Deytsia rough

The deutia plant belongs to the hydrangea family and is a perennial with a fairly long flowering period. Deutia flowers are very unusual, and this is still exotic plant for our gardens you can easily grow on your own plot. The shrub is unpretentious, and its only drawback is the need to cover the flower for the winter in conditions middle zone.

Action, brief description

Deutzia in the description is a deciduous shrub reaching only one and a half to two meters in height. Feature Deutia bush is the peeling of the bark, which is also typical for other representatives of the Hortensiaceae genus. On old shoots you can see the bark hanging from them like rags. This is not a sign of disease, but a normal property of adult shoots.

Homeland of this amazing beautiful bush Japan and China. The plant is very widely distributed in the wild in the area North America, in some regions of Europe. In the southern part of Russia you can also find this bush in nature.

Although caring for this ornamental plant and somewhat troublesome, the beauty of the flowering bush makes you forget about the time and effort spent. Deytsia is unique plant, which looks simply magical when in bloom. Be sure to plant a delightful deutia on your site, which will decorate your summer garden.

Common varieties

A huge number of bred varieties of deutia allow you to create an original, memorable garden design. Some varieties of shrubs are suitable for creating barriers.

In the wild, this variety grows on mountain slopes in Japan and Northern China. This variety has increased resistance to climatic conditions. Deytsia slender is able to survive prolonged drought and cold snaps.
Deutzia bushes are slender or, moreover, graceful, and have a beautiful, compact, rounded shape. This variety is perfect for creating sculptures. With proper care, bushes can reach a height of up to one and a half meters.
The oblong foliage of Deutia slender is hairy on top and smooth below. In summer, the leaves have a lush green color, and in autumn they turn yellow. Deutia slender blooms with snow-white flowers at the end of May. Flowering duration is about one month.

Through the labors of selectors, it was truly derived unique variety actions – Pink Pom Pom. The flowers of the variety have pink color, terry, numerous. The foliage is rough and dark green. The variety is distinguished by a long flowering period, which can last all summer.

Deytsia is hybrid. This variety was obtained by crossing the graceful and Amur deutzia varieties. The height of the shrub can reach at good care 2 meters. It blooms with snow-white flowers in July. The leaves are dark green in color, rough, and turn red in autumn. This variety is distinguished by cold resistance.

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In the wild, Deutia rough or star-shaped can be found in some regions of China and Japan. This variety is distinguished by a rough leaf blade, which is why it got its name. The height of deutzia rough can reach 2.5 meters. The flowering period occurs in June-July. The leaves of Deutia rougha reach a length of 9 cm and are pale green in color. In autumn, the shrub is very decorative - its foliage turns brown. This variety is very thermophilic and does not tolerate low temperatures.

When to plant

The best time to plant a bush in your garden is spring, when the soil has already warmed up a little, but the buds on the trees have not yet opened. If you buy a seedling with closed roots, then plant it in open ground possible in mid-June. But before you plant the beautiful deutia in your garden, it is important to choose a site for it where it will develop well.

Deutia bushes are best planted on open areas. But at the same time, the plant does not like direct hits. sun rays at noon. Keep in mind when selecting a site that the shrub will not grow well in a place open to cold northern winds and drafts.
If we talk about soil preferences, then it must be said that the shrub loves nutritious, moist soil with good drainage. Excellent soil for planting is humus, compost mixed with peat. It is also good to add sand to the planting hole.
If the soil in the selected area is too acidic, and deutzia loves slightly alkaline soil, then lime should also be added to the planting hole.

Landing

Deytsia is a very simple planting and care plant in the open ground. In the selected area, planting holes are dug approximately 50 cm deep. Place at the bottom of the pit as a drainage layer broken brick, expanded clay or stones. The thickness of the drainage layer should be at least 15 cm. You can add 100 grams of dry nitroammophoska to the soil mixture with which the hole will be filled.

When planting deytsia, under no circumstances should you bury the root collar. The neck must be higher or at least level with the ground. A distance of at least one and a half meters should be left between seedlings.

The planted seedlings are covered with soil, compacted and watered abundantly. Young plants are mulched with a layer of peat or sawdust at least 7 cm thick. A layer of mulch will protect the planted bushes from drying out and will greatly facilitate caring for the plant.

