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In modern landscape design Coniferous shrubs are very popular. Cossack juniper is the most common and unpretentious representative of its family. This plant is used not only in gardens and parks, but also at home.

These creeping coniferous shrubs of the Cypress family attract many for their decorative qualities, as well as their resistance to drought, frost and polluted air. His habitat a habitat - Asia Minor, Southeast Asia, Caucasus, Urals, Siberia and Primorye, Southern and Central Europe.

Description of the plant

It is estimated that there are more than 70 species of juniper in joint projects of a number of botanical gardens. As a rule, they all differ in height, crown shape and needle color.

Cossack juniper is described as follows:

Essential oil of Cossack juniper contains toxic substances, such as sabinol, sabinene and other terpene derivatives. If there are small children in the family, then you should wait to grow this plant.

Planting and care

First of all, you should decide on a permanent landing site. This type of juniper is light-loving, and if it is planted in the shade, it may lose its decorative properties. In addition, you need to maintain a distance of up to half a meter between plants.

Planting and caring for Cossack juniper have a number of features:

When purchasing, you should carefully examine the needles of the plant. At the slightest sign of illness, it is better to refuse to purchase this specimen.

Pruning, shaping and propagation

Pruning Cossack juniper should be done carefully and thoughtfully. As a rule, it does not need such manipulations, but using garden shears to trim bushes, you need to promptly remove damaged, infected and dry branches. They resort to pruning when they want to change the direction of branch growth, stop growth, or give a special decorative shape.

The formation of Cossack juniper is carried out in spring and autumn, while the average daily air temperature should be +4°C. During the year, Cossack juniper can grow up to 10 cm, and the permissible pruning rate in this case should not exceed 2 cm. The plant, as a rule, does not need to cover wounds. If there is severe damage, the cut can be treated with resin or sprayed with Epin.

Plucking the tips of new shoots is a safer and less harmful way of crown formation than pruning. This way you can enhance branching and make the bush more lush.

There are 4 ways to propagate Cossack juniper:

1. Seeds are enough the hard way, which is rarely resorted to due to forced stratification. The seeds of the plant are kept for a long time in special conditions to stimulate germination.
2. Cuttings - this method is best used in April or August. The weather should be cloudy for several days so that the bright sun does not harm the cuttings and the original plant.
3. Layering - this method is great for creeping forms of plants with young shoots. Individual branches are fixed to the ground with wooden pins, and the soil around is hilled up and watered from time to time.
4. Vaccinations - this method does not always pay off. An elite variety of plant is grafted onto an ordinary one, wrapped in film and waiting for engraftment.

How to propagate Cossack juniper is a personal decision of a specialist or amateur gardener. However, it is important to do everything so as not to damage the original plant.

Landscape design

The plant is actively used in organizing relief on different types of slopes, for decorating rocky hills, lawns, etc. It can be used as a separate decorative element(tapeworm) or in group plantings that serve as a background or frame for the lawn.

As you can see in the picture below, Cossack juniper goes well with brighter perennial crops. At the same time, it should be taken into account that these conifers do not combine with lush vegetation with large inflorescences.

Quite often, Cossack juniper is used in the English (landscape) style of landscape design. As a rule, they choose large varieties this plant with correct form crown and subdued colors of needles. Juniper in the English garden is intended to complement the landscape, and not to focus attention on itself.

Strict varieties of this plant are also popular in compositions in Japanese style. They contrast perfectly against the background bright colors and colorful details of the oriental garden. When designing such compositions, designers advise planting juniper plants close to, which can be of various shades, as well as next to rocky hills.

If you plant this plant with skill and taste, and also care for it properly, then it will be able to provide aesthetic pleasure for many years.

Video about the propagation of Cossack juniper

A variety of plant species can be involved in landscape design. The most popular plant variety is juniper. It can act as a limiter for the children’s play area, a hedge or an interesting form of planting throughout the yard.

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What types of juniper are suitable for landscaping

This plant takes a very long time to grow. It practically does not need to be cut, giving it a certain shape. There are a huge number of varieties and species that will differ from each other in their appearance and some features.

For example, it can be noted that juniper can be a small bush and reach a size of twenty centimeters. And some varieties are similar to tall trees, which grow up to fifteen meters in height. Any of these types is actively used in landscape design.

Photo table of juniper varieties:

You can safely plant coniferous trees nearby, any deciduous shrub and some types of flowers. The most important advantage of juniper is that it is constantly green. It can be planted at any time and enjoy its greenery.

