The beautiful Green Carpet barberry can decorate any area. He attracts attention with his lush crown, growing chaotically.

The variety was first obtained experimentally in Holland in 1965. The result is an unassuming barberry that can withstand drought and does not suffer from lack of watering.

Characteristics and features of the variety

Barberry thunberg green carpet is deciduous shrub with a cushion-shaped crown and a slow growth rate. In adulthood, the crown diameter is 1.5 m, the plant height can reach 1 m. This shrub is famous for its durability; it can develop for 50 years. The bark on the tree trunk is yellow-brown in color. Abundant flowering begins at the end of May - beginning of June. The inflorescences contain several single flowers, yellow on the inside and red on the outside. After flowering ends, oblong, pink or red fruits begin to ripen; vision begins in September. After the leaves fall during the cool period, beautiful fruits adorn the bare trunk, remaining throughout the winter.

Barberry Thunberg Green Carpet is a light-loving variety that can withstand light partial shade. This type of barberry is attractive because it can withstand drought and intense heat. It is not picky about soil fertility, but prefers alkaline soils, does not tolerate stagnant moisture. Tolerates urban gas pollution conditions very well. Barberry is resistant to many common plant diseases. It is winter-hardy, but can freeze slightly in severe frosts.

flowering shrub

Spreading barberry responds well to the application of feeding compounds. High-quality humus is suitable for these purposes, good compost, selected humus. During planting, for ease of watering and fertilizing, tree trunk holes are formed for barberry.

Green carpet barberry is a compact shrub, the size of which can reach 1 m, the maximum diameter of the spreading cushion-shaped crown is 1.5 m. This species belongs to the Barberry family. The shape of the bush is wide, flattened, the color of the bark is brown-yellow. Beautiful bloom begins in late spring May - early June. The flowers of the variety are single or collected in large inflorescences. The color of the flowers is bright yellow on the inside and red on the outside. The fruits are pink or red in color and ripen in September, continuing to adorn the bare branches throughout the winter. Such a tree will become the highlight of the garden and winter time. This general description perennial, which every gardener studies before starting to grow.

On a note. This variety is attractive to gardeners because it does not require ongoing care, excellent for breeding in city parks or squares.

Features of growing the variety

For planting, choose open places or light partial shade. Put in ready mixture: turf land, high-quality humus, sifted river sand. Comfortable acidity level is 6.0-7.5. If planted in soil with increased acidity, then liming is necessary - 300-400 g. If the perennial is placed in partial shade, then there is a risk of losing color. At the same time, make sure that the root collar is at the level of the soil.

Attention! In the first years, young shoots require shelter for the winter with spruce branches. IN autumn time undeveloped branches are pruned.

Old bushes are carefully thinned out in the spring. When used in landscape design hedge barberries are pruned in the second year after planting; at the end of the hot summer, up to 2/3 of the entire above-ground part is cut off. Sunny, wind-protected places are ideal for growing beautiful barberries. Sanitary pruning is performed annually; it involves removing weak shoots. The variety is resistant to destructive diseases and pests.

Experienced designers use unassuming barberries in single plantings, in group plantings, in tree and shrub compositions, in growing hedges and light borders.

Pest protection

The everlasting perennial is protected from aphids and moths. To protect the bush from barberry aphids, effective insecticides are used. Aphids are eliminated as a result of preventive spraying with effective solutions. Aphid attacks lead to wrinkling of leaves, which ultimately spoils the decorative appearance of the perennial.

On a note. Leaves dry out prematurely and deteriorate due to leaf spot infection caused by fungi. In such cases, the crown is sprayed with prepared copper oxychloride, and this is done twice during the active growing season.

Barberry bacteriosis caused by the pathogen Pseudomonas is no less dangerous. These carriers can cause bacterial canker of the plant, which is characterized by cracks. Quick pruning of damaged branches can stop the spread of destructive diseases. No solutions have the desired effect. You should not allow the spread of dangerous diseases to avoid losing your evergreen perennial.

Bacteriosis of barberry

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Gardeners prefer to grow beautiful barberry on their site due to the following advantages:

• Decorative – it looks beautiful even green among the perennials in the garden;
• The compactness of the bush and the excellent shape of the crown are simply ideal for use in landscape design;
• Thanks to its powerful, developed root system, the perennial is planted on sandy slopes in order to strengthen the slopes;
• Frost resistance of the species, but low temperatures the tops of the tree may freeze;
• Resistant to urban gas pollution conditions;
• Drought-resistant variety, does not require watering during intense heat;
• Reacts well to formative and sanitary pruning;
• It is resistant to common diseases: destructive powdery mildew and rust.

