Gardeners - professionals and amateurs know this plant under the name "vinegar tree". Although there is a formal, more correct and solemn name - sumac.
Site selection and ground for planting sumach
The plant is loved by gardeners for undemanding and unpretentious, Sumy can easily settle even on poor soils. Where another plant withers, soums will take root and straighten its vast umbrella crown. Any suitable soil for sumac, the plant grows well on acidic or saline soils. When setting up a new home in his garden for permanent residence, it should be noted that people in Sumy are very fond of good lighting and do not accept partial shade or even shadowed places. He easily endures a brief drought and high air temperature. Heat sumachu uneasy, but at the same time it requires protection from the winds and, preferably, mulch soil. Increased moisture sumaku not to taste. The plant likes fertile sandy soil. But it will gladly grow on poor dry, stony ground. The plant is practically nothing and never gets sick.
Did you know? Sumy will look great if you plant it in the form of a hedge for your garden.
Planting sumac
Let's look at how to put the soums in the ground. It is easy to grow sumac from young growth, which grows in abundance from the roots of the plant. To do this, select the most developed seedling and dig it with a shovel with a very sharp edge. Since the young growth not only grows from the roots of the old tree, but also feeds on them, there will not be any good sump on the seedling of the sumach. Therefore, when it is digging it is necessary to cut the plant layers from the parent root as deep as possible.
If a seedling is planted not immediately, but will be transported over long distances, it must be carefully prepared for the trip. Roots of seedlings carefully wrapped in a damp woolen cloth or in wet (not wet!) Sawdust, and all this is packed in a plastic bag. Polyethylene will protect the roots from drying out, and wet cloth or sawdust will keep delicate roots wet. In such packaging, you can save a sapling seedling for a week.
In order to plant a sumach tree, you need to dig a planting hole 50 x 50 cm. Half a bucket of humus is added to this pit and mixed with the soil. Next, we pour a bucket of water into the landing pit, and when it is absorbed into the ground, we proceed directly to the landing of the sumach. It is necessary to make sure that when planting the sapling was not deepened into the ground lower than it had grown before. Usually this border can be clearly seen on the seed bark. 
Planted sumac again watered, pouring half a bucket of water under the next near-stem circle. Sumy is unpretentious, he will grow without fertilized soil, but with adequate nutrition he will take root faster and will thank the gardener for taking care of a beautiful crown and lush flowering. If you decide to grow soups out of a stone, nothing too difficult. Immediately prepare the planting pit, lay the fertilizer in it, sprinkle it over the fertilizer with the primer. The sumach stone digs into the ground to a depth of 15-20 cm. Water it. Sumy grows for a long time, so the shoots will seem from the ground only for 20-30 days.
Important! In sumac small bones with a very hard seed coat. In order for a sprout to appear from the bone, it is necessary to apply mechanical damage to its hard shell before planting. For example, rub the bone on both sides of the grindstone.
Acetica Care
The tree sumac gives overgrowths even more than the cherry trees. It is necessary to regularly cut down young shoots. Gardeners know that getting soums in their garden is easy, but getting rid of them is a more difficult task.
Important! The properties of the extensive and strong root system of sumach are used to strengthen the soil on the slopes of ravines.
Watering and feeding the soil
Sumy feels great without watering, but if we want to admire the chic foliage and wonderful flowering, it is best to water the plant periodically. Watering should not be abundant and not frequent. No more than once a year, a tree can be fed mineral supplements. More intensive mineral or nitrogen supplements can slow down the growth of a plant, or even destroy the sum.
Pruning sumach
Delivered to our country soums from the east of North America. In the natural environment, it grows in places open to the sun and often grows to 7-10 meters. But sums are poorly resistant to frost, and in our winters the plant often freezes over. Subjected to the voluntary-compulsory "pruning" of branches by frost. When the main branches die off in the spring, the lateral buds begin to awaken. The frozen branches in the spring are removed, and new buds have room for growth. New branches grow vertically. Sumy care and pruning can be formed into a tall shrub and a tree.
Preparing sumach for winter
Sumy normally transfers our winters and does not need any special insulation. With a slight frostbite, the plant easily grows branches. Powerful root system does not allow the tree to die.
The use of sumac in garden design
Sumy in landscape design is in a special, honorable place. Decorative sumac, not only in an interesting silhouette, but also in broad feathery, slightly velvety leaves. By autumn, lush foliage smoothly changes color from green to burgundy or almost pink. The color scheme of the autumn foliage sumach is very wide. Young shoots of sumac covered with red edge, also slightly velvety to the touch. Blossoms tree pyramidal candles, inflorescences, which, in turn, are composed of small flowers. Twenty-centimeter burgundy “candles” look spectacularly surrounded by a magnificent crown. At the end of summer, soumas are hung with long red panicles with pubescent tassels. Fluff on the tassels is also bright carmine. These fruits will remain on the tree as the main decoration until spring.
A low plant rarely reaches a three meter height mark. Its root system contributes to the formation of a shrub rather than a tree. Unusual and elegant form of the plant requires careful consideration of the planting of neighboring plants. Unusual sumac will stand out brightly against the blue spruce or other conifers. Often planting sumach is done among mixed groups of trees and plants. They are guided by the fact that sumah is most effective in the fall. He just blazes with all shades of crimson and gold.
Did you know? Sumy is often planted at the device Japanese rock gardens.
Breeding sumach
Sumy is easy to breed. The plant multiplies due to its small fruits and root shoots, which when planted easily rooted in a new place. The root system of an adult sumach is located not deep into the soil, but parallel to the surface of the earth. In each interstitial roots is a sleeping kidney (growth point). Under favorable weather conditions, dormant buds wake up on the roots of an adult plant and shoot upwards. These shoots when digging and transplanting perfectly take root in new places, requiring minimal care.
Sumach bones do not germinate very readily, as they have a very hard shell. But if the bones are scattered near the tree and the shell rot over time, then a sprout appears from it and takes root, growing into a full-grown sumac plant.
Types of Acetic Tree in Garden Culture
Sumy smooth (naked)
Good wintering bush, plant height up to three meters. Almost does not freeze. The fruits of this type of sumach are pubescent, small. Flowering bushes begins towards the end of July - the beginning of August. Sumy naked especially dressed in autumn attire.
Fragrant sumac
This type of sumach looks like a three-meter bush. The branches are almost leafless, bare. The plant blooms along bare branches, even before the blooming of rare leaves. The shape of the leaf is trifoliate, the leaves are small. It grows in the Caucasus and Crimea. The shrub gives edible sour fruits. Fruits are used instead of wine or vinegar in pickling kebabs. Sweet-scented sumac gives small yellow-red fruits.
Deer Horn Sum (Fluffy)
It grows well in our gardens furry sums. Its other name is velvet sumah or deer horn sumah. This species of sumac sometimes grows up to 10 m. It is beautiful with a weightless lace of leaves and velvety, thick, soft-brown shoots. The top of the leaf is velvet-green, and the bottom plate emphasizes this bright green with white bloom. On old trees, brown cracked bark. Autumn color of the crown shimmers with all the warm colors of the palette. Here and pale pink, and yellow, and gold, and fiery crimson. Beautiful flowers collected in loose panicle. When sumas are fluffy in bloom, a bass bees buzz over it and butterflies flit.
Important! If the fluffy sumen grow from seed, it will be more spectacular, more graceful than the same plant, but grown from root shoots.
Due to its outstanding decoration, unpretentiousness and easy survival in new places, soums are used by experts in the formation of different landscape layouts.
