Chubushnik or jasmine garden is a decorative shrub widely spread on the plots due to its attractive appearance, abundant flowering and subtle aroma emanating from the flowers. The leaves have a pleasantly light green color, which in autumn is transformed into lemon yellow, the flowers are soft creamy, sometimes with a bluish tinge. Chubushnik bushes, reaching 4 meters in height, are especially good for creating hedges due to spreading branches, beautiful form and ovoid crown. Perfectly adjacent to other luxuriantly flowering decorative shrubs, such as spirea, camellia, spindle grass .
Chubushnik: planting and care
Shrub is relatively unpretentious, care for chubushnikom is simple, but as for planting, here it is necessary to approach responsibly to the choice of place. Garden jasmine is shade-resistant, but it blooms best in good light. The pit for planting should be large enough, because it has a very powerful root system. When grouping the Chubushnik, the distance between the seedlings should be 0.5-1.5 m. Drainage is only necessary in the case of close proximity to groundwater. On the bottom of the seat should lay sod land, compost, manure. After planting on each bush it is required to pour 2 buckets of water. The optimal time for disembarkation is early spring and autumn. Chubushnik transplantation is carried out only as necessary in the spring, before the leaves have blossomed.
Annually after the end of the flowering period in autumn it is recommended to feed garden jasmine with slurry. For the third year after planting, it is possible to introduce mineral fertilizers: superphosphate, potassium sulfate, urea.
Chubushnik is demanding for soil moisture, but normally tolerates a prolonged drought and can recover from the resumption of watering or rains. But the lack of moisture during flowering can significantly shorten this period - the petals of flowers quickly fly around. Winter bushes are mostly normal, without additional shelter measures, however, if your region has cold winters, you should choose special frost-resistant varieties, as some of them do not tolerate temperatures below 15 ° C.
Essential damage to the fragrant plant can inflict parasites - aphids, spider mites and weevils. Their eggs can hibernate on the branches, so in the spring, when the slightest signs of the presence of insects appear, spray the bush with a solution of a special preparation, for example, carbophos. If pests are found in the summer, treatment is best done on a sunny hot day.
How to cut a chubushnik?
Pruning young chubushnik bushes is done to give them a shape with intensive growth and to stimulate abundant flowering. It is better to conduct the procedure in the early spring, cutting off the most powerful branches on which shoots will grow during the winter. Weaker branches need to be cut more strongly to stimulate them to growth. Next, the bush is thinned annually, and once in 2-3 years, shoots older than 12 years old are removed from the adult plant.
With the help of trimming, you can bring to life a completely neglected bush, for this you need to shorten a few trunks to a length of 30-40 cm, and cut the rest almost to the root. After that the bush should be mulched and in the process of recovery regularly fed.
Reproduction of Chubushnik by cuttings
Cuttings chubushnik easy. Vegetative cuttings harvested from autumn, cutting off shoots of medium thickness
Why does not Chubushnik blossom?
Among the reasons for the lack of flowering are:
- freezing of shoots;
- lack of lighting;
- insufficient watering;
- lack of minerals;
- excessive soil hydration.