Hydrangea Daruma

Hydrangea Daruma is ideal for decorating private gardens, city parks, flower beds and flowerpots. Landscape designers love to add it to their compositions and use this flower to create hedges and rockeries. Looks great in a company with other types and cultures of garden plants, but also as a separate individual composition.

Hydrangea Daruma: variety description

Hydrangea Daruma: photo of the variety

Hydrangea Daruma is famous for its ease of self-care, unusual and unusual shape. This variety is a deciduous shrub and has a paniculate flower pattern.

The characteristics inherent in the Daruma hydrangea variety are as follows:

• An upright fan-shaped shrub.
• The shoots, like the bush as a whole, grow vertically upward, and have a reddish tint.
• The leaves are in the shape of an elongated oval and are more oblong than wide, the color is marsh green with a tint of red.
• The inflorescence is a group of small flowers, no more than 2 cm in size, the inflorescence itself is also not large.
• The height of an adult bush is one and a half meters

An interesting feature of the Daruma hydrangea flowering is that at the beginning the flowers have a pastel beige color, and later they acquire a deep pink color.

The Daruma hydrangea variety belongs to not tall plants, it is thanks to this quality that the compact and beautiful bush feels great in park pots of the urban landscape and at home indoor conditions

Planting and leaving

Having determined what exactly Daruma hydrangea should decorate your garden area, it's time to find a suitable place on it. Although this variety is not picky, it still has some requests in terms of getting sunlight. This plant, like other representatives of the paniculate hydrangea species, does not tolerate direct sunlight, the result may be burns and drying out. Based on this knowledge, choose a shady place or where the bush will be under the sun outside of peak hours.

It is also worth paying attention to the quality and composition of the soil, the color palette of the plant will depend on them.

As with any plants, watering is the basis of plant care. The soil moistening scheme is not complicated:

• In dry and hot weather, water at least once every 3-4 days.
• Ten liters of water are poured onto one bush.
• It is preferable to use rainwater or settled water.

Be sure to be careful about water quality. Hydrangea Daruma does not tolerate hard water and the lime it contains; when using it, your "beauty" may be affected by chlorosis.

And now you have finally found the ideal place on the site and the quality of the soil is ideal, now it's time to start planting.

Proceed in the following order:

• Prepare a hole in advance, the depth of which should be at least half a meter (the dimensions of the root system of the seedling will serve as the basis for determining the depth), the width is about 50 centimeters.
• 12-16 hours before planting the seedling, 15-30 liters of water are poured into the pit.
• On the day of planting, one third of the pit is filled with organic fertilizers: sand + humus + peat.
• A bush is placed in the prepared recess, covered with the remaining earth and trampled on it with your foot.
• The final action of planting will be abundant watering.

Hydrangea Daruma: photo of the variety

The best time to permanently plant the Daruma panicle hydrangea is spring. By choosing this period of the year, you will give the plant the opportunity to adapt and develop the root system without much stress.Remember that the root bud should not be lowered below the level of the upper boundary of the soil at the prepared pit. Of course, we are not saying that Daruma hydrangea is not transplanted in autumn, this option is possible in hot regions of our country, since in their climatic zone in winter, the plant is not afraid of sudden drops and temperature drops.

Hydrangea care measures include the following manipulations:

• Regular soil moistening through watering.
• Loosening the soil.
• Sanitary and decorative pruning.
• Fertilization of the soil with organic matter, and, if necessary, with chemicals.

The Daruma hydrangea variety is distinguished by high frost resistance, but young plantings in the first years after being transferred to a permanent place are additionally insulated. Unfinished bushes may not survive severely frosty winters.

Fertilizers for Daruma hydrangea variety

Panicle hydrangea Daruma: photo of the variety

Fertilizing a plant can be compared with a complex of vitamins for humans, they help to improve growth and increase the splendor and volume of future inflorescences, nourish the bush with microelements and substances useful for life. To feed hydrangeas, both organic and chemical containing compounds are used, the choice of which composition you need at the moment you make yourself based on the general condition of the plant and for the season of the year.

All actions for manipulating fertilizers begin after the end of the period of sap flow.

One of the most popular remedies is the well-known potassium permanganate. Processing is carried out with a solution of weak consistency at least three times during the growing season, thanks to this nutrition, the branches of Darum hydrangea become stronger and more flexible.

