Planting action in open ground and caring for this shrub is not particularly difficult. In addition, the plant is little damaged by pests, for which it is valued by gardeners.
Deutzea (Deutzea) from the Hydrangeaceae family grows naturally in the mountainous regions of the temperate and subtropical zones of the Northern Hemisphere. Using the inherent ease of hybridization and the formation of new forms, Victor Lemoine, a French breeder, created many hybrid forms at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Actions were brought to Europe from Japan and China in the 19th century by Dutch merchants and Catholic missionaries. The lifespan of the plant is up to 25 years.
Options for using action in garden design
In garden design, action has not only a decorative meaning, but also a practical one - it can hide the site from prying eyes, protect it from the wind, and hide ugly buildings. The shrub grows quickly and does not require particularly careful care.
- Deutzia is a silhouette shrub. It can be used as a single plant or in a group with other shrubs. Low-growing forms of deutia are used as a potted crop, for planting in containers, along fences and paths.
- The traditional use of shrubs is in borders, especially multi-tiered and mixed ones.
- Deutzia hedges, which do not require shaping, divide the garden into zones. Before planting a hedge, you need to calculate the distance between the bushes - add up the estimated height of two adjacent plants, divide the result by three. The distances between bushes can be temporarily filled with annuals or biennials, ground cover plants, currants. Filler plants are removed as the action grows.
- Deutzia is used as a drapery plant to hide unsightly objects on the site.
Deytsia: growing features (video)
Deutzia shrub: botanical description of the plant
Perennial shrub with a height of 0.5 to 4-5 m. Flowering begins at an average daily temperature of 15-19º C, Inflorescences are few or many flowering, corymbose, up to 4-7 cm in diameter. Oblong racemose up to 7 cm in diameter. Broad pyramidal up to 8 cm in diameter. Flowers are 1-2 cm in diameter, white, pink, lilac.
Deutzia develops better and blooms earlier if the spring was warm and humid. The total flowering period of numerous varieties of Deutia is 90 days, which allows you to create a garden of continuous flowering on your site. They grow on humus-rich fertile soils. Requires full sun and partial shade.
Main types of action
Deutzia is capable of developing such a mass of flowers that it will completely hide the foliage underneath.
Deutzia pink
An elegant, medium-growing shrub with a foam of pale pink flowers. The hybrid was created using two types - Deutzia purpurea and Deutzia graceful. Medium-sized bush up to 1 m high.
Tall bush up to 2 m in height. Double flowers up to 3 cm in diameter are collected in large inflorescences up to 12 cm long. Flowering time is June-July.
Deytsia graceful
The bush is up to 1 m high and spreads up to 1.5 m wide. Early flowering time is May-June. The leaves are oval, olive in color. The flowers are snow-white, star-shaped, collected in racemes. IN favorable conditions gives annual growth of up to 25 cm in height and up to 30 cm in width.
Deytsia terry
Distributed terry variety D. rough plena (D. scabra plena). It blooms with white flowers on the inside and pink-purple on the outside.
Deytsia hybrid
Garden hybrids not only combine best qualities parental forms, but also superior in abundance and duration of flowering. Variety D. Contraste has purple-lilac flowers.
Popular varieties of deutzia
Deutzia blooms earlier than all the shrubs on the site.
A spreading shrub up to 2 m high, growing up to 1.5 m wide. It blooms in spring with bright pink or lilac flowers with slightly curled petals, forming apical racemes. The leaves are oval, large, dark green in summer, golden in autumn.
Hybrid. Collected in paniculate inflorescences large flowers up to 3 cm in diameter, painted in lilac-pink tones. The bush stretches up to 1.5 m.
Giving growth of 30-40 cm per year, it grows up to 2 m. Solid, raised branches form a spreading crown, like an umbrella. Blooms in summer, in June, with white, pink-tinged, double flowers.
The most stable species for the Moscow region. A medium-sized bush up to 1.5 m high. It blooms in May with deep pink flowers with white cores.
Winter hardiness of shrubs and rules for preparing for wintering
Deytsia is a relatively winter-hardy crop. Northern winds, lack of snow cover, and fluctuations in low temperatures can lead to damage to the root system, dehydration and drying out of the above-ground parts of the bush. Plants native to the northern parts of their range and the high mountainous regions of Northern China tolerate winter well.
To protect against freezing, dry leaves are raked under the bush in a layer of 20 cm. In the autumn, before all the leaves have fallen, the deutzia is tied with covering material, pinning the lower edge to the ground to avoid drafts. The roots are covered with earth, and then with fallen snow, and covered with straw. Flexible branches of young plants no more than 1 m high are bent to the ground and covered with earth or snow.
