How to choose Hydrangea. Hydrangea Miscellaneous: how to put and care for. Planting hydrangea to open soil: place, soil, distance and depth

Thanks to archaeologists, it became known that hydrangea already existed at least forty thousand years ago. In Asia, this plant cultivated for a long time, and Europeans began to show interest in it only since 1900, although Hortensia was brought to Europe from Japan almost in the century earlier. Now this shrub is found everywhere.

Hydrangea has a unique property of accumulating aluminum, and then inflorescences on the bushes are painted in blue or blue.

• How to grow hydrangea from seeds?
• How to plant a shrub?
• How to care for Hortensia throughout the season?

You will find answers to these and other questions in our article.

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Planting and caring for hydrangea

• Landing: In the autumn sowing seeds to seedlings, with the subsequent landing of seedlings in the open soil in early spring in two years. In the south, seedlings can be planted in the ground and autumn.
• Bloom: Since the beginning of summer to late autumn.
• Lighting: Powder in southern terrain, bright sunlight in the middle strip and more northern regions.
• The soil: Rich and wet lime-free (pH 5.0).
• Watering: Weekly and abundant, water consumption - from 15 to 20 liters per plant.
• Feeding: At the beginning of spring - a solution of urea, after flowering - complex mineral fertilizer.
• Pruning: Every year from 3-4 years. Miscellaneous and tree - in March-April.
• Reproduction: Seeds, division of bush, vaccination, giving and green cuttings.
• Pests: Cellite ticks.
• Diseases: Peronosporosis, chlorosis.

Read more about the cultivation of hydrangeas below

Plant hydrangea (Lat. Hydrangea) Refers to the genus of flowering plants of the hydrangea family, which includes various data from 30 to 80 types of shrubs, lian and small trees. In nature, most often Hytenzia can be found in Eastern and South Asia - in Japan and China. It also grows in the Far East and in North America. The hydrangea flower received his name in honor of the princess of the Sacred Roman Empire, and the Latin name Hydrangea plant gave scientists to the systematics for exorbitant moisture content (hydranshea is translated as "water vessel"). The Japanese are called Hydrangea "Adzisay", which means "Flower - Purple Sun" means in Japanese. From a large variety of types of hydrangea in room culture, only hydrangea is grown, or large-scale, compact forms, all other types and varieties of hydrangea in our latitudes are grown in gardens.

Hydrangea Flowers - Description

Hydrangea flowers in natural conditions are shrubs up to 3 m height, small trees and liaans capable of climbing the trunks of trees to a height of up to 30 m. In addition, depending on the species, they can be both evergreen and deciduous plants, and in our climate Flowers prefer to grow deciduous. The leaves of hydrangea are usually large, opposite, oval with an acute tip, often with gear edges and noticeable housing. Hydrangea flowers from spring to frosts with large spherical inflorescences, tweeted or scattered, consisting of two types of flowers: small fertile (flushing), which are usually in the middle of inflorescences, and large sterile (fruitless) blooming around the edges. There is, however, the species that all flowers are in inflorescences flushing.

Most of the hydrangea flowers with white flowers, but such a kind, for example, like hydrangea hydrangea (or large hydrangea), blooms not only with white and cream, but also red, blue, lilac and pink flowers, and the painting directly depends on the soil hydrogen indicator (level pH): Hydrangea with beige and cream flowers grow on neutral soil, on alkaline - with lilac or pink, on sour - with blue due to aluminum contained in the soil, which can absorb the plant. The fruit of hydrangea is a 2-5-chamber box with small seeds. Sometimes with hydrangea, plants are confused from the relatives of the schisophragm, but you should know that the so-called hydrangea is in fact the schisophragm.

Growing hydrangea - features

Well, now you can talk about the peculiarities of growing hydrangea in the garden. So:

• the color of the hydrangea flowers is depends on the soil hydrogen indicator in which it grows: in neutral soil, the flowers will be white or cream color, in sour - blue or blue, neutral - pink or lilac. Therefore, to create multi-colored bushes, it suffices to change the acidity of the soil under each of them;
• hydrangea is very moisture, so you feel about watering the plant with all seriousness;
• it is very important for hydrangea bright light, but on the straight sun, gentle petals will quickly burn out, so it is best to land it where there will be a light half of the midday time;
• the most important factor in caring for hydrangea after irrigation mode is the timely proper trimming;
• do not overflow hydrangea to the organica, otherwise they, rapidly growled, almost certainly they will not bloom;
• even cold-resistant hydrangea varieties need warm shelter for the winter, but if your beauty is frozen - do not despair: most likely, it will be restored during the growing season;
• hydrangea is very rarely amazed by diseases or pests.

Planting hydrangea

Hortensia from seeds

Seed method (generative) successfully multiply species hydrangeas. Apply the method of seed reproduction and for the purposes of the selection experiment. How to grow hydrangea from seeds? Very simple, but you will need time.

Sowing hydrangea seeds is carried out in the fall: to a nutrient loose substrate consisting of a mixture of sheet and peat ground with river sand in a ratio of 4: 2: 1 sow hydrangea seeds, which are then sealed with a light layer of the same mixture and moisturized from the sprayer. The container is covered with glass or film, which is periodically removed to ventilate crops and moisturizing the substrate, which should be slightly wet all the time. The temperature required for the extension is 14-20 ºC. As soon as shoots appear (it usually happens through a month and a half), the glass can be removed.

Peer seedlings of hydrangea need twice: The first time in the development stage of seedlist leaves, the second - in May. Moreover, during the second dive, each seedman is planted into a separate pot of 7 cm with a diameter. After the second dive, young hydrangeas for quenching are exposed to the day on the fresh air to the place where the straight sun rays, rain moisture and drafts are not getting. In the evening, seedlings contribute to the room.

At home, hydrangea is struck for two years, in winter - in a light cool room, and in summer, exposing it possible to fresh air and removing appearing buds in order not to weaken young plants with blossom.

Saplings of hydrangea

Two years later, early in the spring, and if you live in a region with a cold climate, then in the fall, the grown seedlings are planted in an open ground to a permanent place. When choosing a site for hydrangea, keep in mind that, without exception, this plant, this plant loves sunlight, but such species, as hydrangea, soil, tree, and sargen feel well in light shadow. The soil is preferable neutral or slightly sour, loose and rich in organic. We can acidify alkaline soil by the upper peat or the aside of the Aside Plus.

Make sure that shrubs or trees have not grew up under the hydrangea of \u200b\u200bthe site, and trees with the same as the hydrangea, the surface root system, since in the future there may be a struggle for moisture and nutrients in the upper layer of the soil. Hydrangea landing begins with a pits of a pit, which should be twice as many land of the hydrangea seedling. In a ready-made pit, make peat, mineral and organic fertilizers mixed with soil. Remove the seedling along with a cottage, carefully shake the soil, straighten the roots, lower the pit and pour out the soil mixed with the compost, so that the root com slightly opposed the level of the site. Remove the soil, pick up the plant and inspire a plot of cheese or bark.

Hydrangea Care in the Garden

How to care for hydrangea

The care of hydrangeas in the garden is completely simple, but there are mandatory items that need to be carried out strictly. The most important condition for the care of Hingtonia is properly organized by watering - it should be abundant, approximately 30-50 liters of warm outwear water under each adult plant twice a week at a disturbing time. If the soil is closed by peat, then you can water less often, since the peat remains wet for a long time.

To improve the aeration of the roots, it is necessary several times for the spring-summer period to loosen the soil around the bush to a depth of about 5 cm. Do not forget to crop outward shoots.

Hydrangea fertilizer

If you want hydrangea to bloom in full swing, it is necessary to carry out a complex feeder at least twice a year - until the flowering period of hydrangea and after it. At the beginning of the spring, hydrangea is fed by a solution of 20 g of urea on a bucket of water at the rate that three buckets of such a solution will be needed on the adult plant. After flowering, hydrangea is fed by complex mineral fertilizers.

Throughout the summer, it is possible to fertilize the hortensia from time to time, but observe the measure to not reconcile the plant, otherwise the fragile branches can break the large branches. Just in case, tearing shoots so that this does not happen.

