Garden shrub with pink flowers. Ornamental shrubs will give you a constant sense of celebration in your summer cottage

Beautiful, decorative, flowering, frost-resistant, low shrubs for summer cottages - consider everything. We will analyze in detail which unpretentious ornamental shrubs are best planted in the summer cottage of the Middle Strip, Moscow Region, North-West, Siberia and the Urals. And which one to choose is up to you.

Types of ornamental shrubs

All decorative bushes can be divided into deciduous and coniferous. Both are used in design. With the help of them, various tasks of landscape design are solved - space zoning, the creation of hedges, beautiful borders. In some cases, even single landings flowering shrub look advantageous. Recently, the topiary haircut has become popular, so designers turn a shrub (of a certain type) into a sculpture in the literal sense.

Decorative bushes of various shapes, types and sizes adorn gardens of completely different styles. Often the main factor is the placement of plants that are easy to cut.
For hedges, free-form or sheared shrubs are planted. To design the boundaries of the site - groups of tall specimens. And for zoning within a group of undersized and medium-sized plants. With the help of ornamental shrubs, you can accent the passages and mark the gates.

Frost-resistant ornamental shrubs in the country

All the shrubs described here easily tolerate cold and often snowy winters, that is, they grow and bloom well in most regions and regions of Russia. A photo and a small description are given for each species, so that it is clear in general terms what a plant is. Each of the shrubs is described in more detail on other pages of the site.

Deciduous shrubs in landscape design

Some of them are decorative throughout the season due to their beautiful foliage, and some are pleasing to the eye mainly during flowering.

Decorative deciduous shrubs for summer cottages

Unlike flowering counterparts, deciduous species remain attractive throughout the warm season. Many of them are extremely easy to grow, as they are frost-resistant, unpretentious and perfectly tolerate formative pruning.
Low-growing species - Fortune's euonymus, Thunberg's barberry. Sredneroslye - snowberry, privet. Tall - hawthorn, vesicle, derain, common barberry, rowanberry, red Japanese maple.

Barberry Thunberg

Unpretentious in care, not afraid of summer heat and drought, tolerates winter well, grows even on poor soils. It can serve as a decorative thorny hedge from uninvited guests. It has a high decorative effect due to the beauty of the leaves, tolerates forming pruning well. It has several varieties that differ in the shape and size of the crown and the color of the foliage:

• Atropurpurea Nana is the most popular purple-leaved dwarf variety;
• Red Pilar - has a columnar crown shape, and its reddish-purple foliage becomes scarlet by the end of the growing season;
• Golden Ring - sheet plate this variety has a coral color with a golden border around the edges, and the height reaches 3 meters;
• Aurea - reaches 1.5 m, leaves are golden or yellow;
• Kobold is a dwarf variety with green leaves, its crown is spherical. Can replace boxwood. Requires shelter for the winter;
• Green Carpet - the height of the bush reaches 50 cm, and the leaves are green in summer and red in autumn;
• Kornik - this variety of 1.5 meters in height goes well with roses and conifers. Leaves are green with white spots in summer, turning green in autumn.

Deren

This shrub is always attractive, even without foliage, as its branches have a bright red color. Derain is unpretentious, shade-tolerant, frost-resistant, grows on almost any soil. Suitable for large areas, as the shrub is quite tall.
There are many varieties of sod:

• Elegantissima - with white-green leaves;
• Siberica Variegata - with reddish-green foliage with pink edging along the edges;
• Kesselring - with chameleon leaves of a brownish-pink hue with the addition of yellow and green colors.

Red Japanese Maple

Ornamental shrub with red leaves. Its foliage is bright green at first, turning reddish-orange and then red in autumn. This bush looks great anywhere on the site, as it combines wonderfully with both conifers and ferns and, for example, hostas. Feels good in the shade.

The Japanese maple has many varieties, and each of them has an attractive foliage color in its own way:

• Aconitifolium - orange-red leaves;
• Vitifolium - carmine-red leaves;
• Atropurpureum - dark red, almost black-red foliage.

Fieldfare rowanberry

Unpretentious, fast-growing ornamental shrub with openwork leaves. The foliage has an interesting feature - a gradient, a transition from one shade to another. Orange, red, yellow, pinkish, green - all these colors blend smoothly with each other on one single leaf.
The highest decorative effect is observed closer to autumn. You can plant a bush as sunny place, as well as in partial shade. Fertile soil is preferred. The plant does not like drought.

vesicle

It lends itself well to a haircut, so it is widely used in landscape design.
Depending on the variety, the vesicle has a completely different color of foliage:

• Diabolo - dark red, almost black leaves. In spring, its foliage has a lighter shade - carmine red, but then gradually darkens;
• Darts Gold - yellow-fiery leaves;
• Nugget - at first the foliage is yellow, and closer to autumn it turns green;
• Red-leaved - the leaves are scarlet in spring, and with the advent of cold weather they are maroon.

Variegated shrubs for the garden

Shrubs with variegated leaves with photos, names, descriptions.

Fortune's Euonymus

It's low evergreen shrub, originally from China. Its height does not exceed 60 cm. The foliage is very decorative - dark green with a white or yellow border, as seen in the photo. The plant produces fruits, but only in southern regions, in the North, the bush rarely blooms and bears fruit. This frost-resistant plant, unpretentious, looks great both as a single element in the landscape of the site and as the main accent among a group of suitable colors.

