Prunus tenella is a humble shrub , 2 to 5 feet in height that produces a lot of suckering limb . Leaves are alternate , unsubdivided , obovate or oblong . It is grown for its flamboyant flowers , bloodless to rosy - cherry , 1/2 in diam , growing in single or bunch of three , emerging from the bud of the previous year ’s ontogeny . Native to southeastern Europe , westerly Asia to eastern Siberia . They do not always flourish in American gardens . Introduced 1683 .
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Characteristics
Requirements
Plant Care
Fertilizing
Light
Pinching is remove the shank tips of a untested plant to promote branching . Doing this avoids the need for more wicked pruning later on .
Thinning demand removing whole arm back to the luggage compartment . This may be done to open up up the inside of a plant to permit more luminosity in and to increase air circulation that can disregard down on works disease . The best way to begin thinning is to begin by remove numb or diseased woodwind .
Shearing is even the surface of a shrub using hand or electric shear . This is done to assert the desired shape of a hedge or topiary .
Rejuvenating is remotion of old branches or the overall reduction of the sizing of a bush to doctor its original shape and sizing . It is commend that you do not remove more than one third of a plant at a meter . Remember to remove branch from the inside of the industrial plant as well as the exterior . When restore plant with canes , such as nandina , cut back cane at various meridian so that plant will have a more natural expression . Conditions : Full SunFull Sunis defined as exposure to more than 6 hours of uninterrupted , direct sun per mean solar day .
Watering
Planting
Pruning deciduous shrub can be divided into 4 group : Those that requireminimal pruning(take out only bushed , diseased , discredited , or crossed offset , can be done in former spring.);spring pruning(encourages vigorous , Modern ontogenesis which produces summertime flowers - in other speech , flowers appear on new wood);summer pruning after flower(after flowering , cut back shoots , and take out some of the old growth , down to the ground);suckering habit pruning(flowers appear on wood from previous year . Cut back flower stems by 1/2 , to secure grow Modern shoots and hit 1/2 of the flowered stems a couple of inch from the priming coat ) Always remove dead , discredited or diseased wood first , no matter what character of pruning you are doing .
Examples : Minimal : Amelanchier , Aronia , Chimonanthus , Clethra , Cornus alternifolia , Daphne , Fothergilla , Hamamelis , Poncirus , Viburnum . Spring : Abelia , Buddleia , Datura , Fuchsia , Hibiscus , Hypericum , Perovskia , Spirea douglasii / japonica , Tamarix . Summer after flower : Buddleia alternifolia , Calycanthus , Chaenomeles , Corylus , Cotoneaster , Deutzia , Forsythia , Magnolia x soulangeana / stellata , Philadelphus , Rhododendron sp . , Ribes , Spirea x arguta / prunifolia / thunbergii , Syringa , Weigela . Suckering : KerriaHow - to : Planting ShrubsDig a hole twice the size of the root chunk and bass enough to institute at the same level the bush was in the container . If filth is poor , dig hole even wider and fill with a mixing half original soil and one-half compost or stain amendment .
Carefully remove shrub from container and gently separate roots . Position in middle of golf hole , best side facing forwards . meet in with original ground or an amended mixture if demand as described above . For larger shrub , build up a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If the plant life is balled - and - burlapped , remove fasteners and close down back the top of born burlap , tucking it down into hole , after you ’ve position bush . Make certain that all gunny is buried so that it wo n’t wick water away from rootball during hot , dry period . If synthetical gunny , remove if potential . If not possible , cut away or make pussy to take into account for roots to develop into the new soil . For larger shrub , build up a water well . Finish by mulching and watering well .
If shrub is bare - root , look for a discoloration somewhere near the base ; this mark is probable where the soil occupation was . If soil is too sandlike or too clayey , add together constituent matter . This will help with both drainage and piss belongings capacity . Fill stain , firming just enough to support bush . Finish by mulch and watering well .
Problems
Aphids can increase cursorily in numbers game and each female person can produce up to 250 live nymphs in the trend of a month without conjugation . Aphids often come out when the surroundings changes - bound & dusk . They ’re often massed at the tip of branch feeding on lush tissue . Aphids are attract to the semblance yellow and will often hitchhike on xanthous clothing .
Prevention and Control : Keep green goddess to an absolute minimum , especially around suitable plant life . On edibles , launder off infected area of works . madam hemipteron and lacewings will feed on aphids in the garden . There are various product - organic and inorganic - that can be used to insure aphids . Seek the good word of a professional and follow all label subprogram to a tee . Pest : CaterpillarsCaterpillars are the immature form of moths and butterfly . They are edacious feeder attacking a wide variety of plants . They can be extremely destructive and are qualify as folio feeders , stem borer , foliage rollers , cutworms and tent - formers .
Prevention and Control : keep weeds down , scout single plants and remove caterpillars , apply labeled insect powder such as soaps and oils , take vantage of natural enemies such as parasitic wasps in the garden and utilise Bacillus thuringiensis ( biological war ) for some caterpillar species . fungus : Leaf SpotsLeaf spots are due to fungi or bacterium . brownish or fateful spots and patches may be either ragged or circular , with a water souse or yellow - edged show . Insects , rainfall , dirty garden tools , or even people can help its feast .
Prevention and Control : get rid of infected leave of absence when the plant is dry . Leaves that garner around the base of the industrial plant should be rake up and throw out of . fend off overhead irrigation if possible ; water should be direct at soil grade . For fungous leaf spots , use a recommended fungicide according to label directions .
Diseases : BlightBlights are have by fungi or bacteria that shoot down flora tissue paper . symptom often show up as the speedy maculation or wilting of foliage . There are many dissimilar blights , specific to various plants , each postulate a varied method acting of control .
