The number of people wishing to grow a plant on the house adjoining site fern is growing every day. It is great for shady places where you need to plant a green area.
The fern came to us from the dinosaur era. True, at that time it was of enormous size and a bit crushed in our time. However, fern is actively used for landscape design.
It is popular because of its unpretentiousness and weather resistance and various pests.
Photo and description
Among the popular varieties of this plant emit a bladder fern. It has very fragile scapes without articulation and rhizomes, spreading along the ground. Reaches a height of several meters. This fragile look ferns are more common in subtropics and in temperate zones.
Admire the Bubble fern in the photo below:
Kinds
Exists about a hundred species fern bladder. The most common among them are seven species. They were found on the territory of the former USSR.
Oriental
Occurs in rocky places of the Crimea and the Caucasus. Taken under protection in the reserves of the Krasnodar Territory. Height up to one meter.
Leaves are light green up to 6 cm long. It has beautiful orange flowers, often called red-leaved.
The shoots need pruning before winter, as this type of bladder may freeze during severe cold.
Used to decorate border areas.
Tree (Cilician)
Cilician Bubble Shrub can reach four meters in height. Fibrous branches become bare with age. The shoots are pubescent with complex leaves (pinnate), which are bright green below and gray-gray above.
A cup of flowers moth type. It has a bright orange-yellow color. The fern tree bladder blooms for over a hundred days from the beginning of July to the end of September. This kind of plant releases fruit. They look like a fish bubble - transparent with thick walls.
Average
The average bubble is a successful hybrid of the eastern and tree bubble. Height up to two meters. The leaves are bluish-green. Crown spreading. Flowering lasts about 50 days from mid-June until the first frost.
This kind of fern - great honey plant. Honey productivity up to 130 kg / ha. Ripening occurs in October.
Buzze
Type of fern, which reaches one and a half meters in length. Distributed in Central Asia, mainly in Turkmenistan. Lines the rocky surface. Shrub leaves unpaired, their number is not more than 9 on each branch.
Sufficiently persistent type of bladder, which not afraid of droughts and frost. Flowering occurs in springtime. Axillary racemes consist of several inflorescences. The fruits are in the form of transparent beans.
Elegant
The height of the shrub reaches three meters. Leaf length up to 8 centimeters, on one shoot up to 14 bright green leaves of rounded shape.
Short brushes produce up to five yellow flowers.
Fruits resemble beans with fine reddish hairs.
Frost-resistant form of motherwort, can withstand up to 25 degrees below zero.
Brittle
It is found in Iceland, Holland, Tasmania, New Zealand and in the Arctic and forest regions of Eurasia. He is comfortable in places with a cool or moderately warm climate. A brittle bubble rises on the slopes of mountain surfaces, on rocks, along rivers and in coniferous forests.
The size can vary from 5 to 40 centimeters. Oblong leaves are bunched and pinnate. Leaf roots are slightly longer than the plate, which is divided into 7-18 pairs of leaf lobes. Resistant to culture, propagated by spores and artificial division of the bush. Widely used in landscape design.
In order for the bubble fern to decorate the local area with beautiful crown and flowers, you need to know The main conditions for the care of this plant.
Home care
Features care after purchase
Bubble can be purchased in specialized stores or dig up in places of distribution. If the plant was grown on the same territory as the future planting site, the owners may not observe signs of adaptation. There is a standard planting and observation of the plant in the first few months.
note when buying so that the roots of the bladder were fleshy with no signs of dryness and lethargy. Such a plant will not be able to settle down normally and will die in the first year after planting in open ground.
Lighting and soil
All kinds of fern bladder grow well in shaded areas. With sufficient moisture, the soil can be any. Bubbler is an unpretentious plant that, with proper care, can inhabit both earthy and clay soil. A weak alkaline substrate and good drainage are preferred. The plant feels great in the southern parts of the local area.
Temperature
Most of the species of the bladder is not afraid of frost, and calmly withstand snow drifts at temperatures up to 15 degrees.
Graceful motherwort can withstand even up to 25 degrees below zero. At the same time, even a frozen plant well departs with the onset of spring.
The optimum temperature is the range from 10 to 20 degrees.
With a significant increase in temperature, the leaves of the bladder begin to lighten first and wither, and later fall.
Adiantum, Polyrales, Thief
Air humidity
Sufficient humidity is preferable, which is ensured by regular spraying when the temperature rises.
Fluctuations do not lead to the death of the plant. To ensure sufficient moisture bubble is enough to follow the general rules of watering.
Watering
The plant needs regular watering. This contributes to the active growth of the crown and shoots. Especially in need of moisture new plants that have not yet given flowers and fruits. In the absence of regular soil moistening, the plant may not give signs of lack of fluid for a long time.
In the summertime, summer shower can be carried out. which will wash away the excess dust and dirt from the leaves. It is enough to use a conventional spray.
With an excess of moisture, the bark of conifers is used, which has excellent absorbent properties. Excessive watering leads to decay of the rhizome.
Top dressing and fertilizer
Bubble practically does not need additional fertilizer. If desired, the feeding procedure is carried out in the period of active growth from April to August. A single dose of several weeks is enough for the plant to grow actively.
For the bladder suitable universal fertilizer for decorative leafy plants.
Top dressing in autumn and winter often leads to the emergence of serious diseases of the fern.
Transfer
Early spring is the best period for transplanting. bladder. The plant is just beginning a period of active growth, when shoots and leaves begin to grow.
At the new place the bubble is quickly adapting. For transplanting it is necessary to dig a clod of earth around the plant.
If the plant is to be transferred in summer or autumn, you need to monitor its behavior and regularly moisten the soil.
Bladder transplant order:
- Separate part of an adult plant with healthy roots. On the rhizome should be a large amount of land.
- Choose the optimal place for landing.
- Swarm the hole of the required size and plenty of moisturize this place.
- Drop the plant in the hole and straighten the roots.
- We cover it with earth and water it abundantly.
Try not to touch the leaves, so that during the transplant does not damage them.
Pruning
Fern does not need pruning for the winter. After release from the leaves, shoots have the ability to reproduce new greens with the onset of spring.
It is necessary to cut only the yellowed and damaged branches of the bush. For these purposes, suitable garden shears. It is necessary to remove a branch at the very base, since with a partial visibility of the lesion, an internal problem may not be visible.
Conclusion
Graceful branches of the fern of the bladder in combination with beautiful flowers and fruits will be able to decorate any garden. Special care is not required, so every year lovers of this plant are becoming more and more. With the right location on the site you can make different compositions of fern, which will be perfectly combined with other residents of your garden.
