Red double berries. Selection of shrubs with different flowering periods

Among garden plants Shrubs that form spectacular ornamental berries can rightly be called the most patient: in order to reveal their beauty, these plants are waiting for the coldest season to come. Then, against the backdrop of the snowy beauty and majesty of winter landscapes, they seem to be strewn with luxurious beads and stones and royal plants. The most spectacular of the ornamental shrubs are those that flaunt the luxury of coral necklaces on the shoots.

In winter, when there is a catastrophic lack of colors in the garden, evergreen crowns and bare graphic branches rule the ball, nostalgia for flowering and a rich palette of garden colors invariably underline the gray gloom of frosty days. And only shrubs with decorative fruits enliven this dark and harsh picture. Like luxurious jewels, they brightly highlight the front gardens, flower beds, terraces, emphasize the graphic restraint of bare crowns and remind you that nature never has periods of calm.

With red fruits are deservedly considered the main berry winter plants. After all, it is precisely the bright fiery color and energetic palette of scarlet that shine so favorably and shimmer against the gray-brown tones of gloomy winter landscapes. Contrasting with the blinding whiteness of snowdrifts, sparkling in luxurious frost crystals, coral necklaces of berries seem mysteriously shimmering from the inside. There are among these crops and plants that combine bright beads of berries with variegated evergreen foliage, which reveals the beauty of luminous fruits even more. Such plants are excellent candidates for the role of soloists, able to revive even the gloomiest garden in winter.

The absolute favorite of the "winter" gardening is considered. This is a spectacular groundcover, creating luxurious high carpets and not losing the bright color of its greenery throughout the year. But the main pride of the evergreen cotoneaster of this species is the winter coral necklace of the brightest fruits, which abundantly covers all the shoots, creating the feeling that someone just scattered large beads on it. Dammer's cotoneaster is also well suited for the role of ampelous ground cover shrub: it effectively hangs down shoots from stone florists, alpine hills, supporting walls. Of the higher species of the cotoneaster, only the cotoneaster Franche, which is two meters high, can boast of a high degree of decorativeness of the fruit. He has elegant arched drooping shoots decorated with berries until spring.

One of the unique shrubs, the beauty of the berry beads of which is emphasized by no less spectacular winter-green foliage - holly, which has varieties with a variety of green and variegated color variations. Decorated with a wavy edge with sharp peaks, more or less pronounced in different varieties, the leaves combine the effect of a dense and glossy surface with the most beautiful nuances of the green color scheme, which only emphasize light spots and rims. And how on their background shoots of small, but very bright coral berries shine! In addition to the luxurious palette of red, the berries of holly can offer unusual blue, yellow, white, orange color ranges. Absolute favorites of garden design - possessing a representative varietal palette of pure green cultivars, holly and holly and offering the best variegated varieties of holly Altaklarensky.

Among tall shrubs, the most luxurious large fruits that attract songbirds are pyracantha. Among the various varieties of this average shrub reaching a height of three meters one can find plants with scarlet, yellow and orange berries, although the most spectacular in the winter garden are scarlet varieties similar to corals. This prickly evergreen shrub with a bright autumn crown show and openwork, dense texture of branching is most often used in regular gardens, where figured hairstyle is appropriate.

The landscape outlines of elegant garden silhouettes, which conquer with a combination of the grace of the crown and the bright glow of luxurious tassels of translucent berries shining in the garden like precious stones, never go out of fashion. Among all the ornamental combs of viburnum that are gaining popularity, almost all adorn magnificent red clusters of berries, but among them there are black-fruited varieties and plants, the color of the berry beads on which changes: for example, the wrinkled viburnum red fruits gradually turn black.

Bright shiny scarlet beads on the branches, also referred to as evergreen shrubs with high winter hardiness, especially effectively sparkling in the rays of the winter sun. It is an ideal shrub for planting on flower beds, with glossy, luxurious, tightly fitting round, dense leaves, the berry beads of which are collected in apical stem.

