Tuya Miriam (Mirjam) western - description
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Many people want to use a beautiful and original plant for garden design. This is exactly what the thuja western Miriam is. This perennial shrub with an unusual color of needles does not require difficult maintenance and can be an impressive decoration of the landscape.
Tuya Miriam: description and dimensions
Thuja western Miriam is widely known in Europe. This plant was obtained from the Danica variety.
The Miriam variety is an evergreen plant. It is a small shrub. The shape of the crown resembles a ball.
According to the description of thuja Miriam, the needles of this plant are tender and dense, in summer they have a golden-green hue, in winter they acquire a greenish-orange color with a bronze tint. This shrub is actively used in landscape design.
Tuya Miriam
How fast it grows
This plant grows slowly, the annual growth of shoots does not exceed 10 cm.The maximum height to which the western thuja Miriam grows, as it is also called in Russia, is 80 cm.
Planting and caring for thuja Miriam
This plant is unpretentious and does not require special care. However, if you do not provide him with suitable conditions for growth, then his appearance will become less effective.
How to plant thuja Miriam
When planting thuja western Miriam, it is recommended to choose a place well-lit by the sun. It is allowed to plant a shrub with light shading, but it should be insignificant, otherwise the thuja will grow poorly, while the crown will become loose, and the needles dimmer.
Although the plant is unpretentious when choosing a soil, nevertheless, if it is from useful components, then this will help thuya Miriam develop better. It is recommended to use a well-breathable, loose, moderately moist, slightly acidic soil. The use of waterlogged soil is not allowed, as this can cause rotting of the roots.
Thuja can easily tolerate a slight increase in moisture or dryness of the soil. A suitable acidity level should be 4.5-5.5 pH.
Tuya Miriam is able to easily withstand winter conditions. She freely tolerates frost, which does not exceed -34 ° С. Therefore, it can be grown, for example, in the suburbs.
Thuja Miriam is planted in May or September. Clay or peaty soil is good for her. You can prepare a suitable soil yourself. This will require:
- one piece of sand;
- two parts of sod or leafy land;
- one part of peat.
Stir this composition before use.
When planting a seedling in the ground, top dressing is applied in the form of a complex mineral fertilizer or nitroammofoska. In the first case, it is necessary to take 5 g for each liter of soil, and in the second, 100 g of the composition will need to be used for each plant.
If the planting was carried out in an area where groundwater is located close to the surface, then a drainage layer must be provided. To make it, broken brick, gravel or expanded clay is placed at the bottom of the seedling pit.
Mulching the soil around the shrub
It is recommended to dig holes for seedlings (60-80 cm deep) two weeks before planting. The volume should be such that the root system of the plant fits together with a lump of earth. After planting the seedling, it must be watered, and the trunk circle must be mulched.This can be done with peat or wood chips.
Watering mode
Water the plant regularly immediately after planting. This should be done in normal weather at least once every seven days. Each seedling will require about a bucket of water. If the weather is hot, it is recommended to double the watering frequency. In this case, each time it will be necessary to use two buckets of water.
When caring for an adult plant, the need for watering arises provided that the top 2 cm of the soil is completely dry.
You will also need soil mulching. This will allow the soil to stay moist longer after watering. To achieve this, you need to sprinkle the soil around the bush with dry compost, peat or bark.
To support the development of thuja Miriam, it will be helpful to spray with any stimulating solution. In this capacity, you can, for example, use an epin. Dilute one ampoule to 5 liters of water. If zircon is used, then for each bucket of water you need to take 1 ml of the substance.
Top dressing
The plant must be fed during the spring. From the beginning of April to the end of May, it is worth giving tue Miriam any of the complex fertilizers. In particular, for this purpose, you can use a nitroammophoska (it is enough to take 30-40 g of fertilizer per 1 m² m). If we use a wagon-kemiru, then it will take 50-60 g for the same area.
It is also necessary to carry out autumn feeding. For this, potash fertilizers are used.
Features of summer care
Weeds need to be weeded regularly. It is recommended to periodically loosen the earth to a depth of 8 cm.
When watering, it is important to moisten not only the soil, but also the crown. This is due to the fact that the liquid evaporates from there especially quickly.
Preparing thuja Miriam for winter
Mulching must be carried out before the onset of the winter period. For this, mowed grass, peat, bark are used.
Bushes are pulled together with tape or twine. To protect against frost, it is worth covering Miriam's thuja with spruce branches. As a covering material, you can use a film that will help protect the bush from wet snow.
Reproduction of thuja Miriam
You can propagate this plant:
- seeds;
- layering;
- twigs;
- cuttings.
Thuja cuttings
The latter is the most commonly used option.
Propagation by cuttings
To use cuttings, you need to do the following:
- In July-August, the source material is procured. To do this, you need to cut off semi-lignified cuttings. It is worth making sure that their size does not exceed 40 cm, and in young shoots - 20 cm. You need to cut it off together with the heel.
- The lower leaves of the cuttings are torn off and moistened in a growth stimulator (for example, in epine), then their ends are placed in a wet mixture of sand and peat.
- Landing is performed at an angle of 60 °. The cuttings are buried by 2-3 cm. They are covered with a film. The best temperature for their development is 23 ° C.
- The seedlings should be regularly ventilated. As the soil dries, it is necessary to add water. It is best to water with a spray bottle.
When the root system develops and strengthens, the cuttings will be ready for planting in open ground.
Why does thuja Miriam turn yellow
If the foliage begins to turn yellow, then there may be several possible reasons:
- if thuya Miriam does not receive iron in sufficient quantities, then as a result, yellow, brown or brown spots may appear on the foliage;
- with an excess or lack of sunlight;
- if there is too much moisture in the soil or insufficient watering;
- sometimes thuja Miriam grows too densely. This can also lead to a change in its color. In this case, the lower branches of the shrub turn yellow, as well as those that come into contact with other plants.
Application in design
When yellow spots appear on the leaves, you need to establish the cause and eliminate it.However, sometimes this appears when the tree drops old needles. This does not happen every year. Usually the gap is 3-6 years. In this case, yellowing does not indicate any problems.
Thuja Mirjam is a dwarf shrub with a spherical crown and leaves of unique color. Its cultivation does not require much effort and at the same time allows you to get a beautiful, original and stylish plant on the site.
