Viburnum ciconia (Physocarpus opulifolius) is a deciduous shrub native to North America. The name of the plant was due to the similarity of the fruits with small balls - bubbles. If you click on the leaflet in the fall, when it has matured, a light popping sound is heard.
Ornamental shrub
Crohnus of the vesicle of spherical shape. Spreading branches slightly wilt, forming a dense curtain. The bark is brown or brown.
Plant height is 1.5-3 m, which depends on the variety.
Green carved leaves in shape resemble viburnum. Cultivated varieties are also golden, red and even dark purple.
At the end of June, the plant becomes covered with a pinkish or white haze. It blooms small flowers collected in shields up to seven centimeters in size.
The fruits of the vesicle are leaflets that make a funny sound. Like the cotton of a small salute. The green color of young fruits by the fall becomes reddish, and later brown. Elegant clusters adorn the bush for a long winter.
Viburnum cinnamifolia is unpretentious and tolerates even severe gas contamination. The life of the shrub is long - it will be decorating your garden for almost 30 years.
Circumstances of time and place
By planting a vesicle in the spring, you will not be mistaken. The young plant will take root well and get stronger in winter. Landing in autumn is possible in September.
Having bought a seedling in a pot in the garden center, you can plant it at any time, from spring to autumn. Although it’s better not to tighten the planting so that the roots do not outgrow. Put the plant in partial shade and water it regularly. The lump of earth should be wet.
Bubble - a plant is very hardy. It grows in the sun and in the shade, in dry and humid places. Of course, you should not plant it in flooded areas.
It prefers acidic soils, so do not fertilize it with lime. Even on poor soils, it will become a decoration of the site.
Green varieties tolerate the shadow. For varieties with golden, red and purple leaves, divert the sunny area. Otherwise, in the shade their leaves will turn green and lose their decorative effect.
Important to plant
The size of the pit for planting the vesicle of Kalinifolia should allow the roots to settle freely in it. Depth is not less than half a meter. It is important to make the drain so that the water does not stagnate at the roots. For this, small crushed stone is laid at the bottom of the pit with a layer of 20 cm.
It is better to take fertile land for planting, mixing it with sand and peat in a ratio of 2: 1: 1. Fertilizers are not needed.
If the seedling is in a pot - save a lump of land. Set a bush with open roots in a hole on a mound of soil and spread the roots.
Plant the plant in such a way that the root neck is not filled up. Add soil in layers, watering from time to time to compact.
Having planted, water again abundantly. Mulch the trunk circle with a layer of 10-15 cm. Peat, wood chips, small decorative pebbles, just dry earth will do for this. Mulch will help keep the soil moist while the bush is taking root.
Plant vesicles at a distance of 1.5-2 m from other plants.
Now grow
The headache of all lovers of decorative cultures, which include the commonweed, is planting and care. Immediately reassure: the plant we are considering is unpretentious, although it certainly needs to create certain conditions.
Water the recently planted bushes for three days in a row with a bucket of water. Then - as the earth dries up. On heavy clay soils, avoid waterlogging.
Pet care is simple. While the bush is small and weak, after watering, loosen under it and weed out the weeds.
Spend the first dressing a week after planting. Apply liquid complex fertilizer for shrubs as indicated in the instructions.
It is advisable to feed the vesicle twice a season. Fertilizers with nitrogen are required in spring. It can be a mullein or urea solution. Complex liquid fertilizers are good. There are a lot of them on sale.
Add them when the buds begin to bloom. Fertilizers will help the bush grow lush and healthy.
In autumn, phosphate-potash fertilizers are needed. They will prepare the plant for wintering - growth will stop and the wood will ripen.
Take care of fertilizing at least the first two years. On careful care, the vesicular vesiculosus gratefully responds with rapid growth.
Diseases bypass this unpretentious plant side. But aphids can attack young leaves in early spring. However, this rarely happens. It is easy to cope with this scourge by spraying the Aktara bush.
When pruning is needed
Inspect the vesicle in spring. Cut old, dry and broken branches.
The natural form of the plant is quite spreading. It can take 3 m in width. If necessary, carry out forming pruning after flowering.
If you want to get a wide thick bush - cut off all branches no higher than 50 cm. You need a more slender and delicate - leave some large shoots and shorten at a height of 1.5 m. Cut the rest.
The hawthorn tolerates a haircut well. The first time it is carried out before budding, preferably in April. A hedge is trimmed at least twice a season.
Moving to a new place
If you have to transplant an adult bush of the vesicular vesiculosum - do this before the buds open. Or in the fall, when the leaves flew around.
Deciduous carry shedding of earth from the roots. But still try to keep the lump as good as possible. Then the small suction roots will not be damaged, and the plant will cope with stress faster.
Before transplanting, carry out sanitary pruning and shorten all branches to a height of 20-30 cm. So you will save the vesicle from dehydration, reduce the load on the affected roots.
After the transplant, treat the bush with Epin. It will strengthen the plant’s immune system.
One is not enough
Culture multiplies easily. If desired, seedlings from a single adult vesicle are grown on a hedge. Do it in different ways:
- by seeds;
- cuttings;
- layering;
- dividing the bush.
Small as poppy seeds are sown in the ground in the winter. Or in the spring, with stratification for a month in the refrigerator.
This method is suitable for plants with green leaves. Seedlings do not inherit bright foliage of the varieties of the vesicle of the Kalinifolia.
The bush can be divided, but it is not enough for the hedge. The method is suitable when 3-4 plants of the same age are needed.
Propagation by cuttings
Green flexible shoots are cut before flowering. The length of the cuttings is approximately 20 cm. They should have at least two internodes. Leaves are removed at the bottom, and shortened at the top.
