Evergreens in the garden. Part 2

A selection of decorative and flowering and decorative foliage plants for suburban areas in the temperate continental climate zone

We continue this in the first part the story of the evergreen herbaceous plants, which perfectly complement your garden.

Iberis (Stennikov)

In addition to annual and perennial species of particular interest in the winter-green forms. It is hibernating stem shrubs with small oval-lanceolate leaves. The root system of this plant slaborazvetvlonnaya and deep-seated.

Florets 2cm collected in corymbose inflorescences. Expanding, plants entirely coated landing area, turning the pillow height of 30 cm, and over evergreen leaves flowers rise.

Propagation from seed or vegetative Iberis - layering and cuttings.

Iberis cultivated on soils of average fertility with good drainage, while taking into account the fact that he enjoys full or partial coverage.

Saxifrage (saksifraga)

In our country, spread about 90 species of this plant, but for decorating the garden are used by no more than 15. Saxifrage - a plant height of from 5 to 70 cm thick in the garden creates or friable courtines.

The leaves have a different shape from lanceolate to rhombic, color - from green to yellow-spotted. Five-flowers are small, stellate; there are white, yellow, pink, cherry and green. Paniculate inflorescences of this plant are very effective. Saxifrage blooms from May until August. The vast majority of species are evergreen.

Saksifraga easily propagated vegetatively: courtines division, cuttings, single socket after flowering plants. These plants are unpretentious, prefer calcareous soil, sunny location and good drainage.

Planted saxifrage on stony hills, in the shady flower beds, use for decorating the shores of reservoirs and create separate kurtinok.

From evergreen saxifrage widely used such kinds and varieties as urban (30 cm tall), Arends (sometimes called Moss family Saxifrage) suprotivnolistnaya (bloom is very abundant pink-red flowers), shadow (creating beautiful dense clumps of flat rosettes of about 5 cm in diameter, leaves rounded, almost smooth, green and yellow-spotted), Elizabeth (with yellow flowers) turfy (forms dense Similar to cushion bushes in height and 20 cm; the flowers are white and pink cherry), Pennsylvania (growing in wet places).

Cat's Claw (antennariya)

Most of the species - dwarf ground cover perennials with small silver leaves and inflorescences, resembling a trail of cat paws. Bush grows up to 25 cm high and 45 cm in diameter. Forms a dense carpet of fine silver outlets arranged on the ends of creeping branching shoots. In June, there are small florets in range of colors from white to crimson.

It propagated mostly by dividing kurtinok in early summer or late autumn, in late August. It needs regular rejuvenation of 2-3 years.

Cat's Claw prefers loose-poor soils; drought-resistant and sun-loving, shade-but. In addition, this plant is winter-hardy and do not require cover.

Cat's foot for use in edging flower beds, precipitated between the plates on dry tracks and slopes.

Medunitsa (pulmonariya)

Lungwort - an indispensable border plant, and all its species are extremely interesting. Her fancy colors: the aging of the color corolla lungwort changes from purple to pink or purple or blue. Lungwort blooms for a month. Flowers in her bell-shaped or funnel-shaped with a limb, on long cuttings - are sunken tender leaves cordate-ovate, and the upper side of leaves - blurred bright spots. Winter under the snow are tufts of basal, strongly overgrown rough leaves. Lungwort prefers shady spots.

Drug, angustifolia, sugar, red, lungwort Folyarskogo - different kinds of plants are commonly used when we creating the background clumps, in flower beds contrast compositions, especially in combination with hosts, ferns and other perennials. Planting is recommended in shady places.

Molodilo (cempervivum)

This succulent is a popular plant in a decorative garden design. Ball socket fleshy leaves size from 4 to 15 cm have different colors, and density are sunken. Summer bloom yellow, red or purple stellate flowers, gathered in showy corymbose-paniculate inflorescence with thick peduncles. Netsvetuschie outlet live for several years. Molodilo forms dense clumps of ground cover.

Multiplies this plant subsidiaries rosettes growing on the ends of the ground stolons. It is unpretentious, tolerates any soil, as well as sun-loving and drought-resistant. It is hardy, but severe frosts rejuvenated should still cover the spruce branches.

The most common types of youth - web, proliferous and roofing. All kinds of well look at the stony hills, in the crevices of the walls.

evergreen spurge

Evergreen spurge - one of the many species of milkweed. Plant name is not accidental - known species with white latex, which is derived from plant wounding.

The leaves are evergreen spurge dark, shiny and collected in dense rosettes. Flowers form inflorescences in the middle - one female flower around - a few male flowers reduced.

Euphorbia planted in rock gardens and borders.

Aubrieta

Irreplaceable groundcover plant with thick blue-green leaves are sunken small. In early summer the leaves are hidden under the most diverse small flowers bright colors. After flowering Aubrieta need pruning. The root system of plants, perfect for creating a green carpet - surface. Reproduction by seeds and vegetative. The main way - the division of the spring, early growth. Cuttings - in the second half of the summer the new shoots grow after flowering.

Aubrieta unpretentious to the soil, but prefers well-drained areas, illuminated by the sun. Hardy, but nevertheless it should be closed to the winter - in the event of severe frosts. Aubrieta great danger for stagnant water present in the spring. The most popular varieties are forward-looking (up to 12 cm in height), Aurevariegata (lavender flowers and leaves with gold border) Bressinghem Pink (double pink flowers) and Dr. Malis (purple flowers).

Fescue (festuka)

Refined plant to trim green carpet. Fescue refers to decorative grasses with blue foliage. Dimensions festuki diverse: from small (for rock) to large (for curbs, mixborders and soliternyh landings). This plant is peculiar and interesting form of its blue color.