If in other shrubs the red berries necklace gradually diminishes and disappears from the garden scene due to the bird's intensely delicious fruits, the huge, ceramic-like beads, which are pointed and lying, do not attract them. Due to the inedibility of its berries, this charming shrub with an openwork crown, the garden adorns the whole winter with a luxurious scattering of red pearls. The height of the pointed bow-rim usually does not exceed one and a half meters and is distinguished by the bright bluish color of the elongated large leaves.

The company of the haulier can be made up of more modest berries in size, but also varieties of evergreen lingonberry not attracting birds. This squat and most often growing shrub in the company of heathers forms charming thickets of creeping shoots with almost rounded bright leaves that persist even in winter, between which bright clusters of red shining berries shyly peep.

The most unusual form of scarlet fruit - the pride of euonymus. They seem to be artificial pendants and are very poisonous, but they do not last long in the garden thanks to the birds adoring them. However, in order for the original four-leaf hanging seedlings to become a decoration of the garden, it will be necessary to allocate a place for tall and massive species of this plant.

The wrinkled rose and wild rose will add to the garden their notes of scarlet scattering of luxurious berries: part of the numerous harvest of their fruits even during the winter will still remain on the bushes even after the complete loss of leaves. These plants are the most landscape and natural along the lines of the representatives of a huge family of garden princesses.

The use of berry bushes with an eye for decorativeness in winter is a simple matter. After carefully examining the garden, check all those plants that will look attractive even after the autumn parade is over: in the places that are most “empty” in the winter garden and you need to prudently plant such shrubs. Despite the fact that the garden crops covered with a scattering of red pearls look favorably on almost any background, their beauty is most fully revealed in combination with winter-green crops: juicy and intense in the company of bright berries, the freshness of the green color of the scenes and individual plants is revealed perfectly.

Shrubs with a scattering of luxurious berries can be used not only in open ground, but also in pottery and container compositions that will decorate, and even balconies. For potted compositions, it is advisable to use low-growing and winter-green berry bushes, such as lying haul, holly, etc., with an appropriate warming wrapping of the containers in which they are planted.

How long it will be possible to admire the overexposure of coral beads in your garden, depends not only on the activity of birds, but also on the climatic features. If the weather is frosty in winter, the berries will stay on the bushes for several months. If periods of thaws and severe frosts will be arranged by weather "swings", the fruits will quickly lose their color and fall off.

You can often hear about cases of mushroom poisoning, but do not forget that other gifts of nature can cause us serious problems. Our article will introduce you to the types of poisonous berries and teach you to provide first aid in case of poisoning with them.

Poisonous berries: precautions

Walking through the woods and I want to send in the mouth seductively bright, beautiful and very appetizing-looking berries, here and there perched on the branches of shrubs and trees. Should I meet this desire? Of course not, because any of them may be poisonous to our body.

Signs of berry poisoning

Different types of poisonous berries have a strictly defined effect on the human body, but we will try to highlight major symptomssignaling poisoning. So, the cause for concern should be:

Cramps
Rapid pulse
Labored breathing

First aid for poisoning berries

The very first help is to stimulate the gagging urge - this procedure will release the stomach from toxic contents. To do this, the victim should be given 2-4 glasses of water (you can add activated carbon - 2 tbsp. 500 ml, salt - 1 tsp. 500 ml or potassium permanganate). The procedure will have to spend several times.

In the presence of drugs it is recommended to give the patient activated carbon, tanninas well as any laxative and heart remedy. If you have cramps, you will have to use chloral hydrate. If there is no first aid kit, you can give the patient black crackers, starch solution or milk. It does not hurt to also make an enema (if there is such an opportunity). The victim needs to be wrapped warmly and deliver to a doctor.

Forest honeysuckle

Forest honeysuckle - a common shrub in the Urals and in Western Siberia. Dark red berries this plant, unlike garden honeysuckle, is poisonous. The ripening time of the forest species is July-August.

