in winter should be stored in a dry and protected from the sun place.
In the spring, when the frosts end, the seeds are soaked in a growth-promoting and disinfecting solution. The beds are dug up and organic. Planting material is planted in a row and watered with water that is separated from harmful impurities.
Propagation of the plant by planting seeds
Rooting cuttings
Cuttings are cut in late spring or early summer, their length should be at least 10 cm. Before planting in a nutrient substrate, they are soaked for several hours in saline. You can plant the cuttings immediately in open ground or root them in boxes.
Important! Before a stable root system appears, the cuttings need to be covered with a plastic or glass dome.
Air lay
This method is used only if the shoots of the plant are flexible and durable. It is necessary to tilt the stem to the ground and dig it, leaving the top above the ground. When it takes root, it is cut off from the main bush and transplanted to another place.
Other options
Another method often used in transplantation is the division of rhizomes. It is necessary to dig up the plant and divide it together with the roots into 2 or 3 parts. It is important to leave up to 6 viable buds on each seedling.
Transfer
The shrub can do without transplants, but sometimes there are problems in which this procedure is necessary. If the thigh fell ill with an infectious disease or the soil on which it is grown has been depleted, then a transplant is best done in autumn or early spring.
Procedure:
- Water the bush abundantly and dig it up with the rhizome.
- In a new place, make a hole up to 50-60 cm in depth and place a bush in it.
- Cover the seedling with a nutrient substrate and water it.
Possible problems with growing and disease
Saxifrage is resistant to fungal diseases, but may have some problems when grown. The reason for their appearance is usually improper care.
Plant drops buds and leaves
Falling foliage and flowers can occur at any time during the growing season. The causes of the problem are soil depletion and a lack of nutrients, so fertilizers must be applied in a timely manner.
Leaves turn pale
If the leaves at the bush begin to lose their saturated green hue and grow dull, you need to increase the level of iron in the soil. To do this, it is treated with a solution of iron sulfate.
The tips dry on the leaves
Drying of the edges of the leaf plates indicates excessive lighting, high temperature and lack of watering. Often this happens due to a sharp decrease in humidity. As a rule, a plant behaves this way in hot summer periods. At this time, it is necessary to spray the bush more often and increase the frequency of watering.
The most common problem is bush wilting
Lower leaves fall off
This problem occurs due to transfusion of the femur and the use of low-quality water. It is better to let the soil dry slightly than to overfill it. In order to prevent falling of the lower leaves, you need to water the bush with cold soft water and carry out loosening of the soil.
Pests
Saxifrages are virtually unaffected by pests. The tissues of the bush contain many essential oils that repel parasites.
Other problems
If the bush is not treated for a long time when it is transfused with poor-quality water, rotting of the stem may begin, and the leaves will become dark and turn brown. In this case, you need to dig a bush and remove dead shoots. The plant itself is treated with disinfectant drugs and planted in another place.
The use of saxifrage thigh (Pimpinella Saxifraga) for the treatment of diseases has been common for more than a century, but began to grow the plant for decorative purposes not so long ago. The shrub does not require special care, but all summer pleases the eye with long flowering.
