Honeysuckle honeysuckle: description of the variety with photo, planting, cultivation, care, reviews

Disease prevention

Creating beauty in the backyard, this plant, like its brothers, is susceptible to disease and the invasion of harmful insects. In order to avoid the destruction of the last living fencing, it is required to adhere to the following principles of care.

1. Pests that traditionally attack plant leaves, such as aphids and insect larvae, do not like when potassium and phosphorus are found in the liquid media of the plant. Irrigation of honeysuckle bushes with a mixture of lime and superphosphate will help provide these substances. You can also include some ash in the composition.
2. Harmful insects will not settle on the plant in winter if you spray a composition containing urea around the plant before throwing off the foliage.
3. In the summer, regularly treat the honeysuckle bushes with insecticides.

Shrinking branches of honeysuckle

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

Blooming honeysuckle honeysuckle

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

Description of honeysuckle Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle Caprifoil has a pleasant aroma and unique flowers, creates coziness and shade in the garden or in the gazebo. In the wild, the plant is found in southern Europe, in the Caucasus mountains, lives up to 50 years.

The original name of the honeysuckle Caprifolium is Loniсera caprifolium, which means "folium" - a leaf, "carpa" - a goat

These curly bushes up to 6 m long have different shades of flowers, always attract the attention of passers-by

Appearance

The shrub has bright green ellipsoidal leaves, vertically growing branches 4-5 m long (depending on the age of the honeysuckle). Gray-green shoots turn red in the sun, tightly twine around any support. The leaves gradually grow together into a disk, in the middle of which, first a flower is formed, then a bunch of ripe berries.

The flowers of honeysuckle Honeysuckle have a delicate pleasant aroma and decorative appearance. They become a source of inspiration and a symbol of beauty, but at the same time they are not edible, do not contain medicinal properties. This is the characteristic difference between Honeysuckle and other varieties of honeysuckle. The plant smells intensely in summer, while the aroma intensifies in the evening.

Honeysuckle has red, blue, purple, white and yellow flowers. When ripe in late July and early August, they turn deep orange or bright red. Each flower individually lives no more than 3 days, after which it fades. The flowering period of the entire shrub lasts no longer than 3 weeks.

Sprouting

If supported, the honeysuckle grows up to 6 m in length. Thanks to this property, the shrub becomes a vertical gardening for summer cottages and household plots. For proper growth, form a bush during the planting period, find him a reliable support. Otherwise, honeysuckle loses its decorative appearance.

In the wild, Honeysuckle is found on sunny edges and in forests, and grows up to 1 meter in length in a year. Due to its beauty and vertical crimp, it has been planted in the gardens of Russia since the 19th century.

Honeysuckle varieties

Honeysuckle is considered the most beautiful honeysuckle among the 10 varieties. Gardeners are attracted by the variety of colors and shades, the preservation of the decorative appearance even after the flowering of the bush. The most popular varieties of honeysuckle Caprifoli with a brief description:

• Low-flowered. A pale red bush with few flowers.
• Alba.Early flowering bush, blue or white flowers.

Other decorative varieties of honeysuckle are also used to create landscape design:

• Inga. Flowers of white, pink, red and yellow color with an intense odor, collected in capitate inflorescences.
• Thalmann. Flowers are yellow-hot in color with a moderate aroma, they look like lights on the bushes.
• Belgica Select. The flowers are purple or pink, the fruits are red. The plant blooms 2 times a year - in May, then - in August-September.
• Harlequin. Flowers of pale pink color with a moderate aroma, decoration of many gazebos in the garden.
• Graham Thomas. The flowers are long, white-yellow in color with a pleasant aroma. Bloom from the second half of July to September.

Types and popular varieties

The genus Honeysuckle includes up to 200 species of shrubs and lianas, including crops with edible fruits. In gardening, preference is given to decorative curly species. Their densely leafy stems rise high up, the flowers are unusually beautiful and often fragrant. The fruits are brightly colored. In climbing vines, they are often poisonous.

