Jasmine - landing, care and transplantation

Garden jasmine in the middle belt is called varietal chubushniki. This shrub is popular in many countries. The flowering of the plant is irresistible - the bushes are abundantly covered with snow-white stars, as if a snowfall passed through the garden. Chubushniki used as a tapeworm, for hedges, in compositions. Low-grown varieties are suitable for creating curbs.

Types of jasmine

Wild chubushnik melts in Eurasia and America. This is a resident of temperate latitudes. On both continents there are about 70 species, about 30 are introduced into the culture. All of them are deciduous shrubs. The number of varieties is much larger - several hundred.

Chubushnik is called jasmine because its flowers look and smell like room jasmine. On this the similarity of the chubushnik with real jasmine ends. Genuine jasmine is a thermophilic evergreen shrub growing in a tropical climate. Chubushnik is a deciduous inhabitant of temperate latitudes.

Advantages of the Chubushnik:

• hardy;
• withstands city conditions - gas contamination, rare watering;
• frost-resistant;
• grows on any soil;
• withstands a haircut;
• can be used to create curbs and hedges.

Jasmine is almost without a smell, but the vast majority of varieties in flowering fill the air with a heady aroma. There are varieties with the smell of bird cherry, acacia, fruit.

Types of Chubushnik:

• Variegated - a rare species in culture with multi-colored plates.
• Ordinary or pale - likes moistened soils. The leaves are bright green from above and faded from below, on the plates there is pubescence.
• Venetian - shrub up to 3 m in height with cream and white flowers, collected in inflorescences of 7-9 pieces.
• Lemoana - shrub with egg-shaped lanceolate leaves, is used in decorative gardening more often than other species. Many of its varieties have been revealed.
• Caucasian - grows wild in the Caucasus, the height is up to 3 meters. In the gardens grows to the latitude of St. Petersburg. Well tolerates pruning and harmful effects of fumes and gases.
• Large - flowered - imported from North America. Flowers without a smell. More thermophilous than other species, but it is better to bear a shadow.

Chubushniki ordinary and coronary can grow in a very cold climate. They carry frosts to -40. In Russia, horticulturists and landscapers more often plant hybrids of Chubushnik coronary and small-leaved.

Popular varieties:

• Chamomile - a short bush covered with non-double flowers with long petals;
• Yunnat - flowers with asterisks up to 6 cm in diameter with a strong smell of strawberries;
• Ballet of moths - greenish flowers of half-mahogany type resemble butterflies;
• The Arctic - blossoms with small snow-white asterisks;
• Pearl is a small bush with huge flowers (up to 7.5 cm), hanging like beads.

Jasmine planting

Jasmine is shade-resistant, but abundantly blooms on a sunny place. It is wind-and drought-resistant. All types of garden jasmine require nutritious cultivated soils with good moisture, but die in the lowlands, where water stagnates. Shrub does not tolerate saline soils.

Chubushniki in the garden planted with an interval of 150 cm apart. In a hedge, plants are located at a distance of 50 cm.

The planting pit is dug to a depth of 50-60 cm. When planting, care must be taken to ensure that the root neck is not buried more than 2-3 cm, otherwise it can rot.

Jasmine is planted in spring or autumn - in September. Later in the autumn it is not necessary to plant, even if the weather is warm, as the plants must be in time to take root for the forthcoming wintering.

In the spring, the planting of jasmine bushes is more successful, as in the summer the bush has time to settle down and grow stronger. It is important to plant a seedling before the first leaves are dissolved on it, otherwise it may die.

Planting process:

1. Dig a pit deep and 50-60 cm in diameter.
2. At the bottom, pour a layer of drainage 20 cm.
3. Wait a few days for the pit to warm up in the sun.
4. Mix the fertile soil obtained with the hummock, with humus and peat to increase its nutrient and moisture capacity.
5. Fill the earth mix with a mound to the bottom of the pit.
6. Remove the dry damaged roots with a pruner.
7. Install the seedling on the mound so that the root collar is later just below the soil level.
8. Fill with earth and compact.
9. Pour the bush abundantly, until the soil is completely soaked.
10. Sprinkle the near-shore circle with organics to retain moisture.

Care of the bush

For good flowering, the chubushnik needs sun and pruning. With proper care, jasmine can live in the garden for more than 30 years.

Jasmine suffers a drought. With prolonged heat leaves lose elasticity, but quickly restore it after watering or heavy rain.

June-July is the time when the bush should be watered abundantly - once a season. For each plant pour 20-30 liters of water, then loosen the soil to a depth of about 5 cm and mulch trunks of any organic layer 3-4 cm.

Jasmine forms many shoots, so the bush grows rapidly and becomes denser every year. The bushes need to be thinned out periodically, since the thickened crown does not bloom so richly.

Old shoots are cut to the ring near the trunk itself. Just shorten the branches can not be - this greatly reduces the intensity of flowering.

Thinning is done before bud blossoming. Cut branches older than 5 years. To limit growth upwards, you can delete the vertex. Broken and drying branches are cut at any time of the year.

In early spring, plants are fed full mineral fertilizer. After flowering another complex feeding is carried out and the bush is thinned out.