How to plant honeysuckle honeysuckle for a hedge. Honeysuckle honeysuckle: description, varieties, reproduction and cultivation. Decorative climber Alba

The real lucky ones are those people who have their own house or cottage. After all, it is here that you can realize all your dreams, ideas, creating a cozy corner in your garden. Planting, care and reproduction of honeysuckle Honeysuckle - this is what will be discussed below. This plant can miraculously transform the landscape on the site without spoiling the overall architectural solutions, and even sometimes hide flaws in buildings.

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle. What is this plant and where does it come from?

Before you start planting something in your garden, every summer resident must clearly understand and know this or that information about plants. After all, each of them has its own planting dates, cultivation techniques, sizes, flowering time. If these factors are not taken into account, then you can turn your garden into a place with a ridiculous design, where flowers, shrubs, and greenery will dazzle.

Landscaping with honeysuckle

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle, which you will learn about planting below, is used for landscaping summer cottages. Its charm is that it not only looks very aesthetically attractive, but has a delicate pleasant aroma, creating unsurpassed comfort. The plant is a vine that braids any supports next to which it is planted. The beauty of honeysuckle is not only in its decorative effect, but also in practicality, because you can cover an ugly fence with a liana or, for example, unsightly household buildings.

Did you know? Many of us know the legend of Tristan and Isolde - tragic and romantic. The beautiful Isolde was a healer and saved her lover more than once. Her beauty was unmatched. And it is precisely with honeysuckle Honeysuckle that a girl is compared.

In the wild, this plant is most often found in the mountains of the Caucasus, as well as in the southern parts of Europe. It is noteworthy that in one summer honeysuckle vines can grow more than two meters in length. Life expectancy can reach more than 50 years.

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle has an unusual appearance - its flowers sit close to the green, but their stamens proudly move forward. Unusual flowers can be of different shades - red, pink, white, yellow.

Recommendation! If you want your garden to have a twist, then don't just plant honeysuckle and care for it so that the view is luxurious, but also combine two different colors at once in one place. For example, red and white honeysuckle.

Planting Honeysuckle Honeysuckle

Before you purchase seedlings, you must clearly decide on the place where the honeysuckle will grow, since:

firstly, there should be supports in this place, for example, a wall of a house, a fence, poles;
secondly, although this plant is very unpretentious, it does not like transplants from place to place. Honeysuckle can start to hurt, stop blooming, the vine will become scarce. It will be difficult for honeysuckle honeysuckle and reproduction. That is, shoots with roots will not be able to form actively;
thirdly, it is better to prepare the place in advance and take into account all the nuances. That is, soil, light, moisture.

Decoration for any wall

Let's go in order. Honeysuckle grows in length for many meters. For about 4-5 years, the plant can reach 5 meters. But also honeysuckle and spreads well to the sides. That's why she needs support. It is easy to close an ugly fence with such a plant or separate one zone from another. It is better to choose a strong support, since the load will be large from the mass of the plant and during strong winds.

Recommendation! Arches that are braided with honeysuckle look very beautiful. You can make several such arches by placing them above the garden path. Each of which will be braided by a plant of a different color. Solemn and original.

Decorating with honeysuckle entrance

Determine the landing site immediately. The soil must be fertile, well breathable, not acidic. As a fertilizer, you can make humus, complex preparations, organic matter. You can prepare the soil using the following components:

option 1: mix soddy soil, humus, sand, peat. Proportions 3:1:1:1;
option 2: mix compost - 2 buckets, double superphosphate - 100 grams, lime - 0.5 liters, potassium sulfate - 30 grams. All these components are poured after preliminary mixing into the hole and spilled with water - about 1/2 bucket.

Honeysuckle requires neutral soil, meaning that the pH is between 7.5 and 8.5. If the soil is acidic, then it is lime. Then choose the second soil option indicated above.

There should be no closely adjacent groundwater, swamps, moisture stagnation in the spring. If in doubt, drain with gravel or a special material that is sold in stores for summer residents.

In order not to wonder why Capricole honeysuckle does not bloom, follow all the recommendations mentioned above and plant the plant where it will have enough sunlight. Optimally - light partial shade or the first half of the day honeysuckle should be in the sun, the second in partial shade.

Support from improvised means

In order to save money, you can make a support for honeysuckle honeysuckle with your own hands. There are different ways.

Choose the time

You can plant honeysuckle both in autumn and in spring. But there are subtleties. If you plan to plant with the advent of heat, then do it either in August or in July. Why? Because in May and June the plant actively grows, forms shoots and blooms for three weeks.

Honeysuckle takes root very well if planted from August to the second decade of October. The main thing is to prepare the soil in the way it is necessary for honeysuckle Honeysuckle. Transplantation in autumn is also preferable, as the plant does not like being moved from place to place very well, and in spring it may react by not growing and flowering in the coming summer.

Landing

Planting a plant and caring for it in the Moscow region or other regions will be similar. Honeysuckle is a cold-resistant plant that tolerates winters well. Therefore, it is planted in warm regions, and where the climate does not please.

Landing in a trench

If you want to create a hedge, then dig a trench to plant a few seedlings. Depth 25-30 cm. If not, then just a hole of about the same depth. The main thing is that the roots feel comfortable. The soil is prepared in advance according to the principle that was described earlier. Seedlings are planted, buried and well spilled.

Planting honeysuckle in the hole

Care and reproduction of honeysuckle Honeysuckle. pruning

Care

The beauty of honeysuckle is that it is quite unpretentious. It needs to be watered periodically, and if the summer turned out to be rainy, then watering is not required. Usually only 4-5 waterings per summer are required, but they should be plentiful.

Always remove weeds around the bush and loosen after rains and watering so that there is no stagnation. But be careful, as the root system is close enough, it can be damaged.

Honeysuckle after watering

With regards to feeding, honeysuckle loves him. Responds well to natural fertilizers. You can use manure, humus, compost. Ash is also recommended. Top dressing is applied in the spring about a bucket under a bush. In autumn, they protect the soil with ash (250 grams). In summer, it is good to pour slurry from manure - a ratio of 1: 4. It also responds well to feeding with ammonium nitrate - about 20 grams per square meter.

Attention! The plant is not fed for the first two years, it needs to take root and adapt well. Top dressing is applied in the third year under each bush of honeysuckle Honeysuckle.

pruning in autumn

Pruning honeysuckle

Sanitary pruning helps the plant develop better, not get sick, bloom and bear fruit more actively. It is necessary to cut off all the branches that have already dried up, become old, they have traces of the disease or branches that do not grow. Inside the bush, you also need to cut off some of the branches so that the sun penetrates better.

But young plants do not need the procedure. Only that honeysuckle that is older than 6-7 years. In the spring, cut off all the branches that are frozen on all the bushes. Plants tolerate the procedure quite well. If the pruning was cardinal, then the places of the cuts can be sprinkled with ash or activated with charcoal.

reproduction

How to propagate honeysuckle is a fairly frequently asked question. There can be several ways of reproduction:

with the help of seeds (but this process is long and the result does not always live up to expectations);
cuttings;
with the help of layering;
dividing the bush.

Consider the three most popular methods.

Honeysuckle is propagated by cuttings in July and August. To do this, cut off several branches so that they have buds. Leaves are removed. The soil is prepared from humus, sand, garden soil and compost in equal proportions. Additionally, cuttings are processed in Kornevin. Then they are planted in a row and covered with bottles, after watering. Every day, the seedlings are sprayed, and the shelter is opened.

Division by cuttings

They are simply propagated by layering - they take a branch from an adult honeysuckle that has roots, tilt it to the ground and sprinkle it. Soon the new layer will take root and it can be transplanted.

Division by layering

Dividing a bush is also a fairly simple process. It is necessary to dig the honeysuckle at the roots, and then cut off part of the root with branches with a sharp knife or shovel. Then plant the root, and process the cut points.

Division of the root system

These are all the basic farming techniques that will help you grow a luxurious, lush honeysuckle bush. But one more question cannot be ignored. Without it, all efforts can be wasted, and honeysuckle Honeysuckle will die or get sick.

