And so meet - maple Flamingo.
I need a shadow in a large mixborder (I have a few, though a small plot), because the garden is young and therefore the skeleton of the garden has not grown up - so I decided to pick up some tall tree in the center, but not to grow to 20 meters in height. Already later the idea came - to put a bench under it and admire the newly created rosary - at a subconscious level it turned out that everything is planned correctly and the view is beautiful.
I read a lot, studied agrotechnics, of course the size of the tree was important - the main height, stopped on a maple, and not ordinary, but the Flamingo was ash tree. It grows fast enough, an annual increase of 50 cm to me it was and is necessary not to wait 10 years, but too high, too, will not be ... 5 meters, so it is often planted in gardens, it will look great in a company with coniferous, green color will be a good background - you need not forget to observe the course of the distance when landing. Flamingos have very beautiful leaves in shape and color, there is pink, white and yellowish depending on the season, and pink color is only in young leaves, so I pin it so that it always was beautiful.
Planting: my soil is loamy, when I plant it makes a mixture - land, sand and peat in equal proportions, I also recommend making drainage and avoiding landing in full sun, or the leaves will burn.
Care: if the tree is young, then for the winter it should be covered with a layer of spandbond, I take a density of 60 and pour the roots with peat layer of 5-7 cm.
In the spring we perform pruning - remove the damaged branches, give it a shape and slightly remove the growth, so that it was more magnificent.
It has one drawback - the branches are fragile and can break under the gusts of the wind, while the young one is recommended to tie it up.
According to reviews, that at that time I found on the Internet it was that it was very frosty, as I can not yet say, the first winter I experienced well. but I hid it, now it's grown.
It can be formed in the form of a bush, a tree, it will look very beautiful on the stem.
Photos from personal archive.
Sincerely, Feyacvetov.