It is the berries that make the shrub truly versatile - all four seasons it will play its role in decorating the garden. Therefore, more and more often in the plots you can find ornamental shrubs with black berries, as well as red or white ones. In autumn and winter on your site, such a bush simply will not be equal!

1 Ornamental berry bushes in landscape design

Berry bushes are a special element in landscape design. Indeed, in addition to the shapes of the shrub, the color of its leaves and flowers, its size, planting and care features, the gardener or designer must take into account how it will look in the fall when its berries ripen. And they come in a variety of colors - yellow, red, black, white, and from this the composition in your garden can both win and lose. For example, red viburnum will fit perfectly against the background of a brick wall, shading its texture with clusters of juicy red berries, while a snowberry with white berries will look quite ordinary.

The same red viburnum will look good in splendid isolation - a tapeworm. However, a group of three shrubs of different sizes is the most a win-win! It is best to place them in a triangle, giving the background to the tallest bush, and the front - to two smaller bushes, it is desirable that they also be of different volumes. You can enhance or decorate such a composition with large stones. It will look great both just on the lawn and not far from the reservoir or next to the lantern. In addition, this composition can cover an unsightly wall.

The selection of a place for a composition is an individual matter. However, having selected a site for planting shrubs, you must clearly assess the conditions in which they will find themselves. If this is a shaded area, there is absolutely no point in planting shrubs with brightly colored foliage in this place (for example, a variety of barberry Golden torch, the leaves of which are bright yellow), otherwise they will lose their characteristic color in the shade. For the rest, take into account the characteristics and preferences of a particular ornamental berry shrub, soil composition, climate and temperature.

Experience has shown that it is most reliable to plant shrubs with a closed root system, that is, in containers. You will be sure that their roots are not dry, not damaged during transportation, and in general, the plant will transfer planting to a new place much better. However, even they will take root better if planted during a dormant period.

At the selected location, accurately mark the location and shape of the holes, bearing in mind that they should be twice the size of the root ball. A mixture of peat, humus and crushed earth should be added to the bottom of the hole; in heavy soils, it does not interfere with adding sand to the hole. Then fill the hole with water and let it soak.

After you remove the bushes from the containers, you will have ample time to evaluate the composition and adjust the placement of the seedlings. If you like everything, add the earthen mixture into the holes and carefully compact the soil, creating a small depression around the perimeter of the hole so that the water for irrigation does not spread. Then water the planted bushes and sprinkle mulch on the soil around the trunk.

3 Black cotoneaster: ornamental shrub with black berries

Frost-resistant and undemanding to moisture, easily tolerating urban conditions - the black cotoneaster belongs to the group of shrubs that will not give the gardener much trouble. This ornamental shrub with black berries easily tolerates transplanting, is used by gardeners in both single and group plantings, as well as in hedges. The decorative form differs from the wild one in more graceful drooping inflorescences and large leaves, but in addition decorative purpose the cotoneaster serves as a good honey plant, and its dense wood It is a good material for pipes, walking sticks and other crafts.

Cotoneaster berries are edible, although they do not differ in excellent taste. They can be used for tinting tinctures and soft drinks, add berry powder when baking gingerbread. However, much more often cotoneaster berries and its young shoots are used in folk medicine, recommending the use of fresh and dried berries for inflammatory processes and stomach diseases.

4 Ornamental shrubs with red berries on your site

Kalina red - this bush will never be commonplace, no matter what competitors from abroad are imported into our country. For a soul mate, a landscape with clusters of juicy red viburnum berries crushed by snow is an excellent landscape decor in winter. In spring, viburnum blooms with white bouquets against the background of bright green foliage. In autumn, the leaves take on red and brown hues.

Viburnum is shade-tolerant, but it is best to plant it in open, sunny places. Prefers rich, well-hydrated soils. In the conditions of the city, viburnum feels great. It is used both as a tapeworm and in group plantings. These ornamental shrubs with edible red berries look very harmonious in plantings with oak, linden and mountain ash. Viburnum varieties with yellow and black berries are beginning to gain popularity in the world.

Tolerant to urban conditions and barberries. They are drought-resistant, unpretentious to the soil, they cannot stand only stagnant water. Numerous varieties are distinguished by decorative coloring of the leaves - from bright yellow to purple flowers. Barberries tolerate partial shade well, but brightly colored varieties will look best on full sun- in the shade, the foliage will begin to take on a green tint. In addition to the color of the leaves, barberry bushes can also be selected according to the shape of the crown - dwarf bushes have a dense hemispherical crown shape, and tall barberries are most often found with branchy drooping branches.

In any case, these ornamental shrubs can easily be cut, so you can give the bushes almost any shape. The haircut can be done at any time. Bright red berries stay on the branches of bushes until spring. And although these berries are edible and very healthy, birds do not eat them. Barberries are ideal for creating a live thorny hedge, which, in addition to its decorative functions, also performs a protective one. The hedge can be done in a free style or cut regularly. By planting these plants at home, you will get a double benefit - they will give your garden life even in winter, besides, you will have viburnum tea, barberry tincture and medicinal berries cotoneaster.

5 Ornamental shrub with white berries - graceful snowberry

Snowberry is quite true to its name - abundant large berries they cover the whole bush and hold well until spring. It became widespread due to its unpretentiousness, frost resistance and undemanding soil. This ornamental shrub with white berries grows well on rocky and calcareous soils, is not picky about lighting and does without regular watering. The bushes lend themselves well to pruning - new ones will appear very quickly in place of the cut branches, giving the bush more volume.

The snowberry grows very quickly, forming many root suckers around the bush, so if you do not plan to restrain its growth, get ready for a small group instead of one bush in a few years.

In addition to all other positive qualities, the snowberry is also revered by bees. In landscape design, snowberry bushes are combined with tall shrubs, conifers or trees with dark green leaves. Decorators also use it to create a dense hedge or curb. Due to the abundance of berries, the shoots of the plant bend in beautiful arcs, giving the bush a pleasant-looking shape. Usually, snowberry bushes do not grow more than 2 meters in height. The shrub blooms quite early, blooms for a long time, although the flowers do not differ in decorativeness. Snowberry berries are poisonous!

You can propagate a snowberry not only by cuttings and offspring, but also by dividing the bushes, growing from seeds. Moreover, the latter method is by no means difficult - immediately after harvesting, the seeds are sown directly into the ground, covering them with sawdust or a dry leaf on top. In the spring, you can thin out the seedlings, leaving the strongest plants, and let them grow a little more. Already in the fall, you can plant a snowberry in accordance with the conceived composition.

Most cultivated plants are divided into species. Some groups can only be bred at home without unfavorable weather. Some can be bred strictly in the open air. There are plants that will grow well in unpretentious conditions - even in a greenhouse even in the cold. Understanding what species the flower belongs to, you can reliably organize proper care. The main components of care consist of ensuring air humidity, regular introduction of moisture into the soil and ensuring a favorable temperature. The amount of sun is one of the main factors.

Selection of shrubs with different flowering periods.

Today, the choice of ornamental shrubs is diverse, you just have to decide for yourself: for what purpose and what function will it play in your garden? For a large garden, the assortment of flowering shrubs is much larger, because you can create compositions using both small shrubs and impressive sizes, including trees. Well, if the garden is small!

The spring-flowering shrubs that do well in the middle lane include spiraea, almonds, Japanese quince, canadensis, keria, forsythia, wolfberry ... One of the first to bloom is wolfberry, exuding an amazing aroma, but you need to be careful with this plant, since the plant is toxic (see below).

Spring gold of forsythia In early spring, forsythia is the first to sound - a short shrub with bright yellow flowers, similar to bells, on completely bare branches, reflecting the sun's rays. Because of the abundant flowering, forsythia is popularly called "golden rain", "golden lilac", "golden bell".

Daphne - Daphne's lilac cloud

All that should be feared, beware, most often, the people are accompanied by the epithet "wolf". The wolf, a cunning, merciless predator, has instilled fear in humans since ancient times. Wolves are no exception to this rule. These beautiful deciduous shrubs are deadly indeed. The popular name Wolf's bast was given to the plant for its strong bark, which is difficult to break. It is almost impossible to break a branch, you can only cut it off.

But nevertheless, wolves are decorative and are grown in our gardens. As soon as the snow melts, when there is still not a single green blade of grass anywhere, the branches of Daphne are already densely covered with fragrant bright lilac flowers. They can "sit" on the trunk in bunches of two to five flowers, or maybe one flower at a time. From a distance, this shrub can be mistaken for a lilac bush. During flowering, which lasts 15-20 days, the garden is filled with a very pleasant aroma.

Height compact bush rarely exceeds 1-1.2 m. Daphne blooms on the shoots of the last year, before the leaves bloom. Leaves of an oblong shape - appear later, up to 10 cm long, dark green above, lighter below. At the ends of the shoots, they are densely arranged, almost in bunches. At the end of summer, the bush is covered with shiny bright red or bright orange berries, which sit tightly and for a long time on the branches.