Pruning hydrangea

Crops are subject to hydrangea that has reached three or four years. Those species that bloom on the shoots of the current year is cut off early in spring, to the dissolution of the kidneys and the beginning of the sludge, so that the plant does not expire with juice and not died. But too early trimming makes the cuttings obtained after it unfit for rooting. Therefore, it is necessary to guess for trimming such a time when the kidney is only slightly swollen and acquired a "lively" view.

• The first cut off Holtenzia tree - it wakes up before other types. Her long shoots are trimmed at an altitude of three to four kidneys, cut parts are cut on the cuttings.
• Hydrangea burst is cut off much more careful: last year's shoots - only a third, but also beautiful cuttings are obtained from these segments.
• Hydrangea is practically not cut in hydrangea, only slightly rejuvenate, removing every fourth escape every year, especially if he grows through the bush, and, of course, dead or broken branches.

Gorutsa reproduction with cuttings

From the shootings that went to you, after trimming, cut the pieces with two nodes in such a way that under the lower node there was a biaed slice, and above the upper - straight. From the knot to the cut, there should be a distance of 2-3 cm. Slide the cuttings into the greenhouse container with peat-sandy soil, immersing the lower part into the soil for 3 cm, well. Then cover the greenhouse "house" from polyethylene.

Spray the cuttings from the sprayer so that the soil always was in a wet state. As soon as the cuttings are rooted, they are planted in an open ground to a permanent place, where they will have enough to grow enough to grow up to courageously to survive the coming winter.

Hortensia after flowering

When the hydrangea is wondering, the time of preparation of the plant for winter comes. Young seedlings growing up in pots are transferred to the room, and the gardens of hydrangea removes faded inflorescences in order to suddenly dropped wet snow on them and did not break the fragile branches of the plant. In addition, you will need to highly emphasize the base of hydrangea bushes and to climb the site on which they grow to reliably protect their surface root system for the winter.

The most cold-resistant from the hydrangeas are the battle and soil. Their shoots to autumn are all overweight, so it is easier to carry winter cold even without cover if you do not live in a cold climate. It can transfer a navel winter without shelter and hydrangea tree.

Wintering hydrangea

Preparation of hydrangea to winter

In warm snowy winters, even thermal-loving large-scale and sawn hydrangeas can winter without a man-made shelter, but no one will certainly tell you to what temperature can fall in the winter column of the thermometer and what a height will be snow cover coming in winter. Believe in assumptions and mistaken means to destroy your garden, so it is better to show vigilance and, maybe even infirmity to forecasts, but calmly sleep frosty nights, knowing that your plants are also tightly sleeping under their warm shelter.

So, how and when to stream hydrangea for the winter? It is better to do this after the first frosts during October. Very young bushes just fall asleep with dry earth to the fore. A older bushes are flex to the ground and is covered with a loan or rubberoid, which are pressed by bricks, so that they do not break the wind. Adult bushes will require great effort from you: the bush is neatly binding and wrapped with loaf or spunbond. Then the framework in the form of a cylinder of a metal mesh is built around it at a distance of 20-25 cm from the bush, and the frame should be higher than the plant by 10 cm. The space between the grid and hydrangea is filled with dry foliage, which at this time of the year in the gardens is more than enough. In the spring, in April, the frame with foliage can be removed, and when the stable plus temperature will be installed, the spunbond is removed.

Hortensia in winter

To cover your hydrangea for the winter or not - to solve you. We offer shelter options in the case of harsh, and most importantly - a honest winter. If there is no strong frost in your area, the shelter can be symbolic, and if your hydrangea is also related to winter-hardy species, then it may not be protected from frosts. But if the hydrangea in your garden does not apply to cold-resistant species, and the winter in your areas are unpredictable, use our tips in the fall so that in the winter to sleep peacefully, in the spring to see how the hydrangea awakens to life, and in the summer to admire it with nothing comparable, beautiful blossom .

Types and varieties of hydrangea

Before planting in Hortenzia in his garden, you need to know which one of her species is suitable, because each of them has its own requirements in agrotechnik. The cultivation of hydrangea by swelling, for example, in some important points (trimming, preparation for the winter) differs from the cultivation of hydrangea of \u200b\u200btree or large-scale, so the more you will know about the types, the easier it will be for you to care for any of them. So...

Hydrangea Tree (Hydrangea Arborescens)

The view, widespread in the gardens of our climatic belt. The tree hydrangea is a shrub that achieves height from one to three meters. Inflorescences are formed at the ends of annual shoots, at the beginning of flowering flowers have a greenish tint, but when they are blown up, they become white or cream.

Invisable Spirit is considered popular garden forms - Pink hydrangea, sterilis - white hydrangea, characterized by abundant blossom, Hydrangea Annabel and Hydrangea Grandflower with large snow-white inflorescences (just do not confuse this grade hydrangea hydrangea with the same name).

Miscellaneous Hydrangea (Hydrangea Paniculata)

In nature, it grows as a shrub or a tree height from two to five meters. In garden culture is one of the most sought-after species. In one place, hydrangea messengers can grow more than forty years. Her shoots will quickly fall, which makes this kind of cold-resistant. Inflorescences are formed on the tops of the shoots of the current year, so bloom is very abundant, although the buds appearing already at the end of June disclose only by August or September. The inflorescence of hydrangea of \u200b\u200bthe buggy pyramidal shape, the flowers at the very beginning of flowering have a greenish tint, then made on white, closer to the autumn they acquire a pink color, then brick and at the end of flowering are becoming greenish again.

The most famous garden forms: Grandflower, Hortensia Vanilla Freiz, Kuisha, Tardiva.

Large hydrangea (Hydrangea Macrophylla)

Which is called garden, most often and grown in the garden, but there are compact varieties that can be grown in containers on terraces and even in room conditions. This species has a tight foliage of bright green, the shoots of the current year are grassy, \u200b\u200bso the plant has a very low cold resistance. However, the kidneys for the shoots of the current year, at the ends of which are blooming inflorescences, are laid by the previous autumn, therefore it is believed that hydrangea hydrangea flowers are blooming on last year's shoots. The form of inflorescence is usually umbrella, the malloid, which is customary to be called Japanese, or semi-alone. Coloring flowers depends on the pH of the soil level.

Interesting, for example, such varieties from the recently derived cold-resistant: endless Summer - Hydrangea Blue, if it grows on acidic soil, and lilac, if it grows on neutral; Renata Styinger - Blue Hydrangea; Sorotforms with terry flowers Romance and Expensh.

DolciFolia hydrangea hydrangea (Hydrangea QUERCIFOLIA)

Very attractive appearance, but, unfortunately, not at all winter-hardy, so requiring thorough insulation for the winter. It impresses it not only with lush flowering, but also the leaves unusual for the hydrangea of \u200b\u200ba beautiful form. The hydrangea of \u200b\u200bdabutant up to two meters in height grows, has a bundled inflorescences of 10-30 cm in length with white at the beginning of flowering, and with time, purple flowers, which are blooming in June-July.

Hydrangea Soilomalla Hydrangea

Or hydrangea diversified - Frost-resistant appearance in nature two-three-meter heights. In culture is often used to form a strambam form. Dark green leaves 20 cm long have a smooth surface and woolly, sideways, loose, pile, shield, first white, but by the end of flowering pinking. Blooms at the end of June or early July. The hydrangea of \u200b\u200bthe soil bravesteter is especially popular, which richly flowering in large milky and white inflorescences.

Flowering hydrangea in the garden at the cottage

In today's material, we will talk about how to put and grow Hydrangea in the garden at the cottage. I have already had information on landing and growing hydrangea, but some nuances always appear, which were not voiced earlier. So it turned out this time. Therefore, I invite you to plunge into the world of hydrangea!

Planting hydrangea

Hydrangea is one of those plants that simply bathes in the sun's rays, so it is recommended to plant it only on well-lit plots.

Yes, there is an opinion that she can grow in half, but what will it be for a bush? No feeding will help ... So I i recommend only solar places.

When to plant: The optimal time for landing - in early May, you can also plant Hydrangea in the fall, in early September.

How to plant: The planting hole for hydrangea is recommended to dig 50 cm square sizes, the depth is 60 cm.

If you plan to plan some bushes nearby, then withstand the distance between the pits in the meter at least - let the Kushu grow.

The pit should be filled with soil from humoring, leaf land, peat and sand in a ratio of 2-2-1-1.

