Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Rosa - roses

The rose is without doubt the queen of flowers. That rose to the imagination, evident from the many legends, tales and proverbs which this flower is involved. In the garden, the rose both literally and figuratively at the center of attention. Whether a large flowered, old English rose, or a fast-growing wild rose.

There are thousands of species and varieties of roses. Yet growers constantly looking for even more beautiful and more colorful roses. This search also covers the health of roses. For as the saying no roses without thorns indirectly suggests, the rose also has a flip side of the coin. Star mildew and black spot sometimes disfigure the rose bush. A good rose should not only be beautiful, but also strong.

Roses can be divided into different groups. Uniformity is often hard to find. See you after a few gardening books that you will have more than once rose another grouping found. This classification is based on several reference works, but perhaps she is still open to debate.
The family belong to the large pink roses with a 150 species spread throughout most of the temperate regions. In Europe about 40 species. For thousands of years roses are placed by people in their gardens.
The rose became the "Queen of flowers'.
Depending on this division also rose is also the way a rose is pruned, linked.




The planting time:

This happens on most soils best in the autumn. On very wet soils better in the spring. The best months for planting are November and March, but is available from mid October to late April.
Against plants in winter is no objection as long as the soil is not frozen or snow is wet.
To be planted in late April, it must be carefully molded.

You can also roses in container (black plastic pots) purchases. Such roses are more expensive than bare root. Container Roses roses make it possible at any time to plant, even in full bloom in midsummer.
Beat the pot gently from the root ball so that your roses without root damage in the planting hole to plant. Thus one can corner in the garden soon giving a colorful facelift.

Planting Distances:

Polyantha and hybrid roses are planted at distances of 35-45 cm, depending on vigor.
Climbing roses at 3 to 4 meters (along a fence for example).
Roses on stem 80-100 cm.

Tillage and soil:

In a normal maintenance garden will usually be sufficient to separate the soil before planting to work with a spading fork or spade. Land that has not previously been used for stabbing two may well be deeply omgepit carefully. In addition to topsoil (up to 25cm) and subsoil (25-50cm) dug, both layers remain at their original location.

The substrate is thus not brought up.


The groundwater level is high then puts it level with the low water level coarse gravel or rubble height of 10 cm thickness and one on the ground so much, that above a growing layer is at least 60 cm. The presence of water is the main obstacle to the development of a rose crop. This also applies to dry sandy soils.Heavy clay soil that is too fine grained, is mixed with river sand, leaf mold and peat moss or compost to the soil looser to make.Scanty, poor sandy soils humus improves it by addition of peat (or peat), clay, leaf mold and (or) compost.In peat soil can make some sand.When conditions permit, the best soil in the spring before the autumn when the roses will be planted will be edited or turned over. Then the manure through the soil to work.Roses require a well drained, humus-rich, nutritious and slightly calcareous soils.
Fertilization:
Roses like a fertile soil. So heavy fertilizing.On light sandy soils are preferred for well-rotted manure or dried cow manure (organic fertilizer).In the absence of natural manure can also use special rose fertilizer. These fertilizers are richer in nutrients than organic fertilizers, but the latter is preferable because they humus in the soil and improve its structure.The preference goes to natural manure or organic fertilizers such as dried cow dung, humosmo, Viano, ... Not for nothing it fits into all major rose gardens this system.
After ridging in autumn, the cow manure in the pits laid. In the spring, when afaarden, the largest chunks of dung which piece and worked very slightly below.
In summer, after the first bloom, the roses desire for a summer fertilization.This may require different kinds of fertilizer use. Working effectively yielded a blood donation, horn and bone. Many rose enthusiasts write results to lend their good flowering.
One can usually rose up to 12 years in the same place to grow.Would it then in the same place again build a rose garden, one has to do with the so-called "pink fatigue, mainly due to the nematode 'Pratylenchus penetrans.
Read more on our website on soil exhaustion of roses, chemical and biological control treatment.
Charles austin roses love sunshine and a light stand.
Limits or edges that lie on the north side are too cold.In very sunny places however it is best NOT OLD FASHIONED red varieties used - the petals of which are sensitive to sunlight and they will soon fade purple.
By large-flowered climbing roses blooming without objection along south walls but also led them to be better than pink or white breeds.Red have to harvest and especially in the west more to their liking.In general, roses are not shaded. In the botanical roses there are species that thrive only in the shade. Hybrid roses require full sun. Polyantha arranging roses are still in partial shade. The shadow of a house is less objectionable than that of trees, whose roots also compete with those of the roses with water and food to the soil extract.



 



When planting, the occulatieplaats (breeding site) about 3 cm below the surface. The rose roots should NEVER dry out. Those not in the sun or leave the tour. Cover the roots with damp cloth and. Even better is the roses on arrival immersing into a solid slurry of water and clay (or clay) and some cow manure.
To the roots when planting minimal cut, broken or just bruised roots are trimmed smooth. The supernatural, however strong in short sections. The planting hole should be deep and wide enough for the roots to include in their natural state, ie spread. The roots seem extremely long, they may be cut and what plants need them during at least damp. The plant is in the correct position and at the proper height with a hand-held, while the other hand soil between the roots interspersed. The plant is gently shaken some, so that all cavities become filled. Does the whole sufficient basis, it is also filled the hole, then the earth is being gently kicks, so that around the root collar creates a shallow dimple. If after that - with the fine-broes poured the water will flow to the roots. When frost threatens, NOT MELTING!

Polyantha, large-flowered roses and tribal people in short to 2 to 3 eyes, with a fall planting we do not cut short. Climbing roses we cut down to 60 cm.
 
