Honeysuckle or Lonicera Caprifolium has been widely known since the 16th century. This plant, with charming pinkish-cream flowers and large green leaves, was known to almost all gardeners in Europe. Honeysuckle honeysuckle was one of the most popular climbing plants, used for landscaping gazebos, arches and walls of houses. She was loved mainly for her magnificent flowers and amazing, delicate aroma, intensifying in the evening, as well as for her abundant lush greenery its foliage.

In Russia, honeysuckle honeysuckle gained popularity in the second half of the 19th century, when “German gazebos” came into fashion, which must certainly be entwined with honeysuckle honeysuckle for privacy, evening tea drinking or relaxation and enjoying a pleasant floral aroma. At first, honeysuckle honeysuckle was used by gardeners only in the southern provinces, but over time it took root in more northern ones.

Brief description of honeysuckle honeysuckle

The honeysuckle plant is a deciduous or evergreen, branched or climbing shrub, which during the flowering period is covered with large beautiful flowers, collected in capitate inflorescences. Belongs to the honeysuckle plant family. Honeysuckle honeysuckle, belonging to the same family, is a vine with lush flowers and large green leaves. Young spring shoots have green color light in color, and older branches are covered with brownish-brown bark, which over time begins to peel off in strips. The support can rise to a height of six to seven meters. Under natural conditions, it can be found in southern Europe or the Caucasus. The very name honeysuckle in translation sounds like “goat leaf” - mountain goats love to feast on the young leaves of this honeysuckle.

Honeysuckle blooms in June with beautiful graceful flowers that have a peculiar tubular shape, with long, protruding stamens. The flowering period lasts almost until the end of June. The flowers are collected, as it were, in bunches, sitting tightly in the axils of fused leaves located in the upper part of the shoots. The flower size of this honeysuckle reaches five to six centimeters. The color of the flowers is unusual - inside they can be white or slightly yellowish, and outside they can be purple or even red-violet. During the day they emit a faint aroma, which becomes very strong in the evening - to attract moths that pollinate them.

The fruits - on short stalks of red or red-orange color with several seeds - are poisonous, popularly nicknamed " wolfberry" The leaves are opposite, round-oval, densely leathery, green above and slightly bluish below. The uppermost leaves of honeysuckle honeysuckle are fused in pairs at their bases

Beneficial properties of honeysuckle honeysuckle

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is well known in folk medicine. Her flowers contain essential oils related to aphrodisiacs. Flowers are widely used in homeopathy in the form of alcohol essence. The smell of flowers of this type of honeysuckle is not only very pleasant, but also perfectly lifts your spirits.

In addition to its pleasant smell, honeysuckle has astringent, antiseptic, diuretic and anti-inflammatory properties. It is also used as an antipyretic, expectorant, and diaphoretic for colds. Also is good remedy for healing serious wounds.

Flowers, leaves and stems are used as medicinal raw materials. The procurement of medicinal raw materials is done during the period active flowering honeysuckle honeysuckle. The berries are not used - they are poisonous and cause severe intestinal upset. Medicinal raw materials are dried, crushed and used in the form of decoctions or infusions. Used both internally and externally in the form of lotions and compresses.

Medicinal properties of honeysuckle

Honeysuckle honeysuckle has found its use in folk medicine for the treatment various diseases. The chemical composition of honeysuckle is still poorly understood, but healers know well medicinal properties This plant has been used to treat diseases for quite a long time.

The first mention of this dates back to the eleventh century.

Contraindications

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle beautiful plant, preserving greenery until the depths of autumn. It is widely used as ornamental plant, but at the same time has magnificent medicinal properties. When using certain recipes at home, you must take into account the fact that chemical composition This type of honeysuckle has not been studied well enough.

When using honeysuckle as a medicine, you must strictly adhere to the recipe and recommendations for its use. In addition, you should not use berries - they are poisonous and can cause intestinal upset and severe vomiting. Before using honeysuckle honeysuckle for treatment, it would be more appropriate to consult your doctor.