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Care

Caring for this Asian beauty comes down to watering, fertilizing and pruning.

Watering

This shrub is drought-resistant and does not tolerate excess moisture very well. It is enough to water adult plants once a week, pouring a bucket of water under each bush.
After watering, be sure to loosen the soil around the bushes to a depth of at least 20 cm. If the weather is too hot, then increase the number of waterings. You should also water the bushes more abundantly during flowering. Young plants also need more abundant watering.

Feeding

Deytsia is very responsive to fertilization. It is useful to fertilize this shrub with fermented mullein, diluting a liter of fertilizer in a bucket of water. You can add 100 grams to mullein wood ash onto a bucket of fertilizer.

Twice during the entire season, fertilize the shrubs with complex mineral fertilizers, adding 150 grams of dry fertilizer to each bush. It is advisable to fertilize the bushes during the flowering period. In the fall, fertilizing is not applied, as it is too a large number of fertilizers reduce the frost resistance of the plant.

Trimmings

Deutzia needs pruning twice a year. The first pruning is carried out in early spring, and the second at the end of flowering.

At the end of April, all thin shoots, as well as those shoots that grow inside the crown, are cut off at an angle with sharp pruners. Subject to spring pruning and those shoots that did not have time to ripen last year. When pruning in spring, all frozen parts of the bush are removed.
After flowering, faded branches are cut back to young shoots, which should also be shortened by a third. Pruning the plant after flowering stimulates the bush to produce young shoots and bush, and lay flower buds for next year.
Also, if the bush is more than 5 years old, a couple of the oldest shoots at ground level should be removed every three years. This way the action is rejuvenated.

Shelter for the winter

Deutzia is a very heat-loving crop, and very often the shrubs freeze slightly in winter. Important stage plant care is proper preparation it for wintering. At frosts of more than 20 degrees, the entire above-ground part of the bushes may freeze.
Therefore, the plant must be covered for the winter. Young branches of bushes are flexible enough to bend them to the ground, pin them, and cover them with a layer of dry leaves. The bent shoots are covered with spruce branches on top.
If the bush is too large, then it must be tied like a sheaf and wrapped with covering fabric, for example, lutrasil. The top of the wrapped bushes is covered with spruce branches. They begin to cover the deytsia for the winter even before the leaves completely fall off, with the arrival of the first frost.

In spring, it is very important to prevent the bushes from getting wet. Remove the shelter when warm weather sets in.

Reproduction

Deutia can be propagated very easily by vegetative methods and by seeds, which is more difficult. With the vegetative method of propagation, cuttings can be taken from both green shoots and already lignified ones. You can also divide the mother bush into several parts. Deutia is also propagated by root suckers.

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Green cuttings

Cuttings of this plant can be carried out in June. Well-developed, healthy annual shoots are cut into cuttings. The length of the cuttings must be at least 20 cm. The lower leaves on the cuttings are torn off, then the lower part is dusted with root and dipped in a growth stimulator for three hours. Then the cuttings are buried in a soil mixture of garden soil, humus and sand, taken in equal parts. The soil in containers for rooting must be soaked with root solution.

The cuttings should be planted slightly obliquely, deepening them into the soil by about 1 cm. The containers are covered with transparent film to create a greenhouse effect and placed in a shady place in the garden.
In order for the cuttings to take root faster, they must be constantly sprayed. When the roots appear, the young plants can be planted in open ground in a growing bed. For the winter, young bushes must be well protected from frost. On permanent place deytsia grown from cuttings is planted the following spring.

Lignified cuttings

If you decide to propagate deutia from woody cuttings, then they should be harvested in the fall. The shoots are cut approximately 20 cm long and tied into bundles. Then the cuttings are placed in boxes and covered with slightly damp sand. Boxes can be stored in the basement. The air temperature in the room should be about 0 degrees. In the spring, cuttings are planted immediately in open ground in the garden on a prepared bed and cared for in the same way as with green cuttings.

Growing from seeds

This method of propagation is used extremely rarely. Plant seeds require lengthy and quite labor-intensive preparation. In addition, deutzia grown from seeds may lose its varietal quality. mother plant.

