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Among the many ornamental shrubs, the Red Baron vesicle occupies a special place. A sprawling bush with bright red, shiny leaves, covered in large white-pink flowers at the beginning of summer, leaves no one indifferent. The variety has a height of up to 2. meters, and retains the color of the leaves during the entire warm period.
Bladder care
Plant care does not require special training... It grows well on soils of different composition, does not lose the brightness of the leaf in urban conditions. Carries air polluted by car emissions.
The plant is not afraid of city exhaust gases
In open, sunny areas, the leaves of the vesicle are bright red, forming a dense, dense crown.
In partial shade, the color is preserved. In shady places Red Baron leaves turn brown at the top and green at the bottom.
Despite the unpretentiousness of the plant, the necessary conditions must be observed to allow the bladder to grow well.
| Watering | Mandatory watering, in hot weather 2-3 times a week |
| Loosening | Loosen the soil around the trunks regularly. Be careful not to damage the roots |
| Pruning | Prune twice a year |
| Top dressing | In spring and autumn, feed |
| Tillage | In spring, sanitize the soil around the plant |
Landing in the open field
Saplings are planted in open ground in spring or autumn (April, October). If the seedling has closed roots, i.e. is planted with a clod of earth on the roots, it can be planted in summer. Preparing the seedling pit does not take much time.
- Dig a hole of sufficient depth.
- To lay out nutrient layer to the bottom.
- Place the seedling and sprinkle with earth mixed with nutritious soil.
- Nutrient soil contains a mixture of equal proportions: sand, peat, turf, earth.
As with other flowers, optimal soil is a combination of several components.
The branches of the trunk should be buried in the ground no more than 1-2 cm. After the ground has settled, after a couple of days, add the ground from above until the surface is flat. Do not huddle.
When planting a young seedling do not add fertilizers... The plant will naturally adapt and will not be able to assimilate additional complementary foods.
After planting, water the bladder abundantly. After three to four days, perform the first loosening of the soil.
Cover the root zone with peat to retain moisture.
In the soil on which the bush is planted, there should be no lime.
The bladder takes root well in any soil, if there is no lime. On loamy, loose soil, it produces a brighter, more lush color in both leaves and flowers. On poor, sandy soil, with timely feeding, its qualities are not lost.
Water the plant regularly, but not more often than 2 times a week and drain well.
Possible diseases
Bubble plant Red Baron is very disease resistant and pests.But for good growth, the plant will benefit from hygienic soil cultivation in the spring with bacterial and antifungal drugs, such as: Gamair, Alirin, Fitosporin.
In the spring, when the ground is fully warmed up, it is necessary to add these preparations to the water for irrigation. Calculate the dosage according to the manufacturer's indications. One watering will be enough for the entire growing season.
With great scarcity of soil, the bladder may develop poros... Its manifestations are immediately noticeable, young leaves and shoots acquire an unnatural rusty color and dry out.
The drug helps to eliminate the cause. Filat iron and Firolitam... Porosity in a plant occurs due to a lack of iron in the soil. Watering the root with iron-containing preparations quickly restores health.
In order to relieve chemical stress resulting from processing and to raise the immunity of plants, anti-stress drugs are used, such as Ekogel or Alirin.
Top dressing of the bush
The plant should be fertilized twice a year. Use complementary foods of the following composition:
In the spring:
- 500 ml mullein.
- 25 ml ammonium nitrate.
- 25 ml urea.
- 10 l. water.
In autumn:
- 500 ml mullein.
- 25 ml urea.
- 25 ml ammonium nitrate.
- 50 ml. phosphorus nitrate.
- 10 l. water.
Mix the composition well, the calculation of watering is the same as in the spring.
Bladder breeding
Reproduction of the Red Baron can be done vegetatively (), by dividing the bush and seed.
Layering
This is simplest and an effective way to propagate the plant.
How to do it:
- In the spring, after the first leaves appear, choose a young and strong branch on an adult bush.
- Remove the lower leaves from it.
- At the right distance prepare the pit up to 15 cm deep.
- Lay the branch into the hole, carefully bending it, and pin it down with wooden or iron staples.
- Fill the hole with earth or a mixture of earth and peat.
- Water abundantly.
- Control until autumn timely watering and loosening of the soil.
- In October, separate the layer from the bush, transplant to the chosen place and cover for the winter.
Red Baron gives you a choice of several breeding methods
Cuttings
- Before ejection of color, cut off young shoots up to 20 cm long, with the obligatory two or three renal internodes.