Wolf bit

Wolfhead - shrub or small tree. The plant is common in wet forests. european part of Russiaas well as in Western Siberia. Oblong red orange berries wolf bast dope shrub in autumn. Even contact with them can lead to poisoning.

Belladonna or belladonna

Beladonna is related to the family of the nightshade. Belle gives harvest black sweet-sour berries with a spherical shape already at the beginning of autumn. Most often, this poisonous berry can be found in middle lane Rossi.

Raven eye

it perennial has a low stem, on which there are 4-5 leaves of a rather large size and only one fruit matures. Crow's eye is spread almost throughout Russia. This black berry a bit like blueberries, but very poisonous (it affects the heart muscle, paralyzing its work).

Snowberry white

White round berries ripen by the end of summer, and then winter on the plant before the onset of heat. Despite the seductive look, the berries are absolutely inedible. In our country, snowberry is used as ornamental plant.

Warty euonymus

Warty euonymus is deciduous shrub or low treeoften found in european part of Russia. The fruits of euonymus are very original - bright orange berries are decorated with a black dot, and they ripen on a long "thread" (grassy stalk).

Nightshade bitter

Nightshade bitter - semi-shrub with woody base and a long winding stem. Red berries with a bittersweet tasteripen in June. The plant continues to bear fruit until October. Nightshade can be met in central Russia, and in the Far East and Siberia.

Bog marsh

Bog marsh - creeping hydrophyte with large heart-shaped leaves. Its fruits ( bunches of juicy red berries) ripen in late June. The plant is widespread throughout Russia ( on wetlands).

Elderberry herb (stinky)

Smelly - herbaceous perennial plantbelonging to the family of honeysuckle. Fruits ( small black drupes with red juice) appear in August-September. This plant is most often found in the southern regions of Russia in the mountains and foothills.

Privet or wolfberry

heat-loving deciduous shrub Olive family. You can meet this plant in southwestern Russia. Black and very poisonous berries ripen in September and remain on the branches for a long time. Worth knowing that poisonous, not only fruits, but also leaves.

perennial herb plant with thin stems and feathery leaves. He can be found in the woods. european part of the country. Fruits have oval shape, as they mature, they change color from green to white and then to red.

perennial herb with a thin stem and large feathery leaves on long petioles. Oval-cylindrical, slightly flattened and berries collected in a vertical brush change color from green to black. You can meet this plant in the European part of Russia, and in Western Siberia.

Spotted

Aronnik is a perennial grass with a thickened tuber-like rhizome and basal leaves that resemble the tip of a spear. In August, the leaves die off, and the stalk with numerous red berries remains above the ground. In September, fruits fall off, and in spring next year self-seeding appears.

Spotted

The poisonous properties of the fruit - the berries of ivy ordinary, myannik double, lily of the valley in May.

Poisonous berries can not only poison, but also lead to death. That is why it is extremely important not to eat unfamiliar fruits, no matter how seductively they look.

Most cultivated plants are divided into species. Some groups may be bred only at home without adverse weather. Some may breed strictly in the open air. There are plants that will grow well in unpretentious conditions - even in the greenhouse, even in the cold. Understanding what kind of flower refers to, securely organize the right care. The main components of care consist of ensuring the humidity of the air, the regular introduction of moisture into the soil and ensuring a favorable temperature. The amount of sun is one of the main components.

Selection of shrubs with different flowering period.

To date, the choice of ornamental shrubs is diverse, you only have to decide for yourself: for what purpose and what function will it play in your garden? For a large garden assortment flowering shrubs much more, because you can create a composition using both small shrubs and impressive size, including trees. Well, if the garden is small!

By spring flowering shrubs that feel good in the middle zone, include spirea, almond, Japanese quince, Canadian irga, keriya, forsythia, volcheyagodnik ... as the plant is toxic (see below).

Spring gold forsythia. Early in the spring, the first will sound the forsythia, a low shrub with bright yellow flowers resembling bells, on completely bare branches, reflecting the sun's rays. Because of the abundant flowering, forsythia is popularly called “golden rain”, “golden lilac”, “golden bell”.

