Rowan is oak-leaved

Rowan is a beautiful tree that delights with its beauty and decorative qualities at absolutely any stage of its development, both during young foliage and during flowering with snow-white flowers and delightful colorful clusters of berries. Rowan oak-leaved is mentioned in a huge number of poems and songs. And it's not worth talking about the benefits that this tree brings. In this article, consider all the features of the oak-leaved mountain ash and how to grow it in your garden or in your personal plot.

With its excellent external data, mountain ash is nowadays quite actively used by landscape designers, plus all this tree has a fairly high level of endurance to severe frosts and dry periods, which, in turn, allows it to grow in regions with rather difficult and harsh climatic conditions.

Rowan is read quite common in cooking and folk medicine, since its fruits have a large amount of various minerals, vitamins and trace elements. And in ancient times, even magical abilities were attributed to this tree, believing that it could save the house and garden from the dark force. Its twigs were hung all over the house to protect themselves from the evil eye, and girls and women made beads from its fruits, this also served as a strong talisman, as they believed.

Rowan oak-leaved: variety description

Rowan Dubolistnaya: photo of the variety

This type of mountain ash is considered a representative of the pink family. This species appeared due to the crossing of ordinary mountain ash and powdery mountain ash. This mountain ash is capable of reaching a height of 12 meters. In the first years of life, this mountain ash has a pyramidal shape, after which the crown of the tree begins to become spherical, about 7 meters in diameter. This tree can live up to about 120 years. The foliage of this tree outwardly resembles the foliage of an oak in its highly dissected shape. The leaves on her top have a dark green tint, while below they are much lighter. The flowering period for this mountain ash occurs from the last days of May to mid-June. The color is given by a small mountain ash with white flowers, which are collected in corymbose inflorescences. The fruits of this tree are formed from the second half of September, they look like bright red berries, reaching a diameter of up to one centimeter.

The berries of this plant contain a large amount of tannin, as a result of which, when eaten fresh, these fruits have a bitter-tart taste. After the freezing procedure, this flavor becomes quite better, and the processed or dried berries are generally deprived of bitterness. Experienced gardeners advise planting two trees of this mountain ash on their site at once, so that there is a place for cross-pollination, and thereby a higher yield is achieved.

Rowan oak-leaved: planting

To achieve success in the growth and correct, good development of this tree, you need to plant it in sufficiently illuminated places. With a lack of sunlight, the mountain ash can stretch out strongly in length, and it is rather ugly, and thus not form a round head start on its crown. The fact of growing on sandy, peaty soils, as well as swampy and highly moistened soils, affects this tree in a rather negative, even destructive way. Therefore, you should choose a place for growing this mountain ash where there is no surface groundwater.

Planting rowan oakleaf is a fairly simple task that does not require much effort and cost. The best time for these actions is the autumn period, and it looks like this:

• A hole is dug in advance, about 60 by 60 centimeters in size, the depth will also be 60 centimeters. A layer of compost, 200 grams of superphosphate, 100 grams of potassium-based fertilizers are placed on its bottom, mixing these components with fertile soil.
• A seedling is placed in the middle of the hole and the root system is carefully straightened, sprinkled with soil in such a way that the root neck is flush with the ground.
• After this, abundant watering of the young tree and mulching of the near-trunk circle is required, for example, with dry grass, straw, or needles.

Rowan oak-leaved: care

Rowan Dubolistnaya: photo of the variety

Swedish mountain ash oakleaf is characterized as a completely undemanding plant. But for a greater decorative appearance, an abundant and lush flowering period, a good harvest of bright, beautiful and rather healing fruits, you should give this tree at least the required minimum of care and attention.

Watering, loosening and mulching procedures.

Young rowan trees are oak-leaved, only planted ones are required for more and regular watering. In order for the liquid to be able to linger near the plant's near-stem circle, it is required to make bumpers from the soil along the edges of this near-stem circle. It will be great if, after each watering procedure, you loosen, only shallowly, and also mulch with straw or dry grass. Removing weeds is considered a prerequisite. When the tree reaches adulthood, it will have enough liquid falling out in the form of precipitation, only if it is not a rather long dry and hot summer period.

Top dressing.

After three seasons of the life of the oak-leaved mountain ash, it should begin to be fed. This is done in this way:

• In the spring, before flowering, 15 grams of potassium-based fertilizers, 20 grams of nitrogen-based fertilizers, 25 grams of phosphorus-based fertilizers are applied, and for each individual mountain ash.
• In the summer, the following composition is used for feeding: 15 grams of nitrogen, 10 grams of phosphorus and 10 grams of potash fertilizers.
• In the period after harvest, top dressing should be done based on 10 grams of potash and phosphorus fertilizers.

Fertilizers are applied in such ways: they are buried to a depth of about 15 centimeters, they are poured over the soil, scattered around the root circle.

Pruning.