- Remove all leaves from the lower part of the cutting, cut the remaining ones by half.
- Soak in Kornevin's solution for 2-3 days, until the first signs of a future root appear.
- Plant in nutrient soil. The soil for planting cuttings is the same composition as when planting in the ground.
- Cover the seedlings with foil. Water and ventilate regularly. By autumn, the stalk will form the desired root system.
- Cover the stalk for the winter... Transplant to a new location in the spring.
Dividing the bush
The fastest breeding method and at the same time laborious, because an adult bush may have a sufficiently developed root system.
Dividing the bush quickly so that the plant does not dry out the roots:
- Expose the root completely from the side from which you plan to cut off half.
- Separate the desired part of the bush by chopping off the root with a shovel or any other sharp tool.
- Plant the plant in a prepared hole. Fill up with nutritional mixture.
- Drizzle with Kornevin's solution.
- Feed the remaining bush with Kornevin.
It is very difficult and impractical to propagate the bladderworm by seeds at home. Since the Red Baron has been in culture not so long ago, through seed reproduction, it loses a number of decorative qualities.
Pruning
Red Baron is very growing rapidly and needs pruning. If you want to maintain the natural, sprawling growth of branches, you will need sanitary pruning in the spring.
Sanitary
In the spring, before the soil warms up, cut off broken, frozen branches, as well as shoots growing inward. In the fall, when the bush has dropped the foliage, it is examined, excess and dry branches are cut off.
Places of cuts of large shoots can be process with garden varnish.
Formative
Any shape can be formed from the vesicle, round, square, in the shape of a fountain.
If the gardener wants to get a bush with abundant foliage, which, thanks to its beauty and color, will replace flowers, the branches of the second or third year should be cut off and last year's should be left. They are easy to tell apart.
Annual shoots in the spring look almost black, glossy. Leave necessary well wintered branches... They will not flower, but they will produce abundant foliage.
Sharp and clean tools are recommended for trimming.
The branches, which are two or more years old, are whitish, thicker, and the buds are clearly visible on them. The bark of adult branches can flake off - this is a feature of the species. These branches are bound to produce many flowers.
If flowers are preferred, they should be preserved by removing young shoots.
Anti-aging pruning the vesicle is produced at the 6th year... The bush is cut for a stump in October.
Winter care
The Red Baron variety is frost-resistant, tolerates frosts well up to 10C. If winter is supposed to be very cold, then it is better to cover the bush:
- With the onset of the first cold nights, carefully pull the bush with twine.
- Cover the near-stem circle with peat or shavings.
- Cover roofing felt... You can use any other natural insulation.
- Always cover young specimens and seedlings for the winter.
Red baron
The bladder variety Red Baron is considered the most valuable among more than 25 plant varieties. Its flower reaches 25-50 mm in diameter.
Red Baron belongs to the viburnum species, it was brought to Europe from North America, where it usually grows along the banks of rivers. A bright red bush grows up to 2 meters. The leaves are five-lobed, similar to viburnum leaves. The trunk is burgundy.
Kalifolia bladder
The bladder begins to bloom in early summer, throwing out white flowers with a pink tint. After flowering, the fruit is formed by mid-summer. The cluster consists of 3-5 pointed sacs.
At the beginning of ripening, the fruits are green, gradually turning red. By autumn, the fruits acquire a brilliant red-burgundy color.
Hedge
The bladder bush forms wide and dense natural fencing... Due to the rapid growth from the bushes, you can easily form a rectangular or square shape.
Often the plant is planted in a dense row at the base of a mesh or wire fence. During the season, the bushes grow and completely hide the fence.
It is good to plant the bubble plant in cities for landscaping yards, streets, alleys as a hedge.
Landed by the iron fence the vesicle is always needed insulate for the winter.
Varieties
The Red Baron is often called a grateful plant because of its resistance to sudden changes in temperature. Diseases rarely affect the bladderworm, and pests such as caterpillars, aphids and beetles prefer to feed on other plants.
It is easy to grow a plant in the garden, minimal care... Bubbles, in addition to the Red Baron variety, is famous for the following varieties:
Amur view
| Luteus | A bush up to 3 meters with bright yellow leaves, which darken with the onset of autumn |
| Aureo Marginata | The cultivar has green leaves with a gold rim |
| Nana | A dwarf variety of the Amur species, grows up to 1.5 m.Has a bright green leaf |
Red-leaved or Kalinol-leaved species
Diabolo. Variety of viburnum (red-leaved) vesicle up to 3 meters in height. The leaves are red or burgundy. The flowers of all plants are white, white with a pink tint or pale pink.
