How to use "Devichy" grapes in landscape design?

Grapes are a plant that can decorate your plot: with its help you can interestingly decorate a fence, a gazebo, a column, a summer kitchen or a flower bed. Planting grapes is a simple and versatile way to plant a green area or hide old buildings behind the foliage. At the same time, in order for the grapes to truly delight you with their aesthetic appearance every summer, it is important to take into account many different nuances.

Grapes, called "maiden", is a fairly popular variety in Russia, suitable for planting in the summer cottage. The plant is a liana, abundantly covered with wide leaves, the length of which can reach 30 meters. Homeland maiden grapes - North America and Asia. In the 17th century it was used to decorate parks, statues and houses. Elements of landscape design, braided with grapes, create a unique atmosphere in space. With him, even an asphalt plot with many buildings will look comfortable and allow you to feel closer to nature.

The plant is suitable for almost all regions of the Russian Federation and CIS countries. It is often used for decorative decoration of summer cottages - thanks to the tenacious tendril, the grapes are attached to any uneven surface and attracts escape to it. Thus, the vine is able to climb on its own, even on vertical surfaces. The massive wiry leaves of the maiden grape make it a convenient plant for use in landscape design.

The features of the maiden grape allow you to use this plant for the following purposes:

• Drapery walls of residential buildings - This is one of the main functions of the vine. Carved leaves, evenly covering the wall, create an ornamental pattern that resembles shingles. It looks stylish from afar and up close. In addition, it is precisely because of the grape-plant entangling of the facade of the house that you can very organically fit the building into the surrounding landscape - so your summer cottage will become an organic part of the nature around you, and you will be able to completely abstract from the city fuss. Finally, old buildings are often covered with grapes, so the need for cosmetic repairs immediately disappears. The building will look great for much less money.

• Grapes can braid the fence. Almost every modern dacha is fenced with a high fence - this is a safety requirement in the modern world. However, often the fence, especially plastic or metal, spoils the appearance of the site. If you want to organically enter the fence into the green territory, you definitely need to cover it with grapevine - so your cottage will become much more comfortable.

• Gazebo, terrace, swing or country kitchen also worth trying to arrange with the help of girlish grapes. It is relevant for any occasion and any artificial structure with it will organically fit into the surrounding nature. Not only concrete walls covered with grapes can look very nice, but also special walls and ceilings made of grating woven over with vine. You will certainly be pleased to relax in nature in the shade of lush leaves.

• Often grapes cover the ground using it. as a carpet instead of a green lawn. This plant looks great and feels on the ground and will help you out in any situation.
• Looks very interesting cottage roofsdecorated with grapevine. Girlish grapes easily and quickly twist around the roof, allowing you to create a unique, original and cozy appearance of the building.

• If your site is arches, tunnels or pillars, they can also be very well decorated with grapes.Both the monolithic objects entwined on top and the options from the grid, which are green on all sides with grapes, will look good.

The girlish grape is almost the most popular plant for the decoration of buildings on the site, along with ivy. It is no coincidence - it has many advantages that contribute to the convenience of working with it and the excellent appearance of the decorated objects. Landscape designers and owners of suburban areas highlight the following advantages:

• The girlish grape is a very unpretentious plant. It feels great even in difficult conditions: dust, smoke and changeable weather are not a hindrance for its growth, it will always please you with thick glossy foliage, if you follow the simplest rules for planting and care. Unfortunately, now not everyone has the opportunity to travel to nature for hundreds of kilometers from the city, however, even if your country house is near civilization, the vine of the girlish grapes will also grow actively and please you with landscaping.
• Grapes grow well even on poor soil, they can cover dry or stony ground, which can not be divided into a lawn. Lush dense green grapes will delight you in the shade and the sun. If there are problem areas in your area, do not rush to cover them with asphalt: a pleasant green and unpretentious carpet of grapes will be the ideal solution for those who want to be closer to nature, despite the difficult conditions.
• The girlish grape grows relatively quickly: you can expect vine to grow by about 3 meters per year. If you use multiple plants, they will cover the surface extremely quickly.