When mixing the soil, add 20 grams of urea, 20 grams of potassium sulfate and 60 grams of granulated superphosphate.

But it is impossible to mix the lime, the plant is not "friendly" with her.

Koshes try to plant so that the root neck is to be flown with the soil, did not plunge and did not speak out of it.

After landing, make sure that the young plant does not fall asleep or rain. I usually encourage a seedling to a wand for the first season.

If the plant decides to bloom in the first year, Clean the inflorescences, this is the best solution.

All substances should go for the first year on the development of the roots, so the strength to spend on flowers does not make sense.

Furusks Hydrangea

Please note that if you refuel the pit on the instructions above, then you do not need to feed the hinges in the first two years. But since the third year, feeding should be made according to schedule.

First feeding: It is made in early spring, during the awakening of the bush. I give complex - minerals and microelements of 30 grams per 10 liters of water.

The names are many, choose in the store at your discretion, there are even special for hydrangea - it is generally an ideal option.

You can also in an old-fashioned - by 1 square meter 20-25 grams. urea, 30-40 gr. Superphosphate and 30-35 gr. Potassium sulfate.

Second feeding: Produced during the formation of buds. I also give complex, but you can and mineral fertilizers at the rate of 60-80 grams. Superphosphate and 40-50 gr. Potassium sulfate per square meter landing.

Third and fourth feeding: It refers to the number of powered, they should be carried out using a solution of a cowboat, or green fertilizer - infusion of herbs on water. Herbs insist more convenient, since where they find these pellets ...

Now there are no cows in the fields ... And the korovyan and green fertilizer are bred in a ratio of 1 to 10, 10 liters will be at the adult bush.

Watering hydrangea

Hydrangea loves moisture and speaks well to watering. I water every three days in the heat, two buckets of water on the bush.

My soil is loose, water goes quickly and therefore such frequent watering. In general, once a week, two buckets for each adult bush.

If in the summer there are rain often, then watering can be energized, up to once every two weeks.

Soil care

It will be worthwhile that there will be regular loosening of the soil around the hydrangea bush. I spend loosening every time after watering. A twist to the depth of 3-5 cm. It is very well reflected in the condition of the bush. He literally sinks life!

Alternatively, you can multen the rigging of hydrangea peat or overwhelmed sawdust. The mulch layer should be centimeters 5. This and moisture will hold and the soil will not let you quiet in the crust.

It is not necessary to join the looser in this case. The mulch is scattered in the spring and until autumn you can do not loose. But since I like to mess around with the plants, I looked, not throwing my favorites.

Proper cutting of hydrangea

In March, and in the suburbs in April, they make a trimming of hydrangea. Leave the strongest shoots, on a bush from 7 to 15, but everything is individually.

The more older bush, the more you can leave. Liquid thumbs are eliminated, do not give to spray the strength of the bustle.

In the remained strong shoots, a top of three kidneys should be cut, it stimulates the plant on abundant flowering.

When autumn comes, all inflorescences should be cut, it is not recommended to leave them on the bush, as the snow can break the trunks.

If your bush is already very old, it can be rejected by cardinal trimming. I did this with one of my long-lived bushes.

Now it looks like hedgehog - hemp height 5 cm, with one bottom kidney. I think this season the bush will be beautiful!

All the beauty of the trimming of a strong adult bush is that it literally immediately gives blooming shoots, and what!

Protection of hydrangea from diseases and pests

In general, hydrangea is rarely ill, my bushes on my memory never suffered anything. In rare cases, milderous dew may be affected.

If it happened, then spray the injured solution of Fundazola - 20 grams per 10 liters of water. Bordeeping liquid is also suitable - take 100 grams of bordeodos on 10 liters of water.

Finally, I propose to get acquainted with the material.

Describe the landing and care of hydrangeas in the spring and autumn (tree, large-scale (garden), whitewashed and cherry). Consider the place, soil, landing rules and step-by-step instructions, as well as watering, feeding, trimming and preparation for winter (Moscow region, North-West, Ural, Siberia and southern regions).

Planting hydrangea to open soil: place, soil, distance and depth

The plant is thermo-loving, fast-growing and needs fertile soil and sufficient moisture.

We describe the landing in an open ground for any type of hydrangea: dabutant, large-scale (garden), blurred, sawn, tree, cherry, sargent and others.

Place landing

Hydrangea (all kinds) is a light-insulated plant, it grows well in a sunny and open place, but a bright sun and a strong wind need to be avoided. Therefore, in the peak of heat it is necessary to light shading, it loves the scattered light very much.

At the same time, the shrub is capable of growing well and in a light half, in this case it blooms with a smaller number of flowers. It is very important to have sunlight in the morning, in the morning. Therefore, the eastern side is suitable than West.

Soil and acidity

Hydrangea grows well on fertile, rich in humus clay soils. It develops worse on the red, and sandy soils are contraindicated.

The optimal level of acidity is pH 5.2-6.0 (slightly acidic soil). The maximum brightness of the inflorescences is observed precisely on acidic soil, and on neutral slow development and pale painting.

Alkaline soil leads to chlorose (yellowing of leaves). With the growth of the bush on alkaline soil, the lack of iron and magnesium is often observed, which manifests itself with light and pale color leaves.

Therefore, acidify the soil or process the cheelage of iron. In past century, gardeners have built iron objects (nails, bank, horseshoe).

When landing, a special balanced soil mixture with fertilizers is prepared.

Soil mixture

Structure: Underworker, ferry land, leaf land and peat - equal parts or humus, garden earth (chernozem), peat and sand - 2: 2: 1: 1. As well as nutrients: 20-25 gr (dining room + teaspoon) carbamide (urea), 24-29 grams of potassium sulfate (two tablespoons) and 60-70 Gy of superphosphate (150-250 g of bone flour).

If the spruce and pines grow nearby, then under them you can skit light, loose and slightly acidic soil. Some gardeners successfully grow flowers in such a soil, even without fertilizing when landing.

Full ban - lime, chalk and wood ash.

Distance when landing

Largest - 120-160 cm, and a buggy 140-240 cm between bushes, and from the nearest large shrubs and trees - 230-300 cm. If you want to plant a hydrangea in a row (live elevation, "mixboro"), then you can dig a trench wide 90-110 cm.

If you want to achieve earlier flowering, then when landing, dig pits closer to each other (70-80 cm), and after 2-3 years, we swift the bushes if necessary.

Planting Yama

Depth - 36-45, width - 51-65 cm. The roots grow mostly styling, stretch much further than the crown.

Landing depth

The root neck must be located at the level of the soil, a maximum of 2-3 cm below, otherwise the flower will be poorly developed.

Step-by-step instruction landing hydrangea

1. Dock the pit of the desired size 15-30 days before landing.
2. Prepare the soil mixture and pour the landing hole.
3. Dock the pit and on the cone of the soil mixture, put a seedling on the desired depth and straighten the roots. Gradually, fall asleep the pit and seal the soil.
4. Pour a bush with water with 8-12 liters of water and sprinkle with crust, sawdust or peat - 6-8 cm in thickness and 16-20 cm in diameter.
5. Blank flower from straight sunlight during the day and strong wind.

When is it better to plant a hortension? Spring or autumn?

The best landing time: Spring - the beginning of May and autumn - September. At the same time, the most favorable period to plant the hydrangea in cold climate conditions is only spring, and in more southern regions you can plant in spring and autumn.

Hydrangea care after landing

Preparation for flowering

The first two years cut inflorescences at the booth stage ("pea"). And then the plant will send all the forces on the development of the root system and the above-ground part, which will provide better bloom in subsequent years.

• Watering, feeding, trimming and preparation for winter - see in the relevant sections.

Gardening Hydrangea Care: Growing Secrets

Flower care lies in watering, fertilizer, pruning and preparation for winter. Spring is the best moment for making a mulch into a rolling circle for more moisture saving. Fleeve sawdust, peat, chew or chips 7-8 cm layer, diameter - 24-30 cm.

Podkord

When planting hydrangea to the soil mixture with fertilizers, the first two years can not be fed. The general rule of feeding until July is acidic fertilizers (ammonium sulfate, potassium sulfate), and from July to October, potash-phosphorus (bone flour, superphosphate).

The need of plants in nutrients is high as it grows rapidly and blooms powerfully.

