One of the most interesting modern directions for decorating a private land plot - vertical design of vegetation. This method is quite practical and allows for extraordinary projects for aesthetics. This technique will make your porch, terrace or a gazebo very cozy and set. For such a decoration of the terrain, not all types of plants will be suitable. The honeysuckle is an excellent option, the peculiarities of which are set forth in this article.

What are the types of honeysuckle?

The modern selection of this unusually attractive plant is characterized by a rather large number of species. Therefore, there are several principles of classification that help to quickly deal with all types of honeysuckle when choosing suitable for their own sect.

Important! Before acquiring any varieties, consider carefully a photo of the honeysuckle proposed in this article.

Depending on the type of fruits, such groups are distinguished:

1. Decorative. This species is a strain curly bushes, the height of which varies from 1.5 to 7 meters. Berries formed in sufficiently large quantities are not eaten. They appreciate them more for incredibly beautiful flowering and attractive flavor, which lasts over late spring, summer and, sometimes, the beginning of autumn. Red, scarlet, bright orange, yellow and pink berries embellish the landscape throughout the rest of the times.
2. Honey edible. This is a waxed bush with extensive branches, whose height is from 1 to 2.5 meters. Leaves oblong, oval-elliptical form. The diameter of the top of the bush is 1.5- 2 meters. The color of the crust happens from dark yellowed to brown. Bushes of the honeysuckle, landing and care for which is not distinguished by complexity, included in a number of long-lived plants. With a comfortable natural environment, their livelihoods reaches up to 100 years. Fully fruits the fruits shrub starts after 7-10 years. A distinctive feature is to peel the bark, similar to grape. The flavoring range of honeysuckle fruit is quite wide:
   • sweet with taste of strawberries;
   • sweet without sourness;
   • sweet from weakly and pronounced sourness.

Important! When choosing a subspecies of the honeysuckle with edible fruits for planting on its own site, consider that the extension of the shrub occurs until 35 years of age, and in a height of up to 50 years.

By the nature of the growth and development of branches, the honeysuckle bushes are divided into:

• reprehension;
• liana.
  Important! Pay attention to the beautiful curving honeance, if the main goal is not to get a harvest, but aesthetic appeal.

Another distinction criterion is the height of adult individuals according to which the following categories define:

• low - up to 1-1.5 m;
• average - 1.5-2 m;
• high - from 2 to 5 m.

Shades of honeysuckle

The colorful palette of the inflorescences of this shrub is quite wide. Thanks to the combination of several varieties, many variations appear extremely decorate a certain part of the territory around the house.

The inflorescences of such shades are more common:

• white;
• pale pink;
• orange - yellow;
• red;
• purple.
  Important! Please note that choosing a variety with a different shade of inflorescences, and combantly combining them when landing, you can easily create an attractive landscape.

Benefits of landing honeysuckle

It is worth noting the fact that the honeysuckle is distinguished by extraordinary resistance to any influence of environmental factors, thanks to which its cultivation is very light, in any climatic strip.

We highlight some of the most significant advantages:

1. Frost resistance. The plant withstands low temperatures - up to -50 degrees C. Complications that have emerged inflorescences remain not damaged during freezes to -8 degrees C.
2. Shrubs calmly transfers a transplant due to a thick powerful root system.
3. Quickly starts fruit. Plants begin to give the fruits a year after the cutting down of the cuttings. Just only 30-40 days for ripening fruits after flowering.

What are the varieties?

All varieties are grouping in several categories, each of which is distinguished by its characteristic growth nuances. Check out the proposed list of the most popular species in each group before making the purchase of seedlings.

1. Ural varieties:
   • Siegyglake;
   • Enchantress;
   • Fianit;
   • Baby;
   • Raisin.
2. Seaside varieties:
   • Dawn;
   • Blueberry;
   • Dolphin.
3. Moscow varieties:
   • Fortune;
   • Gourmet;
   • Pan;
   • Princess Diana;
   • GNEK;
   • SPRAIN;
   • Korchag;
   • Ramenskaya;
   • Cube;
   • Wiliga;
   • Moscow 23.
4. Siberian varieties:
   • Tomichka;
   • Cinderella;
   • Selena;
   • Azure;
   • Berel;
   • Siberian;
   • Gerda;
   • Parabel;
   • IKSA.
5. Leningrad varieties:
   • Bogdana;
   • Julia;
   • Dessert;
   • Souvenir;
   • Amphora;
   • Malvina;
   • Viola;
   • Omega.

Important! When choosing varieties, be sure to familiarize yourself with their flowering time. It is better to select with the most similar period. It contributes to the fact that the flowers are pollinated at the same time, and as a result, the crop will bring much more fruit.

Honeysuckle in landscape design

Properly selected species will help to diversify the entire space of the site, regardless of other used design forms.

