Honeysuckle Kaprifol is ideally suited for landscaping of a personal plot. Such a "hedge" participates in the creation of landscape designs, ennobles the territory, provides shade, and helps create a cozy place to relax. More than 10 species of honeysuckle are known, including climbing Honeysuckle.
Honeysuckle Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle blooms Honeysuckle for about 3 weeks
Honeysuckle flowers Honeysuckle have a pleasant aroma
Description of Honeysuckle Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle Honeysuckle has a pleasant aroma and unique flowers, creates coziness and shadow in the garden or in the gazebo. In the wild, the plant is found in southern Europe, in the mountains of the Caucasus, lives up to 50 years.
The original name of Honeysuckle Honeysuckle is Loniсera caprifolium, which means “folium” - leaf, “carpa” - goat. These curly bushes up to 6 m long have different shades of flowers, they always attract the attention of passers-by.
Appearance
The shrub has bright green leaves of ellipsoid shape, vertically growing branches 4-5 m long (depending on the age of the honeysuckle). The gray-green shoots in the sun turn red, tightly wrap around any support. The leaves gradually grow together into a disk, in the middle of which a flower is formed first, then a bunch of ripe berries.
Honeysuckle honeysuckle flowers have a delicate pleasant aroma and decorative appearance. They become a source of inspiration and a symbol of beauty, but they are not edible, they do not contain medicinal properties. This is a characteristic difference between Honeysuckle and other varieties of honeysuckle. The plant smells intensively in the summer, while the aroma intensifies in the evening.
Honeysuckle has red, blue, violet, white, and yellow flowers. When ripening in late July-early August, they become saturated orange or bright red. Each flower individually lives no more than 3 days, after which it fades. The flowering period of the entire shrub lasts no longer than 3 weeks.
Growth
If there is support, the honeysuckle grows to 6 m in length. Due to this property, the shrub becomes vertical gardening for suburban and personal plots. For proper growth, form a bush during the planting period, find him a reliable support. Otherwise, honeysuckle loses its decorative appearance.
In the wild, Honeysuckle is found on sunny edges and in forests, and grows up to 1 meter in a year. Due to its beauty and vertical tortuosity, it has been planted in Russian gardens since the 19th century.
Honeysuckle varieties
Honeysuckle is considered the most beautiful representative of honeysuckle among 10 varieties. Gardeners are attracted by the variety of colors and shades, the preservation of the decorative appearance even after flowering of the bush. The most popular varieties of Honeysuckle Honeysuckle with a brief description:
- Malocotsvetnaya. The bush is pale red with a small number of flowers.
- Alba. Early flowering bush, blue or white flowers.
To create a landscape design, other decorative varieties of honeysuckle are also used:
- Inga. Flowers of white, pink, red and yellow color with an intense smell, collected in capitate inflorescences.
- Telman. The flowers are yellow-hot in color with a moderate aroma; they look like bushes on the bushes.
- Belgica Select. The flowers are purple or pink, the fruits are red. The plant blooms 2 times a year - in May, then - in August-September.
- Harlequin. Flowers of pale pink color with a moderate aroma, decoration of many arbors in the garden.
- Graham Thomas. The flowers are long, white and yellow with a pleasant aroma. Bloom from the second half of July to September.
Advantages and disadvantages
Having appreciated the significant advantages of Honeysuckle Honeysuckle, many designers included this decorative plant in their landscape projects, ideas. The positive aspects of Honeysuckle Honeysuckle:
- simplicity in leaving;
- decorative look;
- variety of colors;
- quick adaptation to weather conditions;
- pleasant aroma;
- fast growth;
- hedge;
- creating shade and comfort in the fresh air;
- strong immunity.
When choosing a variety, keep in mind that Honeysuckle Honeysuckle has certain disadvantages, it gives trouble when leaving:
- inedible fruits;
- fast flowering;
- pruning branches;
- support formation;
- deterioration of external data during transplantation;
- the need for the formation of a bush, regular watering.