Diseases and pests

Actions are plants that are resistant to disease. But still some problems may arise when growing them.
Among the pests, sometimes shrubs are attacked by bumblebee-like proboscis or bumblebee moths. The pest appears on plants in July-August and eats young foliage. To get rid of bumblebees, it is enough to spray the bushes a couple of times with an insecticide, for example, decis.

Deytsia in garden landscape design

Large white deutzia with a cap of flowers can be used in solitary planting, in mixborders, and on alpine slides. Very often shrubs are planted along garden paths. The shrub looks great in the middle of an emerald green trimmed lawn.

Excellent neighbors for deutsia are conifers, against the lush, green background of which the shrub looks simply magnificent during flowering.

Many varieties and hybrids of deutia have been bred, which serve as an excellent decoration for park alleys and paths.

A charming representative of the hydrangea family relatively recently settled on the plots of Russian gardeners, but has already gained enviable popularity. The article is devoted to tips for caring for this the most beautiful plant and a description of its most popular varieties.

In botany, deutia is an evergreen perennial shrub native to the forests of East Asia and the Himalayas. Today there are about 50 varieties of this plant, which can adapt not only to the conditions of Japanese and Chinese gardens, but also to temperate latitudes.

You can recognize the action by its vertical or weeping crown with spreading branches, reaching a length of 40 cm to 4 m. Since the plant is a perennial, the old bark tends to gradually peel off. The leaves of the shrub are simple and entire, less often with jagged edges. Deutzia has a powerful tap root system.

Sometimes deutia is confused with honeysuckle, but not during the flowering period: white, pink or purple odorless double flowers reveal the origin of the beauty. The buds of perennial flowers are laid on the shoots of the previous year and are located at the tops in lush inflorescences, abundantly covering the crown and bending the branches to the ground with their weight. Deutzia blooms for a long time: from 30 to 60 days; The flowering period and its beginning vary depending on the area in which the action grows. As a rule, the shrub lives up to 25 years, during which it repeatedly bears fruit in spherical “pods” with seeds.

Despite many advantages, the Asian shrub also has vagaries: deutzia can die from winter frosts when the temperature reaches -30°C. In addition, branches located above the snow level very often freeze. To prevent a sad outcome, you can plant it on a gentle southwestern slope, since usually dense snow cover forms in such places.

Deutzia blooms for a long time: from 30 to 60 days

Gallery: action (25 photos)

Options for using shrubs in garden decoration

Thanks to its stunning flowering, the perennial is popular in landscape design. Flora researchers have repeatedly noticed the properties of deutzia, putting it on a par with roses, hydrangeas and lilacs. Dwarf varieties are placed in border compositions and mixborders or near tall trees as padding, and large varieties planted in groups along the paths. A single plant looks good in combination with coniferous trees.

In mild climates, perennials can be used as hedge. One of the main advantages of such a “green wall” is its immunity to smoke, so plants that perform a similar function are usually planted in front of city houses located near the roadway.

Forsythia and bright pink weigela will be ideal neighbors for action: the original composition is 100% likely to become the main decoration of the garden. Bred by breeders hybrid varieties with double flowers and incredible sized inflorescences will allow you to create a stylized garden in oriental traditions. For example, the Turbilon Rouge variety has bright pink flowers with a white border, reminiscent of cherry blossoms in shape.

One of the most unusual applications actions in the garden plot are the use of shrubs as a basis for garden sculptures. Thanks to the strong but flexible frame of thin trunks and branches, the plant has good texture.

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Characteristics of types and varieties of deutzia

As a result of many years of efforts by research breeders, many various types and decorative varieties of crops. Cultivated varieties differ in height, shape of the crown and flowers, as well as the shade of the inflorescences.

Deytsia the whitest

Magnificent hybrid plant, reaching a height of 2 meters, is decorated with snow-white lush inflorescences (3 cm in diameter and 12 cm in length) in the first half of the summer season. With proper care average duration life is no different from the maternal variety: from 20 to 25 years.

Deytsia the whitest

Deutzia Lemoine

The variety was bred by crossing Deytsia graceful and Amur. Height - 1 meter, shoots - arched stems, covered with greenish-gray leaves, acquiring beautiful yellow and red shades in autumn. The inflorescences are pyramidal, formed by graceful white flowers. Gardeners will be interested in other subspecies of this hybrid, for example, Mont Rose, which is distinguished by bright pink flowers with curled petals, or Strawberry Fields(Strawberry glade) with an unusual raspberry-pink color of flowers.