In general, Swedish mountain ash does not need pruning. Only sanitary pruning is required immediately after the winter period of the year, at this moment damaged, and even frozen tree branches should be removed. But if it is required to maintain a certain and desired shape for greater decorativeness, then the pruning procedure is done in early spring, even before the buds swell on the tree. You should also trim off stems that grow at an acute angle to the trunk of the tree so that they do not interfere with the development of properly growing branches.

Reproduction.

Swedish mountain ash oak-leaved has several methods of reproduction, these are: grafts, seeds, cuttings, layering and root suckers. The most commonly used method is using root suckers, as it is considered the easiest way. To do this, in the spring, one of the lateral offspring is dug up together with the root, carefully separated from the central tree and then planted in a new place of growth, according to the principle indicated above. The root cuttings method is considered a little more difficult. In the last days of May, a lateral root is dug out, carefully separated together with small root shoots and, under a slope, buried in nutritious and loose soil, with a cut upwards, and so that this cut is at ground level. This slice must be sprinkled with crushed activated carbon.Another not intricate method of propagation is cuttings; rooting of cuttings is up to 60 percent of all attempts. The most difficult and time-consuming method is the seed method. Before sowing, the seeds should be soaked for 4 hours, and after sowing the seeds, the beds should be covered with a rather thick layer of mulch, which is fallen leaves. With the arrival of spring, the shelter is dismantled. After that, seedlings will begin to emerge, which by the beginning of the autumn period will already grow up and gain strength, after which they can already be planted in a permanent place of growth.

Wintering.

Rowan oak-leaved is considered to be quite hardy to severe frosts and can safely endure frosts at -35 degrees. Therefore, in those areas of our country where the weather conditions are not very difficult and difficult, you can do without warming this tree for the winter. But if the tree is young enough and not strong enough, as well as with the likelihood of very severe frosts, it is required to make a shelter for the tree. To do this, sprinkle the mountain ash with dry soil in late autumn, and cover it with a layer of dry foliage, about 10 centimeters thick, or cover it with coniferous branches. The top of the oak-leaved mountain ash is not insulated.

Diseases and pests.

Swedish mountain ash is characterized by a good level of immunity to various diseases and infections. But the mountain ash moth is considered to be more dangerous and common pests of this tree. To avoid this misfortune, the mountain ash is treated with insecticides, such as Actellik or Fufanon, at the time before bud break and after the flowering period immediately.

Rowan oak-leaved: application

Rowan Dubolistnaya: photo of the variety

The fruits of this mountain ash contain a huge amount of various vitamins and pectins, as well as organic acids and sugar. Due to this composition, the berries of this tree are considered a rather valuable and important product that is included in the recipe of a large amount in traditional medicine. Also, the fruits of mountain ash are compared with black currants and lemon in terms of the level of vitamin C, because it is enough to consume only one bunch of this mountain ash per day to reach the daily requirement. The berries of this tree are endowed with such healing properties as: disinfectant, diuretic, tonic. Eating them lowers the bad cholesterol, strengthens the vascular system, improves the general condition with hemorrhoids, gastritis, as well as lowering the acidity level in the stomach. Not only the fruits, but also the foliage of this tree is the owner of disinfecting properties. If you carry out such an experience, and lower a fresh, young branch of mountain ash into a spoiled and rotten liquid, then this water will be cleaned quite well and, as a result, will acquire qualities suitable for drinking. Also, the leaves of this mountain ash are used to store various vegetables, for this they are laid out between the vegetables. This will help prevent these vegetables from rotting. Rowan fruits are also actively used in the preparation of rather healthy and very tasty desserts, jams, jellies, juices, jam, and even tinctures. They are ground together with sugar, dried, frozen to keep for the winter.

Pros of mountain ash oakleaf

This beautiful tree has a large number of advantages and benefits, thanks to which rowan has become widespread and loved by landscape designers and gardeners. Here are its main advantages:

• Undemanding to care and to the composition of the soil.
• High level of resistance to bad weather conditions and harsh climates.
• It has a good level of immunity to fungal diseases.
• Regardless of the degree of development of the tree, it has high decorative characteristics.
• A large number of valuable and useful substances stored in the berries of this mountain ash, which are widely used in folk medicine.
• The fruits of this tree are also actively used in the preparation of various dishes, desserts, and drinks.
• Disinfecting properties of the foliage of this tree. They are great for preserving different vegetables for the winter season and for cleansing unusable liquids.

Rowan oak-leaved in landscape design

Often, the type of oak-leaved mountain ash is planted on the not very convenient slopes of ravines, in order to fix the soil. Together with this tree, pine and spruce, ash, fir and linden will look quite beautiful and interesting. Rowan oak-leaved can perfectly decorate parks, squares and gardens, both in single and in group planting. Near this beautiful tree, barberry, viburnum, rose, honeysuckle and spirea grow wonderfully. The Swedish mountain ash is quite widespread in the form of a hedge, and also participates in the greening of various cities, it grows mainly along the sides of roads. But due to the gas pollution of the air in big cities, the effect of various kinds of reagents that are used in the winter season on the roads to prevent slipping, the life of the oak-leaved mountain ash is sharply reduced by about 20 years.