Decorative viburnum - bulldog

Decorative viburnum is included in the familyHoneysuckle, including more than two hundred subspecies. In nature, this plant is found almost everywhere on our continent, as well as in African and American. Decorative viburnum is an evergreen shrub or a tree with a beautiful foliage. It becomes incredibly attractive at flowering, covered with a white or pinkish outfit, large and catchy, attracting pollinators-insects.

Kalina decorative, whose varieties live for more than half a century, has very beautiful fruits, which, as a rule, remain for a long time on the branches after the fall leaves. In some species, they are edible.

And it's no wonder that this is a beautiful tree,which in spring is decorated with large white flowers, and in autumn - bright and ruddy leaves and fruits, is considered a good ornament of the garden. It grows rapidly, easily tolerates low light conditions, which can not boast of many shrubs. And decorative viburnum perfectly survives and next to deaf high walls and a fence, and under tall trees.

It is generally considered an unpretentious plant, notafraid of neighborhood with large factories or factories, large motor roads. But many bushes and even trees from such closeness just die.

Decorative viburnum, one of the varieties of which hasthe name "Buldeneezh", is very popular among gardeners, and this variety is especially. Sometimes it seems that this plant, which is considered to be the rival of such a shrub as a rose, was created not by nature, but by an expert craftsman. Buldenezh, or kalina terry, sometimes called a snowball, blooms without a smell, but its inflorescence is of stunning beauty.

Kalina decorative, planting and care for which is notrequire special skill, appeared in Russia during the time of Catherine II. Then it, as a curiosity, was planted in the gardens of high royal dignitaries and landlords. By the end of the nineteenth century, a bulldog with a rose and a chubushnik could be found in every fashionable front garden. Entire gardens were planted in the old days by this shrub.

Diluted decorative viburnum is very easy:its seeds, layers or offspring grow on any soils where there is moisture. And during flowering bushes are completely covered with bees, for which there is an abundance of nectar and pollen.

Kalina loves not only moisture.It is very sensitive to the soil, preferring to grow on fertile loam. In general, it is a very hardy plant, and although it can freeze slightly in severe frost, it is quickly restored in spring.

Kalina, including bulldogs, responds well to organic fertilizer, but gardeners usually do not abuse fresh manure, which causes fatty shoots - a treat for leaf-eaters.

The bush is very fond of loosening and mulching. In spring, once a year, the mulch is embedded by digging into the basal soil, and by autumn a new layer is being built on it.

To ensure that the decorative viburnum blossoms well, do not allow the soil to dry out. After all, in the wild, it grows exclusively in places with guaranteed moistening of the soil coma.

Today this shrub is very popular withlandscape designers. Particularly beautiful are the compositions from it, planted on the shores of inland water bodies or ponds. Reflecting in the watery surface, decorative viburnum becomes even more beautiful.