Evergreen garden plants: what to plant, to ensure that the beauty of the land for years. Part 1

Evergreens attract us not only wintering leaves, many of them are pleased with the bright flowers and fruits

A conifer foliage plants, living on average from two to twenty years, may not necessarily be green, but different shades of yellow and even red.

Evergreen plants suitable for cultivation in home gardens are not so much. Moreover, not every one of them arts year round. Southern evergreen plants do not tolerate the northern winter - in the extreme cold, they die. These deaths can lead and strong, gusty winds and other adverse conditions. In some evergreen plants in winter leaves do not look in the best way, but still many of these popular trees and shrubs enliven its colors our winter gardens, changing their appearance, clearly standing out against the background bared listopadnikov.

Some plants, such as St. John's wort and viburnum is grown for their showy flowers. Others create a decorative effect such as its leaves and inflorescences, such as rhododendron and saxifrage. There are among these evergreen plants that are grown solely for the sake of easy carrying cold leaves.

For all climatic conditions for any garden there are suitable evergreen culture, a variety of size, colors and shape of the crown.

This article deals with the evergreen plants that are suitable for growing in small garden plots, located in the zone of moderate continental climate.

The important role played by low bushes, shrubs and ground cover plants in garden design: they grow rapidly, closing the vacant land green carpet.

Tall plants, mostly conifers, are widely used to create hedges. Low conifers planted in flowerbeds and curbs different. Also, evergreen plants are often planted on the lawns and in containers.

Do not overdo it with the number of evergreens in the garden, or else it will look dark and dull. They can act as a dominant, and in conjunction with deciduous cultures and vibrant colors to create unique contrasts. Designers recommend to maintain a balance between the garden evergreen and deciduous.

The most popular evergreen ornamental shrubs have beautiful flowers (rhododendrons, heathers, Mahonia, viburnum and others).

A number of evergreen shrubs are grown solely because of their leaves. Showy evergreen herbaceous perennials, such as cloves, saxifrage, Stachys, thyme, wild ginger.

When choosing plants for your garden, remember that:

• It must be purchased seedlings, zoned for the conditions of your site location;
• better to buy the most popular, proven by your friends grade;
• some plants, well-wintering in the conditions of the southern districts of the Leningrad region, can not tolerate frost on the Karelian Isthmus, they should be warm.
• When choosing a location and destination landing - bed, border, mixborders, green fence, ground carpet, etc... - should be considered as the plant height in adulthood, and its shape, the colors, the rate of growth. You must also ensure that the selected instance, this place will do, the acidity of the soil, drainage and lighting. Do not forget to set the level of groundwater - this is especially important for the evergreen trees and shrubs, particularly conifers.
• buy evergreen should only be in a container or with a clod of the earth, because even short drying out the roots may lead to dropping of leaves, then plants hard restored. In addition, planting in containers is possible without limitation in time.

Let us dwell on the most popular evergreens.

Asarum (Asarum)

asarum leaves are similar in shape to the cyclamen leaves - they have heart-shaped or hoof shape, so the plant we called ungulates.

It can be distinguished from the popular types of oriental, Siebold and Canadian. In some glossy leaves, the other a refined texture, some with striking silver color. They differ in size and leaves.

Asarum loves rich in organic matter, slightly acid, moist, drained soil, so it should be planted in moist shady places. This leafy decorative plant looks great in borders of flower beds in group plantings. Asarum is popular for its beautiful foliage, hardiness and endurance. It is dense green carpet covers the ground, forming a ground cover courtines different density, restraining the growth of weeds.

After wintering ungulates leaves age and fall, but lost them, the plant quickly acquires a very tender new.

Thrift

Armeria forms a cushion of gramineous leaf, on which the spring on thin peduncles rise bunches of bright pink, red and white small flowers. May re-bloom in the fall. Armero varieties are many and they are readily available.

Badan

This spectacular groundcover plant with large fleshy leaves with a diameter of 30 cm, which is growing rapidly, covering the carpet open spaces. In late autumn, with the onset of winter cold oval heart-shaped leaves of Bergenia tupozubye acquire a beautiful purple-red or bronze tint.

Overwintered leaves blacken and grow to replace them with new ones. On fleshy peduncles appear medium-sized flowers, bells lavender-pink, pinkish-purple or white flowers with a waxy coating. Flowers in the flap-thick paniculately inflorescence sizes from 8 to 18 cm. In one inflorescence it has up to 130 flowers. Bergenia Duration of flowering - late April - early May to the end of June, unless he gets under the spring frosts. Perhaps a secondary bloom in August or September.