Honeysuckle Landing Honeysuckle
The plant feels comfortable in all regions of Russia, but is less common in the northern part. This is explained by the peculiarities of the harsh climate. At low temperatures, honeysuckle needs special care, may freeze.
For planting, choose a good time, do not disrupt the sequence of actions, provide reliable care for seedlings and young shoots.
Landing time
Plant honeysuckle on open ground only in early spring, before that, keep in a greenhouse (greenhouse). The plant blooms in May, which is a favorable period for the root system and fruits.
When planting Honeysuckle in early summer, the bush grows in early autumn, and its fruits pleasantly delight the eye with a rich red color. During this period, the plant quickly fades.
Seat selection
Before planting seedlings, decide on a permanent place. Honeysuckle does not like transplant from place to place. In this case, the shoots slow down their growth, and the flowers appear less frequently and in smaller quantities.
Honeysuckle needs vertical support for the growth of honeysuckle, so honeysuckle is better established at the walls of the house, pillars and fences. It is important to consider all these nuances, including light exposure, soil composition and moisture.
Soil preparation
When choosing soil, remember that honeysuckle lives for more than 10 years, so fertile soil is needed. Make sure that there are no deep underwater waters in the area, and if present, use drainage. Otherwise, the root system rots, the plant dies.
Loosen the ground so that it receives enough light and oxygen. To increase soil fertility, use the following ingredients:
- Peat, sand, humus and soddy soil as the basis. The ratio of the components is 1: 1: 1: 3.
- Two buckets of compost, 500 ml of slaked lime, 100 g of double superphosphate, 30 g of potassium sulfate.
When preparing the soil, evaluate its environment. The best option is neutral, with an indicator of 7.5-8.5. Pre-treat acid soil with hydrated lime. On clay soil, honeysuckle does not develop well.
Support
Honeysuckle needs support. It can be any vertical surface on a personal plot: a fence, a canopy, a fence, a wall of a house or a gazebo. If you wish, make a support yourself from improvised materials (wood, metal, nylon mesh).
Most often, a grid with large cells, cords, trellised trellises are used for support. First, the plant makes its way up, and after trimming the tops it gives lateral shoots and is distributed to the sides. With high support, 5 years after planting, the honeysuckle grows to 4-5 m in length.
Selection of planting material
Plant growth depends on the health and strength of the seedlings. Choose a two-year-old seedling with 2-3 branches and a length of 30 cm. Other recommendations when buying planting material:
- Carefully study the branches. Dry branches with damaged bark are not suitable. The main selection criteria are elasticity, surface integrity.
- Inspect the bark. Spots indicate a plant health problem. The negative point is the peeling of the shoots.
- View the roots. The presence of growths, weak branching, brittleness and an unpleasant smell are signs of diseases of the root system. Such a plant does not grow quickly.
Step-by-step landing pattern
When planting honeysuckle, maintain a distance between adjacent seedlings - 1.5 m, otherwise the growth of Honeysuckle slows down.
Sequencing:
- Dig a hole 40 cm deep and wide.
- Pour drainage (expanded clay, gravel, gravel, sand, etc.) to the bottom.
- Use organic fertilizer (manure, humus, compost).
- In the hole, make a slide, plant seedlings, spread the roots.
- Dig a hole so that the root deepens by 5-7 cm.
- Pour abundantly each seedling (up to 1 bucket per plant).
- Lay out a 10 cm mulch layer.
Young honeysuckle leaves will appear in a week. To make the plant grow stronger faster, water it, loosen the soil and remove weeds in a timely manner, especially if they are perennial.
Honeysuckle Care
Honeysuckle Honeysuckle unpretentious in care, grows quickly and curls on a support. Regular monitoring of growth will help to avoid diseases, improper bush formation and depletion of shoots. The earth should not dry out, and when weeds appear, get rid of them right away.
Watering
The plant is unpretentious in care, the main thing is to periodically water it. If the summer was rainy, then there is no need for additional watering. Otherwise, the root system rots.
