The best tips for the care and planting viburnum Buldenezh

Kalina Buldenezh (from French "Boulede Neige" - snow globe) - ornamental shrub, a type of viburnum with large inflorescences similar to snowballs.

The plant is very popular with gardeners, despite the fact that it does not bear fruit.

Characteristics and features of viburnum Buldenezh

This variety is called viburnum sterile, because her flowers are barren. When Viburnum Buldenezh blooms, its graceful, almost perfectly round shape, inflorescences make you forget about the absence of fruit.

This variety of viburnum, a representative of honeysuckle, grows to 3.5 m and, if not cut, to 1.5 m in diameter. Strong branches grow straight and then diverge in different directions, forming a wide crown.Gardeners, to give the shrub a more presentable look and beautifully beat flowering, give the crown of viburnum a hemispherical shape.

The main advantage of the bush Buldenezh - its inflorescences. Balls hanging from branches are up to 15 cm in diameter. Each flower in an inflorescence is dismissed by several semicircular petals without stamens.

Viburnum blooms in May, first the flowers have a pale green tone, then change to pale pink or cream, and only when they are fully blossomed they take on a snow-white color.

Large inflorescences are quite heavy, and thin branches of the bush, under their weight, bend down to the ground. Inflorescences last about a month, then dry out.

It is noteworthy that the life span of Viburnum Buldenezh is quite high, up to 60 years the plant is still blooming. In the autumn period, the leaves are filled with a purple tinge, which distinguishes them from the yellowed foliage of other bushes or trees.

Is there some more terry grade viburnum Buldenezh. This shrub has a delicate pink color of inflorescences, otherwise (planting and care) is similar to a “snow globe”.

How to plant seedlings of Viburnum Buldenezh

Shrub Buldenezh is a long-liver, therefore choose a place for him competently, he will spend there not one decade.

The bush has a spreading crown, you can use it by planting it near a bench or a gazebo to create a shadow.

Optimum terms for landing

Planting dates depend on the choice of breeding method. Viburnum planting by layering is carried out in the spring, by dividing the bush in the fall, it is better to choose summer time for cutting. It is not recommended to land in cold and rainy weather.

Soil selection and preparation

A good place to plant will be a plot in a lowland or near a pond. If you do not have such a place, plant viburnum in partial shade. In full shade the shrub will grow, but to the detriment of flowering: the inflorescences will be small and inexpressive. In the open area of ​​the sun flowering will be short and there is a risk of getting burned.

The soil for viburnum is suitable wet, loose, with an acidity of 5.5-6.5. Too dense soil can be "diluted" with sand, sour - lime. In any case, the soil should be nutritious, fertilize it with humus before planting.

Proper landing technology

At viburnum root system is highly developed, therefore the pit is being cooked deep. One of the options for planting shrubs will be the preparation of holes 80 cm deep and 60 cm wide.The bottom of the pit is drained with rubble or large pebbles. Drainage covered with sand 15 cm.

Next, make a pre-prepared soil: compost (4 buckets), wood ash (600 g), nitrophoska (200 g). The seedling is deepened into the soil 3 cm below the root collar, watered abundantly and covered with mulch (humus or sawdust).

The method of group planting viburnum will be 2 square by 2 meters. You will be surprised how quickly viburnum Buldenezh grows. In the first year, all forces go to the development and strengthening of the roots, but by the 3rd year of life the plant reaches 1.5 m

Proper care of viburnum Buldenezh

In addition to watering and feeding, viburnum (adult plant) needs a formative or auxiliary pruning.

Regular watering

Kalina loves moisture. Young plants consume large amounts of water, they need to be watered more often. Both young and adult bushes require special attention during dry periods.

The soil around the trunk should not dry out, so in the absence of precipitation water more often.In rainy weather the plant has enough natural precipitation. In the summer, in hot weather, water several times a month so that the flowering period in spring does not decrease.

Top dressing and bush fertilizer

As the plant is planted in well-fertilized soil, the first feeding is carried out the following year. In the spring when the first leaves appear for good development, fertilizing is carried out with nitrogenous compounds. You can make organic - 2 buckets of humus under the bush.