To accelerate root formation, cuttings are put into a Kornevin solution at night. Or put a tablespoon of honey in a bucket of water.
Planted in a greenhouse at an angle of 45 °. Regularly watered and ventilated. In winter, shelter is required.
In the spring, small plants are transferred to the open ground. Next year they are determined for a permanent place.
Propagation by layering
Spring is the best time to propagate the vesicle. To get layering, select a two-year escape. He must be healthy and grow out. Tear off the leaves, leaving the top.
Bend the branch into the groove. Its depth is about 10 cm. Cover it with earth and squeeze in several places with small stones. The top with leaves remains at the top, tied to a peg.
All season water the layering. In the fall, separate it from the main bush, but do not transplant. Cover with spruce branches, dry leaves or covering material for the winter.
In the spring, a new bush is ready for transplanting.
On the palate and on the color. Variety of varieties
Using plants with decorative leaves, landscape designers widely use varieties of cepillaraceae.
Description of popular varieties commonly found on sale:
- Aurea - reaches a height of 2.5 m. Has small white flowers. In the spring, bright yellow leaves bloom. By the time of flowering, the crown turns green. In the fall, yellowed foliage contrasts beautifully with red fruits.
- Andre - reaches a height of 2.5 m. In the spring, it widely spreads branches with delicate pink-red leaves. In summer, the color of the leaves darkens, a bronze tint is added.
- Nugget is an amazing form of vase up to 2 m high. Graceful leaves bloom yellow. As they grow green.
- Luteus - quickly grows to 3 m. In the dissolution, the leaves are yellow with an orange tint. In summer, they turn slightly green and combine beautifully with white flowers.
- Darts Gold is a dense ball with a diameter of 1.5 m. The leaves of bright yellow turn a little green. In summer, the bush is covered with delicate white flowers. Sometimes flower shields are pinkish.
Among the customers in the garden centers, the common vesicles of Red-leaved Red - red-leaved varieties are in demand:
- Red Baron and Lady in Red. Shrubs are compact. Reach a height of 1.2-2 m. Spectacular dense shields of pinkish flowers and dark red shiny leaves. Bright red veins stand out on them.
- Little Devil is a small bush 80-100 cm high. A beautiful contrast of dark purple leaves and light flowers. In the fall, red fruits appear.
- Diablo Kalinolistny Diablo - reaches a height of 3 m. Branches are spreading, slightly drooping. Against the background of dark red carved leaves, soft pinkish flowers magically look.
In autumn, the leaves of these varieties do not change color, remaining as bright. The bubble also has a dwarf form of Nana - the bush barely reaches a height of 1 m.
The word of landscape designers
Thanks to the lush crowns with large leaves, dense flower shields and the unusual shape of the seed boxes, the vesiculos fell in love with landscapers and gardeners. And of course, he conquered by unpretentiousness.
A variety of plant varieties allows you to combine and add color to all corners of the garden or park. Compact varieties help shape the paths and boundaries of the lawn.
Using garden shearing techniques, you can create colored hedges near the house.
Kalinolistny cysticis (pictured above) demonstrates the favorite technique of landscape designers - a combination of varieties with a contrasting color of leaves. For example, the Red Baron, which gives a red accent, is often planted with the yellow varieties Luteus or Darts Gold.
The purple Little Devil alternates in line with the golden green Nugget. Drop them in a row. It will turn out a magnificent border. And you can create a two-row hedge of colored ribbons by planting varieties in parallel lines.
High air cereals, fashionable in the gardens, look spectacular against the background of the dark leaves of the vesicles of Diablo. This variety can emphasize the tenderness of lavender perovskii. The duet with silver foliage of the Byzantine stachis brings a solemn note to the front zone.
Unpretentious vesicles will help solve the problem of shady and moist areas. Take away excess moisture from the soil. Decorate the site in places where it is difficult to grow herbaceous plants.
Compact bushes land near the entrance. They are not inferior in beauty to capricious plants and will delight in bright color.
A magnificent composition will turn out with conifers. Just imagine a bush with pinkish or orange leaves near a silver spruce!
Beat up the vesicle with red leaves with milky-flowered peonies. Delicate light flowers look expressively against such a background in early summer. Compositions with herbaceous perennials will not require much care.
For a solo performance, select a bright and expressive variety and plant it in a sunny place. In comfortable conditions, the vesicle is able to quickly grow into a three-meter bush. Great accent in the composition of the garden!
The third climate zone
Plants of the third zone stand in frost minus forty degrees. Among them are many inhabitants of our forests. These are bushes, conifers, herbs. They can solo on the site, and can support the composition of garden shrubs and perennials.
Bubble plant belongs to plants of the third climatic zone. It is hardy enough. Adult bushes do not require shelter for the winter. True, in severe cold, unripe ends of branches freeze.
Young bushes planted in the spring, as well as rooted cuttings and cuttings for the winter is better to hide.
Waiting for the frosty winter
Watch the weather forecast carefully. Before frosts above –10 ° C, manage to mulch the trunk circles with peat or earth. Mulch is used dry, with a layer of 5-10 cm.
To save planting, medium-density non-woven material "Agrospan-30" or "Agrospan-40" will help. The material allows plants to breathe and at the same time retains heat. Wrap the bush or just cover it in two layers of cuttings.
From improvised means use spruce or ruberoid. Gently pull the bush with twine. Make a cone from roofing material and cover a young plant.
Adult vesicles do not require shelter. In winter, sometimes shake the branches from snow, especially wet. This will save them from faults.
Quite a bit of time and attention - and the bladderweed will thank you with its beauty and lush greenery.