Even in the most "agricultural" area, at least one prickly "saboteur" will certainly be found. Most often, forest guests act in this capacity, like the common juniper, spruce or pine. But with the availability of a huge assortment of conifers, amazing in beauty and perfect in shape, it is unreasonable to ignore the possibility of using them. In addition, plants grown in nurseries take root more easily and grow faster.

Options are possible

In the world of conifers, giants and dwarfs easily get along - there are suitable plants for a garden of any size. And the richness of shades of needles allows you to create picturesque canvases from them.

Grenadiers

Tall conifers conquer with their greatness. They look best at a distance, when you can see the whole tree without lifting your head. But you can use them in compositions in a small garden. In this case, the lower part will become the background for other plants, and the thicker it is, the better. The sales leaders are European cedar pine, 'Hoopsii' prickly spruce, monochromatic fir, 'Brabant' thuja, 'Aureospicata' and others. young age, while you can reach the top, these trees can be decorated for the New Year.

Slow-growing varieties deserve special attention, reaching their characteristic height not by ten years, but by thirty. In addition, there are plants, the impressive size of which is still acceptable for a small garden.

So, the Scots pine 'Vatereri' (Watereri) with beautiful bluish needles by the age of 30 has a height and width of about 3 m. The trunk, which is not bare from below, allows it to be used as a screen and in a mixed hedge. A number of western thuja varieties are often positioned as two to three meters, simply because they grow too slowly. A striking example is 'Smaragd', on the label of which you can often see the mark "up to 2 meters." In fact, he grows more than four, but after 10 years.

If a pine or spruce tree is too big for your garden, or is simply planted out of place, there is a reliable, albeit time-consuming, way to curb the rampant growth of your pet. For this, strong pruning or pinching of young shoots is carried out annually, with special attention paid to the apical ones. As a result, the trees look extremely beautiful and well-groomed. Unfortunately, you can't skip a year or two and even more so completely stop the process - you will get strange freaks.

Thuja and junipers can simply be trimmed from time to time with garden shears (not to be confused with a curly haircut!). Plants easily tolerate this operation and for the next several years they completely dispense with your attention.

Middle class

Medium-sized conifers are fantastically diverse. Neat "balls" and "cones" of western thuja, low varieties various firs and pines, numerous junipers - they are all remarkably good and satisfy the most picky tastes. But besides them, there are much less common firs and such interesting species as pea cypress or Canadian hemlock. Medium-sized conifers fit perfectly both in large-scale gardens and in the "six hundred" design, therefore they are always in demand.

It is the "middle peasants" that form the basis of coniferous compositions and are part of mixborders. Without them, it is difficult to imagine a heather garden or a small mixed flower garden, in which for support in winter period it is required to include a coniferous plant that looks out of the snowdrifts, but at the same time not higher than average human height.

The globular thuja of the Globosa variety, planted in a row along the path or in a symmetrical pair at the entrance to the house, has become a European classic. An interesting Polish experience of planting along a mountain pine fence. Moreover, depending on the height of the fence, you can choose between varieties different heights, width and growth rate: ‘Gnome’ (Gnom), ‘Pug’ (Mops), ‘Pumilio’ (Pumilio), ‘Mugus’ (Mugus). And fans of "blue trees" can successfully use in their compositions the compact prickly spruce ‘Glauca Globosa’ (Glauca Globosa).

Spiky rugs

Creeping forms exist in different types of conifers. Among them there are very low ones, the height of which is measured in literally a few centimeters. First of all, these are the varieties of horizontal junipers: 'Golden Carpet', 'Prince of Wales', 'Blue Chip', and ordinary: 'Green Carpet' (Green Carpet), 'Depressa Aurea' (Depressa Aurea). Such plants are especially good on retaining walls or small elevations.

Their taller counterparts (for example, juniper middle ‘Old Gold’ (Old Gold), m. Scaly ‘Blue Carpet’ (Blue Carpet), cross-pair microbiota) reach a height of one and a half meters. More often they have shoots raised or spread out to the sides. But the m. Cossack ‘Glauka’ (Glauca) and the m. Middle ‘Mint Julep’ (Mint Julep), with the same growth, have a wide spreading shape.

Usually creeping conifers are used in combination with the usual tall forms in groups that decorate the adjoining area or front garden, but in recent times they were often planted in curtains as an alternative to the lawn. Indeed, some varieties of junipers and microbiota are quite capable of acting as ground cover plants. They look amazing both in a group planting and in a single planting in the form of tapeworms. In any case, it is necessary to provide enough space for the “rugs” that are rapidly increasing in width, and, of course, it is impossible to walk on such “lawns”.

On a small area with a prickly "pillow" you can decorate orchard, but keep in mind that picking apples and plums in this case will not be easy.

Creeping shapes also produce beautiful and durable wide curbs. On the one hand, conifers are able to disguise paving errors, and on the other hand, they successfully fit into the green smooth surface of the lawn or into a lush, motley flower garden community. When planting these curbs, also remember to leave room for plant development. And for a denser overgrowth of the middle in spring, after the snow melts, you can pinch or cut the ends of the shoots.