Honeysuckle Honeysuckle does not tolerate severe drought, so in the heat, increase the number and amount of watering twice - 2 times a week. Check that the ground at the base of the shrub does not crack, moisten it.
Top dressing
Honeysuckle grows well. To speed up this process and get a hedge faster, additionally use top dressing. The choice of fertilizers and nutrient compounds depends on the season:
- In spring, the plant needs nitrogen fertilizers. A good diet is a solution from manure or bird droppings. Concentrated fertilizers can burn the root system. To prevent this, dilute with water in a ratio of 1:10.
- In the fall, focus on phosphate and potash fertilizers; for overfeeding, use rotted manure or humus. Especially in demand during this period are special superphosphates.
- In summer, use nitrofoska, dilute 20 g of the composition in 1 bucket of water.
Read more about how to fertilize honeysuckle in spring, summer and autumn, read in the next article.
Loosening and weeding
Honeysuckle does not tolerate neighborhood. Before planting Honeysuckle, remove all weeds and perennials, weed the ground when the bush grows. The fluffy soil receives heat and oxygen. If there is no mulch, weed the soil 2 times a week.
Trimming and shaping a bush
With the growth of seedlings, choose the 3 strongest shoots, carefully pick the rest. When the honeysuckle goes tall, trim the tops. This is necessary for the growth of Honeysuckle in breadth and the formation of hedges.
With the expansion of the hedge, the lower leaves fall off, spaces appear. To mask them, plant another bush, which with young leaves will cover white spots on a vertical support.
If you regularly prune the plant, it grows faster, gives beautiful flowers of saturated color and attractive fruits. Without cropping, you cannot create a flawless landscape design. After winter storage in spring, cut off dead and weak shoots (carry out a sanitary image of the bush).
Breeding
Replant the honeysuckle in the spring, and immediately decide on a suitable place, otherwise you can ruin the bush. The plant propagates in several ways - cuttings, layering, seeds and by dividing the bush. The choice is for gardeners.
Seeds
This is a complex process, which is carried out in the following sequence:
- Prepare the seeds: remove the seeds from the pulp, rinse and dry on the battery.
- To sprout seeds faster, place them in wet sand.
- Store for 2-4 weeks in the refrigerator, periodically moisten.
- Prepare a box with nutrient soil, fluff it.
- Sprinkle with seeds, place a layer of soil on top.
- Cover the container with glass or cling film.
- Do not open until young shoots appear.
- After remove the film / glass, ensure regular watering.
When the plant is strong and takes height, transplant it to a permanent place. Planting seeds is a troublesome process, the effectiveness of which also depends on the quality of the seeds. Therefore, most gardeners prefer to deal with seedlings.
Cuttings
Cuttings are harvested when the bush has already bloomed - in mid-July. When germinating young shoots, avoid direct sunlight. Rules of preparation:
- Choose older shoots that break well.
- The length of the cuttings is up to 10 cm, the number of nodes is 2-3 pcs.
- Cut off the top at an angle of 90 degrees and the bottom of the handle at an angle of 45 degrees.
- Plant in a greenhouse, add peat and sand in equal proportions to the garden soil.
- Choose the distance between the cuttings - 15-25 cm, the depth of the holes - 2-3 cm.
- In the spring, transplant a young plant with leaves in the open ground.
Layering
This method of breeding honeysuckle is the simplest and most affordable, does not require special preparation, subtleties. The sequence of actions of the gardener is as follows:
- Tilt the honeysuckle branch and lay it on the ground.
- To prevent it from returning to its original position, secure it with a rope or bracket.
- Fluff up the soil well, and water after planting.
- After rooting, separate the young and adult plants.
- Dig, transplant to a permanent place.
Dividing the bush
In this case, you will have to disturb the root system of adult honeysuckle. For example, disconnect the shoot with the root, shorten and plant it in a separate container. For quick growth, regularly water Honeysuckle, control the appearance of the first leaves.
