Jasmine: planting and care

The Olive family usually includes a perennial plant called Jasmine. Its bushes are distinguished by beautiful, exquisite flowers with an extraordinary aroma reminiscent of strawberries. Some time ago, this plant was grown exclusively in a favorable warm climate. Now varieties have been bred that feel great in our country.

Jasmine varieties

One of the varieties of jasmine, which belongs to the terry variety, is called Virginal. This garden jasmine is a shrub up to 3 meters long with erect shoots and large decorative leaves. The foliage has a bright green tone, which changes to a bright yellow color with the onset of autumn. The flowers of this variety are large in size and white in color. Flowering begins at the end of June and lasts about a month.

Jasmine Sambac is a climbing shrub that can grow to a height of three meters. The flowers of this variety can be double or semi-double, white in color and with a strong aroma. Unlike other varieties of jasmine, this one opens its flowers only at night.

Shrub jasmine is a one and a half meter tall bush with bright green shoots. Its flowers are bright yellowish in color, collected in corollas of 5 pieces. The flowering period of this variety begins in the last days of May and continues until the last days of July.

Jasmine called Airborne forms two-meter bushes with straight branches. The plant blooms within a month, flowering begins at the end of July. White or cream-colored flowers of this variety are collected in inflorescences located along the entire length of the branches.

Jasmine called Ermine Mantle forms small bushes no more than a meter high. The flowering period of this jasmine variety is one and a half months and begins in the last days of May. Double flowers of a snow-white hue have a strong smell of a pleasant sweetish aroma.

Planting jasmine

Any soil is suitable for jasmine, but the plant will feel best in fertile soil made from a mixture of 2 parts humus, 1 part sand and 3 parts turf soil. Also in progress landings shrub should add 30 g of nitrophoska. Excess moisture is destructive for jasmine, so a good drainage layer consisting of broken bricks, pebbles or gravel at least 15 cm thick is required.

It is best to place the shrub in an open sunny place. If several bushes are planted at the same time, the distance between neighboring ones should not be less than 1 meter. It is best to plant the shrub in the spring, this will give time for the jasmine to take root, but if necessary, it can be planted in the fall.

Planting is carried out according to the following plan:

1. Dig a hole with sides 60 cm and the same depth.
2. Arrange drainage, add a little soil and nitrophoska.
3. The jasmine bush is lowered into the hole and the roots are evenly distributed, covering them with soil. In this case, the base of the bush should be buried no more than 2 cm.
4. The soil is compacted and watered with 2 buckets of water.
5. To prevent moisture evaporation, the soil around the bush is mulched.

Jasmine care

For proper formation of the bush it is necessary to regularly apply feeding. In the first year, jasmine is fed with a solution of slurry, dissolving a liter of manure in a bucket of water. After this, mineral fertilizers are applied twice a year. This is done for the first time in mid-May, after applying complex fertilizer. The second time jasmine is fed after the end of the flowering period.

Water Jasmine is needed abundantly and often. With a lack of water, the plant becomes lethargic, the flowers become smaller, and the foliage becomes pale. In addition, the soil around the bush must be loosened and removed. weeds as she grows. Each loosening should be completed with the addition of peat mulch.

In spring, the jasmine bush must be pruned, removing old, broken and diseased branches. It is also necessary to cut out shoots if the bush is too overgrown. This rejuvenates the bush and promotes active growth and abundant flowering.

Jasmine transplant

The best time to replant jasmine is in early October. The bush is first tied with ropes to prevent branches from breaking. After this, the soil around the bush is watered with six buckets of water to soften it and facilitate the process of removing the bush.

Then the bush is dug up, retreating 30 cm from the trunk and cutting off the root system. At this point, the extracted bush can be cut into several parts, thereby propagating the plant.

Dig holes for replanting with a diameter of about 60 cm, at the bottom of which place a layer of drainage and about 1.5 kg of rotted manure. Pour two buckets of water over it and wait half an hour. Place the bush in a pre-prepared hole with a prepared drainage layer and applied fertilizers, straightening the roots. Water the root system with a special solution for better rooting and cover with soil. After this, the branches of the bush are freed from their bonds and the bush is watered abundantly. Be sure to mulch the soil around the jasmine with tree bark or pine needles.

An adult plant will take much longer to take root in a new location than a young one. Therefore, it is better to select places for replanting on the south side of the site, where there is more heat. If you plant a plant on the north side of buildings, it will suffer from lack of lighting and may not take root.

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