The oldest and most famous cultivated species of honeysuckle is w. Honeysuckle (or fragrant). This vine blooms earlier than others, in June. Creamy or pink-yellow lush flowers bloom in the late afternoon and fill the entire garden with their aroma, luring butterflies. From the middle of summer, the flowers darken, up to brown shades. In autumn, honeysuckle is strewn with bright fruits, reddening in a ring of large accrete leaves. This species is winter-hardy.

Honeysuckle Honeysuckle

It is much more thermophilic. Curly (German, Lithuanian). Its white, pink or purple flowers are excellent melliferous plants, and its purple fruits are poisonous. The brightest variety of this species is "Serotina". Lianas of this variety are decorated with crimson flowers.

Curly Honeysuckle

North American species Brown in the middle lane requires shelter for the winter. It has very decorative foliage, bluish below and bright green above. Large tubular flowers are carrot-colored. The variety "Dropmore Scarlet" is interesting for its orange color of flowers.

Brown's honeysuckle

The most hardy species is w. Tatarskaya. In May, the entire bush is covered with medium-sized white or pink flowers. Sorts "Amold Red" and "Morgen Orange" - with red, "Elegant" - with striped bright red flowers.

Honeysuckle Tatarskaya

Well known for its abundant flowering. Korolkov. Its pale pink flowers cover the bush so tightly that no branches or foliage are visible.

Korolkov's honeysuckle

Unlike other species, w. Gerald does not shed her foliage for the winter. In the spring, when young shoots grow, last year's foliage falls off. The yellow flowers are very fragrant.

Gerald's honeysuckle

Features of growing different types of decorative honeysuckle in the regions

Among the types of decorative honeysuckle there are curly and erect. It is the curly honeysuckle that is grown much more often than others.

Erect honeysuckle

Of the upright species, Tatar honeysuckle (a dense shrub up to 4 meters in height) and Korolkov's honeysuckle (well-trimmed, used for highly decorative hedges) are more or less known. Both species are quite drought and frost-resistant and are grown in different regions, often do not require shelter for the winter, especially for the Tatar honeysuckle.

Many upright honeysuckle species are also very decorative during the flowering period.

Alpine honeysuckle (shrub no more than a meter in height) is distinguished by its shade tolerance and winter hardiness, it grows for many years and can also be planted in almost any climate. Covering honeysuckle (shrub up to 3 meters high with beautiful flowers) lives up to 100 years, is not afraid of severe frosts, but requires high soil moisture.

Curly honeysuckle

Of the lianas (climbing species), it is the honeysuckle that is most widely known.In addition to it, for decorative purposes honeysuckle called "German honeysuckle" is planted, blooming with large flowers that attract bees, but it is much more thermophilic and feels good only in warm regions. A vine called Brown's honeysuckle is very picky: it can grow only on highly fertile soils, does not tolerate dry weather. Hecrotte's honeysuckle makes similar demands.

Brown's honeysuckle has very original flowers, but it is more difficult to grow than honeysuckle.

Thus, we can say that among the types of decorative curly honeysuckle, only honeysuckle is relatively unpretentious, which, due to its properties, is planted in almost all regions of our country, except for the north itself. In the northern regions, special conditions must be created for growing honeysuckle, especially carefully covering it for the winter.

The agricultural technology of decorative honeysuckle is radically different from the agricultural technology of edible honeysuckle. For the latter, the conditions of cold regions are preferable to those in the south: in heat and drought, edible honeysuckle grows poorly and bears fruit poorly. Edible honeysuckle is rarely cultivated south of Tambov or Samara, and in the Crimea and Ukraine, its cultivation has no practical value.

Ornamental honeysuckle, on the contrary, is much easier to grow in the south: there the liana does not even need to be removed from the supports for the winter, and in cold regions, honeysuckle must be sheltered from frost. In the wild, honeysuckle grows in the Crimea, the Caucasus and European countries, it is even called Italian honeysuckle. As it has been growing for many decades in the Crimean forests, not knowing what winter is, so in gardens and near houses, it also feels calm in winter.