It is necessary to watch closely so that children do not eat them, and explain to them that these beautiful berries are poisonous and even birds do not peck them. However, it is said that blackbirds eat them with pleasure. But in my opinion, if there are children in the house, then it is better to refuse planting shrubs with poisonous berries.

Frost-resistant, shade-tolerant, practically does not require maintenance, used to live in forests on their own under the canopy of trees. It is only necessary to protect it from the aggressors of the garden - ditching and wheatgrass. It is unpretentious to soils, but it grows better on damp, peat-filled, well-fertilized areas with humus. Drought does not tolerate well. It grows slowly, multiplies by seeds (you need to sow immediately after harvesting), often self-sowing. It is advisable to transplant at a young age, in the fall, with a clod of earth. Adult plants do not like transplants. When buying, it is better to choose copies in containers. Strong pruning is contraindicated in bushes. All damaged branches are cut immediately after flowering.

To date, several decorative forms of wolf have been bred: white - with white fragrant flowers, terry - with white double flowers. There are other types, but they are more demanding in terms of conditions and care. Such cultural forms reproduce by green cuttings. The twigs, cut from the bush in winter and placed in the water, soon become covered with flowers, filling the room with a delicate aroma.

Garden plants

If the aesthetic design of your garden is very important for you, then various ornamental shrubs will perfectly cope with this role. Any garden will only benefit from decorating with evergreen or deciduous shrubs. Ornamental shrubs with their peculiar color or flowering can help you create a hedge, divide the garden into different zones, decorate the entrance to your garden or decorate different elements.

Ornamental shrubs perform not only a decorative function, they also protect garden alleys from wind and dust, help you not in decorating the garden, and also distract you from the usual hustle and bustle with their charming look and create a good mood.

Some varieties of ornamental shrubs have a long flowering period, others have unusual leaf shapes or bright colors. It is not difficult to take care of them - they are not susceptible to diseases, they are very rarely affected by pests.

Now let's talk about those shrubs that are widespread in central Russia.

If your garden has green lawns, luxurious hydrangea bushes will be a great addition to them. A rose bush is always popular among gardeners - park roses are especially beautiful, they are frost-resistant, undemanding, but they only bloom once a whole season.

Some gardeners like to decorate their backyards with shrubs, which, during flowering, are able to fill the garden with a pleasant aroma - mock orange, forsythia, wolf. Lush inflorescences of lilac and viburnum look very decorative. In our gardens, more and more often you can see bushes of rhododendrons or tree peonies... Summer is the time of flowering of Potentilla and Spirea, Kolkvitsia and Budleia. Closer to autumn, heather flowers begin to bloom - medium-sized, but collected in such lush inflorescences, shimmering with mother-of-pearl that they simply cannot but cause admiration.

Ornamental shrubs are convenient because they decorate the garden from early spring to late autumn. A striking example is different varieties of barberry: their leaves can be bright yellow and purple, bright green and purple, and even spotty. Aralia bushes look original - this bush is thorny, it looks like a tropical palm tree. The field ash also looks delightful, its young foliage is distinguished by an unusual pink tint, but little by little they acquire a rich green color... In autumn, they turn yellow and acquire a golden hue.

If your site is spoiled by the dark, plain wall or a high unattractive fence, we recommend that you decorate these structures with decorative deciduous white deren bushes. No one will be left indifferent by its chic carved dark green leaves, bordered with a cream outline. Young shoots of deren have a reddish tint, which makes its appearance much more colorful.

On heavy soils, some types of Potentilla, barberry, spirea, forsythia feel great. Near the reservoirs, hydrangea will grow violently and bloom. And even calcareous soils are suitable for growing euonymus, elderberry, buddleia and cotoneaster.

When choosing ornamental shrubs to decorate your garden, you first need to combine them so that the plantings do not look clumsy. Therefore, it is best to create group plantings of ornamental shrubs of the same variety, rather than mixed plantings. You can also combine different forms of ornamental shrubs belonging to the same genus in a group planting - for example, plant barberry bushes with red and green leaves nearby. Hawthorn looks good - its varieties are distinguished by the coloring of fruits and inflorescences.

Japanese euonymus

Only through repeated pruning, carried out annually in spring and autumn, can thick and lush specimens be obtained. In order to form a standard tree, it is necessary to let the central shoot grow upward, at least up to 40-50 cm, while plucking all the lateral buds. And upon reaching the desired height, begin to form a dense branched crown.

Japanese euonymus does not grow very quickly, but constantly. Soil composition: 1 part of sod land, 1 part of humus and 0.5 part of peat.

According to some data and our own observations, Japanese euonymus can also endure frost down to -15C! So you can safely take out euonymus to the garden right in May, and pick it up in October. Install it in a well-lit place, but it is better to protect it from the midday rays. Do not forget to feed him three or four times per season. The plant is easily propagated by stem cuttings in spring and summer.

Elderberry black decorative

Ornamental shrubs for a summer residence and a garden - photo

To give a summer cottage natural look along with tall, powerful trees, ornamental shrubs for summer cottages are also planted. creating from them logically complete groups. By combining various types of shrubs, you can embody a variety of design solutions in the landscape of the summer cottage. Consider commonly used varieties of ornamental deciduous shrubs. Knowing their features, it will be convenient to first come up with a landscape design suburban area and create a virtual design development, and then translate everything into reality.

Many shrubs of various attractiveness can be seen in the park area of ​​the Lakhta Center. which is being built in St. Petersburg. Lakhta Center is amazing project, containing various objects that will be available to everyone.

Holly is a shrub with dense, evergreen foliage and very beautiful red fruits. It grows on any soil except sandy, can withstand frost, but not stronger than -20 ° C. You can see this ornamental garden shrub in the picture below.

A fast-growing and unpretentious spirea is perfect for creating green hedges and various fences. When flowering, it is abundantly covered with inflorescences in the form of shields, colored, depending on the variety, in red, white or pink colors... It is noteworthy that in the fall the foliage of the spirea acquires various, unusual shades. Spirea is resistant to frost, but loves the sun.

In early spring, when all the trees have not yet fully woken up after winter, forsythia blooms, delighting the eyes yearning for joyful greenery with their bright yellow flowers. However, the capricious forsythia prefers fertile soil and dies with a lack of moisture.

High (up to three meters) tamarisk grows mainly in the southern regions. The soil suitable for him is sandy and sandy loam. Very beautiful during the flowering period, which falls in May-June.

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For green hedges trimmed with various bizarre shapes, the evergreen boxwood is suitable, which loves warmth and calmly tolerates shady places. For boxwood, dry or, conversely, too wet soils are unfavorable. The shrub is famous for its special aroma and fast growth. The varieties of dwarf and yellow-leaved boxwood are especially appreciated. Now you know what shrubs you can decorate your site with, but do not forget that there are other ornamental plants for the garden. which should also be used.

You can often hear about cases of mushroom poisoning, but do not forget that other gifts of nature can cause us serious problems. Our article will introduce you to the types of poisonous berries and teach you how to provide first aid in case of poisoning with them.

Poisonous berries: precautions

Walking through the forest, you just want to put seductively bright, beautiful and very appetizing-looking berries into your mouth, here and there perched on the branches of bushes and trees. Is it worth it to meet this desire? Of course not, because any of them can be toxic to our body.

Signs of berry poisoning

Various types of poisonous berries have a strictly defined effect on the human body, but we will try to highlight main symptoms signaling poisoning. So, the cause for concern should be:

• Convulsions
• Rapid pulse
• Labored breathing

First aid for poisoning with berries

The very first aid is to stimulate vomiting - this procedure will free the stomach from toxic contents. To do this, the victim needs to be given 2-4 glasses of water (you can add Activated carbon - 2 tbsp. 500 ml, salt - 1 tsp. 500 ml or potassium permanganate). The procedure will have to be carried out several times.

If medicines are available, it is recommended to give the patient activated carbon, tannin as well as any laxative and heart remedy... If you have seizures, you will have to use chloral hydrate. If there is no first aid kit, you can give the patient black crackers, starch solution or milk... It will also not hurt to do an enema (if possible). The victim needs to be wrapped warmly and deliver to the doctor.

Forest honeysuckle

Forest honeysuckle is a common shrub in the Urals and Western Siberia. Dark red berries this plant, unlike garden honeysuckle, is poisonous. The ripening time of the forest variety is July-August.

Wolf bast

Wolf's bast - shrub or small tree... The plant is common in humid forests European part of Russia and also in Western Siberia. Oblong red-orange berries wolf bast the shrub is dotted in the fall. Even touching them can lead to poisoning.

Belladonna or belladonna

Belladonna is a member of the nightshade family. Belladonna gives the harvest black with a purple tint of sweet and sour berries, flattened and spherical already at the beginning of autumn. Most often, this poisonous berry can be found in middle lane Russia.

