Coniferous trees on the site they look attractive, especially if they are decorated compositionally. A flowerbed of conifers is suitable for summer residents who rarely visit garden plot. Evergreen shrubs are unpretentious. At the same time, they are long-lived. For gardeners who are constantly in the garden, a flower bed with conifers and flowers is suitable. Ornamental green plants look impressive together with bright roses and other perennials.
Basics of Landscape Architecture
Not every person can hire a designer who will competently design a garden. However, even a novice gardener can take care of the aesthetic appearance of the site. In order to independently make the territory harmonious and landscaped, you need to know the main points of landscape architecture. Among them:
- Simplicity and unity;
- Proportionality;
- Balance and repetition;
- Symmetry.
Simplicity and unity
Garden design should be light and unobtrusive. The more elements and clutter, the messier and more chaotic the territory looks. Noble simplicity saves the budget. For such a garden, unnecessary details and decorations are not needed.
Important! When planning landscaping, you should pay attention to the house. In what style the dacha is built, this style should be followed when decorating the garden.
Proportionality
The principle of proportionality states that it is important to pay attention to the size of the garden itself and the compositions inside. To the owner small house and the garden will feel uncomfortable going out into the garden, half of which is occupied by a large sculpture or several large and too tall trees. In this case, the already modest territory is visually reduced.
Balance and repetition
Maintaining balance will help make the garden comfortable. Shouldn't be planted small area trees along the entire perimeter, the balance here will be disrupted due to the appearance of a closed space. Also, the balance will be disrupted if in the garden small fence, along which dwarf bushes are planted. In this case, the owners of the garden will feel uncomfortable, as it will create the feeling that they are on public display. Repetition also affects balance. Balance and structure are created through certain repeating attributes. For example, when decorating a flower garden, stone is used, and exactly the same material decorates the foundation of a building or the border of a path.
Symmetry
The point is not that the halves of the garden should be symmetrical. However, some similarity and proportionality must be observed.
Principles of forming coniferous flower beds
Coniferous flowerbed
There are special principles of landscape design that are recommended to be followed when growing coniferous flower beds:
- The principle of proportionality must be observed when arranging coniferous mixborders. Due to their volume, they should be located at a sufficient distance from the residential area and recreation area. It is necessary to approximately find out the possible volume of the composition, and then increase this number by 2. The resulting result is the answer to the question: “at what distance from the house or gazebo should a flower bed with conifers and flowers or a coniferous mixborder be located?”
- A flowerbed with juniper, thuja, fir, and larch will look attractive if there is a pond a few meters from it. Home ponds are often decorated with sedge, fern, astilbe, as well as bushes with variegated leaves called hosta. These plants go perfectly with conifers. Therefore, the pond will look coniferous flowerbed in the same style.
- A flower garden of evergreen shrubs and compact trees is best planted so that it faces the east or west. In this way the plants will receive required amount sun rays, but ultraviolet light will not harm them. Plants will always have the opportunity to end up where there is shade.
- The gardener must try to make the residents of the evergreen corner comfortable. Slow plant growth should be taken into account. On one square meter It is recommended to plant one medium-sized conifer or two dwarfs. To fill the remaining space before the flowerbed takes on the planned form, planting annuals or greenery with beautiful leaves is suitable.
Note! When designing an area next to a mixborder, it is recommended to give preference to an emerald lawn. In this case, the green flower garden will look harmonious, simple and natural.
Conifers and perennial flowers for mixborders
The following conifers are suitable for creating an evergreen flower garden:
- Veres (juniper);
- Fir;
- Dwarf pine;
- Blue spruce;
- Yew, etc.
Veres has many types and varieties. The most suitable types for the garden are Cossack, horizontal, and ordinary. It is better for the gardener to select low-growing and dwarf varieties. For example, the cushion-shaped variety Blue Star (its height is only 10 cm, its diameter grows to 1.7 m, its needles are silver); creeping Blue Carpet (grows up to 70 cm in height, about 1.6 m in diameter, blue needles); Echeniformis (semicircular shrub with gray-blue needles, height 60 cm, crown diameter 90-100 cm), etc.
