If you "taste" the sweet smell of jasmine, and you are looking for a beautiful culture to transform the site, then this article is for you. Because in our climate to grow a true jasmine is extremely problematic, we can offer uchastochek embellish his "relative" - mock oranges.
This perennial can successfully survive the cold winter conditions, and in the summer season when the bloom will delight you with a magical scent of jasmine and the stunning beauty of the delicate white flower clusters.
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Description of plant
The people called mock orange jasmine garden. However, it looks like the original jasmine only white color and smell of inflorescences. In fact, the data relate to the culture completely different families.
Chubushnik refers to hydrangeaceae growing in the North. America, South. And Eastern Europe. Asia. They called him so for special shoots that differ sturdy exterior of wood and upholstered cores of. In ancient times it was necessary to make chibouks and mouthpieces for pipes.
Species of this plant - about seventy, some breeders are interested in, so that chubushnik became the ancestor of many varieties. Currently, the culture grows great in our harsh climate. It may be clumps of different heights (up to four meters).
I thin the bark of young shoots chubushnika brownish tint, later it can change its color and become greyish. A large number of shrub trunks emerging from radicular sockets are erect and drooping (depending on variety).
Which are located opposite each other two leaves up to nine centimeters are ovate in shape lanceolate and oval-sharpened. Often they are green, but there are varieties with light-green and "gold" leaves.
Delightfully beautiful jasmine blossoms. Most often they are white or cream color, but there are also streaked. Their petals at the bottom with a pinkish tint or lilacky.
The shape and size of the flowers of this plant is much more diverse: they can be simple four- five- spade, or half terry densely terry, bell-and can reach ten centimeters in diameter. Most of the cultivars with buds, strong odor which can be felt at a distance, there are varieties with a weak scent or no scent.
Mock orange is one of the most beautiful garden plants. Bloom this shrub is very richly and abundantly during the flowering bush looks like a snow-white cloud. Choose varieties with different terms of blooming flowers and be able without interruption to enjoy a beautiful view and excellent aroma from late spring until the last summer month.
Chubushnik always useful to you on the site: the variety of short stature are ideal for flower beds, culture medium height can reach unmatched track with other shrubs or simply replace live izgorodku and copies of high growth may be perfectly suitable for solitornoy landing.
cultivation
The process is simple. Give him his due amount of attention in the first two or three years, and in the future, this culture will require from you a minimum of care.
Landing
Plant the crop in the early autumn or the spring, pick a sunny spot because shady conditions shoots chubushnika elongated flowering plant is quite meager. Soil composition is not so important, but, of course, will grow better in fertile soil.
Fourteen days before planting prepare the planting hole (the size of about 50x50 cm). In its place the expanded clay or gravel (in heavy soil), and then fill it with a mixture of three parts zemelku sheet, one part of the two parts of humus and sand. Seedling place at the level on which he grew up before, or bury two or three centimeters (if you put it deeper, it zagniot). Culture and watering Zamulchiruyte near barrel circle.
The plant must be planted at a distance of 0.5-1.5 meters from other bushes and trees. To create a live izgorodku of this culture, dig holes for planting with a distance of 0.5-0.7 m from each other or make a trench to accommodate several seedlings.
Watering
The plant is not very drought-resistant, respectively, on a hot summer watering it every day or two. When the culture is not enough moisture, it leaves quickly poniknet. If it rains often it is enough watering once or twice in seven days, pour in the circle pit bottom two or three buckets of water.
Remove weeds and proryhlit ground around crops after watering. Save your strength, Zamulchiruyte surface of the earth in a circle near barrel shavings or straw. This technique can help you reduce the amount of watering.
top-dressing
In order to culture each year could dostalvyat you joy lush flowering, take care of her "diet". In the spring, a bush pour bucket with a solution mullein (1:10) or replace it with a fertilizer in which nitrogen predominates.
After the culture bloomed, make it additional forage potassium and phosphorus (it is necessary to stir ten liters Two tablespoons of water superphosphate and one tablespoon of potassium sulfate) or replace wood ash. In autumn decompose under a bush humus or compost (four-layer five centimeters).
pruning
When the plant bloomed, cut all the branches of dry buds, sending forces to strengthen the culture of the current year shoots. In autumn remove the generating density of branches and form the shape of the crown. Cut out the damaged and weak shoots.
Having spent pruning, you can even restore completely abandoned old bush. To do this at the beginning of the spring sap flow period to cut under the root system of all branches, save only strong and cut them up to twenty-five - thirty centimeters. From the "dormant" kidney of stumps will develop fresh shoots of which will form a beautiful crown in the future.
Diseases and pests
If the culture of care for the illiterate, she can become ill with fungal diseases such as gray mold and Septoria leaf spot. On culture can attack a variety of pests.
An important role for your pets perform spraying for prevention, which must be carried out at the right time. Use these to tank mix consisting of permitted fungicide and insecticide crop to be treated at a time when the buds swell.
