Separately, a growing tree or shrub are intended to enjoy them by itself, and not in combination with other plants. At the curb bare stalks running bush can hide other plants, and dull appearance of some bushes, when they do not bloom, you can compensate for the bright colors of neighboring plants. Separately, a growing plant is always in sight. His role — to attract opinion, make the landscape more interesting and to divert attention from the less interesting parts of the garden. This role dictates special rules for the selection and care for the growing plants separately.
Select a tree or shrub, which are decorative if not all year round, then at least most of it. It is important beautiful foliage and attractive form, evergreen plants is desirable but not required. Of course, the beautiful blooms — a big plus, but it should not be the sole criterion for selection. Many ornamental trees outside forests lies in the foliage, fruit and bark, and not in flowers.
Select the correct size and shape. A small bush on the large lawn is lost. The big tree on a very small lawn not only looks out of place, but can simply negate your efforts and the work of your neighbors, depriving the land of sun, water and food. If you want just a tree, not a bush, and you have a small garden, think about how to form shrub. For a small garden there is a general rule — the higher the selected plant, so should already be his crown.
Proper care plays a special role. Follow all the rules of care — without it a few years you can be the owner of worthless tree or bush.
Most deciduous trees are too large for the average garden, vines do not so much and they can not grow in any garden, and conifers are not in bloom. Shrubs are deprived of all these flaws: among them are plants of different sizes, some that are beautiful in any season, and they can perform almost any task that is usually set aside woody plants.
Shrubs may be prostrate growth form, can fill a border or flower bed, can grow as handsome a single plant or decorate the walls of the house, but they are not, their high-altitude never exceeds 4,5-5 pm If you need a plant height of a house, Plant a deciduous or any conifer.
In the most common shrubs in the green foliage and beautiful flowers, which appear, usually in the spring and sometimes in the summer or autumn, and do not fall within a few weeks or even months. Needless to say about the merits of shrubs, which already constitute the backbone of many gardens. In the garden there is no rare rhododendrons, Forsyth, ornamental currants, mahonia, lilac, kerry, hydrangeas, bloodroot, and others, but nevertheless a pity that few gardeners take care of expanding the range of shrubs.
Many-colored foliage can be just as decorative as the flowers are beautiful — keep only the last few weeks and then fall, but gold, purple, copper or variegated foliage on an evergreen shrub is colorful year-round. There are shrubs, foliage in the autumn which can compete in beauty with any flowers — so, Fothergill or enkiantus magnificent in its October crimson. In other shrubs, such as pierisa, Fotini and elder ordinary Plumosa Aurea, is particularly beautiful spring foliage.
Many-colored foliage can to highlight a border, and in addition, some shrubs are beautiful fruit (Pernetti, snowberry, skimmiya, pirakanta, cotoneaster, etc.), or bright in color stems — for example, white willow, white or Derain. This means that you can modify the colors of the garden, if you take into account not only what the flowers blooming shrubs, but what color their leaves, fruit and bark. As a result, your garden will be much more interesting.
Another way to make the garden more interesting — to put him in rare plants. Never try to impress friends and turn your piece of land in the botanical garden, where plants are grown exclusively to queer Latin names. Nevertheless, in your garden does not necessarily have to grow only the most ordinary plants — like everyone else.
There are many unusual shrubs — and risk a purchase in the nursery one or two of them. A rare species will have to search or order by mail.
Ornamental shrubs — one of the most interesting and grateful for the gardener class. We must choose wisely, properly planted and then cut right.
Should be avoided two very common mistakes — too close planting and indiscriminate cutting. If we plant shrubs too close to each other, then you have to constantly fight with the encroachment and interfere with each other branches. Poor pruning also gives a lot of grief: if cut too much, too little, too early or too late, the shrub will bloom poorly. So before you reach pruner, you need to know when and how to cut every kind of shrub.
