Ornamental shrubs for central Russia

Today we consider what decorative shrubs are suitable for central Russia, photos with their names, how they can be planted on a small and large plot, and how to navigate the flowering periods and the terrain suitable for the bushes. With the help of such shrubs, you can divide the site into zones, make accents in the right places, strengthen the color palette of the garden, fill it with fragrance, and create a sense of celebration. Flowering shrubs can be trimmed, forming the image of the garden according to your preference. See also: lilies planting and care in the open ground - they will complement summer bloom with their beauty!

For a small garden

If your garden plot is small, and you want to plant the beauty compactly, then the following shrubs will suit you:

• Forsythia - small bushes with bright yellow flowers bloom the very first in spring and look like little suns - so elegantly decorate a boring spring garden!
• Star magnolia paired with forsythia will complement the spring flowering pattern with its white fragrant flowers.
• Japanese rhododendron will pick up the baton and will bloom afterwards if you choose the Praecox variety.
• At the end of May, the lilac flowering picture will continue.
• In June, the quiver will show itself perfectly; it will bloom like a bouquet and will decorate your garden.

And from July Syrian hibiscus will pick up the flowering, and thus your garden will be in bloom until September, some shrubs will be replaced by others, changing the elegant picture of the garden, and delighting their hosts with abundant flowering.

For a large garden

In the spring, the wolfberry will start the baton, filling your garden with an amazing aroma. In May, it will be replaced by Canadian irga, similar in its bloom with white tassels to bird cherry, in autumn it will decorate the garden with crimson leaves. At the end of spring, it will enter the rights of a spirea, inviting the bees with their snow-white fragrant flowers. At the border of spring and summer, the lilac will pick up the baton with its lush flowering, filling the air around with delicate aromas. If you plant several bushes with different colors - the spring palette of your garden will run amok with a variety of colors and delight the soul.

Summer shrubs take effect after spring. During this period, scumpia begins to “smoke”, barberry with its yellow flowers blooms behind it, which by autumn will become ripe red clusters of berries. In June, the action begins to bloom and continues its flower parade until the end of July, decorating the garden with delicate white and pinkish flowers. In August, the Syrian hibiscus will begin to delight with flowering, do not be too lazy to bring such beauty in the garden.

In early autumn, magnificent royal hydrangea comes into its own, decorating any area with its balls. Behind it, heather with its variety of color palettes creates a sense of celebration after the past summer, delighting with the beauty of flowering until late autumn. Cotoneaster, dogrose, mountain ash and hawthorn will decorate the garden until the colds.

So, the flowering time sorted out. It seems that we have selected the most suitable shrubs for ourselves, let's now consider what features the above individuals have, because we have to settle them in the garden for many years, so we need to know exactly what area suits them, are the conditions for caring for them too laborious, and we’ll decide which are suitable specifically for your site. Also note: flowers for the garden perennials pics with names - they will complement the flower extravaganza of your garden.

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Features of perennial shrubs

In spring, the Japanese quince blooms most beautifully and brighter than all, tolerates drought, reacts calmly to frosts, and the older the bush, it is not frost-resistant and is great for central Russia.
Jasmine is not whimsical, not afraid of frosts, he does not care at all for drought, a fragrant handsome man. It requires only a small top dressing in the form of mullein and ash, and it will flourish and delight you. Put viburnum and hydrangea with him in the company, and your joy from contemplation will increase three times!

Jasmine - choose domestic varieties better, they are more adapted to our harsh winters. If you need kids, choose “Pearl”, if you want to be up to 2 meters high, “Blizzard” will do. Fertilize with minerals every month, cut old shoots and damaged ones, and in June-July you will enjoy the beauty of jasmine bloom to the fullest.

The spherical beauty of hydrangea should be planted at partial shade. It does not tolerate calcareous soils, and if the soil in your garden is acidic, it will delight you with beautiful flowering. Moreover, the more acidic the soil, the more hydrangea blooms, all August and September delighting with its beauty.

If you want to make a hedge - plant a Syrian rose. She just needs a sunny place, but sheltered from drafts and winds - the very place near the fence or the wall of the house, where she will show herself in all its lush beauty, turning into a fragrant vertical handsome carpet.

Lilac - the most popular resident of our gardens, can be of different colors, can grow into a whole tree, therefore it requires constant pruning - up to 3 m high, it can be extinct. In the spring, fertilize with bird droppings and remove damaged branches - that's all care. "Alima Harding" will bloom with white double flowers, "Paul Tirion" will be covered with purple blooms, and if you want to add a blue delicate color to the palette of garden colors - plant "Condorcet".

Japanese quince requires spring trimming trimmed damaged shoots, and from the age of five you need to do curly trim. Loosen and mulch the soil.

Hydrangea - the most winter-hardy is tree-like, for example, the Annabel variety, pruning in the fall, shortening the shoots in the spring to the extreme bud. Subcortex with iron and magnesium - that's all hydrangeas need for lush flowering.

Creeping heather will delight you in the fall, but he needs the appropriate soil with peat and sand. To plant it, replace the soil, add sawdust, pour a solution of apple cider vinegar (half a glass is enough on a bucket of water). Water the plant with acidified water, mulch and add mineral fertilizers.

Following our advice, you will be able to grow beautiful ornamental shrubs suitable for your conditions on your site, and you will enjoy the magical flowering from spring to autumn. How to decorate your garden zinnia graceful - Be sure to plant this beauty, it will fit perfectly into any design of the site and bring its zest to the garden.