 
 
 
Roses can be divided into different groups. Uniformity is often hard to find. See you after a few gardening books that you will have more than once rose another grouping found. This classification is based on several reference works, but perhaps she is still open to debate.The family belong to the large pink roses with a 150 species spread throughout most of the temperate regions. In Europe about 40 species. For thousands of years roses are placed by people in their gardens.The rose became the "Queen of flowers'.Depending on this division also rose is also the way a rose is pruned, linked.
The different groups are successively treats are:
Alba rosesArvenis rosesGround cover rosesBotanical RosesBourbon rosesBoursaultrozenCentifolia rosesChinese rosesDamascencer rosesEnglish roses, roses AustinGallica RosesLarge-flowered roses (Hybrid Tea)Hugonis rosesClimbing roses, Leirozen, Rambler RosesKoster RosesLutea rosesMajalis rosesMeidiland ® rosesMiniature rosesMoschata hybrid rosesMoss-rosesMoyesii rosesMultiflora roseMusk rosesNitida rosesNoisette rosesOmeiensis rosesParfum de Provence (R) rosesPendulina rosesPimpinellifolia (Scottish) rosesPolyantha Roses (Floribunda roses, Floribundaroos, Perk Rose)Portland RosesRemo Tant (Fleur Romantica) rosesRomantica rosesRubiginosa rosesRugosa roses (rose hip Japanese)Stem RosesSpinossisima rosesTomentosa rosesWeeping RosesVirginiana roses
Gertrude Jekyll
The most common types of roses are usually pruned in March. Some breeders do it in the winter, but this does depend on the place where the roses are planted. In recent years, the trend for the roses to prune less sharply than before, so it gets earlier and more roses.Roses are pruned in order to stimulate the lower buds. If the top buttons would be damaged, then a careful pruning allows light and air flow through the branches. If it is too early and intensive pruning is, are there any spare buds. Then when the rest of buttons by frost damage, hold nothing left. Therefore it is generally recommended not to prune too intense.
Not all roses are pruned the same way or at the same time. In any case, the old wood and damaged branches are removed. New upsetting in the first year always pruned.
Generally, bush and standard roses in autumn planted or are already there, pruned in March. Newly planted roses are too often too long so cut poor growth development takes place.
Pruning time is also directly dependent on the weather: a mild winter we prune the second week of March, when severe winter pruning is best from mid-March (no frost).
Pruning roses mainly consists of removing all dead branches and stumps, clearing the inner part of light and air, removing weak and thin twigs and insnoeien of the remaining strong branches. This is insnoeien shorter or longer depending pruned all the growth development of the rose.
Roses are pruned according to which group they belong: climbing roses are pruned differently from bush roses, miniature roses from different botanical roses. We are going deeper into this article.
 
