Elegantly solemn, bright, beautiful bloomingperennial hydrangeas are increasingly decorating the gardens of central Russia. Cultural types of paniculate hydrangea, an important component in the list of wild representatives of the Far Eastern flora, are extremely decorative.
Hortensia Pink Diamond: Description
Growing up to 2-3 m in height, sprawling bushvalued by gardeners in many countries for pronounced vertical growth, strength of shoots and long flowering. Inflorescences shirokokonichesky form from 15 to 30 cm long, elongated in the form of panicles at the ends of the shoots, elegant and beautiful: they do not hang to the side and are not afraid of wind gusts.
Pink Diamond hydrangea blooms from July to midSeptember, brightening up the earth with white cones of candles, blushing noticeably as they fade. Being the base color of the inflorescences, the white color changes with time. By the fall, initially snow-white inflorescences become pink-coral.
Attracts this kind of excellent regeneratingproperties - the ability to quickly recover from partial mechanical damage or freezing. The panicled hydrangea Pink Diamond has good frost resistance, allowing it to successfully survive the winter under the cover of spandboda or lapnik or without any additional shelters, but in places protected from winds through the high snow cover.
The root system of the shrub is superficial,is shallow, stretching in the near-wall space parallel to the ground level, and this peculiarity causes the obligatory regular generous irrigation.
But to the city gas concentration Pink Diamond hydrangea is absolutely indifferent, so it is used in garden and park design or plantings along the streets.
Peculiarities of growing
Light-loving culture prefers solar,windproof places with fertile acidic clay soils. Completely open areas are not the best solution, since hydrangea is moisture-loving and the duration of its flowering directly depends on soil moisture. The lack of water will result in shredding of flowers, loss of decorativeness and reduction in the duration of flowering of such a plant as Pink Hydrangea. Reviews flower growers are unanimous in opinion: in the open field will have to maintain intensive moisture, which is often very problematic. Therefore, some shading is even welcome.
It is important not to apply on selected sites.various deoxidizers - dolomite flour, chalk, limestone, ashes, and to maintain the decorativeness of the shrub, brown peat and pine needles are made from time to time. Hydrangea grows quite quickly, and when planting 4-5-year-old saplings you can wait for the first flowering next year, as gardeners say.
When to land?
Experienced growers recommend spring plantinghydrangeas. If the weather conditions in the region allow you to plant a culture in early spring, in the summer you can hope for the appearance of the first inflorescences. Autumn planting of hydrangea (in September) is also possible, but it should be carried out 2-3 weeks before the cold and cover the young bush for the winter.
Planting technology of hydrangea is simple:the superficial root system will not require a deep planting pit, it will be enough 0.3-0.5 m depending on the age of the seedling and the development of its roots. When planning planting a picturesque hedge, plants are placed in a prepared trench. The intervals between shrubs are not less than 2.5 m, in a hedge - 1-1.5 m. Overly thickened plantings are easily thinned out if necessary.
Landing holes previously generously spilledwater, filled with a fertile mixture of humus, peat and pine needles to a third. The seedling is placed in the pit so that the root neck is flush with the surface of the ground, straighten the roots, making sure that they do not bend upwards, fall asleep with the remaining earthen mixture and compact it. Then once again plentifully watered and mulched with wood chips or any plant residues.
Watering
Cultivating activities for the crop consist in timely watering, making the necessary dressings, regular pruning of the shrub and protecting the plant from diseases and pests.
About the features of watering culture:the soil under the shrub should be constantly wet. With the growth of the bush and entering the adult state, the danger of drying out is minimized, because the crown of the bush is very sprawling and casts a good shadow. The usual weekly water consumption is 3-4 buckets per bush. To stimulate flowering, manganese is added to the water once every 2-3 weeks (1 gram / 1 watering).
Feeding
Achieve active plant growth and generousflowering will help make the necessary fertilizers, which are carried out in several stages: in the spring with the beginning of sap flow with high-quality organic matter, at the beginning of budding and flowering of complex mineral fertilizer, in preparation for the winter with special fertilizer for hydrangeas, commercially available.
Trimming
To maintain the decorativeness of the shrub requires regular pruning. In the autumn, dried inflorescences are cut off, in the spring they remove weak broken and diseased shoots.
In addition, they form a shrub, removing old stems and choosing from the one-year-old shoots of 8-10 the strongest. They are truncated to 3-5 buds, which is enough for high-quality summer flowering.
So, simple care provides excellentdecorativeness of such an interesting culture as Pink Diamond hydrangea. The photos presented in the publication demonstrate the plant in all its glory, but the living bush that adorns its own plot is a surprisingly beautiful sight, as evidenced by the numerous reviews of satisfied flower growers.