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

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

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

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

The following varieties of this plant are found:

• few-flowered. It does not bloom too luxuriantly, covered with pinkish and 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.

To propagate by cuttings immediately after the plant has flowered, 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.

You need to plant in prepared soil. To do this, take garden soil (1 part), peat (2 parts), coarse sand (2 parts) and mix. The shoots must be planted in the greenhouse, maintaining 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 the cuttings are transferred to open ground. This is not done right away because in this case many shoots die.

Propagation by seeds

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

Seeds are collected for subsequent propagation during the fruiting period of the plant. The pulp is removed from the berries, the seeds are rinsed and dried. Then they are left for storage in a room with a temperature of +18-20°C. In the year when you plan 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.

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

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

Reproduction by layering

The easiest way to get more honeysuckle bushes is to propagate by layering. To do this, one of the lower branches needs to be cut and rooted into the ground. Best season To carry out this operation - spring.

Honeysuckle - propagation 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 for permanent residence, since the plant really does not like to change places multiple times.

Step-by-step instructions for planting honeysuckle honeysuckle

The plant is preferably planted in spring. If everything is done correctly, it will delight you with shoots by the beginning of summer. By this time they may even have gained some length. Over the course of a year, under favorable circumstances, honeysuckle can gain more than 1.5 meters in height.

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 its abundant color, giving only strong climbing branches of vines.
	Before placing the shoots in their permanent places of residence, 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 a green fence). Holes for individual plants are made up to 60 centimeters deep and the same in diameter. The bottom of the recesses is covered with crushed stone or fragments of bricks as drainage.
	To avoid honeysuckle being affected by diseases, you need to carefully prepare the soil before planting. The soil is mixed with all kinds of fertilizers, both organic and mineral origin. Peat and manure have proven themselves best for these purposes. Then planting material Honeysuckle honeysuckle is transferred to the prepared soil.
	Then you should thoroughly water the soil prepared for planting honeysuckle and loosen it.
	Honeysuckle shoots must be immediately planted where the plants will live permanently. To get a good thick 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

A gardener who wants to get a tall climbing honeysuckle honeysuckle bush that gives abundant color provides the plant with the maximum 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 required quantities. The soil should not be acidic.

Important! It is advisable to maintain a moderate watering schedule when caring for honeysuckle honeysuckle. In spring, it is recommended to add humus to the soil. Dry summers require additional moistening of the foliage, as well as up to three fertilizations of the soil with mullein, which must be done before the middle of the season. The optimal composition for feeding the plant includes potassium, two- or three-year-old manure and nitrogen.

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

Mulching is also carried out for the following purposes:

• weed prevention;
• retention of water in the soil;
• eliminating the need for frequent loosening;
• protecting the land from harmful microorganisms that enter there during irrigation or precipitation;
• preventing overheating of the surface layer of the earth in summer season and hypothermia in winter.

The basis for mulching can be materials of organic origin, such as hay, leaves, sawdust, etc. You can also use mineral materials, such as gravel, small pebbles, sand and the like.

After the honeysuckle branches take on a woody appearance, they begin to become bare. Suffering from this appearance creepers. The solution to the problem is pruning the shoots. At the same time, it is necessary to get rid of dry branches. It is acceptable to leave branches of an old plant on which the bark is slightly peeling.

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

In order for the formation of the bush to occur in the desired direction, care should be taken to create 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 either metal or wood. As the vine grows, its shoots need to be oriented along the support in the desired direction. Mature plant It is highly not recommended to move it from place to place, so before planting you need to prepare for the fact that the honeysuckle honeysuckle will be in the area allocated to it for many years.

To prevent the strong roots of the plant from destroying the foundation of the building, you should maintain at least an 80-centimeter distance from the house when planting the plant.

Most varieties of honeysuckle are self-sterile. It is advisable to plant at least two in the garden different varieties blooming at the same time

Disease Prevention

Creating beauty on personal plot, this plant, like its fellows, is susceptible to disease and invasion of harmful insects. To avoid the destruction of the living fence by the latter, you must adhere to following principles care

1. Pests that traditionally attack 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 a little ash in the composition.
2. Harmful insects will not settle on the plant in winter period, if before dropping the leaves you spray a composition containing.
3. In summer, regularly treat honeysuckle bushes with insecticides.

