Spirea: landing and care, photo

This is a pleasing eye with its beauty plant, one of the most popular and respected among gardeners is called. Today, spirire in the garden is a very fashion trend. But this bush can be found not only in the gardens, but also urban parks. Culture has more than 100 species and varieties that are simply affected by a variety of forms and shades.

Description of culture

Spirea is a decorative shrub, which refers to the family of rustic. The plant was deserved deserved its name for the flexibility of the branches, because Speira is translated from Greek as "bend".

There is a dwarf spire (up to 15 cm in height) and very high (up to 2 m). Depending on the variety and the type of spiroia blooms from May to September. If you want to observe the beauty of this chic plant all summer, it is enough to land on the site not one form or a grade of culture, but as much as possible. Spirea flowers are similar to small threads forming fluffy inflorescences of various shades - light pink, raspberry, white.

The plant has a shallow root urine root system. Depending on the grade, inflorescences can be located at the tips of shoots or around their growth. Spiraei leaves can be rounded or pointed juicy green color, and straight or random branches have a light brown or dark color and periodically peeling bark.

Most often, the bushes are planted with whole groups. It looks very beautifully a hedge of spirire, but also a single plant also looks elegant.

Species and varieties of spiries

Culture has more than 100 varieties, but only some of them are used today for growing. Depending on the time of flowering plants, there are:

• springnetswear;
• summer weighing.

Springnetsurizing Spirea

Flowers of springwenty spirires bloom on the second year of the bushes on last year's shoots, they can only have white color of various shades - darker or lighter. Springnetsurizing Spiraea is characterized by severe bushes.

Popular Spring Spring Spereray:

1. Gray spirea – hybrid hyverobealist and whiten—gray    spiraya. Ourselves flowers plants have white colour, a title note culture    received per gray colour leaves. it tall bush before 2 m., having thin    branches, on which grow up white flowers. Time blossoms – with may    on middle june.
2. Unpretentious among gray sparie. counts    variety « Grefishm». Grows he before 2 m.. long. it bush with thin things    krasno—brother colors, widespread raskyady krone, snow white    flowers—umbrellas diameter v 1 cm. Flowers before 45 days and serves excellent    medonosom.
3. Spirea Wangutta – opened v aspect    crossing  cantonese and    three-bladed spiraya.

How used spirea v landscape design, you you can see on photo.

Svetnetless spirea

Flowers only summer pinkish or krasno—pink flowers, which locked on ends young escapes, a last year easy v this period whiten. Most. popular and validated w. sadovodov variety, among blooming summer, counts spirea japanese.

Bushes japanese spiraya reach 1,5 m. v length. Bright—green juicy oblong leaves in autumn acquire yellow, red, a sometimes purple  tint. Flowers plant about 45 days inflorescences, collected from krasno—pink, sometimes white flowers, which cosy locked on ends escapes.

Popular sorta japanese spiraya:

1. « Little    princes» — small bush before 0,6 m. height. Crown rounded, leaves dark—green and having form ovala.  Socuagement red, v diameter reach 4 cm. Flowers with june on july. Is different very slow growth.
2. « Golden. princes» — loomed on variety « Little    princes». Is different only more high growth before 1 m. and sometimes yellow color    foliage.
3. « Shoebone»    — shorty plant before 0,6—0,8 m., but with widespread krone not less 1,2 m.. It has very narrow    dark—green leaves and socuagement—umbrellas from white or roseovo—white flowers.

In addition to the Japanese spirea, the timing shrubs include:

1. Spiraea Berezolistic - leaflets of shrubs resemble a leaf of birch, for which he got his unusual name. The low bush grows up to 60 cm, has a lush shape of the ball and zigzag shoots, at the ends of which white inflorescences are blooming.
2. Spiraea is an IVOLITY - a bush, a height of up to 2 m, has a reprehensive red-yellow or brown shoots, leaves with acute ends of light green and pink inflorescences in the form of a pyramid-blizzard 20 cm long stretching at the ends of the branches.

Growing and care

Despite its beauty and nobility, Spirea is unpretentious, its cultivation and care of the culture does not give special hassle to gardeners, and nevertheless, it is necessary to take into account some requirements.

Features of growing:

1. Spirea grows well on loose fertile soil, sheet and turf. Sand, peat and earth ratio - 1: 1: 2.
2. Shrub loves a lot of light and does not tolerate water.
3. In the spring, it is possible to plant only the summer cultures, and spring-working may not take care.
4. As a drainage, it is best to use broken brick.
5. The pit for the landing of Spiray should be the volume that is 1/3 more than the root of the shrub.
6. It is necessary to plunge spireray saplings at least 50 cm, but consider that the root cervix should be at the level of the ground surface.
7. Sprouting spire is better in non-jar of cloudy days.
8. The most favorable month for planting is September.
9. As the neighbors with whom the Spiraia will not conflict, it is better to choose a spruce, and juniper.

