Looking at these flowers, you feel special, plunging into the atmosphere of lightness and airiness. A fluffy bouquet of bright Brenschneider hydrangeas will become a real decoration of the living room or dining table, placed in its center. Just imagine what an unsurpassed decoration of the yard will be bushes with voluminous "caps" of variegated inflorescences planted along garden paths. If you grow flowers, care for them and put all your love into them, then read this article and your favorites will be one more flower bush.
Hydrangea botanical reference
The plant belongs to the Hydrangea family. Often these are bushy plants, although in nature there are also species akin to lianas. During the flowering period, a lush crown is formed from small flowers collected in round inflorescences, without aroma. They grow many varieties of hydrangeas, a wide variety of shades, sometimes even those that amaze the imagination.
Species diversity of flowering bushes
Pondering overdecorating a landscape composition with one or more hydrangea bushes, pay attention to the features of these plants, of which they have a lot. After studying the characteristics of the varieties you like the most, you can choose the one that is best suited for your garden.
The aspect of flower care will also be important, which, depending on the species, may differ in some details. For example, speaking of tree or large-leaved hydrangea, one should not forget about the need to prepare for wintering and specific pruning, despite the fact that the Brenschneider hydrangea does not need to be prepared for the cold, being the most winter-hardy of all members of the family.
Hydrangea arborescens - tree hydrangea
The most beautiful varieties of tree hydrangeas include:
- Invisible Spirit with pink flowers.
- Sterilis - profusely flowering bushes with white petals.
- Anabel, Grandiflora, characterized by large white inflorescences. When choosing bushes, you should be careful, since panicled hydrangea has the same variety of varieties.
Hydrangea paniculata
Gardeners fell in love with these varieties of hydrangea paniculata:
- Grandiflora.
- Kuishu.
- Vanilla Fraze.
- Tardiva.
Hydrangea macrophylla - large-leaved hydrangea
Recently, gardeners have discovered several new varieties with interesting flowering:
- Endless Summer with blueflowers in an acidic environment and lilac petals in a neutral one.
- Renata Steinger with rich blue inflorescences.
- Expression and Romance with terry textured petals.
Ornamental trees and shrubs: Bretschneider hydrangea, paniculate, oak-leaved, each interesting in its own way. You can choose any of the species you like and decide on a variety that will become a real decoration of the yard.
Hydrangea bretschneideri - Bretschneider's hydrangea: description
N. heteromalla Bretschneideri - compact bushes with a wide decorative rounded crown, growing up to 300 cm in height. The flowering period begins in July and lasts until August. The flowers are small, collected in umbrellas with a diameter of about 15 cm. The middle flowers (bisexual) in umbrellas fall off early, the marginal (barren) - with large dazzling white sepals, delight with long flowering. Interestingly, over the entire flowering period, the petals change their color, smoothly moving from bright white to a purple-reddish hue. After flowering, fruits are formed. The leaves are large, up to 12 cm long, ovate, dark green. On the front side, the leaf blades are smooth, on the wrong side - pubescent. Shoots are upright. An interesting feature of the shoots is lignification with the approach of winter. Suitable for seed propagation. See below what Bretschneider's hydrangea looks like in the photo.
In culture, this species is little known, although it is grown in many botanicalgardens. The native land of the plant is the highlands of China. This is one of the best varieties of winter-hardy hardy plants adapted to our climate.
In a different way, Bretschneider's hydrangea is called heteropubescent. This plant is often used to form a standard form, for which it is most popular with gardeners and flower growers, and is actively used in landscape design.
Himalayan hydrangea, or Bretschneider is recognized as an independent subspecies of motley hydrangea.
The place of Bretschneider's hydrangea in landscape design
Hydrangea is one of the most beautiful and successful cultures for decorating the landscape design of the site. Flowering shrubs belonging to this family are found everywhere throughout Russia, regardless of the climatic zone. Landscape compositions, complemented by hydrangeas, immediately become livelier and more airy, and the autumn garden immediately blooms, filled with bright colors of variegated inflorescences.
Bretschneider Hydrangea is a versatile garden plant. In relation to park design, this plant is characterized by a considerable number of advantages that make the plant so popular. Among the qualities of hydrangeas that gardeners and landscape designers appreciate are the following:
- Long-lasting, abundant and bright flowering.
- Frost resistance property.
- Abundance of sizes and shapes.
- Unpretentious care and cultivation.
- Durability.
All these features give specialists in the field of landscape design the opportunity to organize the space of the backyard zone not only concisely, but also beautifully. You yourself can try to make your dacha beautiful, using some tips and planting hydrangea bushes according to a certain scheme, which will not leave anyone indifferent. It is quite possible to recreate such beauty without spending a lot of money on it, which so often have to be paid for the services of landscape designers.
Hydrangea reviews
It is interesting that gardeners note such popularity of the variety due to its distinctive features, for example, winter hardiness. This makes it the preferred choice if it is necessary to arrange a landscape composition on the site.
You can read the Bretschneider hydrangea reviews yourself and see for yourself that this is an extraordinary variety of ornamental plants that has become widespread due to its beauty and attractiveness.
Many of the florists and gardeners in their reviews say that not a single plant can be compared with hydrangea in charm and picky.
Features of planting bushes
Landing is done in early spring or autumn. Given the peculiarities of the climate of the region, under cold conditions it is better to give preference to spring planting so that the plant passes the acclimatization period faster and takes root without problems. Also, resorting to such a move, you will save your plant, for example, the variety "Purple Queen" of Bretschneider's ground cover hydrangea from a stressful first winter, ashappens with those varieties of plants that were planted in the autumn.
So, in order to plant a plant, you will need to dig a hole with an approximate size of 30x30x30 cm, add fertilizers with a mineral or organic composition, a little sand and soddy soil mixed with each other. After that, peat is added.
Before placing the seedling in the hole, the root shoots are slightly shortened, the root neck is not deepened.
The planted Bretschneider groundcover hydrangea bush is watered abundantly and mulched using peat or humus.
When spring planting, gardeners recommend shortening annual shoots by 3-4 buds.
The soil for planting should be acidic and well moistened. Therefore, if landing in an open area is expected, then it is better to take care of this in advance.
Light Features
Hydrangea Bretschneider can grow both in the sun and in partial shade. Depending on the variety, the requirements for illumination are adjusted, but in general remain the same. This is a flowering plant, which means that light and an abundance of sunlight are important for it.
Features of watering hydrangeas
Water is the source of life. Naturally, like any other plant, hydrangeas need water and moisture. By the way, the bushes and trees of this kind of plants do not tolerate the second one very friendly, therefore, after each application of a portion of water, it is worth taking care of mulching the soil around the plant stem.
For irrigation use soft rainwater. It is worth paying attention to the fact that this plant does not tolerate lime, and 2-3 buckets of water per week are effective.features of the bushes will be enough for full-fledged watering.
Now, having familiarized yourself with the description of Bretschneider's hydrangea, having studied its features and familiarized yourself with the species diversity of this genus in general, you can choose a beautiful bush or a tall lush flowering tree for your site, which will decorate and delight the eye not only of the owners, but and guests, and just passers-by.