In winter and summer in the same color?

Contrary to the popular song about the herringbone, conifers flaunt not only all shades of green. Among them there are forms with needles in golden and silvery-gray tones. There are also variegated needles: interspersed with yellow or ivory. Not too rich, it would seem, the palette nevertheless allows you to create picturesque compositions that successfully replace flower beds, but consisting exclusively of conifers.

Forms with green needles in garden design play the role of dividers that prevent the colors from mixing, but the “colored” varieties are designed to complicate the play of tones. For example, the bluish tint of the ‘Blue Carpet’ juniper will correctly emphasize the “steel” coloration of the silvery oak tree. And to make these muted colors appear richer and brighter, plant a traditionally green coniferous plant nearby - in this case, it's mountain pine ‘Mugus’.

If you get carried away beautiful varieties with colored and especially variegated needles, it is easy to overdo it, getting instead of a harmonious combination of colors "explosive mixture", not very noticeable in summer, but emphasized artificial in the rest of the time. Therefore, it is better to visually select places for conifers in the garden in the fall, when there is a bright autumn outfit of deciduous trees and shrubs in front of your eyes, or in early spring, so that other plants do not interfere with mentally imagining the whole prickly company at once.

Usually, when choosing conifers, you do not need to consider seasonal variation coloring. The only exceptions are some species and varieties. Larches, shedding needles for the winter, stand somewhat apart. So, in summer, the European larch ‘Repens’, similar to a light green shock, from autumn to spring turns into a beige-brown disheveled “monster” of long naked shoots swaying in the wind.

Different conifers have original creeping varieties. These are, for example, 'Formanek' spruce, 'Hillside Creeper' pine, 'Jakobsen' mountain pine, 'Prostrata' Canadian hemlock and many others.

Dwarf varieties are very popular among collectors and conifer lovers. These charming "hedgehogs" are very, very modest in size, while possessing characteristic species characteristics. Such plants are a real find for owners of small plots, allowing them to collect an impressive collection of coniferous "miniatures". They look especially impressive in rockeries or on an alpine slide. Examples include Nisbet's Gem pine, Little Gem spruce, Piccolo Korean fir. The range of such varieties is very large.

Competitive selection

A healthy seedling is half the success, therefore, when choosing planting material for conifers, you need to be fully armed and approach this issue very responsibly.

Medical board

Conifers are best purchased with a closed root system. It is desirable that they were grown directly in a container or transplanted long enough, as evidenced by an earthen lump tightly braided with beige or light brown without the slightest hint of dryness. The exception is conifers dug out of the ground in early spring (April-May) or autumn (until October), and directly in front of you (this makes it possible to personally control the safety of the root system). Such plants should be planted in the garden as soon as possible, ideally on the first day.

Be sure to pay attention to the needles: a healthy plant does not have dry red needles. But the lack of an intense color characteristic of some varieties may simply be a consequence of being in conditions of insufficient illumination.

In addition, you need to make sure that there are no thickenings on the shoots, and, if possible, on the roots. Leaks of resin, growths, white "cotton" dots should also be alerted - all this speaks of the defeat of diseases.

Access area

Unfortunately, not every conifer is able to withstand the harsh Russian winters, therefore, when choosing a convenient guide, a map of the zones of frost resistance of plants will serve as a guide. The higher the number of the zone to which the specific species, the more thermophilic it is. True, among the "southerners" there are varieties that grow well in some gardens, despite their high sensitivity to frost. An important factor in this is not so much the landing site protected from cold winds, as the shelter with snow, therefore, stunted or creeping forms most often survive. For example, in the Moscow region, located on the border of the 4th and 5th zones, plants can winter even from zone 6.

Free cheese?

At the end of autumn, many shops sell discounted plants. But a very tempting offer can turn into a complete disappointment, because there is practically no time left for normal rooting. In fairness, it should be noted that not all gardeners who buy conifers on sales find them dead in the spring. There are experienced amateurs who specifically hunt for such specimens. Residents of regions remote from the center, where each new plant is not only a rarity, but also very expensive pleasure... After planting and in the first spring, such plants will need more attention and support in the form of stimulating rooting and anti-stress drugs.

False alarm

Although conifers are sometimes damaged by pests and diseases, there are occasional cases when healthy plants mistaken for sick. For example, the cross-paired microbiota in the cold season has a completely unpresentable appearance: its needles seem "rusty".

But this is just a feature inherent in this species and saving the plant from spring burns - by summer the ugly redhead will disappear, the microbiota will again delight with emerald greens. When buying her seedlings in early spring or mid-autumn, this should be borne in mind.

A brown tint appears towards winter and in many golden forms of western thuja. It usually goes away on its own, but the plants can be helped by spraying with anti-stress medications.

Boarding announced!

When planting conifers in the garden, it is very important to follow the technology and take into account the characteristics of the growth and development of different species. This will help avoid future disappointments.