When designing landscaping, take into account the following recommendations:

1. Shrubs with edible berries Diverse the garden landing strip or plant single individuals directly near the porch.
2. Liana, for example, honeysuckle hurting, will become an excellent decoration of the arbors, living ingredients, facades at home.
3. Strengthening bushes perfectly emphasize and diverse german sections with low vegetation.

How to choose the right place to disembark?

So that the bushes have grown correctly, and the spent time to care for them has been minimized, rely on the choice of the territory responsibly and thought out, given the following factors:

1. Choose a plot that is most protected from blown constant winds.
2. The honeysuckle loves warm soil and sunshine, but at the bottom it is necessary to be a shadow. It will be achieved with a thick appearance of the territory.
3. When choosing a type of soil, give preference to sandy or drigly, but with good moisture permeability.
4. If in the territory of your site, groundwater is located close to the surface, select a place where this threshold does not exceed one and a half meters.

What period is it better to plant honeysuckle?

Depending on personal employment, select the appropriate landing time from the two most acceptable time limits:

• end of spring or early summer;
• after the middle of September, the landing "in the winter" is carried out.

Methods of breeding honeysuckle

There are three types of reproduction of this plant. From below the proposed, choose the most suitable, given the number of planned individuals, their age, as well as their gardener skills:

• Branches;
• Seeds;
• Cuttings.
  Important! To minimize the spent time and strength to care for the bushes, it is not recommended to start growing from seeds - this is a very time-consuming and long-term process. The optimal option is to plant the honeysuckle with the help of cuttings.                                                                                                                             

What to choose seedlings?

In order to grow out of seedlings, harmonious, lush and strong bushes, choose those that meet the following parameters:

• plants age - 2-3 years;
• massive and branched root beam;
• the presence of woken kidney on a cutlets;
• whole, without visible damage, the structure of branches and roots.
  Important! Take into account some features of the bark, which can be pulled from even on seedlings. Also purchase seedlings at least 3 varieties to ensure an attractive appearance of the site, as well as getting a rich crop.                                                                                                                                      

Rules landing honeysuckle

The order of planting bushes is not complicated. Properly performed works will become the key to healthy and developed plants.

Before starting landing the honeysuckle, check out the rules below:

1. Determine the distance between the wells:
   • no less than 120-150 cm for low and medium grades;
   • for high 200-250 cm.
     Important! Since the honeysuckle there are "female" and "men's" bushes, alternate varieties during landing. This will give a rich harvest thanks to the best pollination of the inflorescences.
2. Drop the pits with a 0.4 meter high and a diameter of 0.4-0.5 meters.
3. Blowing the wells to fill the warm water, periodically stirring for proportional moisture distribution.
4. Prepare fertilizer for each landing pit on the following recipe:
   • 1 kg of ash;
   • 0.05 kg of superphosphates;
   • 2 buckets of organic fertilizer;
   • potash fertilizers.
     Important! The amount of organic fertilizer increases to 3 buckets, if the composition of the soil is more sandy.
5. Fill the hole with a small amount of fertilizer and lightly, so that the mixture stuck on the roots.
6. Complete the rest of the fertilizer and again sprinkle with water.
   Important! In the future, water under the root, since the root system at the honeysuckle is very close.
7. In the center of each pit, create a tubercle of their land.
8. Saplings in the well put carefully so that the branches of the rhizas are evenly distributed along the edges of the tubercle.
   Important! If you saw the dried or damaged proges of the roots immediately remove them.
9. Immediately after landing, you will climb the near-fold space with tightly folded newspapers or wood shavings layer to prevent moisture evaporation.
   Important! Do not trim immediately after planting bushes, as they do with other berry fruit crops.

Features of the care of honeysuckle

Create an extraordinary and cozy landscape with the help of the honeysuckle will be possible only with the right execution of all recommendations for the care of this shrub. Often, all procedures are similar to each other and differ only in the frequency of manipulation.

The main rules are as follows:

1. Be sure to be stolen by weeds in time.

2. During flowering and formation of fruits, pour a solution from:

• 1 buckets of water;
• 1 kg of ash.

3. Every year with the arrival of spring feed the soil with organic fertilizers.

4. Based on the lovingness of this plant of moisture, in the period of hot summer watering the bushes as often as possible.

5. It is not recommended to break the earth often, since the developed root system is very close to the surface and you can hurt root.

6. So that the crowns are not fed into the crown branch, do not carefully remove them every fall.

7. During thaw and during the growing season, feed fertilizers, best of all nitrogen.

Important! View the video example of how to properly print the honeysuckle so that you do not damage it when performing a shrub.

Conclusion

Whatever the honest variety you would choose, he will definitely admire you with his luxurious and picturesque view. The main condition is clearly follow the above-described growing rules.