Aromatic buddlea: planting and care

Many gardeners have won the extraordinary beauty and sweet honey aroma, which fragrance exotic beauty buddleya. Planting and caring for this plant will bring a lot of trouble to a beginner floriculturist, but the time spent is worth it. The genus of these shrubs includes more than 100 species, but in our latitudes not all take root, because heat-loving beauties are accustomed to the subtropical and tropical climate, and frosty winters for them are fatal.

In our country the greatest popularity was acquired by Buddha David. It comes from China, has long racemose inflorescences, reaching a length of 70 cm. In a natural habitat, the shrub grows to 5 meters in height, but in our region - no more than 2. This species has a different coloration: purple, white, pink, Purple, red. Whatever the color of the petals, the middle in most cases orange.

Cultivated buddlea from seeds is very rare, but mostly propagated by cuttings. If the florist wanted to get a new variety, then it is better to buy only the planting material, brought from warm countries, since we do not have enough ripening. Buddleic seeds are very small, so they are sown on top of the soil and only fall asleep on the ground. Seedlings appear in half a month or even a month. If you sow seeds in early spring, then already in May or June you can plant seedlings in the open ground, where at this time of the year the buddleus will feel great.

Planting and care involves preparing a well-illuminated, sheltered from the wind place. The bush is planted only in water-permeable and loose soil, heavy soil is excluded. Immediately after planting the plant, the land must be mulched with dry peat or straw. As buddlea grows in the rainy tropics, it needs regular watering. In the heat, it is impossible to give the soil much drying out, it is recommended to spray the leaves of the bush with water in the evening, in order to create conditions close to the humid subtropics.

An important stage is preparation for the winter, because our frosts are poorly tolerated by the thermophilic buddleus. Planting and nursing begin in the spring. During the season the branches grow strongly and inflorescences appear on them. With the arrival of cold weather, bushes have to be cut almost at the very base. Roots are covered with fallen leaves to delay snow, and you can also put brushwood. In the spring, you need to remove the shelter in time, so that the plant is not vyprelo. In many ways it is wintering that is the most difficult process in growing buddlei.

The bush perfectly propagates by cuttings. To do this, in June, it is necessary to cut off young shoots of 15-20 cm in length, remove leaves from them, treat them with a solution to stimulate root growth and insert into the ground. It would be better to create mini-greenhouses, covering them with banks. In such conditions cuttings are quickly accepted and new shoots are allowed. There are cases when a broken branch stuck in the ground quickly took root - under certain conditions the buddlea multiplies easily.

Planting and care for this bush troublesome, not everyone and does not always manage to keep this heat-loving beauty for a long time. But the forces and time expended on buddlei will justify themselves when she smells her beautiful flowers, filling the garden with honey aroma.