Moving inward

The size of the planting pit for conifers depends on the composition and fertility of the soil. On fertilized loose loam, there is enough volume, twice the root system sapling. The poorer and heavier the soil, the deeper and wider the pit. On heavy loamy ones, in addition, drainage is made from broken brick, gravel or pebbles. A close standing groundwater requires planting on bulk mounds.

When preparing the substrate for the planting pit, the determining factor is the immediate requirements of the plants. For example, thuja western and European larch prefer well-hydrated nutrient soils, and horizontal and Cossack junipers grow well on dry sandy ones.

Sequencing

Plants with a closed root system are easier to plant. Spill the soil well, lightly squeeze the sides of the container (for better lumping), then carefully turn the pot upside down and pull the seedling out, holding it with your other hand. Straighten the folded roots and, if necessary, trim off tangled or dried roots, and then plant the plant in a previously prepared hole. Be sure to make sure that the root collar is at the same level as in the container.

For plants with open roots, you should try to preserve the earthen lump as much as possible. Gently unfold the burlap, gently straighten the root system and place it in the planting hole, gradually filling it with the prepared substrate. When falling asleep, compact it a little, then water it well and mulch it.

Before rooting, spray the seedlings in the evening and water in a timely manner, preventing the soil from drying out in the near-stem circle. After planting, and then annually on the eve of spring (end of February, March), the conifers are protected from the sun's rays by a screen with stretched burlap. In the first year, do not fertilize the plant, supporting it with stimulating root formation and anti-stress drugs. In the next - add humus and compost soil to the trunk circle, feed with mineral fertilizers.

When buying a seedling, you need to know exactly its type and variety. This is necessary not so much in order to provide the plant the necessary conditions how much to determine frost resistance. So, the eastern thuja, which is often found on sale, winters well only in the southern regions - all your efforts will be in vain. The same fate awaits Lawson's cypress and some other species. In order not to be mistaken in the absence of a signature, it is better to first find out what the plant you have chosen looks like.

Anticipating the future

A common mistake when planting conifers is that they are too close to each other or to other plants. Buying a small seedling is preferable in terms of survival rate, but very risky in terms of placement. After 5-10 years (depending on the growth rate), the plant can greatly increase in size and either block out everything that was successfully located in the background in the first years, or cover its neighbors with overgrown shoots. It is worse if coniferous species were also planted around: their transplanting can be very painful and even harmful - the plants are already adults. Knowing the exact size of an adult specimen will help to avoid an unpleasant situation. And you can fill the temporarily empty space using herbaceous plants or fast-growing and easily propagating shrubs such as Japanese spirea.

Because of the same slip under the crowns of conifers, bulbous ones often remain "buried". For example, a pretty juniper grew and grew, and around it were daffodils, which in the spring delighted in rapid flowering. But one day they stop blooming, and the roots of the juniper do not allow digging deep-seated bulbs. And you have to make a choice between keeping a slow-growing coniferous plant or a fine variety of daffodils. As a rule, bulbs are sacrificed, so it is better to plant them at a distance and take timely measures for digging and replanting.

The vertical forms of conifers look bad if they are below the herbaceous plants growing nearby. In the case of fast-growing species, it is better to put up with disharmony for a couple of years than to subsequently engage in transplants.

But dwarfs and slow-growing varieties are preferable to plant at some distance from both herbaceous neighbors and shrubs and surround them with ground cover species or stones.

Many conifers love the sun. However, in the spring, some varieties can suffer from burns, so they are planted in partial shade. In shaded places, common and Cossack junipers, microbiota and western thuja with a usual green color feel good. Plants thus appear looser than in full sun.

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With the help of evergreen conifers, you can decorate and refine your personal plot or flower bed near a residential building. This dignity of conifers has been known for a long time, and therefore all kinds of evergreen decorations are so relevant. The beauty and originality of such green spaces is preserved throughout the year. This applies to both coniferous compositions and a single tree.

Most varieties of conifers perfectly tolerate lack of sunlight and have a well-developed root system, which allows plants to do without watering for a long time. Some varieties of conifers take root well and thrive on dry and stony soils.

The bulk of conifers and shrubs tolerates cutting perfectly. Some of the species of coniferous trees by nature have the correct geometric shape and do not need cutting and difficult maintenance.

The role of conifers in the landscape of the suburban area

Conifers can perform a wide variety of functions in landscape design... It can be:

The design of a garden with coniferous plants can be either purely decorative in nature or carry a functional load. In particular, with the help of juniper or thuja, you can create an excellent living fence that will hide the recreation area in the yard from prying eyes. For example, if you plant these shrubs very tightly next to each other, you get a great hedge.

With the help of a dwarf juniper, you can create low fence for playgrounds or large flower beds. Such a fence will not obscure the view and will create a visual border. In addition, it will create a purely aesthetic frame effect.

Ephedra with an unusual crown shape or color can be used as single decorations for the site. Such a "soloist" is able to decorate a courtyard or garden all year round. The background for such a tree can be a gravel cover or a grassy lawn.

A composition of ornamental plants for landscape design, framing a path or fence, has another name mixborder. This element is very popular among gardeners. To create a mixborder you can combine conifers with ground cover plants, flowers, lawn grass... If a mixborder is created near garden path, it is best to create it from dwarf forms plants, then there is an opportunity to capture the whole composition at once.

