Mix coniferous - how to care for plants

A few years ago the whole country was covered by a coniferous boom. Gardening shops, supermarket counters were filled with inexpensive pots with coniferous plants of all colors and sizes. The imported Dutch seedlings, as a rule, were without labels and went under the same name - "conifer mixes". Of course, everyone knows that the word "mix" is translated as "mixture". Horticulturalists have an excellent opportunity to purchase several representatives of the conifer family at a low price. It is not particularly difficult to grow a coniferous mix. Care (photo mixes below), of course, is required, but the result is worth it.

In the home gardens here and there began to appear tuyki, herringbone, cypress and juniper. But after a couple of years already grown up trees grieved their owners with rags of red dead crown. The thing is that then the conifer mixes basically consisted of the whimsical and heat-loving cypress painters Lavson. Unfortunately, in our latitudes these plants suffered from winter frosts, and from the spring sun. And it is very a pity, after all among them it was possible to find the present masterpieces. This is the Silver Queen queen with beautiful silvery white shoots, and the same Ivonne Lavson with amazing lemon-yellow branches.

Coniferous mix - how to care for cypress

But do not get upset and exclude these plants from your garden. Only from a columnar form it is necessary to refuse, cypress trees will be grown in a ground-covering form. But it will be possible to create completely new compositions.

For this very young plants are taken. After planting, all branches should be bent from the center to the sides and fix them with rogatines. You can use other devices, the important thing is that the plant should resemble a spider. And as the sprouting grows, it should be rearranged. This is done twice a year. In the spring - as soon as the snow comes down, and at the end of summer, so that the cypress before the colds "remembered" the new form. In a few years, its branches will take root. With this growing, it is very easy to prepare a plant for winter - it is enough to cover it with lapnik (2 layers). You can show your imagination and combine the haircut with the bending of the branches. In addition to cypress trees, other conifers can also be grown in this way: these are pine trees, and tuikovs, and spruce.

Conifer mixes - how to care for a juniper

For junipers, the landing site should be chosen by airing It is sunny, with moist earth. Pit for planting is digging out more of an earthy coma with roots in half. Then it is filled with a mixture of sand, turf and peat (1: 1: 2), after which nitroammophoska is added. Now you can plant a plant. This is done so that the roots with an earthen lump were above the soil level of 10 cm. You can not trample the ground around. The planted juniper should be well watered, and the land with the seedlings will settle itself. Prestovalny circle necessarily mulched with mown grass, peat, bark or humus. This in winter protects against frost, and in summer it protects against loss of moisture. And, importantly, the land in the pit will remain loose.

Everyone knows that all soft mixes, including juniper, are susceptible to burning. Therefore, they need to be shaded in the summer, and lapnik or lutrasil serve to protect against the bright spring sun. In the early spring, remove dry branches and give the plant the necessary shape. Ripping species are cropped in the summer. And bonsai are subjected to a haircut twice a year - this is April and October. As you can see, special knowledge and efforts for growing coniferous plants are not required. So boldly buy a coniferous mix and start to grow it.