 
 Roses vary greatly in shape. Of the wild, single-flowered rose with its 5 petals to the large, double flowers which we in modern hybrids and traditional cultivars able to find:
* Flat or open flower form:
Usually these are just a few flowers with 5 leaves, or semi-double flowers with distinctive petals flat. Occurs primarily in wild roses.
* Bell-shaped flower form:
His open, the councils are competing to see the heart. They can only, half full, stuffed or double-filled. The petals are bent outward.
* Pointed flower shape:
These flowers are elegant, pointed buds and can be filled or half filled, and this with a high heart. This flower shape is typical for Tea Hybrids.
* Urnvormige flower shape:
This is also in flower shape for Hybrid Tea, with a more curved shape and a flat top. They can be half full, stuffed or double-filled.
* Round flower shape:
These flowers form a dense, rounded form and filled or filled with double overlapping petals of equal size.
* Rosette flower shape:
This massive double flower filled or filled and often has a flat shape with masses overlapping petals of unequal size.
* Quartered flower form:
This is quite remarkable bloemmet numerous unequal petals grouped into 4 squares. The flower is often flat or double stuffed and filled.
* Pompon Flower form:
These small, round or double flowers are stuffed full of numerous, equal petals.
(Literature flower shapes: Pink Encyclopedia - ISBN 0 029 90410 1)
Thoma sick rose graham seen a commercial for your garden and the rose. The queen of flowers gets more difficult its status as the most popular garden plant coverage.
The causes are known: powdery mildew (white rot), stellar black spot and rust.
In the nurseries during the growing phase, these diseases effectively with chemicals contested. But once the roses have left the farms? Syringes in public parks is not done. Susceptible cultivars are removed as soon as possible. If they are replaced will be asked to healthy lasting cultivars. Even yourself, becoming more environmentally conscious, it is increasingly unwilling to chemical spraying against diseases.
Plant Publicity Holland (PPH) also already stated in its publications more attention to the disease susceptibility of the crop. The Dutch information and knowledge (IQC) has a survey of the rose growers to the sensitivity of the rose varieties to diseases. The goal is to inform the spotlight on healthy cultivars and thus susceptible species to supplant. The VKC-examination, the health aspect emphasized by the total number of points (100), whereby:
40 be given to health20 to shape and color of the flower20 to fruition richness10 with vigor10 to clean-.
At the All-German-Deutsche Rosenneuheitenprüfung (ADR) rose health inspection weighs heavily, lost roses there for three years should not be painted.
Eventually the whole story begins with the breeder who breeds too long on color and shape of the flower. The smell has now been rediscovered again, but the health of the rose is far too long been neglected.
What is a good rose?
Ask again in three different rose growers. Do not be surprised to get 4 different answers. In evaluating a pink cultivar running thoughts sometimes far apart. This is not surprising because, the perfect rose does not exist. Each rose is a compromise of some properties. Typically, this return to one of the properties and scoring less well. Fragrance, flower richness, vigor, they are all important.
All this is why roses Catalogues at home and abroad so very different. In other countries the emphasis is on providing alternatives to susceptible crops.
In almost every catalog you can still find two classic roses for their sound growth are advertised, these are:
Rosa 'Dame de Coeur' - large flowered (shown here)
Rosa 'The Fairy' - small-flowered
(Literature: Contact - aug.1997 - Study Circle Nursery School)
Meilland Regatta
By flowering shrub roses for small gardens and large:
Sometimes you see those fast-growing, soft roses in gardens and parks become veritable flowering shrubs unparalleled. Among experts, these shrub roses "landscape roses" called. " As striking colors she gardens, parks and gardens. Particularly the flowering shrub roses because of their ease of growth and rich flowering hits in any garden.
ln all shapes and colors:
When the sun high in the sky in June, the roses begin to bloom. June is indeed the perfect pink month. Climbing roses perfume spray clouds in the sky, bedding roses folding their buds open and a single shrub rose is a beautiful focal point in a front yard. Shrub or bush roses are sturdy, strong branching shrubs.
Some are two meters high and wide, other dimensions remain modest. But all they have in common that they are without too much pruning can claim a place in gardens and parks and gardens in parks and park. You can find them with flowers in every color and growth habit can be very different. Besides the more upright types are graceful overhanging shrub roses and shrub roses acclaimed for their ground-covering properties. The broad, relatively high among the types of shrub roses are holding their own borders and as specimen shrubs in a lawn. The spreading shrub roses are very suitable for low hegjes and give an accent to herbaceous borders and ground cover roses grow on slopes and hills are beautiful in flight and at roadsides.
By their strong, smooth and disease free growth, you do not need a lot of plants and you do not even gifspuit to handle. Moreover, they are perfectly hardy and oppress them with their luxuriant foliage all weeds. Even on poor soil, they will become magnificent roses. Often, shrub roses and ongedwongens something very natural. They have nothing of, stiffness of bedding most roses.
Shrub Roses practical:
Because of the broad-based growth, there are only a few roses per m2 required: two to four roses is enough. That's very economical. Pink boots on bare roots can be planted from November to March. It is recommended for bare root roses early in the planting season to plant. In container (pot) grown roses can generally be planted throughout the year. Plant them so deeply that occulatieplaats, the node from which the branches grow about 5 cm below the surface is. In autumn it is advisable to ground the shrub roses and fertilizer to the soil to make such a layer of manure. In the trade, special rose fertilizer available. In spring, the flowering shrub roses pruned. Ground cover can be pruned quite low. Higher shrub roses are pruned to 40 cm. During the flowering season the overblown bunches removed.
In September is no longer necessary. The last flowers will often grow into the bush rose hips in winter ornamental value business. In parks and along roads, the ground cover roses mechanically pruned every three years.
A nice selection of shrub roses:
The following shrub roses have proven their value. They are perfectly healthy and flourish, if overblown bunches are cut away, of early in the season to deep pink in autumn:
'Bonica 82' has beautiful bright pink, double flowers in clusters. This variety is very hardy and resistant to road salt. Along roads, on the street side of a garden and central reservations of motorways and even in the coastal region is one of the finest roses. 'Bonica 82' of the spreading type is solid vertalkte shrubs and 60 cm high and nearly as wide.
Significantly higher 'Angela'. For about one meter high shrub is becoming semi-double pink flowers.
Of the same type, but slightly less permanent "Lavender Draem. The lavender flowers are in clusters and strong odors. It is a striking color that fits in the foreground of a blue or a pink perennial border.
"Fleurette" with its single carmine pink roses, each with a white heart are free short but very strong shrub rose. "Fleurette" is very suitable for hegjes and wide limits."Heidesonuner 'has cream-colored buttons. The mid-sized, semi-double white flowers show when they all opened their deep yellow stamens. This bushy shrub rose blooms and rich is not higher than 60 cm.
'La Sevillana', with its scarlet flowers, a powerful build. She does not discolour in the least. They, too, about 60 cm high and 50 cm wide.
"Rush", one of the top breeders of Belgian Louis Lens is a direct descendant of the botanical rose Rosa multiflora. However, it blooms, often in December. The last flowers die in a shroud of morning frost. The pink, rather large, single flowers are a cool white-haired, good ground on this soon rose 1.5 m high. By pruning the rose bearing remains 'Rush' more compact. The distance between plants in beds is approximately 60 cm. Many plants so you do not need a large solid form.
 
 
 
 
 
 Pink Medi Land resembles a botanical rose. The salmon pink, single flowers have a white heart on which the stamens stand out nicely. They are in loose bunches of flowers could contain up to twenty.
"Medi Red Land" is a red counterpart of the previous one. It is a perfect ground cover as wide as high, about 60 cm.
'Alba Medi Country' is even smoother in shape. This rose bush that during the summer months and adorned with numerous white flowers heavily filled slope is ideal for planting and plants from other low crawl through. The height and width is about 70 cm.
The density of these three cover plants is two to four plants per m2.
'Tapis Volant' is a delightful ground cover of Belgian origin (Louis Lens 1982). The white flowers with a pink pearlescent appearance and are only 4 inches wide. The plant develops with overhanging branches that bend under the weight of countless flowers. The width is easily more than one meter.
(Literature: ornamental plants Newsletter No. 118 - FLAME)
Souvenir de la MalmaisonKlimrozelaars bushes with his character, they are fast growers that with proper pruning exuberant bloom. There are different groups: some have stiff upright branches, vines and other soft spoken a group of them, the vine roses, can shed a few years or a sturdy tree to grow.
Because you when planting a rose bush should take into account the typical character of each climb rosewood, it's good the climbing roses can be divided into four groups: leirozelaars, large-flowered climbing roses, climbing roses and small-flowered vine roses.
This is a good layout, though each rose bush as said its own character. The large-flowered are generally known to the climbing varieties. They often arise as a sport or mutant of a normal bed rose. They generally have stiff upright branches from the chin can be tethered. The small-flowered climbing roses are real roses. They are usually not a bed of roses but arise from botanical roses and rose culture naturally an uphill nature. The ranks of the leirozelaars are longer and smoother. They want a big climbing frame to support and can be pretty well tied. Liana Rose Boot in English 'Ramblers' mentioned. They are amazing growers whose smooth branches several meters long. Ramblers are usually bred from Rosa and Rosa wichuriana multiftora, roses in the nature of giant trees can grow. Such vine roses are most effective when they casually and trees grow, such as old trees. They are also able to shed on growing so they need a lot instead. Because climbing roses a very different character and vigor agent, you in the purchase and planting of discussions proceed, otherwise go wrong. Moreover, the summer and spring pruning a laborious business, and especially prickly. However, if you devote the necessary attention and desires of the principal accepts the climbing roses, they flower abundantly and may the whole garden in a beautiful glow up. Moreover, many scatter roses nose with a lovely perfume.