Such compositions are a ready-made original and at the same time very attractive solution for creating a landscape of a courtyard or a summer cottage. You can combine ephedra in the country with suitable deciduous plants.

Gives a good effect playing on contrasts of color and shape plants. You can combine thuja columnar and spherical different shapes and complete such a composition with creeping juniper. The bright green color will harmonize with golden and deep dark green. This composition looks very attractive.

If you model the landscape composition correctly, the territory of your site will look very comfortable and harmonious. Completed picture coniferous garden can be created if you adhere to the following rules:

It is best to orient landings to the east or west,

Not recommended overload landscapes with an abundance of shapes and colors- this will create a sense of anxiety. It is best to limit yourself to two or three contrasting colors. Even in a fairly large area, it is better to limit yourself to alternating two shades and avoid chaos of all kinds of colors.

Gallery: conifers in landscape design (25 photos)

Creation of coniferous beds

With the help of conifers of various shapes and size, you can arrange flower beds in your personal or summer cottage. The design of such a landscape will depend on the size of the site, the shape of the flower bed and, of course, the skill of the gardener.

Exists several varieties of conifer beds:

Alpine slide with conifers

Using decorative conifers different colors and sizes can be perfectly designed and small bodies of water on the site... An ideal landscape design option can be a pond or stream lined with conifers.

1. Spruce or pine has a spherical shape, western thuja, balsam fir or ephedra.
2. The conical shape can be maintained in gray spruce, Lawson cypress, Serbian spruce or mountain pine.
3. The cylindrical shape is inherent in the eastern thuja, berry yew, and virgin juniper.

Plants of various shapes can be combined in the country with creeping juniper species.

Coniferous bonsai

Bonsai Is a unique opportunity to take home your garden during the winter cold. These trees are grown in special containers and require a lot of time, effort and attention. Such a task is within the power of only experienced and patient gardeners.

The root system of such micro-conifers can be severely damaged in the harsh Russian winter. V summer time bonsai can decorate a garden and a personal plot, but for the winter it must be moved to a room with a temperature of 1 to 12 degrees. Be sure to follow the rules of winter watering of plants. Such painstaking work will be more than rewarded with a delightful and very aesthetic landscape of your summer house.

Advantages and disadvantages

All decorative conifers differ a number of undoubted advantages.

Conifers on the site look attractive, especially if they are compositionally decorated. A bed of conifers is suitable for summer residents who rarely visit garden plot... Evergreen shrubs are unpretentious. Moreover, they are centenarians. For gardeners who are constantly in the garden, a flower bed with conifers and flowers is suitable. Ornamental green plants look spectacular along with bright roses and other perennials.

Basics of landscape architecture

Not everyone can hire a designer who will competently decorate a garden. However, even a novice gardener can take up the aesthetic appearance of the site. In order to independently make the territory harmonious and comfortable, you need to know the main points landscape architecture. Among them:

• Simplicity and unity;
• Proportionality;
• Balance and Repetition;
• Symmetry.

Simplicity and unity

The design of the garden should be light and unobtrusive. The more elements and piles, the sloppy and chaotic the territory looks. Noble simplicity saves budget. For such a garden, unnecessary details and decorations are not needed.

Important! When planning the improvement, you should pay attention to the house. In what style the dacha was built, this style should be followed when decorating the garden.

Proportionality

The principle of proportionality states that it is important to pay attention to the size of the garden itself and the compositions inside. Owner small house and it will be uncomfortable for the garden to go out into the garden, half of which is occupied by a large sculpture or several large and too tall trees. In this case, the already modest territory is visually reduced.

Balance and repetition

Keeping a balance will help make your garden feel comfortable. You should not plant a small area with trees around the entire perimeter, the balance will be disturbed here due to the appearance of a closed space. Also, the balance will be disturbed if there is a small fence in the garden, along which dwarf bushes are planted. In this case, the owners of the garden will feel uncomfortable, as there will be a feeling that they are on public display. Repetition also affects balance. Balance and structure are created through some repetitive attributes. For example, when decorating a flower garden, a stone is used, and exactly the same material decorates the foundation of a building or a curb by the path.

Symmetry

It's not that the halves of the garden should be symmetrical. However, some similarity and proportionality must be observed.

The principles of the formation of coniferous beds

Coniferous flower bed

There are special principles of landscape design that are recommended to be observed when growing coniferous flower beds:

• The principle of proportionality must be observed when arranging coniferous mixborders. Due to their bulk, they should be located at a sufficient distance from the living area and recreation area. It is necessary to approximately find out the possible volume of the composition, and then increase this number by 2. The resulting result is the answer to the question: "at what distance from the house or gazebo should a flowerbed with conifers and flowers or a coniferous mixborder be located?"
• A flower bed with juniper, thuja, fir, larch will look attractive if there is a pond a few meters away. Home water bodies are often formed by sedge, fern, astilbe, and bushes with variegated leaf color, which are called the host. These plants are ideally combined with conifers. Therefore, the pond will look with coniferous flower bed in the same style.
• A flower garden of evergreen shrubs and compact trees is best planted so that it faces east or west. Thus, the plants will receive required amount sunlight, but ultraviolet light will not harm them. Plants will always have the opportunity to be where the shadow is.
• The gardener should try to make the inhabitants of the evergreen corner comfortable. Consideration should be given to the slow growth of plants. It is recommended to plant one medium-sized ephedra or two dwarfs on one square meter. To fill the remaining space before the flowerbed takes on its intended appearance, planting annuals or greenery with beautiful leaves is suitable.

