Outside the window — October … every day it gets cold, and with a decrease in air temperature is a fabulous transformation of deciduous trees and shrubs.
Before our eyes, nature creates magic: green cottage for a few days becomes red and gold. To the usual autumn colors are added unusual-pink and purple.
By autumn, the violet-red oval leaves of Cornus alba become purple-red. With variegated foliage in good harmony bluish-white fruit, making the Bush is extremely elegant.
Purple, dark purple fall become many red-leaved forms of barberry and scum.
Some evergreen barberry leaves turn red last year.
But a completely pure purple color can be seen in Ligustrum: one half of the leaf blade remains green, and the other acquires an ink shade.
The leaves of Euonymus, especially Euonymus sacrosanctus, fall pink blush.
Pink smear appears on the leaves of Actinidia kolomikta, but only on male specimens.
The autumn leaves of maples burn furiously in the sun.
Hot autumn a fire is burning Cotinus coggygria.
Sorbus torminalis dresses in an outfit of flaming leaves.
Do not lag behind Sorbus and deciduous viburnum, hurrying to try on bright autumn clothes.
And some evergreen viburnum in autumn partly in red decoration.
Often a spectacular autumn outfit is kept on trees and shrubs for a long time. Perhaps the exception to the rule – chokeberry or Aronia. Its leaves become purple when the temperature decreases. A few days the irony blazes smooth color, and then bright leaves fall almost all at once, reminding us of the transience of life…
So, today the topic of our conversation — the most beautiful woody plants, autumn dress red outfit.
Abelia x grandiflora
Luxurious semi-evergreen shrub of hybrid origin up to 3 m, width up to 4 m. in Autumn it is extremely beautiful!
Additional decoration at this time of year are pinkish-white bell-shaped flowers and long-lasting reddish bracts. The flowers fall off without fading: from mid-summer and autumn on the ground around the Bush you can see a real “flower snow”; does not bear fruit.
Decorative varieties:
- ‘Francis Mason’ – up to 1.5 m, width-2 m, the border of the leaves is yellow, irregular;
- ‘Kaleidoscope’ – leaves with yellow border.
Cultivation
Abelia is not capricious to growing conditions, prefers partial shade and moderately moist fertile drained soils. Periodic pruning “on a stump”is necessary. In the middle lane Abelia must necessarily cover for the winter, as it can freeze at -5°C. the Base is necessarily mulch organic substrate over the Bush triple air-dry shelter on the arcs, as for roses.
Reproduction
Propagated exclusively vegetatively: cuttings and division of bushes.
Accommodation in the country
Spectacular long-flowering plant for groups and garden vases.
Euonymus alatus
The miraculous transformation happens in the fall and this strongly branched shrub with light gray bark.
In height it reaches 2 m, width up to 3 m; originally from Japan, China, Korea. Young shoots are reddish. The leaves are inversely ovate, sometimes rhombic, flowers are inconspicuous. The fruits are bright red.
Decorative shape:
‘Compactus’, syn. ‘Ciliodentatus’ – a dense slow-growing shrub height of about 1 m with winged 4-sided shoots, flowers nondescript, leaves turn red in the fall, the fruits on long pedicels, with orange seed coat.
Cultivation
Grows well in full sun and in partial shade; thrive in any soil. Is growing quite slowly.
Reproduction
Propagated by seeds with 2-stage stratification:
- Stage 1-at a temperature of + 17…+20°C, in wet sand, for 10-15 days;
- Stage 2-at +1…+2°C, in the refrigerator, in wet sand, for 120-130 days.
Accommodation in the country
A fine specimen on the lawn, a spectacular party groups.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Their leaves from a dark green to instantly turn into a flaming dark red. Often it is this metamorphosis that magically changes the whole appearance of the cottage.
Parthenocissus quinquefolia is a powerful deciduous vine with a length of 15-20 m from North America. Shoots: young reddish, later dark green, sometimes with a disc-shaped suction cups on the antennae (form ‘Engelmannii’). The leaves are palmated, with a length of 4-12 cm Flowers are fragrant, inconspicuous, green-white, clustered in terminal panicles; blooming from may (June) to August. Fruits-spherical blue-black (with a light waxy coating) berries with a diameter of 0.6-0.8 cm winter-Hardy.
Parthenocissus tricuspidata-deciduous vine up to 20 m long from Japan, China, Korea. Antennae are short, branched, with suckers. Leaves rounded three-lobed (smaller on young shoots), summer — pink, autumn — Golden and red. Shoots are so firmly attached to the support by numerous suckers that they are easier to break than to detach from the support. Flowers paired in corymbs, blooming in June. Fruits-spherical bluish-black berries with a diameter of 0.6-0.8 cm, ripen in September-October.
Decorative shapes:
- ‘Veitchii’ – autumn leaves dark red-purple;
- ‘Beverley Brook’ – leaves light purple, autumn-red;
- ‘Lowii’ — leaves small, deeply lobed and seven-bladed.
In the middle lane is sensitive to frost, in the absence of snow cover frosts strongly, but restored.
Cultivation
Parttivationhenocissus light-requiring, tolerate partial shade, planting preferred location of Western and Eastern expositions. Demanding of soil moisture on fertile, friable and well-drained soils characterized by extreme luxuriance and rapidity of growth. Quite resistant, but can be damaged by leaf-eating insects.
Reproduction
Propagated stratified (up to 2 months) seeds, green and lignified cuttings, layering.
Accommodation in the country
Suitable for creating high, medium and low hedges, walls (using supports). Form an excellent coating vertical surfaces beautiful mosaic of dense foliage.
Acer oliverianum
Magnificent maples in autumn fascinate us with red, orange, yellow dresses. Their leaves are so beautiful that it is impossible to resist the temptation to put at least one of them in the book — for memory.
This maple has a height of about 8 m and a width of 10 m. he Hails from China. Leaves 5-12 cm long the entire period of vegetation is very beautiful: in spring and summer — bright green, autumn-red — yellow-orange.
Cultivation
The British give it a standard -15°C, so it is winter-hardy in the southern gardening area.
Accommodation in the country
A spectacular specimen — and that’s it.
Nandina domestica
Forgive me, the northerners, but I can’t help but tell you about our semi-evergreen beauty, who wears a spectacular red outfit in autumn.
Interestingly, because of barrel shaped growing shoots (not branching) the English call nandina heavenly bamboo. She comes from India, China, Japan. A height of 2 m and a width of up to 1.5 m. Leaves are compound (with a peculiar articulation of the parts), autumn (in full sun) blush. The flowers are white, collected in conical panicles up to 40 cm; bloom in summer. Fruit-dry red globular berries with a pointed tip; preserved until the end of spring next year.
Cultivation
In a limited amount of soil substrate (in pots) grows slowly. It feels better not only in well-lit, but also in semi-shaded areas with moderately moist fertile loose soils.
Reproduction
Propagated by seeds. Freshly sown in autumn in a cold greenhouse; in spring sowing need 40-day stratification. Embedding depth-1-2, 5 cm.
Accommodation in the country
It is a beautiful specimen. It looks great by the pond, in mixborders, groups.
Wood with red leaves-a worthy decoration of the site: your cottage will remain elegant until late autumn, and in the South — until winter.
And every autumn you will relentlessly admire your red-leaved Pets, filled with love for your country, land, family…
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