Grapes decorative girlish: description, photo, planting and care

Grapes are decorative - a plant that is often used successfully in landscape design. After all, a cozy gazebo, completely covered with green wicker foliage, is a true salvation in the hot summer afternoon from the scorching sun. And stepped terraces, twined with grapes, is an echo of fashion for this plant, introduced by the rulers of past centuries.

In nature, decorative grapes became widespread in North America, and it was cultivated as native inhabitants of the mainland in 1622. It was from that time that the decorative liana firmly occupied its niche in the garden areas around the world.

In cultural gardening, there are 3 types of decorative grapes:

• Triostrous ivy;
• attached;
• Girlish five-leafed (virgin).

Decorative grapes as a component of landscape design

Lush rich green, giving a refreshing coolness and practically not requiring care, with competent intervention of a person is able to create unique, bizarre forms and unexpected original solutions. And all this with a minimal investment of labor and costs.

The second name of the grapes is decorative - "girlish" or "virgin ivy". The explanation is very simple: the flowers of the plant do not require pollination to form seeds. Girlish grapes in landscape design are an effective means of hiding the unsightly facade of a house or masking an old barn. This is an excellent plant for forming a "hedge": green, solid, original, perennial. However, there is also the downside of the medal: such a climbing plant, according to many experienced gardeners, is able to destroy the foundation, and even the structures themselves.

Decorative grapes (girlish): the advantages of growing

Decorative (or five-stem) grapes has a number of advantages:

• Attractive and original looks;
• Can grow on any type of soil;
• Actively growing (in a year to 2-3 meters), forms a green dense curtain;
• Grows both on sunny areas and in the shade;
• Is content with even a small patch of land;
• Easily multiplies;
• Resistant to diseases and pests;
• Protects the building walls from wind, overheating, rain, dust.

Disadvantages of decorative grapes

The ability to quickly and actively grow can also be attributed to the shortcomings of this plant.

Maiden grape (photo above), growing near the building, can easily run under the slate on the roof of its powerful shoots or penetrate and clog the gutter. In any case, for the owners of the site, this means certain destruction and material costs. Lush curly creepers during growth completely cover the windows in the room, creating total darkness. With such inconveniences, you can easily cope if you control the growth of decorative grapes and shorten unnecessary shoots in time.

Equally important is the root system of the plant. Capturing the underground space, it easily spreads in all directions and causes great harm to the cultures encountered on the way. Even the weeds under such a vine grow in small numbers or do not grow at all. Also it is worth taking into consideration that decorative grapes come to life somewhat later in the future of other plants and for a long time represents a dull sight from the confused, bare branches.

The location of the decorative grapes

Very beautiful looks ornamental grapes, planted on the south side of the house. In the autumn period it is painted in scarlet, red, orange, purple tones and forms picturesque bluish-black berry bunches (unfortunately, inedible). The plant planted on the north side looks different and pleases the look of the dark green foliage until the very cold. In addition, in well-lit areas, the leaves of the plant are larger, and the coloring is more picturesque.

Decorative grapes: planting and care

In the care of decorative grapes unpretentious. It is enough to cut unnecessary whips in time and occasionally water the plant. The water consumption for each bush is about 10 liters. In dry, hot weather, the supply of moisture should be increased. You can simultaneously fertilize the plant with nitroammophous or complex preparations, to which the liana will respond with active lush growth. During the summer, it is recommended to remove weeds, loosen the soil and hill for bare roots. It is favorable for the plant to mulch the soil with peat or humus, which is a 6-centimeter layer.

With the advent of spring, decorative grapes need to remove the frozen tips of branches, weakened and withered branches, as well as shoots that grew outside the area reserved for the plant.

Stages of planting grapes decorative

Grow decorative grapes on your site is not particularly difficult. For planting it is enough to stab in the ground and pour. And further only and have time to follow the growth of the plant and control it. If there is still a desire to plant decorative grapes by all rules, then you need:

• Dig a hole of the corresponding size under the shank;
• Soil mixed with sand and compost;
• Lay a layer of drainage to the bottom of the hole;
• Pour a part of the soil mixture from above;
• Place a stalk in the pit;
• Fill up the remaining land;
• Form an irrigation hole;
• It is good to water the cutting.

For planted plants, you can make a support or tie a wire, thus directing the growth of grapes in the right direction.

If there is no support, the girl's grapes (photo) with suction cups on the ends of the antennae will grow, clinging to the slightest roughness on the walls.

Ways of reproduction of decorative grapes

Cuttings (twigs with 4-5 healthy kidneys), intended for reproduction of ornamental grapes, can be cut at any time. The decorative grapes can also be propagated by seeds, provided that the plants fully ripen, or by lapping them by digging them horizontally into the soil, leaving the tops with kidneys above the ground. It turns out: one wave in the soil, another - above it, and so on. A whip in the ground can be attached with a folded clerical clip or a regular hairpin.

It is very convenient to propagate decorative grapes with root offspring. They are easily extracted from the ground and planted in a new place for cultivation. Then the girlish grapes, the seedlings of which are already well rooted, must be planted on a permanent growth site in pre-prepared pits. The distance between the plants is not less than 1 meter.

The planting of decorative grapes can be made in spring and autumn: the plant is equally well established. For the winter it can not be harbored: it is sufficiently frost-resistant. When freezing, very quickly restored due to sleeping buds.