Covering with spruce branches for the winter begins in November, when the average air temperature becomes stably negative. Previously, in October, the crowns are tied in a spiral, bent to the ground, tied to pegs. The best covering material is spruce spruce branches. It holds snow well, provides good air exchange, prevents damping off and rotting, and protects the plant from small rodents.
How to root an action (video)
Deytsia: basic rules for planting and care in open ground
Deytsia is not demanding on the soil - it grows wherever water does not stagnate. Seed germination lasts from 1 to 3 years. The plant propagates by sowing seeds, dividing the bush, layering and cuttings.
How to propagate by cuttings
- In June or September, cuttings 7-15 cm long and 5 mm in diameter are taken from semi-lignified annual shoots. In this case, the cuttings must have at least three buds;
- the lower cut is made 2-3 mm from the kidney at an angle of 90º;
- truncated leaves are left in the upper part, leaf blades are removed from the lower half;
- cuttings are treated with a root stimulant;
- cuttings are placed in sand at an angle of 30º;
- spray with a spray bottle several times a day;
- duration of root formation - about 23 days;
- Rooted cuttings are planted in a container.
How to propagate by layering
- select a flexible young shoot, make a 4 cm oblique cut and insert a match into it;
- place the shoot in a hole 15 cm deep and fill it with peat soil mixture;
- pin the cuttings to the ground with a twig, tying the end to a peg;
- leave connected to the parent plant for about 6-12 months until rooting;
- After rooting, cut it off from the parent plant and replant it in a new place at the same depth.
Planting actions in the ground
- Prepare a hole 50 ⅹ 50 cm deep;
- pour drainage - sand in a layer of 10 cm at the bottom;
- distribute the roots evenly in the hole and cover them with a planting mixture consisting of humus, compost or peat and sand in equal parts;
- to neutralize acidic soil, add 200 g of slaked lime or wood ash to the pit.
Cuttings can be planted in open ground in October. In this case, the formation of callus and the first roots in cuttings occurs in May of the following year. The younger mother plant, the better the cuttings take root.
After early spring pruning, mineral fertilizers are applied. Feeding with diluted manure (1 kg per 10 l) will improve flowering. I mulch with peat in a 5 cm layer.
Pruning is carried out after flowering or during the dormant period. All branches are cut into two eyes. It is necessary to cut out old unproductive branches and weak liquid shoots. If you are late with pruning, the plant may get sick or miss flowering this year. Pruning under the stump is done for the purpose of rejuvenation. It is done in the spring before the sap begins to flow, or late in the fall.
If there is an old deutzia growing on the site, you should remember that it may not withstand radical pruning. In this case, pruning is carried out in several stages:
- in the first year, a third of the oldest branches are evenly cut off, leaving stumps of 15 cm and observing whether the young shoots will grow back the next year;
- in a year in early spring, before sap flow, another third of the bush is removed, making inclined cuts just above the buds;
- in the third year, the remaining branches are cut out.
Features of growing plants in the Moscow region
In the temperate continental climate of the Moscow region, deutzia develops well and blooms profusely. The shrub is fed in spring or in the first half of summer. Feeding at a later time is undesirable, as it can lead to late growing season, which will stop the hardening of the plant necessary for wintering.
The plant requires watering during drought - 15 liters for each bush 2-3 times a month, but does not tolerate waterlogging. Early frosts can damage the ends of non-woody shoots with flower buds, which can delay flowering by one year. It is necessary to thin out thickened bushes and carry out pruning correctly. Hilling up and sheltering will help you survive the winter.
Deytsia is characterized by rapid growth. Under favorable conditions, it blooms in the third year after sowing.
Action: care and reproduction (video)
Due to the ability to grow quickly and recover after frost, deutia are widely used in decorative floriculture. In modern green construction, such an ornamental flowering shrub as deutia is a significant component, the use of which increases the effect of a garden or park composition. In addition, deutzia grows well in city conditions - it is resistant to dust, smoke and gases.
In the middle of the last century, Dutch merchant ships first brought seeds to Northern Europe that decorated Japanese gardens, and at the end of the century its Chinese varieties arrived in France.
The sight of the blooming plant captivated absolutely all gardening lovers, and in England, the popularity and demand for the eternal British roses was shaken from their “pedestal.” This - action.
In the photo deutzia is white
Since the beginning of the last century, he began to decorate gardens in the Moscow region, and now, action, photo which often adorns the covers of botanical magazines, not only does not lose its popularity, but, on the contrary, constantly increases it, confidently moving from the West back to the East.
Description and features of the action
Today, gardeners have access to more than 50 varieties of this variety; moreover, work on developing new hybrids does not stop, since it is extremely in demand both in landscape art and in floristry.