The variety of varieties of bladderworm gives every right to call this shrub leafy.
The brightness of the colors that distinguish it from other shrubs is actually amazing. Using the plant for both landscaping and beauty, gardeners get both pleasure and cost savings, because plant seedlings are relatively inexpensive.
The red baron is one of the most interesting breeding varieties. In central Russia, it is a favorite plant of gardeners and nursery owners.It tolerates severe winters and dry summers well, reacts gratefully to timely, albeit minimal, care. The shrub reveals all its decorative qualities in open sunny areas of the garden. Red Baron grows well in partial shade, but at the same time its leaves lose their purple color, becoming green. The plant has other interesting features as well.
Bubbles red baron
Bubble plant red baron - decorative secrets
This variety of vesicle is decorative in everything: foliage, stems, flowers, fruits. The three-lobed leaf shape is similar to the shape of viburnum leaves. Corrugated foliage has a beautiful purple hue, which becomes darker, bronze by autumn.
An elegant dense crown is formed by long shoots, curved in an arc. The bark is red-brown and almost merges with the color of the foliage. The culmination of decorativeness is considered to be the time of flowering of the red baron. Usually, by mid-June, all shrubs have already faded. But this variety is just beginning to be decorated with pink-white inflorescences, consisting of many small flowers. Against the background of other plants "Red Baron" effectively performs solo. And since it perfectly tolerates the conditions of the city, it can be found in parks, squares, on the streets and in gardens.
By the fall, amazing fruits appear on the spreading crown of this Kalinol-leaved vesicle. They are in the form of swollen boxes. When pressed, they make a sound similar to the collapse of a bubble. Hence the name of this plant comes from. Their color in the process of ripening and drying gradually changes from pinkish-red to reddish-brown.
Despite the fact that the beloved shrub of American origin can be found even in the front gardens of rural grandmothers, not many people know what it is called. The people for the peculiarity of dumping the bark during the growing season called him "shameless". The old bark leaves in thin plates, and a tender young skin is already visible along the entire length of the shoots at this time.
Features of growing and rules of care
The features of planting red baron Kalinolistnogo practically do not differ from the planting of other varieties of vesicle. The place for this plant is chosen sunny, so that the foliage will show all its decorative qualities. Red Baron Kalinolistny grows well in the shade, but the leaves turn green. The shrub will look very ordinary.
Young seedlings with an open root system are chosen in early spring or autumn, before the onset of the first frost. The appearance of the seedling will tell about its health. Before planting, the roots must be soaked in water for two to three hours so that they are not too dry. Container plants can be planted throughout the season.
Planting holes are dug to a depth of 60 centimeters, where nutrient soil is poured. The Red Baron does not have any special requirements for the condition of the soil, but needs a good drainage layer. After planting, the soil around the seedlings should be well tamped and watered abundantly.
Fast-growing shrub usually tolerates severe frosts well. But young shoots and tops of old branches can freeze out. Therefore, in early spring, it is imperative to do sanitary pruning. The red baron bladder variety is also sheared for the purpose of giving any garden shape. This is well reflected in the growth and further development of the shrub.
The plant tolerates drought well, but it can die from stagnant moisture. The rules for caring for him are quite simple: timely pruning, top dressing, fairly rare watering, loosening the soil and removing weeds. This type of bladderworm is very resistant to diseases and pests. However, preventive treatment will avoid potential problems.
A fast growing plant will fill the disadvantageous voids in your garden within 1 to 2 years. The height of the shrub can reach 2 - 3 meters. The crown diameter is the same.
This variety is propagated by dividing the bush, layering or cuttings. Growing by seeds is not recommended as young seedlings will not take on all the decorative qualities of the mother plant.
Use in landscape design
The luxurious appearance of the shrub and its unpretentiousness make it a favorite material for landscape designers. It can be found both on the streets of the city and in small villages, in summer cottages. It can be an element of the design of the main entrances and places for celebrations.
The Red Baron is often used in complex garden compositions, where it can be used as a soloist and also as a wonderful backdrop for flowers. The shrub perfectly plays the role of a tapeworm in the undergrowth against the background of coniferous and deciduous plantings.
