Euonymus - This is a tree that conquers the eye with its colorfulness. In nature, there are about two hundred species of such a bright plant.
It has gained popularity due to its ability to decorate gardens, but connoisseurs of flora representatives often wonder about growing it at home.
A photo
Below are photos of Bereslet room:
Home care
Euonymus care at home does not require special. It can be grown in a room, but only if the grade is chosen correctly. Should look for decorative dwarf specimens, which will be comfortable in the room. Best for home growing Euonymus Japanese.
Care after purchase
If you brought home a plant from the store, the roots of which are in the substrate, it is recommended to immediately replant it. It is a shrub and requires solid, good soil. Due to simplicity, Euonymus does not need special conditions during the adaptation period.
Bloom
The flowering process at home begins in summerapproximately in the first days of June. Euonymus room is different green-yellow flowers, collected in inflorescences of fifteen or thirty pieces. Other types of flowers can be purple, pink, white and green.
ATTENTION: in other species, in addition to the Japanese, the flowering process can begin in early spring.
Crown formation
To form the crown should be constantly. Be sure to remove dried and old parts, so that the bush could please the lush crown.
For more volume, it is advisable to carefully remove some young shoots. Pruning can be done in different ways.
If you need a lush bush, form a ball, and if you need a high crown, strip the lower part of the trunk.
It is important to consider that the Euonymus contains poisonous juice that can damage the skin. therefore pruning must be done with protective gloves.
Landing
In order to plant the Euonymus, one should acquire a large pot. Before buying a tank for planting, remember that you often have to change it.
Transfer
Before the plant turns five, it will require transplantation annually. Then it can be moved from one tank to another every two or three years.
Watering
The most important condition for successful cultivation is a competent irrigation scheme. It is advisable to use water that has managed to stand. In winter, one should not allow stagnation of water, but in spring and summer it is advisable to water it abundantly.
Although it is difficult to discern a hygrophilous homemade eosklet, do not ignore the spraying process, especially in the warm period. This manipulation is suitable for the prevention of the appearance of pests and diseases.
ATTENTION: This process is only good if boiled or purified water is used, because if you ignore the condition, a raid will appear on the leaves. If you make a warm shower in the summer, do not forget to cover the primer with polyethylene.
Breeding
Breeding process of Euonymus can be done with a transplant, neatly separating the roots, or grafting. In the second case, you need to plant a six-centimeter shoot into the ground.
No less good seed propagation process. First you need to create an artificial wintering, placing the seeds in the coarse sand for three to four months at ten degrees heat.
Then the seeds should be cleaned and kept at about zero for a couple of months. Thereafter, the seeds are pickled in a manganese solution (five grams per liter).
The soil
The landing site is a soil of two parts of humus and four leafy soil, as well as part of sand mixture and turf soil. Landing of Euonymus is made to a depth of no more and not less than two centimeters.
IMPORTANT: if you want to plant an Euonymus grown from seed outside, do it only three years after planting in the first soil.
A suitable soil should consist of a couple of parts of sand, one part of peat and six parts of sod soil. A drainage layer of broken bricks is also needed.
Lighting
Lighting is required bright. If you can not pamper the shrub with natural light - use artificial. From direct sunlight it should be hidden only in the midst of solar activity.
Temperature
The optimum summer temperature is about twenty-four degrees. In the winter it is impossible raise to ten, but also lower below six degrees heat is also impossible.
Open field care
Place the seedling in the ground preferably in the spring. Sour soil is not suitable. It is desirable that the lower layer of the soil was a drainage in the form of expanded clay, and the soil itself meant a mixture of sand, sod and leaf earth, as well as sand.
It is necessary to form a crown only in warm periods. If you want to create a hedge, create rectangular or other forms only after the plant reaches the height you need.
Watering should be moderate. Reinforce the process during dry periods.
Care calendar
In the spring, you need to remove dry branches. In April and May, euonymus should be carefully fertilized using mineral fertilizer. Colloidal sulfur should be used as a protection against pests in the spring.
In the summer, the prevention of diseases and parasites is required. It is necessary to use insecticides.
In the autumn, it is desirable to clearly form the crown. Euonymus in the autumn it is recommended to feed with mineral fertilizers.
In winter, it is necessary to mulch the soil. This requires sawdust, dry leaves and peat. Shelter for the winter of the Euonymus should be carried out only for young plants (up to three years). Adult specimens do not need this.
Benefit and harm
Tinctures from the fruit and leaflets of the Euonymus have found application in traditional medicine. Modern pharmacology experts fear using the component.
The reason for fear is high toxicity. The juice of the plant is poisonous, and it will have a negative effect even in contact with the skin.
Diseases and pests
Euonymus most often suffers from three pests:
- Red flat tick. He is a provocateur of leaf deformation and the appearance of white patches on them. To help the representative of the flora can be insecticides.
- Shchitovka. After its influence, the leaves acquire brown plaques, yellow bloom and fall off. You can get rid of parasites with the help of the solution of actellic.
- Spider mite On the leaves with the appearance of this parasite can be found cobweb. At the same time they fade and crumble. In this case, a soapy solution can help, which should be cleaned with leaflets.
ATTENTION: to avoid other problems, provide the required care, that is, indulge the sun and avoid over-watering.
Euonymus - universally plant. This shrub is suitable for decorating the room, and to create a composition in the garden. Looks great hedge from Euonymus.
The main condition - choose the appropriate type to get what you want.
