Autumn lilac - that's what the people call David's, which butterflies adore for their amazing honey aroma. Gardeners also love this plant for graceful branches that curl under the weight of purple brushes. In addition, planting and care for the workaholic does not represent labor. Of particular value is the cultivation of the budlea for the appearance of the landscape in autumn, so most plants in this period are already at rest, and this beauty is just beginning to please the eye with lush flowering.
Description of the budleigh
Buddleism of David in the wild is found on the territory of China. In these latitudes it grows along the banks of rivers and in the mountains. Externally, the plant is a beautifully flowering, deciduous shrub that can reach a height of up to one and a half or two meters. Branches of budlei are thin, flexible, arcuate, and end with luxuriant inflorescences. In wild plants the flowers are colored in dark purple, and the middle is bright orange. The varietal buds of the inflorescence are bright crimson, blue-lilac, dense-purple, lavender, lilac-blue, white or purple-red. The middle remains orange. The leaves of this plant are long, up to 25 centimeters, pointed at the ends. On the lower side they are painted in silvery gray, and on the upper side - dark green. In the old branches, the bark is gray, covered with cracks. In the fall on one branch you can see flowers, buds, and even fruits.
Planting Budlei
If you decide to decorate your plant with this plant, then how to multiply the budle, it is necessary to take care in advance. The fact is that the cultivation of the buddha of David is possible from seeds and cuttings. Planting material must be harvested at the end of September, and sown in May. In this case, the preliminary preparation of the seeds is not necessary. They are simply sown in a moist soil and covered with film or glass. Adult seedlings dive into pots, and in summer they can already be planted in the garden. If you carefully read how to care for the budle, then in the first year on the bush may appear inflorescence.
Unlike the propagation by seeds, in which the varietal properties of a plant may be lost, the multiplication of the budlea with cuttings does not have such a drawback. How do I put it in a vegetative way? There are two options: green and lignified cuttings. Green planted in the spring freshly cut, and lignified cut in autumn and kept in spring in a cool room. Apparently, the cuttings of budlei - it's not a troublesome thing.
Before transplanting budlei to a new site, planting pits should be fertilized with repaired manure, as well as phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, ashes. The plant itself is transferred to a pit with a large clod of earth.
Budlei refers to unpretentious, but sufficiently thermophilic plants. If the street 20 degrees frost, the ribbed shoots can freeze to the very bottom. However, this wintering on the week is practically not reflected - the next year the bush will be restored, and on the new shoots in the end of August or early September there will appear abundantly flowering inflorescences.
Care
If budleya, whose height is 50 centimeters, suits you, then care can be reduced to watering. However, to grow a two-meter bush during the summer, it will need to feed fertilizers at least four times. In addition, the plant should be well mulched with compost or re-baked humus.Improve the appearance of the bush, on which inflorescences fade at different times, will help pruning. Bodley should be rid of rusty branches. In addition, trimming budlei will help give the bush the desired shape, if the plant is used by you as a hedge .