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

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

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Honeysuckle honeysuckle is a shrub of the Honeysuckle family, found in the wild in southern Europe and the Caucasus. This fragrant vine can be found on the edges and in forests, as well as in well-lit places with moist soil. At home, the variety performs a purely decorative function; it is used only to decorate the site. The bush is often used for vertical wall decoration, hiding unattractive structures in the garden.

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Description

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is a climbing shrub that can reach a height of up to 6 meters. Its young shoots are light green and turn brown with age. The leaves are broadly elliptical, opposite, up to 10 cm long, the upper side is dark green, the lower side is glaucous.

Several pairs of upper leaves can grow together at their bases, forming an elliptical blade. Fragrant flowers presented in inflorescences on rather long tubes and collected in whorls. Flowering lasts up to three weeks, with the life cycle of an individual flower being about 4 days. The red or orange inedible berries ripen in late July or early August. At good care the bush can live more than 50 years.



Reproduction

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is propagated in the following ways:

• dividing the bush;
• seeds;
• layering;
• cuttings.



Seeds

Propagation by seeds is a long process. They germinate very difficult and must be stratified. Seeds should be collected after flowering and seed ripening. They are sown directly into the ground or put in the refrigerator for storage. They must be stored in damp sand. This is how seed stratification is carried out. It is imperative to ensure that they are wet at all times. If sowing is carried out directly into the ground, then seed stratification is carried out in the ground.

Sowing seeds from the refrigerator is carried out in the spring. They are planted in prepared beds along with sand. The emerging shoots are carefully weeded, watered and loosened. The place for seedlings should be shaded so that the sun's rays do not burn them.

Young plants are transplanted to a permanent place in the fall. At first, the bushes are covered for the winter with a layer of mulch - leaves, peat, humus. After 2 years, the vine grows to 1.5–2 meters and is already able to winter on its own, without additional shelter.



Cuttings

Cuttings should be taken at the end of flowering. There should be 2-3 buds on them, lower leaves need to be removed and the top ones shortened by half. The soil for rooting should be loose, as well as water- and breathable. It is prepared from garden soil, compost, humus and sand, which are taken in equal quantities and mixed.

For best result It is recommended to dip the cuttings in Kornevin powder, after which they are planted in rows in prepared beds, watered and covered with film, creating a greenhouse. It is also recommended to regularly ventilate and spray them. After a month, new leaves appear on the cuttings and the shelter can be removed.

In winter, the cuttings are covered with leaves or peat, otherwise they will freeze. In the spring they are planted in a permanent place. To form additional roots when planting, the root collar is slightly deepened. If the cuttings are not further processed, then only 50% of the total will take root.

Rooting by layering

Rooting by layering is the most in a simple way reproduction, but only adults use it for this purpose strong plants, on which there are many new shoots. They select a shoot located near the ground, bend it down and pin it to the ground. Sprinkle it with earth and water it.

If this procedure is carried out in the spring, then by autumn a new shoot with roots appears. It is separated and planted in a permanent place.

Dividing the bush

This method of propagation involves digging up the base of the bush and cutting off part of the rhizome with branches with a sharp shovel. The cut is sprinkled with coal, dried and planted on the prepared area.

You can also completely dig up the entire bush and use a sharp shovel to divide it into parts. All cuts are sprinkled with crushed coal.

Choosing a landing site

Honeysuckle honeysuckle requires careful selection of the planting site:

• The shrub loves abundant moisture and gets sick from its lack. Therefore, it must be planted in fertile and loose soil, avoiding areas with excessively dry soil.
• Honeysuckle loves sunlight. It blooms well in a lighted place, and in a dark place it sprouts.
• In order for a shrub to develop normally, it needs support. In this case, its branches will grow upward. The support can be a vertical surface, the wall of a gazebo or house, or any wooden or metal support.

