Berries

Since the time of our distant ancestors, viburnum lived next to a person, many songs have been composed about it. In nature, it often takes the form of a shrub, but occasionally a tree can also be found. Of all the species diversity of viburnum (and botanists have described about 160 species), the common viburnum is most common in the Russian open spaces. The plant is of interest to gardeners for its decorative properties. Also, bitter fruits, which are used in the treatment of diseases, are processed for the preparation of tinctures, compotes, jellies. At present, varieties of viburnum with sweet taste have been obtained.

Handsome gooseberry with emerald leaves and amber berries is a decoration of a summer cottage. It is difficult to imagine that such beauty is possible near St. Petersburg or near Chelyabinsk. But Russian yellow gooseberry has been growing here and has been giving tender berries for half a century.

Red currants are considered less useful than black currants, but they are equally popular and are grown in almost every garden. It is not difficult to plant it, but you need to do it on time, choosing a place for planting in advance and carefully preparing it.

Originally, honeysuckle was a beautiful wild growing shrub. It still grows in the mountains and forests of Southeast Asia. And in our country, garden honeysuckle is popular, it can be decorative (its small round berries are inedible) and edible (its blue oblong fruits sometimes ripen before garden strawberries). To get an early harvest of tasty berries or to admire the flowering of ornamental shrubs, it is important to know the features of reproduction, cultivation and care that this crop needs.

The Isabella grape is firmly associated with the aromatic red wine of the same name. As for the plant itself, they say: it grows like a weed, does not require care, but it yields yields every year, grows in all regions of Russia. In fact, everything turns out to be different: the variety is winter-hardy, however, in order for it to mature in Siberia or the middle lane, the gardener needs to try. At the same time, southerners, spoiled by grapes, for the most part treat Isabella with disdain, prefer modern hybrid forms to her.