The main demands of climbing roses
Like all roses climbing roses require a good fertile soil and a spot in full sun that well in the wind. Pink Boots want a light, say windy location. At one spot in the shelter, they, like many other roses however, susceptible to all kinds of fungal diseases. In places where the wind can play through the vines, climbing roses are strong and healthy. It is good loamy soil fluffy and light sandy soils with organic fertilizer and humus enriched. The pH also plays a role, roses grow best in neutral to slightly alkaline soil. But in this respect are not very picky.

Give them a solid support
In nature, climbing roses work with their spines (roses have no thorns, but thorns) in trees, on rocks and shrubs up. In the garden you will see them mostly as a climbing frame should support or at least a solid pole. If your climbing roses against a wall, have to climb the jungle gym at least 10 cm away from the wall. Especially along a wall facing south is important because as I said lightly climbing roses should be. Climbing roses and especially the large-flowered cultivars leirozen and want a large climbing frame. You can then rank each new broadly tethers.
If you are the branches in a wide arc curves downward, the flowering promoted. Flowering vines growing right up less abundant than the branches bend outwards. The height and width of the climbing frame will depend on the vigor. Six feet tall and as wide a minimum.

Short but spectacular bloom
Most climbing roses bloom only during the year. That flowering time is usually in June or July. In this relatively short flowering climbing roses bloom most spectacular and very abundant. Some climbing roses such as the well known "New Dawn" have a pretty good second bloom. Other remo invest in the autumn and can sometimes be very nice. The fragrant 'Mme Isaac Pereire' which like many older varieties of beautiful pink roses quartered possession, gives its owner a beautiful bloom in September.

Lately there are a number of flowering climbing roses on the market.
It is recommended, "Garland d'Amour", a recent Belgian veredeldt rose by Louis Lens. The relatively short flowering period, which the hardier species still holds nearly one month, no one deter these landmarks to plant. Whoever they get in the garden, looks forward to it every year. And in the rest of the growing season, they prove their usefulness, such as support for large-flowered Clematis and why not, as impenetrable hedge.
SchneewittchenBuying Roses
Never buy just any red, white or pink climbing roses. Buy roses by name. There are many good climbing roses, leirozelaars, large-flowered roses and small flowers and roses vine that can serve all purposes. The following roses are widely available and will rarely disappoint.

Fragrant large-flowered climbing roses
'Compassion' is a salmon pink rose with apricot nuances. She has a strong bushy growth and strong dark green leaves.
'Sympathy' is a solid dark color rose with bright green leaves that smell of wild roses. The plant is bushy and erect. With its height of 4 meters, she is very beautiful with a pergola.

Climbing roses with flowers midddelgrote
'New Dawn' climbing rose is the best known. She has a slight but subtle scent, and clusters of pink flowers on long silver steal. 'New Dawn' is a good second bloom.

'Golden Showers' flowers lemon yellow and smells softly. It blooms for a climbing rose very well and starts quite early on in the season.

Leirozelaars with weak thin branches that are easy to form:
"Leverkusen" has beautiful clusters of lemon yellow flowers and is very hardy. Ideal for small growing on pergolas.
'Paul Noel' blooms with clusters of salmon-colored roses and featuring the same properties as "Leverkusen".

Liana Rose Boots:
Rosa filipes 'Kiftsgate' is undoubtedly the most exuberant rose vine. With its many meters long tendrils, this once a year a flowering rose maid of all work. End of June of even a large fruit tree make a wonderful bouquet of white flowering.

"Bobby James" is also a height of 10 m away. The flowers are slightly larger than that of 'Kiftsgate "and the white flowers have a creamy yellow center. Recommended for anyone who has a suitable place for the roses to let go her way.

Ville de RoeulxHet plants
Before you buy the roses, the soil must be ready to plant. Roses grow best in neutral, nutritious loam soil. On heavy clay soils you can sand and humus to add to make them suitable. Sandy soils are best with rotted manure. Before planting you dip the roots for several hours in a bucket of water with you if necessary, add a root-promoting powder. For climbing roses, it is advisable first to place the solid support before planting the roses. Make a large hole where you can spread out the roots. Make sure the oculatieplaats, the bulge where the leaders go, even after the settling of the soil two inches below ground. Give plenty of water and cover the ground then with a layer of rotted manure and ensure that manure does not touch the rose branches.

Planting time and spacing
From early November until early April it rose planting time. But you plant the roses, sooner rather than later, obviously in frost-free weather. Depending on the vigor climbing roses are 3 to 6 meters. So much you do not need. Only to pergolas and rose arches, which they can grow broadly, they can be planted closer together. Pruning and plant roses, in view of the spines, always with gardening gloves. After planting, prune your climbing roses do not like back deep bed of roses. Better is the least powerful shoots to the ground cut away and only the strongest to leave. If you plant them early, then ground the plants against the frost. After three years will be a climbing rose has become an impressive appearance.