Flowering ornamental shrubs

All these plants have the highest decorative effect during flowering, the rest of the time they are, as a rule, ordinary garden bushes with green foliage. different shapes. However, they are attractive when well cared for.

Forsythia

This shrub pleases the eye not only in early spring, when numerous yellow flowers bloom on its branches, but also in autumn, when the leaves turn golden, and sometimes purple-violet.

Spirea

Unpretentious and very beautiful bush arnica, blooming profusely and luxuriantly, with branches leaning to the ground. Some varieties of spirea have beautiful foliage, for example, Vangutta, Pink Ice. Spirea blooms in spring and summer, depending on the species.

Chubushnik

In the common people - jasmine. The most famous ornamental shrub. And they love him not only for the beauty during flowering, but also for the pleasant smell emanating from the flowers. The plant is frost-resistant, unpretentious, resistant to diseases.
Depending on the species, the bushes differ in size, crown shape, color and aroma of flowers. The flowering time of the mock orange depends on its variety, but it usually begins in May and lasts about a month. There are those that bloom both in summer and in early autumn.

Snowberry

The most decorative time for it is autumn, at which time its leaves turn yellow, red, orange, burgundy or purple, and in place of small flowers, snow-white, pale pink, red or dark purple bursting berries appear, which remain on the shoots. after leaf fall.

Skumpia

Lush inflorescences of this shrub look like puffs of smoke, and bright leaves that change color during the season adorn the bush from spring to autumn.
This ornamental shrub will fit into the design of the site of any style.

decorative almond

Its time is spring, when all branches are densely strewn with delicate pink flowers. In autumn, almonds are also beautiful when their leaves turn orange-red or pink.
The most decorative almonds are three-lobed (luiseania) and steppe (bean).

Mahonia holly

Very beautiful in the second half of spring, when it blooms. Its bright yellow panicle inflorescences are organically combined with shiny, serrated green leaves.
At the end of summer, mahonia is decorative due to the dark blue fruits that appear on the shrub.

viburnum

The time of the highest decorative effect is autumn, when it has red berries and burgundy leaves. Kalina, even on poor soil and with a lack of sun, blooms with lush inflorescences.

Hydrangea - a shade-loving shrub for a summer residence

It can bloom where other shrubs cannot show their decorative effect. Hydrangea prefers shade and moist soil. It is frost-resistant, unpretentious, and blooms in large snow-white, pink, lilac, blue or purple “balls” or “panicles”.

Hydrangea is characterized by long flowering, which begins around July and continues until early autumn. Pairs well with rhododendrons, clematis, lilies, roses and ferns.

Weigela

This shrub can be classified as decorative and deciduous, as it is beautiful both during flowering, and before and after it.
Weigela blooms in May, especially luxuriantly at the very beginning. Weigela Middendorf can bloom twice per season.

Rose hip

Decorative and at the same time medicinal shrub. Attractive in appearance both during flowering and during fruit ripening.
Rosehip is unpretentious, grows rapidly, has a very dense crown, prefers the sun or partial shade. The bush blooms from May to August.
Can be used as a hedge as the branches are thorny.

Lilac - beautiful shrub in the garden

Grows and blooms in sunny areas and in partial shade. Versatile plant for summer cottages middle lane. Frost-resistant and unpretentious. Often seen in the front gardens of private houses and adjoining territory high-rise buildings.
The flowering time of lilacs is May, in some species this period stretches until June.

Coniferous shrubs for giving: photo, description

Here are the most unpretentious conifers that require minimal care. All these plants will fit into the design of small garden and summer cottages. It's not hard at all to take care of them.

The main requirements for them are: they must winter without shelter, grow well on all types of soil; should not freeze in winter, get wet, dry out, burn in the sun.

Juniper

The shrub grows well on not heavy soils, both in the sun and in partial shade. Some creeping forms of junipers can suffer from excess moisture, so it is better to plant them in rockeries and on slopes.
They look beautiful in combination with ferns.

The main species that are used in the design of sites in the middle lane: Chinese juniper "Old Gold", horizontal juniper "Andorra Compact" and "Blue Chip", "Wilton" and "Prince of Wales", scaly juniper "Blue Spider", Cossack juniper .

cypress

Among the species there are a lot of those whose height is only 50-80 cm.
This shrub has bluish-green or yellow-green needles, which are in the form of needles at a young age, and scaly when mature.
Decorative cypress trees are different types, differing in the shape of the crown, shades of needles, growth rate.

This is an evergreen shrub. In young plants, the leaves are soft, needle-like, in adults - scaly. Thuja is undemanding to growing conditions, has high frost resistance.

boxwood

ornamental shrubs are an adornment of any modern garden. They create hedges, group plantings. A garden in which ornamental shrubs bloom is always amazingly beautiful.

Experienced gardeners prefer to grow several at the same time on their site. various kinds ornamental shrubs that bloom at different times to create a garden of continuous flowering.

In the photo on the left: profusely flowering weigela ( Weigela floribunda(Siebold & Zucc.) K.Koch).