Deutzia Lemoine

Deytsia Amur

Another name is small-flowered. The two-meter deciduous perennial blooms beautifully in mid-summer: small, scentless white flowers bloom against a background of bright green, pubescent leaves. The variety is picky and requires special conditions illumination and air humidity, however, is the most frost-resistant species compared to the others. Deytsia Amur is protected in some Far Eastern nature reserves.

Deytsia Amur

Deytsia graceful

Distinctive features of the variety are snow-white paniculate inflorescences of fragile fragrant five-leafed leaves, small height (up to 1.2 m) and a mounded crown shape. The plant blooms from mid-June for a month. The variety prefers well-lit areas.

Deytsia graceful

Deytsia rough (stellate)

The name of the species was given to it for the rough surface of the flower petals. This is a tall (up to 2.5 m) shrub with pink or white, heavily double flowers and reddish-brown bark. The flowering period is in July. In garden plots you can find decorative forms stellate actions: Plena, Roseo-Plena, Pride of Rochester.

Deytsia rough (stellate)

Deutzia pink

Daughter hybrid of purple and graceful deutzia. The round crown of the bush grows up to 1-1.2 m in height and is decorated with pink bell-shaped flowers at the turn of May and June. The species is quite frost-resistant, can overwinter if only the roots are covered.

Deutzia pink

Deytsia hybrid

Deutzia varieties of this species are developed by crossing other varieties, usually Deutzia graceful and Deutzia Amur. The result is a shrub reaching two meters in height with dark, rough leaves and resistance to low temperatures. Blooms in July decorated with snow-white dense inflorescences. Hybrids include the aforementioned varieties Mont Rose, Strawberry Fields, Deutzia Lemoine, Turbilon Rouge and others.

Deytsia hybrid

Deytsia is magnificent (lush)

Refers to the result of the activities of breeders. The bush grows up to 2.4 meters in height with stems lowered to the ground, densely covered with pinkish inflorescences. white. The culture prefers shady areas: The base of a tall, spreading tree is ideal.

Deytsia is magnificent (lush)

Deytsia terry

A distinctive feature of the variety is the indescribably beautiful flowering that occurs at the end of May - beginning of June. Double, heavy, star-shaped, snow-white flowers pull the stems toward the ground and make them arch beautifully. The height of the bush usually does not exceed 2 meters.

Deytsia terry

Technology and timing of planting plants in open ground

Before planting a plant on your site, you need to purchase seedlings and choose a good place.

At the time of buying planting material You should carefully examine the seedling and check whether its roots and branches are damaged: to do this, you need to focus your attention on specimens with an open root system. Broken branches are cut off, and the dried rhizome is placed in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for a couple of hours. The length of the roots should not exceed 40 centimeters; if necessary, cut off all excess.

Deutzia is planted in spring in well-lit places with diffused light. Perfect option– place the planting under the canopy of trees. In addition, deutia does not tolerate drafts, so this shrub should be planted in areas protected from the wind. The perennial prefers fertile, well-drained, moderately moist soil away from groundwater.

Before planting, it is recommended to prepare a soil mixture. The recipe includes 1 part peat compost, 2 parts humus and sand, 300 grams of slaked lime (for acidic soil) and 100 grams of nitrophoska. The landing procedure technology is as follows:

Holes are dug at a distance of 2-2.5 m from each other and from other objects. Depth – 40-50 cm, diameter – 60 cm;
Sand drainage is poured onto the bottom of the pit, the layer thickness is 15 cm;
The rhizome of the seedling is lowered into the hole and covered with a pre-prepared mixture. It is necessary to control the level of the root collar: it should not go deeper than 2 cm; It is better that it is at ground level;
The earth is compacted, then the seedling needs to be thoroughly watered. The shoots are cut off, leaving a few buds;
The soil around the seedling is mulched with peat with a layer thickness of 5 cm.

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Caring for action in the garden

To provide the shrub with favorable conditions for growth and development, you need not only to choose the right place and soil for the seedlings, but also to follow some rules regarding plant care. In general, deutia is unpretentious and requires no more from the gardener than other perennials, but the tips below will help you achieve the most abundant and long-lasting flowering.