Deutia bushes are truly universal, they are beautiful both in carefully selected compositions of landscape parks, since they tolerate pruning very well and keep their shape for a long time, and in the garden, where no one has ever picked up garden shears, since they grow into spreading flowering cascades, creating with their branches shadow.
Many poetic people note that there is nothing more inspiring than lying under the influence and looking through the endless shadows at the sun's rays passing through the branches.
In the photo the action is rough
The variety of varieties available makes this oriental beauty among gardeners, desired in every garden and on any summer cottage. The only difficulty is choosing the most suitable type.
Deutia bushes grow from 50 cm to 4 meters, can be spreading and erect, deciduous and evergreen. They belong to a large family, and just like everyone else in this family, they have both simple flowers and caps of double inflorescences, in almost all colors and shades.
Common feature The whole abundance of forms and types of these shrubs is the absence of odor - this feature makes it ideal for allergy sufferers, because deutsias not only do not smell, they do not attract insects, which often make it simply impossible for many people to spend time at their dachas.
Also among all other plants, it stands out for its early and very long flowering. IN middle lane Already at the beginning of May, the gardens in which deutsia grow are filled with bloom.
Themselves, regardless of their color and whether they are simple or double, are collected in inflorescences and are bisexual. After flowering ends, “boxes” with seeds are formed.
Pictured is the action Magnificent
The same, extremely in appearance graceful action, is distinguished by excellent health, high immunity and longevity - this plant pleases with its stable and lush flowering in one place for at least a quarter of a century.
Planting and propagation of action
Landing action carried out in early spring, the hole for the plant must be prepared in accordance with the selected type of shrub, however, there is also General terms:
open or slightly shaded area;
the depth of the hole is from 30 to 60 cm; after planting, the root neck of the bush should be open;
to stimulate the plant adaptation process, liquid manure is added at the rate of 4-5 liters per bush;
if a composition or a hedge is being made, then the distance between small actions should be from one and a half to two meters.
The plant propagates by both seeds and cuttings. Seeds are usually germinated. Then the plants are grown in boxes for up to a year, and only after that they are planted in the garden.
However, self-seeding occurs quite often, especially in abandoned garden plots, and bushes that grow independently are no less decorative or resilient. Than those who grew up “by the rules.” Such bushes bloom for the first time in the third year of life.
In the photo there is pink deutzia
For propagation, they are cut in the spring; their length should be from 10 to 15 cm. For greater rooting speed, the cut is treated modern means to stimulate the formation of the root system. The cutting can be either immediately planted in the ground or pre-rooted in a peat tub, planting it on permanent place at the end of summer.
Caring for action
As for care, action- the bush is unpretentious, but it needs to be watered. If the weather is hot and dry, then the bush should be watered three times a month, 10–25 liters per plant, depending on its size and weather. Under ordinary, familiar weather conditions for the middle zone, the bush drinks 10-12 liters per month.
As for the land, these shrubs prefer fertile loams, that is, fertilized, but without a hint of stagnant water. Water stagnation negatively affects both growth and its decorative effect, that is, the quality of flowering.
Planting action and care in open ground are not difficult, and the bushes tolerate replanting just as well, which makes them stars in landscape design.
In the photo the action is graceful
For replanting, which, as a rule, is carried out before it blooms, you should take into account the length of the roots when digging a hole and create a nutrient medium in it for maximum speed in the survival of the bush.
A mixture of river sand with peat and humus, or mineral sand sold as ready-made mixtures, would be ideal. Both dry ones, which need to be placed at the bottom of the hole, and liquid ones, intended for watering, are suitable.
To ensure more luxuriant flowering, the bushes are fed with liquid organic matter once a season, at a rate of 3 to 5 liters per bush. Many gardeners add an additional 100-200 grams of minerals monthly, but this action is completely optional.
As for landscape decoration, bushes are trimmed twice per season:
in spring, before flowering begins;
in summer, after flowering has stopped.
Pruning is carried out in accordance with the desired shape for the bush. If necessary, you can trim the crown of a bush at absolutely any time; you are completely calm about it.
In the photo, Deutzia large-leaved
There is no need to cover the bushes for the winter if the frost does not exceed the threshold of 30 degrees. At stable harsh winters When it’s 40 degrees below zero outside, shelter is a must.
Types and varieties of action
Varieties Deutzia bushes there are a lot, but the following are the most popular among gardeners:
Deytsia white. A two-meter hybrid with large snow-white flowers 3-4 cm in diameter, the components of inflorescences up to 12 - 15 cm in length. The lifespan of a bush with stable flowering reaches 40 - 50 years, which is twice the average lifespan of this species, and is a merit of the botanists who bred the variety.
