Ornamental shrubs whose photos weWe will present in this article, are often elements that harmonize the overall picture, as well as emphasizing the necessary nuances of the site so that it looks harmonious, bright and attractive. They are like brushstrokes on canvas that can properly dilute the necessary details of the flowerbeds, and place accents at certain places. Any gardener, summer resident, owner of a personal plot would like to do everything neatly and correctly so that fruit trees, vegetables, beds with greenery would be in their places.
Depending on the fantasy, the size of the plot andpreferences, ornamental shrubs (see photo in the article below) can become a backdrop for other plantations, an interesting element of various garden compositions, a hedge, and also act as a main attraction that attracts attention.
В данной статье мы рассмотрим самые популярные ornamental trees and shrubs planted in the suburban areas and in the territories of private houses. It is unrealistic to cover the whole range of these representatives of the vegetable kingdom, but it is worth paying your attention to the main flowering and decorative leafy trees.
Main placement criteria
The first is to choose ornamental trees and shrubs that will feel comfortable in the climate of your region. Select a particular variety should be precisely from this factor.
The next nuance is considered to be its location.So, if you buy a sun-representative, it should be planted in a sunny place, in which there will be a huge amount of light without hints of shadow. While shade-loving should be placed only in shaded areas, possibly in the shade of large trees or buildings. This is important because the wrong choice of location will affect the lush colors or the brightness of the foliage colors on the shrub, as well as its viability in general.
The overall picture of your garden also needs to be taken into account.choosing a specific plant (the most popular names for ornamental shrubs, we give in the article below). In a small area, lush and tall specimens will look out of place. At the same time, frost-resistant, flowering, beautiful, low bushes are ideal, in addition, you will be pleased with your appearance before the frost.
Flowering shrubs
Some ornamental flowering shrubs are also fruit. We will indicate this nuance in the description.
Chubushnik or jasmine
Well, how to do without him?Thanks to his charming aroma, almost everyone loves him and knows him. At the present moment you can find multiple hybrids and varieties of this ornamental shrub - all of them are incredibly attractive. They differ in shape, size, aroma and color of flowers. In our case, we are talking about a white-flowered representative - resistant to diseases, cold-resistant, unpretentious (it can be placed in a place lit by sunlight or in the shade).
Spirea
Spirea is very beautiful and very unpretentious.Varieties of this ornamental shrub can bloom in spring and summer. Moreover, if you correctly calculate the time, you can plant these 2 species so that one of them will first bloom, and the second one at that time will start to bloom. Some varieties have very beautiful foliage - Pink Ice, Wagnutta. For this reason, they are easy to attribute even to the ornamental deciduous plants.
Spirea blooms luxuriantly and abundantly, leaningliterally to the very earth with branches covered with white flowers. Slow-growing, low Japanese spirea blooms with purple-pink lush inflorescences. It is very attractive and serves as a honey plant.
Kalina
Калина – это и декоративный кустарник, и плодовый an instance. A unique plant in all senses: the berries are useful, are used widely as a medicine, beautifully blooms with white large spherical inflorescences. It also deserves attention foliage, the shade of which varies from bright green to red and golden.
Rosehip
Некоторые декоративные кустарники, способные grow in the country, in the recommendations and submission do not even need, an example of this - rosehip. It looks very attractive, useful in very many ways, your site will decorate in the spring, while it blooms with red or pink flowers, and also creates a reliable barbed barrier if you plant it along your fence. In a part of its varieties, flowers are not inferior to roses in their beauty, and varieties with red healing berries will give you a natural, natural “medicine”, whose valuable qualities are well known to many.
Lilac
Имеющая множество оттенков и цветов, душистая lilac! Without it, it is difficult to imagine a local area or a summer cottage, be it a multi-storey or private house. Lilac is a fairly large (up to two, three meters or more in height) shrub. But in a small area at least one bush can be planted. There are many different varieties of plants. Shrub unpretentious, resistant to cold, beautiful in itself.
Elderberry black
Черная бузина – декоративный кустарник или small tree The bush differs from others in its bark, which has a grayish-brown color. This plant is all covered with a huge amount of yellow little lentils. Opposite and long leaves have a rather complicated structure. All leaves consist of another 6 on average leaflets ovoid pointed.
Hydrangea
Существуют кустарники, цветущие и растущие в тех places where a huge number of others refuses to give color and develop. And if we consider such ornamental trees and shrubs, hydrangea is just such a plant. She prefers moist ground and shade. This frost-resistant shrub blooms lilac, snow-white, blue, pink, purple large "balls". If the flower is cut and put in a vase, it will stand for a very long time.
The ornamental shrub hydrangea is differentlong flowering, starting in July and ending in September. Some varieties bloom until October. This is a very non-capricious plant, and it feels good on sour soil. It is worth noting that most garden and flower representatives do not like him very much. It can be used in single plantings, while it looks very harmoniously together with clematis, rhododendrons, roses, lilies, various fern species, hosts.
Forsythia
Forsythia shrubs - you have the real “suns”Location on! It blooms in early spring with bells of bright yellow color, and the foliage appears on the shrub after the flowers fall. About three weeks lasts a lot of blooming. This is a very thermophilic representative who expresses his decorativeness as much as possible in warm regions of Russia. It looks great surrounded by various bulbous flowers or as a plant, planted separately. Suitable for creating hedges, while not like cold winds, drafts and wet grounds.
Daphne
We continue to look at ornamental trees andshrubs. The wolves belong to the Volchnikov family. It is an evergreen or deciduous shrub, widely known for its poisonous berries and its fragrant flowers.