Where the temperature in winter drops below 20 degrees below zero (this is an approximate figure), honeysuckle has to be protected from frost. It grows successfully in the Moscow region, and even in the Leningrad region. Some amateurs, for fear and risk, do not cover the honeysuckle for the winter. Some varieties really tolerate frost well, but many freeze from the tops. Subsequently, they recover, but this takes time and effort. Therefore, at the end of October, in problem regions, vines are lowered from supports and covered, for example, with coniferous spruce branches or spunbond. This is especially required for young plants, in the first 2–4 years of life.

Covering vines is not easy, but in harsh climates you have to

In Crimea, as in other southern regions of our country and Ukraine, honeysuckle grows well, blooms profusely. It is usually planted in the spring, choosing a place according to the principle of "head in the sun, and legs in the shade", that is, where the bloom will be in the sun, and the roots are wrapped from the heat so that soil moisture does not evaporate. The Crimean climate, if not talking about the coast, is famous for its heat and dry air, so you often have to water the vine. In top dressing, they try not to overdo it with nitrogen, so that the foliage does not fill the entire vine to the detriment of flowering. Otherwise, caring for honeysuckle in the region is carried out according to general rules.

Video: honeysuckle in Siberia

There are many types of decorative honeysuckle, but curly ones are especially appreciated, among which honeysuckle stands out. She decorates the walls of houses, gazebos, hedges: the liana looks great both during flowering and with red fruits. Caring for decorative honeysuckle is simple, it is grown in almost all regions.

Advantages and disadvantages of honeysuckle honeysuckle

It is worth listing some of the advantages of honeysuckle honeysuckle, as well as some of its disadvantages. Of course, the plant has many advantages, and many designers have included honeysuckle as a designer plant.

Let's list a few positive features that perfectly distinguish honeysuckle against the background of many other landings:

it is very easy to care for honeysuckle;
it gives excellent flowering, which makes it very decorative;
there are a huge number of colors and shades that honeysuckle gives during flowering;
honeysuckle very quickly adapts to weather conditions, wherever it grows or ends up;
a very pleasant aroma comes from honeysuckle;
it can give active growth even if it is located in not the most favorable conditions for itself;
honeysuckle can grow to such shapes and sizes that it becomes a magnificent hedge in the plots;
thanks to honeysuckle, honeysuckle on the garden plot, you can create a shade, and all this will be in the fresh air - as you need after a long working day to rest;
Honeysuckle has a high immunity and resistance to stress, as it is very important for any plant that grows in personal plots.

Of course, when a gardener chooses certain varieties, he should also pay attention to the fact that honeysuckle has its drawbacks. Because of them, the impression of the plant can deteriorate too much, and sometimes the honeysuckle can cause some trouble in the care.

• The fruits of honeysuckle are completely non-edible, they can also be just decorative and a little poisonous.
• Flowering takes place very quickly, some complain that sometimes they do not even have time to enjoy it - the flowers fade in literally three days.
• The branches must be cut periodically, as it is a very tall and climbing plant. And in order for it to look neat and not thickened, you need to carefully look after it. The support must necessarily be formed in advance, because how the plant will look and how it will feel will depend on its presence.
• External data when transplanting honeysuckle can noticeably suffer, so initially the plant should be planted in this way so that it feels comfortable in a given area.
• The bush should be formed, and it should also be watered regularly - these are also conditions that should be followed when caring for honeysuckle.

Choosing a place, preparing holes

Every gardener can grow a plant, regardless of his skill level, the main thing is to choose the right place for growing, prepare planting holes and provide all the conditions for care.

For landing, it is preferable to choose the side from the south. Light partial shade will not affect flowering and fruiting. If you plant a plant in a very shaded place, growth will not slow down, the shoots will continue to trail, but the flowers will not appear so intensively. Curly species grow in both light shade and sunny areas. Vines twine well if sunlight hits the stems.