The most popular species not only among our gardeners, but throughout the world. It is these actions that grow near Eiffel Tower and decorate the Tuileries Gardens, they form flowering alleys in the secluded corners of London parks and hang over the narrow canals in Amsterdam.
Deytsia rough. Natural look, growing wild mainly in China. When growing freely, it reaches 2.5 - 3 meters, the shade is soft pink and white with pinkish veins.
Deutzia pink. Hybrid miniature variety, not growing higher than 1.2. With very good branching. The bush is created so that round green balls are formed from it, flashing with delicate pink flowers in the spring. An ideal variety for design.
In the photo is Deutzia Strawberry (Strawberry)
Deytsia Strawberry Fields. Another one hybrid action, created for use in design. It never grows in height over one and a half meters, covered with elegant long semi-double inflorescences, all shades of pink.
It also has a beautiful decorative peeling of the bark, which some use when trimming the bush in the shape of a “poodle”, with partial exposure of the trunk.
Deytsia is magnificent. Extremely winter-hardy hybrid. Representatives of this variety can easily endure winters in Yakutia. At the same time, this bush, first of all, decorative effect , As the others.
It grows from 2 to 3 meters, has lush and long trusses of snow-white semi-double inflorescences and ideally decorates any landscape.
One of the favorite plants in the gardens of Norway, Finland and Germany. It is also very actively used by domestic designers when designing sites in Karelia, Kamchatka and Yakutia.
Deutzia Mont Rose. A very interesting hybrid with bright, blazing all shades of pink, from light to deeply saturated lavender, with a border and curling of the petals.
Pictured is Deutzia Mont Rose
The inflorescences are collected in clusters, provocatively sticking up. The variety is most suitable for single planting. Incredibly popular in the landscape of courtyards during the restoration of old houses in Portugal and southern France.
Deytsia Turbilon. Erect stems and cluster-shaped clusters of inflorescences with flowers of white and red shades with clear color boundaries give the shrub a somewhat aggressive and warlike appearance. It grows to a height of 1.8 meters and is ideal for focal points in landscape compositions.
In addition to the garden, the shoots of this particular variety are loved by florists all over the world, and, perhaps, the finest hour of the flowers of this plant in floristry was during its use in the decoration of the Vatican Cathedrals during the election of the last Pope. Also, quite often the inflorescences of this particular plant decorate the cathedrals and chapels of Florence.
Pictured is the action Pom Pom
Deytsia Pom Pom. Or, as this is often called hybrid variety — Deutzia Pink, this is the most decorative bush of the entire family of these. Growing to a height of two meters, this shrub is decorated every spring with incredibly long, cascading cascades of pink inflorescences.
Very often, this particular variety is used to decorate waterfalls, Japanese corners and gazebos in the spirit of fantasy. It was these bushes that decorated most of the location filming in fairy-tale and fantasy films and even appeared in the design of the pavilions for the location filming of one of the episodes of the Star Wars epic.
Diseases and pests
As for health, these shrubs are simply of iron, with regard to absolutely all diseases characteristic of plants. Even stagnation of water in the roots does not lead to rot, but only reduces indicators such as the growth of the bush and the quality of its flowering.
Also, bushes are of no interest to insects. The only ones who decide to eat the foliage during the action are the bumblebee-like proboscis, which is extremely easy to fight, you just need to treat the bush with a solution of karbofos or phthalophos, 10-15%. A one-time treatment is always sufficient.
Pictured is Deutzia Turbilon
Sometimes, gardeners encountering this crop for the first time and focusing on it appearance, they begin to care for the bushes in the same way as for lilac or bird cherry, fearing that the abundance of flowers will attract a large number of pests.
It is completely unnecessary, completely devoid of aroma, bisexual flowers, completely unattractive to insects, and its leaves cause something like digestive disorders in most pests, such as caterpillars. Despite the fact that the bushes tolerate all kinds of preventive treatments well, there is no need for them.
Saplings actions to buy You can find it almost anywhere, from specialized gardening stores and seasonal fairs, to supermarkets and online stores. Prices for seedlings depend not so much on the variety, but on where they are purchased and range from 300 to 700 rubles per piece.
Besides the beautiful decorative properties in the garden landscape, branches with deutia inflorescences can be used as cut flowers, both as independent bouquet compositions and as part of complex floral bouquets; the durability in cut form far exceeds the same qualities of bird cherry.
In the photo there is a hybrid action
Particularly beautiful in vases are the upright shoots with complex multi-colored flowers.However, no matter what variety of shrub is chosen, spring action will be covered in scattering and will forever win the heart of both the gardener himself and everyone who sees it.
Deytsia rough, or star-shaped(Deutzia scabra)
A genus of perennial woody plants of the Hydrangeaceae family (Hydran-geaceae).