Pruning and shaping
Single flowering climbing roses can be pruned immediately after flowering back to the sturdy young shoots. Thus the plant will bloom next year much more spectacular. If you by blooming roses wilted flower clusters wegsnoeit, more flowers will appear. In early March, take the old worn and withered branches. Then the bush is always rejuvenating. Sometimes, the bush threatens to become too close, you take the entire ground system branches. Often, the oldest and the thickest are. Do not worry, the bush will soon overtake its damage. The long shoots that remain short you do not. They can be more fan-shaped bend, and so support the tie. Pink bows out vines not only give a shape to the bush, they also thrive the most exuberant. Loosely tie the vines to the support through the tough plastic binding wire to form a loop, so the wire does not afsnoert the branch when it thicker.
Yellow Meillandina
The most beautiful roses in a pot on the patio with roses to keep its supple branches that are not too large.The roses are most susceptible are called moschatahybriden. Already have some low ground cover and bedding roses typically spreading form that pot is the best.Among those moshatahybriden or musk roses do you include the choice between 'Ballerina', 'Bel Esprit', 'Flash', 'Jet Spray, "" Poetry ".Come under the groundcover roses like 'Red Meidiland' and 'Pink Meidiland "eligible.For roses always a pot at least 40 inches wide.
Most questions concerned about pests pink star black spot:
Star black spot is caused by the fungus Diplocarpon rosae, with the asexual fruit shape, Actynonema rosarum. It is this last that we commonly encounter during the growing season in the infected leaf tissue. Under the microscope it can be observed as a small open spore capsules, which are called aecervula tweecellige, somewhat constricted, escape with four typical traces circles.
Syndrome:
Initially purple spots which later turn black and irregularly distributed over the leaf. The spots are often circular in expanding black jets (= stellar black spot). Usually performs well on the yellowing of parts of the leaf blade. Leaf fragments are then off to finally lose weight.
In the summer, this disease is a strong expansion, resulting in a strong a significant decline in leaf fall and flowering. Dew star Soot is a disease that last year has increased.
In the fall, the roses are mostly very barren. After winter pruning, and when it was being raked blade illness, birth of the first track from this flight!
Control:
First PREVENTIVE fight the diseased leaves as soon as possible to clear and burn!
There is a difference in sensitivity to stellar black spot between the different rose varieties.
With strong attack in May, every 14 days, and use it until about mid-July.
 
 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Shrub pruning: methods, time, tips, pruning tools, info

Shrub Pruning: timing, method and tips

According to a survey conducted earlier in www.gardeningtechniques.wordpress.com ± 2400'll find gardeners in more than 80% of the boxwood gardens at somewhere.
It is a plant with different qualities. Perhaps the most important asset of the box is that the plant remains evergreen. This very compact, closed and dark green boxwood hedges are again ideal for edging of flower beds. By planting boxwood hedges get your year-round evergreen structure in the garden. You can of course make such structures in the garden with evergreen privet or Lonicera, but you must prune or more often as they grow much faster than the beloved box. Boxwood does not grow as quickly, making it ideal for low growing plants and hedges to form figures, spheres, cones and spirals.



 To obtain clean and tight, you need the boxwood hedges still at least two times a year to prune. Buxus tolerate pruning very well and is on the old branches produce new sprouts. If you repeatedly prune boxwood, this fuller, firmer and better off because the branches are pruned branch.Prune your only concern then once you have a loose, less sturdy plant that in winter the snow can not bear leaving the buxusbol branches can break or hedge.
From late May to late June is the ideal place to introduce your boxwood pruning. The second can shave quite follow from mid August to mid September. In any event well before the winter makes its appearance, so the box is still a satisfactory recovery. Moreover, given the new shoots after pruning the latter formed the time to adequately lignify before it starts to freeze. Herbaceous young twigs at the first frost will freeze which does not provide nice winter view.
For cutting box awaits your best on a cloudy day to prevent combustion phenomena. After your boxwood hedge pruning, the branches and leaves open wounds in warm weather through which water can evaporate. The upper leaves dry out and wither and brown colors what the box a lot less beautiful. Not growing as quickly as boxwood will take quite a while before the back fence is beautiful.

Damage (= leaf burn) to the boxwood hedge after pruning with a searing SunThe damaged leaves will fall after a few weeks after giving you some time on a hedge with bare tops look. It does not look pretty, but the box itself can not hurt and after a few weeks, new bright green shoots and leaves emerge.
To snijwondes as intact as possible, use a well sharpened manual hedge trimmer. It goes without saying that the wounds using an electric motor or hedge shears will be coarser. This can be a bit like riding down like grass with a reel mower that cuts the grass compared with a rotary mower grass stalls. Nevertheless, professionals who do the gardening shears hedge engine usually use for shaving boxwood hedges. Boxwood hedges Massifs and you can not only much faster shave with a motor hedge shears, but it is also convenient to take a straight line to hold. However, some of them use a hedge shears they only for shaving box so that is always very sharp. It goes without saying that hedge trimmers who have served much to shave coarse hedges such as Aucuba, Taxus, Prunus laurocerasus (cherry laurel ),... not as sharp knives and have therefore pruning wounds are coarser.

manual hedge shears
For the shave you spray then remove the box so the scissors even more smoothly through the branches can slide. This is better for your arms and also prevents burning of the clipped peaks.If the sun day after shaving still very intense and bright you can still cover the box with a fleece.Long hedges it is best to shave with an electric hedge shears or a motor that is well put (sharp). This provides a very nice and tight result.
If pruning tools in addition to the manual, you can use an electric hedge trimmer or a motor hedge shears or a special shrub shear (sheep shaving scissors). In order to prune boxwood forms you can use a regular scissors or secateurs long as it is sharp so that your gift pruning obtained surfaces.

Boxwood Diseases - Buxus Panic?

Boxwood Diseases - Buxus Panic?

The humid summers of the past two years have in many places provided for severe mold infestation in Buxus throughout Western Europe.

There are two different fungi because Cylindrocladium buxicola and Volutella buxi. Both fungi cause leaf and taksterfte. The attack usually begins with Cylindrocladium and can be followed by a secondary deterioration of Volutella. Both fungi are therefore to be fought.