How to grow juniper correctly?

In order for juniper to grow well, it needs to create the right conditions.

With the right selection of soil and location, the plant will grow spreading and curly. You can work with it in the future and create from it various shapes. For such a shrub it is very important that the place is filled with the rays of the sun.

It is necessary to water it infrequently so as not to spoil it. root system. And the soil itself must be filled nutrients and fertilizer. The soil can be decorated to make it beautiful appearance at the root system.

If juniper is planted in the shady side of the garden, its branches will become thinner, which can make it difficult to trim the tree's crown to give it a specific shape.

How to use juniper for design

Juniper in any landscape design will become an accent throughout the entire area. You can create entire compositions of style and design around it. This could be a low hedge. It will successfully close from unwanted eyes, create cozy atmosphere in the yard, where you can be in peace.

Some varieties of dwarf juniper will take an active part in creating a rock garden or rock garden. They will fill this environment with a unique feeling of beauty, grandeur and luxury.

Any type of juniper will find an excellent combination with other plants. These can be any coniferous trees and varieties of flowers.

Juniper is a very beautiful plant, belonging to the oldest cypress family, appearing on earth fifty million years ago. Starting from the mountain tropics and ending with the polar zone, about 70 varieties of this plant grow. Most junipers with small habitats are located on mountain plains. The inhabitants of mountain slopes and rocks are low-growing and creeping species of this plant. Juniper can sometimes reach 15 meters in height, mainly in the arid areas of central Asia, as well as America and Europe - this is the tree juniper. Let's take a closer look at the types.

Varieties of juniper used for landscaping

Common juniper, which is a tall, spreading shrub with needles that have a slightly bluish tint. Its needles are very prickly and needle-shaped. If we consider this type for landscaping suburban area, then garden forms are usually grown, such as dwarf and columnar shrubs. By the way, the most suitable for creating are dwarf,

but for creating hedges - columnar junipers. However, they are also suitable for group or single plantings. The most common forms of this type are Compressa, Green Carpet, Sentinel and Repanda.

Cossack juniper has scaly needles and is one of the most undemanding species. Usually mature plant reaches a height of one and a half meters, while its lower branches can have a needle-like shape. Most often used for planting in rockeries or lawns. It is also used to cover the soil. And its most common forms are Variegata, Tamariscifolia and Glauca.
Chinese juniper is a tree-like plant, the height of which can reach 8 - 10 meters with needle-shaped or scale-like needles, having a golden yellow color or different shade green.

Most often used for group plantings or rock gardens. The most common varieties include Stricta, Olympia and Blue Alps.
Horizontal juniper is a creeping low shrub with branches pressed to the ground and short needle-shaped or scale-like needles, the color of which can be different - it depends on the variety. The needles can have green, gray-green, blue or silver-blue shades.

The best option use of this plant - for decoration decorative borders, slopes or for rocky terrain design.
Juniper candy is a very miniature shrub no more than half a meter high with very beautiful silver-blue needles, it is a creeping plant species that occupies an area of ​​no more than 3 square meters. The ideal plant to create alpine slides.

Let's talk about the features of planting juniper

The fact is that any type of juniper (especially Cossack) needs special conditions during the disembarkation process. First of all, you should always remember that this plant is planted exclusively in sunny areas, otherwise it will simply lose its decorative properties. The only exception to the rule is the common juniper. In landscape design, it is important to take into account that between these plants there should be a distance of at least half a meter (this is if the juniper is a small species) and one and a half to two meters for large species plants. Otherwise, subsequently there will be no distance between them, and they will begin to obscure each other. Another important point– you should not plant them next to low-growing plants that will lack either light or nutrition. The best option is to plant juniper around the perimeter of the house, as well as in front of the house.

Thus, you will get some kind of original hedge. Sometimes the plant is located in a checkerboard pattern throughout the area or, for example, near a rock garden. After which the pots with young plants are placed in the order in which they are planned to be planted. Container plants must be well saturated with moisture, for which they are kept in a container of water for two hours. Next, a hole is prepared, which should be slightly larger than the pot itself. Before planting plants, it is recommended to dig up the area to the depth of a shovel, clear it of any debris and fertilize it. A drainage layer is made at the bottom of the pit, for example, from sand or broken brick. The layer should have a thickness of 15 to 20 cm. Then the roots of the plants are covered with a soil mixture of turf, sand and peat, with peat making up two parts of the entire mixture, and the remaining components - one at a time. If the plants are large, the root collar at the time of planting should be located slightly higher than the edges of the soil surface.

