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Growing Willow Matsuda (Matsudana) - planting and care
Willow of my dreams
As a child, when I went fishing with my father, I noticed a willow - a tree of extraordinary beauty.
Sometimes we encountered entire willow thickets spreading along the entire coast, and sometimes the willow stood in splendid isolation - majestic and powerful. Years passed, but my dream did not leave me to grow this beauty on my site.
Perfect diversity
I never acquired my land, but every summer I visit my dacha with friends who, at my request, with great pleasure, have allocated a place for the little girl. When I started collecting information, I realized that it's very difficult to choose one thing. It turns out that in the world there are more than 350 species of this plant, the most diverse shapes and sizes. My choice fell on willow Matsuda (Matsudan).
This is a very decorative plant. In nature it reaches up to 13 m in height, but in our latitudes it grows no more than 3-3,5 m. Shoots are serpentine-curved, olive-green. This willow is unusual in that its branches tend to squirm, giving the plant an unusual shape and charm. Even more decorative gives unusual, narrow-lanceolate leaves, which are twisted into incomplete spirals. Blossoms Matsudana small yellow nondescript flowers, collected in inflorescences-earrings.
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Willow "from scratch"
Now there are a lot of nurseries selling seedlings in containers, but I wanted to grow my willow from scratch. I found a man who grows Matsuda willow, and cut with his permission a twig of 20 cm long. It was in the early spring, before the buds opened. I chose a twig as thick as a pencil. Naturally, she was already lignified.
Soil prepared medium lightness - from sand, humus and sod land. Although everywhere they write that the handle is easy to take root, I treated it with a root stimulant. Almost completely sprinkled a twig with earth, leaving 5-7 cm with 3 buds above the ground. Capacity
covered it with a packet. This is necessary to maintain the humidity of the air. After a while, the willow became entrenched, which I was very happy with. Gradually, the kidneys began to swell on the cuttings, and then small leaves began to be pecked. After that, 2 lower buds, I removed, leaving only the upper one to develop a powerful shoot.
Landing of willow in the ground
The willow landing area was taken near the house, on the eastern sunny side. He made a landing hole small - the size of the cuttings. Adding leafy soil, humus and coarse sand into the pit, he abundantly watered the plant.
From this moment, an exciting process began. I watched with great interest how every month, every year the "baby" turned into an elegant "lady." In the first summer I watered willow very abundantly, every 2 weeks. If there was heat, then more often. During the season I did only 2 top dressings: once with mineral fertilizer (scattered granules around the trunk and slightly buried), the second time with organic (mullein infusion). In subsequent years, he did top dressing on a schedule, starting in spring, when the kidneys woke up, then every month, alternating organics with a mineral water.
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Willow growth with a vengeance
For the first 2 years, my willow did not really stretch out - apparently, it was building up the root system. But in the third year it began to grow with a vengeance, a graceful bend appeared at the branches, and the crown became more magnificent.
Pruning was conducted every spring and summer. Willow carries it very well, after pruning, it only begins to branch better. To the tree no longer stretched up, I broke off the growth point.
In the first year for the winter I warmed the willow with cover material. In the following years I did not hide anything, although I read that Matsudana is not very hardy. Nothing happened to my willow, even when during one of the winters there was a frost around -40 °.
Now, after 5 years, my willow pleases with its beauty not only me, but also my acquaintances, who are immensely grateful to me that I grew such beauty near their home. Even passers-by often stop around the site and admire it!
© Author: Pavel ZIMIN, Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod region.
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Help with advice: you need to choose a tree, sprawling, large and mature. Willow would be perfect, but I don't know if it will grow. In fact, they grow nearby, but there is a lowland, 200 meters to the place where I want to plant. Our groundwater is deep. The soil is probably loam. I don't know exactly yet. What other types of trees would you recommend? If willow, what kind of willow? And then there are so many of them, but I need one on which mermaids live - a large one, with hanging branches.
Anatoly
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In the autumn they gave the willow Matsudana, but I never dropped her. I hid it in the greenhouse. How best to save the tree till spring?
Marina Chusova, the city of Smolensk
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In spring, plant the plant in the most closed place from the cold northern and eastern winds. Pour under the plant for 20-30 l water per week. For a season 3 times, fertilize with mineral fertilizers. In the first days of November, start cooking for the winter.
Do a water recharge. Ground the plant around the plant with a pine bark or chips (a layer of 6 cm), on top - with dry leaves. The trunk can be wrapped in a pipe with a heat-insulating "K-flex". With the arrival of stable night frosts, I install a tripod of welded steel rods over the tree and wrap it with two layers of white spunbond with the density of 19 g / square. m. With the advent of spring, the insulation is gradually removed. But I leave the spunbond until the spring frosts finally pass.
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I bought a piece of land, but there is a growing willow Matsudana. The tree is very beautiful, I want to sit on the site, but I do not know how to do it better and right.
Maksim
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This willow does not give root shoots and is best propagated by lignified cuttings. They are harvested in autumn, during the fall of foliage. By the way, at this time cuttings of willow can be planted directly in the open ground. They cut into a length of 20-35 cm, although the willow Matsudana reproduces well and is shorter - 8-10, see Cuttings must be planted deeply, leaving only a small part of the ground, the nose 2-3-my kidneys (for most of them it's only 2- 3 cm). Roots are formed along the stem and on the base section.
Plant the cuttings a little obliquely and leave until spring.
I prefer to sow seeds and plant cuttings in special schools - fenced areas prepared for long-term seedlings, usually within two to three years before transplanting them to a permanent place. Young trees of the willow at first time (2-3 year) must be sheltered from frosts.
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They gave a tree, looks like a willow. But strange: branches twisting, leaves twisted. It's a disease?
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Perhaps you got a willow Matsudana or Sverdlovskaya meandering, outwardly they look alike.
The first is lower - it grows in the middle band to 3-4 m in height, this plant with very low frost resistance. Willow Sverdlovskaya winding, up to 12 m in height. It endures our winters, it does not freeze. The disease and pests are fairly stable. The flowers of both are absolutely plain. All the charm of these willows - in curved twigs and twirled leaves. Both prefer moist soils, but they also tolerate inadequate watering.