Mythical silver loch. Planting and care

Loch silver - Elaeagnus commutata - decorative tree or shrub. Silver scales give an amazing color to this plant: flowers, fruits, and leaves. Genus Loch from North America, now grows everywhere, even in mythical lands. Immediately recall the fabulous Old Forest at the edge of the Shire, the possession of a good-natured Tom Bombadil, where the malicious fox nearly killed the guardian of the ring of Frodo and his friends. And you will look at this fragrant tree - and you will be surprised by such strangenesses of Tolkien's fantasy. Such a beautiful tree - silver! Planting and nursing almost do not require care of the gardener. Berries are edible, very similar to olives, some people even assumed that loch is one of the wild species of this tree.

Decorativeness and usefulness

Especially beautiful is the tree in compositional contrast, when the light silver of its trunk and leaves is combined with the red and yellow leaves of neighboring trees, as well as with conifers. For hedges is not very suitable, many shoots from the roots, some get out at a distance of eight to ten meters from the mother plant. However, this is a beautiful, the best breed for anchoring slopes, banks, ravines. Its roots are so powerful that it creates the impression of a slow growth of the above-ground part of the tree. Directly according to the proverb: everything in the root went away.

Loch silvery - planting and care

Seeds are stored without harm one to two years, while remaining capable of germination. It is most convenient to propagate the feces by dividing the rhizome. Unpretentious plant, true, with good lighting grows much faster and better, but can grow in the penumbra. It is frost-resistant - withstands up to minus forty degrees in winter. The shoots sometimes freeze, but the tree is restored almost instantly. Soils also do not choose unpretentious silver loch. Care is almost unnecessary. Even special pruning is not necessary, except that dry branches are cut.

Features of flowering

And how it blooms in late May and almost the whole of June! Flowers with a sweet and strong aroma, stupefyingly fragrant, besides very cute externally: gold inside, silver outside. It's not a malicious tree, it's silver. Planting and care are the most elementary. And what a gratitude for attention! Look at yourself - do the villains look so noble? In autumn, until the fall of the leaves, the color does not change, so the tree is silver, which, it seems, even tinkles in the wind thinly and cleanly. Fruiting at the age of seven to eight years. The taste of berries is very interesting, like sweet cranberries. Well, but not enough: the bone is almost more than the berry itself, you tire of spitting and not gorging.

Often the silvery foxes are confused with the appearance of the Lilithidae, which grows massively in Russia. Loch silvery is found not so often and mostly solitary in gardens and squares. And the enterprising beekeepers liked the name, and now the tons of honey sold "Loch silver". Photo of blossoming loch - in the article.

Planting and caring for seedlings

Seeds are sown in the year of collection. Adult seedlings perfectly tolerate transplant and pruning. Frost-proof, but hygrophilous, small need to water. But the fertilizer does not need silver. Planting and maintenance are limited to sowing and watering. Friars themselves improve the soil on which they grow.

Healing properties

Alcohol, water, as well as oil infusions of silvery silver foxes help with colds, it is also a good tool for the prevention of hypertension and cardiotonic. In the form of tea, Loch is shown to the elderly.