The use of juniper in landscape design

Since this plant is unusually beautiful, it is widely used for landscaping. Tree varieties, for example, are used in group or single versions of park plantings. With the help of these plants you can create a wonderful hedge. Low-growing species, as well as dwarf ones, are most used in rock gardens and rockeries, i.e. in rocky gardens.

It is possible that juniper is planted to prevent erosion, because it holds the soil well. As a rule, tall columnar varieties with green or blue needles, imitating blue distances, are planted in the background,
It should be remembered that the plant absolutely cannot withstand gas pollution, because "loves" only ecologically clean areas. Therefore, the use of this plant for landscape design of a metropolis is excluded.

In what styles of landscape design is juniper appropriate?

Despite all the beauty of the evergreen plant, its harmonious presence is appropriate only in certain style areas of landscape design. For example, juniper will go well with the Scandinavian style, which is characterized by clear geometric shapes, as well as spaciousness and naturalness. Juniper, which has bright colored needles and is located against a background of moss, lichen and heather, will look extremely advantageous and impressive, acting as an expressive accent of the composition.
If the plot is registered in english style, then it is simply unthinkable without juniper. However, if dwarf varieties are most suitable for the Scandinavian style, then in this case larger types with calmer shades (green or blue) are appropriate. Those. the plant should not be an accent in this restrained style, but should serve as the final element to give the composition a finished look.

Juniper is also appropriate in styles such as Japanese and Oriental. Against the background of a riot of colors, the natural simplicity of this plant will have a shading function. To do this, designers recommend planting juniper next to heathers of bright colors.

For example, pampered ones, as well as peonies and clematis, should be planted at a distance from equal to at least two meters. Moreover, it is advisable to mulch and cover the spaces between the conifers, or use backfill with decorative chips.

Ground covers, for example, from evergreen plants such as thyme, bryozoan, tenacious, saxifrage, etc., are good for sod. This way they will create a background and at the same time protect from the appearance of weeds. Mulch and fill perform the same functions. Peat, walnut husks, pine litter, crushed bark, etc. are suitable for mulching.
If juniper is planted on permanent place, you should not place it at a close distance - the landscape will be monotonous. If the area is rocky, then you can very advantageously highlight the simplicity of the plants using barberries or dwarf heathers. On a sunny lawn, especially if there is a stream or flower garden nearby, yellow and orange spirea are perfect companions to junipers. When decorating the entrance, as well as the lawn in front of the house, juniper is best combined with other coniferous plants. If the composition uses stone (granite chips or natural boulders), it looks more original and charismatic.

IN winter time juniper, like any other coniferous plant, is the real king of the entire landscape, playing the most main role(of course, if he does not need shelter). The main thing is to remember that juniper will absolutely not be combined with lush crops and flowers with large inflorescences - this must be taken into account when creating landscape design. Of course, if you approach this issue skillfully, then you can achieve unity in this case, for example, using a stone with which to create transitions between these different plants. Or you can use clearings planted with creeping plants. This is a well-known technique when creating alpine slides.

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Summarizing the above, it can be noted that planting juniper in the garden can solve several problems.

Preface

Junipers are a simple solution to many gardener problems. These plants are unpretentious and hardy, their crown shapes are varied and original. There is a place for it in your garden!

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Junipers are not only decorative, but also useful!

Junipers are very different, there are about 70 species in total; 10-15 species with quite numerous variations of varieties are used in landscape design. These representatives of the cypress family can be found in the most different forms– with needle-like or more often scaly leaves, with a spreading crown or like a candle flame, there are dwarf and groundcover varieties of junipers. The easiest way to identify this plant is by the special aroma that comes from junipers. It is quite difficult to describe it, but anyone who has tried English gin will immediately remember this aroma.

In addition to the pleasant sensations, the phytoncides that juniper secretes are a very strong bactericidal agent. It’s not for nothing that in the past, juniper branches were used to wipe the floor in a sick person’s house, and containers were steamed with an infusion of its pine needles so that nothing in them would turn sour. A hectare of juniper plantings can release up to 30 kg of phytoncides per day, which is enough to cleanse the atmosphere of a rather large city from pathogenic microbes. Therefore, the presence of junipers on the site not only solves a design problem, but also improves the health of people who regularly breathe fragrant air.

