We raise lilacs: diseases of the bush

Lilac is a decorative tree with many branches. She drops her ovoid leaves with a pointed tip for the winter. You can meet varieties of lilac, having dissected foliage of the pinnate form. And the foliage keeps on such lilacs till the very late autumn. During the flowering period of the lilac, all the space around the bush is filled with a stunning scent. Its small, enclosed in the inflorescence of a paniculate form, flowers pleasing the eye and cause genuine aesthetic pleasure. Selective works allowed modern lilacs to have not only a lilac color, but also blue, and yellow, pink and purple.

How to grow lilacs?

Like any plant, the lilac of disease is subject to its preferences and manifests its character. This shrub prefers to settle in open, but sheltered from winds places. Like lilacs wetlands or lands flooded with water in spring and autumn. However, the soil she loves with moderate moisture, neutral and weakly acid, but high fertility. Plant shrubs from the end of July and the beginning of autumn, in the evening or in cloudy weather.

Lilac: Diseases and Care

Immediately after planting the bush it is abundantly watered and mulched with peat or humus. During the season the soil around it should be loosened several times. Nitrogen fertilizer can be introduced only in the second year of life of the lilac, and phosphoric and potash fertilizers - in the autumn, once every three years. Organic is extremely effective. While the shoots are blooming, the bush is watered abundantly, and in summer it is required to water the lilac only in very hot days. Pruning is done to ensure that the flowering of the bush is maximally abundant. In the beginning of spring it is necessary to make thinning and sanitary pruning.

The lilac of the disease is exposed as a result of the invasion of several species of parasites: moth lilac, lilac sorceress, moth-doves. She also has such diseases as kidney blight and bacterial decay. But it is worthwhile to say that the lilac of disease and pest attacks are extremely rare. And this should please the fans of the plant.

Consider several types of lilac disease. Photo lilac moth shows that she prefers foliage bushes. In the beginning, the leaves are covered with brown spots - mines, then curled into tubules and dry up, and the bush becomes like burnt. In the next season, it does not bloom. The middle of May is the time for the appearance of butterflies, and in the first days of June they begin laying eggs on the lower sides of the leaves along the veins. After 10 days, caterpillars appear and settle into the flesh of the leaves. In the second half of July caterpillars rush to the ground, and after 18 days butterflies appear. The second generation of pupae hibernates in the earth. Deep digging around the bush late in the fall with overturning of layers will save the bush from pests. The affected leaves are naturally burned.

The following pests and diseases of the lilac are bacterial necrosis. The carriers are insects that come from water during irrigation, through injuries or planting material. Attributes: gray leaflets and brown shoots. First, the disease affects the leaves and upper shoots, then falls down. It is possible to struggle only with its technical side - to clean and burn the affected leaves or parts of the plant. If the bush is damaged rather severely, it is uprooted and burned.