Cataracts: home care, rearing and breeding

A delightful flower bringing home the warmth of the southand the color of the Mediterranean is all the cataracts, home care is simple and pleasant. This plant is completely undemanding. But how it pleases the eye with its spectacular flowering! In addition to the charming appearance, the catarrhatus (pink wine earwax) has long been used to treat certain cancers in alternative medicine.

Pink Periwinkle: a brief description of the plant

Decorative shrub belonging tofamily Kutrovye - so characterize the cataract. The flowers of the plant have a 5-petal-shaped, 5 cm-diameter petal, 3 cm in diameter. They have a striking resemblance to the flowers of the phlox. Their distinctive feature is that they are not collected in the inflorescence.

In general, pink has a catarrhtus. The flowers of his hybrids can be of a different color. The most surprising of them is the blue-violet coloration.

The cataract is a plant with a maximum height of 60 cm. It is distinguished by erect stems and long dark green leaves (7 cm). They are shiny and have white streaks in the middle. Flowering period: from early May to early October.

Cataracts: home care

Fans of this plant who are going toit is important to follow certain rules to grow a wonderful and healthy catarrhtas. Care at home is to comply with the following recommendations-tips:

• Lighting. The plant prefers scattered light, although it will get well on the windowsill. It is important only to remember to protect it from direct sun rays in the morning. In winter, it is also necessary to provide a catarrhtal warm place. In case of poor lighting, the plant will stretch its stems upwards.
• Temperature. The ideal temperature for vinca pink in summer is a maximum of 25 degrees Celsius. In winter, this figure is only 16 degrees.
• Watering. Categorically it is not recommended to bring the cataracts to dryness. At home, it is necessary to provide the plant three hours a week. With an excessive bay of the vinca pink, there is a risk of decaying the roots of the plant. Therefore, after 15 minutes after the irrigation, it is important to drain the water from the pan.
• Pruning is an important stage in the life of such a plant as the cataract. Care in the home in this direction should be carried out every spring.
• Application of fertilizers. It is desirable to feed the plant thrice a year: in summer, in spring and in autumn.

Compliance with the above recommendations will ensure that the cataract is fresh, healthy and charming.

Cataratus: Growing and Care

You can propagate pink periwinkle in two ways:

• seeds;
• cuttings (vegetatively).

Particular attention should be paid to trainingsoil. For her an excellent option will be a mixture of peat, humus, turf and coarse sand. Each component is taken in the same amount.

It is recommended to take a pot for planting withhole. It is also important not to forget about drainage, which can serve as stones, pebbles or expanded clay. This solution will remove excess water and prevent rotting of roots. To ensure that the hole is not clogged, it must be cleaned regularly.

Reproduction of catarrhtum by cuttings

For this purpose, green cuttings from the top, which are often rich in catarrhatus, are perfect. Reproduction is carried out in two ways:

• stalk put in water for germination;
• The cuttings are immediately planted in moist soil, while covering with a package to create the effect of the greenhouse.

The most suitable time for sampling cuttings: spring (after pruning). You can also plant them in the fall. The optimum temperature index for rooting cuttings is not less than 20 degrees Celsius.

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Spring is the ideal time for plant transplantation. Some recommendations on this issue:

• The pot is selected several sizes larger than the old one.
• The capacity for planting is important to disinfect, at least pour boiling water.
• The roots of the catarrhatus are too tender, so it is very important not to damage them.
• Root system before transplantation is necessarycarefully inspect to determine dead roots. In case of their detection, it is necessary to remove this site (4 cm above the diseased part). The blade or scissors are also desirable to be disinfected to avoid contamination of another part of the root system.
• The wound on the root is covered with crumb of charcoal.

These 5 rules for successful transplantation of the catarrhtum are fundamental in this process.

Problems with growing vinca pink

Pests that attack this plant- it's aphids, scabies and spider mites. Therefore, taking the cataract from the garden to the house, it is important to carefully inspect the plant for the detection of data "enemies". In the event that, nevertheless, they are, it is necessary to act as follows:

• take a brush, moisten it with alcohol, then gently remove pests;
• treat the leaves with a soap solution.

If you do not provide the plant with reliable care, then soon the cataract will have problems, such as:

• yellowing and death of leaflets (from direct sunlight);
• Observation of the tendency to reduce flowers - too cold air in the room;
• yellowing of the tips of the leaves - insufficient moisture in the air.

Also, remember that the plant must be transplanted in time, otherwise it will cease to bloom.

Therapeutic properties of vinca pink

Medicinal preparations are prepared on the basis of a plant that carries the proud name of catarrhtas. Its therapeutic properties are used both in alternative and in official medicine.

To create drugs, it is the aboveground part of the vinca rosea. It is harvested during the flowering period.

The catarrhatus has the following therapeutic effect:

• anti-inflammatory;
• wound-healing;
• antimicrobial;
• hemostatic;
• antidiabetic.

Barber pink is successfully fighting the symptoms of the following diseases:

• acute leukemia;
• diabetes mellitus;
• tumors of various etymologies (tumor of the thyroid gland, myoma, polyps, cyst, prostate adenoma);
• enlarged lymph nodes;
• blood diseases;
• trophic skin ulcers and other, non-healing wounds on the skin;
• eczema and psoriasis;
• some diseases of the digestive tract.

Apply this plant is necessary under strictThe control of the doctor, since periwinkle pink is, first of all, a poisonous plant. It is contraindicated to use it for medicinal purposes to people suffering from low blood pressure and patients with vegetovascular dystonia. It is strictly forbidden to give broths from the cataracts to children.

The cataract is a wonderful ornamental plant,which is easy to grow at home. Only the application of an integrated approach in the care of it contributes to the successful growth and flowering of the vinca pink.