Raven eye

It has a low stem, on which there are 4-5 leaves of a fairly large size and only one fruit ripens. The raven eye is widespread almost throughout Russia... This blue-black berry a bit like blueberries, but at the same time it is very poisonous (it affects the heart muscle, paralyzing its work).

Snowberry white

Round berries white ripen by the end of summer, and then hibernate on the plant until warmth. Despite the tempting appearance, the berries are absolutely inedible. In our country, the snowberry is used as ornamental plant .

Warty euonymus

Warty euonymus is deciduous shrub or short tree often found in European part of Russia... Euonymus fruits are very original - bright orange berries decorated with a black dot, and they ripen on a long "thread" (herbaceous stalk).

Bittersweet nightshade

Bittersweet nightshade - shrub with woody base and a long curly stem. Red berries with a bittersweet taste, ripen in June. The plant continues to bear fruit until October. Nightshade can be found in central Russia, and on Far East and in Siberia.

Marsh calla

Marsh calla - creeping hydrophyte with large heart-shaped leaves. Its fruits ( bunches of juicy red berries) ripen at the end of June. The plant is widespread throughout Russia ( on wetlands).

Elderberry herbal (smelly)

Smelly - herbaceous perennial , belonging to the honeysuckle family. Fruit ( small black drupes with red juice) appear in August-September. This plant is most often found in the southern regions of Russia in the mountains and foothills.

Privet or wolf berries

thermophilic deciduous shrub family of olives. You can meet this plant in the southwestern part of Russia... The black and very poisonous berries ripen in September and remain on the branches for a long time. It is worth knowing that not only the fruits are poisonous, but also the leaves.

with thin stems and feathery leaves. It can be found in the forests European part of the country... The fruits have elongated oval shape, as they mature, they change color from green to white, and then to red.

perennial herbaceous plant with a thin stem and with large feathery leaves on long petioles. Oval-cylindrical, slightly flattened and collected in a vertical cluster of berries change color from green to black. You can meet this plant in the European part of Russia, and in Western Siberia.

Aronnik spotted

Aronnik is a perennial herb with a thickened tuberous rhizome and basal leaves, shaped like a spearhead. In August, the leaves die off, and a stalk with numerous red berries remains above the ground. In September, the fruits crumble, and self-seeding appears in the spring of next year.

Aronnik spotted

Fruits have poisonous properties - berries of common ivy, double-leaved mine, May lily of the valley.

Poisonous berries can not only poison, but also lead to death. That is why it is extremely important not to eat unfamiliar fruits, no matter how tempting they look.

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Black elderberry is a tall shrub that grows in abundance in the south and in central Russia. It can reach a height of six meters. If you abandon the planting of elderberries, after a while they easily run wild and form dense thickets. Black elderberry is especially common on the outskirts of village roads, in abandoned wastelands and in other uncultivated places.

Black elderberry is named after the color of the berries. They ripen in late summer, early autumn and are blue-black drupes, each up to seven millimeters in diameter.

Elderberries are valuable medicinal raw materials... They contain a rich spectrum of biologically active substances: anthocyanins, vitamin C and fatty oils.

Elderberry seeds contain the toxic glycoside sambunigrin. Once in the stomach, it breaks down to hydrocyanic acid. Therefore, it is dangerous to consume any parts of the elderberry, with the exception of the pulp of the berries.

In medicine, elderberry is used as a diaphoretic and disinfectant, helps relieve inflammation and treat coughs.

Black honeysuckle

Another shrub with black berries is honeysuckle. Like elderberry, black honeysuckle owes its name to the color of the fruit.

Black honeysuckle reaches two or more meters in height and is found in the East of our country. It has long been known in Primorye and Khabarovsk Territory, where local residents used it as a berry bush. Michurin introduced black honeysuckle into widespread culture.

The Far East is characterized by harsh winters, so black honeysuckle is extremely frost-resistant. Thanks to this, it can be cultivated as an ornamental and berry crop in the northern regions of our country. Black honeysuckle easily tolerates even frost during the flowering period.

Honeysuckle berries are large, elongated, about two centimeters long. Outwardly, they are somewhat reminiscent of a giant blueberry. Honeysuckle ripens in mid-June and, together with strawberries, is one of the earliest summer berries. The taste of its fruits is slightly sour, but pleasant enough. Honeysuckle berries contain a lot of organic acids, sugar and vitamin C. As a rule, berries are processed - they are used to make compotes, jams, etc.

The first harvest of berries can be harvested within a few years after planting black honeysuckle. It is resistant to diseases and pests, unpretentious to soil and will be able to decorate any garden or park.

Black elderberry is a real gift of nature itself, which, unlike the red elderberry variety, does not contain toxic substances. In folk medicine and herbal medicine, various parts of this plant are used - both leaves and flowers, as well as berries, roots and bark of the plant. But what exactly is black elderberry useful and how can these properties be applied in practice?

The benefits of the plant

Black elderberry contains not only carbohydrates, but also valuable fatty and organic acids, as well as essential oils, anthocyanins, iridoids, steroids, triglycerides and much more.

Iridoids are recognized by scientists as a very valuable trace element that helps in the fight against various infections.

The most commonly used parts of the black elderberry are the inflorescences and leaves. The former contain a high content of such glycosides as sambunigrin and aldrin, as well as a number of acids of organic origin (malic, valerian, acetic and coffee). The inflorescences are rich in valuable and nutritious essential oil, carotene, vitamin C and much more.

Fresh elderberry leaves are rich in the same carotene, ascorbic acid, tannins, vitamin C. And resinous substances can have a mild laxative effect.

Several healthy recipes based on black elderberry

To provide antiviral effect and withdrawal from human body salts of heavy metals, you can use the following tools.

Infusion of flowers, for the preparation of one portion of which you will need two tablespoons of dried plant flowers, as well as half a liter of boiled water. The flowers must be filled with liquid and allowed to brew for 45 minutes. Then this tool can be used for the following purposes:

Lotions for burns, diaper rash and skin suppuration;
- poultices with exacerbations of hemorrhoids;
- a third of a glass twice a day in cases of articular rheumatism or gout;
- as ordinary tea in case of persistent cough, bronchitis or tracheitis.

According to the same recipe, you can also prepare a decoction of elderberries, which then must be applied orally by a third of a glass once a day, as an effective remedy for the treatment of almost all stomach diseases; as a diuretic or anthelmintic agent; the broth will also help with douching in case of gynecological diseases.

With the help of elderberry berries, you can also prepare an excellent cosmetic product that will help in the fight against acne by simply applying it to problem areas for a period of 10-12 minutes. Berries will also be effective if you want to get rid of skin pigmentation or just lighten it.

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Honeysuckle is a berry that is able to adapt to weather changes in early spring, to give early harvest... Frosts of 2-3 degrees can withstand even fully blossoming honeysuckle flowers. There is information that more low temperatures do not destroy flowers.

Instructions

In spring, honeysuckle comes to life early: two weeks after the snow melts, leaves bloom on the bushes. Flowering can be early and not very much if the spring is late with warmth. But, surprisingly, the berries still begin to ripen almost at the same time every year. The plant, late with flowering, seems to spur itself on, trying to make the berries ready at the usual time. Honeysuckle is well pollinated, sets berries in the most unfavorable conditions. True, he does not like loneliness. The more varieties grow in close proximity to each other, the better the pollination. A variety of varieties not only for the benefit of plants, but also for the owners. The varieties differ in taste, shape, size of berries, the ability to crumble after ripening or firmly adhere to the bushes.

Considering some of the requirements of honeysuckle, it grows without problems. She is not very capricious to the soil, but does not like overdrying the top layer. Therefore, mulching, frequent watering are prerequisites for the well-being of honeysuckle. At good watering honeysuckle will grow well even in an open place, but still it is better to plant it where it will be cared for by the morning sun and protected from the burning midday. Young plants especially suffer from excessive solar activity.

It is better to plant honeysuckle in a soil that is light in composition. If the soil on the site is heavy, it is advisable to add sand to it. A small mound is made in the planting hole, a seedling is placed on the “top”, the roots are spread “along the slopes” and covered.
After harvesting, honeysuckle is fed with mineral fertilizers, since the main growth of shoots in it occurs after fruiting. She gets organic matter when mulching.

Honeysuckle does not require special pruning. On bushes over 15-18 years old, they begin to gradually cut out old branches so that the plants recover.
Honeysuckle grows discreetly. Someone considers this a disadvantage of culture, and someone - a dignity, since even adult bushes do not take up much space.

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Coughing is one of the most common symptoms of colds and flu. To be more precise - the consequence of these diseases, which remains with us for a long time even after the disappearance of the temperature. Most treat it with "improvised" means or those advised by relatives or friends. This approach can have the most serious consequences.

