Barberry Red Rocket. Types of barberry, features of planting and care

Everyone loves flowering trees and shrubs, but most plants bloom just a few days or a week. When planning a garden, it is difficult to select green plantations so that something always blossoms. Most of these trees need extra care to actively develop and abundantly bear fruit. That is why gardeners are increasingly turning to plants with multi-colored foliage, and breeders create new hybrids to help them. Shrubs with colored leaves can decorate the garden for several months.

Barberry - unpretentious shrub

Barberry is an interesting and useful group of shrubs that are often grown in gardens because of the attractive coloring of the leaves. They were added popularity flowers and fruits, as well as endurance, universality and usefulness. Barberry can be grown in very different conditions, even in pots and containers, because it is not necessary to have a garden to enjoy it on the terrace, patio or on the balcony. Lovers of the East use barberry to create bonsai trees.

Types of barberry

Shrubs belong to the Barberry family, which has about 450 different species. These plants grow in many countries of the world, except for Australia. Most species live in South America, Africa and Asia, but few grow in gardens. Barberry is a group of plants, most of which have common features. They are all shrubs, not trees, and quite small ones: from about 1 to 4.5 m in height. In areas with a cold climate, barberry loses its leaves in winter, but in warm countries there are many evergreens. The bush has long branches, and the leaves are gathered in bundles. The shoots are covered with spines.

Barbaris vulgaris

There is a wild European kind of barberry - barberry common. It is widely distributed in nature, but not grown in gardens and even banned in countries such as Canada. This species can infect wheat crops with fungal diseases that can destroy crops and deprive farmers of their livelihoods. For this reason, most garden forms are derived from Japanese barbarians.

Japanese barberry

Wild Japanese barberry has green leaves, and at first it was grown because of the flowers and berries that were used for conservation. The fruit of the bush gave the dishes sourness, which was previously achieved only with the help of lemon peel. In 1913 a species with purple leaves was found in French Orleans, in the nursery "Reno".

Wild barberry is particularly susceptible to diseases such as root rot, verticillium wilt, rust, mosaic virus. Verticillium wilt can be caused by the presence in the soil of fungi Verticillium. This fungus is always present in the soil, and often the carrier does not show any signs of infection. Rust is a fungal disease, it is expressed in the spotting or yellowing of the leaves and causes premature fall, twisting and wilting of the green parts of plants. Fungicides are used to control the disease. Root rot is one of the main causes of crop failure: it can lead to plant death, slow down or stop its growth.

The danger of spreading wild barberry

In recent years, there has been concern about the spread of wild barberry in some areas. Seeds are spread by birds, so plants can often be found in abandoned fields, growing along roads and ditches, in natural forests. But hybrid varieties practically do not reproduce in this way, because they can be purchased only in nurseries. In this sense barbers are safe for the environment, do not be afraid to grow them on their sites.

Barbaris Tunberga: a bright bush for any garden

There are several attractive and hardy species that do not require special care. Among these plants - decorative barberry. One of the most popular species is the Tunberga barberry, resistant to most diseases and capable of growing even on stony soils. This bush comes from Asia, where it grows in a mountainous area. The peculiarity of the plant is its high ornamentality, a huge number of different varieties and an unusual shape of the crown.

Barbaris Tunberga was named after the famous Swedish doctor, botanist and researcher Karl Peter Tönberg. He discovered this bush while traveling in Japan. The plant can be found all over Japan and in China. In the wild, the leaves of the bush are dark green. Breeders cultivated varieties of garden varieties of barberry from yellow to purple hue.

Barbaris in landscape design

Previously, it was believed that only flowers can add colors to the design of the garden, but not more than a couple of weeks, and the rest of the year they will be an uninteresting green bush. To the modern garden designer, thanks to painstaking work of breeders, many plants with interesting foliage became available: blue spruce, red Japanese maples and various shades of barberry. With the help of these plants you can paint your plot in different colors for the whole season.