Spiraray reproduction

Spirea multiplies with several ways:

• seeds;
• cuttings;
• digging.

Growing from seeds

Seeds spire most often breed in special nurseries. Early spring them sow into large boxes with specially prepared soil. 2-3 months after the first shoots will be processed, they are planted into open ground. The top pinch to strengthen the root system of the shrub. The first flowering of plant grown from plant seeds can be seen in 3-4 years, during which Spiraeus requires the correct care - a musting, feeding, soil looser and regular watering.

Growing cuttings

The most correct to better preserve the variety of crops such as spiroia will be reproduction with cuttings or grooves. The shoots that have been wounded in the current year are cut by 10 cm cuttings. You can take both the tops of the shoots and the rest of them. After cutting the cuttings dip in a special solution "Korniner", which contributes to the formation of a strong root system. Dry cutlets in July in a well-fertilized soil, and by the beginning of the autumn, the Spirea is formed good roots.

Growing with messengers

Another reliable and simple way to reproduce Spiraei - gaze. For this, cultures will be suitable, which are already 3-4 years old, but not more. In the spring, when the first leaflets bloom, it is necessary to simply bend to the soil the longest peripheral branches, fasten them with wire and sprinkle well. With proper care of the gaga, by the beginning of the fall, you will have another plant. In order for it better to strengthen and more actively grew, you will need to rotate young leaves.

Landing Spiraia

If you have no spiray on your site, the landing can be carried out from purchased seedlings. It is best to acquire them in specialized stores or nurseries.

Spring landing in spring:

1. When buying seedlings should pay attention to their roots. If they are very overwhelmed, do not buy such a seedling or well moisture the roots before planting. In case of severe radiation of the roots, they need to cut a little.
2. It is very important to have time to plant a shrub even before the first leaflets bloom.
3. Savages on seedlings should be flexible, not overheated, with large kidneys.
4. After you dug the pit to disembark into it, let it stand for a day 2-3, then drop drainage into it.
5. Wait for a cloudy day and proceed to landing - pour into the pit a bucket of water and lower the seedlove into it.
6. Sprinkle the roots of the earth and thoroughly sink the soil.
7. Pour the plant with 1-2 water buckets and mulch peat.

Landing Spiray in the fall:

1. In the fall, you can land both summer-weathered and shrubs blooming in spring.
2. For greater amenities, you can combine landing of seedlings with reproduction with gifts.
3. In the same period, you can not only plant new seedlings, but also to disassemble old bushes, only you need to do it until the end of the leaf fall.
4. When transplanting the plant digs together with the ground, which is a little more than half of the bush crown. For convenience, you can outline the circle and then proceed to digging.
5. Put a bush into a water container so that the earth falls on the bottom.
6. After that, rinse the roots from the hose and cut the bush with a secaterator by 2-3 saplings so that in each there is at least 2-3 strong shoots.
7. Now your new seedlings are ready for disembarking. Further act just like with a spring landing.

Surrey care

Despite his unpretentiousness, spirire, like any other shrub, requires some care:

1. Given that Spirea has a shallow root system, it requires regular moisturizing. In the hot summer, the bushes are watered 2-3 times a month, pouring 2-3 buckets of water under each plant.
2. In order to enrich the soil with oxygen, regular jams are needed.
3. Do not forget to guess the land under the bushes.
4. One of the most important conditions for good spirea growth is regular feeding fertilizers. The first feeding of minerals is carried out immediately after trimming, the second organic (a cowbling solution with the addition of superphosphates in the proportions of 10 g per 10 liters) in the middle of summer.
5. And, of course, we must not forget to fight the pests that are annoyed by spirire. The most dangerous may be the wave and web tick. The first struggles with the help of carboofos, with the second preparation of Pyrimore.

Pruning spiria

Shrubs have a property to grow strongly and spirire is no exception.

Pruning springwenty shrubs:

1. Sprinking spirea in the spring is carried out after flowering.
2. Spring-driving plants are rarely trimmed, only if necessary, it is necessary to remove old five-year shoots frostbed or damaged.
3. It is important to know that young swordless shoots do not cut off, as it can cause an active growth of side branches, as a result of which the inflorescences will grow weak and not very lush on them, and the bush himself will lose its shape.

Trimming the summer shrubs:

1. Trimming is carried out early spring on shrubs that already have 4 years.
2. Shorten shoots, leaving no more than 20-25 cm above the ground. It will help preserve the individual shape of the bush and will not give out the mature branches.
3. It is impossible to trim only the tops of the shoots, it will lead to the fact that young branches will grow thin and give weak inflorescences.

As you can see to grow a beautiful and healthy bush on the site, you do not need special skills and extensive experience. The noble and gorgeous spirea will delight you with its beauty all season.

Spiraray cultivation. Video