Kalina Buldenezh- a lush shrub, beautiful in all seasons. However, in spring it becomes the most attractive and spectacular, covered with large ball-shaped inflorescences. white... The French named the plant “Snow Globe” (Boulede Neige).

Official name - Viburnum sterile(Viburnum opulus). Buldenezh received due to sterile inflorescences, which lack stamens and pistil.

Grow viburnum easy enough, because it is resistant to most climatic conditions - aridity, cloudy weather, frost.

Seat selection

Highly important event! Being in the shade most daylight hours will lead to a gradual crushing of the inflorescences. Constant exposure to the sun will shorten the flowering period. Ideally, you need a golden mean - half a day in the shade, half a day in the sun.

It should also be borne in mind that viburnum love t humidity. V wildlife it grows in coastal zone any bodies of water. Planting on dry land will require frequent watering.

TO soil composition does not impose special requirements, does not grow only on loams. If the soil on the site it consists mainly of clay, before planting it is necessary to add peat, sand, wood ash.

Planting a young seedling

Release not less square meter for one plant. Dig a hole suitable size, place a sprout in it. To deepen the root collar by 3-6 cm. Fill in the hole and compact the soil. Of course, water abundantly.

Buldenezh growing very slowly, increasing in the first year only by 30cm. In subsequent years root system begins to develop, so the growth can reach 1m. The lifespan of the viburnum bush is about 60 years.

Reproduction

Infertility inflorescences does not allow propagation of Buldenezh viburnum by seeds, therefore, only vegetative methods are used. Cutting, dividing the bush, layering in most cases give a positive result.

Reproduction by layering

Produce in the spring... It is necessary to dig a hole 10-15 cm deep, tilt the selected shoot and fix it with a wire bracket. Then cover with soil, compact and water.

Subsequently, monitor the constant humidity of this area. Rooting is completed by the fall, but replanting to a permanent place is possible only after 2 years. Only by this time will the root system get stronger enough.

Propagation by cuttings

The way the most time consuming and laborious. In early summer, Buldenezh is pruned. Cuttings are harvested from the cut branches.

Suitable planting material are last year's shoots with at least one internode. They are cleaned of leaves and leave a length of 8-9cm.

Planted into a prepared greenhouse, for which soil is dug up, mixed with sand and humus and moistened. After planting the cuttings, they are covered with glass or plastic wrap.

Periodically required spray cuttings to support high humidity.

Reproduction by dividing the bush

Doesn't present any difficulties. You just need to find young daughter escape and carefully detach from the main plant.

Watering

Buldenezh loves moist soil, so watering is necessary. Especially in hot dry summers. Young bushes are watered even more often than adult plants. V autumn period before the onset of frost, abundant repeated watering is carried out in order to prevent dehydration of the soil during winter cold weather.

Top dressing

Before flowering they dig up the earth in the near-trunk circle and place potassium (20 g per bush), phosphorus (35 g) and nitrogen (45 g) in it. Phosphorus and potassium are reintroduced in mid-August. During the whole warm time, you can feed wood ash and mineral complexes.

Wintering conditions

Fully viburnum Buldenezh rarely freezes, this is facilitated by heavy clay soil and open terrain. A shrub that has undergone frostbite blooms much more reluctantly, gives few inflorescences and fades quickly. Young shoots are most often affected. To maximize reduce the impact of frost, cover the root system of the viburnum.

As covering material for viburnum, buldenezh use humus and peat, falling asleep with them trunk circle.

Pruning viburnum buldenezh

>Kalina calmly carries over this procedure. You need to start in the very first year, having previously selected the shape of the plant. It can be bush or standard.

To do single barrel, you need to mercilessly cut out all the shoots except one. Subsequently, every summer, cut off young shoots, and form the crown when the plant reaches 1.5-2m in height.

Periodically required thin out finished tree removing aged branches from the middle.

To receive multi-barreled viburnum a young plant is cut almost to the stump, leaving no more than 2 decimeters. This procedure stimulates the development of many side shoots. In the first season, pruning is done before flowering. In the future, you should wait for the "snowballs" to fall and cut the bush from June to August.

Pests

Kalina love many harmful insects. The most noxious and frequent guests are scale insects, aphids, viburnum leaf beetle and many caterpillars.

