Hortensia paniculate phantom - a beautiful bouquet in the garden

Hydrangea paniculate phantom, belonging to the Hortensian family, is considered one of the most beautiful bushes occupying a leading place in landscape gardening. Her native land is China, Japan and the Far East.

The hydrangea grows a paniculate phantom fast enough. Its main advantages, in addition to attractiveness, are frost resistance (the plant tolerates cold almost to minus twenty degrees) and durability. In the literature, you can find mention of even sixty-year-old shrubs.

In our country hydrangea paniculate "phantom", care of which is quite simple, grows up to the northern capital. In appearance it is a shrub up to two meters high with a dense crown and ovoid leaves, sometimes reaching a length of twelve centimeters.

The first flowering of hydrangeas begins only in the fourth year. It lasts long enough: from June to mid-October. The flowers of this plant are melliferous, they are collected in large apical panicle-inflorescences of creamy white color, which by autumn turn into a faintly noticeable pink tint.

Hortensia paniculate phantom, reviews about which are only good, has powerful direct branches. They often need a garter. To achieve maximum abundant flowering, gardeners are advised to carry out spring pruning before the beginning of the growing season.

And that the inflorescences do not fall off the gravity after the rains, it is desirable to leave 5-6 buds on each shoot, so that there are no panicles of large sizes.

Hortensia paniculate phantom, like all other representatives of this family, prefers penumbra. In open areas, its growth slows down, and the panicles of flowers are very small.

This bush prefers structural clay soil, grows well on krasnozem, but does not like sandstones at all. The coloring of flowers in specimens growing on acidic soils is much brighter than that of all the others. Therefore, experienced gardeners, if necessary, add spruce and pine litter, brown peat or sawdust to the soil.

Hydrangea paniculate phantom has a shallow root system (it lies close to the surface), which extends predominantly in width, and as a result of its boundary is substantially larger than the size of the crown itself.

For normal life, this plant needs constantly moist soil. A good solution is the planting of some ground cover plants in the trunks of these bushes , for example, moss-like sandstones or various cleanings.

The seedlings of the panic hydrangea are planted on their permanent place at the age of four. To do this, a pit is prepared with a depth of forty centimeters, taking into account the distance between grown plants no more than two and a half meters to get a bouquet as a hedge.

Fertilizer requires a hydrangea "phantom" quite often, since this abundantly flowering and fast-growing shrub requires a lot of nutrients. At the beginning of the growing season, it is very useful to make green fertilizers, for example from young nettles, diluted in a tenfold ratio.

This shrub propagates with cuttings and layers. Truncated shoots are placed for two or three days in the water until the roots appear, and then they are planted in the soil to the depth of two buds. Planting should be pritenyat and regularly moisturize, not allowing the earth to dry out.