Watering and fertilizing

Despite the fact that deutia is a drought-resistant and hardy plant, it also needs moisture. P Under normal conditions, it is recommended to water the bush 1-2 times a month, spending 10 liters per bush. In hot weather, watering is done more often: up to 4-6 times every 30 days, 20 liters per bush. By the end of the summer season, you can stop watering the plant, since the action will receive enough liquid without human intervention.

During the flowering period, it is recommended to feed deutia bushes. Both organic (eg mullein) and mineral fertilizers (superphosphate) are suitable. Consumption rate – 120-150 grams per bush. In summer, the perennial is fed monthly with liquid manure: up to 4 liters of fertilizer are applied to each plant.

Autumn pruning technology

The action is pruned twice: in spring and autumn. Without this procedure, it would be extremely difficult to care for the plant, since it tends to grow very quickly and lose its decorative properties. Autumn pruning helps to form the correct silhouette of the bush; it is also called sanitary pruning. All shoots that produced inflorescences this season should be shortened without exception. Excess, diseased shoots and those that lead to thickening of the plant are cut to the ground. If the owner is not completely satisfied with the shape of the plant, you can cut off all the shoots, leaving only a short “stump”. This will stimulate the growth of young shoots that will form a new crown. Immediately after pruning, it is recommended to feed the bush with organic matter.

Preparing shrubs for wintering

Behind lush flowering should autumn pruning, followed by the onset of winter cold. In conditions with low temperatures, it is very difficult not to freeze, since this guest came to the middle zone from milder climatic conditions. Despite the fact that even frozen branches can quickly recover and even bloom in the same season, in order to avoid injury to them, you need to resort to special measures to prepare the plant for wintering.

Excess, diseased shoots and those that lead to thickening of the plant are cut to the ground

Procedures depend on the specific region and type of shrub. For example, Shrubs growing in the southern regions will need to be bent to the ground. With what they decorate garden plots northern and middle latitudes, additional protection is necessary.

Young plants growing in areas with snowy and mild winters can be bent to the ground, securing the branches with arches or two sticks and covering them with leaves and polyethylene on top. The plant will be able to overwinter well under a thick layer of snow, and the design will prevent it from breaking shoots in the spring during subsidence.

Old bushes have hard but very fragile branches, so they cannot be bent down in the same way as young plants. In this case, it is recommended to tie all the shoots with rope, put a canvas bag or any other non-woven breathable material on the bush and secure it with clothespins. Such measures are designed to protect not so much from frost, but from the drying out of flower buds.

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Features of growing deutia in the Moscow region

Caring for such a heat-loving plant as deutia means taking care that the bush does not freeze in winter. Winter near Moscow is characterized by light snow cover and severe frosts, so the action will not be able to do without reliable shelter. Unlike the southern regions, in the middle zone, in addition to burlap (or spunbond) and foliage, the structure will require spruce branches and plastic film. Under several layers various materials the action will be warm and dry, and in the spring after pruning it will be completely ready for flowering and growing season.

Deutzia is a unique plant that will bring a feeling of harmony and prosperity to the site. Thanks to its luxurious flowering, variety of varieties and resistance to exhaust fumes, this shrub will be an excellent choice for both garden compositions and urban front gardens.

Estimate

Planting and caring for action (in brief)

Landing: in the spring.
Bloom: about three weeks, depending on the variety - from mid-May to the end of July.
Lighting: in the morning - bright light, in the afternoon - diffused light or partial shade.
The soil: nutritious, moderately moist and well-drained, neutral reaction.
Watering: 1 bucket per bush once a week, in hot weather - two buckets. From mid-August, watering is stopped.
Trimming: twice a year - in spring and autumn, for sanitary cleaning purposes and for crown formation.
Feeding: only during the flowering period with liquid manure: 3-4 liters for each bush. Complex mineral fertilizers are applied twice a season.
Reproduction: by seeds and vegetatively: layering, green and woody cuttings, root suckers.
Pests: bumblebee-like proboscis.
Diseases: stable.