Wolfberry - daphne lilac cloud

All that should be feared, beware, most often, in the people is accompanied by the epithet "wolf". Cunning ruthless predator wolf since ancient times instilled in human fear. Not an exception to this rule and wolves. These beautiful deciduous shrubs are, indeed, deadly. The folk name Wolf's Face is given to the plant for its strong, hard-to-break bark. Break a branch is almost impossible, it can only be cut.

Nevertheless, the wolves are decorative and are grown in our gardens. It is barely snowing when there is not a single blade of grass anywhere, the sprigs of daphne are already densely covered with fragrant bright lilac flowers. They can "sit" on the trunk in bunches of two to five flowers, and they can also have one flower. From a distance, this shrub can be mistaken for a lilac bush. During flowering, and it lasts 15-20 days, the garden is filled with a very pleasant aroma.

The height of a compact bush rarely exceeds 1-1.2 m. Daphne blooms on the shoots of last year, before the leaves bloom. Leaves of oblong shape - appear later, up to 10 cm long, dark green above, lighter below. At the ends of the shoots they are densely, almost bunched. At the end of summer the bush is covered with brilliant bright red or bright orange berries, which sit on the twigs tightly and for a long time.

It is necessary to keep a close eye that the children do not eat them, and to explain to them that these beautiful berries are poisonous and even the birds do not peck. However, they say that blackbirds eat them with pleasure. But in my opinion, if there are children in the house, then it is better to refuse planting shrubs with poisonous berries.

It is frost-resistant, shade tolerant, practically does not demand leaving, got used to live in the woods independently under a canopy of trees. It is only necessary to protect it from the aggressors of the garden - sleep and wheat grass. It is unpretentious to the soils, but it grows better on damp, tucked in peat, areas well fertilized with humus. Drought tolerates poorly. It grows slowly, multiplies by seeds (it is necessary to sow immediately after harvest), often gives self-sowing. It is desirable to transplant at a young age, in the autumn, with a lump of earth. Adult plants of transplants do not like. When buying, it is better to choose copies in containers. Bushes pruning is contraindicated. All damaged branches are cut immediately after flowering.

To date, several decorative forms of wolf have been bred: white - with white fragrant flowers, terry - with white terry flowers. There are other types, but they are more demanding of conditions and care. Such cultural forms are propagated by green cuttings. The branches, cut from the bush in winter and placed in the water, soon become covered with flowers, filling the room with a delicate scent.

Garden plants

If the aesthetic design of your garden is very important to you, then various ornamental shrubs will perfectly cope with this role. Any garden will only benefit from decorating with evergreen or deciduous shrubs. With its peculiar color or flowering, ornamental shrubs can help you with the creation of a hedge, divide the territory of the garden into different zones, decorate the entrance to your garden or decorate different elements.

Ornamental shrubs perform not only a decorative function, they also protect garden alleys from wind and dust, they will help you not to decorate the garden, but also distract their charming appearance from the usual hustle and bustle and create a good mood.

Some varieties of ornamental shrubs have a long flowering period, others have an unusual form of leaves or bright color. It is not difficult to care for them - they are not susceptible to diseases, they are very rarely affected by pests.

Now let's talk about those bushes that are widely distributed in central Russia.

If you have green lawns in your garden, beautiful hydrangea bushes will be a great addition to them. Among gardeners, the rosebush is always popular - park roses are especially beautiful, they are cold-resistant, undemanding, they only bloom once for the whole season.

Some gardeners love to decorate their household plots shrubs, which during flowering are able to fill the garden with a pleasant aroma - chubushniki, forsythia, and wolfmouth. Very decorative look lush inflorescences of lilac and viburnum. In our gardens, it is increasingly possible to see the bushes of rhododendrons or tree peonies. Summer is the time of flowering of the silverweed and spirea, colccus and buddley. Closer to the fall, heather flowers begin to bloom - medium-sized, but collected in such lush inflorescences, which cast mother-of-pearl that simply cannot but cause admiration.