Deytsia rough Plena (Captive)- decorative, tall, beautiful flowering shrub with a dense crown formed by numerous straight shoots, hanging slightly at the ends under the weight of the inflorescences.
It reaches a height of 3 meters, a width of up to 2 m. The annual growth is 30-40 cm in height, 20-30 cm in width.
The leaves are rough, completely covered with small hairs, elliptical, pointed at the top, the top of the leaf is dark green, the bottom is gray-green, 3-8 cm long.
The flowers are double, snow-white inside and pale pink outside, collected in narrow paniculate inflorescences, up to 10-12 cm long. It blooms later than the other flowers, in July.
Deytsia rough Plena (Captive)
Deytsia prefers nutritious, medium-moist soil. Composition: humus, peat compost, sand (2:1:2), with the addition of lime.
Deytsia are light-loving and drought-resistant.
Used for single and group plantings, creating edges. First introduced into culture in 1822.
Under the weight of snow-white double inflorescences, the shoots bend in an arched manner, giving the bush a spectacular appearance.
It is not winter-hardy enough, it can freeze to the level of snow, although it is one of the most winter-hardy among deytsia.
However, it is preferable to plant in places protected from the wind and provide shelter for the winter, especially for young plants.
Thinning and rejuvenation as the bushes age. Strong pruning involves cutting “to the stump”.
To give the bush a beautiful shape, faded branches are cut back to the first strong new shoot or to the base. At the beginning of June, shoots frozen in winter are cut off.
Deutsias are not trimmed in hedges!
For the winter, lightly cover with a dry leaf, a layer of 10-20 cm, bending down the branches, hilling them with earth and snow. Bending young plants no higher than one meter to the ground does not cause any difficulties: such bushes bend easily.
But, large plants under 2 meters in height look especially impressive. Such deutsia shoots are tubular and hollow and break easily, so bending the bushes and covering them with spruce branches and dry leaves is very difficult.
In late autumn, you need to tightly tie the bushes with any breathable material. It is assumed that during severe frosts, the shoots of deytia do not freeze out so much as they dry out. With such a simple and not very the hard way shelters manage to almost completely preserve the bushes from freezing even in winter with temperatures of -30°C. Practice shows that the shoots do not become warm with such shelter.
Landing: Sowing is carried out in spring without pre-treatment of seeds. When sowing, it is enough to press the seeds firmly to the ground and not cover them.
Shoots will appear in three weeks. Seed germination lasts one to three years.
Annual seedlings are sensitive to low temperatures and require shelter. Given their low winter hardiness, picking is carried out in the spring. Under favorable conditions, the seedlings will bloom in the third year.
has the following description: a genus of deciduous and evergreen, perennial woody plants from the Hydrangeaceae family. There are 50 species, the distribution range of which is Mexico, the Himalayas and East Asia. At the beginning of the 19th century, Dutch merchants brought Himalayan and Japanese species of deutia.
Did you know? Swedish naturalist Carl Thunberg named the plant in honor of one of the mayors of Amsterdam, Johann van Deitz, who sponsored a sea expedition to the East.
The best time to plant action on the site
In the spring, when the soil has thawed, but the buds on the trees have not yet blossomed, you can plant deutia. Late March - early April is best. You can plant seedlings with a closed root system until mid-June.
Choosing a landing site
– a light-loving plant that needs a sunny place, protected from piercing winds. Neighboring plants should not shade garden shrub, which will withstand the light partial shade created by the crowns large trees. Moderate humidity and diffused light are beneficial for action. Deutia develops best and spends the flowering period on loose, moderately moist, fertile sandy loam and loamy soils with a slightly alkaline soil reaction.
To avoid stagnation groundwater Soil drainage should be ensured, thanks to which nutrients will be evenly distributed and a moisture regime will be created that promotes the normal development of the root system of the plant. It is necessary to select a deutzia variety suitable for the soil. The least whimsical varieties Pink Deutzia and action Turbilon rouge.
Important! It is very difficult to distinguish one or another type of action without special knowledge; you need to pay attention to the structure of the seed capsule or the structure of the leaf.
How to choose and prepare seedlings before planting
When choosing seedlings, you need to carefully examine the bush, determining the presence of damage on the shoots, the integrity of the buds, the condition of the roots or symptoms of diseases. You should buy seedlings right before planting; if they have to be transported, the roots must be wrapped thick paper. Immediately before planting, cut off broken branches, shorten the roots to 40 cm, and if they are dry, soak them for several hours in a bucket with a clay mash, adding 1 liter of potassium permanganate solution.