From this type of bladder, chic, dense hedges are obtained, which become a real decoration of any garden, suburban area or any recreation area. In addition, it is a pleasure to care for such a hedge. The work does not take much time, and the result is pleasing for a long time.
The shrub looks great in a solo or group planting on the lawn. If you combine it with other types of plants and give it any garden shape with the help of a haircut, the effect will be simply amazing.
Among the large number of ornamental plants, only a few can boast of absolute unpretentiousness and high decorativeness. These plants also include the viburnum bladder.
This plant is grown because of its spectacular appearance: a spherical dense crown of spreading drooping branches with large corrugated leaves looks magnificent from top to bottom.
Blooming bladder
Planting the bladder
The plant is tolerant of shade, but the color of the leaves fades over time with shading, so it is advisable to plant this shrub in an open and sunny place. The shrub has only two conditions for the soil - the absence of lime and the presence of drainage. Of course, a more lush appearance in a vesicle will be on fertile, loose and fresh soil, but on a substrate that is poor in nutrients, it will also look good. Another advantage of this plant can be considered its resistance to air pollution, so it can be safely planted next to roads.
For planting
bladder
it is advisable not to use the seeds, since the plant transmits its original color of leaves only to parts of the offspring. It is best to purchase plants with a closed root system, that is, grown in special containers, in nurseries or garden centers for the initial planting. Such bushes can be planted during any period of the growing season (spring, summer or autumn). For planting, you need to dig a hole 50 cm deep and in diameter, at the bottom of which a peat-based garden soil is added or
humus
.
Planting the bladder
In the future, the bladder bush is carefully removed from the container (the main thing is not to damage the root ball and not straighten it) and put it in the prepared planting pit. Then the pit is covered with fertile soil, and it is desirable to deepen the plant itself to 5 cm - this procedure will help give the bladder additional shoots from dormant buds.
After that, water the bush abundantly with water and Kornevin's solution, as soon as the water is absorbed,
mulch
near-trunk circle (even a simple dry earth is suitable for this). With this treatment, a surface crust does not form and the roots of the vesicle will be able to receive the amount of air they need.
Reproduction of the bladder
You can propagate the bladder by dividing the bush, layering or cuttings.
Propagation of the vesicle by layering
Layering as a method of propagation of the vesicle gives very good results. For layering, a healthy and strong outward shoot must be selected.Almost all leaves are removed from it, leaving only those on the top. Then we put the prepared shoot in a groove (groove depth up to 15 cm) and pin it to the ground (wooden staples are perfect for this purpose).
Propagation of the vesicle by layering.
Propagation of the vesicle by cuttings
For propagation of the vesicle by cuttings, it is necessary to use green shoots that have grown in the current year. The separated shoots must be soaked in any root formation stimulant (for example, in a solution of the same Kornevin) and planted in a substrate of sand with peat or in river sand.
Propagation of the vesicle by cuttings.
Bladder care
The bladder is an unpretentious plant to care for, although some features are present. The shrub itself lives up to a quarter of a century and develops rapidly during the growing season. Under good conditions, in one year of time, the vesicle is able to add up to 40 cm both in height and in width. Therefore, to give the bush the shape you want and stimulate branching, careful pruning is needed.
The plant tolerates the procedure itself steadily and painlessly and later quickly grows overgrown with young shoots. A big plus of the shrub is excellent winter hardiness, in the middle lane it hibernates without shelter, and only in severe frosts can the tips of the shoots be damaged.
Seed capsules of the Luteus cultivar
Pruning
Pruning the bladder needs both sanitary and bush-forming. Sanitary pruning is carried out in the spring and consists of pruning broken and frozen branches. Well, the formative pruning is necessary so that the bush does not play pranks and grows as you need it 🙂 It is also carried out in the spring (before budding on the bush) or in the fall, after the end of the vegetative period.
Since most varieties of the viburnum bladder are fountain-shaped, with the correct formative pruning, the upper buds of the plant wake up and grow. Therefore, there are two main options for formative pruning. To get a powerful and wide bush with a large number of trunks, we prune at a height of 40-50 cm.And to give the bush a more pronounced fountain-like shape, it is necessary to cut out all the thin shoots at the base of the bush, while leaving up to 5 of the strongest and most powerful, which, for stimulation of growth, also cut additionally at a height of 1.5 m.
