Ornamental shrubs (51 photos): landscape design of a garden or a site, beautiful combinations

If every wise host comes to laying a garden, then every hostess comes to laying permanent flower beds with annual flowers and perennial, with evergreen shrubs. After all, what pleases every new spring? Emerald green leaves, fragrance and aroma, neat lawns, stiff lines of rabatok, strict forms of their own plot. However, not only the shrubs that were used by our grandmothers — lilac and dogrose, hawthorn and thorns — will also help here, but also the decorative shrubs bred in recent years specifically to decorate the site. How to choose - depends on the desires!

The beginning began, or an experiment in the country

Choosing decorative shrubs for a summer residence according to the catalog or a hint of a seller in the local market is a simple matter. You can “guess” about the competent planting, watering, top dressing, and even trimming, experimentally and experimentally. However, it is possible to provide for all the subtleties of growing if you take care of the plant for a couple of years. Only then will you know for sure its soil requirements, "reviews" for fertilizing with chemical and organic fertilizers, the time of flowering or dropping leaves in your area. What will it give? The decision about the best place for your favorite shrub! After all, your goal is to create a harmony of the landscape, to link together the recreation area by the pond or pool, a barbecue area and a place for kids to play outdoor. It is decorative shrubs that will become a unifying beginning!

When choosing your favorite variety and type of shrub, you should pay attention to:

• development of the root system. All roots should be well germinated, sick and damaged should be absent. Cutting sites of the latter should not be visible, they should be properly healed. Only in this way will you be sure that a certain type of shrub will take root perfectly on your site;
• emerald green leaves, lack of rot and any other spots, sparkle and gloss of the outer surface of the leaves. This will indicate a truly healthy plant, which, in fact, is what you need. Gently scratch the leaf with your fingernail: unscrupulous manufacturers spray wax onto the plants so that it looks healthy, beautiful, well-groomed. Found a raid on Polish apples? Refuse the purchase !;
• a kind of quality certificate, which will indicate the farm or nursery in which the bush was grown, age and other relevant data. This will allow you to "offer" the bush the right place on your own site without experience and experimentation.

The right choice of places for shrubs

One or another decorative shrubs for giving - the second thing. Task number one is a place for shrubs. Here, much will depend on the design of the landscape site and the existing plantings. If a certain style is not visible on the site, you can choose 2 options:

• make a bush or an entire group the starting point of the landscape decoration of a particular area of ​​the site. Maybe shrubs will decorate the area near the gazebo or become a focal point on the lawn in front of the house.In the latter case, the bushes should be well-groomed, elegant and healthy in order to attract the attention of not only family members, but also guests;
• organically fit your favorite shrubs into an existing landscape, make them part of a certain composition, which can include trees, perennial flowers, and annuals. In such a composition, the main "trick" is in the size and shape of the stands. In the classical English style of planting, there are slender lines between which there are walkways. This idea is optimal for large areas. If the bushes form a maze, the main condition for their proper maintenance will be pruning and freedom of passage between them.

A variant of the “lonely” standing shrub is bamboo. Local producers offer varieties that are most adapted to our weather conditions and absolutely not demanding in care. Planted in spring from seeds or seedlings and only watered. At the same time, the height of the bush-threads can be both 2 meters, and much higher, akin to a vinegar tree. There is nobody in the neighborhood, because the elegant, slender, unique bamboo is self-sufficient in itself. He is the personification of natural forces and even a kind of talisman-plant that gives your family health and longevity. The best find for gardeners who do not have large territories.

Topiary art and lighting: a harmonious tandem

A special idea when decorating a plot with shrubs is lighting in the evening. Landscape lighting projects are a real treasure for a keen owner. Night lights of various shapes, LED strips can not only highlight a specific area in the dark, providing a safe and comfortable path through the area in the absence of injuries and damage. Such lighting is an emphasis on beauty, dignity, the perfect shape of a line of shrubs or a single, lonely standing shrub in the yard, but playing a role. A languid or bright light, its orientation and even color - and the new “resident” of the infield will become a true embodiment of harmony and beauty!

An important point is the choice of lighting fixtures. It should be entrusted to professionals who take into account temperature extremes, high humidity and ease of dismantling in the winter. Competent and clear instructions - and you already assemble the landscape lighting system yourself.

Bright "chip" - curly trimmed shrubs. To learn topiary skills means to spend more than one day and process more than one secateurs, but to recreate a real miracle, a kind of fairy tale. At the same time, choosing the “right” shrub is a fundamental thing. The high growth rate of the vegetative mass in the entire summer period is important here. Of course, this can be helped with the help of special dressings, but genes must be laid down initially. Only in this way decorative shrubs for a summer residence will look stylish, luxurious, glamorous. As an option for beginner gardeners - holly Gorodok, all varieties of boxwood.

Making your own plot in the country or the territory of a country house, consider the wishes of all family members. Make a haircut to the bush - stylish, concise and restrained if design requires it, bright and creative - if children require it, romantic, lyrical - if you have your own craving for it. Draw on paper the shape you want to get in the end. Start trimming with large volume parts and only after that go on to the image of thin lines and meticulous details. If something does not work out - it does not matter. A few days later it will be possible to correct!

It is worth noting that the decorative illumination of shrubs is an amazing way to decorate a celebration celebrated in nature.A little more light and power, multi-colored garlands and colors of lampshades, even connected music - and the barbecue area, pool, tea party becomes special. Curly bushes give it mystery, magic, unearthly charm.

Ornamental shrubs: the option that is most preferred.

Shrubs to heaven without a definite clear form have sunk into oblivion. Today, they have been replaced by undersized decorative shrubs, which are becoming more and more every year. At the same time, they are not only the basis of landscape design, but also a hedge dividing the territory into parts or framing the site. Alternatively, an evergreen fence from neighbors, the allocation of a zone of water procedures. Such a “neighborhood” is a cozy ornate shadow in the summer heat, a pleasant rustle in the evening over tea, a special aroma.

However, the stunted species is not the main advantage of modern ornamental shrubs. Each gardener has the opportunity to choose an evergreen specimen of conifers, decorative and deciduous shrubs or flowering shrubs. The second option is most loved by everyone, despite the fact that the flowering time of a perennial shrub is from several days to several weeks. And then - only the foliage.

As flowering ornamental shrubs for your own territory, you can choose an elegant and luxurious wrinkled rose, or give preference to an unpretentious and rustic cinquefoil, or amaze many with long lashes-flowers of heather, who prefers plentiful watering, or ... Dozens of options are in the catalog. This is your choice of the height of the bush, its spreading, flowering time, fluffiness and shade of flowers. Boldly experiment!

A striking feature of the grouping is the ability to clearly identify and support the growth of the shrub despite the fact that the flowering of each of the selected varieties will occur in succession. At the same time, it is better to plant such shrubs in a group, while maintaining minimal space for care between them. You will enjoy flowering day after day, from May to August!

If you prefer decorative and deciduous shrubs, then their choice will be difficult. As an option - cistus and Camellia California, bindweed and Erica, eclonia and Fatsia, Garria and lavender. It is important to consider the size of the shrubs and the time when they "change" the leaves. It is important to pick shrubs with colorful foliage. This will make the autumn period rich, kind and romantic.

Ornamental shrubs - your special mood, desires and emotions of your garden. Find the optimal types and varieties, take care of them, take care of them. Recoil will not keep you waiting long!