The shrub blooms with pink panicles. An overview of flowering ornamental low beautiful but hardy shrubs. Variegated shrubs for the garden

Do you know that in garden plots you can not plant flowers at all, but only plant ornamental shrubs. If you choose them correctly for growth and flowering time, then you will have constantly blooming and original garden. What will you end up with? Minimum hassle and maximum relaxation. Of course, I have never seen such a garden, because it is impossible to refuse annual and perennial flowers.

However, shrubs occupy a separate niche in gardening. Let's figure it out together which ornamental shrubs for summer cottages are the most popular and how to grow them.

Beauty under the windows. I immediately wanted to go...

Classification of ornamental shrubs

I can’t give an unequivocal answer whether it’s easy or difficult to care for shrubs. It all depends on the particular species. I personally I prefer exclusively unpretentious: planted, watered, trimmed and admired. The lack of free time will not give me the opportunity to cover pampered shrubs before winter or constantly water and fertilize them.

I tried to divide all the plants into groups. I consider only deciduous, without affecting conifers, (- they also apply to shrubs).

• By decorative - deciduous and flowering. The decorativeness of the leaves, for example, can be noted in deren, euonymus, spirea and silver sucker. Among the blooming ones, one of the most beautiful is jasmine (mock orange, lilac, forsythia). Flowering shrubs focus on themselves and contribute to the spatial perception of the garden as a single composition.
• Short and tall. Miniature - usually planted in small gardens, on our 6 acres. They fit perfectly in small landscape compositions(spirea, cinquefoil,). How else to use them? As a border or together with big plants. At the same time, they should be planted at the foot large trees and bushes to smooth out sharp transitions.
• With creeping roots- for example, goof silver and fieldfare. You must also be prepared for such a turn, otherwise these “creeps” will flood the garden worse than weeds.
• Fruiting. This is special kind shrubs that not only decorate the garden, but also bear fruit ( chokeberry, honeysuckle, shadberry, barberry, sea buckthorn, etc.).

Blooming chokeberry.

• frost-resistant(hawthorn, viburnum, barberry) and thermophilic(forsythia).

Heat-loving forsythia.

• shade-tolerant(hydrangea) and light-loving(, fieldfare).
• Spring, summer and autumn flowering shrubs. Proper selection of the timing of flowering will provide decorativeness to your garden throughout the season. Let's start with the May Forsythia, which has festive bright yellow flowers strewn on twigs. Unfortunately, all my efforts to grow her were unsuccessful: she froze. Painfully she is thermophilic. By the end of May, the lilac will show in all its glory. In June, you can enjoy the flowers of spirea, viburnum, jasmine, barberry, Japanese quince, and from July, hydrangea will enter its blooming season, which will continue to bloom until autumn.

crown formation

When forming the landscape design of a garden plot with the help of ornamental shrub plants, it is worth paying special attention to their height and width. Plants have the ability to grow at favorable conditions. But this does not matter - the parameters of the shrubs are easy to adjust with the help of garden cutters, secateurs and scissors.

I try to be careful!

This is a very exciting activity. I always try to beautifully form the crown, including shrubs. I cut the turf, fieldfare and hydrangea with a ball.

How can you use ornamental shrubs in the country

Depending on the role that you define for an ornamental shrub, they need plant in different ways:

• single landing;
• hedge;
• background for garden compositions;
• group landings.

Single boarding will require you to select a seat optimal view shrub. For this, areas near the house, at the gate, opposite the window are suitable. A hedge, such as a spirea, can be used instead of a fence. Shrubs with decorative leaves can either become a backdrop for flower arrangements, or become an integral part of the flower garden themselves. Group plantings of shrubs will serve perfectly for fencing off some functional areas on the garden plot, which will create a special comfort.

Young shrubs along the new fence: jasmine, elderberry, dogwood, fieldfare and hydrangea.

The most unpretentious shrubs - my choice

Hydrangea

My favorite bush, I would say favorite jewel of the garden. What are its advantages over other ornamental shrubs? I chose it for long flowering, durability, unpretentiousness, frost resistance, resistance to diseases and pests and minimal care. By the way, it can grow on acidic soils, which is completely uncharacteristic for many plants. I have it growing like solitary plant, but it looks great as a hedge.

The hydrangea bush near the gate deserves special attention.

Available for sale a large number of the most beautiful views. I note, however, not every one of them is adapted to middle lane Russia. Through mistakes in choosing a variety (many of those that I bought did not winter well) I settled on hydrangea broad-leaved and paniculate.

Broad-leaved hydrangea can be called the most common among summer residents.

The inflorescence of the broad-leaved hydrangea is flawless.

It grows very quickly and reaches 1-2 meters. It's hard to believe, but in the subtropics it is 4 m high. Its spherical inflorescences delight me with their beautiful shape and large sizes - 20 cm. It blooms in July for about a month.

