Гортензия метельчатая «фантом», относящаяся к family Hortensian, is considered one of the most beautiful bushes, taking the leading place in landscape gardening. Her native land is China, Japan and the Far East.
The hydrangea is growing, the paniculate phantom is enoughfast. Its main advantages, in addition to its 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 bushes.
В нашей стране гортензия метельчатая «фантом», care for which is quite uncomplicated, 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.
Первое цветение гортензии начинается только на 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 tinge.
Hortensia paniculate phantom, reviews about whichonly good, has powerful straight 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 severity after the rains, it is advisable to leave 5-6 buds on each shoot to avoid having a panicle 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.
Этот куст предпочитает структурную глинистую 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 shallowthe 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 to this plantconstantly moist land is needed. A good solution is the planting of some ground cover plants in the trunks of these bushes, for example, moss-like rock-heifers or various cleanings.
The seedlings of the panic hydrangea are planted on theira permanent place at the age of four. For this, a pit of forty centimeters deep is prepared, taking into account the distance between the adult plants no more than two and a half meters to get a living bouquet as a hedge.
Fertom requires enough hydrangeaoften, 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 planted in the soil at a depth of two kidneys. Plantings need to be shaded and regularly moistened, not allowing the earth to dry out.
