Many nourish sympathy for coniferous evergreen plants for their aesthetics throughout the year. Their greens attract a look at any season, and when other plants are transparent and invisible, conifers are all as expressive and fresh. In most species, the needles are of the usual green color, however, plants with needles of silvery, bluish, grayish and yellowish color are widely spread.
Tui was fairly widespread in urban and domestic settlements. It refers to the cypress family, the genus Tui, and includes six species. The native land of this plant is East Asia or North America. Can be both a tree and a bush. The average age of thuja can reach 100-150 years, but specimens are even older. The western part, which includes several different varieties, one of which is Thuya Brabant, became widely spread.
Description of Tui Brabant
The largest size is the sort of western Brabant. The description can be given the following: a tree up to 20 meters high, with a dense columnar conical crown in a width of up to 4 meters. Has a flaking brown-gray bark. The branches grow upwards, the needles are scaly dark green, somewhat lighter at the base. Bubant is undemanding for soil, but it is desirable to plant in wet loam and grooming twice a year (early spring and late summer). Flowering of thuya occurs in April-May, cones have a brown color and an oblong-ovoid form.
How to plant Thuya Brabant?
Thuja western Brabant forms a dense green wall - a hedge , if planting of seedlings is conducted through 0.5-1 meter. This variety is characterized by very rapid growth, for a year the growth can reach 30-40 cm in height and up to 10 cm in width. Therefore, this species is recommended for the most impatient. For the landing is suitable, and spring and early autumn. It is better that the landing site is protected from winds, shaded or sunny - it does not matter. The depth of planting depends on the size of the coma and reaches 70 cm. Within a month after - regular watering is required - 10 liters of water per week, in arid periods - 15-20 liters. Within a year after planting, Thuja West Brabant requires care in the form of regular watering. In autumn planting the plant will have time to take root before frost, after which it should be sheltered for the winter, and in the spring it will continue its growth. In the rainy autumn, the need for watering does not arise. Due to the high growth rates and the ability to grow well in width, the Bübenthu hedge can be of various shapes and can be decorated with various shapes in the form of animals, balls or arches.
Common varieties of thuji
In addition to the Brabant variety, Smaragd, Colmona, Holmstrup, Fastigiata, Sankist, Claude of Gold, Wagneri, Globosa, Danica dwarfs, Golden Globe, Woodwardie, Hoseri, Stolvik have long been tested, widespread and winter hardy. In addition to growing as a hedge, thui can be used in rock gardens and color compositions, for Japanese gardens and creating curbs, for mixed compositions, for single and group plantings. Tuy very well coexists with European larch, cypress, spruce eastern. It becomes fashionable to plant balconies, terraces, offices and other premises with trees in tubs or containers. Varieties Danica, Hoseri, Golden Globe, Smaragd and Globosa are the most suitable for this.