Deutzia shrub - description

The deutia bush can be spreading or erect, with a height of 40 cm to 4 m. The leaves of the deutia are opposite. Until the flowers open, the deutia can be mistaken for a honeysuckle bush. Deutzia blooms on the shoots of last year: abundantly covering the bush are white or pink flowers, odorless, collected in racemose apical inflorescences. The deutia bush lives for about 25 years. The fruit of Deutia is a capsule.

Planting action

When to plant deutsia.

The best time to plant deutia is spring, when the soil has already thawed, but the buds on the trees have not yet bloomed. A seedling with a closed root system can be planted until June. Before planting deutia, you need to choose an area with conditions that are comfortable for the plant. Deytsia loves open spaces, which are not exposed to direct sunlight in the afternoon. Please note that deutzia does not like cold winds. The soil needs to be nutritious, not dry, well drained. The ideal soil is humus, peat compost, sand in a ratio of 2:1:2 - a soil mixture of this composition should be filled in the hole during planting if the soil on the site differs greatly from what is necessary for normal growth and development of the plant. If the soil on the site is too acidic, and deutzia prefers slightly alkaline soils, add 300 g of slaked lime to the planting hole.

Deutia seedlings.

If you decide to grow deutia, listen to our advice. When choosing seedlings in the store, carefully examine the bush and determine whether there are any damage on the shoots that will cause the seedling to be sick for a long time, whether the buds are intact, and whether symptoms of any disease are noticeable. Saplings with bare roots are cheaper than planting material in containers, but this is not the only advantage: it is very important what condition the roots of the seedling are in, whether they are overdried, and if the seedling is in a container, this is difficult to determine. You need to buy seedlings immediately before planting; when transporting, it is advisable to wrap their roots in thick paper. Before planting, cut off broken branches, shorten the roots to 35-40 cm, and if they are dry, soak them for 2-3 hours in a bucket of clay mash with the addition of one liter of light pink solution of potassium permanganate.

How to plant deutsia.

Planting action is carried out according to certain rules. Deutzia should grow no closer than 250 cm from any other object, be it a building or another plant, since an adult bush takes up a lot of space. Dig a hole 40-50 cm deep, place a drainage layer there in the form of broken bricks or sand, lower the roots of the seedling into the hole, then fill it with the soil mixture described in the previous section, to which you should also add 100-125 g of nitrophoska. The root collar of the seedling should be at the level of the soil surface or 1-2 cm underground. After planting, the soil is compacted and watered, and the branches of the seedling are shortened to 3-5 buds on each shoot to stimulate tillering. The area is mulched with a layer of peat 5 cm thick.

Caring for action

How to care for action.

Caring for the action is simple, and if you mulched trunk circle, then you will have even less work. Deytsia does not like abundant and frequent watering, so one bucket of water once a week will be enough for it; in the hottest season, the amount of water for irrigation is increased to two buckets, and from mid-August, watering of deytsia is stopped altogether. After watering, the soil around the bush is loosened to a depth of 20-25 cm; if weeds appear, they are removed. It is necessary to feed the plant monthly, adding 3-4 liters of liquid manure to each bush. Twice a season the action is fed with complex mineral fertilizers - 120-150 g for each bush. Fertilizing is applied only during the flowering period.

Transplantation of action.

To the question of when to transplant deutia, the answer is clear: only in the spring, since transplanting deutia in the fall does not leave the plant time to take root in a new place before the onset of cold weather. The bush should be carefully dug up without destroying the earthen ball on the roots: the plant is dug around the perimeter of the crown projection, removed from the ground along with the root ball and moved to a new hole, into which drainage is first placed and 20-30 g of complex mineral fertilizer are added. Fill the hole with a soil mixture of the same composition as during the initial planting, then carefully compact the soil and water the transplanted bush abundantly. After replanting, it is advisable to cut down all the old branches, shorten the remaining shoots by a third, and mulch the tree trunk with peat. Adult deutia bushes may be sick for a long time after transplantation, but young plants take root quite quickly.

Action trimming.

Growing deutia includes a procedure such as pruning. There are shrubs that can be pruned after a year or even two. Deytsia requires pruning twice a year - in spring and autumn. In the fall, branches that bloomed this year are shortened to the base or to the first strong bud, old branches are cut out, as well as those that thicken the bush. In addition to taking sanitary measures after flowering, the crown of the bush is formed. In the spring, they do sanitary pruning, shortening frozen branches and cutting off branches broken during the winter. If you got hurt most of shoots, and the root system of the bush is well developed, the plant is pruned “to the stump”. In the same way, rejuvenating pruning of action is carried out.