The most popular blue-gray fescue (glaucoma), forming the mounds of thick gray-blue foliage height up to 15 cm. In the variety Blue (Blue Far) pure blue leaves, in Violet - blue-gray, and it forms the larger bumps. For the rock garden is widely used dwarf fescue veliyskaya, Sibirsi grade.

Soil for fescue is required is not very fertile, with good drainage, illuminated by the sun.

Sedum (sedum)

This deciduous succulent very popular. By kinds of sedum are divided into erect, ascending, creeping, and rooting. Flowers at these beautiful leafy ornamental plants stellate, white, yellow and pink, collected in corymbose, paniculate or umbellate inflorescences.

Stonecrops unpretentious, resistant to frost. Used to cover the soil, for rockeries and borders. In our area the following varieties of sedum are most common: Corrosive, White, crassifolia bent, false. But this is not an exhaustive list of existing evergreen stonecrops.

Sedum, a height of 4-8 cm, is ascending or prostrate shoots. The leaves are fleshy and short, covered with vegetative branches. The flowers are golden-yellow, up to 1 cm in diameter.

Stonecrop propagated by seeds and cuttings.

Fern

Among the few evergreen fern species. One of them - mnogoryadnik. He vai collected in the outlet, reminiscent of the shuttlecock. There are dwarf mnogoryadniki for groundcover plantings and rock gardens, there are large - for borders and flower beds, wooded gardens. The frost may podmorznut fern, however outlet cover peat or other cover material, and spring open.

Vai this fern long reach 1.2 meters. The leaves of different varieties strongly or slightly ripped, in shape resembling a pen. Grades vary in size and shape of the sheet.

Propagate by dividing the bush ferns in the spring. Keep in mind that they love the soil fertile, well-drained and prefer partial shade.

Sagebrush

Wormwood is loved by gardeners for the feathery silver fragrant herbs. Wormwood can be of different shapes and sizes. Among the species of Artemisia have shrubs, perennials have fillets, wormwood is often used as a groundcover plant for a rock garden. But not all varieties of wormwood are evergreen.

Primrose (primrose)

Of the many species and varieties of primroses in winter keeps its leaves green Ushkova just primrose. But among all Ushkova primroses not stand our cold. Marked the most stable hybrid curb auriculo having tends to spoon fleshy leaves and fragrant flowers on peduncles 10-20 cm high. Flowering begins in early summer. The flowers of the primrose not only have a pleasant aroma, but also pleasing to the beauty and richness of callers combinations - are yellow, gray-blue, purple-blue, red-brown-yellow.

For the successful cultivation requires well-drained soil and partial shade.

Arabis (arabis)

Charming undemanding groundcover winter-green plant with lots of flowers on overwintered shoots. The flowers are simple, double, white and pink colors. They create luxury courtines or used in rockeries.

Arabis perfectly reproduces by seeds and vegetatively. It requires periodic rejuvenation. After abundant flowering need trimming withered shoots - it stimulates the regrowth of new ones.

For Arabis preferred loose, fertile drained non-acidic soil. This plant photophilous and drought, but suffers from stagnant waters, and at strong frosts require shelter.

Arabis can be used to create decorative panels, curtains, borders, green "spots" in the rocky gardens and for securing slopes.

Tiarella

Ornamental plant with panicles of white or creamy white foam flowers. Small and delicate, they are placed on a spike up to 45 cm and bloom from mid-spring four to six weeks, towering over courtines of beautiful furry sharp-toothed leaves. Heart-shaped leaves, moderately green in summer and reddish-bronze or dark purple in autumn, remain under the winter. They can be black streaks or spots, giving it a unique beauty.

Vigorously growing, tiarella creates lovely compactor carpet height of 30-45 cm. Used for planting on the edges of borders in rocky gardens or to create a spectacular array in shady places. For its cultivation requires slightly acidic soil enriched with organic matter and moderately moisturized.

Thyme

Crawling leafy ornamental plant heights of 7-10 cm; bezrozetochny with tap evergreen shrub. Shoots creeping, flowering branches are lifted above the ground. Over time, the thick tufts formed. Thyme Leaves are narrow and elongated, densely covered shoots; The flowers are small, capitate inflorescences. Thyme zymo- and drought-resistant. He reproduces by seed and division of bushes.

Vine variety has an interesting shape of leaves - they had oblong-elliptic, and on the edge dlinnoresnitchatye. Compact inflorescence and a length of 2-3 cm, bright pink-lilac color.

Stachys

This is one of the best ground cover plants with silvery foliage. Thick, oval and lanceolate leaves completely covered with white or gray hairs. Most Stachys in the middle of the summer there are sunken flower stalks on which the whorls are located small purple flowers, presents no particular ornamental value. Also, there are varieties and netsvetuschie. Height Stachys in various grades - from 10 to 45 cm.

The most popular among gardeners view - Stachys (stahis) or woolly mullein, which grows luxurious large loose clumps. Short shoots overwinter under the snow.

Rhizome in Stachys short, slightly creeping, the root system is strong. Most often used vegetative propagation: cuttings, layering or division of the bushes.

Stachys undemanding to soil, but prefers the soft earth under the sun or in partial shade. Resistant to winter cold, and does not even require shelter.

This beautiful silvery plant is used for planting in borders or in separate groups.

All The above information in this article is certainly not the most versatile lights detail properties evergreen herbaceous plants, but it should help you to choose a worthy decorate your garden.

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