Treatment- inhalation with soda solutions and taking expectorant drugs. At home, you can prepare decoctions from licorice root or leaves of coltsfoot, sage.

Incorrect or untimely, unskilled treatment of colds and flu provokes the development of bronchitis. It is characterized by a deep, wheezing, wheezing cough. There is a lot of phlegm with bronchitis, it acquires a greenish tint, it is difficult to cough up.

Treatment- expectorant drugs with bronchodilatory properties. In no case should you prescribe such drugs to yourself. This can only be done by the attending physician after a full course of diagnostics - a detailed examination, listening to breathing and, if necessary, an X-ray examination. If bronchitis was diagnosed at an early stage, treatment without antibiotics is possible.

A deep and painful cough, accompanied by painful sensations in the chest, is a symptom of pneumonia. Self-medication is unacceptable !!!

Treatment- medical assistance, no options! Treatment is prescribed with antibiotics, which are prescribed after collection and examination of biological materials. Pneumonia can be viral and bacterial. The type of drugs is selected in accordance with the type of causative agent of the disease.

Chronic cough - where does it come from?

If the cough does not go away even after drug treatment and lasts more than 14-20 days, then the cause is most likely not infectious.

Allergic cough

A cough can be a manifestation of an allergic reaction of the body, for example, to dust or mold, pollen. Such a cough can transform into bronchial asthma, therefore it is very important to determine the source of the threat (allergen) and exclude the patient's contact with it. An allergen can only be identified with the help of medical diagnosis.

Heart cough

A lingering dry cough can indicate heart problems, such as a defect or heart failure. Heart cough is characterized by attacks at night, after physical exertion, with shortness of breath, blue skin. In addition, some people can stimulate the cough reflex. medications, the action of which is aimed at lowering blood pressure.

It is important to understand that no matter what the cough is, you cannot treat it yourself! Only a medical specialist can determine the type of disease and prescribe adequate and effective treatment.

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Among garden plants, shrubs that form spectacular decorative berries can rightfully be called the most patient: in order to reveal their beauty, these plants are waiting for the coldest season of the year. Then, against the background of snowy beauty and majesty of winter landscapes, they seem to be covered with luxurious beads and stones with regal plants. The most spectacular of the ornamental berry bushes are those that flaunt the luxury of a coral necklace on the shoots.

In winter, when the garden is sorely lacking in color, and evergreen crowns and bare graphic branches rule the ball, nostalgia for flowering and a rich palette of garden colors invariably emphasizes the gray gloom of frosty days. And only shrubs with decorative fruits enliven this gloomy and harsh picture. Like luxurious jewels, they brightly illuminate front gardens, flower beds, terraces, emphasize the graphic restraint of bare crowns and remind that nature never has periods of calm.

With red fruits, they are deservedly considered the main berry winter plants... After all, it is the bright fiery color and the energetic palette of scarlet that glow and shimmer so favorably against the background of gray-brown tones of gloomy winter landscapes. Contrasting with the dazzling whiteness of snow drifts, sparkling in luxurious crystals of frost, coral berry necklaces seem to shimmer mysteriously from within. There are among such crops and plants that combine bright berry beads with variegated evergreen foliage, which even more reveals the beauty of the glowing fruits. Such plants are great candidates for the role of soloists, able to revive even the gloomiest garden in winter.

The absolute favorite of "winter" gardening is considered. This is a spectacular ground cover that creates luxurious high carpets and does not lose the bright color of its greenery throughout the year. But the main pride of an evergreen cotoneaster of this species is a winter coral necklace of the brightest fruits, which abundantly dotting all the shoots, creating the feeling that someone just scattered large beads over it. Dammer's cotoneaster is also perfect for the role of an ampelous ground cover shrub: it effectively hangs shoots from stone flower beds, alpine slides, and support walls. Of the higher types of cotoneaster, only Franchet cotoneaster, reaching a height of two meters, can boast of high decorative fruit. It has elegant arched drooping shoots adorned with berries until spring.

One of the unique shrubs, the beauty of berry beads of which is emphasized by no less spectacular winter-green foliage, is holly, which has varieties with a wide variety of green and variegated colors. Decorated with a wavy edge with sharp peaks, more or less pronounced in different varieties, the leaves combine the effect of a dense and glossy surface with the most beautiful nuances of green color, which only emphasize light spots and edges. And how the fruit of small, but very bright coral berries glows against their background! In addition to the luxurious palette of red, holly berries can offer unusual blue, yellow, white, orange color ranges. The absolute favorites are holly with a representative varietal palette of pure green cultivars and offering the best variegated varieties of Altaklarensky holly.

Of the tall shrubs, the pyracantha is distinguished by the most luxurious large fruits that attract songbirds. Among the various varieties of this shrub, which reaches an average of three meters in height, one can find plants with scarlet, yellow and orange berries, although the scarlet varieties, which look like corals, are the most spectacular in the winter garden. This thorny evergreen shrub with a bright autumn crown show and an openwork, dense branching texture is most often used in regular gardens where curly hair is appropriate.

The landscape outlines of elegant garden silhouettes that captivate with a combination of the graceful structure of the crown and the bright shine of luxurious brushes of seemingly translucent berries, shining like precious stones in the garden, never go out of fashion. Among the increasingly popular decorative viburnum combs, almost all of them flaunt with luxurious red bunches of berries, but among them there are black-fruited varieties, and plants, the color of berry beads on which changes: for example, in wrinkled viburnum, red fruits gradually turn black.

Bright shiny scarlet beads on the branches, also referred to as evergreen shrubs with high winter hardiness, sparkle especially effectively in the rays of the winter sun. It is an ideal shrub for planting on flower beds, with glossy, luxurious, densely sitting, rounded dense leaves, the berry beads of which are collected in the apical infructescence.

If in other shrubs the red necklace of berries gradually decreases and disappears from the garden scene thanks to the birds actively enjoying the fruits, the huge, pointed and recumbent berries, similar to ceramic beads, do not attract them. Due to the inedibility of its berries, this charming shrub with an openwork crown adorns the garden with a luxurious scattering of red pearls all winter. In height, the spiky haulteria usually does not exceed one and a half meters and is distinguished by a bright bluish color of elongated large leaves.

The company of the haulteria can be made up of more modest in size berries, but also varieties of evergreen lingonberry that do not attract birds. This squat shrub, and most often growing in the company of heathers, forms a charming thicket of creeping shoots with almost rounded bright leaves that persist in winter, between which bright clusters of red shining berries shyly look out.

The most unusual scarlet fruits are the pride of the euonymus. They seem to be artificial pendants and are very poisonous, but they do not survive in the garden for long thanks to the birds that adore them. True, in order for the original four-leafed hanging stems to become a decoration of the garden, it will be necessary to allocate space for tall and massive species of this plant.

Both the wrinkled rose and the wild rose will bring its notes of a scarlet scattering of luxurious berries to the garden: part of the numerous harvest of their fruits, even during winter, will still remain on the bushes even after the complete loss of leaves. These plants are the most landscape and natural line representatives of the huge family of the garden princess.

The use of berry bushes with an eye to decorativeness in winter is a simple matter. Having carefully examined the garden, mark all those plants that will look attractive after the end of the autumn parade: in the places most "empty" in the winter garden, and you need to prudently plant such shrubs. Despite the fact that garden crops covered with a scattering of red pearls look advantageous on almost any background, their beauty is most fully revealed in combination with winter-green crops: in the company of bright berries, juiciness and intensity, freshness of the green color of the wings and individual plants is revealed magnificently.

Shrubs with a scattering of luxurious berries can be used not only in the open field, but also in pot and container compositions that will decorate, and even balconies. For potted compositions, it is desirable to use low-growing and winter-green berry bushes, such as bedridden, holly, etc., with appropriate warming wrapping of the containers in which they are planted.

How long you can admire the overexposure of coral beads in your garden depends not only on the activity of birds, but also on climatic features. If the weather is stable frosty in winter, the berries will keep on the bushes for several months. If the periods of thaws and severe frosts will arrange weather "swing", the fruits will quickly lose color and fall off.

There are so many berries in our forests! Red, blue, black, yellow, very different. The red berry of any plant is always appetizing to look at. Bright, beautiful, with a glossy side, it hangs on a twig between green leaves. The hand just reaches out to rip it off and put it in your mouth. But be careful! Not all red berries are safe. Among them there are ruthless poisoners, eating which, you can pay with your life. Nature gave us wonderful plants. These are raspberries, strawberries, rose hips, cranberries, viburnum, lemongrass, lingonberries and many others. Their red berries are known to everyone and, perhaps, everyone knows about their benefits. They are used to make jams and compotes, bake pies and prepare tinctures, they are eaten raw and successfully used in medicine. But in the forest glades, you can find no less beautiful red berries that need to be avoided. The people christened them "wolf", although each of them has its own name.

