In our locality grows a lot of varieties of ornamental shrubs, so that everyone can choose for their garden suitable. Some attract us with an elegant form of crown, others - an unusual bright coloring. The latter include a plant such as the barberry of the Tunber of the Golden Ring variety.
Barberry Tunberg "Golden Ring" - description of the variety
This shrub can be used for both fences and free-growing hedges. Well it will look and in a small front garden as a color accent due to a unique combination of purple and yellow shades.
This color of the foliage does not immediately acquire, but only as each sheet plate is expanded. The barberry of this variety grows moderately fast. In autumn, the rounded leaves of this shrub are colored in rich red tones, in summer they are closer to the violet by the shade. And the very name "Golden Ring", which means "golden ring", the bushes received due to the yellow halo along the edge of each leaf.
As for the basic characteristics of the plant, the barberry of the Tunberg "Golden Ring" is a deciduous shrub, prickly and rather sprawling. The diameter of its well-branched crown can reach 3 m, and the height of an adult plant is 2.5 m. The bush has sharp single spikes, which is typical for all Tunber barberry.
Barberry blossoms closer to the end of May with red and yellow flowers, and fruit begins in September or October, depending on the climatic conditions of your region. Its fruits look like brilliant red berries - by the way, quite edible and very useful. If they are not ripped off, they keep on the branches of the bush until the winter.
Barbaris Tunberg "Golden Ring" - planting and care
If you want the shrub to please you with its bright colors, plant it on light, fresh, fertile and moderately moist soils. To begin with, it can be rooted in a 3-liter pot, and later transplanted into open ground. But keep in mind, the barberry "Golden Ring" should be placed in areas where there is a lot of sun and light, because even in the penumbra it will lose the decorative color of the leaf, and will not look so colorful.
The advantage of buying a seedlings of barberry in a pot is that the soil mix in such a container is usually provided with fertilizers of prolonged action, so you do not have to worry about top dressing for at least one season. However, later it is desirable to regularly make foliar top dressings - barberry Tunbera responds very well to them.
Watering the shrub "Golden Ring" just once a week, is often not required. But barberry - any of its varieties - is very fond of loosening, because they have a developed root system. And to minimize the labor costs of loosening the soil, it is often mulched .
Preventative plant treatments with insecticides are desirable,
This plant is unpretentious, well tolerates drought and wintering. It is perfectly adapted to urban conditions, well tolerates rejuvenating pruning and haircut. Barbaris Tunberga "Golden Ring" is widely used to decorate parks, garden areas and other diverse landscape compositions. By the way, in 2002 the berberis Golden Ring was awarded the British AGM premium for its simplicity of cultivation, good resistance to pests and diseases and, of course, for its high decorative qualities.
"Golden Ring" is purchased most often in special nurseries - so you can be sure that you have acquired a plant of this sort, and it will soon please you with its beautiful appearance.