Barberry Admiration is a beautiful shrub plant with excellent decorative characteristics. For the first time they began to grow it in the Far East - in Japan and China, more than a century ago. Today this plant is widespread and very popular throughout the world, including in Russia and the CIS countries. It is widely used in landscape design, it is planted in cottages, in parks, near decorative reservoirs. And it is worth noting that the result can simply exceed expectations. If you are picking a plant to decorate your summer cottage, an ideal option would be barberry Admiration.
Description of Thunberg variety
Barberry Tunberg Admiration is a special variety, very beautiful and unusual. Its leaves are painted in bright coral color and bordered by a yellow edging at the edges. The crown of the bush is very lush and voluminous, like a down pillow. During the flowering period with the fragile beauty of delicate pink flowers, you can simply admire it. In autumn, they are replaced by dark red berries.
This variety appeared in our area relatively recently - about half a century ago. During this time, he managed to spread quite widely. Such popularity is due to its high decorative properties, but owes much to unpretentiousness. The plant tolerates drought very well, does not require complicated care, it is easy to plant, feed and cut it.
Barberry Admiration is growing relatively slowly. In a year, this plant adds no more than 20 cm in growth. If you correctly cut it, forming a bush, you can achieve excellent results. The lush round bushes planted in succession look very beautiful. There are other varieties that differ from the popular and widespread Tunbergs only in color. All varieties of decorative barberry are the same in care and look alike.
Landing
If you decide to decorate a summer house or a personal plot with these wonderful plants, you, of course, are concerned about the question of where to buy the barberry Admiration. It can be ordered in nurseries involved in the cultivation of ornamental plants. Barberry seedlings are sold with containers of land.
Planting this plant in the ground is quite simple. To do this, you just need to remove the roots of the bush from the pot with the ground and put it in a previously prepared hole. The soil for planting must be loosened. The pit should be made so deep that the root system fully enters into it.
The composition of the soil, in which the barberry Admiration is well established, must contain sand, humus and sod in a ratio of 1: 1: 2. After planting, the hole can be mulled. From time to time, the soil around the plant should be loosened so that it is enriched with oxygen.
Barberry Admiration is a thermophilic and sun-loving plant. It is advisable to plant it in open sunny areas. It also tolerates a shadow, but from a lack of light loses its decorative effect.
Watering
When watering a plant, certain rules must be followed. Do not spray water on leaves and stems, this can destroy them. Pour water directly under the root of the bush.
This southern plant does not tolerate increased humidity, you do not need to fill it with too much, even in extreme heat. It survives much better in drought conditions than in wet soil, brought to the state of a swamp. If water from the previous watering has not been absorbed into the soil, then the time of the next watering has not yet arrived.
Barberry Admiration needs to be fed twice a year, introducing compost and mineral fertilizers into the soil.
