Variants of fir introduction in landscape design
Sometimes, which can remain phlegmatic to the luxury of color and the stiffened beauty of needles of conifers. It is logical that spruce in the planting of a plot is often used. It looks great as container landings for the sake of framing garden paths and be the decoration of stony gardens. Ephedra is perfectly suited for the creation of multilevel compositions, harmoniously combined with low shrubs and beautifully flowering perennials
Trees with a needle-like foliage of a rich greenish color are curious in combination with colorful flowers of one- and perennial plants. For the creation of compositions perfectly suited: Japanese anemones, pansies, aquilegia, phlox and hosts. Coniferous species are an irreproachable base for the creation of evergreen sculptures that can fulfill the exterior appearance of the garden richer and more colorful.
Between the main advantages of introducing spruce in the design of the site is worth highlighting:
Ephedra is enough to amuse the saturation of the flowers of the needle-like greenery in the summer season, without burning off the okol the sun rays, and the winter gap, contrasting with the whiteness of the snow.
Phytoncides released by the plant are able to purify the atmosphere productively, rendering the human body healthier.
Spruce is perfect for all landscape design styles.
Shaggy branches are comfortable to be extracted from the manufacture of crafts: the development of paintings, herbaria, New Year's compositions.
However, spruce, like and at least some other plant, has a bug lures. For example, this conifers can grow great, dimming the terrain and depleting the earth. Hence, for the design of gardens, future fir trees having a dwarf form are used. Spruce is also comfortable for those that are freely pruned. Thanks to this, giving the crown a unique shape, even the experienced gardener does not have problems
Spruce"Will's Zwerg"looks interesting in group compositions and as a tapeworm to be the arrangement of gardens with a short area
Unusual decorative is famous for breeding selected through Glauca Globosa. A dwarf plant does not have a well-defined trunk. Its sprawling branches, dotted with millions of thin needles of dressed silver-blue color, form a beautiful spherical crown. Formed for branches, cones resembling New Year decorations, are appropriated to the tree of special attractiveness. The blue beauty of"Glauca Globosa"is often used for the decoration of urban landscapes, often appearing as a dressed up addition of park avenues
It is impossible to give the side and picturesquely creeping under the ground low grades. A small"Nana"remembers a soft pillow, and"Echiniformis"is identified with a kolobok, whose round forms act as an unusual frame of garden paths.
Most of the species of spruce trees are themselves shade-tolerant, but often their dwarf forms are very sensitive to a lack of light.
Middle-aged future
It is also customary to extract medium-sized hvoyniki, the height of which reaches less than 15 m. A low solitary tree with a well-defined crone looks picturesquely for the background of the lawn"carpet"or the walls of the house. A nice snag or white cliff will help to supplement the picture. Fir trees with spreading crowns can make a shady part for the sake of rest, full of a special atmosphere of home comfort and unity with wild nature
Blue spruce - the only one of the most popular species of conifers, to esteem by designers not only because of unpretentiousness in care, but also because of the fascinating change of colors of needle-shaped foliage in the course of age. Tokmo 20% of the representatives of this species have a pronounced paint of the sky, others are rich for greenish and bluish tones.
Blue babies can not abstain from fluctuating temperatures in the northern regions and feel comfortable only in temperate latitudes. Spruce with blue needles looks win-winy along the garden paths, for the background of wood buildings or stone buildings.
A bright representative of this species is Picea pungens"Blue Diamond", which in translation means"blue diamond". The sumptuous beauty of Blue Diamonds with the highest narrow trunk and neatly formed conical crown is often used for mixed mixborders.
Change the collection will help the weeping future oil. Taking into account their aspiration to the aqua environment, the conifers are allowed to use frankly the design of the banks of water bodies .
Full-sized trees of weeping fir trees achieve a height of 10-15 meters to be 2-3 meters wide. Thin branches, hanging down, curve the stem of the plant, giving it a weeping shape. The Serbian spruce"Glauca Pendula"with flexible slender shoots hanging along the trunk is a reliable variation to be the embodiment of unusual solutions in garden compositions.
Canadian spruce is more adapted for our climate. Conic is famous for frost resistance and unpretentiousness in the care. It is fascinating for the sake of landscape design for those that have a decorative cone shape of the crown, because of the year it gives a short benefit and harmoniously fits into the design of even quite small areas. "Piccolo"- a brilliant, dressed up quality with emerald green needles, cast in the sunlight with a light blue color, looks great in group plantings
For the background of one-color greenish"sisters", Picea pungens"Maigold"is unrivaled, replenished the collection of high-quality beauties in 1988. It looks pretty good as a tapeworm. Glittering in the sunlight of young shoots make the coniferous baby"Maygold"similar to the queen, wrapped in a golden mantle
The crown of a tree, reaching a height of 6 m, has a loose pyramidal shape. Cream-yellow needles for young shoots through pretty weeks evenly change their own paint, acquiring a more cute bluish-green color.
Compositions from conifers
If the site allows, then for the creation of colorful and unique drawings it is better to extract spruce of different species and species. Tall trees successfully fit into any kind in the role of solitaires, more compact forms of conifers are allowed to openly connect with other plantations
In order for the enigmatic composition to come out harmonic and sympathetic, the masters of landscape art recommend taking into account the structure of the main points:
The writing should not be extremely colorful. For the group of 3 conifers use two shades. To compose a composition from 5 evergreen plantations, use only three colors.
When composing a multilevel composition that includes 20-30 plantings, arrange the elements in groups, selecting them according to the color.
Fir and shrub consent asks for competent accentuation: the previous order is occupied by low plants, the latter is medium-sized conifers.
Avoiding the sense of density of Christmas tree plantings will help the refinement in the near-trunk area of the conifers of the ordinary or Mauritanian lawn .
The juicy needles of the dark color will accentuate the beauty of the placed bushy shrub. In addition to beautifully flowering plants, a bushes with especially colored leaves will be a successful addition to the coniferous beauty: veygel, chubushnik, barberry.