Hydrangea paniculata is very frost-resistant and becomes more magnificent and beautiful every year.

And so paniculate hydrangea blooms.

It blooms for a very long time - in August and September. Perhaps I will not name a single shrub that would bloom in the second half of summer.

Hydrangeas very easy to propagate. I do this by diverting the bottom branch. I dig a small trench, bend down a branch, fix it with a wire and sprinkle it with soil. I water periodically. Roots form very quickly. Then it will be enough to cut the branch and land young plant to a permanent place.

Goof silver

In my opinion, a very attractive shrub with silvery leaves. Looks great in the background. The small yellow flowers are quite unattractive. However, they exude very nice smell. As my mother used to say: "Smells like French perfume." There are no problems with its cultivation - it grows well in well-lit areas and.

Loch silver.
Handsome.

I would note 2 of its shortcomings, which are easy to get rid of. First - fast crown growth which ugly sticks out in different sides. I form it by cutting. Second - creeping roots. Loch periodically pops up in my garden in different parts. I either prune it or dig up the rooted offshoot and distribute it to everyone who wants it.

Who is so distinguished by his silver?
It is he!

Jasmine, or mock orange

Needs no advice: flowering is plentiful, the aroma of flowers is wonderful, frost-resistant, does not get sick with anything. I would note only one feature of caring for it: every 4-5 years it is necessary to cut out old branches, and at the end of each summer to discharge it a little from thickened branches.

Not everyone has heard about mock orange, but everyone has heard the smell of jasmine for sure.

Spirea

There is a short one and a tall one. My undersized Japanese spirea has very beautiful yellowish leaves with lilac flowers, and the tall one has snow-white inflorescences. I form a low one with a ball, I also don’t let a large one grow too much. Spirea excellent honey plants, attracting bees.

Spirea - a piece of Japan at their summer cottage.

I can classify this plant as quite unpretentious. It does not impose any requirements on soils, lighting, fertilizers. A gardener's dream.

Fieldfare

It is called so because the leaves are similar to mountain ash. But that's where his resemblance to her ends. His beauty is not only in leaves, but also in panicle flowers.

Fieldfare - beauty in panicles.

Its major disadvantage is root growth, which constantly crawls to the neighbors. She has to fight with a pruner. And the rest - absolutely unpretentious. True, it does not tolerate transplantation quite well.

Barberry

His can only be characterized by positive epithets- sprawling, beautiful, with leaves that change color during the season, unpretentious and undemanding to soils.

Barberry watercolors.

Its miniature forms can decorate flower beds, and more tall plants look great as tapeworms, and in group plantings, hedges. The barberry has a slight drawback when planting - it is prickly.

I advise you to buy ornamental shrubs in garden centers. If I take seedlings from friends, then I know exactly how it looks like in adulthood and how it was grown. So, all my hydrangeas, fieldfare and silver sucker are gifts from friends grown from cuttings. The rest of the shrubs I bought in nurseries.

In the background is a fieldfare.
Flowers in the center.
On the front conifers -.

I love all my plants very much: both with decorative leaves, and especially flowering ones. I think they are not only decorate my favorite garden, but also create in it holiday feeling, make the yard very attractive.

It is difficult to imagine a summer cottage without various flowering shrubs. After all, they are able not only to decorate the garden, but also to bear fruit, which can later be used as decorative elements or even medicines.

Many gardeners think about where to place this or that shrub, as well as how to properly combine the group of shrubs that they want to plant on the site. All these nuances must be thought out in advance so that the plants delight the eye with their flowering for the whole season.

How to choose a flowering shrub for the garden

The main criteria by which it is necessary to select a shrub for landing on the site:

• decorative properties. You should think in advance about how this or that shrub will look on the site, and how it will be combined with other plants. Among the variety of plant species, it is easy to choose a shrub to your liking, given the variety of distinctive characteristics: the shape of the leaves and flowers, the variety of shades and even the aroma. You can choose a composition of several shrubs, the flowering of which will be replaced one after another.
• The height and shape of the stems of shrubs also play big role. For example, for small area a composition of tall and not wide shrubs that compactly fit into the space allotted to them may come up.
• Features of care. Before purchasing a particular shrub, it is important to take into account its climatic preferences and pay attention to the care that will need to be carried out for the plant. For example, if shade-loving shrub planted in a sunny area, then it is unlikely that it will delight with its flowering and rapid growth.