Rules for planting young seedlings of deytsia
To plant, you need to dig up landing hole up to 50 cm deep, in order to drain the bottom, you need to pour a 10 cm layer of sand or broken brick. Deutzia has its own growing characteristics, and therefore you need to know some subtleties. Gardeners recommend adding 100 g of Nitrophoska to the soil mixture to fill the hole. The root collars of seedlings should not be buried; they should be left at ground level. After planting, compact and mulch the soil with peat.
Caring for action in the garden
The action itself, its cultivation and care in the garden will not require large investments of effort and money.
How often to water
Mature deutia bushes are drought-resistant and do not tolerate excess moisture well; one bucket of water once a week per bush is enough for them. When watering the deutia, it is worth loosening the soil by about 20 cm. In the summer and during the flowering period, you need to increase watering, and stop in early August so that the plant has the opportunity to prepare for winter. Young plants need to be watered abundantly, especially during their active growth. It is worth monitoring the condition of the soil, regularly weeding out weeds near the action, which will interfere with its development.
Mulching the soil
Mulch trunk circle fallen leaves and straw is one of the simplest ways. You can also use peat for mulching and insulate small bushes cardboard boxes, boxes or branches of coniferous spruce branches. Cold is very detrimental to young seedlings and deutsia seedlings. At the end of November, at low air temperatures, when the soil freezes to a few centimeters, the bushes need to be tightly covered with a layer of dry foliage or coniferous spruce branches.
When and with what to fertilize
Feeding the plant is done with compost with a glass of ash or fermented liquid manure in the proportion of 1 liter per 10 liters of water. Twice a season apply under the bush complex fertilizers(“Ammophos” or “Nitrophoska”) 150 g each. Fertilizing the plant should be carried out during the flowering period and at the beginning of summer, so as not to worsen the frost resistance of the action.
When preparing the area for action, they dig it up, adding manure or peat manure compost (10-15 kg/m2), potassium sulfate and dolomite flour to reduce soil acidity (100-200 g/m2). The structure of heavy clay soil can be improved by adding sand and peat (10-15 kg/m2). Peat soils require the addition of sand and clay; sandy soils require the addition of loam and peat, which has the property of accumulating and retaining water.
The mixtures are thoroughly mixed, the soil is dug up with a shovel or cultivator to a depth of 20-25 cm. After the earthen clods have dried, they are crushed with a rake. If the land on which deutia is going to be planted is cultivated, holes are dug in the spring before planting; heavy soils should be prepared in advance in the fall.
Important! The action has one great feature- she is immune to tobacco smoke and exhaust gases, so it is advisable to plant it along roads and highways.
How to prune action
Pruning of action is carried out in spring and late summer. At the beginning of May, remove the branches that grow inside the crown, damaged and immature in the past year, as well as the tips of the shoots that are frozen. Each branch that fades, after flowering, is pruned to a young shoot, which is also shortened by a third, and subsequently it begins to tiller and lay flower buds. Action may also require a process such as pruning in the fall.
The procedure includes cutting out branches that have thickened the bush, and already old ones. If the bush is more than five years old, it is necessary to get rid of 1-2 of the oldest shoots every 2-3 years, thus rejuvenating the bush.
How to prepare deutia bushes for winter
– is a heat-loving plant, and its preparation for winter begins quite early. Harsh winters can deprive a shrub of flowering, killing the previous year's shoots. Young plants should be bent to the ground, the branches should be secured with two sticks crosswise or in small arcs, fallen leaves should be sprinkled on top and a mini-house made of sticks should be built, covering it with lutrasil and polyethylene.
The design will prevent the snow that settles in the spring from having a detrimental effect on the branches: bending them and breaking them. With an adult bush it will be more difficult - it will not be possible to bend it due to the fragility of the thick branches. Adult plants begin to prepare for winter even before the leaves completely fall off, which may later become additional protection from the cold. 
The branches of the bush are carefully tied together with a rope, the bush is covered with a bag or any dense non-woven material, secured on top with clothespins. This shelter will protect not only from low temperatures, but also from drying out the shoots, since without a bag the flower buds risk drying out.
When and how to transplant deutzia
Deutzia is replanted in the spring. First, they dig up the bush very carefully, trying not to destroy the root ball of earth. To do this, they dig in the plant from all sides along the contour of the crown, then take it out with a lump of earth and move it to a new place.
Before this, 30 g of complex mineral fertilizer is added to the planting hole. The root collar should not go very deep into the ground or rise above it. The action in its new place grows evenly and does not bend; the free space between the lump of earth and the wall of the hole should be filled completely and compacted thoroughly.
After transplanting is completed, the shrub is well watered. When this is done, the plant is watered abundantly. Young plants, unlike adults that can get sick, tolerate replanting normally, quickly settle into a new place and bloom well.
