Aromatic plants on the country site are not only useful, but also decorative, and therefore can be decorated with any landscape
"Helliard and praise a cook" - so Male Spicy Herbs Emperor Charles Great. However, medicine and cooking scope of the application of this group of plants is not limited. After all, they are not only useful, but also decorative, and therefore, they are able to become a decoration of any landscape. The same assortment is so diverse that each gardener will be able to choose the fragrance to your liking.
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Photo O. Voronina |
1-3. Confrontians plant different spices - and exotic lavender (1) exotic for Russia (1), and everywhere meeting mint (2). Making the stairs, pots with mint can be put next to the pots with ivy (3). 4, 6. Containers with Santolina are placed on well-lit areas, but away from direct sunlight. Beautiful her gray-silver foliage, and during the flowering period, also yellow carp, similar to mimou. 5. A combination of rapid sage verticals and irises looks extraordinarily decorative. 7, 9-11. Warming borders along the tracks often include spicy plants, saturating the ambient atmosphere with aromas and healing essential oils and thereby turning ordinary walks in garden trails into something amazing. For this purpose, Shalfeies and Kotovniki are used (7, 9, 10), when the borders plan to do quite high. However, more often than others plant low thyme creep, which in the flowering period forms dense pillows of pink inflorescences (11). 8. Creating a flower garden of fragrant herbs is partly similar to the art of perfume, mixing smells and seeking the necessary doses of each of the aromas. Partly this process is close to the art of the artist, "spreading" color stains on the surface of the canvas. The "palette" of the master who created the flower garden in pink-purple colors is diverse: it has carnations, sage, yarrow, lavender, roses, lilies and fennel. As almost always happens in nature, the background tone form shades of green. 12-14. The border landing palette can be different, and umiro-creative-calm, and bright, exciting. Calm paints are obtained when you combine cereals with both kittniks (12), obscure - with a wormwood or, say, soul (14). In the "hot" borders solicate plants with red, orange or yellow flowers, for example, velvets thincase (13). 15. The thick brushes of the inflorescences of the Kotovnik decorate the garden from June to September. 16. Lawnies with benches, hidden green "rooms", platforms with perma labets and arbors - any recreation areas require particularly careful selection of plants. There should be no crops that exude aggressive, tiring, not combined with each other or simply not too beloved by the owners of aromas.
Aromatic cultures are mostly unpretentious. Almost all of them need lightly soils, do not like excess moisture. Stern preferred sun, protected from wind place. The more they "breathe" and drink by the sun, the more aromatic oils, which determine their taste and smell. Only a few are able to feel comfortable in half: Mint, Valerian, Cervel, Cuff, Badan, Okopnik. For some crops (loving, onion-cut, Fennel, Nasturtium), organic fertilizers are periodically needed to periodically, and others (soulsman, thyme, Issop) are able to grow on poor soils and do without irrigation, causing only rain water.
Palette roles
Each of the spicy herbs has its own unique beauty, its visual image and aroma. The Internet among them are universal cultures that are able to please absolutely all: like any cook adds spices to their own taste, and any gardener relates to the choice of plants, giving preference to one and by going through the attention of others. Almost all aromatic herbs are able to reincarnate and perform different roles: in some cases they solo, and in others, they are departed into the background and "work" by the static. Let's see what the repertoire of several of the most popular of these is Timyan, Salfa, mint, basilica, dill.
Opinion of a specialist
One of the popular methods of growing spicy grass-in pots and containers. Potted compositions create anywhere: in the garden, on the balcony, an open terrace overlooking the south, or even on a kitchen window sill, if the hostess wants to do with her hand, fresh spices. Any aromatic plants look well: they are planted alive (for example, rosemary are growing so often) or some of the herbs immediately grow in one container. It is tempting that in containers you can grow thermal-loving cultures that do not win in the context of the Russian climate. This is primarily Lavender, Rosemary, Santolina, Majora. Lavender fields are associated with the southern regions of France, and in love with these lands to travelers quite under the power of the "piece" of Provence at their own dacha. Lavender containers put among the soil planting of ornamental onions or the kittnik, or include in a bulk pot composition, where the background serves on the onion lisens, bad languages or cuffs, and the main "acting persons" - lavender, basil and curly parsley planted in separate containers.
Tatyana Koyesman, Landscape Architect,
Director of the Center for Garden Art "Gertruda"
Classical "solo" of thyme-borders, framing flower beds. Depending on the grade, this semi-staple grows up to 5-35 cm - the thyme border will also have such height. Small pink-purple or pink-lilac flowers form a colorful carpet. If the thyme cuts when flowering is completed, it can bloom for the autumn for the second time. Thyme's ability to create dense carpets are used, for example, in cases where they want to decorate concrete sites around garden lamps. From the "monastic" time it is accepted also to plant in rosary: Neighboring, thyme and roses help each other to open the most fully as possible, and the merging of their aromas creates a new, no less beautiful. Nevertheless, from an agrotechnical point of view, they are not compatible with an ideal: roses are suitable for driving soils, thyme, like most of his spicy "counterpart", - the sandy. Therefore, the thyme felt comfortable on the loams, gravel and sand is being added to him. It forms good combinations with souls and Medica, sage of nutmeg, Arabisami, stamps, styling and koreopsis, Badanami, Flox Shiloid. Beautifully alternation of thyme strips and soil plants - obsolets, Barwinka, Oblatives, Arabis.
Sage looks good in high borders as a background plant. This sufficiently high semi-staple (height is 40-70cm) is also planted near the retaining walls or any deaf walls. More often than others cultivate two varieties - sage medicinal and sage nutmeg. Incanions, he can choose the monard, Armeria, Carnation, Iris, Lavender, Camery, Geran, Fennel, Rose. By the way, the flower garden from Roses. Experts are also considered fragrant. More others are suitable for the varieties of polyanth (multi-flowered) roses.
