Planting in sunny and damp places. Blood-red dogwood tolerates partial shade.

Any soil except very acidic and poor sandy soil does not tolerate salinity. It develops better in fertile and moist areas, although it is drought-resistant.

Derain is propagated vegetatively (cuttings), root layering and seeds. Derain can be propagated by root and lignified cuttings (in spring), but it is better propagated by green cuttings (cuttings are carried out in the first half of June).

Red dogwood, also called blood-red dogwood, grows in deciduous and light-colored undergrowth, as well as in bush thickets. It can often be found along the banks of rivers and lakes located in the European zone of our country, in an area stretching from the Baltic states to the very lower reaches of the Don.

Derain care

Blood red dogwood is quite unpretentious. It prefers slightly darkened or light areas. Any soil is suitable for this plant. It grows well not only in wet, but also in dry soils. Red dogwood, the photo of which shows the reader all the brightness of its color, is drought-resistant and tolerates heat well. In addition, it is moderately winter-hardy. Svidina is planted on any soil, but always very moist. This plant does not need feeding, although in the summer months it requires treatment with anti-aphid preparations.

Kinds

One of the varieties of red turf - the Compressa variety - has small wrinkled

glossy leaves that look great on upward growing shoots. The crown of this plant species is compact. It is shade-tolerant, but grows well in semi-shaded alkaline or neutral soils. "Compressa" does not tolerate stagnant water and has good winter-hardy and frost-resistant qualities. Gardeners use this plant for planting in alpine hills and rockeries; in addition, it looks great and

foreground in front of low groups of shrubs and unshaped low

Another variety - "Midwinter Fier" - catches the eye with its spreading crown, red and orange shoots. Its branches reach a height of one and a half meters. “Midwinter Fier” looks especially impressive in late autumn or early spring. And although the bush grows quite slowly, it is frost-resistant and unpretentious. In addition, red derain easily tolerates the conditions of an urban environment. Experts recommend periodically trimming the lower shoots, as well as outdated and dull shoots, so that the bushes are uniform in color and neat. This variety is used to create edge plantings and hedges.

Red dogwood "Variegata" grows up to four meters, has bright variegated yellow leaves and dark burgundy shoots. It is grown, as a rule, on the edges of large gardens and in undergrowth.

The favorites in our climate have become white derain (C. alba), blood red derain (C. sanguinea) And sucker turf (C. stolonifera). The variety of their varieties and forms in size, color of bark and foliage is surprisingly great.

The bark is bright only on young branches; with age it fades greatly. To admire the “rainbow” every year, you need to stimulate the growth of new shoots. The easiest way is annual heavy pruning in the spring, when only stumps about 10 cm high are left. This will provoke the growth of strong, bright branches up to a meter long.

In most forms and varieties of wood, the shoots are most brightly colored on the illuminated side. Therefore, when planning plantings, you need to take into account the location of the view point.

The variety of derains is not limited to varieties with colored bark - there are many decorative deciduous cultivars. The most popular are white-variegated forms and varieties. In the garden, they turn into spectacular light green “lanterns”, making the area sunny even in cloudy weather. There are also cultivars with yellow foliage. Many white-variegated varieties retain their color even when grown in the shade - this is quite rare for variegated woody plants. In autumn, the bushes are painted in orange, red-brown and purple tones, against which clusters of whitish-blue fruits stand out effectively (for example, in the white tree tree).

Decorative forms and varieties of derain

Derain sucker (Cornus stolonifera) - young shoots are dark red:

• "Baileyi" - does not produce offspring, up to 3 m tall, young shoots are red-brown, foliage is green, in autumn - red-purple;
• "Elongata" - 2-2.5 m in height, young shoots are green, leaves are long, narrow, bright green;
• "Flaviramea" - up to 2 m in height, young shoots are bright green-yellow, dark green on top;
• "Isanti" - up to 1 m in height, young shoots are bright red, foliage is dark green, red-purple in autumn;
• "Kelseyi" (="Nana") - up to 0.5 in height, young shoots - bright red, foliage - light green;
• "Nitida" - up to 2.5-3 m in height, young shoots - bright green, foliage - green;
• "Sunshine" - up to 2 in height, young shoots are green-yellow, leaves have an uneven wide golden border.

