Any summer visitor wants to see your site beautiful and well-groomed, but care for the beautiful plants sometimes takes too much time. And it and so often sorely lacking. After all, should be given a sufficient amount of force truck crops to get a decent harvest. That leaves an aesthetic point often sidelined. And in vain ...
After all, mother nature has given us a huge variety of beautiful plants that are completely unpretentious in care. Such lowly relates handsome men and barberry.
When growing barberries not give you trouble: not demanding to soil quality, they can not tolerate stagnant moisture only. When locating bush, keep in mind that the barberry likes sunny places. In the shadow he just loses its decorative coloring of leaves.
Barberry differ widely. According to biologists, there are more than 170 species of this plant. Among them are:
- Miniature bushes, barely half a meter in height.
- Average height, coloring with decorative foliage.
- And powerful sprawling giants, and shrubs which do not call, up to three meters in height and as wide in diameter.
Interesting! In Russia barberry it has its own name - "North lemon." so-called for its sour taste and a high content of ascorbic acid. Its salted and in winter fed as a seasoning and as an effective means of scurvy. Added with pickled cabbage, he gave a unique flavor. Young leaves of barberry added instead sorrel in the preparation of cabbage.
A variety of color barberry leaves
There are few types of garden plants that have the same rich colors as barberry. Garden centers offer many varieties of plants with red, violet, bright ruby color of foliage. Many varieties have variegated foliage colors.
Barberry well tolerate a haircut. Designers at registration sites, give them a different shape. Especially that the choice of species is unusually broad: from the wide spreading shrubs to small spherical shrub with dense foliage.
barberry branches can be both drooping and slim - directed upwards. But there are all kinds of very prickly thorns, they are in some long, others short, but very sharp and hard.
Barberry in the hedge
Sharp spikes, which simply studded with all the shoots are a great site protection against intruders and animals, if the hedge is arranged barberry. In addition to the protective function, barberry performs and decorative.
Smart looks in the spring, during flowering. When gathered in the brush flowers kolokolchatovidnye just lit up the district-sunny and golden rays poured a unique aroma that attracts bees-working women. By the end of summer, ripe, ruby-red berries.
In the autumn of blends and colors of leaves to compete with the bold landscape artist. Reproduction barberry, as well as its cultivation, it is not too difficult. It multiplies like sowing seeds and vegetative ways: by rooting cuttings, layering, dividing the bush.