The best place for Bergenia - partial shade. It grows well in the sun and it is. This plant prefers a neutral or slightly alkaline loose, nutritious, well-drained soil in upland areas with constant moisture. Badan drought-resistant. When spring frost it should be warm, not to pomorzli flower buds. Propagated by seeds and saxifrage dividing overgrown bushes. Seeds are sown in early spring.

You can use this plant in flowerbeds compositions rabatkah, Alpine hills, rocky gardens.

periwinkle

Rhizome shrub with prostrate or ascending stems and evergreen leaves wintering. Spring short 15-20 cm tall erect shoots appear graceful single five-petal flowers diameter of 2 to 5 cm, simple or double. Flowers, depending on the variety and growing conditions, differ in the number, size, and color: They are pale blue, lilac-blue, dark blue, blue with purple hue, purple or white. Elliptical, with short petioles, leathery and shiny, also differ in color: dark green, light green with cream margins, yellow. There are varieties of leaves with dvuhkolernoy color: golden and silvery-variegated.

Stems grow in a season by 40-60 cm and are able to bloom again. Fruit forms two oblong or cylindrical seed brown or brownish. Roots - and many filamentous - occur on all nodes of the stem when they come in contact with the ground.

Periwinkle refers to very strong plants. Resilient, dense foliage is used to create a wonderful carpet base in shaded, half-shaded and sunny locations with well-drained and moist soil. The branches of this plant grow and intertwine. Periwinkle is well suited as ground cover for the beaches, jetties and other sloping areas. It is used in the form of hang-downing.

Small mats vinca spectacular on the stony hills. And its use for landing and Curtin in borders between trees. Caring for periwinkle simple: watering can rarely, and feeding is not necessary.

loosestrife monetchaty

This creeper with white and yellow flowers has long been loving gardeners. It retains foliage year-round, covering the surface of the earth in damp, shaded areas. Wild species of this plant is growing strongly, but fairly compact cultivars. From May to August in the stems of flowers bloom numerous yellow diameter of 2 cm.

Loosestrife prefers moist soil and a small opacity, but there are varieties, excellent growing in full sun.

carnation

One of the most popular and common plants. There are about 300 species of herbaceous one-, two- and multi carnations. Among the many species there are evergreen and poluvechnozelonye form.

At stud stem simple, branched and erect. Leaves sessile, linear, linear-lanceolate, flat or slightly grooved. The color of the leaves are green, reddish or bluish. Flowers are single, or gathered in the brush panicle; pink, purple, white, red or yellow.

His lavish flowers, exquisite carved petals and almost always pleasant aroma of cloves give the charm of the garden. Winter hardiness of many species of carnations allows to cultivate them in the north. To preserve its green cover should be for the winter spruce branches - not so much from the cold, but from mice. There is no need to conceal the low grade, because under a layer of snow, they remain green without additional shelters.

Heuchera

Ground cover plant of the family saxifrage. Rhizome Heuchera in short, dense and slightly creeping; shallow root system. The plant has ample luxury outlet of the leaves, the leaves - lobed, heart-shaped oval, covered with fuzz, and imbued with veins. Small charming flowers sit on a high peduncles.

Heuchera are grown for ornamental leaves. Colors - white, pink, red and even green - appear on a spike in height from 45 to 75 cm.

Popular varieties of Peter Moon (pink flowers and marble-gray leaves) Red Spendlis (red flowers and pale green with dark green leaves stains) Grinfinch (green flowers and green leaves).

Heuchera easily propagated by sowing seeds, cuttings and division of rhizomes outlets. It grows well in any garden soil, but prefers loose and fertile. It can be very long without the transplant, but the young 2-3 year old plants look tidier and bloom profusely.

Heuchera water-loving, but is drought resistant. It grows well and blooms in partial shade and in the sun. In the snow-free periods of winter requires a dry shelter coniferous spruce branches.

zhivuchka

One of the most interesting decorative groundcover plants. Propagated aboveground creeping shoots, which end with rooting rosettes. The root system of its fibrous, shallow but strong.

Flowering zhivuchka early summer: inflorescence up to 30 cm are composed of numerous small blue flowers. It is unpretentious, good for filling of all vacant and unattractive places under trees, shrubs, and also looks good among the colorful plants in flower beds. On nutrient soil zhivuchka forms plush carpets.

The leaves tend to brown-beet or dark green, the bright sun leaf color becomes more expressive. Use this plant to create a groundcover carpets, borders, as well as to secure the slopes.

On the topic suggest reading a monochrome flower beds and landscaped life hacking.

Continuation of the collection of garden perennials.

The video - an example of the harmonious landscape, created on their own, with recommendations on the selection of the plants.

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