Derain white (Cornus alba) - young shoots are bright red:

• "Alleman's Compact" - up to 1.5 in height, young shoots are red, foliage is rich green;
• "Argenteo-marginata" - up to 3 in height, young shoots are red-burgundy; green leaves with an uneven wide white (“Elegantissima”) leaf border, white spots and stripes. In the shade, retains a white-variegated color;
• "Atrosanguinea" - up to 1-1.5 m in height, young shoots are crimson, green leaves;
• "Aurea" - up to 1.5-2 m in height, young shoots are red. The leaves are wider than those of other varieties, when blooming they are pinkish-brown, then pale yellow, matte. They can turn red in the fall. They turn green in the shade;
• "Aurea Elegantissima" - up to 2 m in height, young shoots are red, leaves are yellow-variegated;
• "Behnschii" - up to 1.5-2 m in height, young shoots are red, leaves with small white and red spots;
• "Bloodgood" - 2-3 m in height, the brightest of the coral-red varieties, bright green in spring, darker in summer;
• "Budd's Yellow" - 1.5-2 in height, young shoots - bright olive-yellow color, leaves - green;
• "Cream Cracker" - 1-1.5 in height; young shoots - red-burgundy color, golden border on the leaves;
• "Gauchaultii" (="Froebelii") - 2-2.5 m in height, young shoots - dark blood-red color, leaves slightly drooping, with white, yellow and pink spots and a wide, uneven yellow border;
• "Ivory Halo" (="Bailhalo") - up to 1.5 m in height, young shoots are red, the leaves have a green center with a whitish border, a spherical crown;
• "Kernii" - up to 2 m in height, young shoots are red-burgundy in color, the leaves are covered with yellow spots;
• "Kesselringii" - up to 3 m tall, purple-black brown when blooming, later dark green. Autumn color is purple-red;
• "Sibirica" (="Splendens", "Koralle") - up to 1.5 in height, young shoots have a coral-red color, rounded leaves, bright green in spring, dark green in summer, purple or reddish in autumn;
• "Sibirica Red Gnom" - up to 1 m in height, young shoots - bright red; leaves - bright green in spring, darker in summer;
• "Sibirica Ruby" - up to 1.5 in height, young shoots - bright ruby-red color, leaves - bright green in spring, darker in summer, ovoid crown;
• "Sibirica Variegata" - up to 2 m in height, coral-red color of the shoots, the leaves have a slightly narrower white border than that of "Elegantissima", in the fall it turns purple-pink tones;
• "Spaethii" - up to 2 m in height, young shoots are dark red in color, the leaves have an uneven wide golden border, individual leaves are entirely yellow;
• "Westonbirt" - up to 1.5 m in height, young shoots - dark coral-pink like " Sibirica" color.

Derain blood red (Cornus sanguinea) - young shoots are orange-yellow:

• "Magic Flame" - up to 3 m in height, young shoots are orange and orange-red in color, large light green leaves;
• "Midwinter Fire" - 1.5-2 m, sometimes up to 3 m in height, young shoots - orange-red color, large light green leaves;
• "New Red" - up to 3 m in height, young shoots - reddish-orange color, large light green leaves;
• "Variegata" - 2-2.5 m in height, young shoots are greenish-brown in color, leaves with a creamy-white border and a dark green center, turn red in the sun;
• ""Winter Beauty"- 3-4 m in height, young shoots - yellow-orange in color, large light green leaves, in autumn - yellow-orange with a red tint, last longer than other varieties.

The genus includes approximately 50 species of derena, distributed in the Northern Hemisphere and only one species each in Africa and South America. As a rule, these are decorative deciduous, sometimes evergreen shrubs, sometimes trees, bright in the summer with their foliage and white flowers. In autumn, derens attract attention with white and blue fruits - drupes, burgundy or pink leaves.

They are no less spectacular in winter, with colored shoots (burgundy, bright red, yellow and green). The turf is frost-resistant, undemanding to the soil, and tolerates city conditions well. The turf is propagated by seeds, cuttings, and root suckers. Most types of derain are widely used in landscaping.

Derain white

It is one of the most common species in gardening. Under natural conditions, it is found in floodplains, among bushes throughout Russia, Korea, China, and Japan. Grows in the undergrowth of dark coniferous, sometimes swampy forests.

Derain white- a shrub 3 meters high, with flexible, thin, coral-red branches, sometimes black-red or red-brown. Young shoots with a bluish bloom. The leaves of the white tree are dark green, bluish-white underneath, somewhat wrinkled, broadly ovate, about 12 cm long, turning purple-red in autumn. The flowers are white, small, collected in corymbose inflorescences 5 cm in diameter. Flowering is lush in the first half of summer, and then again in the fall, when spherical, ripe, berry-like fruits of a snow-white color with a bluish tint can be seen immediately with the flowers. White derain begins to bloom and begin to bear fruit at the age of 2.

