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Korean cherry "Divnaja" (Downy cherry, Manchu cherry)
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Korean cherry "Divnaja" (Manchu cherry) - Сerasus tomentosa (Thunb.) Wall. = Prunus tomentosa.
Winter-hardy and unpretentious!
Thanks to its early and abundant flowering, beautiful and tasty fruits, felt cherry is of undoubted interest to amateur gardeners.
This cherry is very good in single and group plantings.
This is a shrub up to 2-3 m high with a dense crown. The leaves are oval, grayish-green. In the autumn, the leaves are painted in reddish or yellow tones.
The flowers are pink-white, fragrant. Flowering is very colorful and abundant (in May - for 7-10 days).
The fruits are spherical, bright red, on short stalks, pubescent, with a pleasant delicate taste.
Few fruit plants can compare with it in its decorativeness!
Agricultural technology.
Cherry is light-loving, drought-resistant, tolerates urban conditions well.
With seed propagation, crops are produced in the summer, as well as in the fall and spring. When sowing in spring, stratification is required throughout the winter. For planting cherries, choose areas on elevated relief elements, with good air and soil drainage. The plant prefers light and medium loams; heavy clays without appropriate preliminary cultivation are not suitable for it. Care consists of rodent control, very moderate watering and regular fertilization.
It is important to remember that its root collar is often gnawed by mice in winter, so in autumn it is advisable to place branches of Gypsy flower (Cynoglossum officinale) with sticky fruits under the bush or coat the base of the bush with substances that repel rodents.
Winter-hardy and unpretentious!
Thanks to its early and abundant flowering, beautiful and tasty fruits, felt cherry is of undoubted interest to amateur gardeners.
This cherry is very good in single and group plantings.
This is a shrub up to 2-3 m high with a dense crown. The leaves are oval, grayish-green. In the autumn, the leaves are painted in reddish or yellow tones.
The flowers are pink-white, fragrant. Flowering is very colorful and abundant (in May - for 7-10 days).
The fruits are spherical, bright red, on short stalks, pubescent, with a pleasant delicate taste.
Few fruit plants can compare with it in its decorativeness!
Agricultural technology.
Cherry is light-loving, drought-resistant, tolerates urban conditions well.
With seed propagation, crops are produced in the summer, as well as in the fall and spring. When sowing in spring, stratification is required throughout the winter. For planting cherries, choose areas on elevated relief elements, with good air and soil drainage. The plant prefers light and medium loams; heavy clays without appropriate preliminary cultivation are not suitable for it. Care consists of rodent control, very moderate watering and regular fertilization.
It is important to remember that its root collar is often gnawed by mice in winter, so in autumn it is advisable to place branches of Gypsy flower (Cynoglossum officinale) with sticky fruits under the bush or coat the base of the bush with substances that repel rodents.
Its secrets...
Korean cherry is not often found in our northern gardens, although it is an ideal option for an aesthetic gardener who tries to combine the useful qualities of a fruit crop with decorative ones in the garden. And it manages to combine both of these qualities perfectly!
In spring, felt cherry bushes are completely covered with pale pink or even dark red flowers (depending on the variety), which in their beauty will give odds to the famous Japanese sakura.
In summer, it looks spectacular in the garden due to its unusual pubescent leaves.
And in autumn, it amazes the imagination with the abundance of berries - there are so many of them that the branches bend down to the ground from the weight, turning the bush into a bright fountain.
To enjoy its beauty and get a good harvest, you need to take into account several whims of this beauty:
* Do not plant less than three varieties. Korean cherry is a self-sterile plant (it cannot pollinate itself), so at least 3 different varieties should grow on the site.
* Do not recommend peat. This cherry likes light loams or sandy loams, and it grows very poorly on heavy and damp soils (especially peaty ones)
* Do not plant in the shade. Korean cherry likes sunny places, because in the shade its berries rot right on the branches.
* Do not fertilize often.
Felt cherry only needs one feeding per year (immediately after flowering): 10 liters of humus or compost, 50 g of double superphosphate and 1 tbsp. spoon of potassium sulfate. All fertilizers must be thoroughly mixed and evenly scattered under the bush, shallowly dug with soil and abundantly watered over the entire projection of the trunk circle.
* Do not thicken the crown.
It needs to be thinned out annually, leaving 10-12 strong shoots.
This beauty also has its quirks:
1. The berries of the Korean cherry are very delicate, so they do not tolerate transportation well, as they are easily crushed. If you want to transport it over long distances, then collect the berries when they reach their maximum size, but are not fully colored.
2. This crop is very resistant to the most dangerous disease of all cherries - coccomycosis.
But another misfortune, moniliosis, affects it quite strongly. Therefore, during the summer, felt cherry bushes must be constantly inspected: if you notice that the ends of the shoots have begun to wither, then urgently cut off the affected branches to the very trunk!
As a preventive measure, every spring (before flowering), be sure to spray the plants with Bordeaux mixture. Even if your cherries have not been sick before.
Its charms:
With good care, felt cherry produces up to 10, and some bushes up to 20 kg of amazing berries.
The berries are very juicy, aromatic and always sweet! Sweeter and sugarier than cherries, and the first harvest can be tasted already in the third year after planting the seedling, and the ripe berries hold well on the branches and practically do not crumble.
Eng.: Nanking cherry, downy cherry, Korean cherry, Manchu cherry, mao ying tao. Bot.syn.: Prunus tomentosa, Prunus trichocarpa Bunge.