Viburnum leaf beetle... A beautiful shiny light brown beetle from the leaf beetle family. Large populations of beetles can completely eat all the foliage on the bush and destroy it.

Actellik, Karbofos, Fosbecid, Fufanon help against leaf beetles at all stages of development.

Small insects that look like small bumps on the leaves. Sucked to the surface closed with a wax shield and begin to suck out the juices of the plant. You can get rid of with the help of Aktellik, Aktara, Ascoris.

Massive colonies of these small pests can weaken even a large tree and slow down its development. You can spray the affected bushes with Tanrek, Aktellik, Aktara, Agravertin.

And for the most curious, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the video about Kalina Buldenezh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjCylks6ths

Editor Plants and Trees 8915

Snezhnik, snow bush - viburnum bul denezh in Russia had such names since the eighteenth century. It was during this time that keen gardeners were growing a wide variety of forms of this ornamental shrub. In the gardens one could see viburnum:

• standard;
• with double flowers;
• variegated leaves.

Most of all, the bushes attracted the eye, in which the flowers were collected in globular, white, like snowballs, inflorescences.

Viburnum Boule de neide or snowball, as the name of this magnificent shrub is translated from French.

Buldenezh, general description, varieties, where to plant

Viburnum bul denezh is an ornamental deciduous shrub that is a sterile form of Viburnum vulgaris. All flowers of this viburnum are sterile, they have neither pistils nor stamens. Enough large flowers collected in spherical inflorescences.

The shrub begins to bloom after the twentieth of May, at the beginning of flowering the flowers are pale green, gradually opening up to become white or pink. The flowering period lasts a whole month.

In some varieties of the sterile viburnum, the snow-white inflorescences turn pink, this occurs in the forms Roseum, Pink Senation.

Important! The flowering branches of the Bulldonezh are great for cutting. Bouquets of them remain fresh for a week. The plant is also suitable for forcing.

Buldenezh has five - or three-lobed, pointed, green leaves, there are varieties with variegated foliage.

Many varieties of sterile viburnum reach a height of 2 m to 4 m, there are compact forms up to one and a half meters in size, but there are also dwarf plants, they are not higher than 60 cm. Kalina bul denezh is grown:

• in bush form;
• in one barrel;
• in the form of a standard tree.

To get healthy and beautiful bulldonezh bushes, you need to choose the right place to place this plant.

The optimal location is a sunny area well protected from the wind. The plant can withstand partial shade, but at the same time it loses some of its decorative effect.

It grows on any soil, but it is preferable to plant on loose, loamy and sandy loam soils. It is demanding on the amount of moisture, therefore, in dry summers, Kalina bul denezh needs regular abundant watering. Adequate moisture is especially important for young plants. During the rooting period of seedlings, in the first year following planting, the shrub needs regular watering.

Bulldonezh does not like strongly alkaline soils; it is optimal to plant shrubs on slightly acidic soils with a pH of 5.5 to 6.5.

Reproduction, planting and caring for viburnum bul denezh

Kalina buldenezh in some cases can produce a small amount of berries that contain seeds, but this form of reproduction is very difficult, since the seeds of the common viburnum have a long dormant period. And after many months of preparing seeds for sowing, seedlings do not appear immediately, and grow very slowly in the first three years. Therefore, it is advisable to use the vegetative breeding method of bulldonezh.

Important! Viburnum ordinary, sterile form, propagates well by layering, dividing the bush, summer green cuttings.

Green cuttings are best cut from three-year-old shrubs. Cuttings about 10 cm long are cut from the shoot cut from June to July.The upper cut is made straight, the lower cut obliquely.

Cuttings soaked in a growth stimulator are placed in a box filled with peat and sand. At a temperature not lower than + 25 degrees, observing the humidity regime, almost all cuttings take root.

Kalina boule until tender, grown from cuttings, blooms already in the second - third year.

Before planting viburnum seedlings in a permanent place, you need to dig up the selected area with the simultaneous introduction of up to ten kilograms of humus per square meter. meter and complex mineral fertilizer according to the instructions.

The size of the planting hole depends on the size of the root system of the bush, but should not be less than 40 cm in depth and width. For a seedling set in a planting hole, the roots are straightened, covered with soil, lightly tamped and watered with at least 15 - 20 liters of water. After watering, the trunk circle is mulched with compost.