Pests and diseases of action.

The plant is largely resistant to diseases and pests, but occasionally deutia suffers from a bumblebee-like proboscis that eats its leaves. You can get rid of the pest by treating the bush with a fifteen percent solution of phthalophos or karbofos.

Action after flowering

Blooming deutia is a beautiful sight, pleasing to the eye for quite a long time, but eventually the flowering stops and autumn comes, which will very soon be followed by winter. Deytsia has very low cold resistance. Since deutia blooms on last year’s shoots, it is most important to protect them from frost in winter, otherwise the bush will lose its decorative effect for the entire next year. In areas characterized by snowy winters without severe frosts, it is enough to simply bend the bush to the ground.

Planting and caring for action in the Moscow region or other areas with cold winters includes all the listed and described points, and nevertheless differs somewhat from caring for the plant in the southern regions, because the frosty winters of the middle zone require mandatory shelter for the wintering period. And if your winters are frosty but snowless, you will need more serious measures to protect the shrubs from the cold than snow. One of these reliable methods is air-dry shelter, which is used when preparing hydrangeas for winter: the bush is laid on the ground, a frame is built above it, on which dry leaves are poured or spruce branches are thrown, the frame is covered with lutrasil on top, and on top of it - plastic film so that moisture cannot get inside the frame. This method is suitable for covering young bushes whose branches are easy to bend to the ground. Adult bushes are tied with twine or twine, and wrapped on top with breathable material, for example, spunbond, burlap or lutrasil - this will keep the shelter warm and prevent the buds from drying out.

Types and varieties of action

Among the cultivated species and varieties of deutia, there are more or less popular ones. We will introduce you to most of them, and it’s up to you to decide which type or variety you prefer.

Amur action, or small-flowered (Deutzia amurensis)

extended to Far East, North Korea and China. In Russia it is protected in several nature reserves. It grows in oak and coniferous-deciduous forests, and is found even at an altitude of 1400 m above sea level. It is a deciduous shrub up to two meters high with a spreading bush shape. The brown bark of the branches turns gray with age. The leaves are opposite, elliptical, up to 6 cm long, wedge-shaped at the base and pointed towards the apex, finely serrated, pubescent on both sides, ash-green or bright green in spring and summer, yellow-brown or ocher in autumn. Multi-flowered corymbose inflorescences up to 7 cm in diameter consist of white flowers devoid of aroma. Flowering lasts three weeks, starting at the end of June. The inconspicuous fruits of the dirty yellow color They are almost spherical boxes. This type of action is moisture-loving, light-loving, resistant to smoke, gases and drought, grows quickly and begins to bloom early.

Deutzia gracilis

comes from the mountains of Japan, it is small in height - from 50 cm to one and a half meters, the shape of the bush is round, the branches are thin, arched, the flowering is abundant. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, elongated and pointed towards the apex, with an unequally serrated edge, up to 6 cm long, light green. On the lower side of the plate the leaves are bare, and on the upper side they are covered with star-shaped hairs. White flowers, collected in erect multi-flowered racemes up to 9 cm long, open in mid-July and bloom for about 35 days.

Deutzia scabra

grows wild in China and Japan. This is a shrub up to 2.5 m high, very graceful, with reddish or brown bark that peels off over time, elongated dull green leaves 3 to 8 cm long, pubescent with small star-shaped hairs, which is why the leaves become rough. This species blooms later than all others. Flowering of slightly pinkish or white racemes up to 12 cm long lasts two to three weeks. Deytia rough has various decorative forms:

– double – double flowers, pink on the outside, white on the inside;
– pure white – with double white flowers;
– Vaterera – with white flowers on the inside and carmine on the outside;
– pink-double – the most frost-resistant form with double pink flowers;
– white-spotted – with small white specks on the leaves.

Deutzia magnifica (Deutzia magnifica)

- a hybrid between Deutia rough and Deutia Vilmorin, which is an erect shrub up to 2.5 meters high. Its leaves are elongated-ovate. The bloom of white double flowers, collected in large umbrella panicles up to 10 cm long, is so abundant that the shoots of the plant bend in an arc under their weight. Flowering begins in July and lasts about three weeks. Deutzia splendid is one of the most beautiful species.