Description of fungal diseases:

     Cylindrocladium: The attack begins with black spots on the leaves. After a few days the affected leaves fall off en masse and there are black marks on the young twigs.






These diseases are a proper treatment well under control. When some damage but no treatment is performed, the damage can be enormous. This damage type usually begins with a few small spots and then the second year to grow into large affected areas. This year there from May damage observed, probably due to the very warm April Mon The greatest damage occurs in summer and autumn, especially in humid conditions. Extra vigilance is certainly needed.

control:

     nursery / landscaping: There are multiple treatments for disease control. A good variety of used fungicides is needed to prevent resistance. All information available through the warning system for floriculture.

 




Prevention: Through an adequate measure of the disease strongly reduced.

     Good hygiene is recommended but is not guaranteed to stop the disease. Avoid contact between infected plants and healthy plants.
    

     In gardens with automatic irrigation is better, in periods of drought, a lot of water once a week to give than to spray every day. This way the plants can dry better and the fungus is less likely. The use of drip irrigation is recommended.
    

     Also judicious fertilization can occur much suffering. Plants that grow in a quiet way, are less susceptible to degradation.
    

     Variety in the assortment is also a lot of problems. Avoidance of sensitive species would certainly consider. Some species show no or little boxwood sensitive.
    

     The way we use the box, has a great influence on the occurrence of these diseases. Dense massifs, shaved and forms clouds are more susceptible to degradation than naturally grown bushes. In these gardens some extra care certainly appropriate.


Solid boxwood

conclusion:

Most people have always assumed that nothing could happen with box. However, this prejudice creates problems for many illnesses that can enable very little or not addressed. An adequate monitoring and treatment according to me the only solution to this scourge under control. Boxwood is now an easy and rewarding plant for the garden. Disease at the box compared to other garden plants (eg roses and fruit trees), but never higher.

Pond: common mistakes in a pond in winter

This article was written to raise a number of common mistakes mostly novice pond owners make during the winter months. Many of us will pond and its inhabitants for the first time to see winter go and go here often mistakes.

Fishing is no problem a long, cold winter survival if all or part of the pond at least 80cm deep. Ponds will be rather a step depth of 150cm or more.





Perhaps the most asked question: Should I continue feeding my fish? Previously they said not to feed down to a temperature of 10-12 ° C. Now comes one more to the idea to continue feeding the fish, as long as they ask. Definitely stop with feeding once the water temperature 6 ° C is reached. The idea behind this is that the fish were less time to live on their reserves. Adjust the amount of feed to ensure a function of temperature. Koi keepers feeding winter forage (wheat gearm).
And filters in the winter must then turn left on. Many beginners make their filters silent and clean it thoroughly in the spring to start. You have just one of the most important points of your pond habitat destroyed. Enter your filter's life (bacteria). Destroy the month long build up your bacteria colony is not shut down your filter, you'll really need your filter in the spring, then start with a filter is almost impossible. And when freezing temperatures are measured all possible filters are protected from the cold so much, among other lines can not freeze but for the bacteria is very important.
A skimmer and waterfall have to be stopped. A waterfall, the pond water in direct contact with the cold air and cold stones. The water pumped from the pond will thus be significantly cooled. The skimmer has to be stopped. The skimmer is always the top layer of water extraction and there is danger of freezing as the mouthpiece of the skimmer at the surface is.
It's certainly watch out for overhead filter (pump fed - filter bank) that the water in the pond water level back to bring it above ground (in most cases, a waterfall) or marsh area. If possible, we derive the water directly below water level back to the pond. The plants in the swamp area are still at rest and perform no function anymore, especially when we have the swamp area in the autumn, cleaned and thinned.Filters on top of the ground we insulate well.
Formation of ice and freezing of ponds may lead to the biggest worry with the result that many misguided attempt to address this phenomenon with very unfortunate consequences.
A pond completely freezes over, can not in itself evil, our winters are not so stringent of the pond not too long will freeze. It is important that you have a healthy and well-maintained pond. If your pond at the bottom is covered with several inches thick layer of decaying leaves you watch. Noxious gases can not escape because the ice. Supplemental oxygen is best provided in the filters, the biological filter section, the bacteria take advantage of it with oxygen and the production is done outside the pond. It's not so much that a pond is completely frozen, provided that the organic load (eg leaves on the ground) to a minimum.
There are only a limited number of good ways to a hole in the ice making. A hole in the ice caps or with hot water pouring over you should not do, these are the two most lethal methods for your fish.
How can it be. Preventive work and avoid the pond freezes over. The best and most beautiful way, one or more air stones suspended in the pond. The bubbling bubbles will not only make your pond free of ice at that location will also keep harmful gases will be expelled and oxygen are administered. There are methods, such as polystyrene and other but air stones are still recommended because they actually three tasks.
How can you safely make a hole in the ice? Have a kettle of boiling water, hold it and put the kettle on the ice and let it drop through. Pour hot water in no way on the ice. This brings like a shockwave toward your fish.
Snow on the ice could provide a good insulation but it is recommended that a portion of the snow very careful to remove. Although the fish and water plants at rest. A ray of sunlight in the dark winter does wonders. Eg for vitamin D production in fish. Aquatic plants and especially the submerged (oxygen) plants need sunlight, even if their operation during the winter at a very low level.
A final and less direct mistake people sometimes make his work on the pond or in the vicinity. Remember that your fish a kind of hibernate and should be left alone. Disturbing doing them no virtue. Let the pond and the garden for what it is during the winter. The water is a good conductor, including noise. Working in the vicinity of the pond causing vibrations that the fish will see.
Koi in WinterFor people with koi, the winter is always a fearful time. Although koi can adapt to temperatures of 2 ° to about 30 °, we pay more attention to the overwintering of fish. Koi have preferred warmer than colder and they have absolutely no understanding of temperature fluctuations of more than 3 ° per day. Often their koi pond owners thus capping with bubble wrap, etc. bicarbonaatplaten

Eternal purée or sometimes old wives cabbage, duizendkop, splits or poor man's vegetable cabbage called

Eternal cabbage purée or splits, old cabbage!
Splitting Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. Acephala)

Eternal purée or sometimes old wives cabbage, duizendkop, splits or poor man's vegetable cabbage is called a lesser known vegetable that one of the oldest cabbage belongs.
The light to dark green leaves are densely planted but are unlike any other cabbage crops, cabbages, but a crop of loose leaves. Who wants this carbon process can harvest as needed so the plant can grow. She is also excellent for all animals that need a little bit of green food such as chickens, rabbits, turtles, hamsters, etc.

