Ornamental wine care: planting & cutting

Numerous historic houses are admired for their beautiful plant-based facade decoration in autumn. Ornamental wine is responsible for this and could also decorate your facade:

Which ornamental wine should it be?

The grapevine family (Vitaceae) includes around 700 species that grow in varying concentrations all over the world. The grapevine plants are in turn subdivided into subfamilies, of which three genera produce species that are traded as ornamental plants and which you might encounter as ornamental wine. These are the grapevines (Vitis), the virgin vines (Parthenocissus) and the dummy vines (Ampelopsis). There are significant differences between the varieties. B. Adhesive disks, others not.
If you have a Ornamental wine want to plant, the selection of the right variety for the intended purpose is therefore almost more important than all thoughts about care and pruning. In addition to the type of climbing and the adhesive strength, there are other arguments for or against one or the other ornamental wine. Some species can grow very high, others do not grow taller than 3 or 4 meters, some spread over the facade, others seek the

straight way up. There are species that develop stems of considerable diameter, while others develop one Trellis better adjust. Some ornamental wines can suffer from harsh winters, and last but not least, a decision has to be made as to whether grapes should be harvested.

Plant ornamental wine

When the right ornamental wine is found, the rest of the treatment is no longer very problematic. All types of ornamental wine are quite united in their needs: They feel comfortable in a water-permeable, preferably loamy soil that has alkaline or neutral pH values. Ornamental wine tolerates shade and sun, if you have chosen a fruit-bearing species, a location on a south side or south-east side helps to produce an abundant harvest. The autumn color can also be a little more splendid in a very sunny location.
Ornamental wine can be planted at any time between late autumn and spring when the temperatures are mild enough, the earth temperature must of course not be in the frost range. If you plant the ornamental wine on the wall of a house, you are usually dealing with soil that is not very rich in nutrients, which should therefore be prepared for the planting of the ornamental wine. You raise a big one

Plant hole (at least 50 x 50 x 50 cm) and fill it with well-moist loam within this area Now the planting pit is created for the ornamental wine, which is best planted as well-rooted pot products should.
If the wine is planted on the wall of the house, you should keep a distance of about 50 cm and insert the stick at a slight angle to the wall of the house, where the plant is then directed. So you can remove the wine including the trellis when working on the facade and place it on the floor. If in doubt, give the roots a little more space when planting and sprinkle very carefully the soil above, the roots of the young plants are quite sensitive and should not be damaged will. After that, you can rake in some mature compost on the surface, but it shouldn't come into contact with the roots, which could then burn.
If the Vine once it has really grown, it needs little maintenance. Usually it grows pretty much all by itself if it is to be given a nutrient-poor location on a house wall, you could use a soil survey to find out what the nutrient supply is like is. A lack of nutrients can cause poor growth, and then the vines will be happy about monthly fertilization from May to July. A complete fertilizer with a high magnesium content is recommended for the ornamental wine, which works the fastest when it is applied in liquid form.

Cutting of ornamental wine

The young wine is educated from the beginning, the first year is about building a strong tribe. To do this, only a few strong side shoots are left during the growth phase, the others can simply be cut off. If a strong trunk has developed, you should continue to make sure that the ornamental wine does not develop too many side shoots in the first few years. You should be most of them, too

Take away grapes, the ornamental wine should now put as much strength as possible into the building growth. Pruning during the vegetation phase ensures that the wound is closed in good time before the winter dormancy. Once this “ground floor” of the cane has developed a sturdy trunk about one centimeter thick, start the winter pruning in February or March:

• You cut the woody shoot back to the desired stem height, around one meter is recommended.
• He will now develop side shoots in turn, from which you can choose two shoots from the lowest eyes at the level of the first crossbar or the first horizontal rope of the climbing frame grow.
• These are allowed to stand and grow straight, all other shoots are cut off. These two shoots build the first floor, they will be on the side branches of the next spring Trellis placed.
• Only when the ornamental wine has filled this first floor with heavy vegetation fairly well do you build a second floor just like the first, and so on.
• Overall, the more the ornamental wine is cut back, the more it will grow, but the berries will become fewer.

Some advantages of a facade greening with ornamental wine only affect the facade, e.g. B. the aspect of additional thermal insulation and that the facade remains dry. You can also use other advantages of designing with climbing plants on the balcony or in the garden: Ornamental wine can provide privacy and reduce noise, bind dust and cool when it is hot. Ornamental wine has a positive effect on the mind. Also on that balcony you can harvest grapes. Or you can pull the decorative wine in the bucket on the terrace, where it serves all these purposes on a trellis, but can also create artistic figures on the trellis.