Ornamental shrubs in the garden design : create compositions

availability on the site owner can touch up on the idea of ​​creating additional decorations.With this role perfectly cope ornamental shrubs - their use in landscape design will allow to realize the most daring and interesting ideas.

Where better to plant trees and shrubs, and what plants to choose for creating original compositions, will tell today "Dream House."

Ornamental shrubs

Shrubs on the site: principles of selecting the landing site

When choosing a place to remember three important points:

• first, shrubs perennial and they will live in the designated area for over ten years, somust immediately assess the extent of land occupied by plantations may be affected with further redevelopment;
• secondly, many "green" in the form of an ultimatum impose their demands on the natural conditions.They should bear in mind that the heart has not bled at the sight of the sun burning juniper or dying in a dull shade of forsythia.In addition, many varieties of ornamental shrubs can not tolerate dry and cold winds;
• third, little shrub, planted near the footpath, capable of in a few years become a serious impediment to navigate the site, that is, taking into account the need to have the size of an adult plant.

Orientation - North

Before planting the plants, capable of exceeding 1.5 m in height, it is necessary to take into account the intangible one, but an important aspect, namely the shadow they cast:

• Experts advise to plant low-growing ornamental shrubs on the south side of the garden, high - on the north.
• avoid problems with neighbors who may also need sunlight, trees should be planted at a distance of three meters from the fence and bushes - one and a half meters.
• Around the fence, and on the north side of the house you can plant shade-tolerant low shrubs for the garden.
• photophilous, which are flowering and fruiting plants should be placed so that they receive the rays of the afternoon.
• To facilitate the planning of planting it is advisable to make a rough "shadow" site map.At seedling determine the "south" side on which the branch is longer and thicker.If we combine the south section of purchased calves and south, bush settle down quickly.

Coniferous trees and shrubs Photo

Conifer ornamental shrubs

How to make a composition of decorative shrubs

Beauty and use

shrub can bear practical function, as the green fence, a border or a natural protection of other plantsfrom sun and wind.

hedge of fast-growing shrubs can not only close the fence is not particularly scenic, but also to ensure the inaccessibility of the garden - what are the thorns of hawthorn and barberry!Such hedges can be cut or keep their natural shape.Identify important in the first year or two of life selected ward, as more mature plants may be exposed to bad haircut.

Border often used for edging paths, planting low shrubs.As garden decoration often use a single landing, the so-called tapeworm."Solo" may hydrangea, spirea, rhododendron.Some plants flowering period is a single landing may look clumsy, so they are used in a composition of three or more plants.

Ornamental trees and shrubs Photo

What shrubs to plant on

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To avoid unhealthy competition within the group should choose shrubs are well combined with each other.Science Formulation of ornamental shrubs quite complex, so it's best to turn to the established practice.

specialists, for example, offer the following combinations:

• krasnolistnyh barberries - Forties average or rhododendron;
• lilac - Japanese quince or mock orange and honeysuckle Maak or rhododendron;
• spirea - hydrangea or Mahonia.

Flowering shrubs for the garden (south), advantageously combined with conifers such as Thuja occidentalis and decorative forms of juniper (to the north).

Ornamental shrubs for the garden Photo

Flowering Shrubs for the cottages and garden photo

Green dozen

assortment of shrubs, of course, great, but in the Russian conditions it is limited to winter hardiness.For example, dozens of the most popular open Berberis thunbergii.Hawthorn is love of light, jerkiness, and smelly at flowering, but with edible fruits.Also edible fruit quince, but daphne - beautiful but poisonous.Juniper has 70 varieties, which differ greatly in form.Rhododendron bloom beauty can compete with the roses.Lilac Hungarian - unpretentious, blooms for a month later than usual.Spirea - amazingly beautiful deciduous shrub with white, pink, red or crimson flowers.Forsythia blooms when all other plants are just beginning to turn green, including herself.Chubushnik incorrectly called jasmine, its hardiness depends on the variety.Camellia blooms large flowers from autumn to mid-spring, some varieties can withstand temperatures down to minus 20 ° C.

Beautiful ornamental trees and shrubs for the garden

Ornamental shrubs in landscaping

Flowering shrubs for the garden Photo

Application ornamental shrubs in the landscape design is especially popular in Japanese gardens.They are also affected and topiary art - creating green sculptures.

Ornamental shrubs for the garden Photo

Ornamental shrubs topiary

Ornamental shrubs for the garden

If desired, you can recreate any pattern, considering the composition of shrubs in various gardens, parks, country houses.But it is always interesting to create something of their own, original and unique.Be creative and decorate your own site!