The most beautiful winter-hardy shrubs for the garden:

• Lilac is a very common and beloved shrub that reaches a height of up to three meters. However, lilac can be cut and give the crown the desired shape. Lilac blooms in early summer.
• – tall shrub, which can reach two meters in height, however, some varieties can be called undersized. The plant is quite spreading, since flowering occurs on the entire area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe shrub. The flowers pull the branches down and are usually white in color. The flowering period is in spring and summer.
• fell in love with gardeners for its large inflorescences. However, it is important to remember that this shrub must be cut twice a year: in spring and autumn. hydrangea blooms in summer period.
• Buddley is rarely seen in a personal plot, but it deserves attention, as the bush blooms quite a long period- from summer to mid-autumn. The plant can reach three meters in height, so it can be cut to the desired shape.

Two more important criteria by which it is worth choosing a shrub for planting for a long-term period are shade tolerance and belonging to perennial plants. Such shrubs can cover unsightly places in the garden, as well as decorate the area around the buildings.

The most popular types:

• Deytion has a compact size and begins to bloom in early spring. The pink and white flowers are pleasing to the eye, and the branches can be trimmed to the desired shape.
• refers to tall plants, because its height can reach 18 meters. small flowers lilac color have very pleasant aroma. Flowering takes place throughout the summer period.
• is an undersized shrub barely reaching a meter in height. Flowers of a bright pink hue begin to appear from mid-spring and may linger until the first frost.

These shrubs are also considered winter-hardy, but it is still recommended to insulate them with spruce branches. If the main purpose of planting is decoration, then fast-growing shrubs will come to the rescue

The most common types of fast-growing shrubs:

• Dogwood, in addition to its decorative function, will produce fruits that can be eaten. The shrub can grow up to five meters in height, and sprawling requires timely pruning and shaping.
• The turn is also a fast-growing and fruit-bearing shrub. It reaches three meters in height. Blackthorn flowers have a very pleasant almond aroma, and the fruits can be consumed after the first frost.
• continues the chain fruit bushes. Barberry height can be adjusted the right choice varieties. The plant forms a thick impenetrable wall, which must be formed in a timely manner.

In order to combine a pleasant view of the site and benefits for the body, several fruit bushes should be planted in the garden. As a rule, these shrubs are most often planted by amateur gardeners.

The most popular fruit shrubs that gardeners are very fond of growing include the following:

• Honeysuckle is a tall shrub, growing up to 2.5 meters in length. The plant can be given the desired shape. However, the shrub grows very slowly, so it is pruned 5-7 years after planting. Honeysuckle fruits are very useful for the body.
• another representative of tall shrubs. It blooms in the summer, and the spherical inflorescences look good on the site. The fruits of viburnum remain on the bush until the first snowfalls.
• and - all the familiar fruit bushes. They are self-pollinating, so there is no point in planting different varieties these plants in one place. Shrubs grow very quickly and require annual thinning.
• - one of the most unpretentious fruit shrubs that does not require special care. The only thing weakness- this is low frost resistance and dislike for abundant watering.

How to care for shrubs

There is general rules for the care of shrubs, which should be followed:

1. The most successful period for planting and transplanting shrubs is autumn. The main rule is to meet deadlines. This is important, as the plant must have time to adapt and take root before the onset of frost.
2. Particular attention should be paid to soil preparation. It involves the complete removal and digging of the soil.
3. Recesses for planting should be done with a margin so that you can straighten the roots of the plant, avoiding creases.
4. At the bottom of the recess, you can put top dressing from, or peat mixed with fertilizer.
5. If the shrub is sprawling and will require garters, then you can prudently install a support in the center of the planting.
6. It is important not to exceed the allowable distance between planted shrubs.
7. In conclusion, it is necessary to water the shrub abundantly, you can also draw soil around it.

Should be given special meaning preparing shrubs for wintering. It includes the following steps:

• pruning
• Soil cleaning and top dressing
• Pest protection

Pruning includes getting rid of dry and diseased branches, as well as shaping the plant. This procedure should be carried out as follows:

• Remove dry and broken branches.
• Then you can start removing weak shoots.
• Cut branches that have rushed up and grow at right angles.
• Slices are treated with garden pitch.
• Cut branches are burned.

To clean the soil, it is enough to dispose of the cut branches, because the fallen leaves will become good fertilizer. An exception is the presence of diseased plants on the site. In this case, all fallen leaves and untreated plants must be disposed of. For top dressing it is good to use, which are brought under the bushes.

You can start the feeding process at the end of the summer period.

In order to protect the shrub from pests and frost, you can use the following methods:

• Bandage the trunk of the bush with kraft paper patches, and put spruce branches on top.
• Use a protective net around the stem of the plant.

Proper preparation of plants for wintering is a guarantee of an easier waiting out of this difficult period, which guarantees that all shrubs will survive and will delight with their beauty next year.