1. Complete feeding for growth. At the beginning - mid-May, adopt complex mineral fertilizer - 25-35 grams per 10 liters of water. Or a separate tablespoon (15 gr) urea + 25-30 Gy of superphosphate (2 tbsp. Spoons) and a tablespoon (15 gr) potassium sulfate.
   Mineral fertilizers can be supplemented with organic: infusion of a cowboy or bird litter - 1:10. Perepecchu repeat after 13-16 days.
2. Potash-phosphorian feeding for flowering. 12-16 days before flowering (the beginning - middle of June) conduct liquid feeding: dissolve 65-75 Gy of superphosphate and 41-49 grams of potassium sulfate in water and sprinkle.
3. During flowering. Repeat the previous feeding, at the time of mass flowering to extend it and ensure the bookmark of new flower kidneys.

• For feeding, do not recommend using wood ash. Good fit fertilizers for heasty species and Rhododendron.
• Do not allow the oversight of nitrogen, which leads to a decrease in winter hardiness, a deterioration in flowering and contributes to the development of rot. Apply only in April - MAE.
• Important! The oversupply of fertilizers, especially organic (coward, litter) will bring more harm than the deficiency.

Watering hydrangea

The flower is moisture and needed regular watering. Drought is contraindicated, the absence of a sufficient amount of moisture leads to a violation of development.

In dry and hot weather, water every 7-8 days 15-20 liters of water. The usual schedule every 13-16 days 15-25 liters of water, and if the rainy summer, then 4-5 times per season.

The lack of moisture in the fall decreases the winter-hardiness of the plant, so if in the fall there is little rain, then additional watering is required.

In water for irrigation periodically add 2-3 GG of manganese to prevent the development of rot. For watering, soft water is best suited.

Watering better in the morning or evening to the rolling circle when there is no scorching sun. After each watering, it is desirable to loosen the soil at 5-6 cm deep into the plant.

Proper cutting of hydrangeas: Spring and autumn

All kinds perfectly tolerate trimming and need it, but everyone has features. Cutting in the spring can be carried out only from 3-4 years of age. The most common types of hydrangeas in Russian gardens are separated by the type of trimming into two groups.

Group number 1 (hydrangea hydrangea (garden), barbed, sawn, dabutant, sargent and cherry)

These species bloom on last year's shoots and need sanitary and cosmetic pruning. Optimal trimming time - as soon as the kidneys are a little swollen, there are no active movement of juice, plus such circumcised shoots can be rooted. Tell us on the example of garden hydrangea.

Hydrangea largest (macrophile) cannot be trimmed, but you can only rejuvenate. Each spring is cut off every fourth branch older than 3 years, especially growing inward, so that the bush is not thickened, as well as the dead, weak (thin) or broken stems under the root. Such trimming, except for giving a more decorative form, improves flowering.

Spring cutting of hydrangea hydrangea (large)

An exception: Modern varieties from the "Forever and Ever", "You & Me" series, as well as the Minipenny varieties that bloom on the first and previous events. They are cut depending on the state of the plant and the last wintering.

• Hydrangea is cut with a poorly cut: shortening long stems for better branching.

Group number 2 (tree and blurred)

These types blooming on young shoots (current season) cut off every year before the renal dissipation. The best moment: the middle - the end of March (as soon as the snow melted). An annual forming trimming is required, since if the flower thickens, then the inflorescences will become smaller.

1. Hydrangea tree wakes up first. The shoots cut up to 2-3 kidney from the ground. On a powerful and adult bush, sometimes leave only one couple of kidneys. For the formation of the decorative shape of the bush, weak and growing inward shoots.
2. Hydrangea Miscellaneous needs more gentle trimming. Last year shoots shorten by a third.

Advice

• To break the bush, remove the oldly old, weak and growing on the shoots.
• Frosted stems do trust to the first live kidney.

Rejuvenation of bush

Old bush is easy to rejuvenate with a special trimming: cut at a height of 5-7 cm from the ground level ("under the stump") or to the level of many years of wood all shoots. The next spring will begin to grow young shoots, and the decorativeness of the bush will be restored.

Do I need to trim the hortension for the winter?

In the fall, the hydrangea is cut off the blurred inflorescences at mandatory, so as not to be adopted under the weight of the snow branches.

Stumbing form

Hortensia Miscelred is the ability to grow in the form of a tree - a low stramb. Choose one most developed escape on a two-year-old plant, grown from the top cutting, and do the rest. Then this escape is cut to the strongest kidneys every year in the spring until it reaches 100 cm in height.

To form a crown in the following years, the top of the escape is plugged, and new shoots are completely removed. In the future, the weak shoots are cut annually and only 4-5 the strongest branches for bushes are left.

EXAMPLE OF STABIC MODE HITERSION MEATURE

Caring for hydrangea in autumn and preparation for winter

After flowering, leaving the fall behind the hydrangea is to remove the bleached inflorescences and preparation for the winter.

• The tree of hydrangea for the winter can not be covered, enough mulching - it has a high winter hardiness.
• In the conditions of the middle strip, the Moscow region, the North-West, the Urals and Siberia Hydrangea for the winter must be hidden, and the hydrangea is better to dig up, transplant in pots and put into the house.
  Since this species can be grown in those edges where the temperature in winter is not lower than -23.5 ° C. The exception is some modern winter-hardy grades mentioned in the section - "Pruning".
• In more southern and warm areas, you can do with dipping and mulching.

Preparation for winter and hiding hydrangea

Inflorescences appear on last year's shoots (hydrangea hydrangea), and the goal is to fully maintain them from frost and spontaneous.

Since the leaves and flowers of large-scale hydrangea die from small frosts at night, the preparation for winter is beginning in the middle of October (after the first frosts).

• Hydrangea Garden Miscellaneous and largest must be hidden for the winter.

1. For this, the ground is plugged, and the rolling circle is mounted with overwhelming dung, cheese or peat.
2. Then bend the stalks to the soil and fall asleep with sawdust, sweetheart or dry leaves. And on top of the bush put a box (drawer).
3. After the end of the spring frosts (April), winter shelter is disassembled and engaged in cropping.
4. Big bush is better careful to tie and make a skeleton shelter over it ("Shalash") above it for 8-12 cm and pour dry foliage inside it.

Preparation of hydrangea to winter

With short-term freezers, it is convenient to cover with a loosely, a white burlap or double layer of film.

Shelter of large hydrangea for winter from gardener from near Moscow

1. In the fall until the arrival of the night frosts, cut down all the leaves from the bush. If you leave them, then the flower will start refusing. Leave only floral kidneys on the tips of branches, a maximum of two sheets that protect them.
2. Tie all branches on a bush of 3-4 pieces of about the same size into separate bundles with an elastic material (gum, tights, tissue strips).
3. Start bundles as low as possible and fasten with metal brackets (electrodes, thick wire). Bending the hydrangea to the ground must be careful not to damage the shoots. In some varieties, they strongly decide and better bend them gradually, starting with a small inclination.
4. Before the start of the cold (mid-November), the hydrangea is covered with any nonwoven material (burlap, agrofiber).
5. Before the onset of strong frosts, remove the shelter and falling down the flower with a dry peat, compost or leaf ground. The base of the bush is less afraid of frost than the fragile tips of the shoots, so it is sprinkled quite a bit.
6. Put an arc over the plant and again pull the covering material again, and on top, put a piece of the film so that the ends remain open, and there was no high humidity within the winter shelter.

Shelter for the winter of young hydrangea

Young seedlings are not cut off, but simply in the pots they enter the house for the winter or plunge the ground and additionally shelter for winter 11-16 cm layer peat, dry foliage, cheese or sawdust.

When can I open a hydrangea after the winter?

In the spring you need to remove the winter shelter from the hydrangea at the right time to prevent spontaneousness.

1. In the middle of March, remove the film and the underfloor material, filming the peat or the ground and turn the burlap again.
2. In early April, when the night frosts end and stable warmth will come, remove the shelter from hydrangea largest fully.

Approximate deadlines for Moscow region are indicated.

Winter hardiness hydrangea

Now hydrangea hydrangea is increasingly grown in the conditions of the middle strip of Russia and in the Moscow region, in the Urals and Siberia. However, not all winter-hard-resistant varieties are able to bloom on any site due to different microclimate.