Thuja is indispensable for mixborderers, as it main feature The fact is that the lush crown is easy to trim. Thuja is used to make green figures and various architectural forms. The Danika variety (a dwarf with soft scaly needles) is popular. The Hoseri variety is described as a bush in the form of an emerald ball.
The fir for the composition is selected to be dwarf. For example, the Diamond variety, which is a round compact bush with delicate needles. An adult 10-year-old plant stretches up to 50 cm in height and 50-70 in width. A few more dwarf fir trees: Oberon, Silberlock, Nana (balsam).
Dwarf fir
Among the varieties of dwarf pines, the following stand out: Mugus with flattened branches, Pumilio and Pug, with crowns in the form of a sphere.
Blue spruce can be a wonderful addition to a mixborder. Especially compact varieties– Glauka Globoza, Montgomery, Lucky Strikes, as well as varieties medium height– Koster, Oldenburg, Edith.
Yew attracts designers with its reddish bark and light green crown. In early summer, the plant produces distinctive scarlet or brick-red berries. All varieties of the crop are poisonous. Designers highlight the varieties Samergold (with golden needles), Elegantissima (with a light green-whitish crown).
Perennial plants for coniferous mixborder are selected with similar preferences for the quality of soil composition. They combine well and take root with coniferous cultures:
- Barberry;
- Dwarf birches;
- Fieldfare;
- Roses;
- Hydrangeas;
- Rhododendrons;
- Heather;
- Erika;
- Thyme;
- Phloxes, etc.
Flowerbed of coniferous plants
Growing conifers in the form of a flower bed begins with selecting a location and drawing up a plan or diagram. The place should be sunny. The diagram includes the arrangement of plants. To make the evergreen mixborder beautiful, you should make it color scheme reserved.
Despite the fact that all planting material is a coniferous crop, each plant has its own color. The garden owner should take this into account and try to ensure that the finished mixborder includes only a few primary colors. You shouldn’t make it “motley”. If three are landed different cultures, the flowerbed should be two-color. If you plan to plant 5 or more crops, then the color scheme of the evergreen corner should be three-color.
Another condition for arranging a coniferous area is different shapes shrubs and compact trees. Before starting work, the garden owner develops a flower bed diagram. He selects plants according to his taste, without forgetting the basics of landscape design.
Additional Information. Dwarfs are always planted in the foreground of flower beds. After them there is a second tier where shrubs grow average size. The third tier consists of short or tall trees.
Scheme options
Minimalistic
Implies the absence of unnecessary details. Consists of 3 plants. The coastal juniper Shlager is planted in the foreground, and the thuja Danika is located nearby. The second plan is framed by mountain Pug pine.
Longline
This corner is formed of three tiers. The first tier is represented by creeping Blue Carpet heather and Nana heather. The second tier consists of Pug pine and Canadian Laurin spruce. The Blue Arrow rock heather is planted in the third tier.
Forest landscape
If you want to have a personal forest corner in your garden, you can make it with the help of larches (for example, varieties Kompakta, Pandula or Kornik), balsam fir Nana, mountain pine (Mugusa or Litomisly), blue spruce Koster. It is recommended to complement the landscape with ferns.
An example of a flower bed made of conifers
Step-by-step guide to creating a flower bed
- The scheme is being worked out.
- The perimeter of the flower bed is decorated with stones, bricks or crushed stone.
- The places where the conifers will be planted are indicated. You should take into account a sufficient distance (50-100 cm) between the bushes.
- Next, holes are dug for each of the plants. The depth depends on the size of the root. Approximately, the pits are 50 cm wide and 50-75 cm deep.
- A drainage of coarse sand is laid out at the bottom. A little soil mixture of peat, garden soil, leaf soil, turf soil, and humus is poured.
- Plants are placed in the holes, the remaining space is filled with soil mixture.
- Next, the root circles are mulched with fallen pine needles.
Flowerbed with juniper
If the gardener decides to organize a simple evergreen mixborder, then the hand landscape designer will immediately be drawn to junipers. These plants are unpretentious and grow in almost any conditions. In addition, they disinfect the air and smell pleasant. There are a large number of different types and varieties of this crop. Thanks to this, the composition with juniper will look advantageous.
