Weigel - royal bush in the garden
Seeing this shrub once fall in love with it forever. This beauty has almost every amateur gardener. Deciduous flowering plant family honeysuckle. Name it - Weigela. Today is actively populated by many front gardens for decoration, it is one of the first places among cultivated shrubs in Russia.
Description
Weigela its popularity it gained at the expense of double flowering.
Admire the pink flowers can be from May to June and from August to September.
Flowering Weigela in a few weeks. The bush is completely littered with large flowers, which are a different color depending on the variety.
Flower plants quite large, with a length of about 5 cm. Shaped like a small bell.
You can find cream, red, maroon, red, white color. A plant located singly or gathered in the inflorescence, a few pieces at a small stick.
Saturation of color palette changes during the period. At the beginning of the flowers faded and the end to become more saturated and even dark. After flowering flowers formed in situ results in the form of small boxes, in which the mature seeds.
Sorts
In the southern regions and in central Russia following varieties are cultivated Weigel:
1. Weigel Middendorf - shrub 1-1.5 m in height, which grows in the Far East and China.
Flowers from pale yellow to deep orange. Flowering takes place twice a year, in spring and autumn.
2. Weigel pleasant - shrub about 1 m tall with pink flowers. Interestingly, the autumn foliage of the plant change color.
3. Weigela early - very high for a kind of shrub, up to 2 m.
The flowers are collected in inflorescence in the form of brushes have a pink color and a slight pubescence.
Blooms once in the spring, but rather long, up to 3 weeks.
4. hybrid - Class withdrawn as a result of cross-breeding of several species: Korean and floriferous.
The plant is so strewn with large flowers that their background is not visible green foliage.
5. Polish hybrid Eva Rathke
It blooms from June to late August. High sapling, about 3 m.
These are the most common varieties, which are very popular among gardeners. Besides them there are other, equally attractive: Rose, Bristol Ruby Shtiriaka.
cultivation
Weigel is considered low-maintenance plant, but still features its habitat in the wild should take into account:
1. planting time - spring, autumn;
2. landing place should be bright, sheltered from strong winds and winter frosts;
3. Land - easy, good moisture permeable, with a neutral pH.
Care normal as for the rest of bushes in the garden, is timely watering, application of mineral and organic fertilizer three times during the season, weeding and soil loosening.
In winter Weigela require shelter, because not tolerate low winter temperatures.
Weigel is truly a royal garden. Particularly impressive it is as a hedge of it, which does not need to cut. The plant can be placed at the site both separately and in flowerbeds. It looks great in combination with other ornamental shrubs.