Honeysuckle Tatar - a highlight of the garden plot

An excellent ornament of any garden area can rightfully be considered a magnificent shrub - Tatar honeysuckle. As a cultural plant for the greening of park areas and cities, it began to be used as far back as the 18th century. Due to its unpretentiousness, it quickly spread to Central Asia, Eastern Europe and China. If you wish to decorate your garden with a hedge, honeysuckle decorative will be an ideal option.

What is this extraordinarily beautiful plant? Tatar honeysuckle is a tree about 3.5-4 meters in height or a dense shrub with frosted dark green, slightly bluish leaves.

This shrub is a real find for a beginning gardener, because it is not whimsical, it has excellent resistance to frost and drought, and also easily tolerates shading. However, if you want a bush of honeysuckle to develop well, it is better to plant it in a sunny and sunny place. The Tatar honeysuckle blossoms are abundant and quite long. Almost a whole month, she will please you with her fragrant dark pink or white flowers.

The plant transplants perfectly. When planting in the garden, the distance between the individual bushes should be about two meters. To the composition of the soil, it is not exacting, but on poor sandy and heavy moist soils honeysuckle does not develop well.

Tatar honeysuckle grows quickly and after three or four years it can blossom and early in August bring first fruits. All the varieties of honeysuckle of the Tatar fruit are inedible, poisonous and bitter in taste.

For lush flowering and good growth, honeysuckle, like any other ornamental plant, needs proper care. In early spring, you can make special mineral fertilizers, and before flowering, feed the plant with a liquid top dressing kemiro-station wagon. In the hot season, the shrub requires moderate watering. Honeysuckle is thinned in early spring or autumn every two to three years. Old plants aged 15 to 20 years for rejuvenation can be cut. It will take them about two to three years to recover. In a special preparation for winter honeysuckle does not need decorative.

To date, a lot of demand uses a lot of decorative forms and varieties of honeysuckle Tatar. Bushes of honeysuckle Rosea in the end of May are abundantly covered with bright pink flowers in diameter more than 2 cm. In appearance they are similar to blooming peach trees. And at the end of summer on the branches of the bush appear bright orange berries.

Honeysuckle varieties Hack's Red - crimson flowers. It blooms in the second half of May, seizing the first decade of June. And by August the bush is decorated with dark red beads of berries.

Bright white flowers adorn the honeysuckle Alba. By the autumn, yellow berries appear in their place.

Basically, the Tatar honeysuckle reproduces by root shoots and cuttings, however, reproduction with the help of seeds is possible. Note that the decorative forms, derived by breeding, multiply only by cuttings.

As a rule, honeysuckle is almost not susceptible to diseases and pests, however, young shoots can be affected by aphids, scabies and virus disease, so that on the branches so-called "witches brooms" are formed. Since they do not have the best effect on the decorative properties of the plant, the branches affected by the disease are removed.

Honeysuckle Tatar is known not only for decorative, but also for medicinal properties. In folk medicine, the bark bush is used, which, thanks to its composition, has excellent antiseptic properties. Her broth is used to treat goiter. And from the branches and leaves make water-alcohol tincture, which has anti-trichomonation activity.