Dr. E.M. Nemova
«From wasteland to a beautiful garden»
(excerpts from the book «Design of a garden plot» ZAO Fiton +, Moscow, 2000)
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Single plantings of trees.
The most complete plant reveals its beauty and natural strength in the event that nothing prevents its growth and development. Typically, this is achieved with a single, or so-called single planting in open sunny places. It is in these conditions, the tree is not pulled up, and form a regular spreading crown is located not far above the ground. With such a planting trees growing even stronger trunk with a low trunk, and in some cases (for example, lime, Tatarian maple, spruce) branches diverging from the stem almost at ground level. In other species (sugar maple, some hawthorns, decorative forms of apple, willow), the lower branches are located at some height above the ground, but they bend and reach the ground, forming a beautiful tent.
Single landing attract the gaze of the observer, are the center or focus throughout the landscape composition. Therefore, for a single crop choose the most ornamental plants are often, but not necessarily for this purpose choose a form or variety of woody plants with colored foliage, not the usual form of the crown, especially with beautiful flowers or fruits.
When single planting should be mindful of the proportionality of open space on which the plant will grow and the size of the plant. The more space, the larger the plant, the smaller the space, so the plant less. The most general rule is this: a man standing on the edge of the clearing to see the whole plant is not raising his head and looking with his eyes on the background of other trees and shrubs. This height single tree in the adult and the field width should relate as 1:3. Generally, the spaces of this size are available in the parks, boulevards, gardens and home gardens are much smaller. In these cases, a good single planting can be small trees or low-growing form of garden, a beautiful bush vaccine that mimics a small tree. Ideally look single planting on well groomed, trimmed lawns with lush grass, but has meaning and long-range plan, formed by trees and (or) shrubs framing this lawn. Single plant should not merge with the background, so use a single crop plant species or varieties other than those that grow on the back plane. If deciduous plant, it should think about how it will look like in winter. Fancifully curved or openwork intertwined branches lightly sprinkled with snow-decorate the garden and in winter. Instead, bare and black, like a nut are unlikely to look beautiful against the backdrop of snow-white glade. Most important that you choose for a single planting was totally stable in the environment in which it will grow for many years. That is, a tree or shrub should be not only beautiful, but also frost-resistant, resistant to pests and diseases, the most consistent soil conditions and moisture conditions are garden. Classic single planting is oak, red oak, Siberian larch, black cottonwood, Siberian stone pine (diameter of clearing not less than 100-120m), horse chestnut, Norway maple, Norway spruce and blue spruce, hemlock, pine, pear Ussuri, weeping willow, linden serdtselistnaya smoke tree (diameter of clearing 50 meters), birch, cherry, apricot, red plum, decorative forms of apple, willow spherical, Tatarian maple, hawthorn odnopechtechny terry (diameter, 20 m). For small gardens suitable conical fir, juniper, red cedar, and plain, tapered shape and color of western thuja, hawthorn elm, Hydrangea paniculata, almonds trilobate terry, chubushnik varietal, Hydrangea, Berberis Tunberg red, Weigel hybrid, Spiro Vangutta. A very tiny gardens planted singly decorate shrub roses or lilacs, primal rhododendron, daphne death, varietal cinquefoil shrub or dwarf forms of mountain pine, western thuja, ate kanadskoy. For the garden, being resolved in the regular style, more suitable plant with a regular symmetrical shape crown planted along the main axis of the layout. To enhance the effect of the plant can be cut, giving the crown of geometric shapes (sphere, pyramid, column, etc.). If the style of garden landscaping, crown shape single planting could be more natural, free.