Did you know? Landscape designers should know that deutia can be transplanted next to a lilac bush, the flowering of which will precede the flowering of deutia.
Resistance to diseases and pests
The garden shrub Deutia has the advantage of excellent resistance to diseases and pests, but sometimes the plant can be bullied by the bumblebee-like proboscis, which eats the leaves of Deutia. You can get rid of it by spraying the bush with a solution of Phtalofos, Karbofos, Decis or Kinmiks.
Methods of propagation
There are several ways to propagate this beautiful shrub.
Cuttings
Deycia can undergo a procedure such as propagation by cuttings only if it has well-developed, leafy, semi-lignified shoots. This happens at the beginning of summer. When cutting cuttings, leaf blades are halved with scissors or pruners. The lower cut is made obliquely, just under the internode, while the upper cut is made above the leaf node. Cut cuttings 12-15 cm long are planted in river sand, which is spread in a five-centimeter layer on the nutrient soil of the greenhouse. Action after planting and the entire period until the root has formed requires special care: It needs to be watered 3 to 7 times depending on the weather.
Deutzia is an ornamental shrub of the Hydrangeaceae family, amazing in its beauty and diversity, which can increasingly be found in gardens and on summer cottages Russia, due to their ease of care. Unique exotic beauty fits perfectly into landscape design, harmoniously complementing lilac, mock orange, and jasmine with their long and lush flowering in the spring and summer. As a result, the garden can be decorated with flowers almost without interruption.
Description and photo of the bush
The genus Deytsia includes more than 70 species, many varieties and decorative forms evergreen or deciduous (losing leaves in autumn) perennial shrubs with a life expectancy of more than 20 years. The bushes vary in shape and color of flowers from soft white to lilac-purple. Small simple or double flowers are collected in racemes or corymbose inflorescences and are absolutely odorless. The leaves are oblong-oval in shape with a pointed end and have an opposite arrangement. With age, the bark can acquire a layered structure and peel off. After flowering, which usually begins in late May or early June and lasts about a month, a fruit is formed - a box with seeds. Their germination persists for several years.
The bush can have a spreading or erect structure, as well as different heights, which vary from 50 cm to 4 m. Low-growing species are often planted along garden paths or along the perimeter of the site, and taller bushes are used for single plantings or as part of groups of other perennial woody plants. Deutzia look beautiful in hedges. Some species and varieties are highly resistant to gaseous and finely dispersed pollution, therefore they take root well in city conditions and are excellent for decorating parks and adjacent areas.
Origin story
Motherland graceful plant‒ East Asia, Mexico and the Himalayas. In the XIX century. The first actions appeared in the gardens of Europe thanks to Dutch merchants. Large role in distribution amazing plant played by the French botanist Maurice Vilmorin, for whom missionaries in the mountains of China specially collected seeds. His nursery gave European botanists the opportunity to study the plant and promote its selection.
The bush was named after one of the mayors of Amsterdam, who sponsored expeditions to the East.
Varieties
In the central zone of our country, of the many species diversity, not all types of deytia have found application in ornamental gardening and park landscaping. The following take root most well and bloom for a long time:
- Rough or star-shaped. This is a shrub with interesting leaves, covered with hairs and rough to the touch. The crown is up to 1 m high and spreading. Small white or soft pink flowers pointed shapes resemble bells and are collected in narrow, spectacular panicles. It usually begins to bloom in the second month of summer. The species includes such interesting varieties as Plena with densely double flowers, Candissima, whose pink buds turn into snow-white flowers, Codsell Pink with double pink flowers and others.
- Small-flowered or Amur. A spreading bush up to 2 m with small white five-petaled flowers that bloom in the first month of summer, and elliptical pointed leaves that turn yellow by autumn. Blooms in early summer. Differs in winter hardiness.
- Lush or magnificent. The upright bush has a height of up to 1.5 m with a lush crown, and the branches arch in all directions under the weight of the flowers. The flowers are large, bell-shaped or double, the leaves are elongated. The plant blooms profusely in early July and grows quickly. Winter hardiness is not very high.
- Graceful. A low plant up to 0.8-1 m with thin arching shoots and a rounded crown, which makes it look like a snow-white fountain. The flowers are small, collected in large inflorescences, bloom profusely at the end of June, and the variegated leaves have a certain golden hue. Grown mainly in the southern regions of Russia.
- Longifolia. Bush up to 2 m with large, up to 12 cm narrow leaves with pubescence in a rich green hue. Blooms in mid-summer. The buds are bright purple, and when the flower opens they turn pink-lilac.
- Lemurana. A relatively tall shrub of white deutia with a rounded, not very spreading crown. The flowers are medium-sized in long, pyramid-shaped inflorescences. It is one of the first to bloom - in May, and also has fairly high winter hardiness.
