Flowers Echinacea purpurea - beauty and health on the flowerbed

Each gardener has a "bouquet" of his favorite flowers, which for years were selected for seasonal flowering, and for which proper care has been established. On a special, honorable, account - flowering perennials. In addition to decorative flowers, a perennial plant can be planted on its plot, which will not yield to your pets with its flowering and beauty.

Take, for example, a plant like Echinacea purpurea. This flower is cultivated both for decorative purposes and for medicinal purposes. Beautiful purple and purple baskets will look great on your flower beds. The plant starts from the end of May and continues until the middle of August.

The plant is winter-resistant, loves lighted areas and moist fertile soils. Complexity of care and vitality of plants, when compared with other flowers, at the level of chemist's chamomile. Echinacea flowers can be grown from seeds, which are recommended for sowing in spring to a depth of about 3 cm. Seedlings appear on the 2nd-4th week, and the plant blooms for the second year.

Having such a miracle plant on your site, you will get a wonderful medicine. Flowers Echinacea relieve you of many diseases, increase and strengthen weak immunity.

If you collect echinacea for your own purposes, it is recommended to do it when the plant begins to bloom violently in July. Then the flowers of Echinacea and shoots 25-30 cm long are cut. The rhizomes are excavated in autumn, because at that time the content of medicinal substances in the plant reaches its peak. Infusions cooked both from fresh raw materials, and from dried.

And do you know about the useful properties of plants? Many do not imagine what the flower of Echinacea looks like . The photos presented in the article will be eloquently told to you. And perhaps, having looked closer, many will recognize him.

It has already been scientifically proven that the roots, seeds and flowers of Echinacea contain unique natural substances: resins, essential oils, tannins, valuable natural antioxidants and polysaccharides. In the roots of the plant contains insulin, essential and fatty oils, glucose and many other useful vitamins and elements.

Among other things, this plant is rich in iron, which is necessary for a person to form red blood cells, calcium for teeth and bones, selenium, which gives strength to our body in the fight against diseases. If you go to the pharmacy and ask for a drug to strengthen immunity, you will be offered a tincture of echinacea purpurea. In some cases, the cost of the drug will unpleasantly surprise you.

Often doctors after operations prescribe to patients Echinacea, for faster recovery of tissues.

And now imagine this flower in your flowerbed ... It is easy to make it and use it if necessary: treat a small wound obtained in combating weeds, or burn you with your own prepared preparation. More serious illnesses should be treated after consultation with your doctor. Be healthy and enjoy the long flowering of this plant!