In subsequent years, Kalina bul to tender in early spring needs to:

• sanitary pruning;
• mineral feeding;
• loosening the soil;
• weed removal.

V middle lane young plants must be protected from frost. To do this, it is enough to cover the root zone in the fall with a layer of peat or garden soil.

If the bulldonezh needs formative pruning, then it can be carried out only after the end of flowering. Spring pruning can greatly weaken the bush, viburnum bul de nezh will lose its decorative effect.

Disease prevention and pest control are an important part of grooming. The main preventive measure in prevention powdery mildew and spotting for bulldozing can be the treatment of plantings with a solution of copper or ferrous sulfate... This should be done in early spring, before bud break. You can take one part of the rotted manure, fill it with three parts of water and leave everything to infuse for three days. Then dilute the infusion with water in a ratio of 1 to 3. Viburnum treated with such a solution receives additional resistance to diseases.

Against the main pests of viburnum:

• viburnum aphid,
• viburnum leaf beetle,
• sawyer,

spraying with a solution is good laundry soap carried out before and after flowering.

V landscape design buldenezh is indispensable in the design of reservoirs, in single and group plantings, in combination with deciduous and conifers... The shrub grows well as on suburban areas and in settlements, so it can be used for city greening too.

And this happens at the end of May, remembering a snowy winter. Large inflorescences, shaped like a ball and resembling lumps of snow, stick around the branches so densely that it is appropriate to compare a plant with a snow-covered one. They reach 20 cm in diameter. The flowers, which have just begun to bloom, have a greenish color, but change it to dazzling white and become like snow.

Due to the similarity of inflorescences with a snowball, a ball of snow, the plant received a Latin name Viburnum Boule de Neige... Viburnum buldenezh blooms profusely. If the plant is properly cared for, "snow balls" are tied tightly and grow large.

The plant is sensitive to moisture and light. A bush that grows well and looks great, planted in a sufficiently lit place where there is sun and shade during the day. Nutritious moist soil is also important for him.

Kalina roseum and buldenezh differences

In landscape design, the types of viburnum are popular - ordinary buldenezh roseum and decorative with slightly larger inflorescences, double flowers.

Roseum inflorescences, like other types of viburnum, at the beginning of flowering have a greenish color, which changes to white as it blooms. But by the end of flowering, the flowers of roseum viburnum acquire a pinkish tint, in contrast to the snow-white inflorescences of decorative buldenezh.

White spectacular bouquets are collected from both viburnum flowers, flower arrangements are complemented with buldenezh balls, shrubs are used in landscape design.

Kalina buldenezh decorative and ordinary

Both varieties are similar in appearance and growth.

Variety of viburnum ordinary (Latin Roseum)

Bred in France by Lemoine. Differs in durability (lifespan up to 80 years). His maximum height(up to 5 m, although there are plants and more than 6 m), the viburnum reaches in 5-10 years. The shrub grows 0.3 m in height and 0.4 m in spread annually. Spherical inflorescences Viburnum vulgaris in diameter they reach 10 cm. Their flowers are sterile due to the absence of a pistil, stamens and inflorescences that look like a snow globe. At first, the greenish inflorescences then turn white and remain so during the entire flowering 25-35 days, only turn pink when flowering.

The variety is frost-resistant and highly decorative. Light green foliage in autumn changes color to yellow, orange, red, purple and stays on the branches until late autumn.

Decorative buldenezh

Viburnum inflorescence diameter bulldozer decorative larger - 12-15 cm, flowering lasts about 20 days. Compared with ordinary viburnum, it wins with larger double flowers, but loses in terms of winter hardiness.

In garden design (photo)

In Europe, Kalina Buldenezh has been used in landscape design for more than 4 centuries.

Historical reference. The European beauty came to Russia under Catherine II.

With the advent of the snowy beauty, wealthy aristocrats began to plant a plant in gardens as a tapeworm, create a bulldoze, completely plant the territory of the garden with a snow-white flowering plant. Kalina is still considered aristocratic culture, although anyone can plant a shrub.

Looks beautiful near the house single viburnum bush and group of plants... Beauty flowering shrub emphasizes the neatly cropped, its snow-white flowers are set off by bright, broken around the plant. On summer cottages they create from viburnum bushes that look spectacular throughout the year.

