The mock orange which is better known under the name "garden jasmine" is popular with gardeners for the unpretentiousness, abundant blossoming and dense pleasant aroma. Cultivation of this krasivotsvetushchy bush does not demand special knowledge therefore it is available even to the beginning flower growers.
Landing of mock orange
This plant takes out half-shade and bright sunlight. When landing it is necessary to consider that plants can grow to 3-4 meters in height therefore you should not plant mock orange too close to fence or other bushes. The optimum distance between bushes among has to be 60-70 cm.
For mock orange fertile nutritious soil with low level of underground water is necessary. When landing previously it is necessary to prepare landing hole 50 x 50 cm, to fill it with humus, to add 200 g of wood ashes and 50 g of full mineral fertilizer. It is better to make landing in the fall, since the second half of September prior to the beginning of October.
The prepared and fertilized landing hole is abundant to be spilled water (2-3 buckets). It is accurate to establish sapling in the center of landing hole, straightening roots. Special attention needs to be paid to that it was not buried root neck – in this case the plant will hurt, and it is possible not to wait for blossoming. To cover emptiness between roots and walls of landing hole with earth, periodically condensing it, to water and zamulchirovat the earth peat or the rerotting sawdust.
How to look after mock orange
After landing it is necessary to truncate branches at 1/3 of their lengths to facilitate rooting, for the winter to warm landings by fir twigs. It is necessary to clean the shelter in the spring, to examine bush, to cut the dead and sick branches, and then to feed up solution of mullein 1:5 with addition of 100 g of wood ashes and 50 g of phosphoric fertilizer. During blossoming the mock orange demands the strengthened watering and frequent fertilizing: once in two weeks it is necessary to water bushes with organic fertilizer. Adult bushes of mock orange need regular trimming of old branches and forming of krone. Cutting should be carried out in the second half of summer, at the same time at the remained branches to prishchipyvat tops to help them to get ready for winter and to stuff up flower kidneys the next year. This unpretentious plant breeds green shanks, layers, division of bushes. Some keen gardeners practice reproduction of garden jasmine seeds: for this purpose use subwinter crops, it is necessary to carry out it in December, on snow. In this case plants sprout amicably, are ill less and earlier blossom. From wreckers and diseases the mock orange almost does not suffer, the plant louse which likes young kidneys and buds can make exception. In these cases the bushes need to be sprayed with soap and cindery solution or insecticides.