Juniper
Scheme options
Longline
The rocky juniper Skyrocket is planted in the center, and several bushes of the Cossack variegated Variegata are placed nearby. The lower tier is represented by the Blue Chip dwarf.
Tiered with perennial flowers
To create tiers, the varieties of heathers Suetsica, Horstmann, Mint Julep, horizontal Wiltoni, Schlager, Silver Mist, Blue Chip are used. The middle tier will be complemented by hydrangea bushes. The lower tier will be decorated with tulips and daffodils. Planting miniature roses is allowed.
Flower garden with thujas
The cone-shaped shape of the bright emerald thuja looks impressive. Flowerbeds with thujas are an excellent solution for decoration large garden. However, these plants should be carefully looked after, especially if the bushes are less than three years old. The crops are shaded from the scorching sun, mulched with sawdust and pine needles, regularly watered and sprayed with a spray bottle.
Scheme options
Multi-colored tiered composition
The tiered thuja flowerbed includes varieties such as Reingold, Miki, Tiny Tim. Reingold will become the basis of the mixborder. Its shape is conical. The variety grows up to 3 meters in 30 years and has sunny soft needles. It will be perfectly complemented by several bushes of emerald Miki. They grow only up to 80 cm and are shaped like a pyramid. Tiny Tim independently takes the shape of a dense ball, which will become a clear accent in the composition. The lower tier is decorated with phlox and sedum.
spherical composition
A round object always attracts the eye. You can form a spherical composition from thujas. It will include varieties Danika, Teddy, Tim Tim. You can also land Globoza there. The composition can be diluted with aubrieta, bryozoan and a carpet of cotoneaster dummera.
With conifers and stones
Small boulders look impressive together with conifers, so evergreen corners with pebbles, granite, and slate are especially popular among designers.
Example of a flower bed with stones
Scheme options
Stone-forest
Stone with junipers
As planned, the composition will look horizontal. Several cobblestones should be placed randomly. Between them are planted heather varieties Prince of Wales, Gray Owl in the form of a curved tree and cushion-shaped Blue Star.
Floral
Between the stones there will be not only conifers (miniature Mugus pine, Nana heather, golden yew Samergold, golden thuja Yellow Ribbon), but also thyme, barberry, several dwarf birches and pink azalea.
Roses and conifers
Roses and conifers in landscape design represent an exquisite combination. The entire color scheme of roses fits perfectly into the emerald green of the conifers. Every gardener can independently come up with a flower garden design.
Roses fit beautifully into coniferous flower beds
Scheme options
Hedge
Roses and conifers in one flower bed can create hedge or curb. In this case, the flowerbed is arranged along the paths or fence. Conifers such as juniper, mountain pine, thuja, Canadian or common spruce, etc. are used. Park and remontant roses will complement the picture.
Minimalistic
Hybrid tea varieties of roses, blooming from June to September, look advantageous with thuja occidentalis, Cossack juniper, mountain pine.
Symmetrical composition
Symmetry is created by several Canadian firs in the form of pyramids and dense bushes of polyanthus roses.
Note! Despite the ideal visual combination of coniferous bushes and roses, the gardener must follow the rules for planting these crops. To prevent roses from picking up rust from evergreens, flowers are planted at a distance of 40-70 cm from conifers.
Round flowerbed with conifers and perennials
A flowerbed with conifers and perennials in the form of a circle has many variations. However, it is most preferable if the most dwarf plants, then you can plant medium-sized crops, the center of the round flowerbed is filled with tall evergreen specimens.
Scheme option
The edges of the circle are filled with the cushion-shaped heather variety Blue Star. Greens are supplemented with phlox, thyme or aubrieta, and violets. Next comes a layer of horizontal juniper, barberry and mountain pines. The center of the composition is the Japanese larch Stif Viper and climbing roses on a curved trellis.