Ornamental shrubs are convenient because they decorate the garden from early spring to late autumn. A prime example is different varieties barberry: their leaves can be bright yellow, and purple, bright green and purple, and even spotty. Aralia bushes look originally - this bush is prickly, it looks like a tropical palm tree. The fieldfare also looks delightful, its young foliage has an unusual pink shade, but little by little they acquire a rich green color. In the autumn they turn yellow and get a golden hue.

If your site is spoiled by a dark, monotonous wall or a tall, unattractive fence, we recommend that you decorate these facilities with decorative foliage bushes of white turf. No one will be indifferent to his gorgeous carved dark green leaves, bordered with a cream contour. Young shoots have a reddish hue, which makes it look much more colorful.

On heavy soils, some types of Potentilla, barberry, spirea, forsythia feel great. Hydrangea will bloom around the reservoirs and bloom. And even calcareous soils are suitable for growing Euonymus, elder, buddley and cotoneaster.

Selecting ornamental shrubs to decorate your garden, you first need to combine them so that the planting does not look coarse. Therefore, it is best to create group plantings of ornamental shrubs of the same variety, rather than mixed plantations. You can also combine in the group planting different forms of ornamental shrubs belonging to the same genus - for example, plant a row of barberry bushes with red and green leaves. Hawthorn looks good - its varieties are distinguished by the coloring of fruits and inflorescences.

Japanese euonymus

Only through repeated pruning, produced annually in spring and autumn, can thick and lush specimens be obtained. In order to form a shtambovy tree, it is necessary to allow the central shoot to grow upwards, at least up to 40–50 cm, while plucking all lateral buds. And upon reaching the desired height, begin to form a dense branched crown.

Japanese euonymus does not grow very quickly, but constantly. The composition of the soil: 1 part of sod land, 1 part of humus and 0.5 parts of peat.

According to some data and own observations, the Japanese spindle can carry frost up to -15C! So the euonymus can be taken out to the garden boldly right in May, and taken in October. Install it in a well-lit place, but it is better to protect from the midday rays. Do not forget to feed him three to four times a season. The plant is easily propagated by stem cuttings in spring and summer.

Elder black decorative

Ornamental shrubs for garden and garden - photo

In order to give the dacha a natural look along with tall, powerful trees, they also plant ornamental shrubs for the dacha. creating logically complete groups of them. By combining different types of shrubs, you can embody a variety of design solutions in the landscape of the suburban area. Consider the commonly used varieties of decorative deciduous shrubs. Knowing their features, it will be convenient to first come up with the landscape design of the suburban area and create a virtual design development, and then translate everything into reality.

Many different bushes of their attractiveness can be seen in the park area of Lakhta Center. which is being built in St. Petersburg. Lakhta Center is an amazing project that accommodates various objects that will be accessible to everyone.

Holly is a shrub with dense, evergreen foliage and very beautiful red fruits. It grows on any soil except sandy, can withstand frosts, but not stronger than -20 ° C. Can you see this ornamental shrub for the garden in the picture below.

For creating green hedges and a variety of fences are great fast-growing and unpretentious spirea. When flowering is abundantly covered with inflorescences in the form of scutes, painted, depending on the variety, in red, white or pink colors. It is noteworthy that in autumn, the foliage of the spirea acquires various, unusual shades. Spirea is resistant to frost, but loves the sun.

In early spring, when all the trees had not yet fully awakened after winter, the forsythia blooms, delighting the eyes, which are yearning for joyful greenery, with their bright yellow flowers. However, the capricious forsythia prefers fertile soil and dies with a lack of moisture.

High (up to three meters) tamarisk grows mainly in the southern regions. The soil suitable for it is sandy and sandy. Very beautiful during the flowering period, which falls in May and June.