Heat-resistant, very winter-hardy, grows on different soils, shade-tolerant, tolerates urban conditions. Propagated by layering, seeds and cuttings. White turf is used to create edges, undergrowth, hedges and large groups. It can also be grown in standard form. If you do not trim the bush form, the bush begins to become bare at the bottom and does not look neat. Therefore, low pruning of old specimens in early spring makes the bush much more luxuriant. Young shoots appear very quickly.

White dogwood deserves the widest distribution in landscaping in the central and northern zones of Russia, not only for its frost resistance and its unpretentiousness, but also due to its high decorativeness. In summer, the beautiful foliage has a whitish-gray color, in autumn it is dark and red-violet; in summer, the foliage goes well with red shoots. White turf is especially decorative in winter against a background of snow and conifers. Looks great in single or group plantings. Very effective in the undergrowth of birch groups.

Decorative forms of white wood:

White Derain Elegantissima ("Elegantissima"). The height of the bush is about 3 m. This variety is very winter-hardy. Red shoots are very impressive, they are especially bright in winter. The leaves of the white Elegantissima tree have a creamy-white wide border of uneven width, as well as stripes and spots. It grows very quickly.

White dogwood Sibirika ("Sibirica"). A shrub whose height is 3 m, crown diameter is about 440 cm. It grows from April to October. White Siberian derain blooms and bears fruit every year. Flowering occurs at the end of May. The fruits ripen at the end of July before frost. Full winter hardiness.

White dogwood Sibirika Variegata ("Sibirica Variegata"). Shrub 2 meters tall, leaves with a creamy white wide border, stripes and spots. In autumn it also takes on very beautiful shades. During this period, a white border surrounds not the green, but the purple center of the leaf. In winter, the shoots of the white Sibirika Variegata tree have a bright, rich red bark color. Fruiting is weak.

Deren Kousa

China and Japan are considered the homeland. Derain Kouza is a tall deciduous shrub or tree about 9 meters in height. Its bracts look more elegant and graceful. In autumn the foliage color is bright red. Derain Kousa prefers light shade and acidic soil. Winter-hardy.

Derain red

It grows in the undergrowth of light mixed and deciduous forests, along the banks of lakes and rivers in the European zone of Russia, and in Western Europe.

Derain red is a deciduous shrub 4 meters tall, with a branched crown and drooping shoots of various colors. The leaves are bright green, rounded ovate, with small hairs, green or whitish below, blood red in autumn. Corymbose inflorescences are about 7 cm in diameter, fluffy, of 50 small, dull white flowers. Flowering duration is about 15-20 days. It looks very elegant in the fall with black, pea-sized fruits.

Derain red undemanding to soil, tolerates city conditions and drought well. He speaks well about the haircut. It is characterized by high winter hardiness and shade tolerance. In culture for a very long time.

Has decorative forms:

At the red tree Compress (Compressa) unusual small glossy leaves look beautiful on vertical shoots. The shrub is about 1.8 m tall, the crown width is about 2 m. Vertical, compact crown. The shoots are green-brown, slow-growing. Small leaves, glossy, wrinkled, dark green, the upper end of which is gracefully tucked towards the stem, with a reddish hue when falling off. Red dogwood Compress does not bloom. Shade-tolerant. Prefers well-drained, moderately moist soils. Does not tolerate stagnant moisture. Frost-resistant. Does not require fertilizing. Red dogwood Compress is used for planting in rockeries and alpine slides. Looks great in the foreground for low groups of shrubs and flower beds.

Derain sucker

Its homeland is North America. It grows together with other deciduous trees in humid forests, as well as in thickets of bushes along river banks.

This type of derain is close to white derain. It differs only in that it is capable of producing a large number of root shoots around the bush, and the shoots of “spreading” bushes are capable of coming into contact with the ground. Shrub 2.5 meters high, with red shiny shoots and green leaves.

Hanging long shoots take root very easily when they touch the ground. Blooms from 4 years of age. Inflorescences bloom in May with a diameter of about 5 cm with milky flowers. The fruits are bluish-white.

The sucker tree also has variegated forms and varieties:

Derain offspring Flaviramea (“Flaviramea”) is a wide, rounded shrub, 5 m high and 3 m wide, fast-growing. In winter and spring the bark is yellow, in summer it is yellow-green; Every few years you need to cut it back to the ground to restore color. The offspring tree Flaviramea has white umbrella-shaped inflorescences. Leaves: oval, pointed, green. The root system is stable, superficial, and produces suckers. Frost-resistant. The Flaviramea sprouting turf grows on moist soil and tolerates excess moisture.