Caring for coniferous composition
Coniferous trees need to be watered regularly
Despite the fact that evergreen crops are unpretentious and strong, they require care in the first few years after planting. It is necessary to feed them with special mineral fertilizers with salts of humic acids for conifers. Mixtures are sold in stores. At first, it is recommended to place an improvised tent made of stretched gauze over the mixborder. In this way you can save the needles from sunburn. It is also required to carry out the following procedures in a timely manner:
- Watering (once every 10-15 days);
- Spraying shoots with a spray bottle clean water(1 time every 3-7 days);
- Weed removal;
- Loosening;
- Mulching (sawdust, cones, bark, fallen pine needles are used as mulch);
- Trimming and removing old and dry leaves;
- Preparing for winter ( tree trunk circles generously covered with peat, leaves, sawdust, pine needles).
A flowerbed of conifers is an evergreen island, thanks to which the air in the garden is purified. The advantage of these compositions is that even a beginner in gardening can create them. Any gardener can come up with his own planting scheme and organize a coniferous corner that will delight his household for decades.
Recently, coniferous plants have been gaining popularity in landscape design. Very often they are used to create truly beautiful composition, which will not only serve as a reliable fence, but will also be appropriate on any type of site. It is worth noting that conifers go well with deciduous plants. In addition, they will go well with lawns and stones. Any composition with the participation of conifers will have a unique aroma, fill the air with purity, and also delight you throughout the year.
Compositions in landscape design from coniferous plants can be completely different and look completely different. Each of the compositions will be especially beautiful. It is worth noting that it is necessary to choose the composition of the composition based on the territory where the landscape design is planned, as well as what plants will form the basis of the entire composition.
As a rule, the following plants are chosen for coniferous compositions in landscape design:
- Juniper;
- Rose;
- Pine.
Coniferous compositions in landscape design with thuja plant
A plant such as thuja will delight you for 10 years from the moment of planting. As a rule, such conifers reach two meters in height. It is recommended to use this variety of Thuja, like "Smaragd". After 10 years have passed since the planting of the thujas, their growth will, of course, continue and reach a height of 4 meters. It is best to choose a location for such a plant near the entrance to your site. Why? The fact is that in the process of growth, they will resemble in their appearance a kind of gate that will protect your territory.
Speaking about caring for thuja in your garden, it is worth noting that these plants require a “cosmetic” haircut and this will be quite enough. All you need to do is remove the shoots, which, as a rule, are crooked. However this happens extremely rarely.
Coniferous compositions in landscape design with juniper plants
Juniper is another type of conifer that will go well in landscape design with any other plants in the garden and decorative stones. In order to decorate your site with juniper, it is best to use garden forms, which include decorative shrubs of the dwarf type, as well as columnar ones. If your goal is to create a hedge, then for this you will need to choose a columnar type of juniper. However, if you plan to plant juniper in groups or individually, then columnar juniper will also be an excellent solution.
The most common forms of conifers are Compressa, Green Carpet, Sentinel and Repanda. If you want to plant a coniferous composition on your site, but you don’t have much time to care for it, then choose Cossack Juniper. Often many people choose Chinese juniper. It grows like a tree and reaches a height of 8 to 10 meters. If you want to arrange juniper in a flowerbed in your garden, and this is a very common case on plots of land, then choose juniper horizontal. Their form will develop as a low shrub, creeping type.
If you want to plant small shrubs, then you can choose juniper candy. This form is a small shrub with silver-blue needles. This form is perfect for creating.
Coniferous compositions in landscape design with a rose plant
Rose is also one of the plants that can complement the composition and serve as a kind of decoration. Undoubtedly, roses and conifers go well together and seem to complement each other. However, there is a small problem. Thuja and other coniferous plants contribute to soil oxidation as a result of vital activity. All this contradicts the normal existence of roses. Roses tolerate acidic soil extremely negatively; it is this factor that can affect the growth of this plant. In addition, there is no chance that roses will survive in an acidic environment.
Coniferous compositions in landscape design with pine or spruce
Typically, pine or spruce trees are used as the basis of the entire composition. The planting of this plant should be concentrated in the center. This majestic tree is usually surrounded by lower shrubs and other plants that grow along the ground cover.