Withstands the plant to -23 ° C, and the most winter-hardening is considered the hydrangea of \u200b\u200bthe tree, sweatshirt and soil.

The winter hardiness of the plant increases, if it obtained a sufficient amount of water in the fall, as well as potash-phosphoric feeding.

Diseases and pests

Hortensia is very resistant to diseases and pests, but sometimes it is all striking the powdery dew, a web tick and a wave (more often in the closed soil).

Why does not flowers hydrangea in the garden? What to do?

We list the most common causes of lack of flowering.

1. Deficiency or excess nutrients, especially nitrogen. With excessive feeding, especially organic fertilizers, bloom is very difficult to achieve. Apply nitrogen only during active vegetation (April - May).
2. Wrong pruning or preparation for winter. Plant flowers on last year's shoots (top kidneys). They often suffer from winter cold, and with excessive trimming they are sometimes removed. If you have a hydrangea hydrangea, then read how to cut it properly - section "Pruning".
3. Rebuild direct sunlight. For hydrangea, dispelled light is perfect, but if it grows in a sunny place without shading on a meal heat, then bloom worsens and shortening.

How to speed up the flowering of hydrangea?

So that the bush bloke faster, spray it, as soon as the inflorescence becomes 2-4 cm in diameter twice with an interval of 5-7 days by gibbelllin - 50 mg / liter of water. This processing allows you to bloom 2-4 weeks earlier and get more massive and decorative flowering.

How to change the color of the hydrangea flowers?

Plant flowers can change their painting depending on the acidity of the soil, and the ability to accumulate aluminum.

Pour the bush with a solution of alumokalia alum (100 gr / 10 liters of water). For the shift of the color you need to spend 3-4 watering every 12-15 days. Therefore, they begin to water 50-70 days before flowering.

After that, white or pink flowers (low-alkaline soil) will become blue or blue, depending on the concentration. At the same time, the alum reduce acidity, so you need to carefully use them. The price of 100 GG of alum - about 30-50 rubles.

• If you want to put the scenery of the hydrangea for the winter, then cut them immediately after the dissolution of all the flowers. Tie into small bundles and hang down the flowers in a dark place for drying.
• Hydrangea can be grown at home as potted culture. In the fall, she drops the leaves, it is cut off for winter and transferred to a cool place (+ 4-6), and at the end of February - the beginning of March put on a bright and warm place without direct sunlight. Summer flower can be reached on open air and leave until September.
• Experts advise soil squeeze in the rolling circle: Clamps, Crown Mossoid and others.

Addition to the article:

We wish the flowers to raise your spirits and did a little happier!

Hydrangea, blooming luxurious bright inflorescences, can grow both in the garden and in room conditions. Care and cultivation of domestic varieties, of course, differ from the cultivation of hydrangea in the garden. Our publication will tell in detail about the rules of the room content of hydrangea.

Beauty, loving water

The Latin Name of Hydrangea - Hydrans - literally translates as a "water vessel". Such a name of this plant was not given in vain: Hortensia loves water very much and does not endure drought at all.

Hydrangea is a leaf fall plant, which drops the leaves for the winter and leaves on peace.

The main characteristics of hydrangea:

• there are about 80 species and a large number of hydrange varieties;
• types of hydrangea are divided into liatovoid, tree and shrub;
• some types of frost resistant;
• garden hydrangeas grow up to three meters in height, and liananoids are even up to thirty;
• live hydrangea for about 20 years.

With home cultivation, hydrangea is used by the largest breeders, which breeders are used when creating new hybrids and varieties of this spectacular plant.

Indoor hydrangea can reach size up to 1.5 meters. New varieties for room dilution usually have a height from 50 to 100 cm.

• the leaves of hydrangea gear, ovoid shape with a sharp tip, 10-15 cm long. In the fall red and the winter falls away;
• inflorescences up to 35 cm in diameter consisting of large cupid, which can be monophonic, different colors, or change it as far as development and depending on the soil acidity;
• inside the cups are small petals;
• flowers can be sterile or fruit. Seeds are very small;
• flower shape can be four types: spherical, umbrella, sishkovoid and creeps;
• chasselsters of different types and varieties have a variety of shape, may be terry;
• flowers hydrangea from the beginning of summer to late autumn;
• The number of inflorescences on hydrangea increases as the plants age.

When growing at home, hydrangea is quite good, but when complying with the rules of care, it will definitely please you with its flowering.

The color gamut of hydrangea is diverse, besides, the color of the flowers depends on the acidity of the soil. Because of this, the properties of hydrangea are called plant chameleon. There are varieties that do not change their color from the chemical composition of the soil.

Flower kidneys of the usual large-scale hydrangea are formed on the tips of last year's shoots, so the trimming is produced only on tricks, unnecessary shoots, not the touch tops with floral kidney.

Now new varieties have been brought, whose kidneys with future flowers are formed on shoots and past, and this year. Such is called removable.

Hydrangea is a shadowed plant. Moreover, its flowers do not tolerate bright sunlight.

In natural conditions, hydrangea is growing in Asia, America, China and Japan. Several species grow in Russia in the Far East.

A severe heat of the hydranshea transfers badly, so it is planted in the garden only in shady places. It requires high air humidity.

Hydrangea leaves can be consumed in tea. The roots, branches and inflorescences of hydrangea hydraulic and tree use in medicinal purposes and make different healing drugs from them.

Large hydrangea hydrangea varieties

There is a huge number of varieties of large hydrangea. Consider some of the most popular, dividing them in color categories.

Light

Sister Teresa:

• diameter of inflorescences 30 cm;
• white inflorescences with a gentle lilac-pink tint by the end of the blossom change coloring on greenish-pink;
• blooms until September on the shoots of last year;
• tight, sprawling shrub.

Madame Emil Mulle (MME E. Mouillere):

• diameter of inflorescences 20 cm;
• flowers, pure-white at the beginning of flowering, then acquire light pink or light blue shades;
• it takes enough blooms on the shoots of the past and this year to October;
• leaves already than other varieties.

Blue

Earl Blue (Early Blue):

• diameter of inflorescences 30 cm;
• blue inflorescences with blue-purple shades at first have greenish flavor;
• abundantly blooms until October on the shoots of the previous and current year;
• it has a strong root system and compact bush.

Niko Blue: Nikko Blue:

• diameter of inflorescences 30 cm;
• blue-blue inflorescences, for maintaining color, the acidic reaction of the soil is needed in 5.5-7.0 pH;
• abundant flowering until September - October on the shoots of the current and last year;
• fast growing average shrub.

Pink

Ramars Mars (Ramars Mars) or Mars:

• diameter of inflorescences 30 cm;
• pink-raspberry inflorescences with white edging, which is greasy with time;
• compact bush.

Miss Saori:

• diameter of inflorescences 18 cm;
• the inflorescences are matte-white with pink drive, retain the original color, regardless of the soil acidity;
• blooms until September on the shoots of the current and previous year;
• dark green foliage has purple sings.

You and my love (You & Me Love):

• the height of the stems is 100 cm;
• flowers continuously from May to September;
• in alkaline soil painted in pink color. in acidic, with a high content of aluminum - in blue;
• leaves are resistant to mildew;
• frost resistance -29 o C.

Red

Delight (Admiration):

• diameter of inflorescences 20 cm;
• flowers bright red;
• abundant bloom in October on the shoots of last year;
• a bush has a thick crown.

Multicolor

Bavaria (Bavaria):

• diameter of inflorescences 20 cm;
• flowers of linomed shade with purple blue middle and white border;
• abundant blossoms until October on last year's shoots;
• compact bush.

Hot Red RED:

• diameter of inflorescences 15 cm;
• red flowers at high soil acidity have a purple shade;
• blooms until October on last year's shoots;
• the bush lush, does not run from massive inflorescences.

Schloss Wackerbarth:

• diameter of inflorescences 30 cm;
• inflorescences Pink with a blue center and green edging, at the beginning of green blossoms;
• blooming on the shoots of last year until October-beginning of November;
• flowers are decorated with light stamens.

Huge inflorescences, colorful petals, elegant stamens - all this variety Schloss Vakerbart

Often starting the flower products are looking for a grade "Hortensia Mix". It should be known that there is no type of grade, this phrase denote multi-colored hydrangeas in the composition or in the store assortment.

