Varieties of viburnum: description, photo
Viburnum is not only very beautiful, but also a useful plant, which, in addition to aesthetic beauty, also gives berries that are very useful for the human body. Below you can find a description of the most common varieties of viburnum and how to care for them.
Growing viburnum in the garden
For growing in the garden there are ornamental and fruiting plants. The first ones are suitable for those who just want to decorate their site with beautiful flowers and bushes. You can do this perfectly by trimming them correctly. The latter will be a good option for those who, in addition to aesthetics, want to get healthy berries.
Did you know? Viburnum juice is effective in asthma, colds, and also improves heart rate.
Landing and care
Viburnum is not very demanding on growing conditions. In nature, the shrub grows in places with a large amount of moisture, in household plots the best growth is observed on drier soil. The soil must be prepared, as for other plants. It is also important to choose the right place with a low level of groundwater.
Experienced gardeners are advised to grow viburnum from seeds. They must be selected from the best berries, which are determined by the shape, size, taste, number of fruits from one bush. Seeds are planted in the nursery in the fall in the year of their collection, but you need to wait a long time for seedlings to appear. Next summer, a small root will be visible, and the seed itself will come out to the surface of the soil, and only after winter will the sprouts begin to grow in height.
If necessary, accelerate the cultivation of viburnum using the stratification method. Seeds are placed in a nylon bag and then placed in moistened sawdust. The seeds are stored in this form for two months at a temperature of + 21 ° C. Then they are placed in a cool place with an air temperature of no higher than + 5 ° C for 1 month. Ready seedlings are planted in the ground. So seedlings are formed. They grow to 8 cm and have 2 leaves on the trunk. In early May, seedlings are placed in the nursery, and they are planted in open ground the following year in spring. Did you know? Kalina has one unique feature - her bones have a heart shape.
Sometimes it becomes necessary to increase the number of viburnum shrubs in your area. For this, layering or cuttings are prepared. They are harvested in the middle of summer. The shoots are cut with the help of a secateurs, the cuttings are divided into several segments, the leaves are removed from the bottom and half of the top. The cuttings are tied together and dipped in a 10% heteroauxin solution, immersing the cuttings no more than 2 cm into the solution. After 10-15 hours, the cuttings are removed from the solution, washed with water and planted in greenhouses.
Cuttings in open ground are planted 3-4 m from each other, in soil enriched with humus. To protect the roots and ensure their good development, plants need to be planted in holes 60 cm deep and 80 cm wide. When landing, the pits are filled with soil, after which they are shed in large quantities with water.
We recommend that you learn how to properly transplant viburnum in the spring to a new place.
Care for viburnum differs little from other plants and consists in:
- loosening the soil between the rows;
- weed control;
- watering;
- protection against insect pests;
- pruning shrunken branches;
- fertilizing the soil.
Video: planting and caring for viburnum
Harvest must be done on time as the berries lose their juiciness and useful qualities. In addition, part of the fruit disappears due to rains and birds that feed on berries.
Important! Do not break the clusters, but carefully cut them when harvesting, so as not to damage the buds of viburnum.
The most popular varieties of viburnum
The most commonly grown species of this shrub are:
- Red bunch;
- Vigorovskaya;
- Nana
- Garnet bracelet;
- Mayan sweet;
- Leningrad;
- Zarnitsa.
Red bunch
This variety belongs to the bush, the height of the bushes is 1.5–2 m. The berries are large, round, red in color, have a slightly bitter taste. The number of fruits is up to 4 kg per plant. This shrub is resistant to pests and diseases, also has high resistance to cold winters.
Vigorovskaya
The variety is named after Professor L. I. Vigorov, the founder of medicinal gardening. This plant belongs to sweet-fruit varieties. It is a shrub up to 3 m in height. The leaves of the plant are divided into lobes, which may be 3-5, flowering falls at the end of May, the flowers are pinkish-white. The berries are spherical, red, with a juicy pulp of a sweetish taste. The yield of such viburnum is not high - 3.5 kg of berries from one shrub.
Nana
Ornamental shrub with spherical crown up to 1.5 m in height. Leaves are small 5-lobed. Red berries ripen in autumn. For planting bushes of this variety, it is worth choosing well-lit places. When choosing soil, wet loamy drained soils are best suited. The shrub does not need special care, after 2 years of life it can be cut to form a crown.
Garnet bracelet
These are medium-sized shrubs up to 1 m high late ripening. The berries are oval, maroon and bitter in taste. Productivity is 12 kg per bush. These plants are frost-resistant, and are also slightly affected by insect pests.
May sweet
The variety is medium-sized, up to 3 m high. Berry ripening periods are also average. Fruits are bright red in color and have a sweet and sour taste. This shrub is relatively resistant to disease, winter-hardy.
Leningradskaya
Medium-sized shrub up to 2.5 m tall, with an average ripening period of berries. The fruits of the Leningrad viburnum are large, round, bright red with a sweetish taste. These plants love moist soil and good lighting, they are self-infertile.
Zarnitsa
A self-infertile shrub of medium maturity. The berries are large, oval, burgundy with a bitter taste. From one bush receive up to 11 kg of fruit. Resistance to colds and diseases of this variety is high.
The best varieties of viburnum for the Moscow region
For summer cottages in the suburbs, the best option among decorative bushes will be viburnum Bulldonezh. A distinctive feature is the coloring of flowers, which are collected in large round inflorescences. They are green at the beginning of flowering, and at the end they change to white.
Important! The variety Leningradskaya is pollinated by any other varieties of viburnum, take this fact into account when designing a garden .
Among the fruit varieties, the viburnum Ulgen is a good choice, which allows you to get up to 10 kg of fruits from the bush, and has almost no bitterness in taste, as well as a Pomegranate bracelet, which has excellent resistance to pests and severe frosts.
Choosing a viburnum for decorating personal plots, you will not lose, because you will get beautiful plants with a wide variety of flowers that will decorate your territory and will please the eye for many years.