For the plant you need to choose sandy or loamy soil. If this is not possible, then acidic peat or wet limestone soils are suitable as a substrate.

Landing

To plant honeysuckle honeysuckle, you should dig a hole measuring 50 x 50 x 50 cm. If you plan to design a hedge, then make a trench 0.5 m wide and deep. A drainage layer is laid at the bottom. It should consist of crushed stone, ceramic tiles or broken bricks. To prevent the bush from being damaged by diseases, the soil must be prepared before planting. To do this, the soil is mixed with various fertilizers of organic and mineral origin. It is best to use manure and peat. The soil with fertilizers is dug up 2 weeks before planting.

After this, the seedling is transferred to the prepared hole and dug in, leaving the root collar 5 cm higher than the soil surface. The bush is watered abundantly, when the water is completely absorbed, the tree trunk circle is sprinkled with mulching material: humus, sawdust or peat.

If the plant is planted in a hole, then it grows as a bush, and if in a trench, it grows into a continuous green hedge. In one year, a climbing shrub can rise 2 meters, so supports must be dug in for it.

Care

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is undemanding in care. It only needs to be periodically fed, watered and pruned.

The plant must be fed regularly. In order for it to grow well, it needs a large number of minerals. It is important to feed the vine directly during flowering. To her flowers long time pleased with its beauty, you need to apply liquid fertilizer immediately after planting. In autumn and winter, wood ash is poured under the bush.

In dry weather, honeysuckle should be watered 2 times a week. This strengthens the roots after planting and provides them with proper care. The rest of the time, watering is carried out once a week. Do not allow water to stagnate in the soil. After each watering or rain, the soil under the bush needs to be loosened, while weeding. If the area is mulched with humus or peat, then the need for weeding and frequent loosening is reduced.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is climbing vine, which is used for vertical gardening. When it reaches the required height, its tops are pinched to stimulate the appearance of side shoots. Subsequently, formative pruning is carried out, thanks to which abundant flowering is achieved.

Pruning of honeysuckle is carried out in the spring, after the appearance of young buds. They appear from hidden places on the shoots. Swollen buds are the main sign of a healthy shoot. If the shoot remains bare above the swollen bud, then this part is removed.

The first pruning is carried out immediately after planting the seedling in a permanent place. All weak shoots are removed from a young bush, leaving only the strongest ones in the amount of 3-4 pieces. The remaining stems should be shortened by one third of their length. IN further shrub It is recommended to prune every 5 years, getting rid of only dry and damaged branches, since the main purpose of pruning is to give the honeysuckle a beautiful shape and rejuvenation. If the bushes are very neglected and have a thickened crown, then all old stems are cut off slightly above their base.

Transfer

Caring for honeysuckle honeysuckle involves timely transplanting the plant to a new location. Its main advantage is that not only young shoots, but also adult bushes have a high survival rate. This is usually done after the first light frosts - in the second half of September.

When transplanting an adult plant, consider the following rules:

• Root damage should not be allowed. To do this, the bushes are carefully dug up and, together with the earthen ball, are transferred to a new place.
• The new planting hole should be slightly larger than the previous one.
• The walls and bottom of the pit must be loosened with a pitchfork.
• It is not recommended to bury the bush. This should be done if the soil is light and well cultivated. A depth of 3–5 cm is allowed.
• The soil filling the hole must be fertile and mixed with humus.

Preparing for winter

Adult shrubs of the honeysuckle species honeysuckle do not insulate for the winter. It is recommended to do this with varietal, hybrid and recently planted plants. To do this, the tree trunk circle is insulated with a thick layer of fallen leaves. In preparation for winter, the lashes are removed from the support, rolled into a ring and laid on a bed of dry leaves. The plant is covered with non-woven material or spruce paws.

In this form, honeysuckle can survive the most severe cold. Sometimes some annual shoots freeze slightly, so they are pruned in the spring, as a result of which the bush quickly recovers. This method of covering for the winter is also used for other decorative vines.