Wintering
Most of the varieties of this crop winter-hardy and do not need additional shelter for the winter. But when buying a seedling, it is necessary to clarify how acquired hardy variety - so you will save yourself from disappointment.
But even if the plant is severely chilled and died out almost all of the ground, the culture will be able to recover quickly - releasing fresh shoots of radicular kidneys. Before the onset of winter take care of the root system chubushnika - Zamulchiruyte near barrel circle dense layer of dried grass, straw and peat. In the spring when the snow melts, culture razokuchte.
reproduction
Propagated by two methods: vegetative and seed. However, when the seeds are planted, the culture can not retain varietal characteristics. Reliably be green cuttings or layering propagation.
Take, for example, green cuttings with adult bush from the neighbors. Select the developed annual shoots and cut them from the top (ten to fifteen centimeters). With cuttings, remove lower foliage and place in cups, put them in an easy zemelku loose.
Cups keep under the cap of a plastic five-liter bottles, often spend watering, aeration and spraying. When cuttings appear young leaves, put them on the site on a constant place.
If you decide to propagate by layering chubushnik, difficulties should arise. Prikopalis low located one-year escape, leave the "free" the tip of the leaves with a length of fifteen to twenty centimeters. A place where the branch slipped zemelku constantly need to maintain moderate humidity. After acceleration, you must cut off the escape of the adult plants with a lump of soil to transfer into the already prepared hole.
Species and varieties
In Russia, mock orange are popular ordinary (pale), mock orange Philadelphus Coronarius and Lemoine, who became the ancestors of many varieties.
Grade «Virginal» with his massive foliage to a height of two meters and a width of up to three meters. He has pointy oval leaves bright green color (length up to seven centimeters) in diameter, and the whitest flowers up to five centimeters, which are collected in inflorescence seven-ten. They are almost entirely shut down leaves in the flowering season. Flowering variety in the middle of summer for about thirty days.
An interesting color and alluring smell of inflorescences different sort of 'Sybille' - single flowers with a diameter of about two centimeters with white petals embellished at the base of pink speck. Sort conspicuous thick branched crown about one meter tall, which consists of straight shoots and dark green leaves rounded shape with a pointed end (length of four to six centimeters). Flowering in early summer for three to four weeks.
Most varieties chubushnika ordinary famous high hardiness and can successfully survive temperatures up to minus twenty-five degrees Celsius, for this reason, this type of jasmine flower growers should be interesting, who live in the north Russia.
From grades chubushnika coronal especially can distinguish «Snowbelle», the height of which half or two meters and a width of up to six meters. In this sort of dark green oval leaves with serrated edge of his rare and mahrovenkie flowers with a diameter of no more than four centimeters. Flowers white in color, they are characterized by delicate scent, collected in the brush for five to seven tricks. Flowering bush in the middle of the summer period of about two to three weeks.
«Aureus» interesting variety - sharopodobny bush, whose height does not exceed three meters, having a catchy golden foliage. Flowers are formed in the late spring, have a normal shape and white color, can reach a diameter of two centimeters, the smell of their very strong. Because of the bright color leaf variety is attractive throughout the season.
Grade «Innocence» unique, can grow up to one and a half to two meters in height and has a variegated color of the leaves. The oval-shaped with a sharp tip foliage in length four to five centimeters, has a bright green shade with pale little strokes. In the early summer culture produces many inflorescences, which consist of five to seven flowers with a strong odor. Flowers with a diameter of up to three and a half centimeters, four or five petals each.
It is impossible not to note the variety chubushnika Lemoine. Provided grade «Belle Etoile», having a crown height of one meter and a width of 1.3 meters. Ostara green ovate leaves long three to five centimeters. Flowers bell-shaped with a diameter of up to four centimeters of different non-standard colors: little white petals, anthers purple and gold color middle. Blossom bush begins in the late spring or early summer, flowering lasts about three to four weeks.
Very beautiful cultivar «Manteau d'Hermine», which is very long flowering - up to fifty days. Bush does not grow in height greater than 0.8 meters, it has thin branches with small green leaves. There is a small half-double flowers, of which two and a half diameter - three centimeters, but they are very, very much (almost entirely conceal the culture may be leaves). Flowers solitary or gather in groups of two or three things, with beleyshim shade and delicious smell of strawberries.
Grade "Avalanche" is characterized by a lush and abundant flowering (which is why so it was called - "Avalanche"). This gorgeous bush does not grow more than six meters in height and has small green leaves and interesting arc-shaped branches. Flowers of this sort are small - up to three and a half centimeters in diameter, but a lot of them and they make a magical scent of strawberries.
Inimitably beautiful when in bloom (at the end of June and all of July), a grade «Schneesturm». Culture height of two and a half - three meters, wherein the spectacular foliage and large (up to nine centimeters) oval pointy leaves light green. Mahrovenkie flowers with a diameter of four to five centimeters more stuff going on in the brush and allocated special flavor.
Each variety of garden jasmine in their beautiful, able to give only positive emotions, and the magical scent of its flowers can create a unique harmony and comfort.
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