One of the first, immediately after the snow melts, blooms forsythia or forsythia (Forsythia Vahl). It blooms profusely with beautiful bright yellow flowers in the form of bells. The forsythia bush is completely covered with flowers.

Plant height 1-3 meters, width up to 2 meters.
Forsythia is frost-resistant, undemanding to soils, shade-tolerant. Propagated by cuttings.

Forsythia is a primrose shrub. Bright- yellow flowers appear on the bare branches of forsythia long before leaves appear on other trees and shrubs. The leaves on this shrub bloom after flowering.
Immediately after flowering, forsythia must be cut off, otherwise it grows very quickly.

Forsythia was named after the Scottish horticulturist William Forsythe. William Forsyth) (1737-1804), who brought this plant from China to Europe. William Forsythe was the head gardener of Kensington Palace and one of the founders of the Royal Horticultural Society ( Royal Horticultural Society).

blooms in spring beaver or laburnum (Laburnum Fabr.). This plant is popularly called Golden Rain.

Laburnum - small tree up to 5-6 meters high.
The flowers are very beautiful, bright yellow, collected in brushes 10-30 cm long. Laburnum flowers resemble butterflies in their shape. It blooms profusely and for a long time, from April to June.

Bobovnik is unpretentious, undemanding to soils and frost-resistant.

It should be remembered that all parts of the laburnum, especially its seeds, very poisonous, therefore, this plant must be handled with extreme care.

Photo: Anneli Salo, Pöllö, Jeffdelonge.

Golden arch of blooming laburnum at Bodnant Garden, Wales, UK.
Photo: GerritR.

genomeles or japonica (Chaenomeles japonica(Thunb.) Lindl. ex Spach) blooms in April-May.

Shrub 80-120 cm high, often used to create hedges. Has spikes.

The flowers are large, 3-5 cm in diameter, usually bright red, rarely pink or white.
In order for chaenomeles to bloom better, it must be cut off periodically.

Japanese quince fruits ripen in September-October. They are edible, but very sour, while quite fragrant. The fruits can be used to make jams, jams, compotes, etc.

Chaenomeles prefers rich, well-drained soils. Best time for planting April or early October.

Blooms in late May - early June weigela (Weigela Thunb.).
This is a very beautiful bush 70-80 cm high, about 1 meter wide. It blooms with pink or purple-red flowers in the form of bells. Differs in plentiful and very beautiful flowering. During flowering, the weigela bush looks like a pink cloud.

Weigela is shade-tolerant, used for single or group plantings in the garden, rock gardens, and also for creating hedges.

Weigela was named after the famous German botanist Christian Ehrenfried von Weigel ( Christian Ehrenfried von Weige), (1748-1831).

Weigela blooming (Weigela florida(Bunge A.D.C.)

Weigela profusely flowering or weigela floribunda (Weigela floribunda(Siebold & Zucc.) K.Koch)
Japan, Saitama Prefecture, Musashi Kyuryou National Government Park.

Blooms from late spring to early summer action (Deutzia Thunb.). This is a low shrub with a height of 50 cm to 1.5 meters. Differs in plentiful and long blossoming. Action flowers are white, pink, purple, purple, often collected in inflorescences. There are varieties of action with double flowers. Unfortunately, deutsia flowers have little or no fragrance.

Deytion shade-tolerant, grows well in the city. It is used for decoration of borders, in group and single plantings.

A bush of action in one place can live up to 25 years.

Most common in horticulture action rough, or stellate (Deutzia scabra Thunb.), imported from Japan and China.

Blooms in late spring kerria japonica (Kerria japonica DC.). Flowering time from April to June.
Kerria reaches a height of 1-2 meters. It blooms with golden yellow flowers with 5 petals, shaped like a rose. Kerria flowers reach 5-6 cm in diameter.
For the beauty of the flowers, kerria is sometimes called the "Easter Rose".

Kerria is not demanding on soils, resistant to exhaust gases. Therefore, it is often planted on the roadsides, near the garden fence. Kerria can also be used for vertical gardening. Its stems often climb other plants, walls of houses, fences, rocks.

Kerria got its name in honor of the Scottish gardener, plant collector and the first gardener of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Ceylon, William Kerr ( William Kerr).

William Kerr developed a special variety of Japanese kerria Pleniflora. Its flowers are very beautiful, terry. Therefore, this variety of kerria is also called Japanese yellow rose(Japanese Yellow Rose).

Photos: Reggaeman, Jeffdelonge, Ignis and others.

Blooms in July - August hydrangea (Hydrangea L.), with ornamental horticulture the most common hydrangea (Hydrangea arborescens L.). This is a shrub 1-3 meters high with white flowers collected in large inflorescences in the form of balls up to 15 cm in diameter.

Hydrangea tree is unpretentious, frost-resistant, prefers fertile acidic soils. It does not tolerate drought well, so it requires regular watering.

Hydrangea must be systematically pruned: in late autumn after the end of flowering and in early spring, before the leaves appear.

Hydrangea is propagated by cuttings. The best time for planting is the beginning of April.

All parts of the hydrangea are poisonous, so this plant must be handled with extreme care. It cannot be eaten.

One of the most popular varieties of hydrangea tree "Annabelle" has very large inflorescences, white with a slightly greenish tint.

