Lianas on the garden plot solve both functional tasks and aesthetic ones. With the help of large vines, you can close buildings on the site, decorate a high fence, make the bare wall of a high house less monotonous
Today, this landscape style has a number of features that almost everyone will be able to list: the use of compositions of stones and pebbles, mosses, bamboo and flowering trees; obligatory presence of reservoirs with flowing or standing water
In August, many species of perennials continue to bloom, which began in July - June. These include aconite, navel, astilba, asters, achilles, boconia, hogweed, cornflowers, heather, gailardia, helianthus, dahlias and many others
In summer, Krasnodne (daylily, hemerocalis) can be deservedly called the king of the garden. An ancient and always fashionable, unpretentious plant of the lily family adorns the garden with lush bushes with narrow linear leaves from early spring to late autumn
GARDEN IN A FREE STYLEIt is a very good idea to hold a landscape design contest "Envy, Neighbor". I think he made a lot of people think about the style and design of the site. This also applies to me.I realized that what we have in the garden and what we strive for is free style
Borders are one- and two-row strips of flower or herbaceous plants, framing flower beds, rabatki, flower beds, paths, lawns. For borders, low compact plants are used, which are selected taking into account the characteristics of the main plantings on flower beds
Ferns are one of the oldest higher plants on Earth. In age (345-230 million years), they are second only to lycopods. At one time, they played a dominant role in the plant world, representing a huge variety of forms and species
Cydonia is a short, beautifully flowering shrub. The hedge is decorative all season long. In September, the bushes delight with an abundance of fruits containing proteins, carbohydrates, sugars, fiber, tannins, organic acids and essential oils
I would like to tell you about my flower garden, which is unlikely to attract the attention of lovers of lush garden flowers, but I think it will appeal to those who love compositions that resemble wildlife
Nature is a well-known lover of celebrating her upcoming "winter vacation". The colors of autumn are unusually bright, juicy, creating a feeling of a holiday, despite the drizzling rain, the sad murmur of bird flocks leaving our land, the "premonition" of frost in the morning and other signs of the end of the warm season. Autumn flower beds are full of charm. Luxurious garden plants that have gained strength over the summer are pleasing to the eye
Like all budding gardeners, we grew potatoes, squash, tomatoes, etc. But every year vegetables more and more faded into the background, and floriculture, captivating, forced to give flowers and ornamental plants new places on the site
The plant in question has decorative leaves and flowers, but especially - openwork, as if saturated with air inflorescences. Their light, foamy pattern will decorate any garden, especially since astilba is a very unpretentious plant
Tree peonies are native to China, where they have been cultivated for a very long time. This is a shrub with strong lignified shoots up to 2-3 cm thick. Beautiful large light green leaves differ in shape and color
Continuing the conversation about ways of landscaping a personal plot, consider the creation of a flower bed. Rabatka is a floricultural term for planting flowers in flower beds of a strict geometric, rectangular shape.Translated from German, "rabatka" means a garden bed
For a single planting at the entrance to a house or garden, there is nothing better than forsythia. Already at the end of April, like a fragrant golden fire, it welcomes the onset of spring with wild flowering. Such an abundance of flowers is pleasing to the eye and heart
Clematis plants begin to bloom on the shoots of the last year and continue on the shoots of the current year, i.e. some of the shoots should be preserved. The question: pruning - not pruning the shoots is very important. Success is guaranteed to someone who always knows the correct answer to it
Caring for roses is weeding, watering, loosening, feeding, pruning faded inflorescences, removing wild growth, as well as sanitary and formative pruning, pest and disease control, shelter for the winter and opening in spring
Over the past one and a half to two decades, there have been great changes in rose growing. A huge number of new varieties and even new groups of roses have appeared. Why is it so important to know which class a particular variety belongs to?