• Grapes protect the walls of the house from rain, overheating and dampness. Indeed, the facade, covered with a plant, is preserved in its original state much longer, less often subject to cracks and fungus appearances. In addition, it will be much more comfortable to stay in a building in the hot summer or, on the contrary, in cool, windy weather, because the thick foliage smoothes out the negative environmental conditions.
• Grapes are not subject to diseases and pests do not appear on it.
• Grapes - a noble plant that will fit into the design in any style. A vine with wide leaves will look equally organic in combination with classical sculptures and columns, and with a modern building decorated with siding, and with a simple wooden private house. The plant is absolutely universal and perfectly complement different types of buildings. Moreover, if you have objects made in different styles on the site, and you don’t know how to combine them, the grapes will help you out too - a light weaving in the vine will allow you to enter all the buildings in the territory into a single ensemble.
• “Girlish” grapes will delight you with beautiful leaves for almost half a year: from June to September in central Russia the foliage remains thick and lush. In the summer it is green, and in the fall it turns red and yellow, becoming especially beautiful.
• “Girlish” grapes have high winter hardiness and are not afraid of frost, provided proper care.

With all the obvious advantages of the “Maiden” one should pay attention to a number of significant drawbacks that are important to keep in mind:

• The grapes begin to turn green much later than other plants. In central Russia in May, trees and lawns are already green, and grapes until the beginning of summer are only bare shoots.
• It is necessary to monitor the growth of the vine - since the vines develop very quickly, at some point they can simply destroy the building with their weight. To avoid this, all the vines in the area should be closely monitored and cut them in time.If you are going to generously plant a country house with grapes, it is worth making calculations, on the basis of which you will understand how much the building will bear.
• Sometimes overgrown branches of grapes can clog important technical systems - for example, very often the vine penetrates the water supply. Periodically it is necessary to check the drain pipes if they are open and are located near the grapes.
• The root system of grapes is very large and branched. In addition, it is very resistant to any adverse conditions, so it easily displaces more capricious cultivated plants from the ground. It is not necessary to plant a vine in the immediate vicinity of flowers, ornamental shrubs, fruits and vegetables.

In the decorative planting is most often used two varieties of "Girlish" grapes - pyatilistochkuyu and triostrenny. All these are wild grapes, which are not suitable for food or winemaking, but perfectly decorate landscapes. They are both unpretentious, do well with different weather conditions, grow quickly and look beautiful on the site. However, there are many differences between them.

Most often under the "maiden" grapes imply virginski variety, originally grown in America. It is a climbing wild variety that spreads easily over the entire area around it. His leaf can be divided into five small leaves, which have an oblong shape and resemble chestnut leaves.

Foliage appears in June and has a rich green color, massive veins and a glossy texture, and by the autumn the leaves turn red. In mid-summer, the grapes are covered with small white inflorescences, and then with inedible dark fruits. This variety tolerates winter well.

There is also ivy-shaped grapes, the leaves of which are divided into three parts and really very much resemble ivy. This option is most common in eastern countries - in particular, in landscape design it is used in Korea, China and Japan. This variety is divided into three types:

• Grapes "Wich" has small monochromatic leaves with a dark green shade, and in autumn they acquire a bright orange color.

• "Golden Liana" - This is the second type. It was so named for the unusual color of the leaves: they are characterized by a light shade of green and small yellow spots covering the entire leaf.

• "Purple" the grapes look very beautiful and allows you to significantly diversify the design of the site. Its leaves even in summer have a dark burgundy shade. Very interesting, it looks in combination with other types of grapes.

Devicha grape "Wicha" is more common in Russia among ivy-shaped types with a triple leaf. This grape is distinguished by particularly rapid growth - if the soil is rich and the temperature and lighting conditions are favorable for the plant, it grows up to 4 meters in a year. In addition, it is this variety that has a special endurance - the “Wicha” grapes can feel great even on the roadsides of the highways.

In fact, the main difference between tricuspid and pyatilistochkovogo grapes lies in their crown. Wide and large leaves with five parts evenly cover the surface in one or several layers depending on the length of plants and their number. The vine, resembling ivy, has a different shape of leaves, so that as they move upward, they overlap each other, forming a particularly lush and dense crown.

Modern breeders have made sure that wild ornamental grapes are distinguished by maximum endurance in any environmental conditions. Vines do not need to be removed for the winter due to the good winter hardiness of this plant.Any kind of soil is also suitable for him - even dry and stony ground allows the “Girl's” grape to feel great, as evidenced by its wide distribution in the Caucasus and in the seaside resorts of Russia.

“Girlish” grapes can be grown for ornamental purposes in the European part of Russia, in the CIS countries, and in Siberia. As for the wintering of the plant, it is not required to cover it from frost or, especially, remove the vine from the wall: the main thing is to make sure that the roots remain deep in the ground and do not go outside. Often in the summer period, grapes that were shallowly planted partly bring the root system out - in such cases, the base of the vine should be covered with earth.