Honeysuckle

This one is most often referred to.It is found not only in forests practically throughout Russia, it is also planted as a hedge. Honeysuckle has some pretty creamy, white, or bee-like favorites. Among the many varieties of this plant, there are also edible ones.

Their fruits are slightly elongated, dark blue or almost purple. Either forest or ordinary, about which in question, the fruit is a red berry. It is small in size, spherical, very juicy, bright, shiny, perfectly decorates the bush. Often two berries grow together in pairs. Children mistake them for red currants. The real honeysuckle berries taste bitter, so you won't eat a lot of them, but it's better not to taste them. No deaths have been reported after consuming small amounts of inedible honeysuckle. But those who have tasted these berries may experience poisoning with fever, stomach pains, nausea, vomiting, and stool disorders.

Lily of the valley

This delicate fragrant flower, which delights us in spring, is unusually poisonous. The fruit of the lily of the valley is a round red berry located on a stalk on thin, slightly curved stalks. Lily of the valley grows almost everywhere - in deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests, in oak forests, in gardens and flower beds. He especially likes the edges and glades with a fairly moist soil.

The berries stay on the plant for a long time. They are especially dangerous for animals. People are rarely poisoned by them. The poison contained in all parts of the flower is called konvallatoxin. Once in the body, it can cause cardiac arrest. Those who have eaten a small amount of berries have all the signs food poisoning... It is noteworthy that even the water in which the lilies of the valley are standing becomes poisonous. But in strictly fixed doses, the plant is used in official medicine to treat heart disease. Traditional medicine uses lily of the valley much more widely, for example, for rheumatism, headaches, eye diseases.

Deadly wolfberry

Wolf's bast, bad man, wolfberry - all this is one and the same shrub with red berries. You can see it in the forests of Russia up to the Arctic zone. It blooms earlier than other trees and shrubs, decorating the forest edges in the month of March. Its berries are bright, juicy, very beautiful, about the size of a cherry stone.

They contain poisonous juice, when it gets on the skin and mucous membranes, itching, redness, inflammation are observed. Symptoms of poisoning are similar to those of gastroenteritis. All parts of the wolfberry are poisonous. They contain a large number of substances hazardous to humans - diterpenoids, coumarins, daphnin, mizerein, coccognin and others. Daphne is planted as an ornamental plant and in gardens. Avicenna used it in his recipes. Folk healers use this plant externally, in the form of decoctions and tinctures for rheumatism, gout, sore throat, dermatosis, toothache and many other diseases, but it is officially forbidden to use it for medicinal purposes.

Marsh calla

This very beautiful graceful plant is commonly known as calla. It is happily grown in flower beds, used in bouquets. In nature, calla can be found where there is sufficient moisture. It grows in the European part of Russia, Siberia, and the Far East. All parts of it are poisonous. Calla lilies have small and inconspicuous flowers, collected on the cob. They are decorated with a white veil, taken by many for a large petal.

The fruit of the plant is a red berry, somewhat reminiscent of a large mulberry on a leg. Calla juice causes irritation and inflammation of the skin, and when it enters the stomach, nausea, vomiting, convulsions, and irregular heart rhythms appear. Often pets are poisoned with the leaves and fruits of calla lilies. They begin to salivate profusely, tremble, abdominal distention, pulse becomes very weak, but frequent. Death without urgent action occurs within an hour. For medicinal purposes, calla rhizomes are mainly used, they are added to some dishes even after special treatment.

Voronet

This herb with red berries can be found in coniferous and mixed forest belts, on bog bumps, on clay and rocky slopes. It is sometimes used in gardens as a decorative flower bed, mainly because of its beautiful carved leaves. Voronets has many other names, among which are bugs (because of an unpleasant smell), stinker, Khristoforova's grass, again, wolf berries. The raven blooms in May-June. In place of small white flowers that stay on the stem for only a couple of days, berries appear.

Depending on the species, they can be not only red, but also white and black. There are up to two dozen of them on the stalk. They are also small, round, shiny, reminiscent of a small cluster of grapes and very attractive in appearance. All parts of the Voronets are poisonous. If it enters the stomach, people develop nausea with vomiting, severe pain in the abdomen, cramps, and clouding of consciousness.

Arum

The outward appearance of the flower, this plant resembles a calla, only its cover is not white, but dirty-green-purple, similar to decaying meat. The smell is about the same. The plant needs this to attract carrion flies and dung flies - its only pollinators. But the fruit of the arum is quite pretty.

On an erect leg, its bright, shiny red berries look unusually attractive. The photo shows that they form something like a cob and look like beads stuck to one another. They are poisonous only when fresh. Dried berries are used in folk medicine to treat bronchitis, hemorrhoids and some other diseases. Arum grows almost throughout Europe and Asia. It can be seen on river banks, meadows, pastures, in thickets of bushes and on rocky mountain slopes.

Bittersweet nightshade

In about 1000 species. Poisonous one with red berries. Black berries are quite edible, from which they even make jams, compotes, bake pies. Nightshade is found in many regions of Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus. It grows like a weed. Some gardeners plant it to decorate fences and hedges.

The fruits of the nightshade are bright red, slightly elongated, resembling strongly reduced clusters of cherry tomatoes. Alkaloids, steroids, carotonoids, triterpenoids are found in their pulp and bones. The taste of nightshade berries is sweet at first, but then bitterness is felt in the mouth. In case of poisoning, the coordination of movement is disturbed, the heart rate increases, and abdominal pains appear.

Elderberry red

Walking in the second half of summer along the edge of the forest or in the park, you can see a spreading shrub decorated with lush berry clusters. This is an elderberry. Just don't confuse it with edible black.

This kind of elderberry does not mean at all that it has not yet ripened. It's just a completely different species of the same plant family. The red elderberry is very beautiful, so it is readily cultivated to decorate alleys, parks and squares. Its berries are a bit like rowan brushes, but the leaves and the plant itself are completely different. Birds eat its red berries with pleasure, but for humans they are poisonous due to the presence of amygdalin in them, as it turns into hydrocyanic acid in his stomach. In small doses, traditional medicine suggests using the berries of a red elderberry as a medicine. Important: it has already been proven that red elderberry does not save you from cancer.

Euonymus

Probably, many will be interested in the name of a very unusual red berry - bright, juicy, with black dotted eyes. It is a warty euonymus. Its fruits have a rather pleasant taste, so they are eagerly pecked by forest birds.

People, seeing this, might think the berries are safe. But euonymus is poisonous, and all parts of this beautiful plant are dangerous. Symptoms of poisoning with attractive berries are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, convulsions, general weakness, heart failure. Euonymus grows in deciduous groves, forests, loves oak forests and places with lime-rich soils. V settlements it can be seen as a spectacular hedge.

What to do in case of poisoning

Some authors give recommendations on how to recognize whether berries are poisonous or not. One of the main safety signs is the use of berries for food by birds and animals. However, focusing on this, you can pay with your life. So, birds, without the slightest harm to themselves, eat berries of euonymus, elderberry, nightshade, honeysuckle and others. According to statistics, berry poisoning is more common among children. Adults should explain to them which berries grow in their area. If, nevertheless, poisoning has occurred, before the arrival of the ambulance, you need to rinse the victim's stomach, give adsorbents to drink and ensure peace.

16.01.2018

When choosing plants for a garden, we first of all pay attention to its size and color of leaves. But do not forget that multi-colored fruits can also add special charm to the plant. And this is very important in the autumn, when the garden falls asleep, and in the snowless winter, when the eye wants to dwell on something bright. And today I would like to talk about the ten most attractive shrubs with colorful fruits in our opinion.

Viburnum

Shrub, 2-3 meters high, blooms very profusely in late spring - early summer. By autumn, the shrub is sprinkled with wonderful red fruits, and if they are not collected, then in winter they will decorate the bush and stand out well against the background white snow... The berries are edible and very useful, especially for the elderly, but they have a specific smell. Kalina tolerates pruning well in early spring... Aphids are very fond of her, so it is worth controlling in the spring - at the beginning of summer, have voracious insects appeared? and treat with insecticides in time so that aphids do not spread throughout the garden.

Rose hip

Another shrub with large red fruits and a huge storehouse of vitamins in your area. There are many types of rose hips with different heights and bush shapes, all of which belong to the rose family. In favorable conditions, it can become a long-liver. Rosehip blooms beautifully, sometimes twice a season, filling the garden with a wonderful aroma. After flowering, fruits appear on the bushes, turning red in the sun by autumn. They can be of different sizes: from small oblong to flattened-round and rather large. The fruits can be harvested and dried to support your body during the cold season with a rosehip decoction containing large amounts of vitamin C, or left on the bush to decorate the garden. Be careful, the rose hips are very prickly!