Diseases and pests. Ways to fight. A photo

insect pests

Honeysuckle does not have many enemies, but still they are and can destroy the plant or reduce its productivity.

Fingerwing caterpillar. Her favorite food is honeysuckle berries. Consequences - the fruits fall, the appearance of the plant deteriorates.
Fingerwing
The leafworm caterpillar is a very dangerous enemy, as well as aphids. After all, it is they who eat the leaves, suck out the juices. The shrub is dying.
leaf roller
Shchitovka - harms the bark, drinks plant juices. Honeysuckle begins to wither, gradually dries up.

Pest control is carried out with the help of insecticides. Inta-Vir and Decis showed themselves very well. But simple folk remedies also help well - an infusion of wormwood, pepper, cinnamon. You can also spray with vodka. Insects do not tolerate strong odors. At the same time, treatment with natural solutions can be carried out all season, and insecticides can be used only before and after fruiting. That is, in early spring and in the second decade of summer, and during this time the damage can be significant.

Diseases

The disease affected the aerial part of the plant

This culture is very resistant to many diseases. But still there are diseases that can bother honeysuckle honeysuckle - this is powdery mildew, cercosporosis, tuberculosis, mottling, blackening and drying out. You can overcome problems - for example, Fitosporin helps well against powdery mildew. Spraying is carried out in the evening or early in the morning according to the instructions, but not under the sun and in fog. This preparation is microbiological.

Powdery mildew on honeysuckle leaves

cercosporosis

tuberculosis

As for all other diseases, except for mottling, fungi become their cause. Solutions are the urgent removal of all diseased parts of the plant, followed by burning. You will also need treatment with a Bordeaux mixture, you can use the drug "Aga-peak" and preparations containing copper. With mottling, as experience shows, it is useless to fight. The solution is to remove diseased plant parts.

Mottling

Important! You can often hear the question of why honeysuckle Capricole dries. There can be many reasons for this - these are diseases, pests, improper agricultural practices. If you are attentive to plantings, take care and process them in a timely manner, then you will not have problems.

It is also important to note the following fact - if the plant has enough nutrients, then it will grow and develop well and have good resistance to diseases. And one of the recommendations on the issue of honeysuckle diseases and their treatment is the application of mineral fertilizers.

This article has provided you with useful information that may come in handy if you decide to create your dream garden with honeysuckle.

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Large bright flowers, abundantly covering honeysuckle honeysuckle, fill the garden with an unusual aroma every spring. This vine is good with inedible, but very picturesque fruits in vertical gardening. In our review you will find information about planting honeysuckle, about what care is needed for it, about methods of reproduction.

About varieties and varieties of honeysuckle

All varieties of honeysuckle are divided into fruit and ornamental. The fruit type of honeysuckle is a bush with a height of 1 to 2 meters. Varieties of this species differ in terms of ripening, yield, taste of fruits. The decorative look includes plants valued for their beauty.

Honeysuckle Tatar

This includes two groups:

Bushes - honeysuckle Tatar, Korolkov, alpine, ordinary, Maksimovich.
Lianas - honeysuckle, Telman's honeysuckle, curly, Brown.

Honeysuckle Telman

The most beautiful among the vines is honeysuckle honeysuckle, reaching a height of 6 m. Its young shoots, sometimes light green, sometimes all shades of red-violet, become covered with grayish-brown bark with age. Long stems are covered with large dense dark green leaves above and bluish below. In May-June, the shoots are decorated with fragrant multi-flowered exquisite inflorescences. Each pink flower has a white or cream center. A month later, fruits appear - orange balls that ripen in August. Although flowering lasts only about a month, the fragrant vine is decorative until late autumn.

honeysuckle honeysuckle

Honeysuckle looks great next to coniferous trees, weaving roses, and other shrubs. It is enough to look at the photo of this powerful honeysuckle liana, which means goat in translation, to want to settle it on your site.

Attention: the fruits of honeysuckle honeysuckle cannot be eaten - they are poisonous.

In the sun, honeysuckle blooms more abundantly, so a place well lit by the sun is allocated for its planting. It is better to plant in the spring, and in order for the plant to develop correctly, support is needed. On average, honeysuckle grows by 1 m per year. It grows in one place for 50 years.

Features of planting honeysuckle

Lonicera caprifolium is planted in a permanent place immediately. It is believed that the goat liana prefers neutrally acidic soils. She does not like clayey or dry soils and develops poorly on them.

honeysuckle fruit honeysuckle

The landing process consists of several successive steps:

We prepare a pit 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 m or a ditch of the same width and depth.
We lay drainage on the bottom - gravel, sand or brick chips.
The soil taken out during the preparation of the seat is mixed with peat, last year's manure, microelements are added, and lime is also added to the acidic soil.
We make a mound at the bottom of the pit.
Be sure to equip the support for the vine
We place the seedlings in the pit, after cutting the roots. We straighten them on a mound, water them, fill them with a mixture, compact them, water them again.
We mulch the ground around the bushes using peat or humus.

Attention: for honeysuckle, a slight deepening of the root neck is useful.

Care for honeysuckle honeysuckle

Winter hardiness in fragrant honeysuckle is high. The first 2 years will have to cover the ground around the roots with fallen leaves or peat, and then you can forget about this procedure. Scourges that have grown over the summer do not need pruning. If in the spring it turns out that in some places the stems are frozen, cut them - the buds on these shoots still do not form. The process of further care consists of several important aspects:

Weed removal- is one of the important points in the process of caring for honeysuckle. They should be removed from the site before planting the bush, especially perennial weeds.

It is important that weed grass does not interfere with the development of honeysuckle.

Watering. Honeysuckle loves moisture. In summer, watering should be regular, and in drought, portions of water are doubled.

pruning- affects the development and formation of the bush. It is carried out immediately after disembarkation, otherwise the fast-growing honeysuckle will turn into a completely unattractive green shock. First, we cut the weak stems, leaving no more than 3 of the most reliable ones and shorten them by 1/3. Then we carry out regular inspections, we reject damaged and dry shoots, and when the liana reaches the planned height, we cut the top, then the bush will grow in breadth.

Tip: Pruning branches in the spring, after the buds appear. Cut the shoot above the bud using a pruner.

How and what to fertilize and feed

Goat honeysuckle reacts positively to top dressing, but you need to do it correctly:

at the end of autumn, we introduce potash and phosphorus fertilizers, pour compost and humus under the bushes;
in spring - the vine needs nitrogen, it is also useful to water it with diluted bird droppings or mullein.

Feed the plant twice a season

Reproduction of fragrant honeysuckle

It is easy to propagate honeysuckle, there are 4 ways to do this:

seeds;
cuttings;
layering;
dividing the main bush.

Honeysuckle from seeds

We harvest the seeds in July, for which we extract them from the pulp, rinse thoroughly, and dry. The complexity of this method lies in the fact that the seed material of honeysuckle does not germinate well. To remedy the situation, experienced gardeners recommend first subjecting fresh seeds to stratification. To do this, in the fall, pour wet sand into some container and pour out the seeds. Place the dishes in the refrigerator on the bottom shelf. Every 14 days we check the moisture content of the sand, sprinkle with water if it is dry.

To harvest seeds, you will need ripe honeysuckle fruits.

Thus, in the spring, the seeds will be prepared for planting. Sowing is carried out according to the following technology:

fill the box with nutrient substrate;
pour seeds with sand on top;
sprinkle the seed with a thin layer of soil;
moisturize;
cover with film or glass;
we remove the shelter after the emergence of shoots;
we move the seedlings to a permanent place in the fall, creating a shelter for them.

honeysuckle sprouts

It is possible to plant stratified seeds in the spring, somewhere in April, on the garden bed, making grooves 15-20 mm deep and closing them to a depth of 10 mm. In the summer they should be watered, prevented from overgrowing with weeds, covered with peat for the winter. In the spring of next year, the seedlings are ready for relocation to their permanent habitat.