A few ideas to decorate the site beautifully:

• It is believed that border shrubs go well with conifers. From them you can create very successful group compositions.
• A good combination can be achieved by combining yellow and red shades of foliage.
• Weigela can be planted, making out an alpine hill, or next to trees.
• For the design of arbors and hedges, climbing shrub plants (for example, a vineyard or liana) are well suited.
• Wintergreen is suitable to cover the ground with a low green carpet.
• well suited for decorating borders and composing group compositions.
• To build hedge, you can use fast-growing shrubs (for example, or barberry).
• Or will help to emphasize any place on the site, they look good even in single plantings.
• The highlight of the garden can be a curly cut shrub.
• Often landscape designers resort to highlighting compositions from shrubs.
• With the help of well-composed compositions from shrubs, one can distinguish various zones in the garden: beat a small decorative pond, beautifully arrange a gazebo and paths, build a fence, cover up unpleasant places on the site.
• Can do different kinds compositions from shrubs that will have the same crown shape (for example, round), or specially place shrubs that radically differ in the shape and width of the leaves.
• The correct combination is to compose a composition, taking into account the tiered shrubs. As a rule, they are arranged from highest to lowest, without mixing in any order.

A huge number of various shrubs give full vent to fantasy. Among them, you can choose your favorite plants and create unique compositions that will decorate the garden, attracting everyone's attention. However, it is important to remember that every shrub needs proper and timely care, because it is he who is the key to healthy, beautiful and strong plants.

More information can be found in the video:

gentrification suburban area- the process is creative and exciting, at the initial stage of garden planning, summer residents determine which bushes and trees they will plant. If the site is completely empty, then fast-growing trees and shrubs for giving in a short time will create a beautiful landscape. If time suffers, then you can choose crops growing long time and enjoy their transformation from year to year.

Types of shrubs

When thinking about which shrubs to plant in the country, pay attention to their classification, this will greatly facilitate your choice. Whether you need only ornamental bushes or you want to receive various fruits from them, it depends on which type you should give your preference.

Appearance and agrotechnical characteristics make it possible to divide seedlings into three main types, which we will discuss in the following sections.

Note!
The price of seedlings for self-growing is much lower than the cost of an already grown shrub.

Beautiful flowering shrubs

Unconditional favorites in decoration garden plots- plants that are distinguished by their unique flowering. The most beautiful shrubs amaze the imagination with inflorescences of bizarre shapes and a wide range of shades.

By planting them with different flowering periods, which will replace each other, you can achieve the effect of an "ever-blooming" garden. Flowering shrubs are perfectly complemented by compositions of conifers, as well as any ornamental bushes.

The most spectacular flowering species:

• Dogwood. Begins to please with its color in early spring. He is unpretentious to the soil, like many shade tolerant plants, feels good in unlit areas.
• Rhododendron. It blooms in April and has pale lilac flowers. To reach the most lush flowering, plant the plant in partial shade and fertilize with humus.
• Forsythia. It blooms even before the foliage appears. After the bush fades, it continues to delight the eye with its decorative effect.

• Japanese quince. Pleasing to the eye with orange flowers. Grows well in lighted areas, most often used to create do-it-yourself hedges.
• Buddley. The branches of the plant are densely covered with pinkish flowers. One of the individual features of this shrub is its incredible aroma, which can attract a lot of butterflies. This bush is able to reach a height of three meters in just 2-3 years and has a long flowering period.
• Chubushnik. The most beautiful of all shrubs. It has large snow-white flowers with an amazing aroma, with its help green hedges are easily created.

fruit bushes

This species is able to play a role and ornamental plants, but their undeniable advantage is that they are able to bring us fresh berries. Therefore, it can rightly be noted that these are the most useful shrubs in the country. However, it should be noted that more care is required for them.

Below are a few plants of this species:

• Currant . There are white, red and black currant fruits. Some of its varieties can bear fruit up to 18 years in a row. Do not forget that it is necessary to protect the bushes from drafts and excessive moisture.
• Gooseberry. It bears fruit up to 25 years, but is not too frost-resistant, so it needs to be warmed for the winter.

• Raspberry . It grows well in the sun, is resistant to cold, but requires fertilized soil and moisture.
• Blackberry. Similar in characteristics to raspberries, but more sensitive to frost.

Advice!
If you decide to plant fruit bushes on your site, it is better to do this in the fall, then in the summer you can get the first small harvest.

Ornamental garden shrubs

Ornamental plants give elegance to the design of the site, and it doesn’t matter what country houses need to be decorated - they will be made of block containers, or built of brick or wood. The wide color palette and texture of these bushes can create bright accents, decorate individual elements of your garden, divide the site into zones.

Unpretentious in care, they are quite easy to grow if you follow a few rules when planting them:

• Don't land this species plants too close to each other.

Note!
There is a simple instruction for calculating the distance between shrubs - the distance is equal to twice the height of an adult bush.

• Plant at a sufficient distance from the fence and buildings.
• Plants with burgundy leaves need sunlight, in the shade they become faded.
• When transplanting, in order not to damage the roots, dig a hole wider and deeper.
• Fertilize the soil.

