Hungarian lilac is no less popular than the classic ordinary. It is quite widespread in Russia and has been recognized for its high decorativeness, combined with extreme unpretentiousness: it grows everywhere, feeling good not only in the countryside, but also in the gassed air of megacities. In addition, this species is able to put up with both choking and drought, both with shading and with forty-degree frosts. And Hungarian lilacs simply propagate quite easily. It can be successfully planted with cuttings and seeds, the stability of the culture allows you to save species characteristics of daughter plants.
Landing Location
It is easy to choose a place in the garden where the Hungarian lilac will delight with its flowering. Landing can be done in a sufficiently lit area, protected from strong winds. Better to choose places not too low, with moderately moist, drained soil, which contains a large percentage of humus. If the groundwater in your garden is high, it is this kind of lilac that will successfully replace the ordinary one, which does not tolerate even a short-term flooding of the roots.
Landing
Lilac seedlings take root best, being planted from July 15 until the beginning of September. If you root them sooner or later, then in the first year the Hungarian lilac will not give a growth, because it will take root worse. Between the bushes is enough to leave a distance of two and a half meters.
The first step is to prepare the landing pits. They dig with straight, sheer walls. Dimensions depend on the composition of the soil: on poor, sandy soils they will be 1x1x1 meters, on fertile ones - 0.5x0.5x0.5 meters, or even less. It is best to fill them with a special substrate, which is prepared according to the following recipe:
• compost or humus - 15-20 kilograms;
• wood ash - 200-300 grams for neutral or twice as much for acidic soils;
• superphosphate - 20-30 grams.
All the constituent elements of the substrate mix well, and then fall asleep in the pit.
It is best to attach a seedling to a new place in the evening or in cloudy weather. Young Hungarian lilac, intended for planting, should have a well-branched, healthy root system. The length of the roots is desirable from 25 centimeters. Damaged roots are removed completely, too long, which cannot be straightened in the pit, cut, and the pruner is cut with a pruner to three pairs of kidneys.
The most crucial moment: the seedling must be installed in the center of the pit, straighten the roots so that they are evenly distributed and look clearly down, and cover with a substrate. Then the soil is crushed to improve the fit of the roots to the soil and, accordingly, their nutrition.
Care
When the planting is behind, the plants are watered around the trunks, using 15-25 liters of water for each. As soon as it is absorbed, the soil is mulched (covered on top) either with peat, or humus, or a half-ripe leaf, depending on what is easier to find in a particular region. During the warm season, near-stem circles loosen 3-4 times to a depth of a maximum of 7 centimeters.
The first couple of years after planting, the Hungarian lilac is fertilized only with nitrogen. Its sources can be urea (50-60 grams per plant) or ammonium nitrate (65-80 grams). In subsequent years, you can feed the bushes with a solution of mullein, which is prepared from manure and water in a ratio of 1: 5. This fertilizer requires accuracy when applying - you need to pour it not directly under the bush, but at a distance of half a meter from the trunk.
Potash and phosphorus fertilizing is given every 2-3 years in the autumn. They bring them to a depth of 6-8 centimeters. The dosage is as follows: double superphosphate - 35-40 grams per adult plant, potassium nitrate - 30-35 grams. But it is best to use ash. It contains the complex of necessary elements in the correct proportion. 200 grams of ash are stirred in 8 liters of water and watered lilacs.
Watering plants need only during the growth of shoots or flowering and in the summer in the heat. The first few years, young seedlings still need shelter near the trunk circle for the winter. The thickness of the layer should be about 10 centimeters.