Autumn trees and shrubs with Golden, orange leaves much more, than those, which are ablaze flamboyant red and Burgundy.
Therefore, it is not in vain that the autumn season is called the Golden time.
The breath of autumn — what is it? Try it to the touch is hardly possible, but to see in the brightest colors — is quite real. Among the coloristic characteristics of the championship, no doubt, belongs to the yellow color.
Autumn generous pours gold trees, shrubs and the ground.
Here it has magically transformed the leaves of Platanus orientalis.
Many types of maple trees stand in a yellow and orange dress.
Aesculus common in Golden dress.
Not far behind the chestnuts and all sorts of nuts.
Mighty oaks stand proudly in the yellow coat.
Cotinus coggygria is not always burning red flames, sometimes it is in a bright orange dress.
Many fruit trees: Prunus avium, Cerasus, Prunus armeniaca, Prunus persica and others are now uniquely beautiful in a Golden dress. And in the South subtropical culture is rapidly changing the usual green outfit for festive Golden clothes. Moreover, they now bear fruit, and therefore look particularly interesting, which gives me a reason to bring some of them in this article.
Let us, without wasting time, get acquainted closer with the trees and shrubs, which have already touched the magic wand of autumn! Of course, in the framework of one article to mention all unrealistic, so confine those on which the site is very little information.
Weigela middendorffiana
This Weigela is very beautiful in autumn. It is widespread in the far East.
Golden leaf color looks richer than light yellow bloom in the spring. Height and width it is approximately 1.5 m. Leaves oblong, 8-9 cm, often painted in a bronze-gold tone that’s mixed with a fair share of copper.
Cultivation
The first 3 years after planting should be shortened by ½ all vigorous shoots that are knocked out of the desired contour. At the beginning of the growth of shoots (annually), fertilizing is carried out with a full complex fertilizer.
Accommodation in the country
Good and as solitaire, and in groups, and in freely growing hedges.
Hamamelis
Monoecious deciduous shrubs with simple alternate leaves and unusual flowers, formed of narrow (tape) the petals; fruit — capsule.
The most common is H. virginiana, which blooms in October and November.
Cultivation
Tolerate shade, requires acidic well-drained soils. To Hamamelis able to please you with a bright color, a little sweet aroma and unusual form of flowers, they should be planted near the house, as close as possible to the Windows — where it is warmer and not so windy. After all, the buds of witch hazel can withstand without damage only up to -10°C.
Reproduction
Propagated by seeds.
Accommodation in the country
A beautiful plant for solitaire and small groups.
Hydrangea paniculata, Hydrangea quercifolia
Hydrangeas and autumn sometimes unusually good!
Against the background of yellow leaves do not lose their decorative already faded inflorescences.
Cultivation
Do not forget to mulch the base of the bushes with peat or humus, dry leaves for the winter, especially if this year’s planting. The next year, spend feeding full of mineral and organic fertilizers 2 times:
- in the early growth of the shoots;
- during budding.
In the spring, remove all dry, weak shoots growing inside the crown.
Accommodation in the country
Hydrangea are good in solitaire and group planting, in the hedge-it all depends on the availability of space in your garden, desire and financial opportunities.
Punica granatum
A small (3-5 m high) deciduous tree miraculously transforms in autumn.
The Golden outfit is complemented by bright red fruits-pomegranates.
Cultivation
He thermophilic: already at short-term decreases in air temperature to -15…-17°C it damaged the tops of annual shoots. It is light-loving, drought-resistant, but for a good harvest requires irrigation (in the first year after planting — regular, then — as the soil dries, in the fall — moisture). Every year at the beginning of the growth of new shoots well fed full of mineral fertilizer. The first 5 years shorten all vigorous shoots, removing weak and tree shoots (leaving 1-2 shoots substitution).
Reproduction
Propagated by seeds, the varieties by cuttings.
Accommodation in the country
Solitaire, can be used for prickly, high and medium hedges (with side trim).
Zizyphus jujuba
Luxurious autumn.
Deciduous tree or shrub with spreading or pyramidal crown with a height of 3-8 (10-12) M. he Hails from Asia, India, and the Mediterranean. Flowers are nondescript, small, greenish-yellow, fragrant; bloom from June to August. Fruits-delicious edible drupe of various shapes; ripen in September-November.
Cultivation
Quite hardy in the southern zone of gardening: withstands short-term frosts to -28°C; drought-resistant, very light-loving. It grows better and bears fruit in warm, Sunny, sheltered from the wind. To soils undemanding, prefers light or medium in mechanical composition, sandy or loamy, with a neutral or slightly alkaline reaction, with good aeration and deep groundwater.
Reproduction
Propagated by seeds, root suckers, grafting.
Accommodation in the country
In the country it is better to determine it in the orchard.
Acer tegmentosum
One of the many maple trees in autumn decorated with beautiful Golden foliage. He comes from Southeast Asia.
Deciduous tree about 8 m high and up to 10 m wide with greenish shoots. The leaves are oval, 3-lobed, up to 15 cm long.
Cultivation
It is better to find a Sunny place for it with well-drained fertile soils.
Accommodation in the country
Solitaire. Thanks to the parameters, it can be used as a family tree in small villas.
Corylus
Corylus avellana, colurna celebrates autumn with bright gold.
This is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrubs with a height of 5-8 m. the Leaves are rounded-egg-shaped, with a length of 6-12 cm Flowers are dioecious, catkins length of 3-6 cm (inflorescence of male flowers); bloom in March-April, long before the appearance of leaves, and in this period hazel look very decorative. Fruits-yellow-or dark brown nuts, located 2-3-5 together, almost spherical, 1.5-2 cm in diameter; ripen in August-September. Bred large-fruited, high-yielding varieties.
Cultivation
Winter-hardy, light-loving, make partial shading, demanding on fertility and soil moisture, do not tolerate dry, saline, wetlands.
Reproduction
Propagated from stratified (3-6 months) seed varieties — cuttings, dividing the Bush.
Accommodation in the country
Now the hazelnut taking place in the economic areas of the cottages. They are harmonious in free-growing hedges.
Diospyros
In autumn the trees Diospyros kaki, Diospyros virginiana are incredibly beautiful! The Golden dress of leaves is supplemented with orange, yellow fruits.
Both-deciduous trees up to 15 m oval Leaves, large, whole-extreme, before falling yellow or red. The fruit is a large fleshy berries of different size and shape.
Cultivation
Diospyros is one of the most frost-resistant subtropical crops. Without damage tolerates temperatures down to -18…-20°C. light-Loving, unpretentious to soils, but does not tolerate too wet.
Reproduction
Propagated by seeds, varieties-vegetatively.
Accommodation in the country
Since persimmon is a large tree, it is better to determine it on the border of the site.
And this is not all the trees and shrubs that delight us with gold autumn foliage!
And what trees and shrubs in your country are now dressed in a gold outfit?
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