Lupus in Latin is wolf. The name of this plant fully justifies its character: lupine is very hardy and can grow even in the most inappropriate conditions. It tolerates spring and autumn frosts down to -8 ° C, although a sharp change in temperature is destructive for it
Perhaps, there is now a garden in which bright balls of dahlias would not please the eye. We will talk about the intricacies and secrets of growing them, touching upon the entire cycle - from preparing tubers for planting and to digging them before the cold weather
Daisy blooms from spring to frost, so it looks great in mixborders, in flower beds in combination with forget-me-nots and gypsophila, or on the shaded side of rockeries. Propagated in three ways: by seeds, cuttings and dividing bushes
Until recently, hosts were rare guests in garden plots. But, having admired enough of flowering plants, Russian gardeners turned their attention to decorative deciduous trees, among which the hosta is perhaps the best
The entire huge central pavilion is dedicated to flowers: beautiful delphiniums, orchids, huge, human-sized, begonias, streptocarpuses of unthinkable colors, peonies, irises, hosts, clematis, fuchsias. All this floral madness makes you forget that no one gives away plants for nothing. The price of a varietal peony goes up to £ 100
May lily of the valley. Field shingle. Tenacious creeping. Periwinkle
Drummond's phlox (Phlox drummondii) is a member of the Polemoniacea family. His homeland is Texas. At home, it is a perennial plant, but our cold winter does not allow growing it for longer than one season. Nevertheless, we have it perfectly settled down as an annual
Choosing a form of landscapingAnd what an extravagant border is obtained from ornamental cabbage! It is especially attractive that the border of this plant becomes more decorative in the second half of the season, when the site is already somewhat "disheveled" by the harvestOrnamental cabbageCabbage is a biennial plant, so it goes under the snow in the phase of decorative flowering, and not wilting
Kuril tea (cinquefoil shrub) is a long and beautifully flowering shrub. It is found from the Far East to Western Europe, preferring slopes and rocky talus. Therefore, in gardens, it is better to plant it in well-drained sunny places
Our contest "Envy, Neighbor!"I want to tell you about the interesting, unusual corners of our summer cottage. Let's kind of take a walk through our garden, then we won't miss anything, and it will be easier to get an idea of it. In
It is better to start with a single rose in order to get acquainted with its character and learn how to care for it. And only after 2-3 years, when you understand that the rose is your plant, you can plant it even the whole garden. The main thing is that you have enough time to take care of her, and it will take a lot
One of the most decorative and long-flowering shrubs, which for some reason is not widespread in our gardens, is the tree hydrangea. The flowering of this species in the conditions of the Leningrad region begins in mid-late July and continues until the end of September
Of the cultivated plants, the thick-leaved incense has earned the greatest fame as a lover of wet places. In approximately the same conditions - moisture and shade - the Przewalski buzulnik will feel good. Grows well in wet soils and gravilat is bright red
It is difficult to imagine a suburban area without ornamental shrubs. Pink weigela foam, gentle severity of viburnum inflorescences, honey aroma of mock-orange - all these are the delights of the beginning of summer, which have nothing to replace and nothing to confuse with
What do most people associate with the jungle? These are lianas, palms, monkeys and … orchids. Beautiful tropical orchids are a symbol of bliss and luxury. But the middle latitudes are not deprived of orchids. On the territory of the former USSR, there are 143 species of orchids
Choosing a form of landscapingWe choose the design of our garden plot in the same way as the design of our house - after all, we also live here, live in close contact with nature. And we create our own world with the help of living colors of plants
Design should start by finding your own garden style. It often turns out that we see a plot with a garden and a vegetable garden that is ideal in all respects, clean of all unnecessary, cultivated and nurtured, but you walk along it and you are surprised - everything seems to be fine, but something is not right. This is not a garden, but a conveyor belt for the production of garden products. Fortunately, most gardeners now strive not only for benefits, but also for beauty
Juices, syrups, compotes, jams, fruit drinks and much more are prepared from lemongrass berries at home. Before processing, the berries are separated from the stalk, sorted out and washed with boiled water
Several dozen species and varieties of erythematosus are known in culture. Our most popular species are amethyst erythyst and bourge erythematosus, with leathery, pinnately-separated leaves. Blue and blue flowers are collected in ovoid heads
It is often called incorrectly - Korean cedar, or Manchu cedar pine. Very similar to Siberian pine (cedar). Outwardly it differs in significantly larger cones: 10-15 cm in length and 5-9 cm in width, which fall to the ground in October-November
With standard cultivation of strawberries in the North-West, we get fresh berries only from the third decade of June to the end of August. In order to extend the period of obtaining fresh berries, use several simple techniques and methods
Anyone who at least once saw the leaves of this plant, even if only in the picture, will never forget them and will not confuse them with any others. There are simply no others like this in the world! Perhaps petrified, imprinted in coal