Increase?






The split with no additional carbon can be propagated cuttings problems.
Take a few jars on hand and filled it with an airy seed and cutting soil.
Then you cut kopstekken of about 5 to 7 cm.
Make sure no leaves are left in the ground, it increases the chance of rot.
Watering and covering through a mini greenhouse or conservatory.
After one week, the cuttings have to strike root and grow abundantly.

pitch
Eternal purée or split your cabbage preferably in half shaded place.
Full sun may indeed lead to burning.
A well-drained soil with adequate organic fertilizers and compost is ideal.



growth
The growth of nuclear fuel carbon is highly dependent on soil type and location.
A soil that meets all requirements of the plant sets and also permeable, will the whole growing only benefit.
Plants, from April, May, where the cabbage then the whole summer to grow undisturbed.
In dry periods, irrigation is important as ever pulp a superficial root system is.


  

flower
Kool split or ever will have little or puree never going to bloom.
In dry and hot summers can be times when the plants still in bloom. Noteworthy is that the plant heavily in growth will decline.

Living by vegetables?
Eternal purée is not frost sensitive and vegetables can grow undisturbed. The plant will always grow back year after year.
Cabbage which grows continuously splitting can be up to 40 years!
After some time, the rupture of the plant necessary to ensure new and stronger growth.


Process?
This old cabbage can be perfectly incorporated into the kitchen.
Harvest a few leaves and boil it as red or white cabbage.
The typical cabbage taste is strongly accentuated in their processing.
Even animals such as rabbits, chickens and birds like the green leaf!
They contain many vitamins and strengthen the immune system.
  

Hedgehogs hibernate help with their home rule

Hedgehogs begin their hibernation when the cold season comes. The food gets up. When they wake up (± April) there will be plenty of food. Hedgehogs are the only true hibernators in the insect eaters.
In the months preceding the hibernating hedgehog has a lot of food to be taken so fat he has to get through hibernation. The hedgehog curls up in November / December and goes to sleep. He feeds off its fat reserves. His body temperature drops from ± 35 ° C ± 5.0 ° C, heart rate drops to ± 9 bpm and respiration goes to ± 3 times per minute. A hedgehog in the middle of winter are woken up will die and his body temperature will rise about reserves are all addressed. He does not have enough food to be consumed energy replenishment.

Here you can see step by step how you can make a hedgehog house. See you do not really sit in one myself stabbing each other, then you can always buy a hedgehog house




Making a hedgehog house:

step 1

Create two rectangles with shelves and screw attached to each other.
The size is not important but are frames of 60 x 100 cm.






step 2

Make the top closed with plastic, here are black
agriculture and use double plastic stapled.


  


step 3

Make all sides closed with old boards.







step 4

An opening of 15x15 concern for the entrance.




step 5

A walk-way of about 60 cm where the hedgehog doorkan.



    

Buxus: disease and pest control

Buxus is today impossible to imagine in our gardens, the gardeners also make much use. This plant is i.e. the hit of our garden. This he has largely due to its versatility o. A. As a hedge plant, tub or patio plant and also in solitary form pruning (animal shapes, cones, spheres, spirals ,...) It uses quite a shrub shear.If we go back in time we find the box above to return vicarage gardens or farms, they are also know as the traditional plant dedicated on Palm Sunday, and thus a whole year in Christian homes can be found. These small green sprigs are a sacred sign, remembering Jesus of Nazareth, a sign of peace and reconciliation.
WHAT DOES MY ENEMIES boxwood?
A. INSECTS

