Garden hibiscus care: a photo of a tree-like plant, features of watering, top dressing, shrub pruning, and when and how to transplant?

Garden hibiscus is a beautiful flowering plant that will become a real decoration of any garden.

Seedlings are presented in a wide variety, but to achieve long and lush flowering without proper care is simply impossible.

These plants are increasingly included in landscape compositions, but the trouble is that not all species can winter in the open ground. This article is all about the proper cultivation of garden hibiscus.

Content Features

In addition to moisturizing, gardening hibiscus care involves regular soil loosening, weed control and removal of dried shoots. In addition, it is extremely important to remove faded flowers daily. This will enhance flowering and make it more magnificent. Also, the plant needs to be prepared for wintering, covering it with spruce branches.

Photo

We suggest you familiarize yourself with the photo of the bush.

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Temperature

In summer, the optimum temperature for the plant remains 25-30 degrees. Hibiscus tolerates low temperatures.

Watering

Water for humidification requires rain or river sedimentation with a minimum value of hardness. Watering should be moderate, it all depends on the drying of the topsoil. If the weather is hot outside, then moisten the soil every day.

Leaves should be washed from dust, which will be an excellent prevention of the appearance of a spider mite.

If there is a massive fall of flowers, then this is a signal of a lack of moisture.

To maintain moisture in the soil for a longer time, you need to perform mulching. Thanks to this procedure, the soil is also saturated with nutrients.

Lighting

Garden hibiscus - photophilous plant, so you need to take care that it grows in a well-lit area, but with shading in the daytime.

A place

For the plant, you need to prepare a site on which hibiscus can grow for about 20 years. The place should be sunny, protected from the wind with a light and fertile soil.

Pruning

To preserve the decorative look, garden hibiscus must be pruned regularly. There are several types of cropping:

Formative. It is necessary for the formation of the standard form. The shoots of the plant will be shortened to 3 buds, leaving only the trunk. Further, all lateral branches are removed until the trunk height becomes suitable for the formation of skeletal branches of the crown.
Sanitary. Before the kidneys "wake up", it is necessary to remove the old, diseased and inwardly growing shoots. also to tame last year's branches.
Anti-aging. With this pruning, dried, old shoots are removed and all branches are shortened by 2/3 of the length.

Priming

To grow garden hibiscus, you need to choose a place with breathable and loose soil. In the landing pit, it is necessary to lay out a nutrient mixture consisting of the following components:

turf land - 2 parts;
sheet land - 2 parts;
ripe humus - 1 part;
coarse sand - 1 part.

Top dressing

During intensive growth, garden hibiscus needs regular fertilization:

In the summer it is worth using phosphorus and nitrogen compounds.
In the first half of autumn, for the full preparation for winter, phosphorus-potassium preparations are added under the bushes.

When and how to transplant?

Garden hibiscus does not need transplants. Such a need may be required only if the place was incorrectly selected or the culture was flooded, the root system rotted.

If the need for a transplant arose, then it should be carried out at the same time as the initial planting, but before the hibiscus blooms. Procedure:

Prepare the landing pit in advance by laying the nutrient mixture (its composition is given above).
Since garden hibiscus does not respond well to waterlogging, you need to create an excellent drainage layer. For these purposes, broken brick is used, and the drainage layer will be 15 cm.
Lay a layer of sand on top of the brick, and then compost - 15 cm.
Sprinkle compost again with a layer of sand - 15 cm.
Carefully place the plant in a pit, cover it with prepared mixture.
When planting, you need to ensure that the root neck is slightly covered with soil.

After planting, you need to perform a watering circle and moisten the plant, when the liquid is absorbed and the earth settles, you can add more nutrient mixture, aligning with the general surface of the flower garden.

Pinch

This procedure should be carried out in early spring. To do this, first attach the central shoot to a bamboo stick or other solid object that acts as a support. Next, you need to thicken the trunk, and for this, all processes growing on the side are cut to the remaining 5 leaves.

Diseases

Garden hibiscus is not affected by harmful organisms. But in case of drought, the plant may damage:

thrips;
whitefly;
spider mite.

If pests are detected, the culture should be treated with an insecticide in 2 stages with an interval of 14 days. Of the diseases the plant can infect chlorosis, which occurs due to soil poverty.

It is not difficult to take care of garden hibiscus, but in the absence of full agricultural technology, flowering will be absent, and the tree itself may become ill. In the garden, hibiscus will stand out against the background of other plants, as it blooms for a long time, brightly and luxuriantly.