The second time they feed with potash-phosphate fertilizers in autumn. You can use both liquid and dry dressings. Granular fertilizers are spread on the loosened soil under the shrub. After making dressings in the spring need abundant watering.

Anti-aging and shaping pruning

Consider how to trim Kalina Buldenezh. After the bush blooms, the side branches are shortened, dry and growing inside the bush. The choice of the form of a shrub is your fantasy: a semicircle, a standard tree.

Every year, the plant is freed from damaged or frozen shoots in winter. Crown plant begin to form when the bush reaches 1.5 m in height. Krona thinned inside a bush and pruned external shoots.

If you want to form a tree with several trunks, the young bush should be cut to the level of a stump, leaving about 20 cm. In this case, the growth of side branches is stimulated.

At the end of July, the young branches pinch in order to achieve a more lush flowering, while the last year's shoots are not touched, since it is on them that the buds are laid. Sometimes the largest branches need support, they should be tied up so as not to break under their own weight.

Methods of breeding Viburnum Buldenezh

Kalina Buldenezh is propagated in a vegetative way, because the inflorescences of the plant are deprived of pistils and stamens and do not produce fruits and seeds.

Layering

For spring reproduction by layering, make long furrows up to 10 cm deep near the trunk of a bush. Tilt annual stalks and fasten with straps in the furrows. Shoots cover with soil with humus, compact and water well. It is desirable to defend water or to prepare rainwater in advance.

When shoots appear, roll out.Constantly maintain soil moisture. Separate rooted cuttings from the donor bush, divide into seedlings and plant in pots or other containers. Seedlings are transferred to a permanent place at the age of two, when the root system is fully formed and strengthened.

Dividing bush

Reproduction by dividing the bush is similar to the method of reproduction by layering. The difference is that the branch in the furrow is not completely covered with soil, the tip above the surface remains. So that the roots are formed faster in the delenka, the bark on the part deepened into the ground is pruned. In the fall, the seedling is separated from the mother bush and transplanted.

Cuttings

Viburnum cuttings are carried out in the summer, the branches remaining after pruning are taken under the cuttings. It should be green shoots with several pairs of buds and internode. The leaves closer to the cut removed, the stalk is placed for 10 hours in the "Kornevin" to stimulate the growth of roots.

During this time, preparing the garden and soil.For soil, they take in equal parts turf soil, sand and humus, and moisten the soil. The treated cuttings are planted in the soil, deepening by 2 cm. It is desirable for the plant to create greenhouse conditions by pulling the film over it. The soil must be moistened, cuttings can be sprayed. By the end of the summer there will be young shoots.

How to deal with possible pests of Viburnum Buldenezh

The most common pests of viburnum are the viburnum leaf beetle, scale insect and aphid.

Viburnum leaf beetle - It is a beetle that nibbles the leaves of a plant and is able to bring it to death. To combat the parasite, use karbofos or phosbecid. The first time to process the bush in May, to get rid of the larvae, the second time in August to get rid of adult individuals.

Shchitovka - This is a small parasite, sucking the juice from the leaves of the plant. To get rid of the insect will help treatment "Aktara" or "Askoris."

Aphid sucks the juice from the leaves. Against these parasites are sprayed with soapy water or "Agravertin". It is necessary to spray in the evening in calm weather. Scare away the parasite can a layer of ash on the ground around the shrub.

The most painful for viburnum disease - powdery mildew. When infected, the plant is covered with white bloom, for two weeks the whole bush can be affected.

Fight with the fungus will help ash infusion (3 kg per 10 liters of water), a solution of soda ash and soap (10 liters of soapy water 50 g of soda). Spray can be after a flowering period of 3 weeks, once a week. For the prevention of the disease, the bush in the spring is sprayed with an infusion of garlic, onion or tobacco.

In order not to be tormented by the question: why does not the viburnum Buldenezh bloom in your area, follow all the rules of planting, care and especially trimming. An overdue pruning or pinching procedure comes around in bloom. The plant, planted in a deaf shadow, also will not please you with color.

Under all conditions, your garden will be replenished with another beautiful ornamental plant. Kalina Buldenezh in landscape design can occupy any niche. This is a beautiful single landing, group with hvoynikami or lilac, the center of the composition, the living fence and much more that tells you the imagination.