Fortune's eonymus is a luxurious decoration of the summer garden
In flower beds, you can increasingly find such a picturesque culture as Fortune's euonymus. He is able to decorate any local area, personal plot. The advantages of this unpretentious plant are that it fascinates with its decorativeness throughout the season, especially in autumn, when the garden takes on dull colors. During this period, the creeping shrub with its graceful appearance makes the garden area stylish.
Forchun's eonymus, its biological characteristics and features
The bush is characterized by an attractive mosaic crown, which is especially noticeable when exposed to direct light. The racemose inflorescences consist of small, inconspicuous flowers of a pale green or brown color. Fruits are dry capsules containing 4 compartments, equipped with thorns or lionfish. Inside are seeds covered with a fleshy cloth. They have different shades in different species.
Popular varieties
Among the popular varieties of euonymus are Fortune, which have earned praise from experienced gardeners.
Harlequin
Eonymus Fortune Harlequin is an evergreen plant with an interesting color and small size. White-green colors are the key to the showiness and originality of the variety.
This species can grow in the shade and in the sun, does not require frequent feeding and watering.
Emerald Gold
The most popular type of Fortune spindle tree, due to its original appearance. The variety is characterized by a golden color of the edges of neat oval leaves. The bush spreads easily over a vertical surface, but it grows no more than 50 cm in height.
Emerald Haiti
The bush has an attractive round crown, glossy leaves have a white border. The plant reaches a height of 50-60 cm.
Euonymus fortune Emerald Haiti is winter-hardy and undemanding to care for, grows well even in the northern regions.
Sun Spot
An attractive variety that fills the garden with golden hues. The height of the shrub is slightly more than 20 cm. The lush crown, covered with dark green foliage with yellow spots in the center, attracts attention.
Open ground planting rules
The plant prefers fertile, light, moderately moist soil. Feels good in a place protected from the sun and cold wind, in partial shade. In direct sunlight, the foliage dries up and loses its decorative effect.
It is recommended to plan planting work in mid-April or early May, landing in the fall is also allowed.
The cultivation of Fortune's euonymus provides for a well-executed landing, which includes the following actions:
- Dig a hole, on the bottom of which put a soil mixture containing sand, fertile soil, compost and a complex of mineral fertilizers.
- Place the seedling in the center of the hole and cover with nutritious soil, lightly tamping the planting site
- Spend abundant watering.
- Mulch the soil in the trunk circle.
Young plants first need to be shaded.
Comprehensive crop care
In order for an evergreen shrub to attract attention with its decorative effect, you need to surround it with care, correctly performing all the care measures.
Nutrient input
Forchuna's euonymus is responsive to root dressing, which will serve as special fertilizers for decorative deciduous crops. To improve the soil structure and reduce the growth of weeds, add a layer of mulch from compost, sawdust, peat.
Watering mode
The plant requires moderate watering. Excess moisture can provoke root rot. In hot weather, moisten the shrub once a week. Irrigate the euonymus under the root using only warm water.
Pruning
The crown of a shrub can be shaped like a ball, a cone, and a standard tree can be formed. This procedure should be performed in late autumn or early spring. Summer pruning of Forchun's euonymus involves removing diseased, dry and damaged shoots, as well as shortening very long branches that violate the overall picture.
Gardeners advise pinching the ends of the stems to make the bush more lush and thick.
Wintering
The culture demonstrates resistance to frost, is able to withstand temperatures down to -25 ° C. In case of freezing, it quickly recovers throughout the season. Preparation for the winter of Forchun's euonymus includes warming the root system of young plants under 3 years of age with a layer of mulch from sawdust, spruce branches, fallen leaves.
Protection against diseases and pests
Although euonymus is resistant to disease, like all plants, it is not immune to powdery mildew in rainy, cool weather. In the fight against fungal infection, spraying the bushes with a solution of copper sulfate or fungicide works effectively.
The bushes of the plant were also chosen by harmful insects, including spider mites, aphids, and hawthorn. To prevent the euonymus from becoming the center of the accumulation of insects, use insecticides.
A valuable ornamental plant for landscape designers
Forchun's eonymus in landscape design, a photo of which helps to make the site original and stylish, is especially popular with gardeners. This plant is often one of the central elements of any original composition.
Low-growing varieties are used as the main element in the design of curbs, paths, lawns and hedges.
Also, the culture is actively used to create the perimeter of the compositions of flower beds or rock gardens.
A special type of ground cover euonymus can occupy the entire area of the lawn, so with its appearance it is able to revive the monotonous construction of the garden landscape.
Tall varieties are usually placed in the center of the composition, while the plant requires increased care in the form of regular crown formation.
Forchun's euonymus in an alpine slide or rockery is an excellent company of deciduous perennials, flowering phloxes. Undersized junipers the brightness and decorativeness of the leaves of an evergreen shrub are emphasized in the rock garden.
Looks very nice in composition with coniferous crops. Emerald foliage with a golden border accentuates the shade of the needles, and makes the plant an unsurpassed decorative element on the site.
By planting Fortune's euonymus in the right place, you can transform the surrounding area into a life-giving corner that delights its creator. It is impossible not to fall in love with this graceful plant. The beautiful color of the leaves, delighting the whole season, fully pays for the troubles and worries of the gardener.