Ornamental shrub - Bluebeard or Caryopteris. Beauty in your garden

Caryopteris - is decorative-deciduous shrub flowering type. Its main feature is that this plant blooms in late summer blue or pale blue flowers, when the bulk of the flowers have bloomed. Let's take a closer look at this beautiful shrub.

Description

Another name - orehokrylnik or Bluebeard. Plant, honey plant. Tubular flowers, leaves carved different color (depending on the variety) and aromatic (when rubbed into the hands of the leaf, then feel the mint flavor). Undemanding plant prefers sunny sites, but grows well in partial shade. Drought-resistant enough. I do not like stagnant water. A spreading shrub grows in diameter, 3.4 m height of the plant -. 0.5 to 1.5 meters, depending on the variety. In the middle zone can tolerate winter. Resistant to viral diseases, pests from bothering herbal bug.

Reproduction and Care

Caring for shrubs is simple - it is loosening, watering, weeding, fertilizing with organic (if the bush planted in well-fertilized soil, then power it is enough for a long time). The bush grows well in open ground. Prefers friable and non-acidic soil with good drainage. Cut old shoots before hibernation (leave stems not exceeding 20 cm), since flowering occurs on the young sprouts of the year. It may freeze slightly, but the shoots grow well, so before the cold weather better than bush zamulchirovat or to hill land.

Propagated easily by layering (prikopat twig to the ground and let plant roots), softwood cuttings 10-12 cm long in spring, summer or in September. The roots appear in 20-30 days. In the shops you can buy the seeds of this plant.

I recommend to grow this plant, because it is beautiful and unpretentious in care.

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