2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Summer residents who have small plots of land on which every square centimeter serves for the benefit of the harvest are unlikely to want to decorate their garden with deciduous shrubs with such a beautiful name. It is suitable for those who are just resting at the dacha, enjoying the magnificence of God's creativity and are not afraid that children will want to eat white bunches of decorative berries that are dangerous for the stomach
Rod Snowberry
The genus Snowberry (Symphoricarpos) has a couple of dozen deciduous shrubs in its ranks, growing up to 2.5 meters in height. Bushes can be erect, directed into the heavens, or outstretched above the ground, with branches drooping under the weight of berry brushes.
The most common leaves, not decorated with a jagged edge or a special color, are oppositely located on the branches, holding onto them with short petioles. In summer, small racemose inflorescences of small flowers are born in the leaf axils, the bell-shaped or tubular corolla of which cannot boast of sophistication or brightness of color (flowers are white or pinkish).
The triumph of the shrub comes in the fall, when the flower clusters turn into rather large berry-like drupes. White, red and even black bunches of berry hold on to the branches until spring, adorning the dullness of city autumn and winter. For the beauty of the fruits and the ability to absorb the smoky air of industrial cities, the shrub has become a popular inhabitant of city parks, gardens and green spaces along highways.
Varieties
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Snowberry ordinary white (Symphoricarpos albus) - it is also called"
carpal »For abundant spherical snow-white fruits, tightly pressing against each other, forming decorative large brushes. They firmly hold on to the branches, diluting the cloudiness of autumn with their glossy whiteness. The height of an erect shrub does not exceed 1.5 meters. Egg-shaped leaves and inflorescences of pink flowers are the summer outfit of a shrub. For the device of green hedges suitable variety "White fence".
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Snowberry rivularis (Symphoricarpos rivularis) - is one of the varieties of the common snowberry with the name "Prickly", which some experts like to consider as an independent species. Differs in the size of white fruits.
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Rounded snowberry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) - has several varieties of different leaf sizes, flowers and their color. The leaves can be green, ovate-rounded, or variegated, decorated with a yellow border. The flowers are pink, yellowish green. Fruits are white, pink, purple, small in size.
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Snowberry Chenot (Symphoricarpos x chenaultii) is a hybrid species with a compact bush. The berries are pink, their color becomes richer if the bush is planted in a sunny place.
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Doorenboose Snowberry (Symphoricarpus x doorenboosii) is another hybrid species. Differs in rapid growth, abundant flowering and abundant fruiting in white-pink clusters of berries.
Growing
Snowberry is suitable for shady places, although it can grow in well-lit areas, in which the fruits of some varieties acquire a more intense color.
It tolerates any air temperature, gas pollution and dustiness, and therefore is excellent for today's realities. It is only important to explain to children in a timely manner that not everything that is pleasing to the eye is good for the stomach.
Soils need fertile, well-drained, it is better if they are slightly alkaline. Young plants and all others need watering during a prolonged drought.
Pruning is required for hedge shrubs to maintain their appearance. In other cases, it is enough to just remove dry, damaged branches, as well as thin shoots at the base of the bush.
They can be damaged by various fungi, powdery mildew, rust and worms.
Reproduction
It can be cuttings, but easier by root suckers, which proliferate at the base. Separation from the mother bush is carried out in early spring or autumn.
Saplings are easy to find in nurseries and horticultural centers. Choose compact bushes that are free from pests and diseases.
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