Hydrangea Pink Diamond - decorative garden ornament

Elegantly solemn, bright, beautifully blooming perennial hydrangeas are increasingly adorned by the gardens of the central strip of Russia. The cultural forms of the panicle hydrangea, an important component in the list of wild-growing representatives of the Far Eastern flora, are extremely decorative. One is Hydrangea Pink Diamond, a deciduous shrub with magnificent large long-flowering inflorescences. About him and will be discussed in this publication.

Hydrangea Pink Diamond Description

Growing up to 2-3 m in height, the sprawling bush is appreciated by gardeners of many countries for the expressed vertical growth, durability of shoots and long flowering. Inflorescences of a broad-conical form 15 to 30 cm long, elongated in the shape of pellets at the ends of shoots, are exquisite and beautiful: they do not hang on the side and are not afraid of wind gusts.

Blossoms hydrangea Pink Diamond from July to mid-September, coloring the earth with white cones of candles, noticeably reddening as the blossoming. Being the base color in the inflorescence, white color changes with time. By the autumn, initially snow-white inflorescences become pink-coral.

It attracts this species with excellent regenerating properties - the ability of rapid recovery with partial mechanical damages or freezing. The Pinkland Hydrangea Pink Diamond has good frost resistance, which allows it to successfully survive the winter under shelter of spandbond or lapnika, or at all without additional shelters, but in places protected from throat winds with a high snow cover.

The root system of the bush is superficial, located shallowly, extending in the near-space space parallel to the ground level, and this feature causes the obligatory regular generous irrigation.

But to the urban contamination of hydrangea Pink Diamond is absolutely indifferent, so it is used in garden design or plantings along the streets.

Peculiarities of growing

Light-loving culture prefers sunny, sheltered from the wind places with fertile acidic clay soils. Completely open plots are not the best solution, since hydrangea is hygrophilous and the duration of its flowering directly depends on soil moistening. Lack of water will lead to the chopping of flowers, loss of decorativeness and shortening the flowering of a plant such as hydrangea Pink Diamond. Comments of flower growers are unanimous in opinion: in the open places it is necessary to maintain intensive hydration, which is often very problematic. Therefore, some shading is even welcomed.

In selected areas it is important not to use various deoxidizers - dolomite flour, chalk, limestone, ash, and to maintain the decorative shrub periodically introduce brown peat and pine needles. Hortensia grows quite quickly, and when planting 4-5-year-old seedlings, you can wait for the first flowering the next year, as gardeners say.

When to plant?

Experienced growers recommend the spring planting hydrangeas. If the weather conditions of the region allow you to plant the culture in the early spring, then in the summer you can hope for the appearance of the first inflorescences. The autumn planting of hydrangeas (in September) is also possible, but it should be done 2-3 weeks before the cold and cover the young bush for the winter.

The hydrangea planting technology is simple: the surface root system does not require a deep landing pit, it will be enough 0.3-0.5 m, depending on the age of the seedling and the development of its roots. When planning a planting of a hedge, plants are placed in a prepared trench. The intervals between bushes are at least 2.5 m, in the fence - 1-1.5 m. Unnecessarily dense plantings are easily thinned out if necessary.

Planting holes are generously spilled by water, filled with a fertile mixture of humus, peat and needles by a third. The seedling is placed in the pit so that the root neck is at the same level with the ground surface, straighten the roots, making sure that they do not bend up, fill the remaining earth mixture and compact. Then again, abundantly watered and mulched with wood chips or any plant remains.

Watering

Caring activities for the culture consist in timely watering, making the necessary fertilizing, regular pruning of bushes and protecting plants from diseases and pests.

On the features of watering the culture: the soil under the bush should be moist constantly. With the growth of the bush and the entrance to the adult state, the danger of drying out is minimized, since the crown of the bush is very spreader and casts a good shadow. The usual weekly water consumption is 3-4 buckets per bush. To stimulate the flowering in water once in 2-3 weeks add manganese (1 gram / 1 watering).

Feeding

Achievement of active plant growth and generous flowering will be facilitated by the introduction of the necessary fertilizers, which are carried out in several stages: in spring with the beginning of sap flow with high-quality organic, at the beginning of budding and blossoming with complex mineral fertilizer, in preparation for winter with special fertilizing for hydrangeas available for sale.

Trimming

Regular shrubs are needed to maintain the ornamental nature of the bush. In the fall, cut dried inflorescences, in the spring remove weak broken and sick shoots.

In addition, the bush is formed, removing the old stems and selecting from the yearling shoots 8-10 strongest. They are truncated to 3-5 buds, which is quite enough for high-quality summer flowering.

So, simple care provides excellent decorativeity of such an interesting culture, as hydrangea Pink Diamond. The photos presented in the publication demonstrate the plant in all its splendor, but the living bush that decorates its own site is spectacularly beautiful, as evidenced by the numerous reviews of satisfied flower growers.