The second option: dig a bush and shovel divide it into 2 parts. Cut the sections with ash, shorten the shoots. Plant both bushes in different capacities, also watch for their intensive growth. Later transplant strong honeysuckle in open ground.
Winter preparations
Adult plants do not need warming for the winter, but frost is a serious test for young shoots. To preserve the hedge, insulate the bush with a layer of humus, peat (apply around the trunk).
When cooling, remove the honeysuckle shoots from the support, carefully lay them on the ground, cover with a film, roofing material or slate from above. Do not disturb the plant until spring, when you have to place it again on a vertical support. Pre-cut dead shoots.
Diseases and Pests
If the plant withers, part of the leaves turns yellow and falls off, these are signs of the appearance of a disease or harmful insects that deplete once strong shoots and affect the root system. Possible pests are described in the table:
Pests | Brief description of pest activity |
Wingwing | The caterpillar eats half-ripe berries, spoils the appearance of the plant. |
Leaflet | The caterpillar sucks out all the juices from the leaves, as a result of which they turn yellow and curl into a tube. |
Shield | The insect violates the integrity of the bark, drinks the juice of the plant, leads to its gradual death. |
Plant aphid | Pest infects green leaves. They massively turn yellow and fall away. |
To get rid of harmful insects or prevent their appearance, use the preparations Condor, Eleksar, Inta-VIR. Spray the leaves with a solution prepared strictly according to the instructions.
Another enemy of honeysuckle is the fungus. Brown seals (tubercles) appear on the leaves. Crohn wilts, crumbles. Remove shoots affected by the fungus. To preserve the hedge, treat the plant with a solution of copper sulfate. Use fungicidal preparations, 1% Bordeaux, or Aga-Peak.
When viruses are active, stains appear on the leaves. You can try to save Honeysuckle Honeysuckle by treating with a solution of copper sulfate or the drug Fundazole. If there is no result, dig and burn the diseased plant. Act similarly with ramulariosis, cercosporosis, when brown spots on the leaves lead to the death of green shrubs.
For advanced diseases of honeysuckle, use chemicals.Antitlin, Actellik, Biotlin and Akarin are especially effective if you do not violate the proportions prescribed in the instructions. To prevent harmful insects in the autumn, sprinkle Honeysuckle with a 5% urea solution.
Gardeners reviews
Karina, 35 years old, housewife, Pavlov Posad. In my country house, honeysuckle is growing over the fence. Such a hedge looks catchy and spectacular, especially when beautiful purple flowers appear in the summer. But the flowers quickly leave, but the leaves are green almost all year round. The idea is interesting, but you have to constantly look after it. Without regular watering, the leaves turn pale and wither, and in winter you have to remove the branches from the support. In general, I am satisfied, but there are some difficulties.
Mark, 42 years old, lawyer, Zhukovsky. In my country house, the arbor is decorated with honeysuckle Honeysuckle. It was the right decision in my life. The plant creates a pleasant shadow, has beautiful flowers and a delicious aroma. After a hard day, I arrive at the cottage and rest with my soul. The plant does not require special care: on weekends I water it, I feed it once every 2-3 weeks, and for the winter I hide the branches under slate. No difficulties, but indescribable beauty. Initially, I tried other varieties, so they did not take root.
Svetlana, 37 years old, accountant, Sochi. Honeysuckle Honeysuckle has a pleasant, stable aroma. It calms and relaxes, which is especially true after a working day. At first the gazebo was equipped at home like that, then the fence was enclosed with honeysuckle. When the plant blooms, it is a magnificent sight. The flowers are voluminous, in different shades. This does not last long, but there is something to see. Among the shortcomings: for the winter you have to remove the hedge and store in a warm place. The second minus: if you transplant the honeysuckle, it rarely takes root in a new place. Itself was convinced.
Hide
Add your review
Honeysuckle Honeysuckle is used as an ornamental shrub. It perfectly complements any vertical surface, allows you to enjoy magnificent flowers and an unforgettable aroma. Such a plant is often used in their work by landscape designers.