Decorative strawberries: species description and cultivation

Ornamental strawberry belongs to long-term herbaceous plants of the pink family.It is divided into types: forest, eastern, virgin, green.

Ornamental strawberries used to simply decorate the gardens. Unpretentious to the ground the plant can be planted in any soil. Light is necessary for it for the appearance of berries, but in the shade strawberries bloom more abundantly. The beginning of flowering occurs in June, although an important role is played by external factors. It is a shrub with long stems, white flowers and small rounded berries.

Such a species reproduces with the help of “whiskers” creeping along the ground, it is they who provide birth to the next processes. Wet soil is a breeding ground.

There are several varieties of ornamental strawberries.

• East. It has bulging rhombic leaves, high scapes, long whiskers, which can and are absent.
• Virginian A characteristic feature is high resistance to drought, cold, but fruits are rather poor. The leaves are dark green with large berries, which are inferior in taste to the forest.
• Forest or ordinary. Wild species, which began breeding varieties. Unpretentious plant that can exist on the poor and enriched with nitrogen areas. Forest is most often found on forest edges, deforestation.
• Green or hilly has a thin stalk and short antennae, the leaves are lowered down, the flowers are red-pink in color.

A sort of “Fragaria” appeared in the way of crossing the strawberries. The bush forms a rosette of dark green leaves. The flowering period begins in mid-spring, then disappears. The second begins later and ends only in the fall. Blooms mostly pink flowers. "Fragaria", like all members of the Rosaceae family, prefers bright places with rich soil.

In another way is also called the Chinese strawberry tree. This is a small evergreen tree up to 20 m tall. Fruits are dense bright red with a rough surface. Trees that produce fruit, as a rule, are grown for decorative use.

Superficially resembles plain strawberries, but it is inedible. In addition, it contains toxic substances, if consumed in large quantities. Delivered to numerous countries precisely as an ornamental plant. It looks like garden strawberries with lowered leaves and red berries, mustaches crawling across the grass, but it has a significant difference. It is a yellow flower during flowering, which is not difficult to distinguish from a real berry with white or pinkish-red flowers.

Inedible strawberries, completely tasteless and do not even resemble the taste of strawberries. Red berries stretch upwards, unlike their relatives, whose berries are always directed downwards. Recently, the plant has become wild and has taken the form of weeds, aggressively propagating with a mustache. Able to occupy large areas, since there is no care and timely trimming of the mustache.

Leaves of dark green color are often preserved even in winter. Potentilla Indian remontantnaya fruits several times during the summer season. The flowering period covers from May to August-September. "Duchenei" behaves like an evergreen with intensive growth of shoots. Found in parks, on rocky areas creates a cover of greenery. Sometimes it is grown as a pot. With proper planting, loosening, feeding, it will bloom and bear fruit.

In the gardens it is best to plant strawberries in the spring to a bright area. It is necessary to create a trench, fertilize it, water it abundantly and care for the shrub with the help of loosening. Ornamental strawberries have extensive shrubs. They can serve you as a garden landscaping. The house can also be grown only in pots.Use all the same conditions for plant growth. It is desirable to select pots depending on the degree of development of the rhizome. Do not forget that it is light-requiring and needs abundant watering for reproduction.

The strawberry that blossoms and gives fruit several times during the summer season is called remontant, and which does not repair once during the summer period.

Secrets of the care of garden ornamental strawberries are as follows.

• When planting use only quality seedlings.
• It is worth paying attention to the leaves and developed root system.
• Do not buy seedlings if they have an unhealthy appearance.
• Choose bright spots for planting seedlings.
• Take care of the soil, the looser it is, the more favorable for growth.
• The location of the bushes between them should be at least 50 cm.
• Roots when seated should not be folded.
• The soil must be saturated with moisture before planting.
• In the first year, flowers are removed to increase the mass of the shrub.
• Timely removal of dried whiskers promotes plant growth.
• Remove dry leaflets in time and process them from pests.

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