Grilled houses in a pot of hydranshea in the photo

Plant Hortensia received its name in honor of the princess of the Roman Empire named Hortensia
Archaeological excavations in the northern regions of America showed that Hortensia grew by another 40 thousand years ago, the hydrangea and success can be grown in the garden and on the home window sill at home the hydrangea is not necessary on the window, it is a plant shadow-like in the West of Hydrangea called French, Since the tamznalie about this plant after the first French round-the-world expedition exists about 80 species and a huge number of varieties and hybrids of the hydranshemia The owner of this hydrangea is an explicit original

Care for Hydrangees at home

From too bright sunlight, the scenery of the hydrangea flashes and covered with stains. Therefore, it is necessary to place it on the eastern or western windows. Hortensia will grow well and away from the window, especially from the southern one. For the flowering of scattered light, the hydragya is enough.

So that the stems are not broken, too heavy inflorescences sometimes need to be maintained using backups for branches.

Best of all hydrangea feels outdoors. Therefore, at positive temperatures, keep it preferably on the balcony, a veranda or to endure into the garden. If there is no such possibility, then regularly ventilate the room, and at high temperatures, place on the northern windows.

Try more often to make hortensia on fresh air

There are no sudden drops of temperature, like drafts, hydrangea does not like.

Hydrangea needs wet air:

• it is necessary to spray hydrangea in the morning hours, especially in dry hot weather;
• in the heat necessarily place a vessel with water;
• a good moisturizing version: Put a flower into a container flooded with water, on a two-chamber layer of clay or major perlite.

Hydrangea does not tolerate drought, therefore, the most important condition in its cultivation is to follow the humidity of the soil. She should always be slightly wet.

When watering, use soft water, as the excess lime affects the plant. To do this, you can boil the plumbing, wait until the precipitate is accumulated at the bottom and drain clean water.

From spring to autumn, watering the hydrangea must be abundantly and not removed from the pallet water. To preserve moisture over the soil, you must lay a mulch. It is best for this to use coniferous opead or chopped pine bark.

What materials are used as a mulch:

• coniferous opead;
• chopped pine bark;
• coniferous sawdust;
• riding peat;
• moss SFAGNUM.

In the fall, at the beginning of the leaf fall, watering is reduced.

In winter, watering is needed only in order not to overcover the earthen comes and the roots of the plant. When the first new leaves appear, watering begins to increase.

Hydrangea also does not carry water stagnation, it is necessary for it a good drainage.

One or twice a month during irrigation it is necessary to acidify the soil. Use for this can be lemon juice, citric acid.

• juice consumption: five drops on a liter of water;
• consumption of citric acid: powder at knife tip per liter of water.

It is necessary to feed the hydrangea from the beginning of the spring until the end of the summer 2 times a month fertilizer for hydrangea or for flowering plants. Fertilizers for hydrogeni contain primarily magnesium and iron.

For better and rapid growth of the green mass of the plant, it is possible to feed it with nitric fertilizers during the growth period - before the start of flowering.

Granulated nitrogen fertilizers dissolve in warm water and water the plant 1 time per week.

Nitrogen rate in the form of a carbamide (urea): half of the teaspoon on 1 liter of water.

For spraying it is convenient to use ammonia (ammonia alcohol), it will also be an additional prevention of pests. They can water the plant. Spray enough once a week. Ammonia use rate: Half of a teaspoon per 1 liter of water.

What are the indices of the acidity and tickness of the soil change the colors of the hydransh

If you want to support or change the color of your hydrangea, then there are special feeds for this.

Other methods can be used: add aluminum sulfate or a small lift of dolomite flour or ash. These drugs are used, be sure to control the acidity of the soil.

If the pH is 7.0 - the soil is neutral, if the index below is sour, with a higher indicator - alkaline soil.

• acosite soil (pH 3-6) with elevated aluminum content supports blue, blue and purple shades of inflorescences;
• neutral or weakly acidic soil (pH 6-7) supports light, white colors;
• more alkaline soil (pH 7-8) with reduced aluminum content gives pink and red.

Optimal acidity for hydrangeas in the range of 5.5-6.0 pH. Coin (lime) soil hydrangea does not tolerate!With a highly alkaline reaction of the soil, hydrangea can not absorb iron, it develops chlorosis of leaves, which are yellow and fall.

To determine the acidity you need to buy a special device.

Soil cloth indicators:

• larous: pH 7-8;
• medium: pH 8-8.5;
• eliminate: pH - 8.5 and higher.

Do not allow tickling more than 8 pH.

The acidity is supported by coniferous opead, pine cortex, horse peat, watering by manganese and citric acid (or lemon juice).

Cloth supports the presence in the soil of lime (chalk, dolomite flour) and ash.

Acidness must be measured several days after making funds. If it "does not reach" to the desired value, the introduction should be repeated.

Red-color inflorescences can be "repainted" into lilac and purple shades, change pink color on blue. Moreover, if you water only one side of the bush, it will be a very beautiful color transition.

When using such tools, watch them not fall on leaves and flowers, and do not exceed the dosage!

Dosage of drugs changing the chemical composition of the soil:

• To change the pink color on the blue, red - on the purple-lilac, it is necessary to increase the concentration of aluminum in the soil: 1 st. Composition of aluminum sulfate per 1 liter of water.
• Change the blue color on the pink, stopping the feeding of aluminum and increasing the alkaline soil reaction: 1 h. A spoonful of dolomite flour is dug evenly into the soil and follow the cloth, which should be within 7-8 pH. If the pH is less than 7 add ash to the soil (1-2 tablespoons). 1-2 times a month when watering, add to the water manganese: 5-7 grains per liter of water.

Do not wait for instant changes. Color can start changing only from the second season.If the color of the hydrangea does not change, it will have to replace the soil.

Trimming: what can and what can not be done

If the grade grows slowly, the trimming must be made infrequently. Accordingly, if the growth of hydrangea is fast, then it will have to trim more often.

Do not forget that the inflorescences of the hydrangea are located on the tops of the shoots, so it is impossible to cut them. Crop shoots for better branching can be either only planted cuttings (for the second year after landing), or from removable hydrangeas.

If your hydrangea gives an abundance of shoots, you can cut extra even with flowers, they stand for a long time in water. Perhaps they will be allowed root and give life to new plants.

Filing inflorescences are cut as drying over the upper kidney.

Principles of cutting of hydrangea:

• if a plant is less than 4 years old, it is necessary to cut only dry shoots;
• on hydrangea cuts old, thickened and small shoots;
• sleeping for thinning is cut off in spring, and patients and dry can be in the fall;
• before trimming, do not water the plant a couple of days.

How to Crop Highnzia:

1. Select dry, unnecessary or too small shoots and cut them with sharp sterile scissors or a secateur.
2. Cuts Treat turmeric, green or activated carbon powder.
3. You can water the hydrangea every other day after trimming, when the sections will die a bit.

The main trunks of the plant should remain no more than eight. Each trunk is left 4-5 branches.

Period of rest

At the beginning of the leaf fall, so that the roots do not rotate, watering hydrangeas reduce. The plant no longer consumes so much water as in growth and flowering, so it is important to monitor the state of the soil. It should be about such as the wet purchased soil when you only open the packaging.

After discharge of the leaves of hydrangea, it is necessary to ensure the temperature less than 10 o C.

Best of all hydrangea winters at a temperature of + 5-8 o C. Therefore, the optimal option is to attribute a pot with a plant in a dry basement. You must not forget at this time, we gradually water the land in order to prevent the death of the root system.

If you do not have a basement, you should put the hydrangea in the coolest place at home or apartment. Light to her at this time is not needed.

At the very beginning of Spring, Hingtonia needs to be taken to the house, first putting in the coolest, but bright place. When it grows the leaves, you can move the plant into a leaard place.

Table: how to care for hydrangea

Diseases and treatment

Hydrangea is rarely ill. But with improper care and weakening of immunity, the plant may be affected by fungal or bacterial diseases, to be attacked by pests.