Since the flowers of ornamental honeysuckle attract bees and other insects, the plant should be planted away from the gazebo where people are located for rest. Support structures for climbing varieties are best built and installed immediately before planting so as not to damage the roots when the plant begins to grow. Obelisk supports look very attractive and impressive. They can be made of different materials: metal (the strongest and most reliable support), willow rods and wooden slats.

Did you know? Homemade bonsai can be grown from Japanese honeysuckle by properly shaping and twisting the shoots.

Honeysuckle grows well in a variety of soil types, but like many other plants, it prefers a well-drained, loose, humus-rich soil.
Ornamental honeysuckle does not like soils with the advantage of sand and clay, as well as wetlands. Soils with a neutral alkaline reaction (pH 5.5 to 8) are well suited.

Planting holes must be prepared in advance (2-3 weeks before planting), digging them to a depth of 30 cm. The diameter of each hole should be 30–40 cm, depending on the size of the root system.
Broken tiles, bricks or pebbles are used as drainage. The wells are filled with organic substances: compost, peat, a small amount of bark of coniferous trees and minerals - 20 g of nitrophoska per plant.

Selection and preparation of planting material

Seedlings with an open root system can be 2-3 years old. They should have 2-3 shoots 40-50 cm long

Attention should be paid to the appearance of the increments. Dryness and cracked bark should not be

They should bend freely. Peeling on the bark is possible - this is the norm.

The roots of the plant should be free from signs of rot. Multiple kidneys are required.
It is advisable to buy seedlings from trusted suppliers, nurseries or garden exhibitions.

You need to get complete information about the plant from them:

• the exact name of the variety;
• features of planting and care.

Find out how to properly plant honeysuckle seedlings in the spring in the ground.

Landing scheme

Honeysuckle is an unpretentious culture, however, when planting, it is necessary to follow all stages, not ignoring any of them. It should also be borne in mind that the selected site will be permanent, since the honeysuckle is not transplanted. It grows in one place for at least 20-25 years and more.

1. Drainage material is placed in the prepared hole, enriching it with fertile soil and minerals.
2. Water is poured into the planting pit — 5 liters.
3. The seedling is set so that the root collar is not at the level of the soil surface.
4. Water the plant in stages so that the water slowly fills the soil.
5. The soil is mulched with compost, dry leaves or humus. The layer should be 4-5 cm.

Decorative honeysuckle: species and varieties

Ornamental honeysuckle most often includes species with a curly bush shape. They bloom profusely at the turn of spring-summer, so these species are successfully used in landscaping.

Curly honeysuckle

There are two main types that are most popular here - honeysuckle and Brown's honeysuckle. The first spreads its branches 6 meters, but up the support can only climb up to 2.5 meters. Honeysuckle entwines everything in its path. Decorative honeysuckle is suitable for ennobling a romantic corner, for example, a gazebo. She creates a beautiful hedge.

Important! Honeysuckle is a thermophilic plant and may not survive on the north side.

In regions with cold winters, Brown's honeysuckle does not bear fruit. Fuchsioides Dropmore Scarlet.

Shrub honeysuckle

The most popular shrub variety is Tatar honeysuckle. This plant is well adapted to harsh winters. A shrub reaches a height of 2.5 m, and begins to bloom from the age of three. Towards the end of spring, honeysuckle turns pink, which later becomes red berries. The tone of the flowers varies by cultivar.

Important! If the soil in your garden is not fertile enough, it is recommended to plant several Zabelli honeysuckle bushes in a sunny place. It is unpretentious to natural conditions, it grows up to one and a half meters, and beautiful flowers of a crimson hue grow on it.

alpine honeysuckle.

Reproduction methods

There are three ways of propagation of honeysuckle: seeds, layering and cuttings. With proper sprout care, each of these methods can produce a new plant.

Layers

A simple breeding method that gives one hundred percent results. At the beginning of summer, the lower branch (over 1 year old) of the bush is pressed to the soil and sprinkled with earth. The top is left outside. By autumn, the shoot will take root, however, it will be possible to separate it from the mother plant and transplant it to a new place only next spring.