• Hydrangea. Its inflorescences are large balls of pink, lilac, milky or blue flowers. All varieties of hydrangeas are shade-loving and prefer moist soil.

• Weigela. Can be planted in any soil, both shade and sunny area will do. mature plant reaches a height of 2 meters, blooms from the second year. It has bright pink flowers.
• Barberry. Excellent as a hedge, the color of the foliage depends on the abundance of the sun and can vary from red to purple. Regular pruning gives the shrub neatness and a noble appearance.
• Boxwood. Ideal for those who like to create figures from plants various forms. It has undersized varieties of shrubs. Heat-loving, but feels good in the shade. Differs in speed of growth and an unusual smell.

• Deren. Highly unpretentious shrub, easily takes root on any soil. Tolerates both shade and sun. It has purple-colored foliage and blooms twice a year.
• Action. In a sunny area, it reaches a height of two meters, has beautiful white or pink flowers. To the soil is picky.
• Spirea. Used as a hedge. Has inflorescences of red, white or pink flowers. Particularly attracts attention in autumn period when its leaves paint the bush in different colors.
• Forsythia. One of early shrubs blooming in spring. Requires regular fertilization and watering, like other moisture-loving trees and bushes.

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Conclusion

The choice of plants for your summer cottage can be limited only by your own fantasies and desires, you can always find some democratic analogue of an expensive shrub. And do not forget about the little trick of unscrupulous sellers - when buying seedlings, you do not receive any guarantee that you are purchasing exactly the desired plant.

In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic.

The garden area looks inexpressive if all plants have the same height - like soldiers on a parade ground. You can change the look of your summer cottage with beautifully flowering perennial shrubs.

We have collected photos and names the best varieties flowering shrubs with brief description- unpretentious, frost-resistant, beautifully blooming at different times of the year.

Looks the most beautiful flowering plants shrub type. They visually transform the configuration of the site and contribute to the creation of a festive mood, give the color scheme of the site a variety and original look. They are located on lawns, near the terrace, in front gardens and on the distant borders of the backyard territory, near the entrance. Shrub elements are also used to divide the estate into zones.

Shrub plants, which have the ability to bloom beautifully and for a long time, attract attention, form a general landscape perception of the site as an integral composition.

In addition, they focus on the most significant areas of the garden:

• retaining walls;
• stair structures, if any, in the garden;
• path turns;
• terrace area.

Important! When creating the design of the backyard territory, it is necessary to take into account, in addition to the height of plants, their ability to increase in volume in width. These parameters can be adjusted using garden shears.

Shrubs for small summer cottages

For a modest size garden area you need to correctly select shrubs, focusing on the height and flowering time. You can give preference to miniature dwarf shrubs that bloom at different periods and delight for a long time bright colors.

After the snow cover melts and the sun begins to warm, forsythia will bloom - a miniature shrub plant with small yellowish flowers, blooming before the appearance of foliage. In the first spring months, the garden landscape looks dull, the bright yellow inflorescences of the sun-loving forsythia will compete with the sun.

A miniature variety of magnolias - star-shaped, has snow-white, pleasantly smelling flowers. This plant will successfully complement the flowering forsythia.

Undemanding in care and resistant to cold, the Japanese variety of rhododendron "Praecox", reaching a height of 50-100 cm, will fill the garden with colors after the magnolia with rhododendron has faded.

Closer to summer, the site will be transformed due to flowering lilac bushes. A wonderful option for a modest-sized garden is the Chinese variety of lilac, with fragrant clusters leaning to the ground.

With the advent of summer, the baton of flowering will be taken over by the colony - an undemanding shrub with long branches completely covered with flowers. In the photo - a colquis bush during the flowering period:

From the middle of the summer season until the autumn cold, it will be possible to contemplate the burgundy, snow-white, purple and pale lilac shades of the Syrian hibiscus on the site.

For a spacious area

The choice of shrub plants with a flowering crown for a large plot in the garden is much wider. In a spacious garden, compositions can be formed using small shrubs and large plant elements, along with beautifully flowering bushes, coniferous plants can be used.

spring views

We list the names of the most popular varieties shrubs that bloom in the spring season and tolerate the climate of the middle zone: Canadian shadberry, Japanese quince, keria, almond, wolfberry, forsythia and spirea.

In the photo below - a shrub called "forsythia": it blooms with delicate yellow flowers with oblong petals. Only after flowering, the bush throws out green, quickly blooming buds with green leaves:

Among the first to bloom flowers are the wolfberry; This plant has a wonderful smell. But this shrub requires careful attitude - it is poisonous.

The flowering of a shrub called "Canadian Irga" falls on the last month of spring. Small flowers are collected in snow-white tassels, similar to bird cherry. With the advent of autumn, its leaves turn into rich crimson tones, bringing colorful notes to the autumn landscape.

