Large showy plants for garden decoration
What to plant in the landscape, when every square meter is registered, but you want large bright exotic plants and want to create a garden decoration?
Derain Kousa (Japanese dogwood, Japanese dogwood subspecies Chinese).
This unpretentious, weather-resistant and reliable plant for garden decoration, loves the sun and partial shade. Bronze bark, glossy green leaves turn red and purple in fall, creamy white or pink blooms in spring.
It grows up to 9 m, dwarf varieties are only 3 m in height and width. Effective in a composition with conifers, near ponds, in rock gardens and flower beds, in a single planting.
Fan maple (palm-shaped maple).
Japanese maples have long been popular with gardeners. With various shapes and sizes, varied color of shiny leaves from burgundy to chartreuse.
The Sango Kaku variety is one of the best for small gardens, pale green above, silvery white below, turning pink when blooming, and in autumn they acquire bright shades of yellow and orange. The most prominent feature of this variety is its coral pink bark, which becomes brighter.
This spectacular tree with one or more trunks and a spherical crown loves the sun and partial shade. It grows from 4 to 10 m, occasionally up to 16. It is unpretentious, resistant to weather conditions, adapts well and goes well with other plants.
Hydrangea is oak-leaved.
This plant for the garden has not so long been mastered, but is already loved for its bright appearance and easy care. The dark green color of the jagged leaves (like that of an oak) by autumn is replaced by a rich crimson, bright shades of scarlet, purple and orange.
Common varieties "Harmony" and "Applause". Variety "The Snow Queen»Blooms from June to cold weather - large panicles of small snow-white flowers, collected in a cone.
Grows well in sunny conditions, with shade in extreme heat, unpretentious, disease resistant and requires less water than other hydrangeas.
It grows up to 2 m in height and 2 m in crown volume. Dwarf varieties grow up to 70 cm, and the crown is 50 cm.
Boxwood evergreen (stone tree).
This plant for garden decoration fits into the plot of any style, gives the garden aristocracy. Boxwood fell in love with its dense crown and small leathery leaves that perfectly tolerate a haircut and maintain a given shape for a long time.
Unpretentious and resistant to most weather conditions, loves partial shade and shade, can thrive in a variety of soil types, as long as it is well drained and prevents root rot. Boxwood grows slowly, only 5-6 cm per year, reaches 14 m, and in favorable conditions it lives for hundreds of years!
With its delightful advantages, it must be remembered that all parts of the boxwood are poisonous, but the phytoncides produced by its leaves purify the air of harmful particles. Boxwood variety "Suffrutikoza" light green will grow only a meter.
Blunt cypress (Japanese cedar, white cedar, Japanese cypress).
Dwarf conifers are a great addition to a small garden as they grow slowly, are unpretentious, do not rot and are resistant to pests. We need loose fertile soil, partial shade, moisture in the earth and air.
It grows up to 3 and 2 m of the crown, but this will happen in tens of years, and by the age of 10 your cypress will be 50 cm tall. Variety "Nana Gratsilis" has a squat, rounded crown, reminiscent of the curls of shells.
The Hinoki dwarf cypress has a captivating layered texture, dark green foliage and a spicy lemon scent.
Landscape rose Flower Carpet.
Oddly enough to hear this about a rose, however, these unpretentious, disease-resistant, almost maintenance-free roses are great as a hedge, to decorate a wall, fence or hillside.
They bloom from spring to autumn in shades of pink, red, white, coral or gold. The flowers are large, cupped, terry, with a small white eye, 10-20 pcs. Up to 80 cm in height and up to 120 cm in width. Effective when planted in groups of 3 or more, creating a bright spot.
Hybrid hellebore (cheleborus).
Stably decorative all season, unpretentious and weather resistant. Height up to 50 cm. Modern hellebore hybrids "Winter Jewels" and "Winter Thriller" are presented in a wide range of colors from white to maroon, monochromatic and patterned.
Clematis.
This deciduous vine is known as the "king of vines" for its ability to climb vertical surfaces. Variety "Nelly Moser" is strewn with large light pink or purple flowers with bright stripes and purple stamens in May-June and August-September.
Unpretentious, likes partial shade, grows up to 3.5 m. Grow several varieties together ("Alpine", "Jackman" and "Texensis"), and clematis will decorate your garden with flowering at different times.
Decoration of the Heicher garden.
These charming plants grow up to 45 cm in height and width to create bright spots in the landscape of your site, are unpretentious, love partial shade.
Geykhera is a blood-red variety "Purple Bell" decorated with spectacular tall bells of bright coral color.
Heuchera of other varieties is decorated with flowers from deep burgundy, silver-red, orange and up to gold, their leaves are carved and dense.