Calendula flowers are very bright and elegant. They will be a wonderful decoration for your vegetable garden, garden or balcony.
There are several varieties of calendula (marigold). You can, for example, find terry calendula or ordinary modest orange flowers, but all varieties can be harvested for further use.
I'd like to note the simplicity of sowing and caring for calendula. Having sown marigolds once, you can forget about the need to plant something else in this place next year - the seeds of this flower will germinate easily next spring. The main concern of the landlady of the site will be to cut off the faded flowers so that the flower bed looks neat. However, it should be borne in mind that on well-fertilized soil, with good watering, the calendula will bloom brighter, while on a poor soil, the flowers will be more faded, inexpressive.
But the most important thing in calendula is not a cheerful look, but useful properties. Calendula is recommended for inflammatory diseases, injuries, problems with the gastrointestinal tract, heart and blood vessels, etc. Most often in the pharmacy you can find alcohol tincture and packages with dry grass. You can also find on sale cosmetics for skin and hair with calendula, oil tinctures.
Calendula remedies are cheap and common, but you can do them yourself. To prepare calendula, collect fully opened flowers and dry them in the shade. From them it is already possible, for example, to make a decoction, which is useful for colds, sore throats, as a rinse for hair and for washing your face. Homemade or pharmacy alcohol tincture is also used in the treatment of sore throat, but it can also lubricate inflamed areas of the skin, acne. Oil tincture is useful for enriching creams, masks. Dried flowers should also be added to aromatherapy oils, as a spice in cooking.