Propagation of goat honeysuckle by cuttings

For this method of reproduction, it is necessary to prepare cuttings. It is better to do this before the end of the flowering period. Cuttings that do not break when bent are not suitable as starting material - this indicates that they are not yet mature enough. There should be 2-3 internodes on the handle. We make the upper cut straight at a distance of 1.5 cm from the kidney, and the lower cut at an angle of 45 degrees. We remove the lower leaves completely, and shorten the upper ones by ½. We plant the blanks in a greenhouse, protected from the sun, maintaining a distance between them of approximately 0.2 m. We make up the substrate for planting cuttings from peat, garden soil and sand (2: 1: 2).

Honeysuckle cuttings take root very easily

We spray the cuttings three times a day for a month. During this time, the first leaves are formed and the seedlings will no longer need shelter. In order for the sprouts to successfully endure the winter, we mulch them. We transplant into open ground in the spring.

Tip: harvest the cuttings from the middle part of the whip. Ideally, the workpiece is about 10 cm long and about 0.5 cm thick.

Reproduction by layering

This method is the simplest and most trouble-free. The algorithm is the following:

We select suitable shoots from spring or autumn.
We dig holes to a depth of about 0.2 m from the side of the layer.
We fill the seat with fertile soil with the addition of lime.
We bend the whip to the ground, laying it in a recess so that the top remains at the top.
We fix the layering using staples made of strong wire.
We fall asleep with a layer of soil, water and mulch.
We dig up the young offspring of fragrant honeysuckle next spring, separate them from the base plant, and plant them in a permanent place.

Reproduction of honeysuckle by layering is possible even for an inexperienced gardener

If honeysuckle is grown as a hedge, then the layers from the main bush may not be separated. Near the upper part that looks out of the ground, we simply install a support and tie a plant to it, which continues to develop as an independent bush.

The fourth method of reproduction is the division of the bush

From an overgrown, well-developed plant, you can painlessly separate a part for transplantation:

dig a bush at the base;
take a sharp pruner and cut off the shoot with roots.

Reproduction by dividing the bush is a more time-consuming method

Or in another way:

we dig out the plant completely together with a large earthen clod;
we divide the bush into parts using a sharp shovel;
we process slices with ash or crushed coal;
shorten the shoots by a third of the length;
we put each share in a separate seat;
we begin to form a crown a year after the transplant procedure.

Diseases and pests of honeysuckle honeysuckle

The description of the signs and photos of honeysuckle diseases should be well studied, since it is often affected by them. Among the most dangerous diseases - ramulariasis. It manifests itself on young leaves in the form of grayish-brown spots with a brown middle. Later, stems and petioles are also affected - they begin to die off. The plant weakens due to the loss of nutrients. Spraying with "Fundazol", copper sulfate helps.

No less dangerous cercosporosis. On the leaves, something is formed in the form of dots with a red-brown border. Control methods are similar to those used for ramulariasis.

There are dangerous fungal diseases that affect honeysuckle

tuberculosis attacks honeysuckle branches. Red bumps appear on them. The spores of the fungus also settle in the bark. Shoots and leaves wither. The affected areas should be cut out and destroyed, and for prevention, spray the plants in the spring with Bordeaux liquid, copper sulphate.

Of the pests, the most dangerous is the aphid. With its presence, the leaves turn yellow, become stained, then die. Shoots are also damaged, because the larvae suck the juice out of them. They destroy aphids using drugs such as Eleksar, Aktellik, Confidor.

Use pesticides to control pests

With a large thickening, with constant humidity, a tick can settle on the honeysuckle, which infects the leaves. They darken and curl, sometimes fall off. Spraying "Aktellik", "Omaita" helps.

Honeysuckle is not burdensome to care for. The only thing that is absolutely necessary for its successful growth is a support, a wall or other vertical surface. Its cultivation is a little work compared to what aesthetic pleasure you will receive from the sight of this plant.

How to grow honeysuckle honeysuckle: video

Honeysuckle honeysuckle: photo

This variety has a purely decorative function and serves only as a decoration of the site. The bush is a vine that gardeners use for various purposes to decorate the site. Honeysuckle fruits are not edible and cannot be used as a medicine, unlike the berries of other honeysuckle varieties.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle: reproduction, planting and care

Brief description of culture

It is very convenient to plant a plant along the fences. In this case, lashes of honeysuckle honeysuckle form a lush hedge. You can also create a shady gazebo from them by surrounding a pre-prepared frame of props with vines. And at the end of a summer day, the flowers of this plant will delight with a delicate, refined aroma.

honeysuckle honeysuckle

In late spring and early summer, honeysuckle honeysuckle begins to bloom magnificently. In this case, the bush is completely strewn with yellowish or pinkish small flowers of a heterogeneous color. They are somewhat reminiscent of orchids. The length of the flower can reach 5 centimeters. At its base are fused sheets. Flowering lasts up to three weeks, while the life cycle of an individual flower does not exceed four days.

honeysuckle honeysuckle honeysuckle hedge

Rich orange berries appear after flowering ends. For the first time, honeysuckle honeysuckle will bloom and will bear fruit when the bush reaches the age of four. Intensive growth continues from early April to mid-autumn. The plant tolerates cold quite well. An individual bush can live for over 50 years with proper care.

Honeysuckle with berries

The following varieties of this plant are found:

few-flowered. It does not bloom too luxuriantly, covered with pinkish with red flowers;
white. The name of the variety indicates that the flowers of this honeysuckle honeysuckle are white.

Honeysuckle is bred using seeds, cuttings and layering.

Culture features

Reproduction by cuttings

For propagation by cuttings, immediately after the plant has faded, it is necessary to cut off cuttings that have 2 internodes. In this case, you need to leave only the upper leaves, cutting off the lower ones from the cuttings.

Propagation of honeysuckle by cuttings

Plant in prepared soil. To do this, take garden soil (1 part), peat (2 parts), coarse sand (2 parts) and mix. Shoots must be planted in a greenhouse, keeping a distance of 20 centimeters between them. Watering is required every three days.

Important! Before the onset of winter, the sprouts are covered with peat. In spring, cuttings are transferred to open ground. This is not done immediately because in this case, many sprouts die.

Reproduction by cuttings

Reproduction by seeds

The situation is much more complicated with the cultivation of honeysuckle honeysuckle with the help of seeds. The fact is that they cannot be stored for a long time, as this greatly reduces the percentage of their germination.

Honeysuckle (Caprifolia) seeds "Fragrant Liana"

The collection of seeds for subsequent propagation is carried out during the fruiting period of the plant. The pulp is removed from the berries, the seeds are rinsed, dried. Then they are left for storage in a room with a temperature of + 18-20 ° C. In the year when it is planned to use the seeds for sowing, they must first be placed in wet sand and stored for some time before planting in a cool room. In this case, it is necessary to constantly monitor the moisture content of the sand.

honeysuckle seeds

The depth of sowing seeds in the ground should not exceed 2 centimeters. Landing is carried out immediately in open ground in the second half of April. It is better to choose a shady side of the site for this. The preferred temperature for normal seed germination is +20°C.

Grooving for sowing

Important! When sprouts appear, you need to organize timely watering for them. They also need to be weeded. Transfer to a permanent place is made in the fall. To protect against freezing, young plants need to be protected with peat for 2 years after planting.

Reproduction by layering

The easiest way to get more honeysuckle bushes is to breed by layering. To do this, one of the lower branches must be cut and rooted in the ground. The best season for this operation is spring.

Honeysuckle - reproduction by layering

Until autumn, the shoot will give roots, and it can be separated from the main bush. It is advisable to transplant it immediately to permanent residence, since the plant really does not like multiple changes of location.

Reproduction of honeysuckle by horizontal layering

Step-by-step instructions for planting honeysuckle honeysuckle

The plant is preferably planted in the spring. If everything is done correctly, then it will please the shoots by the beginning of summer. By this time, they may even gain some length. During the year, under favorable circumstances, honeysuckle can add more than 1.5 meters in growth.