Cossack juniper - an invited guest in landscape design

Cossack juniper is the most unpretentious of all types of this plant. It is able to feel comfortable in any conditions, on almost any soil. At the same time, it grows quite slowly, even with active watering. However, it does not really need the latter; only young seedlings should be watered. This juniper tolerates pruning well. It is frost-resistant and does not require insulation for the winter.

In landscape design Cossack junipers used both in compositions and as tapeworms, against the backdrop of a lawn or alpine hill.

Some varieties feel great as ground covers. Cossack juniper in landscape design is planted in a well-lit place - in the shade it will lose its decorative properties. It is undemanding to soil, but overmoistening the soil must be avoided, otherwise the plants may die over time.

Rocky juniper and other species in landscape design Rock juniper is used less frequently in landscape design, but it also deserves attention due to its special crown shape, which in tall varieties has the shape of a skittle, and in low varieties it has the shape of an irregular ball. Rock juniper can reach up to 13 meters in height! It is this representative of the species that is distinguished by its love for regular watering and moist soil. However, provide him good drainage

so that the water does not stagnate. Rock juniper tolerates pruning very well.

Horizontal juniper is often used in landscaping. This low-growing creeping shrub, depending on the variety, is famous for its color from bright green to silver-blue. Due to its strong root system, a plant of this species is used to stabilize soil on slopes, as well as when decorating rocky areas of the landscape. With its help, you can even create a juniper “lawn”; this is especially true for areas in urban areas or in arid zones, when it is not possible to constantly water the plants. Chinese juniper is another bright representative of these conifers! IN height tree plant reaches 20 m, having a rather spreading crown.

Its needles can be golden yellow or light blue, depending on the variety. It is great for single plantings and for decorating rock gardens. When planting, keep in mind that this type of juniper grows quite slowly. . If you come across a slender tree in the garden with red-brown bark and dark green needles, it is quite possible that this is juniper virginia. It is from its branches and wood that very fragrant and pleasant cedar essential oil is obtained.

It is undemanding to soils; moreover, on too fertile soils it can lose its decorative crown shape. The species is winter-hardy, but young plants can still freeze. Scaly juniper is good for planting borders and rockeries, as well as low hedges. It is especially useful in the design of alpine slides - its bushes are very convenient for such matters.. Juniper needles are bluish or green. When planting these plants on the site, you should know that they cannot tolerate stagnant water and will not take root if planted in clay soils. Otherwise, they are very unpretentious, they require practically no care, except that occasionally you refresh the juniper crown with a splash of water. Its only weakness is its excessive sensitivity to spring rays, so in the spring it needs shelter.

Junipers - planting and care

Junipers practically do not differ in their requirements for planting and care, which makes life much easier for the gardener if several settle in his garden. different types this aromatic plant. All junipers prefer well-lit places, since in the shade their decorative properties noticeably deteriorate. The only exception to this rule is the Chinese juniper, which can tolerate partial shade.

Junipers are mostly frost-resistant and drought-resistant, with the exception of young plants - they just need to be insulated for the winter and watered regularly. To prevent graceful branches from being damaged under the weight of snow in winter, it is recommended to tie the junipers together with twine or rope. These plants do not need cutting, but if you want to give them special kind– you can safely do this, since they easily tolerate this procedure.

Junipers should be planted at a distance of at least half a meter from each other, taking into account the growth of bushes. This cypress representative does not tolerate oppression! Before planting, the juniper roots should be kept in water for about two hours, and only then should planting begin. A hole is dug up to 70 cm, broken stone for drainage and a layer of sand of about 15 cm are laid on its bottom. After planting, the soil under the plant should be well mulched with sawdust or peat, with a layer of at least 8 cm.

Young seedlings should be placed in the hole in such a way that the root collar does not exceed the soil level. Mature plants should be positioned slightly higher. The roots in the hole should feel free to fill the soil; try to compact the soil layer by layer. At the end of the planting process, water the plant and mulch.

Even in dry summers, adult plants should be watered no more than 3 times per season, although in the evening it does not hurt to spray the plant with water that has been warmed up during the day. This procedure will appeal not only to the juniper, but also to you - its phytoncides will be released into the air even more actively when watering, filling it with an incomparable aroma! However, make sure that the soil does not accumulate moisture - junipers do not like this. Junipers are good at pruning, but even if you are not going to give them a special shape, regularly remove dry branches.