The main problems in the cultivation of hydrangea:

• if hydrangea contains in too wet and conceived conditions, a malfunted dew (fungal disease) may form on the plant;
• in very dry and hot weather (more than + 27 o C) hydrangea may be affected by a paouth tick;
• with a strong heat (more than +30 o C) hydrangea can reset the leaves, with too strong the sun leaves begin to shove the flowers to filure and slug;
• on alkaline soils (excess lime, an indicator of more than 8 pH), hydrangea forms chlorosis - yellowing of the leaves;
• with insufficient humidity and soil, hydrangea ceases to bloom, the leaves dry out, the roots can dry;
• with poor drainage and abundant irrigation, roots begin to rot, as a result, fungal diseases are formed.

Table: Problems of hydrangea and their decision

For the prevention of fungal and bacterial diseases, add to the soil when watering 1-2 times a month Bio-based useful bacteria: Gamiir, risoplan (planariz), alin-b.

Video: Diseases and pests of hydrangea

Planting (transplanting) Hydrangei: Selection of soil, pot and instruction

You can not grow a luxurious plant in all the soil. The soil for hydrangea should be loose, sour and nutritious. You can cook the soil alone: \u200b\u200bCherry land 2 pieces, coniferous OPEAD 1 part, peat 1 part, crushed pine cortex 0.5 parts, sand 0,5 parts.

From the finished purchased soils you can use soils for hydrangea, azaleas, rhododendrons, conifers.

Hydrangea loves water very much, but in the swamp she will also feel bad, the roots will begin to rot and fungal diseases will appear. Therefore, when landing, it is necessary to provide her good drainage.

Drainage includes holes at the bottom of the pot and 1-2 centimeter layer of clay, pebbles or large perlite.

The pot needs to be changed as the root system grows. Do not put a plant in too spacious pot. When the roots fully fill the space, then transplant the plant in a slightly more spacious pot. The roots of the hydrangea grows shallow, but tight.

On average, hydrangea needs to be transplanted every 3-4 years in early spring.

Prepare for landings:

• new pot;
• earth;
• drainage;
• mulch: coniferous opead, crushed coniferous bark, coniferous sawdust or peat (can be applied and sphagnum);
• boiled water with the addition of manganese to weakly pink (for watering);
• a pulverizer with warm clean water (for spraying the leaves).

Landing Rules:

• When landing, too long roots can be trimmed with sterile scissors;
• The root neck can be broken by 2-3 cm;
• The soil during transplant is not dried, part of the earth remains on the roots;
• The land after landing should be tamped so that there are no emptiness between the roots (this can lead to their drying);
• Roots when landing should be parasing down and not bend;
• After a transplantation in hydrangea, some leaves can fall - this is a normal phenomenon.

Stages of landing

1. Give the plant from the pot, gently separating the knife from the walls with a knife.

Declaring the extra land with the roots and inspect them, if necessary, cut extra, dry and sick.

2. Fall on the bottom of the pots of drainage and a little land, put in the center of Hydrangea and fall asleep the roots of the earth above the root neck for 2-3 cm.
3. We are tamped by land, if necessary, we sleep with the soil and shed it well. Leaves spray with warm water.
4. On top We lay 1-1.5-centimeter mulch layer.

A few days after landing, the hydrangea needs to be filled with a comprehensive fertilizer.

Video: Planting and growing potted hydrangea

Reproduction of room hydranshea

Spank hydrangea at home with cuttings, the division of the bush or seeds. The easiest and most effective way is the shilling. Hydrangea reproduced in this way, blooms for the second year after landing. The rooting of cuttings occurs easily both in the ground and in water.

The hauling can be made from late May until September.

Shining in the ground

For drawing, you need to cook:

• sterile secateurs;
• drug corneser;
• substrate for landing (pure sand or non-fermentation soil);
• small low pot;
• shelter (cellophane, cut plastic bottle, etc.);
• a pulverizer with warm water;
• turmeric or coal powder for cutting cuts.

For drawing, it is better to choose green, non-devented shoots.

Step-by-step studying process:

1. Cut a selected green cutter.
2. We make a cut under the bottom kidney.
3. Cutting also part of the twig above the top kidney.
4. Sut extra bottom leaves.
5. Cut the remaining leaves about half to reduce water evaporation
6. Lock the lower cut in Korninn and put the lower part of the cutting a little at an angle in the dry substrate by 1.5-2 cm. If you put a few cuttings, the leaves should not touch the soil and each other.
7. We wat a rude substrate from a pulverizer with warm water.
8. We disappear cuts with turmeric or coal, cover the cuttings and put in a shady non-fit one for a month.

• it is necessary to check the condition of the substrate 1-2 times a week and spray it so that it does not sink;
• the optimal temperature for rooting - + 18-25 o C;
• after a month and a half after the rooting of the cutlets are seated in a more nutrient mixture (one in a pot). It is possible to plant in the usual primer for hydrangea;
• by winter, the cuttings prepare to peace as ordinary hydrangeas;
• spring fertilize or spray the cuttings with nitrogen fertilizer for better growth until June 1 time per week;
• in May of the next year after landing, the cuttings can be trimmed by 2/3, for better branching.

Video: How to propagate hydrangea cuttings

Option with rooting in water

We produce the same actions as for rooting in the substrate, but the bottom cut of the cutter is not dipped in Korninn, and add this drug into the water at the tip of the knife. You can add a drug methylene blue (for sale in the aquarium departments of pet stores). It is conditional and disinfected water, protecting against fungal infections. It is enough to cut water to the blue shade to them.

Hydrangea cuttings do not emit substances that spoil water strongly, so it can be not changed. But only add as evaporation.

The cuttings put into the water before forming the roots and plant in the ground after the roots are growing a little.

Roots usually grow during the month.

Division bush

The bush is best divided in the spring, although it is possible to produce this operation and in the fall (before or after flowering).

To divide the bush:

• i get a hydrangea from the pot;
• shake off the excess ground;
• check the roots, if necessary, cut dry.
• we are looking for a suitable place for separation and cut the bush with a sterile sharp knife;
• squeeze deteen on the usual scheme.

Reproduction of seeds

Plants obtained from seeds are blooming for the third year.

• Hydrangea seeds are evisted in February in the mixture: 4 parts of the leaf land, 2 parts of the peat, 1 part of the sand, 1 part of humus;
• You can sow in one of the purchased soils for hydrangea (as well as coniferous, azali, rhododendrons);
• The hydrangea seeds do not need preset, but for better germination into the water, which will make the soil from the pulverizer, you can add epin: 7-8 drops on floor-liter water.

Step-by-step instructions for sowing seed hydrangea

1. Singing seeds superficially and evenly on a wet substrate.
2. From above quite a bit (!) Spring sand. Welcome from the spray and cover with glass or other transparent lid.
3. We put in a warm bright place (+ 18-28 o C). But not for direct sunlight!
4. Follow the humidity, regularly spray the substrate.
5. We carry out five minutes each day, wipe the glass from condensate.
6. When shooting shooters, we remove the glass.

Seeds germinate within a month.

Seedlings are seated in the same substrate when the first pair of leaves appear on them.

When five leaves are on young plants, they need to be seeded again.

Small sprouts need 2 times a month to feed the fertilizer from nitrogen and potassium (water or spray).

Fertilizer composition: half a teaspoon of carbamide (urea) dilute in warm water, add a few granules of manganese (potash fertilizer) to obtain a weakly pink color.

Despite the fact that caring for hydrangeas is quite complex, it fully justifies himself when luxurious buds appear. No other flower can be compared with hydrangea, no sizes or brightness of inflorescences.

Hortensia gardening often grown in country areas. Her sort Different with a variety of shapes and tones. This flower has a long period of flowering, duration from July to autumn. Hortensia refers to perennial plants and is often used in landscape design. The article describes in detail about hydrangea garden landing and carebehind the flower, presented photopopular species.

Types and varieties of hydrangea

The varieties of this decorative shrub large quantity. Most often, hydrangea prefer to grow in a half, individual varieties feel well on the sections lit by the sun. Dimensions and period of shrub flowering depends on the variety.

The most common species

Large (Hydrangea Macrophylla). This species blooms in the second half of summer. The flowering period falls on July - August. Inflorescences Lush spherical shape. White, pink flowers, blue shades form inflorescences with a diameter of up to 20 cm. Plant height is 2 meters. It should be stolen for the winter, since hydrangea hydrangea can carry the temperature not lower than -10 degrees.