Ornamental shrubs - photo:

For trimmed with various freakish forms of green fences, evergreen boxwood is suitable, which loves warmth and quietly transfers shady places. For boxwood arid or, conversely, too wet soils are unfavorable. The shrub is famous for its special aroma and rapid growth. Especially prized varieties of dwarf and yellow-leaf boxwood. Now you know what shrubs can decorate your site, but do not forget that there are other ornamental plants for the garden. which should also be used.

It is the berries that make the shrub truly universal - all four seasons it will play its role in decorating the garden. Therefore, more and more often on the plots you can meet an ornamental shrub with black berries, as well as red or white. In the autumn and in the winter on your site there simply will not be equal to such a bush!

1 Ornamental berry bushes in landscape design

Berry bushes are a special element in landscape design. Indeed, besides the forms of the shrub, the color of its leaves and flowers, its size, the characteristics of planting and caring for it, the gardener or designer must take into account how it will look in the autumn when its berries ripen. And they come in a variety of colors - yellow, red, black, white, and from this the composition in your garden can both win and lose. For example, viburnum red will perfectly fit on the background of a brick wall, highlighting its texture with clusters of juicy red berries, while a snowy berry with white berries will look quite ordinary.

The same red viburnum will look good in splendid isolation - a tapeworm. However, a group of three shrubs of various sizes - the most safe option! It is best to place them in a triangle, giving the background to the tallest bush, and the front - two smaller bushes, it is desirable that they also be of different volume. You can enhance or decorate such a composition with large stones. It will look great as just on the lawn, and not far from the reservoir or near the lantern. In addition, this composition can cover up an unsightly wall.

Selection of a place for composition is an individual matter. However, choosing a site for planting shrubs, you must clearly assess the conditions in which they will be. If this is a shaded area, there is absolutely no point planting shrubs with brightly colored foliage at this place (for example, barberry variety Golden torch, whose leaves have a bright yellow color), otherwise in the shade they will lose their characteristic color. For the rest, take into account the characteristics and preferences of one or another ornamental berry bushes, soil composition, climate and temperature.

As experience shows, it is safer to plant shrubs with a closed root system, that is, in containers. You will be sure that their roots are not dry, not damaged during transportation, and in general the plant will transfer planting to a new place much better. However, even they better take root, if they are planted in a period of rest.

At the selected location, accurately mark the location and shape of the wells, taking into account that they must be twice the size of the root ball. At the bottom of the hole should make a mixture of peat, humus and crushed earth, in heavy soils does not prevent to add to the hole and sand. Then fill the hole with water and let it soak.

After you remove the bushes from the containers, you will have enough time to evaluate the composition and adjust the location of the seedlings. If you like everything, fill the soil mixture into the wells and gently compact the soil, creating a small depression along the perimeter of the pit so that the water for irrigation does not spread. Then water the planted bushes and sprinkle mulch soil around the trunk.

3 Cotoneaster black-fruited: ornamental shrub with black berries

Frost-resistant and undemanding to moisture, easily tolerating urban conditions - black agycane belongs to the group of shrubs that do not give the gardener much trouble. This ornamental shrub with black berries easily tolerates transplantation, is used by gardeners in both single and group plantings, as well as in hedges. The decorative form differs from the wild one by more graceful drooping inflorescences and large leaves, but in addition to the decorative design, the cotoneaster serves as a good honey plant, and its dense wood is a good material for pipes, reeds and other handicrafts.

Cotoneaster berries are edible, although they do not differ in excellent taste. They can be used for tinting tinctures and soft drinks, add powder from berries when baking gingerbread. However, far more berries cotoneaster and its young shoots are used in traditional medicine, recommending to use fresh and dried berries in inflammatory processes and diseases of the stomach.

4 Ornamental shrubs with red berries on your site

Kalina is red - this bush will never be commonplace, no matter what competitors from abroad are imported into our country. Native soul landscape with clusters of rich red viburnum berries snowed by snow - an excellent landscape decor in the winter season. In the spring, viburnum blooms in white bouquets against a background of bright green foliage. In autumn, the leaves acquire red and brown shades.

