How do you imagine flowering shrubs for a garden? A lonely rosehip bush in the darkest and most barren corner? Not at all, the options for their use are more than varied. These are hedges, group and single plantings. A variety of flowers and greenery is provided to your garden. At the same time, there are a huge number of options for its design. Flowering shrubs for the garden can be the background and framing, as well as central objects. It all depends on what exactly you want to see as a result.
Snow white lace
The most loved by our fellow citizens shrubs blooming in May. This is the time when the garden is decorated with young green leaves, against which white clusters look charming. That is why many plant in their plots viburnum. This is an amazing plant that looks great in color, while it is unpretentious. Experienced gardeners know that today there are more than 200 species, among which there are exclusively decorative varieties, as well as evergreen shrubs. Each gardener has his own preferences, someone loves the look of arrogance more, others like buldenez, but most of the souls do not like ordinary viburnum.
Viburnum care
Why are the shrubs blooming in May so good? They give the garden tenderness and charm, style and personality. The snow-white lace of viburnum attracts eyes year after year, especially in the spring no one is indifferent. In addition, it is not whimsical at all and will go for any site. Even shaded and not too fertile areas allow you to grow luxurious bushes. However, viburnum is often affected by pests, it must be regularly treated with special drugs.
Spirea - a variety of shapes and sizes
We continue to consider shrubs blooming in spring. Next, I want to note such a plant as spirea. These are amazing shrubs from the Rosaceae family, unpretentious, but bright and very elegant. As part of the article, we describe them briefly, but they are worth much more attention. They are usually divided into two large categories - spring-flowering and summer-flowering. Therefore, if you make a successful selection, they will decorate your garden for almost the entire season, from May to September. Gardeners use viburnum as a hedge. A beautiful honey plant, it grows rapidly and blooms very luxuriantly. It can be used in shrubbery compositions and group plantings. In addition, there is also an amazing dwarf variety that is great for creating charming borders.
Not all shrubs blooming in the spring can boast such a long flowering period, most often their beauty falls off very quickly. In addition, spirea is completely maintenance free. It can grow in any area, in the sun or in the shade.
Blooming jasmine, or mock
If you ever walked in the park past bushes covered with white flowers that exude a divine aroma - this is the favorite jasmine. In fact, the name of the plant is mockworm, but the first is more common because of its poetry. It belongs to the hydrangea family and usually blooms in early summer. When placing it on your summer cottage, keep in mind that some species are very high, for example, the coronet variety reaches 3 meters in height. It grows quickly and "lives" on a garden plot up to 30 years old. There is an amazing variety of "airborne landing" - this is a bush about 2 meters high, which at the time of flowering is all hung with delicate bells. Finally, the “unusual” subspecies is a low bush, up to 1.5 meters. Its flowers are large, with a bright spot in the center and a stunning smell of strawberries. Blooming jasmine is very fond of the sun, but in the shade it blooms poorly, branches stretch out. It is also necessary to provide the plant with good fertilizing and watering.
Healing rose hips
Flowering shrubs for the garden can be not only decoration, but also beneficial. This applies primarily to rose hips. He is a close relative of the garden rose, a source of fragrant flowers and medicinal fruits. At the same time, the bush itself is very elegant both in spring and in autumn. Its sharp spikes will help create a beautiful and impenetrable living fence at your site. At the same time, keep in mind that rosehip is very fond of sunlight. Its roots are powerful and go deep, so do not plant plants on wetlands and in lowlands, they will quickly wither and die. What else needs to be considered? Not all flowering shrubs for the garden so quickly conquer the surrounding area, like rose hips. So that it does not creep, you need to protect the bushes with a small ditch 20-30 cm deep.
Amazing Forsythia
It is this yellow flowering shrub that causes real delight among all gardeners without exception. Indeed, in early spring the branches of this shrub are covered with a continuous scattering of bright yellow flowers. Only when the flowers fall do young leaves appear. This is a sprawling shrub up to 3 meters high, which is distinguished not only by its magnificent flowering, but also by its longevity; on the garden plot it will delight you up to 70 years.
These beautifully flowering shrubs are very thermophilic, therefore they are suitable only for the warm regions of Russia. They bloom very early and plentifully. Some gardeners use group plantings, but they are relevant only for a large garden. A small area is best decorated with a single shrub surrounded by early flowering bulbous. It grows on light fertile soils.