Hydrangea Petiolaris (Hydrangea Petiolaris). It is a variety of Liana. Flowers have a white pink shade.

Plant is suitable for decorating arbors, arches. When growing, the presence of support is required, otherwise it will be raised on the ground.

Hydrangea Tree (Hydrangea Petiolaris). This species has many varieties. The bushes are high, up to 3 m. Oval shape leaf plates up to 20 cm long. Flowers are collected in large inflorescences. In winter, this species is subject to frozen, after which it is rapidly restored and places well. To maintain bushes in proper form, in April it is required to produce a strong, almost under root, trimming.

Miscellaneous hydrangea (Hydrangea Paniculata). Shrubs of this species bloom from middle of summer until the end of autumn. Inflorescences have a pyramidal form up to 30 cm long and consist of colors from gently green to white. At the end of the summer, the flowers change their shade on the dim purple. Plant height - from 2 to 5 m, can grow as a small tree to 1m. This species is unpretentious in leaving and resistant to frost.

Landing and care

Landing and carebehind the plant is carried out according to special rules. Planting hydrangea is best in the late spring or early autumn:

• Plot for landing should be chosen in advance. For growing colors, sour, sufficiently moisturized earth fit perfectly. You can plant flowers both in a well-lit place and in the shade.
• For the hydrangea landing with a bush in an open soil, a recess should be made about 60 cm, with a diameter of about 0.5 m.
• There should be a gap between the bushes at least 1.5 m. When expanding, thanks to the correct care, hydrangea will occupy a large area than when landing.
• Recesses It is recommended to fill in a mixture that will include peat, sand, soil, humus (1: 1: 2: 2), as well as fertilizers.

You can use the mixture as fertilizer:

• 20 grams of sulfur potassium;
• 20 gr urea;
• 60 grams of granulated superphosphate;
• 10 kg humus.

Tip! The mixture is prohibited to add lime, since this substance has a destructive effect on the growth and development of hydrangea.

When landing, it should be carefully monitoring that the root cervix plant is located at the ground level. After landing in open ground flower hydrangea It should be good to pour.

Watering

For watering hydrangea, soft water is used, the best option is rain, since such a liquid does not contain lime in its composition. Water taken from the water supply system, before use you need to defend, and this procedure does not always help fight the chlorose of the leaves. A week each plant should receive at least 2 buckets of water. Watering is best done in the morning or in the evening, when the sun is not already bright.

The plant belongs to the moisture-loving, so after irrigation, the soil should be mulched to soil, as long as possible retained humidity. For mulching, the needles of pines, peat or sawdust are suitable.

What and how to feed the hortensia?

If a special soil mixture was used during planting a plant, then hydrangea would not need to be fed up for several years. If the primer is not fertile, then the bruising of the shrub will be a small size. As feeding, you can use the means produced by the industrial method, these include:

• Aqua;
• Agricola;
• Crystalon.

Fertilizer for feeding can also be made independently.

• 10 g of urea;
• 15 g of superphosphate;
• 15 g of potassium sulfate, all these substances need to dissolve in 15 liters of water.

The second feeder is carried out after the first buds appeared. For this, a solution is used:

• 20 g of superphosphates;
• 20 g of sulfur potassium;
• dissolve in 15 liters of water.

Supporting the hydrangea must be carried out 2 times a month. You can apply fertilizers for drowning, azaleas, rhododendrons. It is prohibited to use ash. With extreme caution, nitrogen fertilizers should be used.

Attention! Bad winter hardiness of flowers, can be triggered by feeding nitric substances. Also, nitrogenation of nitrogen-containing fertilizers can lead to the appearance of diseases in plants, since the rods of the stems weaken.

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How to cover Hydrangea for the winter?

As a streaming material for the winter for horticultural bushes, you can use a huskoth, dry leaves. From above, the plant is covered with a box or drawer. A large number of hydrangea varieties does not need shelter. However, it is recommended to closely monitor the similarity of the snow masses from the roof, as the shoots of hydrangea are very fragile.

How to change the color of hydrangea?

Hydrangea flowers can change color depending on the level of soil acidity. To obtain blue and blue inflorescences, it is necessary to put on the salt of iron salt and alum twice a month. If you add these substances only on the one hand, you can get a bush, simultaneously consisting of blue and pink colors.

Reproduction

Sadders and gardeners amateur most often for the reproduction of hydrangea are used by the division of the bush and shilling. A large plant make a subpople around 15 cm from the stem. The subpoint is best done on moisturized soil forks. After that, the bush is taken out and cutting with a knife or shovel.

Harbor cuttings is best in April-June. To do this, they are cut off at the right angle of annual shoots that have a length of 10-12 cm. From the bottom of the cutting leaves remove the leaves and processed its growth stimulants, after which the cuttings are planted into a special, fertile soil in a layout bed in a greenhouse. In the first winter, the plant is recommended to be stolen from frosts, and colors to cut.

Dividing bush

Personalization of hydrangea to the division of the bush is recommended in the spring or autumn months. To do this, the plant is digging and separated into several parts in such a way that each separated bush has a renewal kidney, after which it is planted on a pre-prepared place.

Digging

For reproduction, Escape, having age for more than 1 year, bend to the ground and cheer, leaving only the upper part up to 20 cm on the surface of the earth. Spring Or in the fall of next year, the root Escape is separated from the uterine bush and transplant.

How to trim the hortensia?

The formation of the Hydrangea bush should be started 2-3 years after landing, because without trimming the plant looks ugly. Cutting is recommended at the beginning of autumn or in the spring months before the start of the deploration. Each variety of shrubs has pruning features.

The tree of hydrangea, weak and curved twigs are removed to the base, as well as three-year shoots. Young gains are procured, only a few kidneys are needed.

In the blurred hydrangea, the shoots growing inside the crowns, as well as young grooves shorten on 1-3 kidneys. Some owners of country sites and gardeners form a strambet tree based on the strongest escape. To do this, it is expelled to 70-100 cm and cut all the shoots, located on the side, after which the sharac-shaped crown is generated.

W. Large hydrangea Requires shooting of shoots at the beginning of autumn, as they interfere with the plant for the winter. In the spring months, it is removed by the freshest and broken shoots under health purposes.

Diseases and pests

The most common among all types of hydrangea disease - chlorosis. This disease develops due to excess lime content or humus in the soil. To eliminate chlorosis, it is necessary to water the bushes with a solution of nitrogen-acid potassium and copper sulfate, it is necessary to carry out this procedure in turn, observing the interval between watering at 3 days. For the treatment of hydrangea, the preparation of Bracil, Agrikov, is used.

Excessive air humidity is the main reason for the appearance of false torment in the plant. As treatment, it is possible to apply the processing of leaves with a solution of copper sulfate with the addition of soap.

The TRU from the shrub foliage can be driven by tincture of garlic. For the preparation of garlic infusion, 200 g of chopped garlic added in 1 bucket of water is used. The solution should be insteaded for about 2 days, after which it is necessary to add 40 g of household soap. The resulting mixture is recommended to spray hydrangea times in 5-7 days dollars. You can also apply preparations phytodeterm, accility.

Hydrangea, in general, has a fairly stable immunity against viruses and diseases.

Landscape design

Hydrangea bushes are suitable for growing separately and in the group. If the entrance to the bar is located on the north side, you can safely disembark plants. It should also be remembered that over time the hydrangea will need more space, approximately 1.5 m.

Choose plants for mixtorers should with the same requirements for care. For combination, the following varieties will be suitable:

• Cuffs;
• Clopogo;
• Astilba;
• Hosts.

Compositions from hydrangea and giant host looks very expressive (Andorian, Candy Dish, Impress Wu).

For large sections, it is best to use compositions for a mixboarder, which are included in the board 3 and more bushes of hydrangea. Hydrangea with the help of their emission forms make it possible to create a unique wave focus in the garden, perfectly emphasizing the gardens. Hydrangea can be used in the mixturine as a natural distinction of the garden area from the recreation area. Bushes have such height, which does not prevent the visual projection of the garden, while leaving the zoning effect.

Hortensia with their expressive species bring joy for many years. Suitable these plants for designing gardens in various styles. Flowers are unpretentious in care, do not require constant irrigation and a special place to grow. Having put such a beautiful plant on his garden will be able to enjoy his beauty for many years.

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