Barbaris Tunberg ROSY GLOW | 
Choothouse Erectus. | 
Juniper Blue Alps | 
Esset evergreen |
Liatris kobold. | 
Oregano rosenkuppel | 
Thyme | 
Clear Beacon Silver |
Loke-star | 
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Wormwood Pontica | 
Hyssop |
Photo T. Koyesman
Minta is one of the few herbs with standing half. This culture has a surface root system, very quickly propagating in all directions. So that the plant does not turn into a weed, the development of the root system is limited, bursting into the soil a border tape to a depth of 10 cm. Mint can be combined with Melissa, Kotovnik, monards, Lofant Anisov. The situation of this plant is drawn up the rolling colors in the apple orchard garden, planting mint in the neighborhood with soulshes, a bear and a cereble. It will look good and among the currant bushes near the valerian, Valerian, the valley, violets, primoses and a whipping smoke.
Basil, like mint, decorative thanks to its foliage: There are forms of green-shaft and purple-shaft. Therefore, selecting combinations with other plants, first of all pay attention to the foliage of the partner. They are able to become surgery purple and root, curly parsley, Schitt-bow; However, the flowers too, for example, a nasturtium. In the fall of Basil's busils, you can dig and transplant to the pot- on a well-lit windowel they will live all winter.
Aromatic "Bereg" stairs
The author of the idea of Tatiana Koyesman
Dill is extremely decorative, until it blooms: the openwork greens forms a translucent haze, which drop-pearls decorate after the rain. WTO time he is able to compete on beauty with Fennelhele and Tmin. The blooming dill is decorative in its own way: both in the garden, and in a flower bed, next to Echinacea, liatris, monado, chamomile or sunflower.
Among the stones ...
When creating an alpine slide, it is almost impossible to do without aromatic herbs, and as a decoration of a powerful stone track, they fit perfectly. They can be planted in natural intervals between the stones forming the path of the free form, and thereby give it a half-closed, dyed view. For this, low-spirited fading plants that are resistant to pulmonary are suitable: thyme, herbalca carnation, Schmidt Nana. There is another option: to remove several stones out of the connected site and fill out the voids formed by drought-resistant plants, the same thyme and cloves, oatmeal, purple woolly, and kitdnik.
Thyme | 
Ruta | 
Wormwood "God's tree" | 
Sage Muscany |
Fennel Bronze | 
Catran Calcalized | 
Purple Swan | 
Cuff |
Monarch | 
Oilsman ordinary | 
Onion aflatunuy | 
Mint |
Using spicy herbs, you can create a full-fledged gravel garden. At the prepared section of the Earth, a fairly large area draws some kind of figure (for example, resembling the outlines of the beoline) and fall asleep with its gravel. Free shape is preferable for gravel garden, rather than strict geometric. Among the groups of groups are planting plants: bearded irises in the neighborhood with souls and Medica, wormwood, with fennel, low cereals (oatmeal, sector). If desired, add a decorative or conventional strawberry. Walking along the heated gravel among the green "islands" will give you pleasure, and in addition, some plants are useful in the kitchen.
Fragrance in the square
The author of the idea of Tatiana Koyesman
... and in bed
"Make it useful every block of land and remove a rich harvest" - this is exactly what was recently a priority for Russian gardeners. However, today you still hear such words: "I want to enjoy the beauty, soothing communication with nature." Garden owners think no only about the harvesterity of the beds, but also about their decorativeness. Spicy herb - good helpers in solving this task.
In fact, we will tell about two varieties of decorative beds of different shapes. The first is arranged on a square or rectangular area. It is a centr a bush of roses or a rosehip or "architectural", with an expressive article of lovers. Around the perimeter sow parsley, which, when it grows up, forms a green border. The remaining space is seeded with dill, and Irises accommodate with him in chaotic order. The second scenario involves the creation of a round bed. So that it was convenient to care for it, it is broken by narrow tracks into four separate sectors. All-round hops, providing vertical supports for which the plant will become. Around him in support sown Borago (cucumber grass). On the perimeter of the circle "Earl" the border from the root. The rest of the area is filled with mixed landings: one ring form a purple-olive basil and poppies, a second purple-olive sage and golden melissa.
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41, 45. Floral carpets are especially beautiful when the landing makes thick: thymes are planted near Curly parsley and cuff (41), sage- surrounded by the onions of Aflatunsky, dairy, geranium and carrots sowing (45). 42-44. The ability to harmoniously combine different types of plants - an indicator of high skill of the gardener. Armeria's allocations can be chosen cuff and sage (42), roses and geraniums (43), and Szillle Spanish, young shoots of sage and clarity (44). 46-49. Plants combine, taking into account their height: salad with souls (46), sage with dill and angelika (47), a coward with fennel (48). Warm climate decorative beds surround a Samshot border, which in the middle lane of Russia can replace landings of Issop, Ruta, Lukov (49)
The desire to experiment with combinations of useful and beautiful plants is not all. "Thematic" beds and flower beds are becoming popular. It is possible to combine each other culture used to suck and marinating vegetables: horseradish, dill, garlic, currants and loving (they are added to pickles), nasturtium (her seeds are marinated), as well as Physalis, pizhma balsamic. Another option is possible in one flower garden of plants, of which they make soothing mixtures: valerian, several varieties of mint, mother-in-law, Melissa, daisy, pharmaceutical, strawberries and strawberries, adding rosehip bushes and currants to them. The third flower garden is a kind of collection of seasonings: here are planted by Oushitsa, Issop, Thyme, Schitt-Bow, Sage, Fennel.
Depositive Cooking
The editors thanks the Gardrud Garden Art Center for help in preparing the material.