Every gardener dreams of seeing his garden attractive throughout the year. Evergreens, as staple crops, make this dream come true with ease. Green needles or leaves of trees and shrubs stand out against the background of flowering plants in the warmer months, and in winter they simply attract the attention of others. After all, an ordinary winter garden consists only of bare trunks and branches, and compositional plantings of evergreens create amazing ensembles and bright single images, shimmering with a palette of numerous color shades against the background of an autumn or winter landscape.
Most of the evergreens belong to conifers. To the surprise of many novice gardeners, it is worth noting that the color of the needles can be not only green and its shades. In a large family of these plants, there are many species and varieties of trees and shrubs, different in color and shades. Skillfully planting ensembles of evergreen plants with a blue, golden, silver, yellow crown on the site, you can achieve a unique combination with decorative leafy plantings. Glossy bright green leaves with an unusual pattern on the surface or along the edge with shades of yellow, cream, white will create an individual complete image or a whole natural composition on the garden plot.
Types and varieties of evergreens
Wanting to purchase evergreen crops of unusual color for your personal plot, you do not need to have many years of experience in gardening or study many species and varieties of plants. You just need to pay attention to the name or to one of the words in the name, it necessarily contains the "color" of this species. For instance:
- Glauca - plant varieties with blue hues;
- Aurea - plants with light shades and a yellow crown;
- Gold is a plant with a color in yellow tones;
- Maculata, Variegata - variegated varieties of plants, consisting of various patterns and spots in green, white and silver tones.
For landscaping the garden, it is recommended to use the most popular and most common evergreen crops with leaves. For example, euonymus or elk will create a festive mood in the garden with their unusual color shades of leaves with a border of white, yellow, cream, light or dark green. Of evergreen deciduous ground cover you can give preference to such varieties as "Gratsilis", "Silver Queen. Ivy can be used to decorate trellises, hedges, tree trunks, or various other objects in the garden.
Low-growing and dwarf species and varieties of trees and shrubs will perfectly fit into garden ensembles and compositions. In the smallest garden area, you can plant blue spruce, mountain or forest pine, pea or yellow cypress, blue or ordinary juniper varieties.Can apply as a single or central plant in the garden arbor vitae or folded, privet, hybrid goof, barberry... And crops such as funkii, fescue (blue or gray), periwinkle will make the garden colorful and create a contrast against the green background of other plantings.
Evergreens in landscape design
Evergreens perfectly combine and coexist with many other representatives of the flora, and also look great in the foreground and background, as a soloist and in the friendly company of other crops.
The basis of the composition
If these plants are planted as the basis of the garden area, then at any time of the year it will be possible to admire their unique appearance. In spring and summer, evergreens will complement massive flowering and fragrance. In autumn, during the period of active fruiting and bright colors of autumn leaves and fruits, the palette of shades will expand many times and unite in a rainbow chorus of colors. And in the winter months, they will become the only green island of nature amid sparkling snow.
Revitalizing the dark corners of the garden
Gloomy dense plantings in a large garden area can be illuminated and revitalized with evergreen varieties that differ from others in their white, light yellow or silver color.
Single planting and growing in tubs
Winter-hardy varieties with an unusual color look great in a collection of tub plantings. For a bright solo accent on a garden plot, flower garden or meadow, evergreens are perfect, in which the crown is presented in the form of an unusual shape (for example, a column, or an arrow). The weeping or standard form of culture development is ideal for single plantings.
Planting evergreens and care rules
It is recommended to grow crops with multi-colored foliage and needles only in penumbra areas. A sunny and shady growing place will affect the decorativeness of the plants and their external characteristics. Burns may occur from direct sunlight, and from a lack of light, the yellow and golden color will turn green.
Evergreen conifers should be planted in areas that are not exposed to harsh gusts of wind and drafts.
The most favorable planting time is early spring or autumn.
The main care is:
- In the timely removal of damaged and dried shoots;
- Regular pruning and shaping of the crown and overall shape of the plant.