Deutzia longifolia

a shrub from one to two meters high with pubescent shoots and finely toothed leaves, dark green on the upper side and grayish-green with pile on the underside, up to 12 cm long. Pink-lilac flowers, and purple flowers in buds with a diameter of up to 2.5 cm bloom in the second half of July. There is a long-leaved variety called Veitch, which has darker colored flowers.

Deutzia x lemoinei

is a hybrid between Deutia parviflora and Deutia gracilis - an early and abundantly flowering shrub about two meters high. Snow-white flowers, up to 2 cm in diameter, are collected in small inflorescences up to 10 cm long. In addition to abundant, beautiful and long-lasting flowering, this hybrid also attracts with its good winter hardiness. May be of great interest to gardeners decorative varieties this hybrid:

– Boule de neige– a shrub up to one and a half meters high with white flowers up to 2.5 cm in diameter;
– Mont Rose- a bush of the same height with large bright pink flowers with the edges of the petals curled in such a way that the yellow anthers are visible;
– Pink Pom Pom – new variety with carmine buds and bright pink double flowers in dense hemispherical inflorescences.

In addition to the described species, Deytia purpurea, grandiflora, Wilson's and Vilmorin's are also found in cultivation.

The deutia plant belongs to the hydrangea family and is a perennial with a fairly long flowering period. Deutia flowers are very unusual, and this is still an exotic plant for our gardens and can be easily grown in your own garden. The shrub is unpretentious, and its only drawback is the need to cover the flower for the winter in the middle zone.

Action, brief description

Deutzia in the description is a deciduous shrub reaching only one and a half to two meters in height. A characteristic feature of the deutzia shrub is the peeling of the bark, which is also characteristic of other representatives of the Hydrangeaceae genus. On old shoots you can see the bark hanging from them like rags. This is not a sign of disease, but a normal property of adult shoots.

The homeland of this amazingly beautiful shrub is Japan and China. The plant is very widespread in the wild in North America and some regions of Europe. In the southern part of Russia you can also find this bush in nature.

Although caring for this ornamental plant is somewhat troublesome, the beauty of the flowering shrub makes you forget about the time and effort spent. Deutzia is a unique plant that looks simply magical when in bloom. Be sure to plant a delightful deutia on your site, which will decorate your summer garden.

Common varieties

A huge number of bred varieties of deutia allow you to create an original, memorable garden design. Some varieties of shrubs are suitable for creating barriers.

Through the efforts of selectors, a truly unique variety of deutzia was developed - Pink Pom Pom. The flowers of the variety are pink, double and numerous. The foliage is rough and dark green. The variety is distinguished by a long flowering period, which can last all summer.

Deytsia is hybrid. This variety was obtained by crossing the graceful and Amur deutzia varieties. With good care, the shrub can reach a height of 2 meters. It blooms with snow-white flowers in July. The leaves are dark green in color, rough, and turn red in autumn. This variety is distinguished by cold resistance.

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When to plant

The best time to plant a bush in your garden is spring, when the soil has already warmed up a little, but the buds on the trees have not yet opened. If you buy a seedling with closed roots, you can plant it in open ground in mid-June. But before you plant the beautiful deutia in your garden, it is important to choose a site for it where it will develop well.

Deutia bushes are best planted in open areas. But at the same time, the plant does not like direct sunlight at midday. Keep in mind when selecting a site that the shrub will not grow well in a place open to cold northern winds and drafts.
If we talk about soil preferences, then it must be said that the shrub loves nutritious, moist soil with good drainage. Excellent soil for planting is humus, compost mixed with peat. It is also good to add sand to the planting hole.
If the soil in the selected area is too acidic, and deutzia loves slightly alkaline soil, then lime should also be added to the planting hole.

Landing

Deytsia is a very simple planting and care plant in the open ground. In the selected area, planting holes are dug approximately 50 cm deep. Broken brick, expanded clay or stones are placed at the bottom of the pit as a drainage layer. The thickness of the drainage layer should be at least 15 cm. You can add 100 grams of dry nitroammophoska to the soil mixture with which the hole will be filled.

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