Spruce Keibab (Glauca Kaibab) - an evergreen coniferous tree that has a blue hue. Its beauty is admired by both children and adults. Spruce is grown individually and in group plantings, and its properties are extremely useful. Most often, it can be found in different landscape designs, on estates, in parks and alleys.
Botanical Description
Kaybab grows up to 10 meters high. Her crown has the correct conical shape and diameter up to 3 meters. While the plant is young, its crown is asymmetric. Spruce grows annually by 8–10 cm, branches stretch out and are densely located at the base.
Did you know? The main tree from which paper is made all over the world is spruce.
They grow at right angles. The thorns can be sickle-shaped, usually they are straight 10–12 mm long. The color of the needles can be from green to dark green with a bluish tint.
- The benefits of growing spruce:
- Evergreen - means it will delight the eye all year, regardless of the season.
- The substances that the plant exudes contribute to the purification of air from pollution and dust.
- Complementing any style of landscape design.
- Fir cones and needles can be used in folk medicine as jam, added to tea.
- The disadvantages of conifers include:
- the plant is growing;
- picks up a lot of useful elements from the soil;
- slow in growth.
Landscape design application
Most often, spruce is used to decorate tracks and for the effect of an alpine hill. The keibab view can be combined with stunted trees and shrubs. This combination is perfect for framing a road or hedge. The use of trees in design has not only aesthetic value, but also serves as a shady place where you can relax. You can plant plants yourself or use the services of experienced gardeners.
Landing
To spruce well settled down, you must adhere to the rules of planting. The optimal period for landing is April - August. This season, the tree has a full opportunity and time to begin and begin its growth.
Important! The root of the tree should be wet. It is better to buy planting material from which the root is placed in a special container.
The first thing you need to decide on the place. The plant has a wide and superficial root system. In the future, it can inhibit the growth of other plants, taking away moisture and nutrients.
Step-by-step method of planting spruce keibab:
- In the selected area, you need to dig a hole with a diameter of 50-60 cm, a depth of 60-70 cm.
- If the water is close to the surface of the earth, then drainage must be installed. To do this, place broken stones or crushed stone at the bottom of the pit with a layer measuring 15–20 cm.
- Prepare the soil in advance, which will cover the root. You need to add peat and sand to the earth from the pit, you can use the nitroammophos in the amount of 150 g.
- Cover the drainage with a light layer of the soil mixture and pour 5 liters of water into the pit.
- Move the seedling to the planting site along with the ground on the root. Install the trunk vertically.
- Sprinkle the root with soil, without tamping, and pour in up to 20 liters of water.
- To prevent water from spreading, a near-trunk circle is created. It will need to be mulched with peat or organic fertilizer to maintain the optimum temperature and amount of moisture at the root.
Follow-up care
If the process of planting a tree fell in the summer, then it needs to be watered several times a week, pouring 10-20 liters of water. The keibab view is demanding on light, but at the initial stages of development it prefers shadow and coolness. It is recommended to plant a seedling near fences and fences or together with other trees. The distance between plants in group plantings should correspond to 2-3 meters.
Important! The root of the tree has the ability to grow and thereby damage communications and buildings.
For the winter it is necessary to cover and wrap young trees with spruce branches. In the spring they clean it. The first rays of the sun can adversely affect the healthy appearance of the tree. Due to poor moisture circulation in the frozen soil, water does not supply the whole tree with minerals, and in summer the needles can burn out and crumble. To prevent this, it is important to protect the plants in the first year from intense sunlight.
Watering and feeding
If the process of planting a tree fell in the summer, then it needs to be watered several times a week, pouring 10-20 liters of water. Additionally, plants are watered only in dry climates. To determine the need for watering, you can pick up the earth at the root in your hand and squeeze it into a lump. If it crumbles, then the plant has little moisture.
When watering a seedling, it is important to pour water not under the root itself, but in a circle, observing a distance of 20-30 cm from the trunk. The first few years of the tree’s life are fed with peat and sawdust. To do this, they are distributed 6-10 cm above the ground.
Cropping and shaping the crown
When the spruce begins to grow rapidly, gardeners think about taking action. Previously, to cut the tree short and prevent it from growing to large sizes, they used the annual sawing of the crown. But this method is not effective, because neoplasms begin to appear on the top of the head, which look like new trees. They compete and, when one of them wins, the spruce begins to grow crookedly.
Did you know? Spruce drops 1/6 of its needles in autumn. In the spring it grows again.
The most gentle way is a simple haircut. With its help, the plant evenly gets rid of the branches. Correctly considered to remove 1 / 3–2 / 3 from the length of the shoot. For one haircut, do not deprive the tree of more than 1/3 of the branches. You can engage in pruning and shaping Kebab spruce in early spring, until the first buds have appeared, or since August, when the plant slows down its growth rate. It is worth considering that the cuts on the branches must have time to heal before the winter.
If unusual formations or “rust” appear on the branches, they must be removed regardless of the season. Spruce keibab is a plant that is resistant to cold and hot climates. In winter, she creates a real New Year's mood, and in the summer she pampers with her beauty and coolness. To grow a lush and healthy tree, it is important to use the recommendations for planting and growing it.