Chokeberry or chokeberry

We have already written about this wonderful plant as an owner, but this shrub with black fruits can also decorate your garden at any time of the year and even in winter. If you do not collect berries from it and leave them on the branches, they can easily persist until spring. Fruits are completely black, dense, have a beautiful bluish bloom. The height of the bush fluctuates up to 2-3 meters, it is very resistant to garden pests and keeping conditions, but it will bear fruit well in the sun. It grows and multiplies very quickly. The berries are edible, have an astringent taste, they make delicious tinctures, it is great to add them to jam and compotes.

Snowberry

Shrub with white fruits. It will decorate your garden when the leaves have fallen and it became completely empty. It is then that the snowberry comes to the fore. Children do not pass him by, because they like to pluck his fruits and burst them on the ground with a pleasant click. The fruits can be stored on the bush all winter, decorating the garden until it snows. Its height reaches 1.5 meters. It is quite unpretentious, you should only cut out dry and diseased branches in time to maintain its decorative effect. The fruits are inedible, therefore, with all the love for them, the little ones must be careful and not allow them to try to eat them.

Barberry

Another shrub with red fruits. Gardeners love it for its abundance of species and beautiful leaves. The height of the shrub is different depending on the variety. The fruits of barberry are small and oblong, by autumn they acquire a deep red or purple color. They cover the branch profusely almost along its entire length. As a rule, rarely anyone picks fruits, and they remain to decorate the flown bush until spring. Fruits can be eaten during heat treatment only in a ripe state, unripe berries can be poisoned.

Hawthorn

It is a tall shrub, in some cases it reaches the size of a tree and a height of 6 meters. Its fruits are very decorative and can be of different colors: rich orange, brown or dark red. In shape, they resemble small apples with a diameter of no more than 1 cm.The fruits can be used for food, they contain useful acids and vitamin B. But if you are not going to do this, leave the berries on the branches and they will certainly decorate your garden in the cold season, until they are eaten.

Cotoneaster

This shrub can decorate your garden with black or red fruits, which shower the bush abundantly in September. The berries may well be preserved throughout the winter. They are not eaten. The cotoneaster has different shapes and can decorate not only group plantings, but also an alpine slide, if you use low-growing creeping species. It tolerates shaping well and retains its shape for a long time. Have winter hardiness: black cotoneaster, shiny and ordinary.

Beautifull

A not very common plant in our areas, because not all of its varieties are able to survive our cold winters. It is unique in that it is abundantly covered with purple fruits in September. The shrub reaches a height of about 2.5 meters, blooms in mid-summer with pink or purple flowers. For our strip, the beautiful bodiniera and forked carp are suitable. Enjoy the delicate coloring of the bush until late autumn and in the snowless part of winter. In very severe frosts, it is still worth covering it, especially for young plants. The shrub is not affected by pests and is easily restored after frostbite.

Elder

This shrub with black or red fruits will beautify your garden from September when the fruits are fully ripe. Depending on the variety, the height can be different and reach from 1 - 2 to 5 meters. Red berries are inedible, while black ones are used in folk medicine, as they have a huge range of useful properties. Black elderberry can be shaped with good pruning. The elderberry tolerates ordinary winters steadily, but if the temperature drops too low, parts that were not covered with snow may freeze. After sanitary spring pruning, it recovers quite easily.

Euonymus

A shrub with red fruits of a very interesting shape that persist on the branches until the snow and sometimes even in winter. There are quite a few types of euonymus and they will differ in size and appearance of fruit-boxes, but it will always be something unusual. The photo shows the fruits of the European spindle tree. Euonymus have rather good winter hardiness and they all have decorative leaves, variegated or monochromatic.

Here are some shrubs you can keep in mind and plant them in the spring to brighten up the time when the gray filter prevails through which we are forced to look at the world, and this is a rather long period.

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Despite the fact that in the summer time the garden pleases with a riot of colors, many owners want to add some more bright and original touches to the landscape. Ornamental shrubs with red leaves for a summer residence successfully cope with this task.

These plants can transform your summer cottage beyond recognition. Such shrubs set the necessary accents, allowing the garden to look bright and original at any time of the year. Today we will introduce you to some of them.

Barberries with purple foliage

We do not start our review in vain with these shrubs with red leaves. Landscape designers love to use them, and gardeners have appreciated the beauty of these plants. Red-leaved barberry attracts purple foliage from early spring. He never ceases to delight with decorativeness until the onset of the first frost.

These unpretentious shrubs, which harmoniously fit into any landscape, have long become welcome guests at many garden plots the middle lane. Due to its unsurpassed decorative characteristics, barberry can be used everywhere - in combination with conifers, as a hedge, in single plantings. Below we will present you the most popular varieties.

Barberry Ottawa Superba

The shrub, which is about three meters high, is of incredible beauty. Differs in exquisite flowering and is a worthy decoration of any suburban area. The barberry bush of this variety has a rather large, spreading crown with long annual increments. Numerous shoots are armed with large thorns.

Burgundy leaves have a faint metallic tint in summer. Bloom begins in May. The shrubs are covered with yellow flowers with a red border, which gather in racemose inflorescences. They have a strong and very pleasant scent.

The fruits hang impressively on curved branches, somewhat elongated, edible, with a characteristic sour taste. They are also painted bright red. The plant is light-requiring, but it also tolerates partial shade. In sunny areas, the color of the leaves is more intense.

The bush tolerates extreme heat and drought well, is undemanding to the composition of the soil, but develops better on alkaline soils. Does not tolerate stagnant moisture. It is used as a tapeworm on the lawn, to create massifs, in row plantings, in curbs, growing hedges.

Barberry Thunberg

A bright representative of a large family. Such barberry bushes are beautiful in winter - against the background of snow, its reddish stems, covered with small thorns, look very impressive. In the spring, when the plant awakens, its leaves are painted in an unusually beautiful copper-red color and, in contrast to them, tassels of yellow flowers bloom. In summer, the leaves of the Thunberg barberry are painted in rich purple hues, and in the fall, the shrubs are simply mesmerizing with their beauty. Bright colors flames cover the entire bush from below and to the tips of graceful and elongated branches.

Barberry Thunberg has many varieties. We will tell you about the most common red ornamental shrubs.

Atropurpurea nana

This is perhaps the most popular Thunberg barberry. A miniature shrub with red leaves, the height of which does not exceed sixty centimeters. His crown is compact, flat-round. Differs in rather slow growth. It blooms with beautiful flowers: they are yellow inside, and bright red outside, forming racemose inflorescences. Bright red fruits that persist on the branches throughout the winter.

The leaves are small, at first they are colored dark red (almost black), then they become deep red. In autumn, they acquire a bright red color. The plant is undemanding to soils, it has proven itself well in urban conditions.

Admiration

A miniature shrub with red leaves of extraordinary beauty. An adult plant does not exceed 50 cm in height, and this is with the same size of the crown diameter, which has rounded shape... It is very dense. Small red leaves with an original thin yellow border.

Flowers are yellow, with a slight reddish tint, can be single or in bunches. Flowering occurs in May. The fruits are oblong, crimson-red, fully ripen in October.

It is undemanding to soils, it develops well in urban conditions. Grows best in well-lit areas. They are used to create low curbs, in rocky hills, in compositions, for single and group planting.

Bagatelle

Unusually good dwarf shrubs with red leaves. An example of this is Bagatelle. Its height is about forty centimeters, while the diameter of the crown can reach a meter. The annual growth in width and height is about three centimeters.

These unpretentious shrubs have a rather dense crown. The leaves are ovoid, no more than one and a half centimeters long, dark red. In the fall, they turn carmine red.

It blooms in May with yellow-red small flowers, collected in beautiful brushes. The fruits are bright red, shiny, up to a centimeter in size. As a rule, they ripen in early October.

It is undemanding to soils, tolerates short-term drought well. It is used in rockeries, ridges, group plantings, rock gardens, borders.

Southern scumpia

These shrubs with red leaves prefer regions with hot climates - the Caucasus, Mediterranean, Crimea. With the beginning of autumn, their foliage turns scarlet, dark pink or orange. At first, the veins become scarlet, and then the bright color spreads throughout the leaf blade. Scumpia has beautiful large leaves, shaggy pink inflorescences, which are successfully used in decorative art.

In countries with warm climates, this plant is very popular for decorating personal plots and gardens, parks and squares. Looks great in a single planting and is used to create hedges. It is recommended to plant in well-lit areas, but they must be protected from drafts and gusts of wind.

This plant does not require frequent watering: once every few weeks is enough. Fertilizers are applied to the soil in autumn or spring, before the inflorescences appear. Phosphate or mineral fertilizers are used as top dressing. Interestingly, if you rub a scumpia leaf in your hands, you can smell the carrot.

Scumpia is especially beautiful during the flowering period, which usually occurs in the second half of summer. Paniculate branching inflorescences from a distance resemble clouds. When the flowers fall off, pink stalks remain. Thanks to them, the plant received a second name - a wig tree, since these threads are very reminiscent of thick hair.

The plant is unpretentious to soils, feels comfortable in the garden, and can grow even on stony soils. But it also has a significant drawback: it is not too winter-hardy.

