Deer Horn Sumy: growing in the middle lane, used in landscape design

There are many beautiful trees.

One of them is deer horn sumac, which will be a noticeable spot in your garden.

Let's see what kind of tree it is, how to care for it and how to decorate your garden.

What it looks like

Sumami fluffy or deer horny, vinegar tree, or as it is called in Latin, Rhus typhina is a member of the Sumach family, growing mainly in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. This deciduous tree grows up to 8 m in height. In the Moscow region, the height of a deer horned sucker will not exceed 3 meters at the age of 4 years. The leaves are 6-11 cm in length, a pointed form, notched at the edges, and a white color on the inside of the leaf. Each sheet is "assembled" on the branches in the "Commonwealth" from 9 to 31 leaves.

Sumy blooms in early and mid summer. Flowers plantations are very beautiful, red-brown or light green.Each flower has stamens and a cone-like shape. The average length of a flower is 15 cm, diameter - about 5 cm.

In autumn, the leaves turn red and the tree turns red due to the color of the foliage, and after it falls off, fruits that have a pyramidal shape appear on the sumac. They are not interested in birds, which means you can admire them for a long time. Keep on the tree until next spring.

The tree grows up only the first years of life, then it grows in breadth. Sometimes planting resembles shrubs because of such a wide crown.

How to endure winter and cold

Due to the fact that the natural habitat of the tree - the southern countries, our winters with sums with difficulty. But what is bad for planting is not at all bad for garden design.

The fact is that the old branches are frosting, but in their place new ones are formed, which helps the tree, with time, to become branchy, which means more beautiful and sweet look.

Sumy can withstand winters to -30 ° C, but it needs to have more snow: it protects the tree from wind and freezing of the root system, otherwise the plant may die. Make sure that the snow enveloped not only the crown of the planting, but also all the space around it.

To protect in winter, the snow depth should be about half a meter. In the fall, it is necessary to sprinkle the tree trunks with leaves to make it easier for the plants to winter. Additionally, peat or hay will help to shelter a tree from frost. Another confirmation that sumah has adapted to our winters is the presence of red fruits on the "female" plants, which remain on the tree until spring.

Landscaping Applications and Neighbors

This plant is often chosen for Japanese gardens. In addition, it is in good harmony with coniferous horizontal crowns and gets along well with plants with blue needles. Another company for the vinegar tree is perennials: they look very beautiful with sumach in the autumn.

You can use the plant and as part of the stony gardens. The vinegar tree itself is very unpretentious.

Pursuing its planting, designers pay attention to its features such as: the possibility of a good fixation of the slopes and ravines and frequent use to remove weeds, since this planting grows very quickly and does not give the harmful plants space for development. Vinegar is planted along the fence or as a hedge.

The only problem associated with this plant may be the ability to grow sumach, because it "swallows" not only pest plants, but also all benign plantings.

How to choose seedlings when buying

It is best to buy seedlings in proven nurseries: there they are accurately taken care of. Before buying, you need to carefully consider a small plant. The seedling should be symmetrical, with normally developed leaves. If it is somewhat crooked, it means that it was cut off.

Rhizome should be well formed and developed. If the root is damaged, the plant will soon die.It is better to be offered a lump formed from native soil: so you will know that everything is in order with the root system. Next, look at the leaves. They should not be faded and lifeless. Good seedlings always have elastic leaves that should not be dried ends. Also, there should be no mold and cobwebs: this indicates a disease of a planting or the presence of harmful insects.

A good copy of the root system without rot and spots. The elastic roots should be well buried in the ground. If the plant has too large flowers or an unnaturally green color, it means that it is too overfed with nutrient compounds.

You should not buy it, as it will be sick and may die before your eyes. Now, when we figured out how to choose a plant, let's figure out how to plant it.

Choosing a landing site

Having figured out exactly what conditions are needed for the vinegar tree, in the future this knowledge will help you choose the most suitable site for it.