Mixing red, orange or yellow barberry with shrubs of green, lime, silver or gold, you can get unusual combinations of shades. Rounded leaves and branches of the bush will contrast with summer grasses and trees with fine needles. For example, purple varieties are interesting to depict the snow-white caps of the tree hydrangea.

Compact views of this thorny bush are great for creating a hedge. He is able to carry scorching heat, too cardinal pruning and to protect himself from small rodents, thanks to sharp thorns on the stems. Some species of barberry have a column-shaped crown and can become a kind of bright screen, against which other plants will look spectacular.

Hybrids of Japanese barberry vary greatly in the color of foliage, because they are well suited for landscape compositions. For example, the Rose glow variety has a deep pink-red hue, Sunstein is covered with golden leaves with orange spots for most of the season, and Helmond Pillard is maroon, almost brown.

Features of barberry Red rocket

Barberry Red Rocket is one of the brightest representatives of the species, thanks to the unusual orange-red color of the foliage. This is a shrub that reaches 1.5-2 meters in height and only 50 cm across, because such a plant is ideal for a small garden area or for group planting.

Decorative barberry of this variety has a number of advantages over other shrubs:

• Undemanding to the conditions of growth;
• Frost-resistant;
• Drought-resistant;
• Beautifully looks in winter, especially next to coniferous plants;
• Leaves keep a festive appearance for many months, and not only in the autumn period.

In the spring and summer, the foliage of the Tunberga Red Rocket barberry is colored in purple, and in the autumn the crown is transformed and painted in the most incredible shades of bright ruby red. Before fall for the winter, the foliage begins to fade, fading to a light green hue.

The bush grows in small yellow bells, then in their place red berries ripen , which can be collected and harvested for the winter. This winter-resistant plant, it can withstand a decrease in temperature down to -30 degrees, so it can grow in almost any climatic zone, except for the hottest places. Barberry Tunberga Red Rocket is a very decorative shrub. Comments of gardeners about it are very positive - it transforms the garden with its bright foliage.

Planting and caring for barberry Red Rocket

The optimum place for planting this barberry is well lit by the sun. It grows in the penumbra, but the color of the leaves will not be so saturated. The shrub is undemanding to the composition of the soil, but it does not tolerate excessive waterlogging of the root system, therefore for it it is necessary to choose areas where the ground waters do not approach too close to the surface. Abundant watering is necessary only in the first two years after planting, and then moisturize only in the most arid periods. Judging by the reviews of the Tunberga Red Rocket barberry, it perfectly tolerates hot days and does not suffer even with prolonged drought.

The plant is resistant to most pests and diseases. Barberry Red Rocket is covered with sharp spines, it is not eaten by animals. Due to this, the shrub is useful to plant along the fences and under the windows, to protect property from uninvited guests. This interesting plant looks good in the "garden of stones", contrasting with gray boulders. Barbaris Red rocket - one of the easiest in the care of species among decorative shrubs.

Decorative properties

Even in winter, the reddish sprigs of barberry Red Rocket refresh the landscape with its soft color, especially against the background of freshly fallen snow. It contrasts with plants that have yellow foliage and flowers. Barbaris Red Rocket can be used on any garden site to highlight other shrub plantations. It is well suited to pruning, therefore it is suitable for creating a green fence. It is best to shorten the branches in the spring, when the young foliage has not yet appeared, and the frosts are already behind. Pruning stimulates the appearance of new shoots and makes the bush more branched.

Barberry grows quickly in height, but not in width, because it fits well in small gardens, where there is little room for large plants. He has erect stems with clusters of small, smooth leaves along them. Young shoots have a reddish hue, and as they grow older they begin to become covered with brownish bark. Berries after ripening acquire a reddish hue and add a bush of attraction when the foliage falls.

The price of barber's Red Rocket depends on the size of the plant. Young seedlings are inexpensive (from 300 to 500 rubles), large copies will have to pay more.