Kalina shade-tolerant, but it is best to plant it in open sunny places. Prefers rich, well-moistened soil. In conditions of the city viburnum feels great. It is used both as a tapeworm and in group plantings. These ornamental shrubs with red edible berries very harmoniously look in plantings with oak, linden and rowan. In the world, varieties of viburnum with yellow and black berries are beginning to gain popularity.

Tolerant to urban conditions and barberries. Drought-resistant, unpretentious to the soil, they do not tolerate only stagnant water. Numerous varieties differ in decorative coloring of leaves - from bright yellow to purple flowers. Barberries are well tolerated by the penumbra, but brightly colored varieties will look best in full sun - in the shade the foliage will begin to acquire green shades. In addition to the color of the leaves, barberry bushes can be picked up and in the form of a crown - dwarf bushes have a dense hemispheric crown shape, and tall barberries are most often found with sprawling, descending branches.

In any case, these ornamental shrubs easily tolerate a haircut, so the shape of the bushes can be given almost any. Haircut can be done at any time. Bright red berries are kept on the branches of bushes until spring. And although these berries are edible and very useful, birds do not eat them. Barberries are ideal for creating a living barbed hedge, which in addition to its decorative functions and performs protective. The fence can be performed in a free style or regularly cut. By planting these plants, you will get double benefit - they will give your garden life even in wintertime, and besides, you will have Kalin tea, barberry liqueur and healing cotoneaster berries in the arsenal of treats.

5 Ornamental shrub with white berries - an elegant snowberry

The snowberry is quite up to its name - abundant large berries harbor the entire shrub and hold on well until spring. It became widespread due to its unpretentiousness, frost resistance and undemanding of soil. This ornamental shrub with white berries grows well on stony and calcareous soils, is not picky about lighting and does without regular watering. Shrubs respond well to pruning - in place of the cut branches, new ones will appear very quickly, giving the bush more volume.

The snowberry grows very quickly, forming a lot of root offspring around the bush, so if you do not plan to restrain its growth, get ready for the fact that instead of one bush in a few years there will be a small group.

To all other positive qualities, the snowberry is also honored by bees. AT landscape design snow bushes are combined with tall shrubs, coniferous trees or trees with dark green leaves. Decorators also use it to create a dense hedge or border. Due to the abundance of berries, the shoots of the plant are bent by beautiful arcs, giving the bush a nice looking shape. Usually snow bushes do not grow to a height of more than 2 meters. The shrub blooms quite early, blooms continuously, although the flowers are not decorative. Snowberry berries are poisonous!

It is possible to propagate the snowberry not only by cuttings and offspring, but also by dividing the bushes, growing from seeds. Moreover, the latter method is not complicated at all - immediately after harvesting, seeds are sown directly into the ground, covering sawdust or dry leaf from above. In spring you can thin out the seedlings, leaving the strongest plants, and give them a little more to grow. Already in the autumn you can plant a snowberry in accordance with the intended composition.

Black elderberry is a tall shrub that grows in the south and in central Russia. It can reach a height of six meters. If planting elderberry abandoned - after a while they easily run wild and form dense thickets. Especially often black elderberry is found on the outskirts of village roads, on abandoned wastelands and in other uncultivated places.

Black elderberry is called the color of the berries. They ripen at the end of the summer, the beginning of the autumn and are blue-black pitted, each up to seven millimeters in diameter.

Elderberry berries are a valuable medicinal raw material. They contain a rich spectrum of biologically active substances: anthocyanins, vitamin C and fatty oils.

Elderberry seeds contain the toxic glycoside sambunigrin. Once in the stomach, it breaks down to hydrocyanic acid. Therefore, it is dangerous to eat any parts of elderberry, with the exception of the pulp of the berries.

In medicine, elderberry is used as a diaphoretic and disinfectant, helps relieve inflammation and treat cough.

Honeysuckle black

Another shrub with black berries is honeysuckle. Like elderberry, black honeysuckle owes its name to the color of the fruit.