Red japanese maple

If you love a riot of red shades on your site, then pay attention to the red Japanese maple. This shrub has a voluminous crown. Initially, its foliage is colored bright green, but at the end of summer it turns reddish-orange, and then acquires a bright red, carmine hue.

Japanese maple has many varieties, each of which differs in color of foliage: Aconitifolium with orange-red leaves, Vitifolium with carmine-red leaves. But the most popular is Atropurpureum, with dark red foliage. These large shrubs look great anywhere, prefer partial shade, harmonize perfectly with conifers, ferns, hosts.

Shrub euonymus

This is the perfect decoration personal plot... In our country, the euonymus shrub has several more names: wolfberry, wolf earrings, bean-leaf, night blindness. The plant is actively used in landscape design. This is due to its high decorative qualities and ease of care.

Fortune's eonymus

Compact with a height not exceeding sixty centimeters. He is originally from China. It has many varieties, which are distinguished by the variegated coloration of the foliage. This plant can be shaped like a bush or a vine using ropes. With its aerial roots, euonymus will cling to any support. Depending on the variety, the leaves have edging of different colors.

Diable d'Or Mindia bicarp

Dense, fairly tall shrub (about two meters) with straight shoots. The leaves are colored dark purple, young bushes have shoots orange... The flowers are white, semi-double and very fragrant.

The plant needs nutritious, moist, slightly acidic soils and a well-lit area for planting. It can be used both in group plantings and in single plantings to create hedges, contrasting groups.

Bubbles Little Devil Donna May

A low-growing miniature variety, the height of which does not exceed eighty centimeters. The leaves are small, dark purple in color. They retain their decorative effect throughout the season. Flowering begins in early June, when small white flowers appear on the plant, collected in a corymbose inflorescence.

The shrub is undemanding to moisture. Drought tolerant. In order for this variety to please with a bright saturated color of foliage, it must be planted in sunny areas. This plant requires annual formative pruning, which boils down to cutting damaged and weak shoots in early spring. It is used as an accent plant in group plantings and for creating hedges.

As you can see, not only flowers are capable of decorating a garden. Various shrubs with red leaves can give it a special appeal. It is not at all necessary that they be blooming. Magnificent foliage of different shades of red will bring originality and sophistication to the landscape.

These are small, fleshy or juicy fruits that are harvested from shrubs and herbs. You need to understand that in botany, fruits are classified in their own way (a tomato is considered a berry, and raspberries and strawberries are considered fruits). To avoid confusion, fruits are distinguished from berries mainly by their size. Mankind has been consuming berries for almost its entire century: even under the primitive communal system, gathering helped to survive. These fruits are appreciated even now: for their taste, low calorie content and rich vitamin and mineral composition.

Watermelon

It is a source of essential amino acids, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. It is low in calories and fat, but it contains fiber. These berries have long been used in cosmetology, and now their properties are being actively studied by doctors. When consumed in moderation, watermelon helps maintain the normal functioning of the cardiovascular and digestive systems, it also contributes to the body's antioxidant defenses and helps prevent the development of many chronic diseases.

Barberry

Barberry belongs to the genus of shrubs, less often trees, the Barberry family. These are deciduous, semi-evergreen (foliage partially falls off), evergreen shrubs or small trees, with ribbed erect shoots that branch at an acute angle. The bark is brownish-gray or brownish-gray. It also has another name - caramel tree.

Cowberry

Lingonberry is a perennial, low, evergreen, branching subshrub reaching a height of 10 to 20 cm. The leaves are small, petiolate, leathery, shiny. Flowers are pink-white bells, 5mm long, collected at the top of the branches in rare brushes. Blooms in May - early June. Lingonberry fruits are small in size, bright red berries with a characteristic sweet and sour taste. Ripens in August-September. Lingonberry is a wild forest berry. It is found in the tundra, as well as in forest regions, in the temperate climatic zone.

Elder

Elderberry is a perennial woody plant from the honeysuckle family. Shrub or small tree, reaching 3-10 m in height. The trunk and branches are gray. Leaves are opposite, petiolate, pinnate. The flowers are small, fragrant, creamy or yellowish-white. Blooms from May to the first half of June. The elderberry fruit is black and purple, berry-shaped. Ripens in August - September.
In the wild, black elderberry is found between shrubs on the edges of forests in the middle zone of the European part of Russia, in the Ukraine, in the Baltic States and Belarus, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus, in the southeast of Russia. Elderberry grows in both sunny and shady places. Reproduction is carried out by dividing old bushes, layering and sowing seeds.

Grape

Grapes are a genus of plants in the Grape family, as well as the fruits of such plants, which in their mature form are sweet berries. Globular or ovoid grapes, collected in more or less loose (rarely dense) bunches. The color of the berries varies greatly depending on the variety (yellow, greenish, dark blue, purple, black, etc. In total, more than 3000 varieties of grapes grow on the territory of Russia and the CIS countries.

Goji berries

Goji Berries ( common dereza) or Lycium barbarum refers to a group of plants with a common collective name "wolfberry". By the way, not all plants of this group have a toxic effect on humans - some of its species have unique healing properties. Since ancient times, goji berry in Chinese medicine has been used to increase libido in women and men, as well as to raise mood and improve well-being in stressful situations. It is believed that this plant contributes to the fight against cancer cells, improves immunity and prolongs life.

Blueberry

Blueberry is a small shrub up to 1 meter high with gray smooth curved branches. Leaves up to 3 cm long. Flowers are small, five-toothed, white or pinkish. Blueberry fruits are blue with a bluish bloom, juicy edible berries up to 1.2 cm long.
Sometimes blueberries are called a drunkard or a gonobel because they supposedly get drunk and drive a headache. But in fact, the culprit of these phenomena is wild rosemary, which often grows in the neighborhood of blueberries.
Blueberries are harvested raw and processed for consumption. Jam is made from them, and also used to make wine.

Cherry

A tree or shrub, usually with several trunks 1.5-2.5 m high, rarely up to 3 m and more.
Leaves are dark green, oval, pubescent below, strongly corrugated, with a pointed end. The flowers are white, white with pink (rarely pink), up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Cherry fruits are oval drupes, red when ripe, sweet (sometimes sour) in taste, smaller than ordinary cherries (0.8-1.5 cm in diameter), covered with a small downy. Depending on the region, they ripen from the end of June to the end of July, and on the same tree almost simultaneously; cherries bear fruit abundantly, usually in the third year and up to 15-20 years annually.

Melon

Plant of the Pumpkin family, a species of the genus Cucumber, melon culture, false berry.
Melon is a warm and light-loving plant, resistant to soil salinity and drought, poorly tolerates high humidity. On one plant, depending on the variety and the place of cultivation, from two to eight fruits, weighing from 1.5 to 10 kg, can be formed. Melon fruits are globular or cylindrical shape, green, yellow, brown or white in color, usually with green stripes. Melon ripening period is from two to six months.

Blackberry

A perennial shrub of the genus Rubus, belonging to the Rosaceae family. Blackberries are widespread in the northern and temperate latitudes of the Eurasian continent, in coniferous and mixed forests, in the floodplains of rivers, in the forest-steppe zone. There are practically no garden blackberries, therefore, lovers of this berry have to rely on the benevolence of nature and wait for a good harvest of this wild berry.

Strawberry

Strawberry is a perennial herb of the Rosaceae family up to 20 cm high. The rhizome is short, oblique, with numerous adventitious brownish-brown, thin roots. The stem is erect, leafy, covered with hairs. Leaves on long petioles, trifoliate, dark green above, bluish-green below, soft pubescent. Rooting shoots develop from the axils of the basal leaves. Blooms from May to July. The flowers are white, located on long stalks. The strawberry fruit is a false one, incorrectly called a berry. It is an overgrown fleshy, fragrant, bright red receptacle. Strawberries ripen in July - September.

Irga

An amazing plant of the Rosaceae family. It is undemanding to growing conditions, can normally tolerate frosts down to -40 -50 degrees, and during flowering, frost to -5 -7 degrees. Irga grows well on soils of various composition and acidity. But there is indispensable condition- if you want to get a harvest of large, sweet, with the aroma of fresh berries, you need to take a sunny place for the irge. Therefore, the irga bushes should be located at a distance of at least 2.5-3 m, unless you aim to grow a tall hedge, for which the irga is very suitable.

Viburnum

lat. Viburnum
A red berry with a fairly large pit. Viburnum ripens at the end of September after the first frost. Before that, the berry is quite sour with a bitterness, and under the influence of slight frosts it acquires sweetness. It is widely used in folk medicine.

Dogwood

Shrub 5-7 meters high, sometimes a small tree. Dogwood has been cultivated by mankind for a very long time, historians report on the bones of dogwood found more than 5 thousand years ago on excavations of human settlements located on the territory of modern Switzerland. Today, 4 types of dogwood are cultivated in most of Europe (France, Italy, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia), the Caucasus, Central Asia, China, Japan and North America.

