2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
From April to May, and in some regions also in June, home gardens and forest edges are decorated with flowering shrubs and bird cherry trees. This is a longtime companion of man and for this long time the bird cherry has earned love and respect due to its many, many useful qualities
Features and useful properties of bird cherry
First of all, bird cherry provides a large amount of medicinal raw materials - fruits, flowers, leaves and even bark. They are used as an anti-inflammatory agent. Fruits and leaves are rich in vitamins and have a tonic effect. The bark is used as a diuretic, antipyretic.
Bird cherry is used not only in medicine, but also in cooking. In addition, it is an excellent honey plant, which provides bees with work, while other trees do not even think to dissolve the petals of the buds. Due to its exquisite beauty and delicate aroma, bird cherry has found its application in landscape design. Another merit of the species is that it gave rise to other interesting hybrids, which are also successfully grown and bear fruit in private farms.
Diverse bird cherry for every need
When "settling" bird cherry in your garden, you need to take into account that the pests attacking it will not bypass the garden cherry twigs with their obsessive attention. Therefore, if a new green pet is grown mainly with the aim of updating the landscape design, it is advised to take a closer look at the guest from the Far East - the Maak bird cherry. This variety has a bitter taste of fruits, and the flowers do not exude such a magical aroma, but instead the plant has a fascinating decorative look, and does not attract parasites to itself. This type of perennial is especially good with the arrival of autumn. At this time, against the background of the bark of a pink shade, branches clothed with golden-orange foliage are very effective.
Those who like to cook should find out more about such a hybrid as cerapadus. It was bred on the basis of just the bird cherry Poppy and cherry. This tandem gave the world a tree with large and very tasty berries. The plant is quite young - it is a little over half a century old. Through the efforts of scientists, many interesting varieties have been created. And they are very quickly gaining popularity among gardeners. Who will resist the temptation to grow bird cherry on his plot, the branches of which are decorated with whole clusters of sweet and sour fruits the size of a good cherry? In addition, when a tree is resistant to many diseases and pests, it is not prone to gum flow. Other varieties by their appearance are completely indistinguishable from cherries and only an experienced agronomist can recognize a cerapadus hybrid in a tree.
Caring for cerapadus in your garden
Cerapadus, like bird cherry, is not capricious in character. It is able to grow and bear fruit on any type of soil. The hybrid planting site can be set aside both in the sun and in the shade.
Those who grow bird cherry in their garden on light sandy loam soil should be well aware of how quickly the plant forms shoots on this type of soil, especially with abundant watering. And at a young age, the plant takes the form of a bush. We must not forget about this feature of the ancestor of the cerapadus. Therefore, the overgrowth must be removed regularly.
To get a productive plant, you need to pay attention to its formation. How - depends on your preference. It can be either a short tree on a bare trunk or a bush consisting of a couple of shoots. Do not forget about the tops - they need to be systematically shortened. This is done in late autumn or early spring.
Those who decide to grow cerapadus in the form of a bush should remember to rejuvenate the plant. To do this, every 5-7 years old branches are cut out, making room for new shoots. At the same time, excess growth should also be regularly dealt with. And root suckers can serve as breeding material.
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