By shortening the young shoots, the plant is given a dome-shaped shape, the tops of the bushes are trimmed so that the hedge from the group of plants has an even horizontal top, and a tree is formed from the bush.

Advice. When choosing a place for a plant, you need to take into account the preferences of viburnum for soil, light, moisture and the chosen concept for bulldozing for many years.

Gardeners immediately determine the place of the plant in the landscape, often they plant one viburnum, and under the bush they change early flowers every year - snowdrops, tulips, daffodils... They fade before blooming and do not draw attention to themselves.

Over the years, the branches of the shrub fall, and the plant begins to resemble a weeping willow. If there is a body of water on the site, perennial shrub planted by the water, like willow. In the shade of a single adult plant or group, a bulldozer is installed.

In landscape design (photo)

Due to the delicate green color of the foliage, viburnum stands out on dark background coniferous plantings , and the plant separates the territory with growing conifers.

Buldenezh is used in plant compositions, but the bush is a perfect soloist. Flowering plant it looks bright during the day under the sun's rays and focuses on it, leaving it alone in forest park zones growing among other shrubs or planting in a clearing. Buildings are framed with a hedge of trimmed viburnum bushes, buldenezh is planted along alleys and pedestrian.

The flowering bush is beautifully reflected in the water surface and is planted at the water's edge in the park, near the fountain. In the shade of tall bushes, when creating a recreation area, gazebos and benches are installed.

The decorative viburnum buldenezh has long won the sympathy of many landscape designers and simply amateur gardeners. Flowering shrub few people can leave without positive emotions... In the article below, we will consider the viburnum variety Buldenezh in more detail, and also highlight the basic rules of planting and care.

Kalina Buldenezh photo

Viburnum bloom begins in last days May and lasts about 15-25 days. All flowers are collected in a single dense ball, which can reach 15 cm in diameter. At first, the inflorescences have a greenish tint, a little later, already creamy, and, finally, the snow-white pom-poms gracefully hang from the curved branches. Kalina buldenezh stands out in autumn with long-lasting red foliage and does not form fruit. This shrub cannot boast a large annual growth of about 30-40 centimeters per year, however, with proper care, life expectancy can exceed 60 years.

The very name "Buldenezh" came to us from French and literally translates as "a lump of snow". The thing is that the inflorescences are collected in a strong ball, somewhat reminiscent of a snowball, which we all sculpted in childhood.

The structure of the inflorescences is the main difference between the viburnum buldenezh and the usual one. In the latter, the inflorescences are located at the edges and resemble umbrellas in their shape. The official name of this plant is "sterile viburnum", since these bushes have neither pistils nor stamens.

Buldenezh in landscape design

Kalina Buldenezh in the garden

Kalina buldenezh in garden design is a very popular plant that looks great both in various compositions and in single plantings. In addition to its interesting appearance these plants are very resistant to frost and do not need shelter for the winter (with the exception of the northern regions of the country).

Landscape designers actively use this ornamental shrub at turns and corners garden paths, near benches or other small architectural forms... Buldenezh looks gorgeous when adjacent to other plants, for example, dwarf varieties barberry or. These shrubs cover themselves lower part buldenezh, thereby allowing it to be interesting to highlight the inflorescences in the shaded areas of the foliage.

Video "Kalina Buldenezh description"

Planting viburnum

Kalina buldenezh is not a demanding plant, however, when choosing a planting site, it is better to avoid shaded and dry areas, as well as loamy soils. It is highly likely that the shrub will take root there, but the size and number of flowers will be very average.

Having decided on the location, you should prepare a pit. Its average size is about 50x50 centimeters and depends on the volume of the root system of the plant being planted.

For early survival and vigorous growth, nutrient compost can be added to the soil or mineral fertilizers... Before planting, the root system should be cut a little so that the roots grow more actively. Alternatively, you can soak them in a growth stimulant solution for several hours.

The shrub must be positioned so that the root collar is a couple of centimeters below ground level. Immediately after planting, the viburnum should be well watered, and the near-stem circle should be mulched with rotten foliage or peat, or simply spud.