Watering
The frequency of watering the bush bushes depends on the type of soil, the climatic zone where the shrub grows and its age. If in the area where the plant grows, high temperatures in summer are possible and the bush is planted on light loamy soils, then it is necessary to water the plant from the end of the spring season until the onset of autumn.
At the same time, watering is done regularly (at least 2 times a week), pouring up to 40 liters of water under an adult plant. When the bladder bush grows on lawns or on heavy clay soil, another danger is possible - overflow. With excessive moisture, the bladder bush is easily affected by powdery mildew, and this can lead to the death of the plant.
Top dressing
Top dressing of the bladder is carried out in the spring and autumn periods: in early spring
nitrogen-containing fertilizers
and in autumn
mineral
... In the spring, mullein, urea and ammonium nitrate are used (based on 10 liters of water, we take a half-liter can of mullein, a tablespoon of ammonium nitrate and urea).
In autumn, you can use nitroammophoska (1 matchbox for 10 liters of water). Adult plants (10-20 years old) will need up to 15 liters of solution when feeding.
Bladder varieties
For the decorative decoration of the site, several varieties of the viburnum bladder are used (
Physocarpus opulifolius
), which are usually grouped into two groups of varieties: red-leaved and yellow-leaved.
The following varieties are red-leaved:
- Diablo ciliates
It grows up to 3 m in height, the leaves are glossy, purple-red.When planted in a shaded area, the foliage turns green with a slightly noticeable purple color.
Vine-leaved bladder, cultivar Diablo
- Bubble-leaf Summer Wine
Bushes of this variety grow up to 2 m in height. In spring, the foliage has a wine-red color, which changes to green in summer.
Bubble-leaf summer Wine.
- Bubble plant Red Baron
Bubble plant "Red Baron" pleases with pink flowers at the time of flowering and red berries during their ripening. Grows up to 2 m in height.
Bubble plant Red Baron
The most common yellow-leaved varieties include the following:
- Vine-leaved bicarp Luteus
The bush "Luteus" has a height of bushes up to 3 m, leaves in the shade of a green-yellow color, in open sunny places of a yellow hue.
Vine-leaved bicarp Luteus
- Bubble-leaf Dart's Gold
The bushes of this variety grow up to 1.5 m, the leaves when blooming are orange-yellow, green in summer, and yellow-bronze in autumn.
Bubbles of Kalinolistny Dart's Gold.
Both in city flower beds and in private front gardens, you can often see an ornamental plant - a vesicle. It has wide and flat leaves in a variety of colors, from rich green to burgundy. Bubbles are loved to be used in landscape design due to its unpretentiousness and cold resistance, especially such varieties as "Red Baron", "Nanus", "Darts Gold" and others.
Bubble plant "Red Baron" - planting and care
"Red Baron" - one of the most interesting breeding varieties of the vesicle. Its name speaks for itself: the leaves of this plant are dark red, and in the fall they acquire a bronze color. As for the flowers of the bladder, the "Red Baron" is distinguished by abundant flowering - the bush of this plant is literally strewn with pale pink medium-sized flowers. The bladder of this variety is a dense bush with a dense crown in the shape of a hemisphere (for this, it must be cut in a timely manner). It should be noted that "Baron" is a spectacular plant, moreover, fast-growing. The bubblegum feels good in urban conditions, it is quite unpretentious, it grows both in the sun and in partial shade. However, the more shaded the place you choose for planting, the less bright the foliage near the bush will be: in the shade, it usually turns green.
Planting Kalinolistny "Red Baron" is no different from other Kalinolisty vesicles. It is produced in the spring (ideally before the leaves bloom) or in the fall, in mid-September. It is advisable to soak the roots for a couple of hours before planting, and pour nutrient soil into the planting hole 60 cm deep. The bladder is not picky about the quality and acidity of the soil, but pay attention to the need for drainage. After planting, water the plant well, and tamp the soil.
This variety is distinguished by its frost resistance, however, the tops of the branches and young shoots can freeze slightly in very cold and snowy winters. If this happens, in the spring the frozen parts of the plants must be cut off.
The vesicle does not tolerate stagnation of moisture - it is better to dry it than overmoisten it. Paradoxically, the less attention you pay to the plant after planting, the better for it. It is enough just to periodically cut and water the plant and loosen the ground.
"Red Baron" grows quickly, and if there are "problem" empty spaces in your garden, the bubblegum will close them in just 1-2 years. The bush reaches a height of 1.5-2 m, approximately the same will be the diameter of the crown.