In the photo below - a bush canadian shadberry autumn:

Viburnum, red rowan and elderberry are great for decor in country landscape design. These shrubs, more reminiscent of trees, are often planted next to wells and fences. Rowan and viburnum clusters will decorate the garden in cold weather and will surely attract birds.

In the month of May, spirea blooms in the plots - this shrub looks elegant and attracts bees with fragrant white flowers.

Many owners of suburban areas plant lilacs in the garden. A sweet smell emanates from lilac clusters, its fragrance does not leave anyone indifferent. Not everyone knows that this shrub has one significant advantage - flowering lilac does not cause an allergic reaction.

Have you seen how beautiful the almond bush blooms? Delightful pink flowers will add sophistication to the design of the garden before the arrival of summer - in April-May.

If the climate in your region is mild, you can plant rhododendrons, graceful magnolias and delicate camellias in the garden.

blooming in summer

At the end of spring and early summer, many types of shrubs bloom. Plants seem to strive as soon as possible to please with their attractive appearance. In the summer, there are enough colors on the site, but if you want to create a voluminous motley spot, you can’t do without flowering shrubs.

Here is a list of the most attractive shrubs that bloom in the summer:

• skumpia;
• barberry;
• hydrangea;
• mock orange;
• weigela.

In a shady zone, shade-loving honeysuckle will feel good; its fragrant inflorescences will soon be replaced by berries. Look at the photo, what blooming honeysuckle looks like:

AT landscape decor often used ornamental shrub called leather skumpia- This plant has a "smoking" appearance. In the summer season, the shrub is covered with small flowers that form panicles, from afar they look like smoke.

What this flowering shrub looks like - see the photo below:

Barberry bushes in June are full of rich yellow flowers. Closer to autumn, the bush is covered with tassels of bright red berries. The dark red leaves of the barberry also look unusual.

Advice: plant barberry bushes against the backdrop of conifers - the decor will turn out to be especially spectacular.

Another shrub plant that is undemanding in care is action, which pleases with flowering from the beginning to the middle of summer. The flowers of unpretentious action have a soft pinkish and white color.

We also recommend planting in the backyard Syrian hibiscus. This plant began to be used in landscape design not so long ago, but is becoming increasingly popular due to large, expressive flowers during the flowering period.

Hibiscus inflorescences have lilac, pale pink, red, snow-white and blue hues. The flowering period is at the end of summer.

Autumn varieties

In September, the garden area will be transformed luxurious flowers hydrangeas that look like balls. See how luxurious the hydrangea blooming with white flowers looks:

Pay attention to how wide the palette of flowering shrubs of a beautiful large-leaved Hydrangea is - from snow-white and white-pink to blue and blue tones - in the photo:

Frost-resistant heather will also help create a sense of celebration. This is unpretentious plant fill the garden with pink, snow-white, purple and burgundy shades. Heather blooms until November. Long flowering is one of key strengths this shrub.

The crimson leaves of the mountain ash will add brightness to the dull autumn landscape: it begins to blush in late August - October.

Euonymus can also boast of beautiful leaves - it is a shrub that blooms all summer and autumn. For decorating the garden area in the cold season, this plant is just perfect.

There are many more shrubs that can be used to decorate the garden area in the autumn-winter season:

• hawthorn;
• rose hip;
• mahonia;
• viburnum.

In the photo below - a flowering rosehip bush:

On a note! The fruits of these plants can be used not only in decorative purposes but also how medicine from many ailments.

Bright red berries look especially presentable against the background of snow cover.

perennials

The list of shrubs belonging to the category of perennials that decorate the garden landscape with their flowering is quite large. Learn about the features of the most popular varieties perennials more.

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Japanese quince

Wild quince can often be found in Asian countries. We have two varieties of quince in demand - undersized and high. Saturated crimson and pink flowers look colorful against the background of emerald leaves. Japanese variety quince is considered the most presentable among low shrubs that bloom in spring - this plant looks simply amazing.

Quince perfectly tolerates arid climate and frost. In especially frosty winters top part plants may freeze to the level of snowfall, but after a while they will return to their previous appearance. The older this perennial shrub, the higher its frost-resistant qualities.

Weigela

Among the variety of shrub plants that delight with flowering in the summer, a shrub called Weigela deserves special attention. It stands out advantageously among the flowering vegetation, plays a leading role in the green orchestra.

Presentable and long flowering- main advantage this plant. Weigela reigns in the garden from late spring to early summer. The height of this shrub is from 2.5 to 3 meters. If its dimensions are not adjusted, it will grow in width to a similar size.

The shades of the flowers are not too colorful - purple, yellowish, lilac and rich burgundy. Numerous inflorescences turn the bush into a luxurious bouquet.