In early spring, when the plant wakes up, such an unpleasant phenomenon as juniper burning is possible. This happens because over the winter the plant has become accustomed to small doses of ultraviolet radiation and from the spring doses of the sun the plant’s needles acquire Brown color and dies. To protect plants, you should throw them over them on sunny days. light fabric, for example, gauze.

Flower beds, green lawns, hedges and large single shrubs are the basis of landscape design. But everyone wants to winter period When most plants bloom and lose their foliage, it is important that the landscaped area remains vibrant and attractive. This function is performed by coniferous compositions in landscape design and single evergreens. But some conifers do not get along next to each other and deciduous trees. So that it doesn't happen annoying mistakes, professionals share their secrets with lovers of gardening.

Flower beds and decorative perennials have long been used by gardeners in landscaping city yards and suburban areas. Abroad, gardens and vegetable gardens have long been abandoned in favor of neat beds of decorative spicy herbs and compact vegetable crops. In the East, for many centuries the Japanese have been practicing a “rock garden” with sakura, red maple, wild grapes and low-growing conifers. The culture of gardening courtyards and thoughtful landscape design is actively taking root in our country.

Central Russia - natural environment many types of pine, larch, cedar and juniper. A little further south, Mediterranean cypresses, thujas and other heat-loving evergreen tree-like conifers are perfectly cultivated. Surprisingly, except blue spruce trees and some other pyramidal forms of this coniferous tree no other related plants were used. The exceptions were the resorts of Crimea and North Caucasus, where back in Soviet times parks and alleys were decorated rare species evergreen forms.

Today, decorative forms of coniferous plants are increasingly used in landscape design and gardening of household plots. Asian and Mediterranean forms, through the efforts of domestic and Dutch breeders, are adapted to our climatic conditions. Although evergreen heat-loving plants are increasingly decorating our plots, many conifers native to Italy, Korea and Japan need to be sprinkled with sawdust on the roots and wrapped around the crown for the winter, as in the photo.

It is very convenient to purchase cultivated compact forms for landscape design with coniferous compositions through catalogs and a specialized retail network. Although this is expensive in complex landscaping, it has its advantages:

• the root system of a seedling in a pot or tub is protected;
• each plant has a “passport” or brief instructions care;
• If you follow the recommendations for watering and cultivation, 100% rooting of the young conifer is guaranteed.

Attention! If a retail outlet offers slightly yellowed plants from a row of identical plants, do not buy them - this is the first sign of the seedling dying! Even if planted in fertile soil and intensive watering, it will not be possible to revive it, with rare exceptions. Such material can only be taken for free - in addition to a batch of other plants to be planted somewhere near the edge.

Coniferous composition on a summer cottage

If you are not sure that the acquired garden forms will take root, in the first year you can hire a professional gardener who will care for the “young growth”. When rooted thujas, juniper and ornamental spruces overwinter and in the spring they put out young, slightly colored branches - a signal that the conifers feel great in a new place and do not need careful care.

Advice. Do not forget that any tree-like plant during the period of active growth needs additional watering (especially in dry summers), fertilizing and wrapping the crown during frosts.

Competent care and thoughtful planting of young evergreen seedlings in landscape design using conifers is a guarantee that the site will be beautiful at any time of the year. The main thing is that they do not shade each other and do not oppress less viable forms with their phytoncides. For example, other conifers do not coexist near a single larch or gradually degrade.

Decorating a summer house with coniferous plants

Landscape design with coniferous plants

It is desirable that the basis of the composition be a single tall or medium-sized plant surrounded by 2-3 coniferous forms of contrasting forms. A green lawn or small gravel is an excellent background for such planting. It can be supplemented with compact flowering perennials or ornamental fruit-bearing shrubs, which can be adjusted annually by pruning.

Attention! You should not plant large conifers, fast-growing and spreading forms in the center of the site and under the windows of the building. Otherwise, in 5-6 years they will turn into forest wilds, creating excess shadow near the flowerbed or front garden.

Several identical conifers should not be planted randomly; it is better to place them along an alley or as a hedge. Compact spruce trees or similar plants go well with weeping plants. deciduous trees near an artificial pond on the edge of the garden, as in the photo.

Landscape design in coniferous composition

Cottage design with coniferous plants

Cottage design with coniferous plants

Variations of coniferous forms

For most people, coniferous plants are fir trees and pines, which are usually decorated as new year holidays. They also include Siberian and Lebanese cedars, but the difference is not known to ordinary people. What the branches of larch, thuja, cypress or juniper look like is anyone's guess.