Note! When decorating the territory next to the mixborder, it is recommended to give preference to the emerald lawn. In this case, the green flower garden will look harmonious, simple and natural.

Conifers and flowers perennials for mixborder

The following conifers are suitable for creating an evergreen flower garden:

1. Veres (juniper);
2. Fir;
3. Dwarf pine;
4. Blue spruce;
5. Yew, etc.

Veres comes in many species and varieties. The most acceptable species for the garden are Cossack, horizontal, ordinary. It is better for a gardener to select undersized and dwarf varieties. For example, the cushion variety Blue Star (its height is only 10 cm, in diameter it grows to 1.7 m, the needles are silvery); creeping Blue Carpet (grows up to 70 cm in height, about 1.6 m in diameter, blue needles); Echeniformis (semicircular shrub with gray-blue needles, 60 cm high, crown diameter 90-100 cm), etc.

Thuja for a mixborder is indispensable, since its main feature the fact that the lush crown is easy to prune. Thuja make green figures and different architectural forms... The Danika variety is popular (a dwarf with soft scaly needles). The Hoseri variety has a description of the bush in the form of an emerald ball.

A dwarf fir for the composition is selected. For example, the Brilliant variety, which is a round compact bush with delicate needles. An adult 10-year-old plant stretches up to 50 cm in height and 50-70 in width. A few more dwarf firs: Oberon, Silberlock, Nana (balsamic).

Dwarf fir

Among the varieties of dwarf pines stand out: Mugus with flattened branches, Pumilio and Pug, with crowns in the form of a sphere.

Blue spruce can be a great addition to a mixborder. Especially compact varieties - Glauka Globoza, Montgomery, Lucky Strike, as well as medium-height varieties - Koster, Oldenburg, Edith.

Yew attracts designers with its reddish bark and light green crown. In early summer, noticeable scarlet or reddish-brick berries appear on the plant. All varieties of the culture are poisonous. Designers distinguish the varieties Samergold (with golden needles), Elegantissima (with light green-whitish crown).

Perennial plants for the coniferous mixborder are selected with similar preferences for the quality of the soil composition. They combine well and take root with the conifers of culture:

• Barberry;
• Dwarf birch trees;
• Fieldfare;
• Roses;
• Hydrangeas;
• Rhododendrons;
• Heather;
• Erika;
• Thyme;
• Phlox, etc.

Coniferous plant bed

Growing conifers in the form of a flower bed begins with the selection of a place and drawing up a plan or diagram. The place should be sunny. The diagram includes the location of the plants. To make an evergreen mixborder beautiful, you should make it color range restrained.

Despite the fact that all planting material is coniferous crops, each plant has its own color. The garden owner should take this into account and try to make sure that the finished mixborder includes only a few basic colors. You shouldn't make it "motley". If you land three different cultures, the flower bed should be two-color. If you plan to plant 5 or more crops, then the color scheme of the evergreen corner should be tricolor.

Another condition for arranging a coniferous area is different forms of shrubs and compact trees. Before starting work, the owner of the garden develops a flower bed scheme. He selects plants to his liking, not forgetting about the basics of landscape design.

Additional Information. In the foreground, flower beds are always planted with dwarfs. After them comes the second tier, where medium-sized shrubs grow. The third tier consists of short or tall trees.

Scheme options

Minimalistic

Implies the absence of unnecessary details. Consists of 3 plants. In the foreground, the coastal juniper Shlyager is planted, and thuja Danika is located nearby. The second plan is made out by the mountain pine Pug.

Tiered

This corner is formed from three tiers. The first tier is represented by the Blue Carpet creeping heather, the Nana heather. The second tier consists of Pug pine, Laurin spruce. In the third tier, the rocky heather Blue Arrow is planted.

Forest landscape

If you want to have a personal forest corner in the garden, you can make it with the help of larch trees (for example, the Compact, Pandula or Kornik varieties), Nana balsam fir, mountain pine (Mugusa or Litomisla), and the blue Koster spruce. It is recommended to complement the landscape with a fern.

An example of a bed of conifers

A step-by-step guide to creating a flower bed

1. The scheme is being worked out.
2. The perimeter of the flower bed is formed with stones, bricks or rubble.
3. The places where the conifers will be planted are indicated. A sufficient distance (50-100 cm) between the bushes should be taken into account.
4. Next, holes are dug for each of the plants. The depth depends on the size of the root. Roughly the pits are 50 cm wide and 50-75 cm deep.
5. Drainage from coarse sand is laid out on the bottom. A little soil mixture is poured from peat, garden, leaf, turf soils, humus.
6. Plants are placed in the pits, the remaining space is filled with soil mixture.
7. Further, the root circles are mulched with fallen needles from the pine.