The following quality of persistent barberry is noted as a minus - the thorniness of the variety, which creates certain inconveniences during cultivation, which is why there are difficulties with collecting fruits and pruning.

All barberries lend themselves well to pruning. The barberry bush can be given any shape that your planned design solution for the landscape space requires. Barberries are often planted as a hedge. Barberry hedges will protect the garden from uninvited guests, prying eyes and from winds that are harmful to many garden crops. They will also help to divide the garden into zones. Originally from Japan, Thunberg barberry, like no other plant, fits perfectly into the idea of ​​a Japanese garden. His low-growing varieties Suitable for planting in rock gardens or on patios.

Barberry Green Carpet.

If you have enough space on your plot, then the wonderful variety of barberry Thunberg Green Carpet ("Grin Carpet") can serve you ground cover plant. At maximum height bush 1 m, its spreading light green branches can fill an area with a diameter of 2 meters. When using this variety of barberry, you will be pleasantly surprised in the fall. Its plantings will look like a magnificent orange carpet. You can look at Thunberg's barberries in your own way and see your own solution to the design of a garden with barberries. We wanted to show its advantages and capabilities of this shrub in landscaping. If at least one barberry bush settles in your garden, you will get a lot pleasant impressions and sensations. It will decorate your garden, and will not require much effort from you.

Growing barberry: planting, care, propagation.

Barberries are planted in early spring or autumn. Plants in containers can be planted at any time. To plant barberry, it is better to take sunny places. This is especially true for varieties with decorative painting leaves. The soil for barberries should be non-acidic, loamy or sandy loam. When planting, place barberry at a distance sufficient for the variety from other plants. Only when creating hedges are barberries planted densely, up to 4 plants per meter. When planting hedges, it is convenient to use trenches. Barberry bushes should be fed annually with a complex of fertilizers, covering it in the spring at tree trunk circles. At autumn feeding nitrogen is washed out of the soil. Caring for barberries consists of weed control, loosening the soil and mandatory watering. This is especially true for young plants. In the fall, annual sanitary pruning of barberry bushes is carried out, during which old and dry shoots are cut out. Plantings of barberry hedges are pruned twice a year, at the beginning and end of summer. Barberry is propagated by seeds, cuttings and division of the bush. The seed propagation method is very long, so cuttings or dividing the bush are used. A large assortment planting material various varieties of barberry makes it possible to purchase immediately ready-to-plant large plant. We wish beautiful barberries Your garden!

In the photo, the young Thunberg barberry Aurea ("Aurea") is planted along the edge of the lawn.

general description
Barberry is a shrub from the Barberry family. The barberry bush will not get lost in the garden. Purple foliage and red clusters of fruit set barberry apart from other plants. And the fruits of barberry can be called living candies: they sour, sweeten, and cool. Barberry has sharp thorns, so they “handle” it delicately, or punish it for carelessness. Barberry thorns are nothing more than modified leaves, from the axils of which grow bunches of real leaves - thin, membranous, jagged at the edges, the length of a little finger. The leaves turn purple only in autumn, and before that they are green. The bark of the shoots is also elegant - reddish-gray. The bush blooms at the very beginning of summer. The flowers are yellow, fragrant, collected in drooping racemes. Bees love to visit them: barberry is an excellent honey producer. The shrub is not afraid of winter and is unpretentious to soils.

Berberis thunbergii Green Carpet
A small shrub that creates an incredibly beautiful green Persian carpet. But be careful, beauty can also come with thorns.
Barberry thunberg "Green Carpet" is distinguished by a cushion-shaped, spreading crown with large annual growths and leaves that are richly light green in summer and orange-yellow in autumn. The height of the bush is 1 m, the diameter of the cushion-shaped crown is 1.5 m. The crown is dense, with drooping spreading shoots, the bush is wide, flattened;
The bark is brownish-yellow. The spines are tripartite. The leaves are small, light green in summer, turning orange-yellow in autumn. Blooms in late May - early June. The flowers are single or collected in inflorescences of several pieces (2-5), yellow inside, red outside, located throughout the shoot. The fruits are oblong, shiny, numerous, pink or red, ripen in September. They decorate the bush after the leaves fall, sometimes remaining on it all winter.
Light-loving, but tolerates partial shade. Drought and heat resistant. It is undemanding to soil fertility. Loves alkaline soils. Does not tolerate stagnant moisture. Tolerates urban conditions well. Resistant to diseases and pests. It is winter-hardy, but the tops of annual shoots may freeze. Homeland: China, Japan