In summer, the plant requires moderate humidity. If the summer is dry, it is advisable to additionally irrigate the grapes so that the leaves do not dry. Meanwhile, do not overfill the plant, as this can lead to the appearance of mold.

One of the undoubted advantages of grapes is the ease of its reproduction. It can occur with the help of cuttings of stems, cuttings or seeds. Consider all these three ways in comparison:

• Reproduction by layers of stems is a very easy option. To do this, bend the slider to the ground: this can be done easily thanks to the good flexibility of the vine. Cut it from the mother plant should not be. The layering should be fixed at ground level with a wire or rope, and also slightly add soil to the top. About a year later, you will be able to plant plants and get two separate lianas.

• Cuttings - This is another simple method, which is the most popular when planting "Girlish" grapes. The cutting with several leaves should be cut off from the plant so that the stem behind the last leaf is at least 3-4 cm long. Then the cuttings are simply put in the water, the leaves should be periodically irrigated with an additional spray from a spray bottle. As soon as the plant gives roots, you can plant it in open soil - this is the fastest way to grow grapes. Experts recommend cutting in the autumn.
• Grapes can also multiply by seed.However, this method is the most laborious, so it is extremely rarely chosen. Plant seeds in the ground should be in the fall, and in the spring you can expect the first shoots.

The plant is used to decorate a variety of objects in the area, and in each case the planting of the plant has its own specifics. In most cases, the support of the "Maiden" grapes is not required - he will cling to the surface with his antennae and move along it as it grows. This makes the vine very comfortable when planting along the wall of a residential building, terrace or balcony.

When landing near fences and fences, pay attention to the fact that it should not be completely metal structures. The metal becomes very hot in the sun and makes it impossible to grab grapes on it - the antennae will simply be damaged and die. Best of all, grapes are suitable for braiding wooden fences, and you can also make a support for it from plastic-coated wire - this is how you make a very beautiful hedge.

If you have already installed a high metal fence, you can cover it with a cloth mesh or wire mesh, for which the grapes can catch.

When planting a seedling, it is worth considering the location of other plants.Liana may well coexist with large developed trees - their root systems will not compete. If you are planting ornamental shrubs, flowers, fruit and berry crops, it is better to do this aside from planting the vine: the branched roots of the “Girl’s” grape will not allow such plants to take root in the ground.

Girlish grapes are so unpretentious that special care for them is practically not required. It is important except to water it additionally in dry weather, and also to cut off unnecessary whips. The rest of the grapes will be great to grow without any extra effort on your part.

The vine requires moderate watering: in the absence of rain, you need to water it 3-4 times in one season, and that will be enough. In this case, the required amount of water will depend on the size of the plant: if you already have a lush vine, it may take up to 15 liters of water, and if the plant is young and you have just recently planted it in the ground, it will be enough for 5 liters. Anyway, all these calculations are very conditional, since usually multiple lianas coexist and intertwine.

Pruning maiden grapes is also very important - the plant grows so fast that if it is given free rein, it will destroy the walls and roof of the house, not to mention more fragile structures. Cut the shoots should be from their very foundation, it can be done at any time of the year. Every spring it is worth removing dried shoots so that they do not interfere with the growth of new ones. In addition, you can independently fix the vine in the right direction and guide its growth. Those shoots that you find unnecessary on the surface can then be transplanted to another place.

In the spring, nitrogen fertilizers will be useful to the grapes - thanks to them, the plant will recover faster after wintering and will begin to grow rapidly. It is especially important to fertilize the soil in the first three years after planting, when the root system develops most actively. Up to 50 g of fertilizer is required per vine.

According to reviews, "Girlish" grapes is an excellent solution for gardening villas and use in landscape design. However, if you decide to plant a vine in your summer cottage, pay attention to the following tips:

• Usually the cultivation of decorative "Girlish" grapes does not cause unnecessary trouble, because the plant is not prone to the appearance of pests. Very rarely can aphids appear on a vine, but to get rid of it, it suffices to rinse it with water from a hose and treat it with special means.
• Try not to plant grapes near drains, antennas, pipes and other technically important objects: a vine can be tied up quickly and abundantly, which will lead to a number of problems, especially under difficult conditions, such as, for example, on the roof.
• Keep in mind that leaves on liana appear only in summer, and fall by mid-autumn. Naked vine may not look very attractive on individual objects.
• Do not plant grapes near the walls covered with plaster - very quickly it is covered simply will crack and fall off the walls along with the vine.

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