• In the process of foliage formation, urea and an inorganic compound potassium sulfate are used. For ten liters of water, 30 grams of each substance are diluted. One hydrangea bush is treated with five liters of the resulting composition.
• Manure is widely known for its positive qualities; slurry is used to fertilize Daruma. A liter of slurry and preparations containing potassium and phosphorus are added to 10 liters of water. Such a remedy is resorted to at the time of budding.

For supporters of folk and non-chemical methods, there is also one recipe proven by any gardener. To prepare it, you need a barrel with a volume of two hundred liters and a mixture of the following composition: 10 ml of iodine + 30 gr. iron vitriol + 30 gr. copper sulfate + 15 gr. manganese + 15 gr. boron + 1 gr. chalk and a mixture of green mass celandine, dandelions and bitter wormwood. The prepared mixture is poured into a barrel and poured with water to the brim, after which it is allowed to brew for 10 days, stirring occasionally. The resulting composition is filtered and diluted in 10 liters of water 2 liters of the resulting fertilizer. The remaining thick mass is not thrown away, but covered under bushes.

Hydrangea Daruma: diseases and pests

All types of hydrangeas are disease resistant, and the Daruma hydrangea is no exception. But there is always some "but", let's designate the factors that can affect the flowering process, growth and appearance.

• Excess moisture in the soil as a result of excessive watering.
• Changes in climatic conditions.
• Lack of nutrients.

If you notice signs of a violation of the healthy state of the plant, do not hesitate, and immediately apply the measures.

Lack of iron or changes in the metabolic process lead to chlorosis. In this situation, the following drugs will help you:

• Ferovit
• Iron chelate
• Antichlorosis

Panicle hydrangea Daruma: photo of the variety

The preparation of the solution is carried out strictly according to the instructions enclosed in the preparation or on the package. In cases of severe damage, both the green mass and the root space are treated. As an additional agent, potassium nitrate and ferrous sulfate are added to the above-mentioned compositions.

White rot affects the Darum hydrangea on the roots and processes, externally manifests itself as a white bloom in consistency similar to cotton wool. They fight the disease with fungicidal preparations.

Gray rot affects plant tissues, as a result, the hydrangea dries up, and the foliage crumbles. The treatment begins with the removal of the affected branches and then the hydrangea of ​​the Daruma variety is treated with "Pure flowers" or "Fundazol"

Panicle hydrangea Daruma: photo of the variety

Another ailment affecting the panicle hydrangea of ​​the Daruma variety is Powdery Mildew, which carries the greatest threat to young plantings. If you ignore the disease, the hydrangea will change its natural shape and, as a result, will not survive the winter cold. To combat this infection, there is a rich selection of drugs: Alirin - B, Strobi, Topaz and similar in composition.

Infections with tracheomycosis, bark necrosis and ascochitous spotting were very rarely noticed and recorded.

Ring spot kills the plant. It is not possible to cure this disease, the bush is uprooted and burned outside the site.

In addition to fungal diseases, parasites pose a threat to hydrangeas: aphids, tetranychinae, slugs, snails and rootworm nematodes. Pest control is carried out both by folk methods and by chemical preparations.

Reproduction of hydrangea Daruma

Hydrangea Daruma: photo of the variety

Inexperienced amateur gardeners, in order to avoid mistakes, choose to purchase seedlings in pots in specialized stores. In such institutions, you can not worry about the preparedness of the root system for transplantation, here you will take a plant that you can plant in a permanent place without worrying about its adaptation.

Experienced gardeners like to go through the growing process from and to, so they carry out the breeding process themselves. The Daruma panicle hydrangea is bred in the following ways: seeds, cuttings, division, layering and offspring.

Choosing any of the options, you will need certain knowledge and skills. Read the relevant literature, watch video tutorials, or consult with more experienced growers. An important point: with self-breeding, the seedling is transferred to a permanent place in the open field for the second year.

Hydrangea Daruma is beautiful in its individual beauty, unpretentious in maintenance, not large in size and pleases your eyes with long flowering periods. Such a flower will become a worthy decoration of any site for many years.

Panicle hydrangea Daruma: video about the variety