The decorative tree under the name plane tree will allow to create the lonely and cool place in garden. This fast-growing plant will be suitable also for cultivation of green hedge. By means of cutting it is possible to form plane trees of any bizzare decorative shape. They will be excellent decoration of garden, and the resistance of plant to natural cataclysms will allow to keep this beauty for a long time.
Main types of plane tree
In family of plane-tree there are 11 known species of this tree. These trees can grow not one century. There are several decorative forms of plane tree:
- pyramidal;
- suttner;
- poecilophyllous;
Especially often cultivate plane trees (plane trees) in the countries with hot climate, these trees give cool and desired shadow in garden from the wide leaves forming sprawling krone. This powerful tree as fruits gives polycarpous nutlets which break up to set of small nuts.
How to grow up plane tree
Successfully to grow up plane tree on the site, at first it is necessary to choose the place of landing competently. Active growth of plant is observed in places with rather friable soil rich with the main minerals.
In droughty regions it is necessary to provide high-quality watering to tree. High-quality watering will allow plane tree to be allocated favourably in garden. The plane tree is characterized by rapid growth, so, within year of active vegetation the tree can grow up up on 2 meters.
Gardeners can multiply plane tree several available options:
- cultivation from mature seeds;
- ordinary self-sowing;
- seasonal cherenkovaniye;
- primary landing of radical shoots;
- jumping by pegs.
Ordinary self-sowing is the simplest and natural process, does not demand participation of the person, but does not guarantee emergence of sprouts in due time. Therefore more often gardeners prefer to cultivate plane tree from mature seeds. For this purpose velvet seeds of tree have to be collected till fall and remain till spring in special fabric sack. It is necessary to dig in seeds in the earth prepared in the normal way.
Primary landing of mature seeds or ready sapling is admissible to be carried out not only in the spring, but also in the fall. The plane tree suits places with deep proleganiye of moisture more for this reason often he can be met near coast of streams and the rivers.
If the decision to plant plane tree sapling is made, it is necessary to choose sample correctly. For strip with cool climate it is necessary to buy saplings with the raised frost resistance indicators. It is desirable to land strong sprout in well lit place in garden. Saplings after rooting will begin to grow promptly therefore they need to be watered moderately.
Rather popularly at gardeners reproduction of plane tree strong shanks. For this purpose the shanks which are cut off from strong tree need to be placed in the container with water and to leave in the cool place with air temperature ranging from 3 up to 6 wasps. It is possible to land to the open ground in the spring when on trees in garden the kidneys which have taken root shanks bulk up.
Other options of reproduction of plane tree are used seldom because of their low efficiency in the European part of the country.
The plane tree without special conditions of maintenance and leaving grows. For optimum development the tree needs enough light, moisture and natural heat. In the conditions of midland there is only one complexity – low winter hardiness of plant. The plane tree can freely take out temperature reduction to - 15 wasps, but at lower temperatures there is risk of death of plant.
The plant during the periods of active growth needs regular cutting. It is carried out to remove the damaged branches interfering full development of tree and for giving of decorative form. The plane tree postpones procedure of cutting well.
The gardener needs to think of successful rewintering of plant in advance. For this purpose it is necessary to prepare material: the qualitative mulch consisting of sawdust, fir-tree branches. Dry autumn foliage from garden will be good mulch also. Having provided the shelter for the winter, it is possible to count that the plane tree adapts to any conditions of dwelling, even to conditions of city gas contamination and other places with bad ecology. Widespread diseases of trees and also dangerous wreckers do not strike plane tree. What is very important for successful cultivation.