Diseases

Although honeysuckle honeysuckle is resistant to diseases and pests, sometimes they can affect it. The bush may get sick powdery mildew, which covers the leaves with a whitish coating. As a result, the leaves become deformed and begin to gradually dry out, and the bush’s winter hardiness decreases. To get rid of it, the plant is sprayed with Topaz, 0.4% Zineb, 0.2% Fundazol, 0.2–1% Topsin-M, 0.5% soda ash and 1% copper-soap liquid. In case of severe damage, cut off all infected shoots.

Sometimes orange-brown spots appear on the surface of the leaves, and reverse side covered with poisonous red pads - spore-bearing plants. This is how it manifests itself fungal disease like rust. It affects both stems and foliage. To eliminate it, plantings are treated with the following preparations: Fitosporin-M, Gaupsin, Gamair, Planriz.

If the shoots of honeysuckle begin to dry out, it means that it has been affected by tubercularosis. Red-brown tubercles appear on the branches, in which spores of the fungi that cause the disease develop. Infected branches must be pruned and burned. There is no other way to fight this disease. For preventive purposes, before bud break, the plant is treated with “Fitolavin” or copper sulfate.

With a disease such as moniliosis, the foliage on the branches of honeysuckle dries out, but does not fall off. The fungus enters the branches through cracks and begins to spread throughout the plant. At the first signs of the disease, diseased shoots are cut off, including a small area of ​​healthy wood. The cut site is treated with preparations containing copper. For prevention purposes, in late autumn the stems are treated with a solution of “Fitolavin”.

Pests

There are insects that feed on honeysuckle leaves. They cannot cause serious damage to the bushes, but they can greatly affect the decorative appearance of the vine.

The honeysuckle banded sawfly lays eggs on the lower part sheet plate. After a while very voracious caterpillars, which eat holes of various shapes in the leaves. They are removed by hand because the number of pests is never too large.

If in summer the leaves on young shoots begin to curl, this means that a currant or rose leaf roller has settled on the plant. This pest makes narrow passages. To get rid of it, the bush is treated with Inta-vir or Decis solution.

At high humidity Ticks begin to actively reproduce. They usually appear in very dense plantings. As a result of their vital activity, the leaves curl and fall off prematurely. Control measures include thinning the plantings and treating with acaricidal preparations.

Use in landscape design

Honeysuckle honeysuckle is often used in landscape design. It is usually used for vertical gardening. It is used to decorate arches, gazebos, and camouflage unattractive buildings and barriers.

If it is planted along the fence, it becomes a decorative hedge. Honeysuckle goes well with coniferous plants and beautiful flowering shrubs such as climbing rose, weigela, deutzia, mock orange.

Liana-like shrubs are often used in decorating gardens and suburban areas. They can decorate straight supports, fences and hedges, walls of houses and outbuildings. They are used to cover the bare trunks of tall trees and create living carpets that spread across the ground. Of all such shrubs, the climbing honeysuckle honeysuckle is especially attractive to designers and amateur gardeners. This plant has many excellent qualities that support its popularity.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle: decorative excellence

Honeysuckle's natural habitat is the Caucasus, the middle and southern parts of the European continent. Despite the fact that these areas have a lot of heat and light, the climbing beauty can withstand the frosts characteristic of middle zone our country. To improve winter hardiness, breeders have developed quite a few varieties of honeysuckle, which grow safely and bloom profusely even in a not very favorable environment.

The unassuming honeysuckle, which belongs to the climbing honeysuckle family, can grow up to 6 meters in length. Old lashes have a brownish-brown color. With age, which can reach 25-30 years, the upper layer of bark on them peels off in narrow, flaking strips.

Young branches, smooth to the touch, are covered with thin green bark. They grow along the main shoots. The speed with which young shoots form and develop is amazing. At favorable conditions natural growth in one season reaches almost half a meter. It is on young branches that flower stalks form.

In summer, honeysuckle is completely covered with green foliage. These are small, 5-7 cm long, elliptical leaves, pointed upward and slightly curved. They are supported by thin petioles and have a leathery, slightly rough texture. The front part of the sheet is almost smooth, the back part is rough. The outer surface is rich green, dark with a bluish tint. The inner one is light, with a beautiful blue. Clearly drawn veins are visible on the surface of the leaves.