Weigela is also of interest because it can please with secondary flowering at the end of summer or in September, but not so strong.

Jasmine

This shrub looks unremarkable, but only until the moment when it begins to bloom. A bush blooming with white flowers looks especially luxurious. Snow-white inflorescences exude a sweetish, fragrant aroma. Jasmine is the most fragrant shrub - it has no competitors here.

Terry types of jasmine are not so fragrant, but they look much more elegant.

Jasmine is also called mock orange, but few people know it by this name. Unusual name comes from the word "chubuk". Many years ago, chibouks were made from its hollow shoots - elements of pipes for smoking.

Blooming jasmine bushes will transform any garden plot, they are undemanding to the growing environment. Jasmine is not afraid of low temperatures - just like arid conditions. It is best to plant it in a sunny zone, and in March to fertilize - mullein or 200 gr. ashes mixed with two large spoons of nitrophosphate fertilizers. Fertilizers will increase the duration and flowering power of this unpretentious ornamental shrub.

Low-growing varieties of jasmine are used for decorating borders, and placed in mixborders. In the design of home gardens, jasmine is recommended to be combined with viburnum, weigela, hydrangea and spirea.

Hydrangea

Another well-known shrub plant, hydrangea, has a spectacular view during flowering. Variegated flowers, collected in spherical inflorescences, stand out advantageously against the background of emerald foliage. Hydrangea blooms can be so strong that the leaves become almost invisible.

Luxurious flowers appear in the last month of summer - in August - and retain their beauty even in September.

Landscape designers often use shade-tolerant hydrangea to decorate summer cottages. This shrub, in addition to luxurious flowering, has other advantages. It can be planted in shady and semi-shaded areas, it can withstand even very low temperatures(up to twenty degrees of frost). The color scheme of hydrangea cannot but arouse admiration.

The acidity of the soil affects the color of the flowers. The higher the acidity, the brighter the bloom will be. Hydrangea is exacting to the ground - it does not tolerate limestone soils.

For good growth and the rich color of the inflorescences, the ground next to the shrub should be moistened all the time.

Attention! In addition to garden varieties of hydrangeas, there are also indoor varieties intolerant of cold. When buying a shrub, specify the features of its growth.

garden hibiscus

The garden hibiscus has another name - the Syrian rose. Many people think that we are talking about a houseplant - Chinese rose. But there is winter-hardy varieties hibiscus suitable for garden. Such species are able to withstand temperatures down to twenty degrees below zero.

To accommodate this shrub, you should choose well-lit areas that are protected from cold winds by fences or a wall. country cottage. The presentable configuration of the hibiscus will transform any place in the backyard. As for the location, beautifully flowering shrubs can be located at the entrance to the backyard territory or not far from the terrace. Hibiscus is ideal for forming hedges.

After the Syrian rose has finished blooming (at the end of summer), the hedge is transformed into an upright green carpet.

Each of the flowers of the Syrian rose retains its beauty all day long. During flowering, more than a thousand delicate buds open on the shrub. Rain has a negative effect on the flowering of this plant - the inflorescences are very fragile, they are easy to damage.

There are many types of flowering shrubs suitable for garden decoration. The main thing is to choose the right plants so that their flowering begins and ends at different periods, then the garden plot will always be filled with bright colors of flowers.

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An important role in shaping the landscape personal plot plays a competent combination of plants: annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees with varied foliage and beautiful flowers. A properly selected assortment of plants will please the eye from early spring to late autumn.

The topic of today's conversation will be flowering shrubs, with which you can not only diversify the landscape, divide the territory into zones, but also bring joy and celebration to it.

When planning to plant a shrub on a site, one should take into account the height and width of an adult plant so that it does not happen that undersized specimens will be in the “shadow” of taller ones, and their beauty will be almost invisible. Although, of course, you can form the crown of plants with the help of garden shears.

Flowering shrubs for summer cottages - spring

As soon as the snow melts, and the first spring rays begin to warm the earth, the time comes for flowering. forsythia (forsythia) , which, like a twinkle, dissolves its yellow flowers even before leaves appear on its branches. Forsythia was named after the Scottish botanist William Forsythe. Plant height from 1 m to 3 m.

Forsythia belongs to the olive family. As soon as flowering approaches the final stage, foliage and young shoots appear. A very popular plant in Europe, some types of forsythia are frost-resistant, therefore they are suitable for growing in central Russia.

Forsythia will take the baton of flowering star magnolia - low deciduous shrub, whose homeland is Japan, reaching a height of 2.5 m, with white flowers that exude a pleasant delicate aroma that appear in the same way as forsythia before foliage. The shrub feels great in the European part of Russia.

More frost-resistant Magnolia Siebold and Kobus - blooms in early June.