Table. How to plant honeysuckle honeysuckle.

Step 1. Choosing a place for the plant	The plant is very sensitive to the amount of light, so it is advisable to choose a well-lit place for planting. This affects the splendor of flowering. In the shade, honeysuckle honeysuckle does not please with abundant color, giving only strong climbing branches of vines.
Step 2. Creating a trench or hole for landing	Before placing the shoots in their places of permanent residence, they make depressions in the soil. In accordance with what the gardener wants to get in the end, he digs holes (for individual bushes) or trenches (for green fencing). Pits for individual plants are made up to 60 centimeters deep and the same in diameter. The bottom of the recesses is covered with rubble or fragments of bricks as drainage.
Step 3. Fertilize the land before planting	To avoid diseases of honeysuckle, it is necessary to carefully prepare the soil before planting. The soil is mixed with all kinds of fertilizers of both organic and mineral origin. Peat and manure have proven themselves best for these purposes. Then the honeysuckle planting material honeysuckle is transferred to the prepared land.
Step 4. Watering and loosening the soil	Then you should thoroughly water the soil prepared for planting honeysuckle and loosen it.
Step 5. Planting Honeysuckle Honeysuckle	Honeysuckle shoots must be planted immediately where the plants will live permanently. To get a good dense hedge, it is recommended to plant several buds in one place. It is believed that plants grown from buds grow best in length.

honeysuckle flowers honeysuckle

Features of care

A gardener who wants to get a tall, climbing honeysuckle honeysuckle bush that gives abundant color provides the plant with the most comfortable conditions. The place where the liana lives should be well lit by the sun, and the groundwater should be low enough. Light soil includes sand, garden soil with turf and humus in the right quantities. The soil should not be acidic.

Important! It is advisable to adhere to a moderate watering schedule when caring for honeysuckle honeysuckle. In the spring, it is recommended to add humus to the soil. A dry summer requires additional foliage moisture, as well as up to three mullein soil fertilizers, which must be made before the middle of the season. The optimal composition for plant nutrition includes potassium, two- or three-year-old manure and nitrogen.

The land in which honeysuckle honeysuckle is planted requires regular loosening, as well as mulching, which, at the same time as protecting the soil, provides it with nutrients.

Mulched honeysuckle and currant bushes

Mulching is also carried out for the following purposes:

weed prevention;
retention of water in the ground;
elimination of the need for frequent loosening;
protection of the land from harmful microorganisms that enter there during irrigation or rainfall;
prevention of overheating of the surface layer of the earth in the summer season and hypothermia in winter.

The basis for mulching can be organic materials such as hay, leaves, sawdust, etc. Mineral materials such as gravel, small stones, sand and the like can also be used.

sawdust as mulch

After the honeysuckle branches take on a woody appearance, they begin to become bare. The appearance of the vine suffers from this. The solution to the problem is pruning the shoots. In this case, it is necessary to get rid of dry branches. It is permissible to leave the branches of an old plant, on which the bark is slightly exfoliated.

Important! Honeysuckle honeysuckle needs constant measures to maintain the beautiful shape of the bushes. If this is not done, then the plant begins to grow chaotically and lose its attractive appearance and decorative function.

Pruning honeysuckle

Cut off excess shoots

In order for the formation of the bush to take place in the right direction, care should be taken to create a good support for it. This structure can be a decoration of the landscape in itself, but at the same time it must meet the requirements of stability, strength and the required height. The support can be made of both metal and wood. As the vine grows, its shoots need to be oriented along the support in the desired direction. An adult plant is highly discouraged from being moved from place to place, therefore, before planting, you need to prepare for the fact that honeysuckle honeysuckle will be on the site allotted to it for many years.

To prevent the destruction of the foundation of the building by the strong roots of the plant, it is necessary to maintain at least 80 cm distance from the house when planting the plant.

Most varieties of honeysuckle are self-fertile. In the garden, it is desirable to plant at least two different varieties that bloom at the same time

Disease prevention

Creating beauty in the backyard, this plant, like its counterparts, is susceptible to disease and invasion of harmful insects. In order to avoid the destruction of the last living fence, you must adhere to the following principles of care.

Pests that traditionally encroach on plant leaves, such as aphids and insect larvae, do not like it when potassium and phosphorus are found in the liquid media of the plant. Irrigation of honeysuckle bushes with a mixture of lime and superphosphate will help provide these substances. You can also include some ash in the composition.
Harmful insects will not settle on the plant in the winter if a composition containing urea is sprayed around before the foliage is thrown off.
In summer, regularly treat honeysuckle bushes with insecticides.

Drying of honeysuckle branches

This plant retains its excellent appearance if you carefully monitor its health, destroy harmful insects in time, prevent other diseases, and also take care of the formation of a beautiful crown.

Flowering honeysuckle honeysuckle

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is a wonderful way to decorate the landscape of a garden plot. Thanks to it, you can control light and shadow, zone space and create recreation areas and living fences from lashes.

Video - Honeysuckle honeysuckle. How to make a beautiful bush?

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is a flowering liana, ideal for vertical gardening and zoning of a summer cottage. You can grow a pretty hedge from it, create a cozy natural study around a bench, decorate a gazebo, arch, porch with greenery, and also hide a mesh fence from prying eyes or disguise an old building.

Description

Honeysuckle reaches a height of 3-6 m. Its young vines grow well up and to the sides, and, interestingly, “play” in the sun with red-pink and purple hues.

The honey-bearing tubular whorl inflorescences of honeysuckle are pink, yellow or white, and on the outside - often with an addition of a purple hue. Its flowers with long stamens exude a pleasant delicate aroma, especially in the evenings, bloom one after another and live only 3-4 days. But the whole bush blooms for about 3 weeks at the end of May - in the first half of summer, after which reddish inedible berries appear on it.

The elliptical leaves of the plant are also very beautiful, large and dense, with an original coloring: dark green above, gray below.

In addition, goat honeysuckle is very unpretentious, perfectly tolerates pruning, withstands frost down to -20 ... -25C. Its life span is at least 30-50 years.

Selection of seedlings

It is better to choose two-year or three-year-old seedlings with 2-3 branches with a diameter of 5 mm and a height of no more than 40 cm. The shoots should be flexible, not shrunken, with several live buds, without rot and other defects. But the “peeling” of the young bark should not be feared, for honeysuckle this is a normal phenomenon.

Honeysuckle is usually sold in containers, but cheaper bare-root seedlings are also available.

As for individual varieties, here, in addition to honeysuckle itself (the forms “white”, “Inga”, “little-flowered”, etc.), we also need to mention curly honeysuckle (including the Serotina variety), yellow, Brown, Telman and Hekrotta, as well as Japanese honeysuckle - all of them are great for vertical gardening.

Landing dates

The optimal planting dates for honeysuckle last from the beginning of September until the end of the second decade of October.

You can plant bushes in the spring, but this way they can take root worse. Honeysuckle wakes up early, with the onset of positive temperatures, so spring planting should be planned after the ground has thawed, but even before bud break (April).

Choose the most suitable day for planting honeysuckle according to the gardener's Lunar Calendar.

Place for landing

For ornamental honeysuckle, it is better to initially choose a permanent place, as she does not like to transplant. The plant feels comfortable on light, warm, loose and wind-protected areas, for example, near a fence or wall from the eastern or southern tip of the cottage. Bushes grow in partial shade, however, so their flowering will be worse.

Important! When choosing a place, it should be remembered that honeysuckle definitely needs support.

In group plantings, honeysuckle is combined with herbaceous plants, conifers and woody shrubs. Hydrangea, magnolia, spirea, climbing roses, clematis are friends with her. Also among the good neighbors can be noted dog rose, viburnum, heather, hibiscus, juniper, action, garden jasmine and currant.

The soil

The culture is undemanding to soils, but the best option is drained fertile sandy loam and loam, without the dominance of sand or clay.

Permissible acidity is in the range of pH 5.0-7.5. If the earth turns out to be acidified, then 1-2 months before planting, 200-400 g / sq. m of dolomite or chalk.