Planting scheme
The planting scheme in the garden can have a significant impact on the further growth of conifers, as well as in general on whether they will take root at all. What is important to consider when planting? What schemes exist and which one is better to choose? Let's take a closer look.
Let's look at the first diagram. So, we have a plot of 4 by 4 m. The largest prickly spruce will be located in the very center. Next, around this spruce it is necessary to place mountain pine, and it can also be supplemented with Canadian hemlock. Then in the middle you need to plant a mountain pine tree, which will be slightly smaller in size than the previous one. Next to the small mountain pine, it is necessary to stock black spruce, western thuja, and balsam fir.
Also an excellent solution would be a composition with the participation of European weeping larch. In the center of the diagram is the European weeping larch. It is recommended to plant cordifolia bergenia, horizontal cotoneaster, and purple broom around the larch. It is also necessary to place horizontal juniper near the larch. You can fit three small junipers.
Rockery in front of your house
What is a rockery and what does it represent? A rockery is a gently sloping garden. When creating such a garden, stones are used decorative type, as well as other natural ones. In addition, flowers and shrubs of your choice are used, as well as it is possible to use dwarf trees.
Principles for creating a rock garden:
- Choose and give preference to the most unpretentious coniferous trees;
- The basis of your composition should be conifers and their representatives (dwarf);
- In order to create a pattern, choose stones with bedding;
- Lack of tiers.
A variety of rockeries
There are three types of rockeries in total. Everything depends, first of all, on the flora. The first type is usually decorated with plants that grow in the area middle zone. If you are creating an English rockery, then emphasis should be placed more on the restraint of the entire composition. Main group of plants:
- Cereals;
- Some types of shrubs belonging to coniferous species.
If you want to make a Japanese rock garden, then you should pay more attention to the stones. That is, the point is that there will be little vegetation, and decorative stones there will be more.
Caring for coniferous compositions
In order for your design to serve for a long time, it is necessary to ensure competent care of the landscape as a whole.
Necessary:
- Get rid of weeds on an ongoing basis;
- Fertilize plants from 3-4 years of growth;
- Loosen the soil in a moderate mode;
- IN winter time cover the plants with spruce branches to avoid frost of the compositions:
- In case of particularly hot weather conditions and bright, scorching sun, cover plants from direct rays.
In conclusion, I would like to note that landscape design is not only beautiful, but also good for your health. After all, having filled the landscape coniferous plants, you will get the maximum useful substances , thanks to the needles. Of course, landscape design from coniferous plants will complement all the beauty of nature that is located on your site.
Thanks to the abundance of plants that are part of the conifer group, you can create very attractive design, which will conquer everyone around you. In fact, recently, quite a lot of attention has been paid to landscape design and this is an integral part of any plot of land. Even a small number of compositions can decorate your home and surrounding area.
To successfully create an image, as well as the further development of plants, it is necessary to correctly select the composition of plants for the composition, and also take into account all the features. Do not forget that you will need to provide competent plant care, thanks to which the composition will delight you for many years.
Preface
The warm season is ideal for the garden to bloom. But I really want him to be able to please even in winter. And this is where a flower bed of conifers will help you - it can inspire with greenery throughout the year. Arborvitae, junipers and other species will fit perfectly into general style your garden, and in summer the flower beds can be supplemented with other flowers and shrubs.
Flowerbed of coniferous plants - diagram and stages of creation
There is nothing difficult in creating such a flower bed. It is important to know exactly the stages of work, as well as study the recommendations experienced gardeners on choosing and caring for plants in the future.
Making a flowerbed with your own hands:
- Soil preparation. Despite the fact that evergreen conifers can grow in almost any soil, it is best to mix turf or leaf soil with peat and sand. Don't forget to add to be safe special compounds for these types of trees, which can be purchased at a regular gardening store.
- After this, we begin planting. It is best to plant in the center of the flower bed tall species. For example, you can choose junipers, which we install at a distance of about a meter from each other. The depth of the dug holes should be approximately 50-70 cm; we lay soil mixtures on the bottom. You can’t do without drainage, which can be sand or pebbles. We plant lower plants around in the same way.