Flowerbed with juniper

If the gardener decides to organize a simple evergreen mixborder, then the landscape designer's hand will immediately reach for the junipers. These plants are unpretentious and grow in almost any conditions. In addition, they disinfect the air and smell good. Exists a large number of various types and varieties of this culture. Thanks to this, the composition with juniper will look advantageous.

Juniper

Scheme options

Tiered

In the center, a rocky juniper Skyrocket is planted, several bushes of the Cossack variegated Variegata are placed next to it. The lower tier is represented by the Blue Chip dwarf.

Tiered with perennial flowers

To create tiers, the varieties of heathers Suetsika, Horstmann, Mint Julep, horizontal Wiltoni, Schlyager, Silver Mist, Blue Chip are used. The middle tier will be complemented by hydrangea bushes. The lower tier will be decorated with tulips, daffodils. Planting of miniature roses is allowed.

Flower garden with thuja

The conical shape of a bright emerald thuja looks impressive. Flowerbeds with thuja - perfect solution for decorating a large garden. However, these plants should be carefully looked after, especially if the shrubs are under three years old. Cultures shade from scorching sun, mulched with sawdust and needles, regularly watered and sprayed from a spray bottle.

Scheme options

Multi-colored tiered composition

A longline thuja flower bed includes varieties such as Reingold, Miki, Tini Tim. Rheingold will become the basis of the mixborder. Its shape is conical. The variety grows up to 3 meters in 30 years and has sunny soft needles. It will be perfectly complemented by a few bushes of emerald Mika. They grow up to only 80 cm and are pyramid-shaped. Tiny Tim independently takes the form of a dense ball, which will become a clear accent in the composition. The lower tier is decorated with phlox and sedum.

Spherical composition

A round object is always eye-catching. Thuja can be used to form a spherical composition. It will include varieties Danica, Teddy, Tim Tim. Globoza can also be dropped there. It is allowed to dilute the composition with shaved, bryozoan and a carpet from the dammer cotoneaster.

With conifers and stones

Small boulders look spectacular with conifers, so evergreen corners with pebbles, granite, slate are especially popular with designers.

An example of a flower bed with stones

Scheme options

Stone-forest

Stone with junipers

As planned, the composition will look like a horizontal one. Several boulders should be placed randomly. Between them are planted varieties of heres Prince of Wales, Gray Oul in the form of a curved tree and a pillow-shaped Blue Star.

Flower

Between the stones there will be not only conifers (miniature pine Mugus, Veres Nana, golden yew Samergold, golden thuja Yellow Ribbon), but also thyme, barberry, several dwarf birches and pink azalea.

Roses and conifers

Roses and conifers in landscape design represent an exquisite combination. The entire color range of roses fits perfectly into the emerald green of the conifers. Each gardener can independently come up with a flower garden scheme.

Roses fit beautifully into coniferous flower beds

Scheme options

Hedge

Roses and conifers in the same flower bed can create hedge or border. In this case, the flower bed is arranged along paths or a fence. Used such conifers as juniper, mountain pine, thuja, spruce canadian or ordinary, etc. Park and repair roses will complement the picture.

Minimalistic

Hybrid tea varieties of roses, blooming from June to September, look advantageous with western thuja, Cossack juniper, mountain pine.

Symmetrical composition

Symmetry is created by several Canadian firs in the form of pyramids and dense bushes of polyanthus roses.

Note! Despite the perfect visual combination of conifers and roses, the gardener must follow the rule of planting these crops. To prevent roses from picking up rust from evergreens, flowers are planted at a distance of 40-70 cm from the conifers.

Round flower bed with conifers and perennials

A flowerbed with conifers and perennials in the form of a circle has many variations. However, it is most preferable if the most dwarf plants are located along the edge of the circle, then medium-sized crops can be planted, the center of the round flower bed is filled with tall evergreen specimens.

Scheme variant

The edges of the circle are filled with Blue Star cushion heather. Greens are complemented by phlox, thyme or shaved, violets. Next comes a layer of horizontal juniper, barberry and mountain pines. The center of the composition is the Japanese larch Stif Viper and climbing roses on a curved trellis.

Coniferous composition care

You need to water coniferous plantations regularly.

Despite the fact that evergreen crops are unpretentious and strong, in the first few years after planting they need care. It is necessary to feed them with special mineral fertilizers with salts of humic acids for conifers. The mixtures are sold in stores. At first, it is recommended to put an impromptu tent made of stretched gauze over the mixborder. Thus, you can save the needles from sunburn. It is also required to perform the following procedures in a timely manner:

1. Watering (once every 10-15 days);
2. Spraying shoots from a spray bottle clean water(Once every 3-7 days);
3. Weed removal;
4. Loosening;
5. Mulching (sawdust, cones, bark, fallen needles are used as mulch);
6. Pruning and removing old and dry leaves;
7. Preparing for winter ( trunk circles abundantly covered with peat, foliage, sawdust, needles).