Seeds

When honeysuckle is propagated by seeds, a full-fledged plant will have to wait several years. Seeds are harvested in the fall and immediately sown in open ground or in cups with peat substrate. In the case of artificial cultivation, the sprout must be monitored, watered regularly, and planted in open ground in the warm season. Honeysuckle seeds sprout without stratification.

Cuttings

In summer, you can cut woody cuttings 10 cm long from the top of the bush, tear off the leaves and put them in water.In order for the branches to sprout roots, root formation is stimulated. Shoots are placed in water with a plant that already has roots.

After the roots appear, the cuttings are planted in cups with a substrate. Throughout the year, the sprouts are kept indoors, looked after, watered, and transplanted into open ground in the spring.

2 Types of decorative honeysuckle

Description of the most common types of decorative honeysuckle:

• Honeysuckle is the most famous and widespread species. It is distinguished by beautiful large flowers. They are bright yellow inside and dark pink outside. Blooms for about 20 days. Its tenacious lashes can be held on to any support. Easy to clean.
• Tatar early flowering has several subspecies and varieties. Flowers bloom in mid-May. They are white, pink, red. Fruits of different shades of red make the plant attractive. Can grow in arid regions, tolerates air pollution. Therefore, it is planted in city parks and squares.
• Serotina loves sunny places. There it grows up to 4 m. This is a late variety that blooms from mid-summer to early autumn. The flowers are purple outside, cream inside, very fragrant. The berries are red, inedible. It is undemanding to the quality of the soil.
• Brown is prized for its beautiful bright flowers that bloom in summer. The berries are red. The disadvantage is low frost resistance and flowering frequency. The bush is afraid of cold winds, so it is covered with spruce branches for the winter.
• Alpine honeysuckle is planted on rocky hills, because its height is 1.5 m. It grows in lime sandy loam. Tolerates temperature drop and shading.
• Telmana is a medium-sized liana with bright yellow flowers. The leaves are bright green, long. Blooms in early summer.
• Japanese variegated is distinguished by dark green leaves with light veins. The flowers are at first white, later they become lemon and honey. The fruits are purple-black. The species is resistant to frost.
• Climbing honeysuckle has large flowers that attract bees. Not very frost-resistant species.
• Belgica Select is an early flowering cultivar with fragrant purple flowers. Repeated blooming in autumn, from July to frost.
• Graham Thomas with yellow-red fragrant flowers with a narrow tube. Blooms from June to September. In the southern regions it is used for vertical gardening, in the northern regions it is used as a ground cover plant.
• Seaside Caprilia Imperial changes the color of the petals during the flowering process. They are pink at first, then yellow and white.
• Maak's honeysuckle reaches a height of 10 m. It is distinguished by white shoots and large leaves with cilia at the edges. The flowers are yellow, the berries are coral.
• Korolkova is the most abundant. Its advantage is its resistance to diseases and pests. The species is not afraid of frost or drought.

Decorative curly honeysuckle is widely used for landscaping various areas. She is decorated with metal structures: arches, gazebos. Honeysuckle is used to create hedges. They close the site or territory from spring to autumn.

Honeysuckle on a support

Low species are planted on the alpine slides... Aromatic zones are created from varieties with a pleasant strong odor. From cherry plum, evergreen Iberis, hawthorn, hazel, honeysuckle they form garden compositions.

Honeysuckle propagation honeysuckle

Honeysuckle is propagated in several ways. Each option has its own characteristics, advantages and disadvantages.

Seeds

It is the most difficult to propagate vines by seed method. This technology produces a large number of healthy plants, but it takes a lot of time and effort.

To grow honeysuckle from seeds, planting material is first prepared. The seeds are harvested in July from ripe, soft berries. They are peeled from the pulp and dried.

The collected seeds are immersed in a light pink solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour. This will reduce the likelihood of disease in mature plants.