In addition, decorative honeysuckle, although it loves watering, does not tolerate the close approach of groundwater or stagnant drains. To avoid waterlogging, it is better to lay the drainage.

Planting honeysuckle

1. A few days before planting, prepare a trench or holes 40-50 cm deep, 50 cm wide. Plan the gap between bushes in a row by an average of 1.5-2 m, and 2-3 m between rows.

2. At the bottom of the hole, lay gravel, gravel or expanded clay on 10 cm.

3. Prepare a substrate from fertile soil, old humus and sand (3:2:1 or 3:1:1, and organic matter should be from 10 kg / bush). Also add here 30-40 g of potassium sulfate, 70-100 g of superphosphate and 250 g of ash. Instead of individual ingredients, you can mix in 100 g of the “complex”, for example, “OMU Universal”. If the soil is poor, then add up to 20-30 kg of organic matter per bush, and add 3-4 kg of clay for sandy soil.

4. Stir the mixture, then pour into the hole and form a mound.

5. Check the seedlings again, remove broken and weak branches, shorten the rest of the shoots to a strong bud, and shorten the roots to 30 cm.

6. Place the seedling on the mound in the center of the hole, straighten the roots, then water the 1st time (0.5 buckets / bush). Seedlings in containers can be soaked in advance by immersing in water for 15 minutes.

7. Sprinkle everything on top with loose earth or the rest of the substrate, compact. The root neck of honeysuckle, unlike edible honeysuckle, should preferably be left at the surface level.

8. Form a border around the bush, then water the plant again, adding 10 liters of water / bush. If the earth settles, add soil, controlling the level of the neck.

9. Finally, after planting, mulch everything with dry earth, old sawdust, chopped straw, humus or peat.

Care for honeysuckle honeysuckle

Support

Young vines should be gradually let in on a suitable support to the desired height, evenly distributing the branches over the entire surface and twisting them counterclockwise.

Framework examples:

- wooden trellis from mounting rails;
- long poles, dug in from below, fixed with a “cone” from above, with tied cells made of PVC, branches, wire;
- pillars with a grid stretched between them;
- a row of wooden structures with the letter "A", with a connecting horizontal pole over the top of all the "letters".

Watering

The ground under the bush should remain in a moderately moist state. If there is no rain, plan the first irrigation after planting after 5-7 days. Subsequently, water the young culture once a week, and in the heat - up to 2 times a week. Adult bushes can be moistened less often, 1-2 r. per month depending on the weather. Under the plant, 10-20 liters are applied per approach. water.

Weeding, loosening, mulching

After watering, it is recommended to gently loosen the soil, not deep, so as not to hook the roots, while removing weeds. To offset the rapid evaporation of moisture and reduce the need for loosening, mulching is allowed.

top dressing

The first two seasons after planting honeysuckle can not be fed. In the future, it is fertilized every 2-3 years:

- in early spring ammonium nitrate 15-20 g / bush or urea 1 tbsp. l. / bucket;
- until mid-May, organic matter is appropriate (a bucket of diluted mullein 1:10 or a bucket of compost);
- in June - in early July, add 1-2 times, to choose from: slurry (1: 4) diluted in a bucket of water; NPK complex or nitroammophoska, 20-30 g / bucket;
- in the fall, honeysuckle is fed with compost (5 kg / bush), it is possible with the addition of 100 g of ash and 30-40 g of double superphosphate.

Wintering

Despite the varietal winter hardiness, it is better to insulate honeysuckle on the first frost. Only planted plants, as well as any hybrids, especially need shelter. Mulch the trunk circle with peat, dry leaves, sawdust or straw. Remove adult creepers from supports, lay them on a rug of leaves and wrap them with spruce branches, lutrasil, etc.

Honeysuckle berries decorate the vine until winter.
The photo was taken at the end of November in the Leningrad region.

pruning

The next year after planting, it is enough to leave 3-5 of the most powerful shoots, the rest can be cut to the root.

Upon reaching 5-7 years of age, only sanitary pruning is desirable for honeysuckle, preferably in the spring, after the awakening of the kidneys. To do this, remove frostbitten, shrunken, bare or broken branches that cannot give new shoots.

Honeysuckle creepers add 1-2 m per year. Therefore, with age, very elongated, low-growing or thickened areas should also be thinned out so that the plant looks neat and receives enough light. To stimulate the side vines, after reaching the desired height, you can cut off the top at the main stem.

For an adult plant, rejuvenating pruning will not hurt every 6-8 years, especially if the bush has begun to bloom worse. To do this, severely cut all shoots up to 15-40 cm from the ground and sprinkle the sections with ash. Cardinal pruning is best done in 2 stages: in the first season, cut one half of the shoots, the next year - the second part.

Popular breeding methods

cuttings. Before the end of flowering, cut off the branches of 10-12 cm with live buds, remove the lower leaves on them, the upper ones - half. For a greenhouse, prepare a substrate of compost, garden soil, sand (1:1:1) or peat, earth and sand (2:1:2). Treat the cuttings with "Kornevin" and stick into the ground, pour over and cover with jars or film, ventilate and sprinkle daily.

layering. Tilt a healthy adult branch to the ground, fix it with a bracket, sprinkle with earth and water well. The following year, dig up the layering, separate it from the "mother" and transplant it.

The division of the bush. Dig up an adult honeysuckle in the area of \u200b\u200bthe roots, then cut off a part of the root with a shoot with a knife, disinfect the cut site. Shorten the new shoot by about a third, and plant it in a new place.

Evergreen and charmingly blooming honeysuckle will make your site truly beautiful, add natural naturalness to it, hide the patio from prying eyes and allow you to create secluded quiet corners for outdoor recreation!

Nikolai Prilutsky, © zakustom.ru

Among ornamental horticultural crops, honeysuckle honeysuckle stands out for its many excellent qualities. This fragrant climbing vine is completely undemanding and is able to quickly fill the space. With proper formative pruning and good care, this plant perfectly decorates the site.

Honeysuckle grows wild in the southern regions of Europe. The cultivation of honeysuckle of this species in Russia began with the appearance in the 19th century of a fashion for the German landscape style, in which arbors decorated with climbing vines are often found. In zone 5a and to the south, honeysuckle is grown without freezing, in the northern regions it is advisable to remove it from the trellis in autumn and wrap it with heat-insulating material. In areas with severe winters, gardeners practice short pruning for this honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle Advantages:

Honeysuckle honeysuckle - description

When planning to acquire a new crop for use in landscape design, it is advisable to study its characteristics well. We will try to briefly describe what honeysuckle honeysuckle is famous for, what it looks like during flowering and fruiting:

The leaves of honeysuckle are green.
The upper leaves grow together, forming an original saucer.
The height of the vine reaches 4-6 m.
Without arranging a support, honeysuckle has a low decorative effect.
Buds form at the top of the shoot in the axils of paired leaves.
Flowering - from the end of May, lasts about three weeks.
The shape of the flower is a curved tube.
The smell of flowers is subtle, spicy, pleasant.
On one bush, flowers of cream, pink, yellowish color can coexist.
Shoots at a young age are light green.
Mature branches often acquire a purple hue, turning brown with aging.
Honeysuckle honeysuckle forms red-orange berries.
Berry diameter - up to 8 mm.
The fruits of the vine are inedible.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle - varieties

Often, other types of curly honeysuckle are given out for honeysuckle in the markets - Brown, Hecrott, Ledebour, Telman. They differ in strength of growth, color of berries and flowers, winter hardiness. It is easy to get confused in the variety of vine-like shrubs. Honeysuckle has only a few common forms:

The best solution is to use honeysuckle honeysuckle in garden design for a spectacular one. If you need to camouflage an unpresentable country house, then this liana is perfect. A popular design solution is the design of arches with a climbing plant, the creation of hedges, the decoration of lush vegetation with long shoots of various arbors. A combination of honeysuckle with coniferous plantations, climbing roses, action, mock orange is practiced in garden design.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle - planting and care

This climbing shrub does not require any complex care, it is quite suitable for beginner gardeners taking their first steps in a new landscape design. We advise you to study pruning techniques ahead of time, how honeysuckle is planted and grows, the basic rules for caring for a decorative liana. If the summer resident correctly selects the landing site, prepares the soil well and builds a suitable support in time, then his bush will better start to grow and quickly take a place in the garden composition.