Life form: Deciduous shrub
Crown: Cushion-shaped
Growth rate: Slow. The annual growth is 10 cm in height and 15 cm in width.
Diameter crown of an adult plant: 1.5 m
Height adult plant: 1 m
Durability: 50 years
Flowers: Flat, round, yellow inside, red outside, 1 cm, collected in inflorescences.
Leaves: Ovoid, 1-2 cm, green in spring and summer, yellow and red in autumn.
Decorative:
Barberry Thunberg 'Green Carpet' is especially beautiful during flowering and autumn leaf color.
Growing conditions
to light: light-loving, but tolerates light shading
to moisture: drought-resistant
to soil: not picky
to temperature: frost-resistant

Landing Features: Put on open places or in partial shade. Plants with decorative leaf coloring lose their color when planted in the shade.
Root collar at ground level.
Soil mixture: Turf soil, humus, sand - 1:1:1.
Optimal acidity is pH 6.0 - 7.5. When planting in acidic soil, liming is necessary: ​​300-400 g of slaked lime per bush.
Care Guide
In the first 2-3 years, it is necessary to cover it with spruce branches for the winter. Requires pruning of undeveloped shoots. Old bushes are thinned out in the spring. When constructing hedges, pruning is carried out in the second year after planting, cutting off from 1/2 to 2/3 of the above-ground part. In subsequent years, pruning is carried out 2 times a year: in the first half of June and in early August.
Plant in sunny, sheltered areas and well-drained soils. It withstands haircuts and anti-aging pruning well when planted on a stump. Restores well with increased decorativeness. Sanitary pruning consists in the annual removal of weak and frozen shoots.
Pest protection:

• Moth

Protection against diseases:

• Powdery mildew
• Rust

Used
It is used as a tapeworm on the lawn, in group plantings and mixed with perennials, in tree and shrub compositions, for lining taller shrubs, in free-growing hedges and borders.

Preferences and agricultural technology.
The main thing that interests us in Thunberg barberry varieties is their winter hardiness. Although the variation in this trait is quite large, none of the varieties in middle lane does not freeze even in harsh winters. The green-leaved, non-dwarf varieties (Erekta, Green Carpet, Green Ornament, etc.) seem to have the greatest stability; all the old ones (Atropurpurea, Atropurpurea Nana, Aurea) are very stable; of course, the natural form has no competition.

Site selection, soil preparation and planting. Most varieties are not critical to the choice of location. But there are also sissies for whom you give a place to order. You can, of course, simply not mess with them, but personally, I put appearance first. With age (and this is the rule with almost no exceptions), plants become hardened, and sometimes become completely established. All other things being equal, it will be better for barberry if it is planted in a place that is completely open to the sun, but protected from cold winds (southern and western slopes in their upper part are good), on light, deeply drained soil. I note that a good location outshines in its importance everything else, and certainly the dry-loving barberry cannot survive in the swamp.

If the soil at the selected location has a heavy, low-permeability structure, then it is recommended to prepare the planting substrate specially. An option could be a mixture of turf soil, humus and sand in a ratio of 2:1:1. When planting they dig planting pits depth and diameter of about half a meter, filled with prepared substrate.

Care.
Barberries should not be watered frequently and should not be fertilized abundantly. Watering is indicated only during prolonged drought. The rest of the time there is quite enough natural precipitation. By the way, to delay them, you should make tree-trunk holes. It is advisable to water the watering itself with non-cold water without irrigating the crown - at the root. During a short drought, it is useful to loosen the base of the bushes shallowly.

It makes sense to apply the main fertilizer under shallow digging of the trunk circle once a year. spring period. In this capacity, you can use well-decomposed humus, compost or other organic matter. In autumn, it makes sense to mulch the tree trunk circles with loose materials: peat, loose compost, etc.

Most Thunberg barberry cultivars practically do not require pruning. The main reason for this is usually freezing of the ends of the shoots. The effects of frost should be eliminated after the development of young leaves, when the damage becomes visible. Some varieties with loose crowns can be gradually shaped by shortening far-protruding shoots.

IN different gardens and from different angles.
Traditional front garden. An ordinary front garden, without any threat of overload, can accommodate several varieties of Thunberg barberry at once. They can be arranged in single inclusions in dense groups, in the form of ribbons of different lengths.