Blooms from June to October shrub cinquefoil or cinquefoil shrub or Kuril tea (Pentaphylloides fruticosa(L.) O.Schwarz). Bush up to 1.5 meters high. One plant can bloom up to 2 months.
Kurl tea is a medicinal plant widely used in folk medicine.

The Kuril hour is a popular ornamental shrub, used for decorating rock gardens, borders, and groups. More than 130 varieties of Kuril tea are known in horticulture. Most cultivars have yellow flowers, as does the wild species. In addition, there are varieties of Potentilla with white, pink, orange and red flowers.

The cinquefoil shrub is unpretentious, frost-resistant, undemanding to soils. You can trim it once every 3 years.

Kuril tea variety "Mckay's White".

Kuril tea variety "Red Ace".

Snowberry, snowfield, snow berry or wolfberry (Symphoricarpos Dill. ex Juss.) blooms all summer, from May to September. Depending on the species, its flowers can be white, pink, red. But the snowberry is famous not for its flowers, but for its snow-white fruits in the form of berries with a diameter of about 1 cm, which stay on the bush all autumn and winter, giving it a great decorative effect.

The snowberry blooms profusely and for a long time. The flowers are small, in the form of bells, 5 mm in diameter, collected in dense racemose inflorescences. Snowberry is a unique shrub, you can see both flowers and fruits on it at the same time.

Shrub height 1-2 meters. It is used to create hedges and in group plantings. Handles haircut well. Unpretentious, winter-hardy, not picky about soils.

The snowberry is poisonous, its berries cannot be eaten.

Caring for these ornamental shrubs is not difficult. They are all frost-resistant, they do not need to be covered for the winter (perhaps only young shoots).
Ornamental shrubs propagate by cuttings; they are not demanding on soils.
The only care is that they need to be trimmed periodically to give them a beautiful correct form.

These beautiful, profusely flowering shrubs will decorate your garden all season long - from early spring to late autumn.

" Trees

Gardens and dachas of the new wave are stylish cottages, with a comfortable area for citizens to relax, surrounded by beautiful landscape. A traditional dacha, the main function of which is to harvest, also necessarily includes a recreation area., lovingly decorated by the owners. Precisely for spectacular design household territory, a beautiful lawn, a children's playground, necessary ornamental plants and trees worth talking about in detail.

In addition to the natural aesthetic function - to give a person enjoyment of the beauty of nature, ornamental trees and shrubs are used by gardeners and designers to solve purely practical problems. visual extension too narrow or too small plot. decoration outbuildings, strengthening slopes and screes. Zoning of the site, the creation of dividing screens between the garden and the backyard area. Protection of the individual space of a small cottage from prying eyes, without erecting a fence.

Popular ornamental trees in the garden and in the country

The current trend in gardening is a beautiful, fruit-bearing garden that does not require huge physical costs to care for and maintain decorativeness. The priority is the beauty and unpretentiousness of trees; the practical benefits of plantings fade into the background. This explains the popularity of new forms of fruit and forest trees, represented by modern breeding.:

• compact standard trees with a spherical crown;
• dwarf forms fruit and forest trees;
• weeping forms;
• columnar hybrids familiar trees.

An interesting novelty is the use of forest trees to decorate a summer cottage. For example, hornbeam seedlings are sold by nurseries at bargain prices. Hornbeam is great for creating hedges, decorative backdrops and walls.

To create spectacular compositions, edging lawns, trees of different heights are used.:

• tall (up to 6 m);
• medium tall (up to 3 m);
• stunted and dwarf trees (up to 1.5 m).

From tall trees a heel is formed(wall, or focal point), which is complemented by trees and shrubs below. The foreground of the composition is formed from undersized ones. Trees can be decorated with gravel, located on an open lawn, solo, or combined into relief, multi-tiered groups.

The highest ones land in the background, then the middle ones. stunted trees and bushes are placed in front.

Recognized leader - coniferous trees

Mature plants require virtually no care. Coniferous plants are decorative all year round, including winter period. At the beginning of spring, many species bloom with bright lilac candles, reminiscent of Christmas decorations . Then comes the time of active growth, the young shoots are much brighter than last year's branches. During this period, all coniferous trees look especially elegant.

Spruce grows well on swampy soils, this is especially true for the Moscow region. Pine is drought-resistant, tolerates pruning well, which allows you to vary the height and decorative form. For low hedges, walls, yew can be recommended. The yew keeps its shape perfectly, it does not require significant pruning.

Tui

Unpretentious thuja can be safely chosen as the main decorative element a garden that will unite plantings with a single plan. Tui of different varieties will fit perfectly into the composition with undersized shrubs, variegated and flowering trees.

In the nursery, you can pick up varieties of pyramidal, elliptical, or spherical shape. The garden wall of thuja planted in a smooth line looks very interesting. This allows you to unusually beat even a standard suburban area.

For the middle lane, varieties and hybrids of Western thuja are recommended. Unpretentious variety Brabant is suitable for forming walls, backstage. A single thuja will grow wide, a close planting of a thuja (after 0.5 m) will form a too low wall. Optimal distance between seedlings of the Brabant variety - 1 m. An interesting variety is Wagner's thuja, which has a rounded shape, shorter in stature. Thuja is very fond of showering, spraying, sprinkling.

decorative maples

most popular maple Canadian, Sycamore, Holly maple with burgundy foliage. They perfectly solo on an open lawn, are good in compositions and against the backdrop of hedges.