This is interesting. Each variety of conifers has its own subspecies, with large variations in the color of cones or berries, crown shape and needle length. Italian weeping pine trees are the same as pine trees, but the needles can reach 20-30 cm in length. And there are coniferous forms with large purple cones and small red rose-like cones. For landscaping arboretums, juniper with blue edible berries is used, and the variety with bright red fruits is poisonous. Young branches of decorative spruce trees can have a light green, golden or blue hue, examples are in the photo.

Coniferous composition on a summer cottage

Decorating a summer house with coniferous plants

When selecting coniferous compositions in landscape design, it is advisable to become more familiar with the species diversity of these relict plants. Botanists claim that conifers or gymnosperms reigned during the time of dinosaurs, replacing the era of tree-like horsetails and ferns. But they also find it difficult to answer how many natural varieties and subspecies these representatives of the kingdom of flora and fauna have.

Scientists annually discover new endemics in impenetrable virgin forests, which are used by breeders to breed decorative subspecies.

Landscape design with coniferous plants

Landscape design in coniferous composition

The main classification of conifers in nurseries is based on crown shape:

• spherical;
• ovoid,
• spiral;
• spreading flat-topped;
• crying;
• pyramidal;
• columnar;
• oval;
• creeping (flat);
• squat;
• rare crown.

The following forms are also distinguished:

• tall;
• medium height;
• short;
• creeping.

Attention! With time low growing plants will look like medium-sized, dwarf and compact conifers will take up more space. You should not plant them densely, so as not to spoil the original idea in the landscape design.

Cottage design with coniferous plants

Coniferous composition on a summer cottage

How to compose compositions?

Conifers are quite unique plants in many respects. They rarely get sick and are subject to attacks by pests, and withstand the vagaries of the weather. Most do not require particularly fertile soil, although each species has its own preferences. Some shed their needles like larch, others bloom pink in landscape design, like the Crimean thuja. All these forms are classified as evergreens, and most purify the air, filling it with phytoncides that are destructive to pathogenic microflora. Compact trees, densely covered with needles, are quite impressive both in single plantings and in a general composition with other “neighbors”, as in the photo.

Decorating a summer house with coniferous plants

Landscape design with coniferous plants

The design of the site is usually divided into several zones, where certain types of plants will be in the center of the composition. Depending on the purpose, from a catalog or in a garden supermarket, you can choose or order different conifers. Most often they offer compact, dwarf and low-growing forms.

Attention! To suit your taste, you can choose any variety of pine, spruce, fir, cedar, larch, thuja, cypress or juniper. But there is one condition - they must be adapted and acclimatized to a specific region. Not all of them are organically perceived in the vicinity of decorative and fruit-bearing trees and shrubs.

Most evergreen forest beauties are in harmony with those trees and shrubs with which they usually coexist. wildlife. These are oaks and birches, maples and rowan trees, hawthorn and rose hips.

Attention! You should not plant several conifers from different geographical zones nearby at once; this often looks unnatural.

“Northerners” can suppress stunted and dwarf forms native to the Mediterranean and Far Eastern regions with their phytoncides. And selective and hybrid forms will be oppressed by their natural relatives. Lebanese cedars and Siberian larches are considered the most “quarrelsome”.

Cottage design with coniferous plants

Coniferous composition on a summer cottage

Gardeners have noticed that most evergreens thrive in the shade, so they are planted behind the house on the north side. However, this does not apply to Mediterranean endemics and varieties of Christmas trees with light needles, which fade in the shade.

Cones are a natural dining area for many wild birds, which willingly flock to the site in winter and late autumn, filling the yard with joyful chirping. However, natural fertilizer after treating with seeds can spoil the appearance of a well-groomed coniferous composition in landscape design.

Most cultivated forms lend themselves well to “haircutting”; they can be given the most bizarre shapes - from elephants to precise spirals. But some coniferous plants get sick even if one branch is broken.

Decorating a summer house with coniferous plants

Landscape design with coniferous plants

Landscape design in coniferous composition

If you want to improve personal plot evergreen sculptures, you need to choose the right dense forms with small branches and short needles. You will also have to look for specialists who create real masterpieces. You should not experiment with living plants if you are not sure that such “creations” are within your power.

Take a close look at the examples in our photo gallery. Perhaps these ideas will inspire and suggest a new concept for the design of your site.

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