It is advisable to immediately determine your curly honeysuckle to a permanent place, having studied the rules of planting, re-transplanting its roots is tolerated negatively. The preparation of the honeysuckle pit is as follows:

Where to plant honeysuckle honeysuckle?

For this honeysuckle, we are looking for a lighted landing site; in shading, honeysuckle throws out a smaller number of peduncles. We take into account that liana-like shrubs require support, their growth under normal conditions is about a meter. We make a landing hole where in the future we plan to create green arches, live fences. If it is problematic to build special supports on the site, then the walls of outbuildings or gazebos can be braided with honeysuckle.

In the hot season, honeysuckle care consists in timely watering; honeysuckle does not like the soil to dry out near the root system. For one climbing bush, up to 2 buckets of water are enough. , properly produced with peat, straw or other material, will reduce weeding and moisture evaporation. If in the spring signs of frostbite are found on the branches, then the damaged shoots on the vine are cut off. In areas with severe cold weather, it is best to remove honeysuckle honeysuckle from supports and equip a shelter.

How to prune honeysuckle honeysuckle?

In garden plots, sanitary and formative pruning of capricole honeysuckle is carried out. These works are simple and can be carried out according to the prescribed plan even by an inexperienced summer resident:

After planting, the vine is shortened by 1/3.
By the end of the season on honeysuckle honeysuckle, we select up to 3-4 strong shoots that will make up the skeletal part of the bush.
Weak and excess growth is cut out.
If during the summer the branches reach the upper crossbar of the support, then they are pinched or turned in the right direction.
Further pruning is carried out in order to thin out the crown and make it neater.
Sick and weak growth is cut out.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle - how to feed

Organics or complex preparations can be used as a good and useful fertilizer for honeysuckle. Compositions intended for climbing ornamental plants with a complex balanced composition in which trace elements are present are suitable. At the beginning of the growing season, do not forget about nitrogen, it can be obtained from mullein infusion or poultry droppings. We pour potassium-phosphorus mixtures under the shrub in the second half of the growing season.

Gardeners have a lot of breeding options for their favorite fragrant honeysuckle. Naturally, in the presence of a mother bush, it is better to use vegetative methods, the seed method is always more laborious and requires a long wait until the bush gains strength and is decorated with fragrant inflorescences. We list the popular tricks on how to get a honeysuckle seedling honeysuckle.

seed way:

We collect seeds in July.
After drying and separation from the pulp, we then store them at room temperature.
We make stratification for a couple of months in the refrigerator, keeping them in wet sand (1: 3).
We make grooves up to 2 cm deep.
It is better to sprinkle the seeds in the grooves with wet sand in a layer of 1 cm.
Before the appearance of sprouts, it is desirable to cover the furrow with polyethylene.
Sprouting of sprouts occurs in a month.
We transplant in the spring.

Reproduction by layering:

Near honeysuckle bushes honeysuckle we dig a furrow 20 cm deep.
It is better to fertilize poor soil in furrows with humus mixed with soil.
We lay the lower part of the vine in the ground, and bring the top out.
To fix the layering, we use metal brackets.
We fall asleep furrow.
Rooted cuttings of honeysuckle are transplanted in the spring.

Division of honeysuckle bushes:

Dig up the base of the bush.
We separate the desired shoot with developed roots with a secateurs, or we divide the entire bush into parts using a sharpened shovel.
Sections are best disinfected with fungicides.
We plant the processed slice in a permanent place.
Crown shaping is done for the next season.

Cuttings of honeysuckle honeysuckle:

Mushrooms and viruses haunt even the most resistant plants, honeysuckle honeysuckle rarely gets sick with diseases, but in unfavorable seasons, its plantings can be affected by infections or pests. Here is a list of the main troubles that lovers of this climbing shrub may encounter:

Creating a unique landscape design in your summer cottage is a very exciting experience, because with the help of certain plants you can create not only beautiful flower arrangements, but also hide minor flaws in buildings. Curly Honeysuckle Honeysuckle is ideal for this, which, with proper care, will constantly delight you with its fragrant flowers.

This article is a detailed instruction on planting and caring for this crop. We will consider the main features of this plant, the rules for planting shrubs, as well as the rules of care that must be observed for the full development of the culture.

Photo and description of honeysuckle Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle is a decorative subspecies of honeysuckle with vertical flexible branches that wrap well around any nearby support. With proper care, the diameter of the crown of the shrub can be quite large. Due to this, the culture is often used to create vertical flower arrangements or decorate buildings and fences (Figure 1).

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle is also called fragrant, since during flowering its buds smell very pleasant.

Note: The name of the shrub in Latin is slightly different from the traditional name. It sounds like this: Lonicera caprifolium, which is the basis for the third variety name - goat honeysuckle.

In nature, this shrub is found in southern Europe and the Caucasus, although it has been successfully cultivated in gardens around the world for many years. Moreover, modern breeders have created a huge variety of varieties of hybrid honeysuckle Capricole, which is characterized by increased resistance to diseases and adverse environmental factors, such as drought or sudden temperature changes.

Figure 1. Inflorescences and fruits of a shrub

Among other features of the shrub, it is worth highlighting:

The length of honeysuckle shoots can reach 6 meters. They curl, so the Honeysuckle variety is great for landscaping.
You can determine the age of the branches by their color: the young ones are covered with light green bark, while the old ones have a brown tint.
Honeysuckle leaves have an elongated elliptical shape and can reach 10 cm in length. A characteristic feature is that the top of the leaf plate is light green, and the bottom is gray.
The inflorescences have a very unusual shape and a rich, pleasant aroma that intensifies in the evening. Flowering begins in May and ends at the end of June.

When the flowering period ends, bright red berries form in place of wilted buds. It should be remembered that these fruits are not edible, so you can not eat them. Moreover, they can cause severe poisoning, although their bitter taste is clearly not conducive to eating.

Landing Rules

Since Honeysuckle Honeysuckle is an exclusively ornamental crop, its cultivation in the garden should be aimed at ensuring that the culture has enough space for normal development (Figure 2).

Note: It is necessary to plant a shrub immediately in a permanent place, since Honeysuckle is very difficult to tolerate a transplant. Therefore, the choice of location must be taken very responsibly.

To properly plant honeysuckle, you should take into account the characteristics of the shrub. First, you should choose a well-lit place. Of course, the placement of the crop in the shade is also allowed, but in this case you should not count on abundant flowering. Secondly, try to choose a site in such a way that the grown shrub is protected from drafts. They also have a very negative effect on the development and flowering of the plant. Growing decorative curly honeysuckle in the open field, take care in advance of the support on which the flexible branches of the plant can be fixed.

An equally important role is played by the choice of planting material. It is advisable to buy two-year-old seedlings. Their height already reaches 30 cm, and the stem has several branches. Such a culture will take root well in a new place, and you can count on abundant flowering.

Figure 2. Shrub planting scheme

If you are interested in how to properly grow honeysuckle, first of all you will have to take care of planting the plant:

A hole 40 cm deep is dug in the selected area. It is desirable that its width is also 40 cm, then the plant will be comfortable.
A layer of drainage is poured at the bottom of the hole: expanded clay, sand or gravel.
Fertilizer must be applied to the pit. Since the culture does not tolerate transplantation well, but in one place alone it will grow for several years, therefore the soil should be as fertile as possible. As top dressing, you can use manure, compost or humus.
If the soil in the area is sandy, a little clay can be added to it, and lime can be added to acidic soil.
At the bottom of the hole, a small mound is made, a seedling is placed in its center and the root system is straightened.
Next, the plant is covered with soil so that the root neck is deepened by 5-7 cm.