A bed of conifers is an evergreen island that purifies the air in the garden. The advantage of these compositions is that even a beginner in gardening can make them. Any gardener can come up with his own planting scheme, organize a coniferous corner, which will delight households for more than a decade.

Coniferous flower bed: 12 solutions with schemes

Coniferous flower bed
The main conifers in garden compositions are not tall conifers (pines, spruces, fir), but their compact and undersized forms. Coniferous compositions go well with shrubs (rhododendrons, eriks, heathers, barberries, spireas, evergreen box trees), herbaceous perennials (hosts, ferns, cereals). When creating a flower bed, in the foreground it is necessary to plant ground cover plants(creeping tenacious, styloid phlox, sedums, thyme, bryozoan, etc.). Spring bright colors will bring bulbous (crocuses, muscari, undersized tulips). It is very important to think about the layout of the plants. Groups should be created according to the principle of contrast in shape and color. For example, columnar forms are well emphasized with spherical, densely bushy and creeping forms, with different types, texture and color of needles. The needle needles of junipers, spruces and pines go well with the scaly needles of thuja. When selecting plants, you should clarify their maximum height. Coniferous compositions can only be made from slow-growing and dwarf varietal forms.

12 options for a coniferous flower bed

1. Thuja western "Holmstrup"
2. Juniper medium "Old Gold"
3. Mountain pine "Mops"
4. Coastal juniper "Shlager"

2.

2. Juniper rocky "Skyrocket" molded
3. Juniper scaly "Meyeri" molded
4. Mountain pine "Mops"
5. Juniper horizontal "Blue Chip"
6. Juniper recumbent "Nana"

3.

1. Pine "Umbraculiefera"
2. Mountain pine "Mops"
3. Juniper horizontal "Green Carpet"
4. Ground cover perennials "Bryozoan or stonecrop"

4.

1. Common juniper "Suecica"
2. Common juniper "Horstman"
3. Thuja western "Rheingold"
4. Mountain pine "Mops" on a trunk
5. Juniper medium "Mint Julep"
6. Juniper scaly "Blue Star"
7. Thuja western "Danica"
8. Juniper horizontal "Wiltonii"

5.

1. Juniper Virginia "Gray Owl" molded
2. Juniper horizontal "Andorra Compact"
3. Juniper horizontal "Prince of Wales"

6.

1. Rocky juniper "Skyrocket"
2. Norway spruce "Inversa"
3. Lilac "Meyeri" on the trunk

5. Canadian spruce "Echiniformis"
6. Mountain pine "Mops"
7. Tunberg barberry "Bonanza Gold"

7.

1. Thuja western "Holmstrup"

3. Mountain pine "Mops"
4. Juniper medium "Old Gold"
5. Juniper Cossack "Tamariscifolia"
6. Ground cover perennials "Bryozoan or stonecrop"

8.

1. Thuja western "Smaragd"
2. Japanese larch "Stiff Weeper"
3. Barberry Thunberg "Red Chief"
4. Thuja eastern "Aurea Nana"
5. Mountain pine "Mops"
6. Juniper medium "Old Gold"
7. Juniper Cossack "Blaue Donau"
8. Juniper horizontal "Prince of Wales"
9. Juniper horizontal "Blue Chip"

9.

1. Rocky juniper "Blue Arrow"
2. Thuja western "Holmstrup"
3. Thuja western "Europe Gold"
4. Barberry Thunberg "Red Chief"
5. Thuja western "Globosa"
6. Juniper medium "Gold Star"
7. Japanese spirea "Little Princess"
8. Juniper horizontal "Blue Chip"
9. Juniper horizontal "Prince of Wales"
10. Morrow sedge (or similar cereals)

10.

1. Colorado spruce "Hoopsii"
2. Chinese juniper "Blaauw"
3. Thuja eastern "Aurea Nana"
4. Juniper medium "Pfitzeriana"
5. Coastal juniper "Shlager"
6. Norway spruce "Little Gem"

11.

1. Canadian spruce "Conica"
2. Juniper horizontal "Blue Chip"
3. Juniper recumbent "Nana"

12.

1. Thuja western "Holmstrup"
2. Barberry tunberg "Red Chief"
3. Chinese miscanthus "Zebrinus"
4. Mountain pine "Mops"
5. Juniper medium "Old Gold"
6. Juniper Cossack "Tamariscifolia"
7. Morrow sedge (or similar cereals)
8. Ground cover perennials "Mshanka or stonecrop"

Decor element
In nature, adult conifers cast a large shadow. Therefore, for ornamental gardening, they specially bred undersized varieties, only 3-4 meters high. They fit well into the landscape of the site. The background is a lawn and an alpine slide. If the size of your site allows you to plant large-sized trees, remember: cedar and pine cannot be planted next to fir and Christmas trees. Larch generally does not like either one or the other. Thuja grows poorly next to spruce. Plant coniferous trees you need either alleys, or small homogeneous groups, or in the form of a hedge. An excellent complement to the composition of coniferous plants are stones - both large boulders and stones of a small fraction ( marble chips, pebbles). They diversify the color scheme, help to change the proportions of the composition. An excellent material for decoration is conifer bark. In addition, bark is an excellent mulching material that protects the soil from moisture loss, improves its structure and prevents weeds from growing.