Maple Holly or Sycamore Burgundy

Like most plants with brightly colored leaves, ornamental colored maples prefer a sunny location. In the shade, the natural color will be faded.. Maple prefers fertile soil, with neutral acidity. Young seedlings should be covered for the winter. mature plant frost-resistant variety this is no longer required.

Exotic for lovers

Magnolia

It can be formed as a bush, but a full-fledged tree with a picturesque crown can grow. Blooming magnolia is an exotic sight, most varieties have a delicate, vanilla-citrus aroma.. Magnolia is strewn with large flowers (bud length up to 12-15 cm). The color scheme and the shape of the opened flower in different varieties of magnolia differ very dramatically.

The capriciousness of magnolia is greatly exaggerated; for successful cultivation, it is enough to follow a few rules. When planting magnolia, special attention should be paid to the root system and the choice of planting site. It is necessary to buy magnolia with a root ball (in a plastic container), preferably in a nursery or garden center. When planting, try not to injure the roots of the seedling. Magnolia loves the bright sun very much, does not tolerate drafts and winds. The optimal landing site is under the southern wall of the house, any outbuilding. Does not like calcareous soils, so such lands must be acidified with peat. Care for an adult plant is not required, only minimal sanitary pruning. For cultivation in gardens of the middle lane, deciduous forms of magnolia are recommended, and the corresponding hybrids.

Young seedlings, even frost-resistant varieties, should be covered for the winter (mulch the roots and cover the crown with agrofiber).

Sakura

A Japanese relative of the familiar cherry, famous throughout the world for its magical flowering. The conditions for growing sakura and magnolia are identical. Sunny place without drafts; neutral or slightly acidic soil. Like ordinary cherries, sakura will need seasonal spraying from pests, abundant watering, and significant pruning.

It is not necessary to buy sakura, it reproduces well by cuttings. This is much cheaper than buying a seedling. In August, the stalk is grafted onto a traditional cherry (or cherry) using the budding method (eye, kidney).

Decorative forms of fruit trees

The apple tree familiar to everyone has many decorative subspecies that bloom more abundantly than simple apple trees. Blooming with scarlet flowers, Ola's apple tree is simply flooded with flowers so that branches are not visible..

Ola apple blossom

Ornamental varieties are grown in the usual agricultural practices, familiar to gardeners for the care of apple trees of traditional varieties. Fruits - small (paradise) apples adorn the garden until late autumn. Yellow, red, purple - look great on the branches. They attract birds to the garden modern version natural solution to pest problems. Paradise apples make original jam. Particularly interesting are the weeping forms, with a variegated and colored leaf.

Decorative shrubs in landscape design

Shrubs in the garden technically perform the natural function of the undergrowth. From an aesthetic point of view, shrubs harmoniously complement garden trees and flower beds. acting as a middle manager. This is an extensive class of diverse plants, let's focus on especially popular species.

Junipers: type and variety of bushes

Highly decorative, big variety forms and varieties, the name of the most common is given below. By releasing phytoncides, junipers significantly purify the air. In sunny weather, hovering near such a plant healing aroma . A common plus of junipers is frost resistance. Bath lovers will need young juniper twigs, which are added to bath brooms for aroma.

Variegata

Recognized varieties include juniper Variegata. Flat, with scaly azure needles, and contrasting sand tassels at the end. The shrub is shade-tolerant, but in a sunny place, the decorative tassels of Variegata will be brighter. The mature plant sufficient space will look like a lush flower bed.

Cossack

unpretentious plant smoky color, prefers light soils, looks great in composition with variegated hostas, common and tree peony. Loves loosening and sprinkling branches. When transplanting, the pit should be 2 times larger than the root ball. Junipers do not resist pruning, although they do not need mandatory pruning.

Between the bushes of the Cossack juniper should be at least 1 - 1.5 meters. In adulthood, it is a spreading, lush bush.

Rock Sky Rocket

Tall Blue Juniper - Rocky Sky Rocket. In diameter up to 1 meter, in height up to 7 meters. It looks like a slender tree, vaguely reminiscent of cypress.

glauka

Low juniper Glauka (up to 30 cm), can grow up to 3 meters wide. The powerful root system of this plant allows you to strengthen the slopes if necessary. This is a suitable plant for the foreground of a garden composition.

Mint Juliet

The fastest growing medium juniper - Mint Julit, reaches 3.5 m in width, up to 1.5 m in height. Blue Carpet is an active aggressor, it occupies a vast area. Reacts to pruning with increased growth. This must be taken into account when landing, but you can use it for your own purposes.

Barberry - add bright accents

Interesting shape of the bush, delicate branches, bright foliage inherent different varieties, allows the barberry to lead among the colored shrubs. Blooms actively in spring. The crown is purple, red, lilac, lettuce in summer, incredibly transformed in autumn. This is a real carnival of colors, from lemon to wine-colored foliage, scarlet clusters of fruits. Barberry berries are an excellent seasoning for pilaf and meat dishes.