boxwood bladvlo
1. The Shrub bladvlo (Psylla buxi)This is a small insect 3 to 4 mm, yellowish to green. The young insects are called nymphs, they are very abundant secreted a white, water-repellent was finished (shiny - sticky - sweet water), which serves as protection for potential enemies but also against dehydration. In the adult insect - image-is wax are called absent.
From late April one notices on the nymphs. They find them on the tips of the leaves (growing points) where they suck, causing the spoon-shaped leaves curl. Under these curled leaves, we find many hidden bugs: nymphs. This one gets sucked by a severe growth inhibition. In early June, we find the dress back in the course of the summer eggs take that back next year to become a new generation of fleas magazine. The bladvlo limited to one cycle per year, making the fight easy especially when caught early is to prevent harm is great!
Control:Chemical: one spray in early April before the real attack of the bladvlo with a product based on Imidacloprid. The damage can be seen in the spoon-shaped curling of the leaves.Organic: at the sight of the first young coiled branches prune them immediately and give the compost facility.
2. The Shrub spider mite (Eurytetranychus buxi)These are microscopic, brownish-red insects unlike other mite species rather large feet, so they move quickly. The orange-colored eggs laid in silk can only find with a magnifying glass. These mites are sucking and biting mouth parts. They live several generations per year (one generation lives three to four weeks).
Their life cycle is as follows: egg - larva - nymph - adult eight-legged mite.Only the old leaves are affected, one sees that the distinctive pale stripe-shaped dots can also chlorophyll lemon colored. In young leaves, this is not. In severe cases the leaves are so badly damaged that if it were white shoots arise. Especially in sheltered under glass or on the veranda, this attack threatening, especially the high temperatures and lack of necessary humidity play a role.
Control:Chemical: spray with a regular spintdodend agent (acaricidal) or any product baisi of the active substance to the name bromopropylate listening.Organic: oaTyphodromus pyri predatory mites, which can eat up to 8 mites per day. These mites are gekeekt to special companies which they in turn sell to some garden centers.
3. The Shrub topgalmijt (Aceria unguiculata)These very small insects, barely visible even with 10x magnification, are fairly common on Buxus. They have two pairs of legs, both larvae and adult insects. They are recognizable by their worm-shaped body. They live mainly in the diseased plant buds, shoots and bones of Buxus.The insects cause growths and discolorations so the plants look dirty. The malformed leaves are spindly, mature shoots. The branches that are affected have a dark view. All this has a severe growth retardation results.
Control:Chemical: spray the end of March with a product based on AmitrazOrganic: prune damaged tops and make the compost facility or burn.
4. Apple mussel scale (Lepidosaphes ulmi)This 2 to 3 mm wide scale insect is shaped like a comma (as the name suggests!), It occurs mainly on the bottom of the plant dried twigs. The female scale insects under their shields put the eggs away. If the shield of the dead female mealybug loosens the eggs that are visible wasvormig look that reminds us of some fungal disease.
This type of louse causes little damage even if she looks more impressive than the above species.
Control:Chemical: spray with mineral oil (oil-Elephant), where no deterioration is visible or spray in late May when you release the shield with a product based on Imidacloprid, propoxur or Cyhalotrin.Organic: Too much affected twigs into compost facility wegsoeien and throwing.Note: All above products are not available for the enthusiast.

B. PHYSIOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES
Buxus if not in the right place, there may be problems. This can be avoided by Buxus on a calcareous, nutritious soil to plant, preferably in partial shade. Also a good water management is necessary!
1. Green fenceThis is caused by algae or algae that clog the pores so the plants grow less well and did not look fresh. This is due to a wrong location, such as too much shade, not dry the leaves by an excessive moisture.
2. Flowering shoot and leaf yellow edgeThis is mainly due to lack of fertilizer and lime. Due to fertilize the plants with much nitrogen plants can revive the poor. This is especially common in poor soil in pots and Buxus composition. Plants that are constantly wet feet show the same picture and give a brownish green color. The trade is one special boxwood fertilizers.
3. Broken branchesOccasionally there is brown, dead branches, this is not a disease but is usually due to an abrupt switch, this is thought to mowing the lawn, children playing, roaming pets etc ... .. Our dear quadrupeds may also cause damage by our boxwood hedge against a urinal so the leaves burn, it gets worse in sunlight.

Plants also have their feelings

Do plants so their feelings?
That plant life that is nothing new but that they would have feelings is perhaps less well known.In tests by scientists showed indisputably that plants do react to actions by man. Around the world are testing out which one attaches electrodes to the plant. If the plant is damaged then, is clearly on the equipment to read.
200 years ago scientists would have found that we are very sensitive plants can recognize who it good for them and who is wrong. Not only Charles Darwin, but Goethe himself with the inner life of plants occupied. It is then already established that detachment and routinely handle their life eventually decreases. Under no circumstances may a plant just a nice room decoration or filling that only once a week, loveless water with food in it are given.
It was in 1966 that the botanist Cleve Backster, an American, the magazine of the Philodendron alliance with a "lie detector" to measure the electrical conductivity of the leaves as the water from the roots to the leaves go. The results were extraordinary: all experiments with a plant in some way violated, the result was that the needle on the gauge bright uitsloeg. When he was considering a leaf of this plant to burn, the measurement showed a sharp peak.
Subsequently, the tests on bulbs, lettuce, oranges and bananas exported. This also gave each the same or very similar confirmatory results. All plants responded to pleasant or dangerous situations.Sir Jagdis Chandler Bose repeated the experiments of Backster and that ... same patterns. George Bernard Shaw was deeply touched when he experienced a laboratory, a cabbage violent convulsions when they got was boiled. Even stronger is the event where the electrodes had been attached but no experiments were performed. For some reason the meters gave readings already. People thought first technical failures, until someone from the research team found that the vast lawns outside the lab were mowed! When it was the man who was working early to stop, the meters were shut! Every time he went back there was panic among the plants in the laboratory.
From the above it appears at any rate clear that plants are feeling and responding to events in their environment. Therefore it is not hard to understand that they also respond to music. Classical music and quiet stimulate growth very clearly. In contrast, the plants that are under study were exposed to a sharp, aggressive music at the end of the study period visibly stressed and less measurable. They flourish spectacularly good as they are cared for in a friendly manner and if there is a good mood. Obviously, these positive forces known only to reflect, as well as the basic conditions for good growth are met. Without it the most tender treatment is not successful.
The plants apparently love of conviviality. It is they seem to matter whether they stay or among peers in the company of people. For example, plants grow better as their babysitter home. Perhaps that accounts for the fact that plants solitary not want to do so well. The researchers need to get the most from your plants and they speak not forget to stroke the leaves. A strange approach, but obviously with very good results.
Incredibly, the outcome of the investigation into Backster wanted to discover whether plants might even have thought. An employee of Backster, who did not know for the test plants, test plants was commissioned some rough handling and damage to apply. Several strangers had passed a few hours later, the damaged plants pass. Reacted to the plants. When passed Assistant crude were suddenly very strong reactions from the plants observed. Even plants that had experienced the crimes as witnesses responded. This was a clear evidence about the feel of a plant.
Most researchers who framers these phenomena by their colleagues seriously. Still, she has not applying their research results in order to make the unknown life of the plant a small step forward.Now that you have read all this you may be a slightly more classical music turn on, albeit as an excuse but it's good for your houseplants. In any case, if you start chopping and weeding, but there is not too bad with it.