To increase germination, seeds are mixed with wet sand, poured into a container and placed on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator. Every two weeks, the substrate is moistened with a spray bottle. In this form, the seeds remain from autumn to spring.

Seedlings are planted in the spring:

1. The boxes are filled with a substrate made from 1 part sand, 2 parts garden soil and 3 parts humus. If the acidity is increased, ash is added to the soil. Previously, the soil and boxes are treated with a solution of copper sulfate.
2. A mixture of sand and seeds is poured onto the soil. Cover the top with a layer of soil 1 cm.
3. The soil is moistened from a spray bottle with warm settled water. The boxes are covered with foil.
4. After the emergence of seedlings, the film is removed, and the boxes are removed in a bright place with room temperature.
5. Plants are kept in boxes until autumn. When it gets warmer, they are taken out into the street. The soil is moistened as it dries.

In the open ground, seedlings are transplanted in the fall.

Cuttings

This method allows you to quickly obtain planting material that easily takes root during planting.

Cuttings are prepared in spring, before flowering ends.

It is important to choose the right lash: it should break when bent and have a diameter of at least 5 mm

The handle is taken from the central part of the lash. It should have 2-3 internodes. The upper cut is made at a distance of 1.5 cm from the kidney at a right angle. From the top, 10 cm recede down and a cut is made at an angle of 45 °.

All leaves are removed from the lower part of the cutting. At the top, they are cut in half.

The planting material is planted in a greenhouse in a substrate prepared from 2 parts of humus, 2 parts of sand and 1 part of garden soil. A distance of 20 cm is observed between the seedlings.

For a month, 3 times a day, the workpieces are sprayed with warm water from a spray bottle, then the shelter is removed.

In autumn, seedlings are mulched to protect against winter cold and increase frost resistance. In the spring, they are transplanted to a permanent place.

Layers

The easiest way to breed vines. In this case, they act according to the following scheme:

1. Suitable shoots are selected in autumn. They should be no more than 5 mm thick.
2. 5-7 cm recede from the layer and dig a hole 20 cm deep. The hole is half covered with a mixture of nutrient soil with lime or ash.
3. The layering is placed in the recess, leaving its upper part at the top, fixed with a bracket and covered with earth. Layers are watered and mulched.
4. In the spring, the cuttings are dug up, separated from the main shoot and planted in a new place.

By dividing the bush

Dividing the bush allows you to immediately transplant the plant to a new location. This is the fastest breeding option for honeysuckle:

1. The plant is dug up together with an earthen clod. After that, the root is divided into parts using a shovel.
2. The cut sites are treated with ash. Shoots are shortened by a third of the length.
3. Each piece is rooted in a permanent place. The crown is formed in a year.

It is not necessary to dig up the entire vine. It is enough to dig it out on one side at the base and separate a part.

Where to grow honeysuckle

The place of planting is very important for obtaining good growth of the plant. Blooming honeysuckle loves the sun, in such conditions it blooms better

In this case, protection from the wind is important. These can be trees or any kind of structure.

Lighting for better growth

Honeysuckle, like other species, needs a lot of sun, it is with its help that decorative honeysuckle will grow well and bloom for a long time. It is better when the plant is planted on the eastern side of the site, since the early sun will allow for the power to open up the flowers in the evening and give the environment a pleasant aroma.

Did you know? According to some doctors, the smell of these flowers helps to overcome stress and anxiety.

Soil for growing honeysuckle honeysuckle

It is not demanding for the land in which the plant will grow in the future. The acidity range is quite large - from 3.9 to 7.7.Climbing honeysuckle grows best on slightly acidic and neutral soils, which have a pH of 5.5-6.5.

Together with honeysuckle, decorative shrubs such as viburnum, spirea, hydrangea, mock-orange, elderberry, clematis, magnolia, hibiscus, action, felt cherry, rose hips, snowberry, juniper, heather will look great.

How to care for honeysuckle to grow a beautiful bush

To decorate your garden and get a harvest of delicious fruits for your table, you need to learn a few secrets of growing honeysuckle. In fact, these are not even secrets, but elementary rules for plant care that apply to other decorative specimens.

