Home flowers are beautiful, they are pleasant to look at, they are useful for mental and physical health. When, on a par with geraniums, various condiments grow in the house, it's very good! Rosemary - this spice is as useful as it is beautiful. In addition to the fact that rosemary has a pleasant spicy aroma, it also has many therapeutic and prophylactic properties. Even the simple inhalation of the aroma of this plant is already useful, and to admire its beauty (especially during the flowering period) gives great joy.
Rosmarinus is an evergreen perennial bush of the family Lamiaceae with narrow fragrant leaves, on top - green, and from below - white, like coniferous needles, blooms in small blue-violet flowers.
Rosemary is a very valuable plant. It is used in medicine, cooking, cosmetology. In the leaves of rosemary contains essential oil, which possesses bactericidal, wound-healing properties.
Rosemary has the ability to excrete toxic substances from the liver. It is also used as a diuretic, normalizes the functioning of the cardiovascular system. Tea and infusion of green rosemary are used for headaches, for rinsing the throat.
Dishes of Mediterranean cuisine are hard to imagine without rosemary. It has a pleasant spicy-pungent taste with pleasant bitterness. Fresh greens are added to soups, hot meat dishes.
The long, palmately cleft leaves are broadly circular in form. The flowers have five petals and are coloured white, pink, purple or blue, often with distinctive veining. Geraniums will grow in any soil as long as it is not waterlogged. Propagation is by semiripe cuttings in summer, by seed, or by division in autumn or spring.
Geraniums are eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including brown-tail, ghost moth, and mouse moth. At least several species of Geranium are gynodioecious.[1][2][3] The species Geranium viscosissimum (sticky geranium) is considered to be protocarnivorous.
