Before buying thuja for registration of garden, it is necessary to study landing time, conditions of its placement and cultivation and also in advance to think of preservation of plant during winter cold weather.
Thanks to the huge choice of the coniferous plants available to use in gardening of the site, it is possible to make magnificent compositions and to achieve amazing effect, landing various in form, the size and coloring hvoynik together with decoratively blossoming bushes and also with landings of long-term and one-year flower cultures.
Thuja can be used in registration of green hedge. Dwarfish forms of thuja remarkably look as border plants, them it is possible to issue originally and elegantly flower bed or garden path.
Landing of thuja
Landing time does not play special role for thuja, however landed in the early spring, trees will have more time for adaptation on the new place and will be able to take root better before winter.
No more than 60-80 cm are recommended to do depth of landing hole, the root neck of sapling has to be at ground level. The distance between plants is left by from 100 to 150 cm. In heavy soil not less than 20 cm do obligatory drainage of gravel or beaten brick.
Care for thuja
In the spring and in the summer, especially during the periods when enough precipitation does not drop out, the landings of thuja especially need watering. Overhead irrigation will move in the evening, after sunset. This reception helps to support needles in fresh and clean state and also gives additional moisture to plants. The thuja needs Bol frequent and abundant watering, than other hvoynik. It is watered at least once a week, using 30-40 l of water on each plant. In young landings of thuja the weeds delete regularly as they not only hamper the growth of plant, taking away light, nutritious elements and moisture from soil, but also are carriers of various diseases. Weeding is recommended to be carried out next day after watering. Deleting weeds, the soil under plants is accurately loosened. Loosening is most necessary for plants within the first 2-3 years after landing. For moisture deduction and also for temperature maintenance at the root system of plants the pristvolny circles of thuja are recommended to be mulched. As mulch bark or peat quite will approach.
Protection for the winter
Protection for the winter as in the early spring, with the advent of bright sun, she can get severe burns is necessary for thuja. To avoid it, the young thuja which has not grown to height of one meter is covered with nonwoven fabric and tie with twine. Usually winter shelter is required to plants within 4-5 years after landing. Some sprawling adult plants at heavy winter snowfall can receive trunk break therefore their krone by means of twine is reliably connected. Besides, to protect roots from freezing that is possible in snowless winters, carry out obligatory winter mulching of pristvolny circles at each plant.