Decorative leafy shrubs
This is another category of shrubs.Without them, no summer cottage. Tell about all the good copies will not work in one article, but we draw your attention to the most popular individual representatives. In most cases, ornamental deciduous shrubs do not require special care, their longevity is considered a separate plus. So, having once planted a bush, creating comfortable conditions for its existence, it will be possible to admire it for many years.
Japanese red maple
If you prefer a riot of red shades,plant on your site Japanese red maple. This shrub is distinguished by its volumetric crown; at first, its foliage has a saturated green color, and closer to autumn it gradually becomes orange, after which it turns into a carmine, bright red shade. The Japanese maple actually has a huge number of varieties, each of which has foliage color attractive in its own way. Aconitifolium variety - red-orange leaves, carmine-red - in Vitifolium, dark red, almost black-red leaves in Atropurpureum. They look great in every place of the site, prefer partial shade, perfectly harmonize with various coniferous representatives, hosts, ferns.
Rowanberry ryabinolistny
Mountain ash is very unpretentious, in bloombeautiful, growing rapidly, while its foliage deserves close attention. Openwork leaves of the plant have an unusual feature - the gradient, a smooth transition between shades. Red, orange, yellow, green, pinkish - these colors are smoothly mixed together on one single piece. It reminds from afar a bright bonfire, throughout the season a riot of colors is observed, especially closer to the autumn. It can be used in group plantings to hide ugly details of the landscape, it grows well in partial shade and in sunny areas. Fieldfare is not very picky about the ground, although nutritious, loose and moist soil is more preferable for it. Drought is not desirable for him.
Birch tree
Considering beautiful ornamental trees andshrubs, birch is not impossible to mention. These trees reach a height of 45 meters, although there are dwarf species up to 2 meters. Young branches are usually painted in a reddish-brown shade and covered with small "warts". On branches buds are alternately and covered with sufficiently sticky scales. Bright green small leaves with pronounced veins of triangular shape with two slightly rounded corners. They are dissected along the edges of the teeth. Young leaves of birch in spring are mostly sticky.
Bladder
This plant is interesting because it hascompletely different color foliage depending on a particular variety. This is a rather unyielding plant, but it will feel more comfortable on loose, slightly moist soil. It is actively used in landscape design: some varieties can be trimmed, thus giving them any shape, some of the varieties are used to create hedges or curbs. It is attractive and good in itself, as well as in the company of other representatives of garden plants.
Hawthorn
Also comes to mind ornamental shrubhawthorn, which has such a huge number of varieties that any gardener among them will be able to find a shrub to your liking. From it you can form all sorts of figures, while its fruits are healing, used in official and traditional medicine. And this is not all the different ornamental trees and shrubs.
Hawthorn in its "behavior" resembles something boxwood, looks great in the design of fences, in a single copy and group plantings.
Ornamental trees and shrubs: elm
This is a deciduous large tree, reaching 40meters in height. The diameter of the trunk can be up to 2 meters. In the genus there are species that grow in the form of shrubs. Their crown may be cylindrical, broad or spherical. Symphodial branching, in other words, the top of the axis (main branch) stops growing at a certain moment, its place being occupied by the lateral one growing in its direction. Thus, over time, a “ladder” is produced along the trunk of a tree.
Hedge
Это одна из наиболее популярных, излюбленных и interesting gardening "facilities". In the role of "building" material here are green spaces. Depending on the end result, a hedge can be made in the form of a low curb or a green high wall. You can choose any length or shape of the fence. It is worth noting that this is a creative activity, which gives almost always an excellent result. The green fence can hide the unsightly parts of the summer cottage (fencing, old fence), highlight some areas in the territory, and emphasize the rest of the design accents.
Juniper
This is one of the popular, favorite, convenient tocare and cutting plants for decoration fences. He prefers sunlight, is resistant to cold and drought, but it must be protected from too wet soil. It should not be planted if on your site mainly clay soil prevails. Bushes are seated from each other at a distance of about 70 cm, twice a year, produce a haircut. It is worth remembering that juniper grows quite quickly.
Hop
Hop is a winding vine and at the same timebush. It is frost-resistant, unpretentious, prefers the moistened soil, does not need frequent adjustment. The plant forms medium sized nubs, adding the beauty of bright green dense foliage. He needs a strong and reliable garter and support.
Turn
The sloe (blackthorn) reaches a height of 2 meters,blooms white, densely arranged flowers to each other, has numerous spikes. Planting the turn to create a hedge, you will need to fasten each bush, tie it to a peg. Thus you will set the shrub in the right direction, support it at first, then it will gain strength. After planting the first month, the seedlings should be watered regularly. Blackthorn grows very quickly, while giving blue saturated fruits - plums (slightly tart, tasty).
It is worth noting that it all depends on the availability offree time and your imagination. Always keep in mind that between tall shrubs need a lot of space. Also do not forget about the climatic features of the region, choosing plants.
Tips on planting and picking shrubs
Most often shrubs are planted in the fall tofrost or in early spring, as soon as buds begin to awaken in the trees, while the snow has already fallen. Pitches for planting in the spring while you need to cook in the fall - to make fertilizer, calculate the width and depth of the deepening for a particular type of shrub. Buy seedlings only in safe places - flower shops or special nurseries. Before planting, the plant can be held for several hours in water with a growth stimulator added to it.
In addition to the agrotechnical features of each individual species, you need to remember the elementary formulas:
- Plants of medium size should be planted one and a half meters from each other.
- Dwarf and low representatives are buried from each other at a distance of 60-80 cm.
- Tall specimens - not less than 2 meters.
Presented in this article decorativeShrubs are the most adapted and popular for our regions. Pick up green residents for your own color and taste, and let your site become more attractive and unique.