Foliage on honeysuckle begins to form from buds that swell with the first warmth of spring. In May and especially at the beginning of June, the entire vine is covered with a green outfit, which lasts the entire season, and gradually falls off in the fall. Some of the foliage is preserved and overwinters on the vines.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle becomes unsurpassedly attractive during the flowering period. This usually occurs over 20-25 days in June. Some species open buds later and last longer. Gardeners who decide to plant climbing honeysuckle can choose plants with for different periods flowering.

Honeysuckle inflorescences are produced in several pieces from the leaf axils, which are located in the upper part of the young shoots. They look like small tubes, up to 5 cm long, slightly opening towards the top. Sometimes they resemble folded openwork umbrellas, which were used by aristocratic people to protect themselves from the sun.

The color of the flowers can be white, pale yellow, purple, cream, red-violet. It all depends on the specific variety of honeysuckle. Inside there is a flower tube usually of a delicate cream and white hue.

In addition to the extraordinary visual effect, honeysuckle amazes the sense of smell with a subtle, pleasant spicy aroma. It is for this property that honeysuckle is also called fragrant honeysuckle. When the plant is completely covered with flowers, the smell becomes more intense and spreads over the entire area.

After the flowers fall, berries-fruits of yellow-orange color are formed in their place. They are not used for food as they are not edible. In August and autumn they become a new decoration of the vine. Thus, honeysuckle retains its decorative properties from early spring until almost winter.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle: decorative and practical possibilities

The climbing honeysuckle honeysuckle grows mainly on supports, so it becomes a profitable acquisition for any small garden plot. She doesn't need a lot of space underneath. The whips can be directed in a certain direction or up the wall of a building, pergola, arch or mesh fence. There will be only a “trunk circle” on the ground, and the bulk of branches, greenery and flowers will be located high above the soil surface.

This ability of honeysuckle gives the gardener a lot of opportunities to decorate the site. He can change the direction of the lashes depending on his desire, create a certain composition, and mask any unsightly places.

When growing honeysuckle, it is important to know that the plant does not have so-called mustaches with which it could spontaneously attach itself to a support. Thin poles are specially arranged for her or trellises are pulled along which the fragrant beauty’s whips are launched.

Honeysuckle is a fast-growing shrub, and in one season it can cover a significant area. It looks especially impressive during the flowering period on the wall of a building. Rising up, it turns into original decoration gray masonry, which significantly transforms not only the house, but the entire site. If, when planting, you combine plants that bloom with multi-colored buds (depending on the type), you can get a completely unusual picture.

To make honeysuckle look more attractive, its owners can trim the main branches and trim the side shoots and young growth. This plant is not at all capricious; it quickly regains its strength and begins to grow. And the manipulations carried out with it contribute to the formation of green mass and new flowers.

Being an excellent honey plant, honeysuckle attracts to the garden beneficial insects. And this is an additional plus if there are vegetable beds on the site. Then the owners are guaranteed to receive good harvest fruits

Fragrant honeysuckle is a natural filter and excellent flavoring agent. It copes well with air pollution, cleans it all season long and fills it with a delicate aroma during the flowering period.

Climbing honeysuckle honeysuckle is a wonderful plant that has practical benefits and has excellent decorative properties.

Choose a fragrant honeysuckle honeysuckle vine for your garden

Among ornamental shrubs Special attention honeysuckle honeysuckle attracts attention fragrant vine. A fast-growing vine can decorate a high fence. separating the area from the road. When installing guide supports, the plant can shoot up 4-5 meters. At the same time, the whip is strewn with large and fragrant inflorescences for a month.

Basic information about the plant

Decorative climbing honeysuckle is a vine that climbs a support, following the designer’s plan. In nature, this plant is found in southern and central Europe and the Caucasus. The name of the species “honeysop” translates as “goat leaf”. We can determine that we have honeysuckle honeysuckle by the following signs:

• shoots are light green, pink-red from the sun;
• the leaves are collected in ellipse-shaped plates;
• flowers on long tubes are collected in a bouquet;
• the aroma of flowers is spicy;
• The orange berries are inedible.

