Hydrangea Invisible Spirit (Invincibelle Spirit) - description
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Hydrangea is popular with professional florists, landscape designers and amateurs who grow flowers in their backyards. An unpretentious and very ornamental plant can delight with a lush pink flowering from the first days of summer to mid-October.
Origin and appearance of Invisible Spirit hydrangea
Hydrangea Invincibelle Spirit, like other varieties of this plant species, belongs to the genus hydrangea. The largest number of wild species of this genus has been described on the Japanese islands and in China.
Hydrangea Invizible Spirit
Hydrangea tree Invincibell is a shrub 0.9-1.5 meters in height. The bush is quite voluminous, it can grow up to 3 meters wide, so the plant needs regular pruning and formation of a bush. The leaves are oblong, with a jagged edge, large enough, rich green color. In autumn, they are painted in bright yellow, giving the garden a great decorative effect.
How Hydrangea Invisible Spirit blooms
The inflorescences of the tree hydrangea Invisible Spirit are almost entirely composed of sterile flowers, have an irregular spherical shape, the diameter of such a ball can reach 30 cm. The color of the corollas is variable from dark pink to bright pink. At the very beginning of flowering, the color of the corollas is dark pink, with time it becomes bright pink. The variety blooms for a long time - from early June to mid-October.
Bright bloom Invizible Spirit
In landscape design, it is used as a tapeworm (single plant), and in planting in a group and in compositions with other plants. Hedges from this plant look beautiful. Often Invincibelle Spirit hydrangea is meant when speaking of another variety - Pink Annabel.
Invisible Spirit hydrangea transplant after purchase in open ground
It is better to plant a bush in early spring or autumn. It is not recommended to replant the plant in summer during flowering. The plant will shed flowers and buds and refuse to bloom for the next season.
What is needed for landing
A pit 50x50x50 cm in size is prepared for planting. The day before transplanting, the pit is watered abundantly with water. A mound of specialized soil for hydrangeas is poured at the bottom. Add to it 20 g of superphosphate and potassium sulfate.
Choosing the best place
Hydrangea Invincibelle Spirit is planted in a sunny place or in partial shade. The soil is preferable fertile, well moistened and drained, with an acidic reaction (pH 4.5-5). Hydrangea growing in the wrong place will not bloom and develop well.
The planting site must meet the following requirements:
- Diffused lighting. Direct rays of the sun appear only in the morning.
- Quiet, sheltered from the winds.
- Moist soil, but no stagnant processes.
- Acid reaction of the soil (pH 4.5-5).
Step-by-step planting process
To properly transplant a hydrangea, you need to take the following steps:
- Transfer the seedling to the prepared hole.
- Spread out the roots carefully.
- Fill the hole with soil.
- Water abundantly.
- Mulch with peat, bark, sawdust.
Reproduction of hydrangea Invisible Spirit
Independent reproduction of hydrangeas is a fascinating process. Let's consider the most common methods.
Propagation by cuttings
Propagating by green cuttings is the easiest and most affordable option. A green stalk is part of a stem with leaves and several buds.
Planting material is prepared in mid-July. Cuttings will take root well:
- From young plants or from those that have undergone anti-aging pruning.
- Sliced from the side branches in the lower, well-lit part of the bush.
- No signs of diseases or pests.
- Collected early in the morning.
Hydrangea cuttings
Rooting order:
- Remove the top with a bud (if any) from the shoot.
- Divide the remaining shoot into segments with 2-3 pairs of leaves.
- Cut off the lower leaves from each cutting, and shorten the upper ones by a third.
- Place the cuttings in a rooting stimulant solution for 2 hours.
- Rooting is carried out in a moistened mixture of sand and peat (1: 2).
- Cover the cuttings with a jar.
- Watering the cuttings is necessary 2-3 times a week.
- A month later, the banks are removed.
Growing from cuttings
Hydrangea is propagated by layering in early spring.
The breeding order is as follows:
- The soil around the bush is loosened and leveled.
- Radial grooves up to 4 cm deep are laid at the base of the bush.
- Several lower shoots are placed in the grooves and pinned.
- By September, 2-3 young plants are formed on each layer.
- When the babies reach a size of 15-20 cm, they need to be earthed up to form lateral roots.
- In October, young hydrangeas must be separated from the mother's shoots and buried in until spring.
Dividing the bush
The division of the hydrangea bush is combined with a transplant. The bush is carefully dug up and divided into several parts with a sharp pruner, getting new small bushes. Delenki are rooted in the same way as seedlings. It is better to divide the bushes in the fall. Treelike varieties tolerate this procedure well.
Hydrangea Care Invisible Spirit
Treelike varieties of hydrangeas are quite capricious and whimsical. This was the case before the appearance of the Invincible Spirit hydrangea variety. He has accumulated all the best features, caring for him has become easier and easier.
Watering mode
Hydrangeas love moisture, drought is dangerous for them. You need to water with slightly acidified water.
Watering is the most important agrotechnical event
In the heat, watering twice a week. With normal rainfall, the bushes will need to be watered 5 times per season. 3-4 buckets of water are poured under one bush at a time.
Top dressing
In order for the hydrangea to bloom profusely and for a long time, it is fed at least 2 times a year. The first top dressing is in the spring before the buds appear, the second - in the fall after flowering. In the spring, fertilize with a solution of urea (10 tsp per bucket of water). Each bush will need 3 buckets of mortar. In the fall, a complex fertilizer is applied.
Pruning
The variety tolerates pruning in early spring well. In the period from March to April, all dead, damaged branches are removed. Healthy shoots are shortened by a third of the length, leaving at least three buds on each.
Cutting the hydrangea, we prepare it for summer flowering
When pruning, it must be remembered that the inflorescences of a tree hydrangea, in contrast to paniculate, appear on the shoots of the last year.
Features of care during flowering
During flowering, the plant needs regular, abundant watering. At the very beginning of the opening of the buds, you can feed the bushes with a solution of mullein or chicken droppings (1:10).
Features of care during the rest period
After the plant has bloomed, it is prepared for wintering:
- Withered inflorescences are removed.
- Huddle the base of the bush.
- Mulch the earth.
- Cover with spunbond on arches.
Preparing for winter
Even if the winter is predicted to be mild, it is better to play it safe and cover the bushes. This is usually done in October. The branches are tied, pressed to the ground, spunbond or lutrasil is used as a shelter.
Florists who have been growing the variety for several years note an interesting feature: after a harsh winter, the hydrangea blooms brighter and more abundantly than usual. Even the complete freezing of the aboveground part does not prevent it from recovering and blooming again in June.
The tree hydrangea Invisible Spirit combines many of the positive characteristics of the representatives of its family:
- unpretentiousness;
- frost resistance, good adaptation to temperature extremes;
- unique color of inflorescences.
Hydrangea Invizible Spirit is the most suitable variety for the climatic conditions of central and northern Russia. Therefore, it is so popular and actively used in landscape design.