Video "Planting viburnum and further care"

Watering

Watering adult plants should be based on the degree of dryness of the soil under the bush. It is worth considering that excessive drought and intense heat can negatively affect the length of the flowering period. If the summer months are rainy and cold, you can do without regular watering altogether.

Top dressing

Top dressing of viburnum is carried out either every year or after a year and depends on the quality characteristics of the land and the state of the shrub itself. For one adult plant, a mixture of 6-7 kg of compost, 20-25 g of ammonia nitrate, 15 g of potassium salt and 40 g of superphosphate will be enough. And you can also use ready-made mineral compositions that are sold at any hardware store or gardening store.

Pruning

Kalina buldenezh from time to time needs pruning, which allows you to thin out dense branches, rejuvenate a shrub or form a beautiful and lush crown... It is very important not to forget during pruning that inflorescences are formed exclusively on the processes of the second year of growth. It is for this reason that an overly pruned viburnum bush will delight you with lush inflorescences in one year.

For 2-3 years after planting, the shoots should be cut every year, leaving no more than 4 pairs of inflorescence embryos from the base. This procedure will give the shrub a thick shape. Formative pruning of already mature plants is carried out only in cases of a decrease in the volume of the crown or its correction.

Thinning viburnum is characterized by getting rid of already dried or weak branches. It is necessary to inspect the bulldozer, like other plants itself, annually.

In cases where the old splendor has disappeared in adult plants, and the inflorescences have become smaller, the shrub needs rejuvenation. To do this, it is necessary to cut off all shoots at a height of 20-25 cm. After this type of pruning, dormant buds that are below the cut level will grow rapidly. It is worth considering that the rejuvenated viburnum, after a short time, will need shaping pruning.

Any type of pruning is best done in early spring when the snow has completely melted. In order for young shoots to be stronger and grow quickly, the shrub after pruning should be well fed useful microelements.

Pests

Alas, the bulldoze is subject to periodic attacks. various pests... In most cases, these are the larvae and beetles of the viburnum leaf beetle, as well as the viburnum leaf-rolling aphid. If these insects appear on your bushes, then you will not have to admire the lush "snowball" gracefully hanging from the branches, but the bare bush with the remains of foliage. In order to avoid this misfortune, in spring, before buds bloom, plants should be treated with Inta-Vira solution or its analogue.

Reproduction

Effective reproduction of viburnum buldenezh is carried out only by a vegetative method, since its inflorescences are sterile.

Propagation by cuttings

photo 1. Reproduction of viburnum by cuttings

Cuttings 5-6 centimeters long with a pair of internodes should be cut obliquely. The lower cut must be done under the kidney, and the upper cut above it. Already cut cuttings must be planted in the greenhouse in the soil prepared in advance to a depth of 2-2.5 centimeters. The optimal soil is a mixture of humus, 10-15 centimeters thick and 2-3 centimeters of sand on top. Young plants should be protected from bright sun, watered regularly and sprayed periodically after rooting (usually 14-20 days after planting).

In mid-August, when the root will develop in order, the young bushes of the viburnum buldenezh must be transplanted into open ground, where they will have time to get strong enough before the first frost.

On winter period plants are best mulched sawdust, humus or peat solution, and after 2 years they can safely choose a permanent location on the site. This breeding method is the most effective, but at the same time it requires a lot of effort.

Reproduction by layering

photo 2. Reproduction of viburnum by layering

This method of obtaining new bushes of viburnum should be carried out in the spring. The process itself is not difficult: a shallow hole is dug (about 12-15 centimeters), the selected shoot is tilted and securely fixed with a wire bracket. After this, the shoot must be sprinkled with soil, tamped thoroughly and shed well.

Full-fledged rooting will end closer to autumn, however, it is best to transplant a young plant to a new place not earlier than in 2-3 years, when the young shrub and its root system are fully formed.

Dividing the bush

This method of obtaining new plants does not present any difficulties. All that is required for it is to find a good daughter shoot and separate it from the mother plant as carefully as possible.

Kalina buldenezh is a very resistant plant to various adverse climatic conditions, for example, drought, frost and cloudy weather, and even a novice gardener can grow it on his site. In addition, it is unlikely that there is at least one person who has not stopped his eyes on the gorgeous snow-white "snow" bunches hanging on the bending branches.

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Kalina Buldenezh - planting and care, photos in landscape design