AT southern regions with warmer climates and mild winter there is a greater variety of magnolias in the form of ornamental shrubs or trees, with flowers from white to rich shades of pink. Most popular in landscaping construction magnolia liliaceae - extraordinary beautiful tree during the flowering period.

Mid-May - flowering time spirea grefshein — a small shrub up to 1.5 m high, with snow-white flowers collected in numerous inflorescences located along the entire stem. With hanging stems, the crown looks very openwork. The shrub is photophilous, drought-resistant, undemanding to the soil.

genomeles "Japanese quince" - a very beautiful, unpretentious shrub of the rose family, eye-catching. The flowering period is the end of April, the beginning of May. Colors - white, pink, orange, red.

You can plant an undersized specimen in an open space, or in a rock garden among stones. In the third year, the shrub begins to bear fruit, the fruits are yellow, similar to small apples, edible and very useful. Branches not covered with snow sometimes freeze slightly, they need to be cut.

Shrubs that bloom all summer

Chubushnik - better known as "jasmine" , belongs to the hydrangea family, winter-hardy shrub, common in central Russia. Mock orange with white-cream fragrant flowers reaches 3 m in height. Tolerates frosts down to -25 °C. The flowering period is the beginning, mid-June. Use a shrub for group and single landings and also as a hedge.

An extremely common plant in Russia - lilac , with beautiful inflorescences and delicate aroma, flowering time is June, belongs to the olive family. For abundant annual flowering, the bush must be formed, this requires regular pruning. Color palette lilac flowers are very diverse (white, pink, bluish, pale purple, deep purple). Luxurious shrub, hardy, feels equally good in both southern and northern regions.

spray roses or rose hips of the rose family will certainly become a decoration of the garden, especially species that do not require shelter for the winter, which tolerate frost well. A shrub 1-2 meters high blooms in June-July, though not for very long, but their red or orange fruits, ripening in August-September, look spectacular against the background of green foliage, will delight the eye until late autumn.

park roses require more careful care, love sunlight. A bush planted in the shade of trees will not give abundant flowering. Many varieties are quite winter-hardy, some require shelter for the winter. They bloom in the first half of June and bloom for a long period - a month or more.

Extraordinarily beautiful bushes hydrangeas . The most unpretentious and winter-hardy species hydrangeas are considered tree-like and paniculate - shrubs from 1 to 3 m high. Large lush inflorescences, abundantly located throughout the bush, look very elegant. No wonder gardeners love it the most. It blooms for a long time - from June to September, loves moisture, acidic soil and partial shade.

Beautiful shrubs of the autumn garden

Potentilla shrub will delight you with long flowering - from June to October. A low bush 1.5-2 m tall is a medicinal plant, it is widely used in folk medicine. Most species bloom with yellow flowers, but there are also varieties with white or pink flowers. The shrub looks great in rock gardens or group plantings, undemanding to the soil, winter-hardy.

Snowberry blooms all summer to September with white, pink or red flowers. But its decorative effect is not limited to this. In autumn, abundant white fruits appear in the form of berries, which adorn the bush all autumn and winter. The uniqueness of this bush is that in autumn you can contemplate flowers on it at the same time as berries. The height of the plant is 1-2 m, it can be used in ordinary plantings when creating a hedge or in group plantings.

Skumpia tannery - a shrub that is unusually beautiful not only in summer, during flowering, but also in autumn, thanks to its foliage. In summer, the bush is covered with small flowers collected in fluffy panicles, looking like smoke from a distance. In autumn, the foliage becomes crimson, first the edges and veins of the leaves turn red, and then the entire foliage, bluish and purple hues appear. Skumpia is very spectacular in autumn, good in single and group plantings, not winter-hardy enough, so it is suitable for a garden in the more southern regions of the country.

Barberry common no less spectacular bush for autumn garden. Flowering in June - yellow flowers collected in a brush. Plant height 1.5-3 m. In autumn, in September-October, oblong red fruits appear on the shrub, sour in taste. Almost all elements are used in medicinal purposes: and fruits, and leaves, and even roots and bark.

Extraordinarily handsome common heather — evergreen shrub with small triangular leaves and pink-lilac flowers collected in brushes, which end each branch. The height of the bush is from 25 cm to 1 m, a very hardy plant that grows both in the European part of Russia and in Western and Eastern Siberia.

It blooms in July-August, but after flowering stops, the flowers dry up, remaining on the branches of the plant. It seems that the bush blooms until late autumn. Loves acidic soil, moisture with good permeability of the soil. It does not need top dressing, as in nature it grows on poor, stony soils. Looks great in the garden, surrounded by stones, in rockeries in combination with other plants.

You can endlessly continue listing flowering shrubs. But you need to select plants taking into account their adaptation in your region, and then various colors and shades will always rage in your garden, creating a festive atmosphere, delighting you and your guests.