Favorite childhood lilac
In fact, what could be prettier than a blooming lilac? Its aroma is the smell of the approaching summer, vacation and fulfillment of desires. Previously, ordinary lilac, lilac, with lush tassels grew in garden front gardens. Today there are many hybrids that gardeners are happy to breed. White and pale lilac, dark violet, ordinary and double flowers - this is the best decoration of your garden. Modern breeders go to the rescue and those whose summer cottage is too small. Blooming lilacs can successfully grow in a small area, especially if you choose a compact variety, up to 2 meters in height.
Lilac Care
She is unpretentious, but prefers sunny areas. The composition of the soil is quite tolerable, but if a swampy lowland is chosen for planting, you will have to make a high hill. The plant looks best in a single planting, as it is quite tall and sprawling. It is necessary to prune the plant every year. All overgrowth, as well as old, dry and too damaged shoots, are completely removed. It is advisable to cut off the blooming inflorescences, then the bush will be better to bloom next year.
Fieldfare
If you have little time to care for the hedge or you need to quickly hide an unattractive fence, then flowering shrubs will help you with this. Frost-resistant and unpretentious, they mask the old barn and can be used in combination with other shrubs of other species. I would like to talk about the mountain ash, for sure everyone knows him by the fluffy flower brushes. It is surprisingly tenacious, grows instantly, and as a decoration of the garden can serve as carved leaves and huge inflorescences. The bush is also attractive in autumn, when the foliage is painted in bright colors.
Fieldfare will grow in any area, the only negative is the large number of shoots that come from the root. It is necessary to constantly monitor and cut it, so that your garden does not turn into wild thickets.
Hydrangea
This is a real aristocrat in your garden. She does not like to substitute leaflets under the scorching sun, preferring moist and shaded corners. Therefore, if you have places where you don’t want to grow anything, then this is a reason to plant hydrangea there. Snow-white elegant inflorescences are good not only in the garden, they are excellent and cut.
The plant is quite frost-resistant, if the snow cover well covers the ground, then they will calmly survive until spring. Today, even in the northern regions, ornamental shrubs are grown . Blooming, beautiful, spectacular and at the same time useful, in the garden they are becoming increasingly popular. With their help, you can easily give a new look to any old but necessary building in the garden, decorate the symbolic fence separating your and neighboring garden plots, frame a border or a tall flower bed.
Evergreen shrubs
Today there are so many options for decorating your garden that it’s hard to figure out without a designer. The names of flowering shrubs can still be learned, but to figure out the correct content of each of them is very difficult. We examined the most popular species that everyone can grow, and seedlings are not a problem at all. However, today I would like to consider the features of growing evergreen shrubs. These plants surprisingly harmoniously fit into any garden, and are its decoration at any time of the year. However, there are some subtleties: in the Russian climate, plants will have to be planted in the garden only for the summer, and in winter taken home, planted in specially prepared tubs. But believe me, the results are worth the effort.
Exotic plants in your garden
The first one I want to note is such a wonderful plant as aucuba. It blooms from September to January, in the sun or in the shade. These are large plants with colorful spotted leaves. This species of shrub has many varieties, each of which is slightly different in appearance. Some of the spots on the leaves are yellow, others are white, and the third after flowering are decorated with bright red berries.
A very popular plant is the strawberry tree. Its flowering period is autumn, it was at this time that the branches began to be decorated with hanging flowers and bright fruits, so similar to strawberries. The fruits are completely tasteless, but they look just fantastic. With frame maintenance in winter and planting in the garden in summer, it can grow up to 2 meters. Another species that can become a real decoration of the garden is callistemon, a small shrub up to 1.5 meters high, whose main charm lies in its flowers. This is a real work of art. Its small flowers with long stamens are collected in cylindrical inflorescences, resulting in bright red fluffy panicles. This plant is usually grown in the sunniest place. Callistemon grows up to 2 meters, there are low-growing varieties that can tolerate wintering on the street, even in the Russian climate.
Do you want a real palm tree to grow on your site? Then pay attention to cordilina. This is a palm-like plant that can be grown in a large pot - it will be happy to spend the summer under the sun, decorating the lawn. Like all other palm trees, cordilina has a strong trunk, covered with bark, and a crown of white-striped leaves up to 1 meter long. The plant looks just great.
I would like to introduce you another overseas miracle - this is trachicarpus. Probably the only palm that can tolerate the harsh conditions of the Russian winter. This is a fan palm, which has a strong trunk, decorated with large green umbrellas. However, with all the endurance, this plant requires protection from the icy wind, so you will either have to take it for the winter to the room, or build a protective bell.
Among the variety of flowering shrubs, you are sure to find what is right for your garden. Each of them, from the most ordinary viburnum to an exotic palm tree, is able to emphasize any design decision, decorate and diversify your patio.