Barberry looks great in single and group plantings. front garden, alpine slide, edging glades - all these compositions will successfully complement the barberry of the variety and color you like. Barberries of different heights (from 30 cm to 1.5 m) can be interestingly beaten in a prefabricated mixborder. Barberry Thunberg is good in combination with coniferous plants. Undersized pillow-shaped barberry Green Carpet is used for rocky compositions in the Japanese style.

It develops well in an open, sunny place, not picky about soils. Does not tolerate stagnant soil input, when planting a barberry, a high-quality drainage cushion should be provided.

Low growing shrub (up to 80 cm) in looks very exotic, blooms profusely with orange-red flowers. In summer and autumn, it is decorated with fruits resembling heavenly apples. Used for flower beds and rose gardens.

Japanese quince grows well on light sandy soils, loves lighted places. An excellent jam is made from the fruits of the hostess.

Red viburnum

Habitual shrub, never ceases to delight with its beauty and healthy berries. Viburnum is very good in color, in autumn it turns crimson - yellow, red clusters of berries glow in the sun.

Kalina loves shady places, the bush can grow quite extensively. This property of viburnum can be successfully used for decorating outbuildings, blank walls of sheds. He likes good watering, the land for planting is mixed with humus (1 × 1). The land under the viburnum bush should be mulched with tree bark, this will help moisture-loving plant develop.

It grows wild in central and southern Europe, in North Africa, in the European part of Russia, mainly in its middle part and in Asia Minor. Rarely found in the west and north of Russia. Kalina can be found in the Middle and Western Siberia , as well as in the eastern and northern regions of Kazakhstan. Viburnum vulgaris does not grow in Central Asia and the Far East.

Familiar in indoor forms, large-leaved garden hydrangea is a godsend for lovers of bright, active flowering plants. Large inflorescences (12-15 cm) bloom in July, remain on the branches until autumn. An adult wisteria bush is not high (up to 1 m), it can reach two meters in diameter, this must be taken into account when planting. Large inflorescences are white, greenish, crimson, pink and even blue.

Hydrangea loves well-lit places, but direct sunlight is harmful to her. You will need moist, slightly acidic soil, abundant watering, top dressing. When planting, peat, sand, coniferous forest soil are added to the earthen mixture. Feeding the hydrangea with iron preparations, amateurs achieve a bright blue color of the inflorescences from the hydrangea.. It is advisable to mulch the near-trunk circle with needles, use slightly acidified water for irrigation. For the winter, the hydrangea should be covered.

Interesting novelty: columnar fruit trees

Compact, productive trees, studded with fruits of the usual size, have fascinated many gardeners. The columns bear fruit already in the second year, take up little space, it is convenient to care for them.. The life span of such a tree is up to 15 years, in contrast to the usual longevity. ordinary trees fruit and stone fruit crops.

What are columnar trees

Columnar apple tree - undersized, dwarf (relative to standard) clearstem tree . Proven, high-quality varieties - Arbat (red apple of medium ripening), Bolero (winter), Jin (summer variety).

On sale there are seedlings of columnar trees of the latest selection: plums, cherry plums, pears, peaches. The main problem is variety instability. Death of the lower branches, changes in the shape of the crown (formation of a "broom"), freezing of growth buds, degeneration of the variety. There is a blatant fraud of sellers. If you decide to grow columns, buy adapted seedlings from trusted regional nurseries.

On the this moment, only the columnar apple tree boasts a large number of varieties of sustainable breeding. The rest of the columnar novelties can be purchased only at your own peril and risk.

Features of planting and caring for fruit trees

Columns are very comfortable for processing and care, organization of drip or spot irrigation. Adult height fruit tree- about 1.5 m, grown in the usual agricultural technology, like ordinary fruit and stone fruit trees. Depending on the variety, seedlings are planted at a distance of 0.4 - 0.7 m from each other. Distance between rows 2 - 2.5 m. seasonal pruning, pest control, top dressing, loosening of the root circle.

After planting a one-year-old seedling, the plant will show its variety in the first year. To do this, 2-3 flower ovaries are left on the tree, it is better to remove the rest of the flowers in the first year.. The seedling needs strength to adapt to a new place, to form a healthy root system.

Selection does not stand still, popular varieties are constantly being improved. Whether to experiment with original novelties, or choose a decorative variety that has been proven over the years, is a constant temptation for a gardener. Based on your taste preferences, you can choose original decoration for your favorite garden.

Choosing beautiful plants for decorating the site is one of the main and most interesting stages in creating a beautiful garden area. It is possible to give brightness to the summer cottage and make it presentable for many years, especially for the warm period, not only with the help of flowers, but also due to voluminous ornamental shrubs.

In this article, you can see photos and find out the names of the most popular perennial shrubs: planting such vegetation will fill the garden area with a colorful range for the whole summer, and a year later you will again be able to admire this beauty.

evergreen vegetation

The best background for flowers in the garden is evergreen vegetation, due to which many gardeners and landscape designers create hedges and even original decorative sculptures. A timely haircut will help to ensure a neat appearance of such bushes: in this way, the vegetation is given the desired shape.