Strawberry

Strawberry is a perennial herb, 15-35 cm high, belongs to the Rosaceae family.
The stem is erect, the leaves are large, light green in color. Corymbose inflorescences of 5-12 flowers on short densely pubescent pedicels. The flowers are usually unisexual, five-petal, white, with a double perianth. Between the beginning of flowering of strawberries and the beginning of ripening of strawberries, a period of 20 to 26 days passes.

Cranberry

It is an evergreen plant, a shrub with thin and low shoots. The length of the shoots is about 30 cm on average, the berries of wild cranberries are red, spherical, 8-12 mm in diameter. Some specially bred varieties have berries up to 2 cm in diameter. Cranberries bloom in June, berry picking begins in September and lasts all autumn. Plantation berries ripen 1-2 weeks earlier than wild ones. Cranberries can easily be stored until spring.

Red currant

Red currant is a small deciduous perennial shrub of the Gooseberry family (Grossulariaceae). Unlike black currant, the bushes are more compressed and elongated upward. Strong and thick annual shoots that grow from the base of the bush go to its formation and replace old, dying branches, but over the years their progressive growth dies out.

Gooseberry

A perennial, multi-stemmed shrub with a long fruiting period and high yield - up to 20-25 kg from 1 bush. Gooseberry bushes reach up to 1.5 m in height and up to 2 m in diameter. Gooseberry is a plant of temperate latitudes, tolerates slight shading, but is quite hygrophilous. The gooseberry root system is located at a depth of 40 cm. It is best to place it along the fence at a distance of 1-1.5 m from the bush. Over time, they grow, forming a solid barbed wall.

Schisandra

Lemongrass is a large climbing liana shrub from the magnoliaceae family. Its length reaches fifteen meters, and twisting around trees, lemongrass resembles a vine. The stem is 2 centimeters thick. The plant takes the form of a bush in the northern regions. Schisandra berries are 2-seed, bright red, juicy, globular, very sour. The seeds smell like lemon and have a bitter, pungent taste. The bark of the roots and stems also smells like lemon, hence the name - lemongrass.

Raspberries

The deciduous shrub Rubus idaeus, or Common Raspberry, is found all over the world - from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to Hawaii. Among the people, the fruits of raspberries are called berries, which does not correspond to their definition in the botanical classification. From this position, a more accurate name for the raspberry fruit is "polystyanka".
From the list of berry crops, raspberries stand out for their high concentration of antioxidants, which prevent damage to body cells and stop the aging process. This gives the right to call raspberries "the berry of health and longevity."

Cloudberry

A small perennial herb with a creeping, branched rhizome. The stem is simple, erect. 10-15 cm in height, ends with a single white flower. Leaves are wrinkled, heart-shaped, with a lobed edge. Cloudberry fruit is a composite drupe, initially reddish, and amber-yellow when ripe. Cloudberry blooms in May-Nyune, ripens in July and August. The fruit is sour-spicy, wine.

Sea buckthorn

A shrub or small tree, reaching a height of three to four meters with branches covered with small thorns and slightly elongated green leaves.
The sea buckthorn is pollinated by the wind, blooms in late spring. Fruits are small (up to 8-10 mm), orange-yellow or red-orange, oval in shape. The name for this plant "Sea Buckthorn" is very apt, since its berries are on very short stalks, on the branches they sit very closely, as if they are clinging to them. The berries have a rather pleasant sweet and sour taste, as well as a peculiar, unique aroma, which rather remotely resembles pineapple. That is why sea buckthorn is sometimes called northern, or Siberian, pineapple.

Olives

Evergreen subtropical tall tree of the genus Olive (Olea) of the Olive family (Oleaceae).
The height of an adult cultivated olive tree is usually five to six meters, but sometimes it reaches 10-11 meters or more. The trunk is covered with gray bark, knobby, curved, usually hollow in old age. Branches are knotty, long. Leaves are narrow-lanceolate, gray-green in color, do not fall off for the winter and renew gradually over the course of two to three years. Fragrant flowers are very small, 2 to 4 centimeters long, whitish, in one inflorescence from 10 to 40 flowers. Fruit - olives, elongated-oval in shape, 0.7 to 4 centimeters long and 1 to 2 centimeters in diameter, with a pointed or blunt nose, fleshy, olives contain a stone in their insides.

Rowan

A tree up to 10 m tall, less often a shrub from the Rosaceae family. Rowan fruits are spherical, berry-shaped, red, sour, bitter, slightly tart in taste. After the first frost, the fruits lose their astringency, become tasty, somewhat sweet. Blooms in May - early June. The fruits ripen in September, remaining on the tree until deep winter.
In nature, mountain ash is found in forests and mountainous areas of the northern and middle parts of the northern hemisphere. Quite easy to care for, most rowan trees look great for most of the year.

Thorn

Blackthorn is a shrub or small tree 1.5-3 meters high (large species up to 4-8) meters with numerous thorny branches. The branches grow horizontally and end in a sharp, thick thorn. Young branches are pubescent.
Thorn leaves are elliptical or obovate. Young leaves are pubescent, with age they become dark green, with a matte sheen, leathery. The fruits of thorns are generally round, small (10-15mm in diameter), black-blue in color with a waxy coating.

Feijoa

novolat. Feijoa
A green oblong berry native to South America. In size, feijoa is 5-7 cm in diameter and weighs about 20-120 g. When ripe, the fruit becomes very juicy with a slight sourness. A new plant was discovered at the end of the 19th century. in Brazil during a scientific expedition. In Europe, the first fruit appeared in 1890 in France. From there, the feijoa was spread to the Mediterranean countries, the Crimea and the Caucasus. The tree is very thermophilic and can withstand maximum frosts down to -10 ° C.

Physalis

Physalis ordinary (perennial, cherry, marunka) is a perennial plant from the Solanaceae family 50-100 cm high. The underground shoots of physalis are creeping, woody, branching. Its stems are erect. angularly curved. Physalis fruit is a spherical, juicy, orange or red berry, enclosed in a fiery orange swollen, bubble-shaped. almost spherical cup, thanks to which the plant got its name physalis from the Greek word "physo", which means swollen. The plant blooms in May - August. Physalis fruits ripen in June - September. Grows everywhere in light forests, among shrubs, on forest edges, in ravines.

A perennial shrub belonging to the gooseberry family, reaches up to 1.5 m in height with lowered yellowish-gray shoots, brownish by the end of summer. Black currant leaves are alternate, petiolate, three-, five-lobed, glabrous above, below - with golden glands along the veins, with a fragrant specific odor, up to 12 cm wide.Flowers 7-9 mm long, purple or pinkish-gray, five-membered, collected on 5-10 in drooping clusters 3-8 cm long. The fruit of the black currant is a multi-seeded black or dark purple fragrant round shiny berry with a diameter of 7-10 mm. Blossoms in May - June; fruits ripen in July - August.

Blueberry

Perennial undersized shrub from the genus Vaccinium of the Heather family, 15-30 cm high.
Stems are erect, branched, smooth. Blueberry rhizome is long, creeping. Leaves are elliptical, smooth, light green, leathery, 10-30 mm long, covered with sparse hairs and serrated edges. Blooms in May-June. Flowers are greenish-white with a pink tint, solitary. They are located on short pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves. Blueberries are juicy, black, with a bluish-gray bloom, shiny. The pulp is dark red, juicy, soft, with many seeds. Ripens in July-August. Blueberries bear fruit in the second or third year.

Bird cherry

A large deciduous shrub or tree of the Rosaceae family (Rosaceae), up to 10 m in height, with a dense elongated crown, with a dull, cracking dark gray bark, on which large rusty-brown or white lentils are clearly distinguished. The inner layer of bird cherry bark is yellow, with a characteristic almond scent. Young branches are light olive, short pubescent, later cherry-red, glabrous; the bark is yellow from the inside, with a pungent characteristic odor. Leaves are alternate, short-petiolate, oblong-elliptical, narrowed at both ends, serrate-toothed along the edge. White, with strong smell flowers are collected in multi-flowered drooping racemes. Blossoms in May; fruits ripen in July - August. The fruit of the bird cherry is black, glossy, spherical, tart to the taste, strongly astringent drupe with one stone. The stone is rounded-ovate, sinuous-notched.

Rose hip

Perennial, wild plant of the Pink family. People call it a wild rose. Rosehip is not a tall bush from 1.5-2.5 m in height with arched hanging branches covered with strong crescent thorns. Young shoots of rose hips are greenish-red with awl-like thorns and bristles. The flowers are pink or white-pink, with five loose petals, the corolla is up to 5 cm in diameter. The rose hips bloom in May-June. Berry-like fruits (up to 20 mm long), red-orange, different shapes, with many hairy achenes, ripen in September-October.