Composition of conifers in the country is becoming an increasingly common element of landscape design. Such design of the territories adjacent to buildings looks original and aesthetically pleasing. But the implementation of design projects using coniferous plantations cannot be called simple, since it requires not only artistic taste and imagination, but also theoretical training.

The topic of the article is not accidental, since conifers are popular in landscape design, but not everyone knows the instructions for planting, positioning and combining these plants. In this article, we will tell you about which plantings to choose and how to use them for their intended purpose in order to simplify the care of conifers in the country.

Plant selection

The science of decorating a summer cottage with ornamental plants is not easy. Therefore, beginners who decide to join landscape design are forced to combine practice with permanent search useful information... Meanwhile, planting conifers in the country can serve as a good start in your hobby for landscape design ().

Breeding such plants is not particularly difficult if you decide in advance on the choice of a suitable species. It would seem that it is not easy to determine which types of conifers are suitable and which are not easy, but in reality there will be no problems with the choice.

The fact is that all types of coniferous plantations used by domestic designers are derived from three varieties of trees and shrubs:

• juniper,
• pine trees,

The species bred by breeders are optimally adapted for existence in difficult domestic climatic conditions. It is not advisable to choose something from import catalogs or import from abroad, since it is highly likely that an exclusive foreign ephedra will simply not take root in our open spaces.

Advice: when choosing the best solution, buy domestic products, the price of which, by the way, is more affordable.

Correctly chosen conifers are characterized by a number of advantages, including:

• unpretentiousness in terms of soil on the site;
• no special lighting requirements;
• resistance to sudden temperature changes;
• unpretentiousness in relation to moisture content parameters;
• acceptable cost in comparison with other types of ornamental plantings;
• ease of maintenance, which is very important if the country house is used mainly for seasonal living.

Features of application in landscape design

Conifers are not unreasonably considered one of the most demanded plantings for design in a landscape. Such plants are widely used to create decorative curtains, alleys, hedges and a wide range of different compositions in combination with other plants.

We bring to your attention an overview of the main ways of using ephedra in landscape design.

Mixborders

Mixborders in landscape design are usually called options for mixed and prefabricated flower beds.

Tip: In most cases, coniferous shrubs and small trees are of paramount importance in the formation of a mixborder. The main concept of mixed compositions is the compatibility and compactness of seemingly incompatible plant forms.

When forming mixborders with your own hands, try the following recommendations:

• Tall wild-growing spruces, junipers and thuja should not be used in the composition.
• The optimal solution for the embodiment of most ideas is low-growing plants, such as creeping juniper, narrow-pyramidal thuja, dwarf spherical spruce, yew, mountain pines.
• Rhododendron, undersized barberry, dwarf spirea, heather, creeping cotoneaster, etc. can favorably emphasize the aesthetics of coniferous plantations.
• When forming a mixborder using needles, it is advisable to use bulbous flowers in combination with ground cover plants... Such combinations are justified from the point of view of aesthetics, and proceeding from agrotechnical aspects.

Flower beds

It is no secret that conifers are used when creating flower beds. Such solutions have been relevant for a long time. But you need to understand that the optimal aesthetic effect will be guaranteed only with the correct implementation of the design project.

• We plant only compact and undersized plants in flower beds. However, the center of the composition can be distinguished by a shrub or tree, the size of which will be above average.
• At the heart of the composition, in the absence of a central element, the principle of different shapes and color contrast can be used. For example, vertically positioned cylindrical elements can be emphasized or accentuated using dense creeping shrubbery. If desired, within the same flower bed, you can combine different plants with needles of different shapes and colors.
• In order to facilitate the subsequent care of the flower bed, slow-growing plantings should be used.
• Ground cover plants such as horizontal juniper, cross-pair microbiota, etc. can be used as the main background.

Rock garden

This type of landscape design is a miniature imitation of mountainous terrain. A feature of such design projects is the use of those plantings that will create the impression of a natural landscape, in the formation of which a person did not take part. It is not difficult to create such an effect with your own hands using conifers on a personal plot.

The only recommendation in this case would be the use of those trees and shrubs that grow in the mountains. Of course, you will have to make an allowance for the size of the plantings, so that the rock garden becomes a miniature semblance of mountains.

A good solution would be to imitate the transition of the forest to alpine meadows. For this, a hill is formed from dense soil without stony inclusions, on which dwarf trees will coexist with succulent grass.

Tip: When forming a rock garden, the optimal solution would be to use subalpine fir, Cossack juniper, western thuja, drooping thuja, pea cypress, mountain pine, etc.

Output

Now that we have looked at how to apply ephedra in the landscape, we can take a new approach to the formation of the design. personal plot ().

If you have any questions, you can find more useful information by watching the video in this article.

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