Recommendations For Rejuvenating An Ornamental Garden

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

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There are many ways to change, improve landscape design. After all, it is mostly created from living natural objects, which means that it can change its content and size.

The life of trees and shrubs is not eternal. Over time, they age and their appearance deteriorates. Recovery or replacement of a dead plant is required. There are also slow-growing tree species such as boxwood or oak. But one day they will grow, they will block the light, take up a lot of space, interfere with each other, create a deep shadow, invade the territory intended for the bridge or path. In this case, they need pruning and shaping.

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If you are going to change the landscape of your site, then you always need to do this for the better. Sometimes changes in the landscape require a change in life circumstances, for example, the appearance of children in the family. When they are small, then you will inevitably need a place on the site for their games, tables, swings, sandboxes, perhaps wooden houses. As the kids grow up, the design will also need to be revised. We will need other formats - sports grounds, meeting places.

But many people cannot afford major changes to the site. They devote most of their time to their garden, turning the lawn into flower beds, creating green rooms, ponds and other structures that are pleasing to the eye and heart.

The value of a garden is in its plants

Entrance to the garden

Any work on changing the landscape design, growing new plants increases the value of your property.

Mature, healthy plants create a new landscape. He looks more solid with them. In addition, design changes can be achieved by relocating the plants you already have in your garden, rather than looking to acquire new ones on the side. Save your money. Before you decide to uproot and remove old plantings, remember that each plant is valuable. It is worth considering how it can be restored. Many plants, even those that are well established on the site, can be transplanted more successfully. Trees and bushes that grow densely can be defused. A little care and attention to a plant can transform it, change its appearance for the benefit of your landscape.

Many site owners prefer informal design over traditional planting of flower beds and borders. They improve the appearance of trees and shrubs by trimming and trimming them as needed.

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Save only healthy plants

Treat the plants carefully by regularly checking their condition and health. If the damaged plant belongs to a rare and very beautiful breed, save it and then use it in a new design.

Strong trees and bushes with a short life (20-30 years) eventually show signs of wilting, get sick - this is already the result of aging.

Pruning

Trimmed bushes

This is the same necessary step in caring for the bushes as watering and feeding. Pruning ensures plant formation and rejuvenation. Overgrown bushes with excessive branching, with long drooping branches, dense, dense leaves have an unattractive appearance, do not give good flowering.

Dense foliage contributes to the development of mold and disease. Pruning is due to the need to stimulate plant growth and depends on the species of trees and shrubs. It helps to keep your plants smaller, fuller, and tidier.

After pruning, the plant should be beautiful and healthy. To reduce the risk of damage to a bush or tree by poor pruning, you should correctly assess the reasons and purpose of pruning, choose its technology (pruning, shearing, plucking), the right time for this work and prepare a working tool.

Regardless of the type of plant, pruning is required for one of two reasons:

Branch damage and diseases inhibit plant development. Removal of all damaged parts of plants reduces the possibility of introduction of pests and further spread of the disease. The tangled branches that protrude outward and overhang the path not only create a lot of inconvenience for everyone who walks on them, especially in wet weather, but they can sometimes be dangerous for people.

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Rhododendrons

The natural shape of most tree crops grows and requires selective or regular pruning. Some people prune plants to create a formal hedge. Others - with the aim of creating a topiary structure.

Pruning increases flowering and fruiting. As trees grow and age, their condition is judged by the energy of the roots and leaves. Small bushes are most convenient and easy to prune. Their complex branching and rapid growth make the shrubs a good addition to flower gardens.

Of course, the art of tree pruning, like any art, requires certain skills and abilities. For example, for tree crops, their shape is an important factor. They need serious pruning to create a balanced crown. For pruning large trees, professionals are usually invited. Plants with regular pruning usually do not need rejuvenation more often than once every five years. If the plants are diseased, rejuvenation can give their branches normal development. Rejuvenation promotes healthy growth and gives your plant the desired shape. Remove dead, damaged and diseased branches first.

The most radical approach to rejuvenation is to prune plants completely. For example, when pruning forsythia in winter to ground level, the bush is then completely restored. After rejuvenating pruning, it is advisable to apply a slow-acting fertilizer to support the plant, and cover the base of the bush with a layer of mulch and constantly maintain the necessary soil moisture there. Such care will stimulate new rapid growth of the plant.

How to rejuvenate bushes

Euonymus in a green hedge

Even a healthy shrub needs shaping under certain circumstances. Although the main purpose of this operation is to make the plant more beautiful, to increase its productivity is to induce abundant formation of flowers, fruits and leaves. In addition, the bush is provided with good illumination and ventilation, which, in turn, prevents the development of diseases. It is important to carry out anti-aging in a timely manner. The main rule here is to prune the plants when they are dormant. Some spring flowering shrubs, such as azaleas and rhododendrons, should be pruned after flowering.

There are several steps in anti-aging pruning:

Step 1. Select the stems to be removed. Secure the thickest and oldest stems. If the stems are all the same size, remove several from different places or through one. Avoid trimming just one side of the bush.

Step 2. Cut carefully. To do this, use special long-handled scissors. They allow you to reach all the remote, tangled branches so that you can cut them without difficulty. In the process of work, you must periodically step aside to make sure that the trim is correct.

At the same time, remove no more than one third of the stems in one cut.

Step 3. Cut the longest branches protruding from the crown.

Step 4. Clean the barrel circle. Remove any growth that has developed around the base of the bush. It can be a refuge for insects and a source of disease.

Botanists believe that the concentration of growth is in harmony with the type of plant. They call this the predominant phenomenon. The end result of your actions for pruning, shearing, pinching, breaking off branches is a suspension of growth, since the growth buds are below the cut. When you cut or pinch the ends of the branches, the plant creates two shoots from each bud. As a result, each pinching or shearing of a branch causes the development of two or three new lateral branches and thereby increases the splendor of the plant.

You can pinch the crowns of any plant. But not all of them tolerate a haircut equally. For example, a serious haircut can seriously damage rhododendrons, although it does not cause problems for azaleas. But forsythia, with its lovely, free form, is an example of a bush that is spoiled by selective haircuts. A haircut is also necessary in a formal garden to maintain a beautiful evergreen hedge. You cannot do without it when creating topiary forms.

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