On your site, you can plant the following types of perennial shrubs:

What shrubs to plant in the shade

A number of flowering shrubs throughout the summer season can be placed in poorly lit areas. Thus, you will be able to smooth transition from herbs to fruit trees in the shade, and decorate those areas of the garden where there is a lack of sunlight.

The most popular variant of a perennial shrub plant that can bloom throughout the warm season is cotoneaster. This plant has oval leaves, in late spring - early summer it appears pink flowers, and closer to autumn - bright red berries. With the end of summer, the color of the leaves of the cotoneaster changes.

Shaded areas are also liked by plants called " rhododendron”, reaching a height of 1.5 meters. Their flowering begins in the spring, on one of summer months and even in autumn - the period of appearance of flowers depends on the variety.

Rhododendron flowers are distinguished by a variety of palettes. With the help of rhododendrons, it is easy to fill the garden with purple, bright red, yellow and soft pink colors. During dry periods, the land under these plants is advised to mulch and irrigate well. For the winter, it is better to cover rhododendrons so that they do not freeze.

In the photo below - a rhodendron bush beautifully blooming in the height of summer:

Shrubs that bloom all summer: photos and names

Can grow in both sunny and shady areas mock orange. This garden variety of jasmine is liked by many owners. suburban areas. Bushy varieties can reach two meters in height, and vines beautifully braid the walls. For good growth, garden jasmine needs fertile soil.

In early or mid-summer, the shrub is covered with snow-white flowers.

Another popular variety of ornamental shrubs that bloom throughout the summer season is privet. Species with bright foliage look especially impressive, during flowering they complement the site with noble white colors. This plant does not tolerate low temperatures, it must be covered for the winter. For good growth, it requires fertile (moderately) soil.

At the end of spring and summer, the privet needs to be sheared to correct the shape.

Low bushes that can bloom all summer and autumn will also help to decorate the garden area, for example, Barberry Thunberg. The height of this plant does not exceed 1.5 meters. This perennial is frost-resistant, has several species. In autumn, barberry leaves turn reddish and berries appear.

fast growing shrubs

blooming whole summer period unpretentious and frost-resistant bushes may have different growth rates. When creating a decor, you will need to wait until all planted vegetation acquires the required parameters.

To solve in a short time this problem, give preference to those types of winter-hardy shrubs that do not need much time to grow - and combine them with each other.

There are many types of perennial shrubs that grow quite intensively.

Here are some of the most popular options that you can use to decorate the garden area:

bright flowering plants

A variety of hardy perennial shrubs that bloom throughout the warm season have bright flowers that completely transform even the most modest gardens.

We bring to your attention examples of the most popular types of shrubs that delight the eye with variegated colors.

The leading position in the list of the most beloved perennial shrubs by gardeners, driving out bright inflorescences, takes sun-loving lilac. White, lilac and purple lilacs can be seen in almost every area.

Advice. So that the shrub does not reach the size of a tree and pleases with lush flowering, it should be cut regularly.

With the advent of heat during the formation of buds, inspect the shrub and give the selected branches the desired configuration, remove the excess ones. A number of external shoots should be cut to the line of the main branches.

Most varieties of lilac tolerate cold well, flowering begins in early summer. Pink, purple and white lilacs are not only beautiful, but also have a delicious aroma.

Undersized bushes are also suitable for decorating the garden. Japanese Quince . This shrub can withstand frost, but if the winter is going to be very cold, it is better to insulate it, otherwise the shoots that form above the snow cover will die, and the bush will not be able to grow next year.

Japanese Quince looks presentable both due to flowering and due to pruning flexibility: it is easy to give the shrub the desired configuration.

Important! It is necessary to form the crown of Japanese Quince from the age of five, and preventive pruning should be performed every spring in order to remove dried twigs.

Upon reaching a ten-year-old shrub, it is rejuvenated by thinning to reduce the number of branches, leaving a dozen of the thickest ones. Flowering of the Japanese Quince begins from the end of spring - the beginning of June. The height of this shrub is about a meter.

Another decorative perennial shrub that gardeners and landscape designers love is called buddleya. This plant blooms throughout the summer, in some species flowering ends in mid-autumn. Buddleia needs warmth for good growth, it needs to be insulated for the winter so that it will please with beautiful flowering next season. In height Buddleya can reach three meters.

Ideal for decorating garden areas heather. The flowering of this shrub lasts all summer, until October. Heather belongs to the group of creeping vegetation, its height is small.

Important! Heather belongs to the forest species, so it needs suitable land to grow well. Mix sand with pine needles, peat, add sawdust, and the soil for heather will be ready.

After changing the land for heather, the prepared soil should be moistened with a water-vinegar solution (apple vinegar should be used). 100 gr. vinegar is diluted in ten liters of water.

Once every seven days, heather should be irrigated with acidified water. For faster growth, the shrub can be fed with fertilizers. With the advent of spring, the crown should be adjusted to give the plant a haircut desired shape. For the winter, heather is recommended to be covered with spruce branches.

Delicate colors in the garden

In addition to the above examples of shrubs that delight with flowering all summer, there are a few more good options such vegetation. For example, many summer residents like spirea. These presentable flowering shrubs are undemanding to care for, their flowering can last from late spring to late autumn - depending on the variety planted.

