The Wollziest can play a mediating role between color accents of roses and other flowering plants in the garden bed due to its silver-white leaf colour. With the perennial plant, a compact growth can be promoted with a targeted cut.

A skilful pruning ensures a beautiful growth

The best time for the cut

Basically, the Wollziest is a very easy-care plant, where individual leaves and plant stems can be cut off for use as a vase decoration or medicinal herb all year round. The pruning for the formation of a compact and healthy plant shape can be done either in spring or autumn. For visual reasons and for a gentler hibernation, it is advisable to remove the flower stalks of the Wollziest immediately after flowering, unless you are dependent on propagation by seeds. However, you should leave the leaves where they are so that the Wollziest can recharge their batteries for the new season before the winter.

Give the Wollziest a visually perfect start to the season

Especially after long and wet winters, it can happen that individual parts of the Wollziest make a battered impression. You should therefore check the plants again if you cut them immediately after flowering in spring and thus give the fresh shoots enough space. If the rather inconspicuous flowers are of lesser interest to you, you should still not remove them before flowering. Many rare species of bees and other insects value the woolly Ziest as a summer forage plant.

Cut off and dry the flowers of the Wollziest

The Wollziest is not only used as a medicinal plant, but some of its flower stalks are also often dried for use in dried bouquets. This is very easy to do by following the steps below:

  • Prune flowers well before they fade on a hot day
  • hang upside down in a well-ventilated, dry place
  • For thicker bouquets, mix the flower stalks a few times so that they can all dry equally well

Wollziest cultivars such as the visually impressive variety "Cotton Boll" are particularly appealing for use in dried bouquets, the white inflorescences of which are amazingly reminiscent of the shape of cotton.

tips

If you or friends have pets such as hares or rabbits, you do not need to throw cut plant material from the Wollziest on the compost. In a balanced feed mix, the somewhat bitter-tasting plant is non-toxic for rodents and can enrich their diet.

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Vegetable garden