At the final stage, the soil around the seedling is compacted and watered. It is important that one young plant requires about a bucket of warm water. It is desirable to lay out a layer of mulch on top, which will prevent the evaporation of moisture. If you need to plant several seedlings at once, it is advisable to place them at a distance of one and a half meters from each other.

Some people prefer to grow Honeysuckle honeysuckle from seeds. However, at home, this method is not considered effective, because it takes too long to get an adult healthy plant.

Watering and feeding

The advantage of Honeysuckle Honeysuckle is that its cultivation is not particularly difficult. The culture is quite unpretentious in terms of watering: usually no more than 5 plentiful waterings are required for the entire summer. However, if the weather is rainy, there is no need to add additional moisture (Figure 3).

Note: After precipitation or watering, it is imperative to loosen the soil around the decorative honeysuckle. This will help moisture get to the roots faster, and water will not stagnate at the roots. In the process of loosening, care must be taken, since the root system of the plant is close to the surface.

If we talk about top dressing, then it, unlike watering, should be fairly regular. However, it is worth making additional fertilizers only from the third year of the shrub's life. Up to this point, care and cultivation is limited to watering and loosening the soil, since the shrub received all the necessary nutrients directly upon planting.

Figure 3. The plant needs sufficient watering.

Caring for honeysuckle Capricole in terms of top dressing is easy:

In the spring, nitrogen preparations can be added to the soil, which will help the crop to actively increase its green mass. To do this, you can use both organic (humus, manure, compost or liquid infusion of bird droppings) and minerals.
In summer, it is advisable to feed an ornamental shrub with nitrophoska by dissolving 20 grams of the substance in a bucket of water and after root watering.
In autumn, double superphosphate and potassium salt are used for top dressing. Under each bush, you will have to add 15 grams of each substance dissolved in a bucket of water.

This amount of fertilizer will be enough for the full growth and development of the shrub. However, you should remember to respect the dosages, since an excess of fertilizers can have the same negative consequences as their lack.

reproduction

You can propagate decorative honeysuckle on the site in a variety of ways, from sowing seeds to cuttings, dividing or rooting cuttings. At home, the last three methods are most often used, since growing honeysuckle from seeds is too long and laborious a process (Figure 4).

Propagating honeysuckle by cuttings, planting material should be prepared in the fall. Cuttings should be cut in such a way that each of them has at least three internodes. Next, the branches must be treated with Kornevin's solution and planted in containers filled with a peat-sand mixture. By spring, the branches will be fully rooted and can be transplanted into open ground.

Figure 4. Shrubs can be propagated by seed and vegetatively

But the simplest is reproduction by layering. The branch of the bush, located in the lower part, is bent to the ground and fixed with metal brackets. It is also necessary to make a small cut on the shoot and sprinkle it with earth. When young roots form at the site of the incision, the shoot is separated from the mother bush and transplanted to a permanent place.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle can also be propagated by dividing the bush in the fall. To do this, the rhizome is removed from the soil, divided into the required number of parts, added dropwise and covered in a pre-selected place. By spring, such parts of the roots will give young shoots.

Disease and pest control

Like all crops in the garden and in the garden, honeysuckle can be affected by diseases and pests. To keep the honeysuckle bush healthy, it is important to notice the symptoms of pathology in time and take timely measures to eliminate them.

Insects and pests

There are not so many insects that can harm an ornamental shrub and reduce the intensity of its flowering. However, if you do not notice the pest colonies on the plant in time and do not take action, the culture may weaken and the flowering time will shift (Figure 5).

The main crop pests include:

Fingerfly caterpillar and leaflet: each of these pests is dangerous. For example, the first type of caterpillar prefers to feast on honeysuckle berries. For a person, they are not edible, but, after being hit by such a caterpillar, the fruits begin to fall off, and the bush takes on an untidy appearance. The leaf roller is a more dangerous enemy, as it feeds on the leaves of the bush and sucks the juices out of it. With a massive defeat by such a pest, the shrub may die altogether.
Shchitovka also considered a very dangerous enemy. This insect causes serious damage to the bark and drinks the juices of the plant. If measures were not taken in time to combat the scale insect, the honeysuckle will first begin to wither, and then die altogether.
Aphid also likes to settle on the leaves and young shoots of honeysuckle. They feed on the juices of the plant and can seriously weaken it.

Figure 5. The main pests of honeysuckle

As a rule, insecticides are used to control insect pests, but in case of minor damage, they can also be eliminated with folk remedies.

Diseases

Honeysuckle bushes Capricole are remarkably resistant to diseases, but under certain conditions they can still suffer from some pathologies. As a rule, most diseases are provoked by fungi, and the reason for their spread is improper care of the culture (Figure 6).

Figure 6. Manifestations of shrub diseases

Regardless of the type of disease that affected the honeysuckle, this will affect the appearance of the shrub. It lags behind in growth, blooms poorly and loses its decorative effect. In most cases, special fungicide preparations are used to combat fungal diseases, with which the affected bush is sprayed.

Pruning in autumn

It is customary to prune decorative honeysuckle honeysuckle in early autumn, when the buds have not yet awakened after wintering and the plant will not experience stress from this procedure (Figure 7).

The main purpose of this manipulation is to form a crown of the desired shape and direct the shoots in the right direction. It is usually customary to cut, or rather shorten, the three strongest stems. They are cut off by one third, and all weak or damaged branches are completely removed.

Figure 7. Scheme of crop pruning depending on age

It should be borne in mind that only plants older than six years need formative pruning. Young honeysuckle shrubs Honeysuckle will be enough sanitary pruning, carried out in spring or autumn.

Shelter for the winter

Special attention deserves the shelter of honeysuckle honeysuckle for the winter. Despite the fact that this culture normally tolerates both frost and hot weather, it is desirable to shelter it from severe frost in winter.

Winter hardiness of the plant can be called moderate. For example, in central Russia, a bush can winter without shelter, but only if its roots are covered with a layer of snow. In the northern regions, covering the crop with a layer of organic mulch or non-woven covering material is a prerequisite for growing.

Decorative curly honeysuckle honeysuckle is actively used in landscape design, as it can be used to carry out vertical gardening of fences and buildings.

However, in order for the plant to quickly gain green mass, and the smell of opened buds to please its owner, some growing secrets must be taken into account:

Watering the bush is not necessary at all. The procedure is carried out only in dry summer. The rest of the time, the culture will have enough natural precipitation.
In order for the plant to develop quickly and actively bloom, it is advisable to plant it in a sunny but draft-protected area.
Feeding is a prerequisite for caring for the plant. Fertilizers are applied not only in early spring, but also in summer, so that crops grow faster and bloom more actively.

In general, due to the resistance of the culture to pests and unpretentiousness in care, Honeysuckle Honeysuckle can be safely called an excellent option for those who want to decorate their summer cottage with a beautiful and unusual plant. Details are in the video.

This variety has a purely decorative function and serves only as a decoration of the site. The bush is a vine that gardeners use for various purposes to decorate the site. The fruits of honeysuckle honeysuckle are not edible and cannot be used as a medicine, unlike berries of other varieties.

The following varieties of this plant are found:

few-flowered. It does not bloom too luxuriantly, covered with pinkish with red flowers;
white. The name of the variety indicates that the flowers of this honeysuckle honeysuckle are white.

Honeysuckle is bred using seeds, cuttings and layering.

Important! Before the onset of winter, the sprouts are covered with peat. In spring, cuttings are transferred to open ground. This is not done immediately because in this case, many sprouts die.

Reproduction by seeds

Important! When sprouts appear, you need to organize timely watering for them. They also need to be weeded. Transfer to a permanent place is made in the fall. To protect against freezing, young plants need to be protected with peat for 2 years after planting.

Reproduction by layering

The easiest way to get more honeysuckle bushes is to breed by layering. To do this, one of the lower branches must be cut and rooted in the ground. The best season for this operation is spring.