A bare young shoot can use a skeletal branch of a bush in search of support, and then a sloppy green lump is formed. Therefore, it is so important to shape the plant from the first days of its development. The leaves are very dense and elliptical in shape. The pairs grow together into a disk, and a flower panicle develops in the middle of it.

Rising above the ellipse on tall tubes, flowers with protruding stamens and pistils emit a strong pleasant aroma. The flowers themselves are very unusual and decorative. During the period of abundant flowering, decorative honeysuckle honeysuckle is an excellent honey plant. Flowering lasts about a month, resulting in inedible orange berries.

Currently, this type of vine is not cultivated only in northern regions with a sharply continental climate. The reason is that the southern plant freezes out during the winter.

Agrotechnology of decorative climbing honeysuckle

To get a fast growing shoot with abundant flowering you need to create a bush optimal conditions for development. To do this, the vine must be planted in a sunny place with low groundwater. The soil should be light, based on humus, garden turf soil and sand. The reaction must be neutral or slightly alkaline.

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Honeysuckle likes moderate watering and responds well to spring feeding humus. During the summer, it will gratefully accept irrigating watering of greenery during drought and 2-3 fertilizing with full mineral fertilizer or mullein infusion until mid-July; later feeding should not be done so as not to disturb winter hardiness. The soil under the bush should be loosened and mulched.

Decorative honeysuckle honeysuckle responds well to crown-forming pruning, which is carried out in the spring until the first living buds. Dry branches should also be cut out. And slightly peeling bark on an old vine is a generic sign.

Diseases and pests decorative honeysuckle Honeysuckles destroy the beauty of a green fence, so in order to prevent pests and diseases from entering your green fence, you must follow some rules that apply to other plants:

1. The predominance of phosphorus and potassium in the diet makes the plant sap unattractive to aphids and other leaf-eating insects and larvae. To do this in tree trunk circle dissipate superphosphate. ash, lime.
2. Wintering pests can be destroyed if the bushes are sprayed with a 5% urea solution before leaf fall.
3. Use biological preparations Bitoxibacillin, Lepocid and the like for spraying, bacteria from which invade insects and destroy them from the inside.

Prevention is always better than controlling infested insect pests.

Ornamental plants are attractive only when the crown is well formed and the leaves are not damaged by diseases and pests.

Breeding honeysuckle honeysuckle

Anyone who has seen how honeysuckle grows will inevitably want to have this vine in their possession. Honeysuckle honeysuckle can be propagated in several ways:

Honeysuckle honeysuckle can be propagated only with fresh seeds of the second year. The collected fruits should be freed from pulp, washed and dried. Before spring sowing, seeds must undergo stratification. Seeds for seedlings are sown in the spring, and in the summer the grown seedlings are placed in a permanent place.

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Planting material for cuttings is prepared in August. Cuttings with three internodes are rooted in the fall in a special nursery with a sand-peat mixture. In spring, the rooted plant is planted in a permanent place.

The easiest way to propagate honeysuckle honeysuckle is by rooting cuttings, which are cut and dug into the ground on a vine that continues to grow. At the site of the cut, roots are formed, the branch is separated from the vine and planted in a permanent place.

Honeysuckle honeysuckle does not tolerate multiple transplants. When the first roots appear, it is necessary to provide the plant permanent place residence.

Planting and caring for climbing honeysuckle

In advance, at a place determined for the composition, single holes 60 cm deep or a trench are dug, which is filled with fertile soil with a large amount of compost or last year’s manure. It is necessary to apply mineral fertilizers. Don't forget about the ashes so that mineral fertilizers did not deoxidize the soil.

The best time to plant and care climbing honeysuckle is April - May. In a year the plant will rise 2 meters. But in the first two years, the vines need to be removed from their supports for the winter and protected from freezing. During the entire period of growth, the vine requires tending pruning and crown formation.