Breeders have bred many varieties of barberry, which differ in the height and shape of the crown, the color of leaves and fruits. One of the most beautiful varieties for decorating the local area is the barberry of the Greenberg Carpet variety. Further information on the cultivation of crops on the site, use in design, healing properties.
Description of barberry Green Carpet
Green Carpet Tunberg Barberry is a deciduous slow-growing shrub. Its height reaches 1 meter, diameter - 1.5 meters. The crown of the plant is spreading and slightly flattened. Leaves are painted light green in summer, and in autumn they acquire an orange-yellow palette. Yellow inside and red outside inflorescences are located along the entire length of the branches. Flowering occurs at the end of May.
Greenberg Carpet Tunberg Barberry
Red fruits ripen in September and remain on the plant after shedding foliage.
Attention! With good care, the plantation can decorate the site with its appearance for 50 years.
Planting a plant
Bushes of barberry are planted on a site in the spring or in the fall. The place is selected sunny, windproof north winds.
The culture prefers to grow on slightly alkaline soils. If the soil is acidic, lime or dolomite flour is first added to it.
Seed planting
In the fall, the site is freed of garbage, dug up, loosening the soil.
Planting seeds is as follows:
- make grooves with a depth of 1-3 centimeters;
- watering the beds;
- seeds are sown densely;
- fall asleep with sand, then warm with sawdust.
Barberry seeds have poor germination, so they need to be sown densely. Germination will occur in the spring, after warm days. If necessary, the seedlings are thinned. Bushes can be planted in a permanent place after 1.5-2 years.
Planting seedlings in open ground
Young plants are planted on the site as follows:
Planting barberries in the form of hedges
- Dig holes with a depth and diameter of 40 centimeters. If several bushes are planted, the distance between them is left at least 2 meters.
- At the bottom lay out drainage from small stones or expanded clay, then a layer of fertile soil is poured.
- Seedlings are located in the middle of the ditch, straighten the roots, cover the ground.
- The trunk circle is rammed, watered.
Important! If the gardener plans to plant barberries as a hedge between the plots, the interval between the bushes should be no more than 50 centimeters.
How to care for Green Carpet barberry
The bushes require care, which consists in watering, fertilizing, loosening the soil, removing weeds. To maintain a decorative look, pruning is done twice a season.
- Watering
The variety is drought tolerant, does not require frequent watering. But the bushes get the most decorative with regular irrigation.
If it is dry, hot weather, pour barberry at least 1 time per week. The soil should be moistened to a depth of at least 40 centimeters. Use warm, standing water for irrigation.
- Top dressing
Fertilize bushes begin for 2-3 years after planting.
In the spring, nitrogen fertilizers are used to increase the vegetative mass.
In early summer, barberry is fed with full mineral top dressing.
In August, potassium and phosphorus are added under the bushes.
Important! So that the root system is not burned with salts, before any top dressing, the earth is pre-moistened with plain water.
- Pruning
To make the bush look decorative, pruning is done in early summer, then in early autumn.
Shoots are cut to ⅓ of their length. In addition, dry, damaged by the wind, diseased branches are removed during the season. The procedure is carried out with a sharp disinfected instrument. The work is carried out with gloves, since there are sharp thorns on the shoots.
- Flowering period
Depending on the region of growth, barberry Green Carpet blooms in late May or early June.
Inflorescences consist of 2-5 flowers dispersed over the entire surface of the shoot. They are painted red. From inflorescences, small fruits ripen by autumn.
Barberry fruits
Breeding methods
You can breed a plant of the genus Berberis in several ways. Most often used cuttings, propagation by layering. When the bushes grow, they can be divided and planted separately. Gardeners usually do not use seed propagation, since it is laborious, and the bushes are ready for planting on the site only after 2 years.
Reproduction by layering is carried out in the spring as follows:
- dig a groove with a depth of 8-10 centimeters;
- bend a branch to the ground;
- fasten with a bent wire;
- the place of contact is covered with soil;
- watered.
Throughout the summer, the layer is taken care of: watered, loosen the earth, remove the grass growing around. In the autumn, a young seedling formed at the nailing site is transplanted to a permanent place.
Using cuttings, pieces of shoots are first rooted in water, or immediately planted in boxes with light soil. When the cuttings start growing, they are first transplanted into separate containers, then to the site.
Additional Information: Barberry berries are dried and used as a seasoning for pilaf. The aroma is better preserved in whole fruits.
Diseases and Pests
Green Carpet tunberry barberry may be invaded by aphids and moths. The first sucks juices from leaves and shoots in a short time, the second eats berries.
Against pests use authorized insecticides. Gardeners who prefer to use folk remedies can spray the bushes with a solution of soap or tobacco. However, experienced barberry owners say that folk methods only help in the initial stages of an attack.
Of the diseases, barberry can be affected by powdery mildew and leaf spotting. Fungicides are used to combat pathogenic microorganisms. In order to prevent disease, bushes for prevention can be sprayed several times with copper-containing drugs.
Winter preparations
In autumn, plants are abundantly watered with water. Moist roots can easily withstand severe frosts.
When the steady frosts last for several days, the bushes spud with humus to a height of 10-12 centimeters.
In anticipation of a snowy, cold winter, it is recommended to cover barberry with spruce branches, as well as install arcs on which to agrofiber.
Use in landscape design
Barberry Green Carpet is so good that it can be used in the garden as a tapeworm. A single-planted bush will adorn the site with green leaves in the summer and yellow-orange in the fall. Barberry will look no less spectacular in a bushy mixborder. You need to select plants that are different in height, shape, color of leaves.
Also, Green Carpet can be planted in a group of 3-5 shrubs. For example, in the center of the landscape composition, a pyramidal thuja is planted, and around it a barberry. The group is planted in the central part of the site and it becomes visible from all sides. From the culture, you can build a hedge by cutting it from the sides and leaving the top free.
The use of Green Carpet in the landscape
Healing properties
As a medicine, all parts of the plantation are used. The composition of barberry includes alkaloids, tannins, organic acids, vitamins, trace elements.
The plant has the following medicinal properties:
- heals wounds;
- blocks inflammatory processes;
- treats diseases of the stomach and intestines;
- removes toxins;
- calms the nervous system;
- helps in the treatment of diabetes;
- strengthens the walls of blood vessels.
Note! Before you independently begin treatment with barberry, using alternative recipes, you should definitely consult your doctor.
Barberry is also part of cosmetics: shampoos, creams, soaps, scrubs, masks. Many products with the addition of plants can be prepared independently. Thus, growing a beautiful plantation on a personal plot, the gardener will be able not only to admire the spectacular shrub, but also to use all its parts for healing the body.