Black honeysuckle reaches two or more meters in height and is found in the east of our country. It has long been known in Primorye and the Khabarovsk Territory, where local residents used it as berry shrub. In a wide culture of black honeysuckle introduced Michurin.

The Far East is characterized by harsh winters, so the black honeysuckle is extremely frost-resistant. Due to this, she can be divorced as an ornamental and berry culture in the northern regions of our country. Black honeysuckle easily tolerates even frost during the flowering period.

Honeysuckle berries are large, elongated, about two centimeters long. Outwardly, they somehow resemble a giant blueberry. Honeysuckle ripens in mid-June and, along with strawberries, is one of the earliest summer berries. The taste of its fruit is slightly sour, but pleasant enough. Honeysuckle berries contain a lot of organic acids, sugars and vitamin C. As a rule, berries go for processing - compote, jams, etc. are made from them.

The first crop of berries can be harvested within a few years after planting black honeysuckle. It is resistant to diseases and pests, unpretentious to the soil and will be able to decorate any garden or park.

Black elderberry is a real gift of nature itself, which, unlike the red variety of elderberry, does not contain toxic substances. In folk medicine and phytotherapy, the most diverse parts of this plant are used — the leaves and flowers, as well as the berries, roots and bark of the plant. But what exactly is useful for black elderberry and how can one apply these properties of it in practice?

Plant benefits

Black elderberry contains not only carbohydrates, but also valuable fatty and organic acids, as well as essential oil, anthocyanins, iridoids, steroids, triglycerides, and much more.

Iridoids are recognized by scientists as a very valuable trace element that helps in the fight against various infections.

The most frequently used parts of black elderberry are inflorescences and leaves. In the first high content of glycosides such as sambunigrin and aldrin, as well as a number of acids of organic origin (malic, valerian, acetic and coffee). The inflorescences have a high content of valuable and nourishing essential oil, carotene, vitamin C and much more.

Fresh elderberry leaves are rich in the same carotene, ascorbic acid, tannins, vitamin C. A resinous substances can have a mild laxative effect.

Several useful black elderberry recipes

To exert an antiviral effect and remove heavy metal salts from the human body, you can use the following means.

Infusion of flowers, for the preparation of one portion of which will need two tablespoons of dried flowers of the plant, as well as half a liter of boiled water. Flowers need to be filled with liquid and allowed to infuse for 45 minutes. Then this tool can be used for the following purposes:

Lotions from burns, diaper rash and suppuration of the skin;
- poultices for exacerbations of hemorrhoids;
- a third cup twice a day in cases of joint rheumatism or gout;
- as an ordinary tea in case of persistent cough, bronchitis or tracheitis.

According to the same recipe, it is also possible to prepare a decoction of elderberry, which must then be applied orally for a third of a glass once a day, like effective remedy for the treatment of almost all diseases of the stomach; as a diuretic or anthelmintic agent; help decoction and douche in case of gynecological diseases.

With the help of elderberry berries it is possible to prepare an excellent cosmetological agent that will help in the fight against acne by simply applying to problem areas for a period of 10-12 minutes. Berries will be effective even if you want to get rid of skin pigmentation or just lighten it.

Chronic cough - from where?

If the cough does not go away even after medical treatment and lasts more than 14-20 days, then the reason is most likely not infectious.

Allergic cough

Coughing can be a manifestation of an allergic reaction of the body, for example, to dust or mold, plant pollen. Such a cough can be transformed into bronchial asthma, so it is very important to determine the source of the threat (allergen) and exclude the patient’s contact with him. Identify the allergen can only be using medical diagnostics.

Heart cough

A prolonged dry cough may indicate heart problems, such as a defect or heart failure. Seizures at night, after physical exertion, shortness of breath, blue skin are characteristic of heart cough. In addition, some drugs that are aimed at lowering blood pressure can stimulate the cough reflex.

It is important to understand that whatever the cough is, you cannot treat it yourself! Determine the type of disease and assign an adequate and effective treatment can only medical specialist.