Flowering trees and ornamental shrubs for the garden
In modern landscape design, a lot of attention is paid to the aesthetics of gardens and parks. When the flower beds and flower beds are not yet covered with buds, shrubs and trees are the main decoration. For any site, you can pick up beautiful tall or dwarf plants that bloom petals of various shades in early spring or throughout the warm season. When deciding which one to buy, you should carefully study the exact description and the winter minimum temperatures, because some may grow no further north of Crimea.
Blooming trees for garden decoration
Considering that the main decoration of the personal plot is still annual and perennial flowers, ornamental trees are selected for them so that the timing of their flowering would fill the "pauses" formed in spring and summer.
The modern assortment of horticultural crops allows you to choose any shade to your taste.
Beautiful flowering trees for the garden
Choosing the right tree or bush, you need to decide on the goals. For some, a plant with beautiful flowers is enough, but for someone wholesome and tasty fruits are important. When choosing an ornamental culture, you should pay attention to its winter hardiness. Not everyone can winter without shelter at subzero temperatures.
A considerable number of tree varieties are distinguished by long flowering, but in the end they do not give any fruits useful to humans. They are traditionally planted behind the fence of the personal plot, decorating the driveway. This category includes: sakura, chestnut, linden, elderberry, bird cherry, etc.
Cherry blossoms
Fruit trees can bloom quite modestly, but more often the appearance of a crop is preceded by a massive dissolution of beautiful and fragrant buds. The flowering time of pears, apples, cherries, plums, cherry plums, quince, almonds, peaches, apricots is a real holiday for bees and gardeners.
Trees with pink flowers
Some species that show beautiful blooms in all shades of pink are named:
- Almonds - it is tall, medium-sized and dwarf on average from 4 to 6 m in height. Produces delicious sweet or bitter fruits, but its flowers are also quite beautiful. Each flower reaches 2.5 cm in diameter, has 5-7 pink or almost white petals. Almonds prefer to bloom in May, when there are no leaves on the branches yet.
- Rhododendron is a numerous species, which in Russia is represented by wild evergreen or deciduous specimens growing not only in the Caucasus, but also in Siberia and the Far East. Quite large corollas have 5 petals of pink or purple-violet shades, collected in brushes or large corymbose inflorescences.
- Magnolia is a southern tree that requires wintering at positive temperatures. Its large fragrant pink flowers bear 6-12 petals, collected in 2-4 circles. The size of the flowers is so great that not only bees are pollinators, but also bumblebees, large beetles.
- Peach - this fruit tree is traditionally grown in the south, but modern varieties with increased winter hardiness are presented in nurseries: Frost, White Swan, Avgustovsky resistant, Harbinger.Sedentary single pink flowers bloom ahead of the leaves and exude the most delicate sweet scent, reminiscent of cherry, and invariably causing a child's delight.
Blossoming almond branch
Trees with red flowers
Red is less common among flowering trees, but it can be found if desired. For example:
- Apple tree - for this tree, the most common shade of flowers is soft pink or white. But among the newest varieties, you can also find representatives with red flowers: Royalty, Rudolph, Nedvetsky. You can choose the option with large fruits or small ones. Trees in bloom look fabulous.
- Pomegranate - prized for its delicious and healthy fruits, its flowers are a decoration of the garden. Among the popular varieties are tall and dwarf, fruit and decorative. The pomegranate flower can be pink, scarlet or purple in color. Up to 97% of the buds formed during the season are sterile, and only 3% will bear fruit. In this case, the flowering period lasts up to 6 months. The temperature minimum for wintering is up to -17 ° С.
Pomegranate flowers
Trees with white flowers
It is believed that the white shade of petals in deciduous trees is the most common. Indeed, many fruit and ornamental species bloom this way. For example:
- Acacia - its various types can bloom with yellow and white flowers, and in central Russia, the most common varieties with snow-white inflorescences. The bell-shaped calyx of a flower consists of accreted petals, inside of which there is a lot of nectar, which lures bees to the site. A sweet floral scent, spreading for miles around, accompanies the release season of the acacias. A good variety should be selected carefully, because instead of the expected 3-4 m, a real giant may well turn out.
- Bird cherry is a beloved by many ornamental garden and street, park plant, every spring, covered with a fragrant blanket of snow-white boiled flowers, collected in brushes or corymbus inflorescences. At this time, the tree is beautiful, like a dream. The fruits of new cultivated varieties are used for food and have medicinal properties.
- Viburnum is a cold-resistant fruit flowering plant. Its lush white inflorescences produce fruits in the form of red, black or yellow edible berries in late autumn. When choosing a variety for your site, it is worth clarifying its characteristics. The selection of this culture was carried out in two directions and gave varieties of two types: with medium-sized flowers and large juicy berries for the table, or with sterile large flowers that do not produce fruits.
Blooming bird cherry branch
Stunted trees
Sometimes the border between a tree and a shrub is blurred, and with skillful crown formation from a bush, you can get a tree (bole). Among the decorative and fruit forms, there are many that can please with exquisite flowering, followed by fruits. You can choose a suitable small bush option for decorating your driveway and for a free corner in the garden.
