Deytion has such a description: a genus of deciduous and evergreen, perennial woody plants of the family Hortensia. There are 50 species, the distribution area of which is Mexico, the Himalayas and East Asia. At the beginning of the 19th century, Dutch merchants brought Himalayan and Japanese types of deytion.
Did you know? Swedish naturalist Karl Thunberg named the plant in honor of one of the mayors of Amsterdam, Johann Deutz, who sponsored a naval expedition to the East.
The best time to land on the plot
In the spring, when the ground has thawed, but the buds have not yet blossomed in the trees, you can plant the action. The end of March - beginning of April is best suited. Planting seedlings with a closed root system is possible until mid-June.
Choosing a place for landing
Deytion - photophilous plant that needs a sunny place, protected from piercing winds. Neighboring plants should not obscure the garden shrubs, which will withstand light penumbra, created by the crowns of large trees. Moderate moisture and diffuse light is good for action. The action develops best of all and spends the period of flowering on loose, moderately moist, fertile sandy and loamy soils with weakly alkaline reaction of the soil environment.
In order to avoid groundwater stagnation, soil drainage should be ensured, due to which the batteries will be evenly distributed and a moisture regime will be created that will contribute to the normal development of the root action system. It is necessary to select a variety of action, suitable for the soil. The least whimsical varieties Pink deytion and deytion Turbilon Rouge.
Important! It is very difficult to distinguish one or another type of action without special knowledge, it is necessary to pay attention to the structure of the seed capsule or the structure of the leaf.
How to choose and prepare seedlings before planting
When choosing seedlings, you need to carefully inspect the bush, determining the presence of damage on the shoots, the integrity of the buds, the condition of the roots, or symptoms of the disease. Buying seedlings is right before planting, if they have to be transported, the roots must be wrapped with thick paper. Immediately before planting, cut the broken branches, shorten the roots to 40 cm, and if they are dry, soak for several hours in a bucket of clay mash, adding 1 liter of potassium permanganate solution.
Planting rules for young seedlings
For planting, one should dig up a landing pit with a depth of up to 50 cm, in order to drain the bottom, it is necessary to fill in sand or broken brick with a 10-centimeter layer. Deytsiya has its own peculiarities of cultivation, and therefore you need to know some subtleties. Gardeners recommend adding to the soil mixture to fill the pit 100 g of "Nitrophoska". You can not deepen the root of the neck of seedlings, you need to leave them at ground level. After planting, they tamp and mulch the soil with peat.
Garden Care
The very action, its cultivation and care in the garden does not require large investments of forces and funds.
How often to water
Adult shrubs of deutzia are distinguished by drought tolerance, poorly tolerate excess moisture, they only need one bucket of water once a week for each bush. When watering the action, it is necessary to loosen the soil by about 20 cm. In the summer and during the flowering period, watering should be increased, and stopped in early August so that the plant has the opportunity to prepare for winter. It is required to water young plants plentifully, especially during their active growth. It is necessary to monitor the condition of the soil, regularly weed weeds near the action, which will prevent its development.
Soil mulching
Mulching pristvolny circle with fallen leaves and straw - one of the simplest ways. You can also use peat for mulching, and warm small bushes with cardboard boxes, boxes, or branches of coniferous twigs. The cold is very destructive for young saplings and seedlings of deytion. At the end of November, at low air temperature, when the ground is frozen several centimeters, the bushes must be tightly covered with a layer of dry foliage or pine branches.
When and how to feed
Top dressing is done by compost with a glass of ash or fermented liquid manure in the proportion of 1 l per 10 l of water. Twice in the season a complex fertilizer is applied under the bush (Ammophos or Nitrophoska), 150 g each. Fertilizer of the plant should be carried out during flowering and early summer in order not to worsen the frost resistance of the action.
Preparing the site for the action, they dig it up, introducing during this manure or peat compost (10-15 kg / m2), potassium sulfate and dolomite flour to reduce the acidity of the soil (100-200 g / m2). It is possible to improve the structure of heavy clay soil by adding sand and peat (10-15 kg / m2). Peat soils need to make sand and clay; loam and peat are added to the sandy loam, which has the property of accumulating and retaining water.
The mixture is thoroughly mixed, they dig up the soil with a shovel or a cultivator up to 20-25 cm. After the earth lumps dry, they are crushed with a rake. If the land on which they are going to plant deytion is cultivated, pits are dug in the spring before planting, heavy soils should be prepared in advance in the autumn.