Honeysuckle - reproduction by layering

Step-by-step instructions for planting honeysuckle honeysuckle

Table. How to plant honeysuckle honeysuckle.

Steps, photo	Description of actions
	The plant is very sensitive to the amount of light, so it is advisable to choose a well-lit place for planting. This affects the splendor of flowering. In the shade, honeysuckle honeysuckle does not please with abundant color, giving only strong climbing branches of vines.
	Before placing the shoots in their places of permanent residence, they make depressions in the soil. In accordance with what the gardener wants to get in the end, he digs holes (for individual bushes) or trenches (for green fencing). Pits for individual plants are made up to 60 centimeters deep and the same in diameter. The bottom of the recesses is covered with rubble or fragments of bricks as drainage.
	To avoid diseases of honeysuckle, it is necessary to carefully prepare the soil before planting. The soil is mixed with all kinds of fertilizers of both organic and mineral origin. Peat and manure have proven themselves best for these purposes. Then the honeysuckle planting material honeysuckle is transferred to the prepared land.
	Then you should thoroughly water the soil prepared for planting honeysuckle and loosen it.
	Honeysuckle shoots must be planted immediately where the plants will live permanently. To get a good dense hedge, it is recommended to plant several buds in one place. It is believed that plants grown from buds grow best in length.

Features of care

Important! It is advisable to adhere to a moderate watering schedule when caring for honeysuckle honeysuckle. In the spring, it is recommended to add humus to the soil. A dry summer requires additional foliage moisture, as well as up to three mullein soil fertilizers, which must be made before the middle of the season. The optimal composition for plant nutrition includes potassium, two- or three-year-old manure and nitrogen.

The land in which honeysuckle honeysuckle is planted requires regular loosening, as well as mulching, which, at the same time as protecting the soil, provides it with nutrients.

Mulching is also carried out for the following purposes:

weed prevention;
retention of water in the ground;
elimination of the need for frequent loosening;
protection of the land from harmful microorganisms that enter there during irrigation or rainfall;
prevention of overheating of the surface layer of the earth in the summer season and hypothermia in winter.

The basis for mulching can be organic materials such as hay, leaves, sawdust, etc. Mineral materials such as gravel, small stones, sand and the like can also be used.

Important! Honeysuckle honeysuckle needs constant measures to maintain the beautiful shape of the bushes. If this is not done, then the plant begins to grow chaotically and lose its attractive appearance and decorative function.

To prevent the destruction of the foundation of the building by the strong roots of the plant, it is necessary to maintain at least 80 cm distance from the house when planting the plant.

Most varieties of honeysuckle are self-fertile. In the garden, it is desirable to plant at least two different varieties that bloom at the same time

Disease prevention

Pests that traditionally encroach on plant leaves, such as aphids and insect larvae, do not like it when potassium and phosphorus are found in the liquid media of the plant. Irrigation of honeysuckle bushes with a mixture of lime and will help provide these substances. You can also include some ash in the composition.
Harmful insects will not settle on the plant in the winter if, before throwing off the leaves, a composition is sprayed around, including.
In summer, regularly treat honeysuckle bushes with insecticides.

This plant retains its excellent appearance if you carefully monitor its health, destroy harmful insects in time, prevent other diseases, and also take care of the formation of a beautiful crown.

Video - Honeysuckle honeysuckle. How to make a beautiful bush?

The real lucky ones are those people who have their own house or cottage. After all, it is here that you can realize all your dreams, ideas, creating a cozy corner in your garden. , care and honeysuckle - this is what will be discussed below. This plant can miraculously transform the landscape on the site without spoiling the overall architectural solutions, and even sometimes hide flaws in buildings.

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle. What is this plant and where does it come from?

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Honeysuckle Honeysuckle has an unusual appearance - its flowers sit close to the green, but their stamens proudly move forward. Unusual flowers can be of different shades - red, pink, white, yellow.

Recommendation! If you want your garden to have a twist, then don't just plant honeysuckle and ensure it looks luxurious, but also combine two different colors at once in one place. For example, red and white honeysuckle.

Planting Honeysuckle Honeysuckle

Choose a place

Before you purchase seedlings, you must clearly decide on the place where the honeysuckle will grow, since:

firstly, there should be supports in this place, for example, a wall of a house, a fence, poles;
secondly, although this plant is very unpretentious, it does not like transplants from place to place. Honeysuckle can start to hurt, stop blooming, the vine will become scarce. It will be difficult for honeysuckle honeysuckle and reproduction. That is, shoots with roots will not be able to form actively;
thirdly, it is better to prepare the place in advance and take into account all the nuances. That is, soil, light, moisture.

Recommendation! Arches that are braided with honeysuckle look very beautiful. You can make several such arches by placing them above the garden path. Each of which will be braided by a plant of a different color. Solemn and original.

option 1: mix soddy soil, humus, sand, peat. Proportions 3:1:1:1;
option 2: mix compost - 2 buckets, double superphosphate - 100 grams, lime - 0.5 liters, potassium sulfate - 30 grams. All these components are poured after preliminary mixing into the hole and spilled with water - about 1/2 bucket.

Honeysuckle requires neutral soil, meaning that the pH is between 7.5 and 8.5. If the soil is acidic, then it is lime. Then choose the second soil option indicated above.

There should be no closely adjacent groundwater, swamps, moisture stagnation in the spring. If in doubt, drain with gravel or a special material that is sold in stores for summer residents.

Support from improvised means

In order to save money, you can make a support for honeysuckle honeysuckle with your own hands. There are different ways.

Option 1. A frame in the form of a square is made from the rails. It is sewn up with narrower slats diagonally, first in one direction, then in the opposite direction, creating rhombuses. Below, at the base of the support, you can make a beautiful box or lay out a flower bed out of brick.
Option 2. The easiest thing is to find long round sticks. They are dug into the ground, creating a cone. At the top, the sticks are fastened with a rope. After that, a crate is made from small sticks. The inconspicuous design will soon be overgrown with honeysuckle.
Option 3. Put two poles. You can make them carved from wood. Between them, stretch a chain-link mesh or plastic mesh. You can also just stretch the ropes.

Choose the time

Inedible Honeysuckle Berries Honeysuckle

Landing

Care and reproduction of honeysuckle Honeysuckle. pruning

Care

Always remove weeds around the bush and loosen after rains and watering so that there is no stagnation. But be careful, as the root system is close enough, it can be damaged.

Attention! The plant is not fed for the first two years, it needs to take root and adapt well. Top dressing is applied in the third year under each bush of honeysuckle Honeysuckle.

pruning in autumn

reproduction

How to propagate honeysuckle is a fairly frequently asked question. There can be several ways of reproduction:

with the help of seeds (but this process is long and the result does not always live up to expectations);
cuttings;
with the help of layering;
dividing the bush.

Consider the three most popular methods.

Diseases and pests. Ways to fight. A photo

insect pests

Honeysuckle does not have many enemies, but still they are and can destroy the plant or reduce its productivity.

Fingerwing caterpillar. Her favorite food is honeysuckle berries. Consequences - the fruits fall, the appearance of the plant deteriorates.
The leafworm caterpillar is a very dangerous enemy, as well as aphids. After all, it is they who eat the leaves, suck out the juices. The shrub is dying.

caterpillar leaf roller
Shchitovka - harms the bark, drinks plant juices. Honeysuckle begins to wither, gradually dries up.

Diseases

This culture is very resistant to many diseases. But still, which honeysuckle honeysuckle can bother is powdery mildew, cercosporosis, tuberculosis, mottling, blackening and drying out. You can overcome problems - for example, Fitosporin helps well against powdery mildew. Spraying is carried out in the evening or early in the morning according to the instructions, but not under the sun and in fog. This preparation is microbiological.

cercosporosis

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Important! You can often hear the question of why honeysuckle Capricole dries. There can be many reasons for this - these are diseases, pests, improper agricultural practices. If you are attentive to plantings, take care and process them in a timely manner, then you will not have problems.

This article has provided you with useful information that may come in handy if you decide to create your dream garden with honeysuckle.