Japonica
A bush up to 3 m high can be formed in the form of a tree. Its branches in the spring are covered with abundant white, red or orange rather large flowers, of which small, but quite edible fruits will ripen by autumn. The plant is valued for decorativeness, fertility and unpretentiousness.
Blooming Japanese quince
Tamarisk (comb)
Quite numerous species, in which there are trees and shrubs with an average height of 3-5 m, but dwarfs are also found. The fragrant honey plant is distinguished by a very high vitality, it is not afraid of severe frosts and prolonged drought. Flowers are formed on one-year-old shoots and can be colored pink, lilac, purple.
Tamarisk blossom
Forsythia
A short tree or small shrub forsythia belongs to the Olive family.In the spring, before the leaves dissolve, the branches are covered with numerous bright yellow four-lobed bell-shaped flowers.
Flowering occurs extremely early, as soon as the snow melts. Following their wilting, new shoots appear, on which buds will appear next spring. A plant that is very undemanding to care for painlessly accepts any formative pruning.
Blooming forsythia bush
The advantages of low trees for landscaping a summer cottage
The choice in favor of undersized crops is fully justified on a personal plot. Any plant gets the greatest decorative effect with regular and proper care. It is necessary to carry out pruning, pest control, harvesting every season. To carry out these works at a height of up to 3 m is quite within the power of everyone, you do not have to hire workers, for this it is enough to acquire an ordinary stepladder.
In large areas, where there are tall trees, there is always free space that can be filled with ornamental crops. For example, near tall apple or pear trees, it is quite possible to plant roses, lilacs, barberries, or any other shrubs or stunted trees.
Ornamental shrubs for the garden
The role of beautiful shrubs on any site is invaluable. They form the middle tier between trees and flowers, fill free gaps and inconveniences, cover with their crown everything that one would like to hide, serve as hedges. Country decor is planted in spring and autumn.
Lilac
The real leader in popularity among decorative flowering shrubs practically throughout Russia. The abundance of inflorescence colors includes the following shades: white, lilac, purple, pinkish, lilac, violet.
Flowering lilac bush
Treelike varieties can grow in one place for many decades and need minimal maintenance.
Barberry
Numerous varieties of this fruit shrub are rapidly gaining popularity. Among the leaders is the Thunberg barberry. It is beautiful all year round. Young shoots are decorated with red bark. Foliage and fruits have the same shade of varying degrees of saturation.
Blooming barberry Thunberg
Flowering is not the main advantage of barberry, but it also looks very decorative. Small, but numerous flowers of white, yellow or red smell very nice.
Hydrangea
It is sometimes confused with lilacs, but this shrub has a lot of differences. First of all, the flowering season lasts several months. Some wilted inflorescences are replaced by others, and, as a huge brush or panicle dissolves, the shade of the petals can smoothly change from boiling white to pink or from pale green to white.
Flowering panicle hydrangea
The bush usually sprouts rather slowly, for which it is valued in mixborders. The size of its inflorescences is so large that it does not fit in the hand.
Sprawling bushes and trees
The crown of such plants is formed to a greater extent by long drooping shoots than by a pronounced trunk or base. The brightest representative is all kinds of climbing roses, but other decorative flowering cultures can also be found in their company.
Climbing roses
The peculiarity of these varieties is that their shoots can stretch up to 3 m in length and even more per season. Many modern hybrids were obtained by crossing with rose hips and are distinguished by their rare vitality and long lifespan.
They are easy to wrap around any vertical support. You can choose a variety with any shades of flowers, which are single or collected in loose cysts from 2-3 to 15 pieces.Some varieties expel the buds twice a summer with a short break, while others are continuous flowering.
Blooming climbing roses
Bubble
A shrub from the Pink family is known for its ability to grow shoots up to 40 cm in length per season. Without formative pruning, the bushes stretch up to 3 m in height. The bright foliage of a rich purple-burgundy color in combination with lush shields of small white flowers looks very decorative.
Bubble flowers
It can be planted in the form of a hedge, form a crown with a spherical bush, or let it take its natural form with long, spreading shoots - the plant is beautiful in any form.
Spirea (meadowsweet)
One of the most unpretentious shrubs up to 2.5 m high, like lilacs, capable of taking a tree-like shape with age. More than a hundred species are known, differing in the shape of the shoots, shades and sizes of flowers. White spirea with shoots up to 1.8 m long is often popularly called the "bride".
Bushes, when planted closely, form a dense hedge. Some varieties bloom once in late spring, while others can bloom their buds alternately throughout the summer. Quite large flowers in the crenate spirea, which has a valuable quality - to keep the floating soils on the slopes with its tenacious roots.
Flowering spirea
You can decorate a personal plot so that it looks beautiful throughout the warm season in different ways. For example, choose varieties of trees and shrubs with different flowering periods so that they harmoniously complement and replace each other.
Interesting results are obtained by a combination of similar or contrasting shades of flowers, which serve not only as decoration, but also lure bees and other pollinators into the garden.