Kinds, blooming in spring, have white inflorescences and, under the weight of flowers, acquire a cascade configuration. In height, these plants can reach 2.5 meters. Spiraea does not need fertilizing with fertilizers, you just need to cut the bushes.

Another example of a perennial shrub that blooms all summer is bloodroot. The second name of this plant is "Kuril tea". All available varieties of cinquefoil withstand the cold - this is an unpretentious plant.

Potentilla expels inflorescences at the end of spring, flowering continues until autumn. Flowers are distinguished by a variety of palettes: yellow, snow-white and pink colors will transform your garden beyond recognition. The maximum height of the shrub is 1.5 meters.

Now you know which shrubs delight with flowering throughout the summer. To create a harmonious design of the garden area, you just need to successfully select varieties of flowering vegetation. First of all, you should find out whether plants that bloom for a long time are suitable for the existing climatic conditions.

It is also important that shrubs planted in the same area have identical care requirements. With these points in mind, it will be easier for you to pick up the soil and organize irrigation.

Advice: give preference to presentable perennial shrub vegetation that retains its aesthetic appearance for several seasons. It is optimal that plants decorate the site all year round.

The beauty of the garden area must be maintained both with the help of colorful flowering shrubs, and due to lush plants from beautiful leaves, which have a neat compact form.

Use to decorate the suburban area and fruit-bearing vegetation that can diversify the appearance of the green area. A number of varieties of shrubs retain their attractiveness even after the foliage has fallen.

Such plants perform not only a decorative function: they can also be used for practical purposes, for example, to create a presentable hedge, for zoning the territory, focusing on certain elements of landscape design.

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Using such plants, you can transform the appearance of the buildings on the site. But to get the most successful result, you need to have a good understanding of the types of shrub vegetation suitable for the garden and blooming throughout the warm period. Study the rules for planting and caring for such shrubs.

You can also use ready-made schemes for combining flowering shrubs, explore new landscape decor ideas to create a spectacular and stylish garden design with their help.

Video

Watch a video review in which an expert talks about the most presentable perennial shrubs that delight with flowering throughout the summer season and even in autumn:

The dacha, where all the bushes are the same height, looks very monotonous and boring. The cottage looks much more fun, on which there is a wide variety of plants of various heights, especially when there are flowering ones. Thanks to the abundant flowering, the site becomes bright and festive and makes everyone who visits such a cottage admire.

Decorative - this is the main tool in landscape design. They allow you to create an extraordinary view and a fabulous landscape of the garden plot.

Decorative

There are a lot of decorative bushes for giving, and each of them is unique in its own way. It is very difficult to decide on the choice of a particular plant.

There are several of the most common types that are most in demand among aesthete gardeners:

blooming

Many believe that shrubs bloom only at one time, and they only take up the rest. usable area garden, but this is not at all the case:

Undersized decorative

Low-growing ornamental shrubs are great for forming hedges, borders, and also to border garden areas.

The most popular plants for such purposes in landscape design:

• boxwood. Drought tolerant, and not tolerant of the sun. It is better to plant in a shady place so that it does not undergo sunburn.
• Common in our country: honeysuckle, sea buckthorn and cowberry, also undersized, suitable for hedges, besides, they also bear fruit.
• Beautiful low shrubs, perfect for summer cottages: , weigela.

Frost-resistant decorative

In central Russia, as well as in Siberia, frost-resistant shrubs are most popular. Since the winter here is sometimes very fierce and not every plant can endure such weather.

The most popular of the frost-resistant ornamental shrubs:

• Barberry. This bush is suitable for growing beyond the Urals and in Siberia.
• Evergreen Holly, also known as holly. Popular Christmas decoration.
• Rose hip. It also perfectly tolerates even the most severe Siberian winters.
• Sod white. It is frost-resistant, besides, in winter its bark becomes a beautiful bright red color.

Fruit ornamental shrubs for summer cottages

Fruit bushes not only decorative ornament plot, but also healthy fruits, as well as very tasty:

• Honeysuckle;
• Barberry;
• Rose hip;
• Chokeberry;
• Rowan red-fruited;
• Irga.

How to choose shrubs?

You always want to diversify and decorate your site. And when the choice falls on seedlings of ornamental shrubs, the question arises: How to choose shrubs for your dacha?

There are a lot of shrubs for garden plots, but it is worth choosing according to several criteria:

• Take into account the resistance to the winter season;
• Take into account the attitude towards light, for example, if the site is in the shade, then this can damage some shrubs.
• Love for water;
• Haircut Sensitivity:
• care requirements.

There are the most beautiful shrubs that you want to plant in your dacha, but you should consider what kind of care they require so that this care is not a burden.

The combination of ornamental shrubs with each other

As a rule, all shrubs get along well with each other, the only thing may be rivalry in growth. If you are planning a hedge of different shrubs, you should first ask which shrubs grow the same size so that there is no difficulty with a haircut.

Where to plant?

It all depends on what the purpose of the plants. If a hedge of shrubs is planned, then you need to decide not only on the shrub, but also on the place. Taking into account the characteristics of each bush, so that from beautiful hedge a bulky planting did not work out.

The shady or sunny side of the cottage should be planted with shrubs in accordance with their requirements for sunlight. Better to plant in the shade unpretentious shrubs, in the sun - heat-loving southern bushes.