Fragrant reseda: how to grow a flower in a flowerbed

If you want to stand out among the neighbors and surround your site with a pleasant strong aroma - you need to know what is resed.

Description of culture and popular species
Place for growing resedy
- Lighting
- The soil
Landing rules
- Seedling method
- Direct seeding
How to care for a plant
Little about the healing properties

Description of culture and popular species

Reseda is a genus of herbaceous plants. There are one-year, two-year and long-term. Consists of up to 60 species of these herbs. The plant comes from North Africa, is most widely represented in the Mediterranean region.

Did you know? The name "rezeda" comes from the Latin resedare, which in translation means "to return to the previous state." It was believed that its use can bring the body into balance. According to another version, resedare means to heal.

Leaves in some species pinnate, in some whole. Rezeda blooms small, clustered in brush inflorescences, the flower is white, yellow or green. They exude an intense smell.

Cultivation is practiced mainly of two types:

fragrant - An annual plant, up to 40 cm high, with a thick pyramidal spike of flowers;

white - taller than fragrant, reaches 100 cm, has beautiful white flowers and a pleasant smell.

Place for growing resedy

Pleasant aroma, use in medicine, honey plant - all this causes the cultivation of this flower in areas and flowerbeds.

Lighting

Pick a bright and sunny place for the flower before planting. Try to provide shading in the hottest time of day. Growing in the penumbra is possible, but the development is worse, the compactness of the bushes disappears.

The soil

Land for planting should be light and not very wet. For improvement of heavy soils use expanded clay, sand, peat.

Important! Heavy waterlogged soils can lead to rotting flowers.

The best soil is neutral or alkaline. Good results are obtained by applying lime.

Landing rules

The rezeda fragrant reproduces either by seedlings or by growing from seeds.

Seedling method

Seeds for seedlings are sown in closed ground in March. The optimal composition of soil for growing seedlings is a mixture of humus, earth, sand in a ratio of 1: 1: 0.5. Shoots appear in 1-2 weeks. After the appearance of the first pair of leaves, dive into peat pots or immediately into the ground. This is done to reduce the effect of transplant on the roots.Landing in open ground is carried out in May and June. Saplings better pritenit for the first time. Planting at a permanent place of growth is carried out at intervals of 15-25 cm.

Direct seeding

Seeds are sown in open ground in spring, to a depth of 5-6 cm with a distance between the seeds of 1 cm. Sowing is done in rows with an interrow distance of 40-50 cm. Sprinkled with sand to prevent the formation of a crust after watering.

Thinning of crops produced when the seedlings reach 4-5 cm in height, bring the distance between flowers to 12-15 cm.

Important! Often reseda multiplies self-sowing. To prevent this in time cut the seed boxes. As soon as the seeds have turned yellow, they can be cut and stored for seeding for the next year.

How to care for a plant

Rezeda unpretentious plant. Demands regular watering and maintenance of the soil in a friable state. Weeding is obligatory at the beginning of the development of bushes. Top dressing is made for earlier and intensive flowering, but is not mandatory.

Remove faded flowers. This will preserve the aesthetic appearance of the plant and stimulate the growth of new flowers. The plant is not sick. Rarely affected by pests.Danger is represented by whitefish caterpillars against which insecticides can be applied (Kinmiks, Fitoverm).

Little about the healing properties

In addition to the pleasant smell, this flower is also a medicinal plant. In folk medicine, this plant is used as an analgesic, diuretic and diaphoretic. Strong essential oils are used in aromatherapy.

Did you know? Reseda is a good honey plant. Honey from rezedy very pleasant to the taste, compare the lime.

The most important for beekeeping are such honey plants: sunflower, rapeseed, white locust, linden, heather, snyat, oregano, medunitsa, cherry plum, pear, cherry, apple.

Once you plant it in your flowerbed, you will never forget the charming scent of this plant.