Of course, we are talking about such procedures as regular watering, thorough weeding, careful loosening of the soil, nutritious feeding, shearing and protection from all kinds of misfortunes in the form of diseases and insects.

You will be surprised, but after planting for three whole years, you practically do not have to worry about anything, except that you need to water the bush and fight weeds. By the way, if you were not too lazy and carried out the mulching procedure, then these actions will be reduced to a minimum.

But how to care for honeysuckle in the future, you must learn from the very beginning.

First of all, you should take care of watering the plant. Despite the fact that it is practically not demanding in this matter, during the period of high temperature indicators - May-July - the shrub needs abundant watering. Remember that if the temperature regime is quite tolerable and there is a sufficient amount of precipitation, you can carry out this procedure no more than 4 times per season.

The amount of moisture required is 10 liters for one bush at a time.
As for such an important condition for growing honeysuckle, as loosening the soil. It is necessary to loosen the ground around the plant, firstly, after watering, and, secondly, be sure to immediately remove all weeds

Only you need to do everything very carefully, since the roots of the bush are close to the surface: do not go deeper into the soil more than 8 cm.
To know how to grow healthy and fruitful honeysuckle, you must not ignore another advice from experienced gardeners - plant feeding. It is carried out after landing only after two years. Keep in mind that it is best to add organic elements to the soil. For example, in late autumn, you can feed a shrub with compost in a volume of about 5 kg, not forgetting to add 40 g superphosphate and 100 g of ash. This "portion" is calculated per m2. But in the spring you can indulge in saltpeter: add 15 g of this substance under the bush with the addition of a large spoonful of urea. Again, this is the volume per m2. There is also such a thing as "summer feeding". It is held after harvest, around the very beginning of July. During this period, a mixture of slurry is introduced into the soil, for example, which is diluted in 10 liters of clean water.
Growing honeysuckle in the country also provides for the fact that the gardener will collect the same crop. In order not to ruin the fruits, you need to know when the time has come to serve them to the table. And this moment comes when they are painted in a deep blue color. Remember that berries can be damaged very easily, so try to put them in any container in one layer. Unfortunately, the harvest will not last long in your refrigerator if you do not freeze the berries. Or, of course, don't make a very healthy jam, wine or liquor.

Look at the photo: decorative honeysuckle is a beneficial addition to the landscape design of any site.

But such beauty is sometimes ruined by certain types of diseases and pests. These, for example, are spotting, powdery mildew, drying out of branches, which develop due to fungal infections. If you come across them, you will witness how your plant dries up, turns black, turns yellow, or its leaves fall prematurely.Gardeners fight these scourges with agents called fungicides. The most commonly used colloidal sulfur, copper chlorides or Bordeaux liquid. But instead of treating the manifestations of possible diseases, it is better to carry out their prevention - just spray the bush with the same fungicides in early spring and late autumn.

But sometimes you have to fight not only with fungal infections. Sometimes honeysuckle is also attacked by such pests as various types of aphids, miners, false shields, sawflies, leaf rollers, speckled moths and spider mites. In such situations, experts in gardening get a variety of drugs: Confidor, Rogor - for sucking pests, and Decis and Eleksar - for leaf-eating pests.

Diseases and pests affecting honeysuckle Honeysuckle

In order to prevent the penetration of pathogenic microorganisms and pests to this plant, preventive measures should be taken:

• phosphorus and potassium, which are introduced as part of mineral dressings, give the lianas juice an unpleasant aftertaste, so aphids and other "harmful" insects that feed on foliage stop "attacking" Caprifol. Usually superphosphate, wood ash or lime is scattered into the trunk circle;
• those pests (or their larvae) that remain hibernating in the soil can be killed if, before the onset of leaf fall, the foliage is treated with a solution of urea (with a concentration of 5%);
• also for the treatment of honeysuckle Caprifol, you can also use such effective biological preparations as Bitoxibacillin and others similar.