Important! The action has one wonderful feature - it is immune to tobacco smoke and exhaust gases, so it is advisable to plant it along roads and highways.
How to trim a deacy
Crop deytion carried out in the spring and late summer. In early May, the branches that grow inside the crown, damaged and immature in the past year, as well as the tips of the shoots that have frozen, are removed. Each branch that blossoms, after flowering, is cut to a young shoot, which is also shortened by a third, and subsequently it begins tillering and laying of flower buds. Deytsiya may require also such a process as pruning in the fall.
The procedure includes cutting the branches that thickened the bush, and already old ones. If the shrub is more than five years old, it is necessary to get rid of 1-2 oldest shoots every 2-3 years, thus rejuvenating the shrub.
How to prepare deice bushes for winter
Deytion - heat-loving plant, and its preparation for the winter begins early enough. Severe winters can deprive the shrub flowering, killing the shoots of the previous year. Young plants should be bent to the ground, fixed branches with two chopsticks crosswise or in small arcs, pour the fallen leaves on top and build a mini-house of sticks, covering it with lutrasil and polyethylene.
The design will not give the snow, which settles in the spring, to adversely affect the branches: bend them down and break. With an adult bush will have to be more difficult - it will not be able to bend because of the fragility of thick branches. Adult plants for winter begin to prepare even before the leaves fall completely, which can later on become an additional protection from the cold weather. 
The branches of the shrub gently tightened with a rope, cover the bush with a bag or any dense non-woven material, fastening it with clothespins from above. This shelter will protect not only from low temperatures, but also from the desiccation of the shoots, since without a bag the buds of flowers are at risk of drying.
When and how to transplant
Transplant deytion in the spring. First, very carefully dig up a bush, trying not to destroy the ground earthen room. To do this, they dig in the deytion from all sides along the contour of the crown, then remove it with an earthy clod and transfer it to a new place.
Before that, 30 g of complex mineral fertilizer is added to the planting pit. The root neck should not go deep into the ground or rise above it. Deytsiya in its new place grows smoothly and does not bend, the free space between the clod of earth and the wall of the pit should fall asleep completely and carefully tamped.
After transplanting the shrub well watered. When this is done, the plant is abundantly watered. Young plants, unlike adults, which can be sick, tolerate transplant normally, quickly mastered at a new place and bloom well.
Did you know? Landscape designers should be aware that the action can be transplanted next to the lilac bush, the flowering of which will anticipate the flowering of the action.
Resistance to diseases and pests
The garden shrub deutiya from the pluses has excellent resistance to diseases and pests, but sometimes the plant can pull down a bumble-bee-shaped proboscis, which devours the leaves of deuterium. You can get rid of it by spraying the bush with Phtalofos, Karbofos, Decis or Kinmiks.
Reproduction Methods
There are several ways to reproduce the most beautiful shrubs.
Cuttings
Deytion can undergo such a procedure as propagation by cuttings, only under the condition of well-developed, leafy, semi-woody shoots. This happens in early summer. Cutting cuttings, leaf blades halve scissors or shears. The lower cut is made obliquely, just under the interstice, while the upper cut is above the leaf node. Cuttings of 12–15 cm in length are planted in river sand, which is poured with a five-centimeter layer on the nourishing ground of the greenhouse. Deytion after planting and the whole period, until the root was formed, requires special care: it needs to be watered from 3 to 7 times depending on the weather.
Dividing bush
This method is suitable for overgrown actions. Digging up the bush and dividing it into several parts with the root system takes place. Pruned old branches of the plant. The action is planted in pre-prepared pits, because the plant does not tolerate drying of the roots. But to resort to this method is possible only in case of emergency, because the transplant is very detrimental to adult bushes.
Seeds
Seeds ripen in late September-early October. They are removed from the boxes and retain until the onset of spring. They are sown in boxes filled with a mixture of peat, humus and river sand. Seeds are scattered on the surface, a thin layer of pure sand is put on top, which prevents the appearance of a soil crust. From above they are covered with a film or glass. Successful seed germination will contribute to the regular soil moisture. The emergence of seedlings can be expected in 1-1.5 months. In June, seedlings should be transplanted into the open ground in order to grow them.
An unpretentious aesthetic garden shrub, deicia, will give gardeners the joy of many years of dazzling flowering.
