Lianas for vertical gardening
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Vertical gardening: description
Most gardeners and gardeners do not have the opportunity to boast of a large area of their personal plot and they need to recreate their beauty corner on a small piece of land. Therefore, vertical gardening is gaining more and more popularity.
With such landscaping, there are places to be on the site - beds in the form of a turret, two-tier beds, and even pots in an upright position. The main task of such landscaping is to gain valuable space on the site.
Lianas for vertical gardening: advantages
Thanks to vertical landscaping, you can bring home comfort and a touch of romance to any garden. With its help, you can revive and make pleasing to the eye even the most ordinary-looking possessions. This will add exclusivity to any small plot and will help to save space.
Selection of vines for vertical gardening.
A variety of weaving plants, or vines, are most suitable for this business. Why vines? Lianas like no other plants are able to recreate flowering and fragrant screens and decorate various vertical elements of the garden.
The biggest plus of this type of plants is that they are not as demanding as possible in caring for themselves, they grow very quickly, and curl around any vertically installed base. Lianas can also mask all sorts of architectural flaws and errors.
Also, thanks to them, you can easily divide your backyard space. They do not take up too much space, which is most important for a small area. Such plants practically do not hide other crops from the sun that grow at their foot.
Having planted perennial vines, the gardener will be able to afford to enjoy their sparkling greenery and color from year to year. But annual vines are beautiful and convenient in that every new year you can choose a new place for their placement, and thanks to this, update the appearance of your garden.
Also, when choosing colors for this kind of landscaping, it is important to consider the manner in which different species adhere to the selected support.
Let's consider different types of vines for vertical gardening and their main characteristics.
Climbing vines - these are vines that can catch on to the support with special shoots or suckers. They will not need special supports, they just need to be vertical.
Often they are decorated with different walls that have not been plastered, for example, from stones or bricks. In the category of climbing vines, you can write:
- Ivy - it is always green and does not require scrupulous care of the plant. It grows in absolutely any place, clinging with its processes to any plane. He also loves soil moisture.
- Maiden grapes - the most versatile vine: resistant to frost, shade, grows quickly enough even on soil not rich in microelements. This type of vines is especially beautiful to the eye with the arrival of autumn, because its foliage gets a peculiar burgundy color.
Curly and catchy vines - these are plants that curl with the help of their dexterous whiskers, or with leaf stalks. Suitable for this type: various types and subspecies of honeysuckle, for example, Serotina and Gold Flame can grow up to a meter in height, and Brown and Hekroth up to four to five meters.
They grow quickly enough to provide a large amount of greenery. There is also an original type of honeysuckle called Giralda, it does not shed its beautiful leaves in the fall, matching the name, they just dry up and retain their green color all winter.
Clematis - there is no more suitable seedling for this idea. They begin to bloom in summer in June, and in good weather they can continue until October. This species needs a vertical support to cling to and climb to the top.
When creating a support, it must be borne in mind that a diameter of one centimeter is needed, otherwise it will be quite difficult for the plant petioles to grasp it. In their own way, clematis look unusual on inclined supports, they can be made from a wire frame in the image of anything.
Curly nightshade - A fairly strong and simple woody shrub with good length shoots. It grows well, branches quickly, the color is delicate - purple, similar to a potato bloom. Solanaceous vine - grows in any soil, the best solution for those who have little time.
Campsis - does not require special personal care, tree-like liana. But there is also a minus, it is afraid of frost, you need to plant it when you are completely sure that the cold has receded.
She takes time to wake up from winter, so you do not need to rush to be upset that she died, she will revive without problems with the arrival of warm weather. It is rapidly gaining growth, for this good, strong support will be important. Orange flowers look like bright gramophones.
Quamoklite pinnate - develops up to six meters in height. Has pale green showy leaves and red flowers - stars. It begins to bloom at the end of June, ends closer to mid-September.
One-year-old, it is difficult to tolerate a transplant. Prefers sunrays and well-cultivated and fertilized soil. Of the lianas of one-year-olds, Ipomoea can also be advised, it wraps around very well. With its help, you can recreate absolutely anything.
The liana is as beautiful as possible - Kobei... One-year-old, grows more than quickly, but is picky about the soil, a loose and nutritious mixture is required. The flowers look like large bells with protruding stamens, the flower can reach a diameter of eight centimeters.
It is recommended to plant its seeds in early spring, preferably at home. After the warm period comes on the street, you can transplant to the chosen place of residence. Liana Azarina cannot be left without due attention, it branches beautifully, grows vividly, blooms throughout the entire period.
The flowers look like slightly elongated phonographs, there are also varieties with pale purple, white, pink flowers.
Useful vines - these are excellent plants for vertical gardening of the garden; these are the plants from which you can harvest. For example: Mamordik, Actinidia (live caramel), uncovered grapes, various lemongrass. It is convenient to decorate a veranda or a gazebo with such varieties, and the eye rejoices, and usefulness to the dining table.
Leaning vines - they just lean against the chosen support, absolutely not attaching to it with anything. They will have to be oriented and tied up in their own way. This type includes: shrub blackberry, climbing rose, holo-flowered jasmine, euonymus. For climbing roses, absolutely any tree can be a support. Of this type of vines, hedges are often made.
Advantages of vines for vertical gardening
Lianas for vertical gardening also prevent overheating of the walls on which they curl, they control the thermal regime of the room and protect it from dust and noise. As supports for vines for vertical gardening, a variety of trellises, in a variation of open trellises made of wood, are perfect.
This type of grille has a huge advantage - it creates an atmosphere of lightness.It will also help fill the space in the new garden before the trees grow. Such a lattice must be attached to the wall and the selected plant must be run over it.
Using this move, you can decorate ugly walls, sheds, fences and even a carport.
We have considered the most convenient and affordable type of vertical gardening of the garden using a variety of vines. But of course there are other options, this is the construction of different ladders, racks, on which you can put pots with flowering plants and various pyramids, figures, and so on.