- Wilson. Named in honor of the outstanding Anglo-American botanist who studied the Chinese flora and put the decorativeness and beauty of deutsia on a par with the queens of flowers - roses. The low bush blooms profusely in June.
How to plant and care properly
In order for the shrub to delight with luxurious and long-lasting flowering, the plant needs care, maintenance and compliance with certain rules when planting. These are mainly light-loving and drought-resistant plants.
Deytsia prefers soils with a slightly alkaline reaction. If the soil on the site is too acidic, you can add wood ash(200 g) or slaked lime(300 g).
Landing Features
The most favorable period for planting is from early spring to summer. When leaves have not yet appeared on other trees, and the ground has already warmed up enough, you can choose a site. It should be open place, but without drafts and not blown by cold winds. Avoid over-watered areas with high level groundwater. It is also advisable that the site should no longer be exposed to direct rays of the sun after 12.
Purchase seedlings from a specialized store immediately before planting. Pay attention to the root system. Visually, it should be elastic, moisturized with long roots without defects (growths, cracks, stains).
The soil needs to be fertile, loose, well-drained. The best option make a substrate in proportions 2:1:2 – humus-peat compost-sand + 100 g of nitrophoska. The depth of the pit must be at least 0.5 m. Expanded clay is poured into a 15 cm layer for drainage, broken brick, crushed stone, sand, etc.
Before planting in a hole, it is recommended to keep the seedling in a clay mash for several hours. For disinfection, you can add a solution of potassium permanganate. The root collar of the bush should remain at ground level. If you are planting several bushes, then leave a distance between them of about 1.5-2.5 m. Afterwards, the soil must be compacted, and the bush should be watered abundantly. Spread a 5 cm layer of peat mulch on top.
Transplant mature plant not advisable. Young bushes are carefully dug in. When transferring to a new place, try to avoid destroying the earthen coma, so the plant will experience less stress during transplantation. After planting, corrective pruning is carried out.
IN autumn period The shrub is not planted or replanted, as it simply will not have time to take root before the onset of frost and will die.
Features of care
Care includes fairly meager watering - 10 liters once a week. From mid-August, watering is stopped so that the bush does not produce new shoots and is fully prepared for winter. You also need to feed once a month - 3-4 liters of liquid organic fertilizer and 2 times a season – complex mineral fertilizer(120-150 g) per one bush. To ventilate the roots, the soil is periodically loosened and weeded out.
During the season, pruning is required - 2 times. In spring, it is necessary to remove damaged or frostbitten branches. In autumn, pruning is carried out to form the bush so that it is not too dense. It is imperative to remove branches older than 3 years, and those that have bloomed are shortened to the first strong bud or completely removed. Anti-aging pruning is carried out “under the stump”.
Even in winter-hardy species, branches may already freeze at -25°C, and at -30°C the plant may die.
Preparing for winter
In regions of Russia with cold and snowy winters, the deutzia must take shelter during the winter. Air-dry cover of ornamental shrubs is mainly used.
A small bush is laid and fixed to the ground with arches, then covered with fallen leaves or a frame is built over it. On top it is covered with non-woven material, for example, lutrasil, on top - polyethylene film. If the plant is large enough and spreading, it needs to be tied before the leaves completely fall off, and wrapped on top with material that allows air to pass through.
Deytsia is quite resistant to diseases and pests. Although the leaves can be affected by the bumblebee proboscis. Treatment - treatment with a 15% solution of karbofos or phthalophos.
Reproduction
The shrub can be propagated different ways, where the simplest and most effective is vegetative. At the beginning of the season - layering. In the spring, you need to bend the marginal shoot, place it in a shallow groove, previously dug in the ground and filled with fertile substrate, and fix it. The emerging sprouts do not require special care. By the beginning of the next season, the cuttings can be separated. If a shoot has started from the root, and its height has reached 30 cm, then it can be dug up and carefully separated, transplanting it immediately to a new place.
It is also possible to divide an adult 4-5 year old bush in early spring. In addition, this measure allows you to rejuvenate the plant. Parts with a developed root system and dormant buds are suitable for propagation.
It is quite possible to grow deutia from seeds, which are harvested in mid-autumn. They are removed from dry boxes, dried if necessary and stored in paper bags. In spring, seeds can be planted in greenhouses, maintaining a microclimate favorable for growth. The main thing is timely moderate hydration. Seedlings appear no earlier than a month later, and when several pairs of leaves appear, they can be transplanted to open ground. Remember that one-year-old bushes are easily damaged by frost, so before winter you need to take care of their shelter. Flowering after planting usually begins in the 3rd year.
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