Rocky garden. Rocks cannot help but suit mountain plants. Thunberg's barberry can handle all types of rocky gardens, from an alpine hill to a mountain slope or a solid-sized flat rock garden. Of course, the outline and size of the plant must correspond to the scale of the composition. Eg, alpine slide Only the shortest and densest ones are more suitable.

Shrub mixborder. In fact, it is a variegated mixture of shrubs of different habitus, selected according to the principle of mutual compatibility. Usually the mixborder is stretched along the wall of a house or path. They can cover a blank fence, in which case the background is more or less tall bushes and conifers, and barberry varieties are given middle and near positions.

Kindergarten “like Japan”. IN Japanese gardens You can often see small-leaved azaleas formed in the form of dense pillows - Karikomi. In our conditions, this role can be entrusted to Thunberg’s barberry. For this, first of all, varieties with initially dense, squat crowns are suitable: Kobold, Green Carpet, Atropurpurea Nana. However, it is not forbidden to form any varieties, even columnar ones. In this case, shearing should begin early, by shortening the shoots, which encourages the plants to tiller. Each subsequent haircut is indented, which further increases the density of the crown.

Edge. More or less large shrubs and trees look better if their bases are lined with lower plants. Shrubs with dense and squat crowns are especially attractive as edges. There are quite a few of these in the Thunberg barberry, for example: Aurea, Atropurpurea, Atropurpurea Nana, Kornik, Golden Ring, Green Carpet, etc.

Border and hedge. Varieties with dense compact crowns are especially attractive as border plants: Atropurpurea Nana, Admiration, Bonanza Gold, Kobold, etc. Low (about 80cm) hedges, on the contrary, are good with vertically growing barberries: Red Pillar, Red Rocket, Helmond Pillar, Maria, etc. The hedge looks more impressive if it is cut from the sides, forming more or less flat edges, and the tops are given complete freedom. In this case, purple cultivars look especially attractive.

Group. A small, isolated composition of bushes with a number characters from three to several can look extremely impressive if built on the principle of contrast of shape and color. It differs from the mixborder in its smaller size and visibility from all sides. Alternatively, it could be a conifer with a pyramidal crown (Thuja Smaragd), planted on all sides with squat, multi-colored Thunberg barberries.

A small shrub that creates an incredibly beautiful green Persian carpet.

Crown diameter of an adult plant (m): 1.5

Height of an adult plant (m): 1

Description

Barberry thunberg "Green Carpet" is small bush, creating a beautiful green “Persian” carpet. But be careful: beware of thorns!

Tolerates urban conditions well.

Resistant to diseases and pests.

It looks impressive as a tapeworm on the lawn, in group plantings and mixed with perennials, in tree and shrub compositions, serves for lining taller shrubs, and is planted in free-growing hedges and borders.

Crown

Dense, with drooping spreading shoots and large annual growths. The bush is wide, flattened.

Needles/Foliage

The leaves are small, light green in summer, turning orange-yellow in autumn.

When planted in the shade they lose color.

The spines are tripartite.

Bark

Brown-yellow.

Bloom

The flowers are solitary or collected in inflorescences of 2-5 pieces, yellow inside, red outside. Located throughout the shoot.

Flowering time

May June,

Fruit

The fruits are oblong, shiny, numerous, pink or red.

Ripen in September. They decorate the bush after the leaves fall, sometimes remaining on it all winter.

Requirements

Barberry thunberg Green Carpet is light-loving, but tolerates partial shade. Drought and heat resistant. Planting in sheltered areas and well-drained soils. It is undemanding to soil fertility. Loves alkaline soils.

Landing

Plant in open areas or in partial shade. Plant in a mixture of: turf soil, humus, sand - 1:1:1. Optimal acidity is pH 6.0 - 7.5. When planting in acidic soil, liming is necessary: ​​300-400 g of slaked lime per bush.

Root collar at ground level.

Care

Requires pruning of undeveloped shoots. Old bushes are thinned out in the spring.

When constructing hedges, pruning is carried out in the second year after planting, cutting off from 1/2 to 2/3 of the above-ground part. In subsequent years, pruning is carried out 2 times a year: in the first half of June and in early August.

It withstands haircuts and anti-aging pruning well when planted on a stump. Restores well with increased decorativeness.

Does not tolerate stagnant moisture.

It is winter-hardy, but the tops of annual shoots may freeze. In the first 2-3 years, it is necessary to cover it with spruce branches for the winter.

Pests: moth, aphid.

Diseases: powdery mildew, rust.

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