Affecting the luxury of long floweringHydrangea Magical Moonlight is a typical representative of paniculate species. She is unpretentious and delicious. This fast-growing deciduous shrub with strong straight shoots has significant advantages: high decorative and surprising ability to regenerate damaged by freezing stems. This magnificent garden plant, agricultural techniques and care for it will be discussed in this publication.
Like many representatives of the paniculate, the magicMoonlight is an upright shrub that grows with a quality content of up to 2 meters. Strong, fast-growing shoots, covered with brown flaking bark, generously leafy and topped with luxurious buds, grow a sprawling crown with a diameter of up to one and a half meters. Hortensia Magic Moonlight is blooming on the shoots of the current year. Flowering, generous and long-lasting, begins in July and delights gardeners until mid-September.
Flowers are gathered in magnificent dense inflorescences inform a wide cone, the width of the base of which reaches a very impressive size (25-27 cm), and the height varies from 20 to 28 cm seeds. The colors of flowers are remarkable: when they open up, they turn greenish-white, eventually they turn pinkish, and closer to the autumn they turn a deep crimson tone.
Flowering shoots are excellent in cutting, and rightdried inflorescences are often used in decorating interiors and popular winter bouquets. But not only the inflorescences are decorative in this plant, they emphasize the elegant beauty of the culture and the dense, rough leaves of deep dark green color, oblong with a pronounced apex and finely toothed margin.
Thanks to unpretentious and highdecorative, hydrangea Magic Moonlight is used in landscaping, garden and park interior. It is very effective both in compositions and ensembles, and in single landings, arrays, hedges. Despite the fact that the culture is undemanding, there are some points in agricultural technology, ensuring the implementation of which, gardeners achieve luxurious and long-lasting flowering, creating a festive surroundings to any natural landscape.
The endurance of the plant is not inferior to its ornamentation: hydrangea Magic Moonlight successfully survives frosts of up to 26-29 ° C, which often accompany winters in temperate Russian latitudes.
Magic Moonlight prefers sunny or a bitshaded loamy areas with slightly acidic air and water-permeable fertile soils. An important factor determining the degree of comfort for hydrangea is moderate regular soil moisture and the avoidance of excess calcium in it. Before planting, the site is prepared, digging over and introducing well-rotten compost, and red peat is added for acidification (if necessary). With a pronounced clay structure of the soil during digging pour a little large river sand.
Land in northern and temperate latitudeshydrangea is preferable in spring, in areas with mild winters. To acquire better well-developed 3-5-year-old seedlings: these young plants will take root more successfully and will bloom faster. Before planting, the soil is fertilized: 10 kg of humus, 100 g of superphosphate, 60 g of potassium sulfate are applied per square meter. The landing pit is dug in proportion to the volume of the root system of the seedling, on average its width is 0.4-0.6 m, and its depth is 03-0.4 m. The intervals between bushes are kept within 2-2.5 m, and when the device is alive hedges - 0.7-1 m.
Saplings before planting inspect, remove dried and broken, slightly shortened. When spring planting plants annually stalks are shortened, leaving 3-4 pairs of growth buds on each.
После посадки обязателен щедрый полив.During the next time that the plant takes root, he needs regular watering. And in the future, an extremely moisture-loving hydrangea panicled Magic Moonlight will require attention from the gardener in terms of hydration: the lack of water will immediately affect the decorative effect.
Culture responds well to mulching.Plantings of young plants are mulched with needles, chopped wood bark, peat, or compost, which preserves the optimum microclimate and moisture in the forest. A layer of mulch should be 7-8 cm. This technique significantly reduces the labor costs of the gardener: you do not have to weed and loosen the soil.
Hydrangeas are needed fertilizing:
Formation of the crown is necessary to maintaindecorative flowering shrubs, which include hydrangea Magic Moonlight. Reviews of gardeners about the annual pruning are unambiguous: they significantly increase the beauty of the plant, stimulate the formation of flower buds. The number of inflorescences and their size depend on the forming procedures: the more radical the cutting, the larger and more effective they are.
Pruning is carried out in two stages:in the fall, they remove all the inflorescences, facilitating the shrub, and in the spring before the start of sap flow, it is necessary to thin out the adult culture, cutting out into the ring all the weak, frozen out or growing inward crowns. Annual shoots are shortened so that 3-5 pairs of growth buds are left on them. Such pruning is important not only to enhance the decorative qualities of hydrangea. It will help avoid thickening of the bush and prevent the occurrence of diseases of different origin.
