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- Patience is required: The shoot at the ball-trumpet tree takes place very late
- Ball bugle tree often does not drive until May
- Water when dry in spring
- A shoot after a hard winter can be done later
- Cut back ball-trumpet tree after heavy frost
- Tips
The ball-trumpet tree usually drives out only in May
Patience is required: The shoot at the ball-trumpet tree takes place very late
The ball-trumpet tree, botanical Catalpa bignonioides, is created by the refinement of a conventional trumpet tree. In contrast to this, the ball-trumpet tree, however, has a naturally spherical crown, which in old age, however, can be quite wide. The large, heart-shaped leaves overlap and offer a very pretty sight - on which you often have to wait a long time in the spring, because with the ball-trumpet tree, the sprouting occurs only very late in the year.
Ball bugle tree often does not drive until May
Mockers like to call the ball-trumpet tree a "civil servant tree", after all, he would come late and leave early. In fact, the smaller version of the trumpet tree does not budge until May at the earliest, which can be quite frustrating at times when everything in the garden is green and blooming. For this Catalpa bignonioides loses its foliage the sooner and is usually bald again before the first frost.
Water when dry in spring
If the spring is very dry, the shoot can be further delayed. To avoid this, you should water the ball-trumpet tree regularly - after all, the wood has a fairly high water requirement. A need-based fertilization can stimulate the budding. In particular, ripe compost is very good.
A shoot after a hard winter can be done later
Although the ball-trumpet tree is also considered relatively frost-resistant in our latitudes, very cold winters with low temperatures make it very difficult.After such a spring discharge can be even longer than usual, and the appearing foliage can be smaller. If your ball-and-bugle tree does not make an attempt to drive off for an unusually long time, then a check of the signs of life makes sense: Many of these rather temperature-sensitive trees did not survive the German winter. For this purpose, scrape the bark down several places of the tree - especially at its strong branches and trunk - so that the living wood below appears. If the tree is frozen, the wood looks dried up.
Cut back ball-trumpet tree after heavy frost
After a long, harsh winter, pruning and reconstruction of the crown are often advisable. The shoots in the crown are severely cut back, but directly from the trunk waking branches are to be completely removed - these are outgrowths from the refining base.
Tips
If the tree has to be cut - as a result of severe frost or storm damage - always do so above the refining point.