- We compact, mulch and decorate the flowerbed. After planting the plants, the soil must be thoroughly watered and compacted, adding a layer of soil if necessary. Next, we carry out mulching using peat or pine chips, and the layer should be at least 10 cm. Pebbles or marble chips are suitable for decoration.
- We are improving the area. Undoubtedly, not only planting is important, but also the creation of a decent ambiance. We need to dig a ditch around our evergreen flower bed, where we will plant lower flowers and plants. The soil should be neutral, “flavored” with mineral fertilizers - this will allow you to grow lush and healthy shrubs. When choosing plants, monitor their flowering period and select according to the same principle - this will allow you to get beautiful flower beds from conifers.
A flowerbed of conifers - ensuring proper care
Using a small example, we will show how best to design evergreen flower bed. Before you begin the task, determine the future type of composition, taking into account size, style, relative position, and then, based on these factors, select plants. The main thing is that they look good and can sit side by side. The simplest option is to create a flower bed with a symmetrical arrangement of shrubs and trees. A pyramidal, “funnel-shaped” plant should be taken as the main (central) element. For example, it could become Chinese juniper– the tree grows up to 2.5 m. After this, we plant “second order” shrubs symmetrically. These include mountain pine, western thuja, Norway spruce are those types of evergreens that reach 1.5 m in height.
On long winter evenings we plan and draw planting schemes, says FORUMHOUSE user LidiiaS. Today we will talk about how users of our portal create compositions from conifers.
Going to the nursery in the spring and buying all the seedlings you like is a common, but worse option. You need to start creating a composition with a detailed study of the place on the site and drawing up a plan.
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At a minimum, draw up a planting plan yourself, taking into account the plant’s habit, soil requirements and lighting.
Designers usually recommend not limiting yourself to the plan, but also photographing the location of the future coniferous group from all points from which you will admire it. Look at the photos until you understand what kind of picture you want to see there.
The most tall trees planted in the background so that they do not block the view of those below.
The height of the plants should increase as they move away from the viewer.
The composition will be fully perceived at a distance equal to two of its heights. Usually this distance is sown with a lawn, and this combination allows you to kill another hare: against the background of a lawn, any Christmas tree looks more advantageous.
If we're talking about about all-round viewing groups that can be viewed from all sides, then the most a big tree, in the second and subsequent rows the height of trees and bushes should decrease proportionally. The point is that they do not cover, but emphasize decorative qualities each other. Therefore, each subsequent row should be at least half as low as the previous one.
Many conifers grow slowly, and sometimes the composition of a spruce tree in the garden reaches its peak decorative value only after ten years. You can plant fir trees and thujas closer to each other, and after a few years, partially cut down those that will interfere. Or you can plant very small “more spacious” ones and wait patiently until they turn into the beauty and pride of the site. The wait is brightened up by planting tracts of perennials, roses, and so on. Until the tree skeleton grows, they will fill the space and delight your eye with flowering and texture. The first or second method to choose depends on the character of the garden owner.
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That is, it is completely unnecessary, having planted the little ones at once at large distances from each other, to sigh over the half-empty space all the time until they grow.
This composition with a spruce on the site will reach its peak decorative value in a few years.
When planting conifers in a composition, it is necessary to take into account their future size, so that they do not have to crowd together and close their crowns.
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For plants of the same tier - at a distance equal to the sum of their radii in the adult (at least 10 years, and for trees large sizes- 20-30 years) condition.
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You type in the search engine the size (habitus) of the thuja Smaragd, for example. We look at the width of the plant, divide it in half and get the distance from the center of the planting hole to the edge of the crown. We measure half the width of the next seedling from this point - this will be the center of planting hole number two.
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Just don't overdo it, or it will look like this. The bottom picture is only planted conifers, the top pictures are after five years.
That is, the crowns of the plants in the composition will close together, but this should happen “not on next year and not at the level of a meter from the ground.”
Experts recommend not to forget that color is one of the ways to assemble a group of conifers into one whole. Don't get too carried away different colors pine needles and different shades green: “they didn’t look good in childhood,” designers say in such cases.
There is a simple rule: a very small composition (three plants) - two colors, five - a maximum of three is needed, in a large composition the plants are placed in groups of the same color.