Lighting

Sumy likes a lot of light. He can live in the shade, but with very good lighting - the development will take place better and faster.So do not plant it near the house and the shed: it is better to plant in the middle of the garden, without enclosing anything anywhere.

This will help in the event that (and there will be) the plant grows. The fact is that it is much easier to pull out young trees that you do not need in an open area than in the vicinity of young apple trees or pears.

The soil

The tree grows on sandy, sandy-argillaceous and sandy-stony ground. The vinegar tree likes friable dry soils. Dislikes bogging and does not tolerate close proximity to groundwater, and a strong density of land. Does not like a plant of wet and medium wet drained soil types. However, it tolerates moderate salinization of the substrate. May sumah grow on stone limestone. The roots of the plant cling well even to the soil of a ravine or scree.

Planting seedlings on the site: the process and scheme

To plant seedlings of deer horn sumach is needed in spring or autumn, when the plant will be two or three years old. In the autumn, the seedlings are planted in a container so that they can be transplanted into permanent soil in the spring.It is necessary to plant both female and male plants.

The process of planting begins with digging a hole for the root. It should correspond to the earthen coma plantations. The excavated earth should be mixed with a compost spade.

Straighten the roots of the plant and plant in the ground so that the earthy ball was on a par with the surface of the soil. Next, fill the pit and pour the planting.

The distance between the two vinegar trees should not be less than two and a half meters. During planting, dig in the restraints on root growth. This can be a board, slate or metal sheets: sumac grows very quickly throughout the garden, which is not always pleasant for the gardener.

Three days after planting, it is necessary to mulch the soil around the plant and water it abundantly. It is best to mulch with sawdust and peat.

Care Tips

With the landing of deer horned sumach, we figured out, now let's deal with the rules of caring for him.

Watering and feeding

Caring for this plant is simple. It is necessary to mulch the soil immediately after planting, using wood chips or sawdust, a layer of 6 cm. Watering is done only in dry weather.If the plant is already an adult, then it is not necessary to water it at all.

In the beginning of the spring, nitroammofosca is applied: 30 grams of fertilizer are needed per 1 m².

Pruning

In winter, many branches of planting die off, because they do not withstand severe frosts, which means that in the spring it is necessary to prune. Only dead and dry branches are cut.

It is also necessary to prune the branches if you do not want the tree to grow upwards: the plant looks much more interesting and attractive with a broad crown. During pruning, the tree produces a yellowish thick juice, which eventually hardens and turns black.

Diseases and pests

Vinegar tree, most often, is sick with fungal diseases. We will not consider all of them, but dwell on the two most common ones: powdery mildew and drying of branches and shoots. Fungi can be transported both by air and on / in the ground. So powdery mildew. Initially, the disease is noticeable as a kind of white cobweb on the leaves of a tree, but over time it turns into a patina. This plaque quickly spreads to neighboring leaves and quickly captures the entire tree.

The longer the plant is not treated for this disease, the greater the chance that the vinegar tree will die. Most often, the plant has a mealy race in warm weather and high humidity. Also contributes to this disease and a large amount of nitrogen fertilizer or nitrogen in the soil as a whole.

To avoid this disease, it is necessary to weed around the plant (in case of their occurrence), to loosen the soil around the plantings, and not to plant trees too close to one another. If one shoot does get sick, you will have to destroy it, otherwise all plantations will die.

There are also folk remedies by which powdery mildew is destroyed, but they are better used to prevent the disease or are used in its early stages. If the disease has long suma suma - use chemicals. Shrinking shoots and branches. This disease, the planting is subject to damage to the bark. It begins with the cracking of the bark, then dry the branches. Dead branches have mycelium - the formation of black, light pink or brown.

Prevention of this disease consists in tracking and treating the bark and the main branches of the tree.If the branch is sick, it must be cut and burned. Also used chemicals for the treatment of this disease. The plant does not actually suffer from pests.

In general, sumac is a beautiful bright tree that will please your eye for many years, you just have to make a little effort and provide it with comfortable living conditions.