Coniferous groups are often diluted not only with perennials, but also with deciduous plants - this gives the garden new colors, evokes new feelings, and makes the garden design more interesting and multifaceted. The spacing of deciduous shrubs depends on whether they should fall under the tree canopy. So, the crowns of spruce and fir reach the ground, which means that the bushes must be planted beyond the diameter of the crown. Many shrubs in the garden look good when practically intertwined with each other. That is, more accurate distances can be calculated after you have completed the first part of the work: decide on the set of crops and varieties and their approximate location.
Ready-made coniferous compositions. Scheme
Here are the options ready-made compositions with conifers:
Composition of coniferous plants, scheme No. 1.
- Common juniper "Stricta"
- Bladderwort "Darts Gold"
- White dogwood "Aurea"
- Rock juniper (virginian) “Blue Arrow”
- European larch (deciduous) “Pendula”
- Soft cuff “Auslese” + Tulips
- Spiraea japonica "Gold Mound"
- Low growing yew berry
- Euphorbia cypress.
To design a site country house Coniferous plants are increasingly used. These unique plants are able to maintain their attractiveness in summer and winter, and a properly composed composition will make your garden uniquely beautiful and aesthetically attractive.
When grouping plants in a composition, it is important to take into account not the number of planted conifers, but the harmonious selection coniferous species, which ideally will coexist with other types of plants, be it shrubs or flowers. Plant next to thuja and juniper white rose or heather and the composition will sparkle with delicate beauty. Alternating plantings flowering bushes and evergreen conifers can maintain the attractive appearance of your site at any time of the year.
The choice of a specific site for organizing coniferous compositions plays a significant role in creating a natural corner. If you organize the planting of conifers at the main entrance or entrance, then this option will add solemnity and pomp country house.
Conifers that tolerate pruning well can be planted as a hedge. Get an unusual haircut and the hedge will look original. To create a dense hedge, plants are planted in a checkerboard pattern, in 2-3 rows.
Planted in mixborders dwarf species coniferous plants will serve as an excellent background for flower crops and emphasized bright colors flowering plants. Mixborders are created against the background of houses, fences, along paths, etc. decorative element, covering unaesthetic areas of the garden.
It is impossible to do without conifers when creating rock gardens, rocky gardens and alpine slides. Coniferous plants planted along the banks of flowing streams, with waterfalls and against the backdrop of the quiet surface of reservoirs will add summer cottage natural landscape.
How pleasant it is to walk along a winding path decorated with compositions of low-growing conifers or grouped with tall specimens.
The site located on a slope is decorated with terraces in the form of a cascade of steps. The lower tier is decorated with juniper or dwarf pines trimmed into neat shapes in combination with other plants. Creeping junipers with replantings climbing plants will look excellent, and in addition, such plantings prevent the destruction of the slope, strengthening the soil from erosion.
Recreational areas should not be missed. Conifers planted next to the gazebo, near the recreation area or near the children's playground will protect you from prying eyes, as well as from dust and the hot scorching sun. Container gardening with conifers is used in practice. A patio decorated with container coniferous plants will look cozy - convenient and practical.
I would especially like to note that all conifers do not tolerate areas with stagnant moisture. The soil for conifers is improved with drainage and sand is added to the soil. In the first years of planting, fertilizing with special fertilizers is necessary. For large and single specimens, a sufficiently large and unshaded space is allocated so that they develop a fluffy, symmetrical crown. When designing compositions, you should take into account the distance between plantings (at least 0.8 m for short ones and 1-1.5 m for tall ones).
The color range of coniferous plants is also varied. Grouping the compositions, plant 3 or 5 conifers. It is important not to overdo it here; in a group with three specimens, two colors are used, and when composing groups of five conifers, you can get creative with three different colors. If a complex composition is made from a large number of plants, it is necessary to divide the plants into subgroups of 3-5 and work with them separately, taking into account the ratio of different colors of conifers.
The shape and height of the conifers when composing an ensemble are taken into account at the initial moment when planning and composing the composition. It is important to learn how to predict the condition of planted plants after some time, when the plants reach adulthood.