Decorative compositions from conifers are able to give the parisadian a romantic charm of a dense forest. And the living hedges of the fir trees, Tui or juniper, besides perfectly protecting the area from the wind and prying views.
Thuja varieties of Europe Gold perfectly combines Barbaris Tunberg, and Irises or Lilyniks can perform as framing composition
Spruce Glauer Grade Globes has a height of no more than 1.5 m. Her neighbors will be able to become miniature thui (for example, compact)
Soil in rockers dries quickly, so drip irrigation
Another option is to plant drought-resistant species, for example, juniper scaly or pine mountain
When choosing conifers, it is important not to overdo it, lunating the landing of varieties with Petroy Cheeva, - in the composition there must be no more than two-three shades
Tui well tolerate the haircut and are well suited for live elevations
The monochrome composition is enlivened with varieties with, for example, silver-nizo or greenish-white cheese
Due to the combination of plants with various appearance, the Group will gain visual ease
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In nurseries and specialized supermarkets, furry and prickly seedlings of dozen species and hundreds of varieties are sold. But it is not easy to understand this manifold.
Very often, we give up to say, get the most likely sapling, nothing know about the growth rate of a tree or shrub, its winter hardiness, shadowiness, soil requirements, disease exposure. And in the end, admit designer and agrotechnical errors.
Before you begin breaking your own forest corner, you need to explore the features of decorative coniferous plants on the market.
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6 Useful Soviets
- To restrain the growth of fir rods, pines and other trees, one year should head down their shoots.
- Do not look too close from coniferous leaf fall trees: the fall of the foliage will be stuck in the branches, which can cause the needles.
- Having planting sharpening coniferous shrubs directly on the lawn, remember that it will be difficult to cut grass around them. It is better to mulch the soil near the plants.
- Creating a composition, you need to take into account not only the maximum height of the seedling, but also the speed of its annual increase, otherwise in a few years the proportion is violated.
- Varieties with yellow and pystride cheese should not be planted in a shaded place.
- By purchasing the TIS Berry, consider that wood, bark, needles and seeds of this plant contain a poisonous alkaloid.
How to choose coniferous trees and shrubs?
Fashion for conifers attracted in our gardens at first the modest forest inhabitants, and soon and the wonderful overseas guests of a wide variety of sizes and forms, with a mustache of various shades and lengths.
Pines and spruce still remain in demand. Today on sale you can find numerous varieties of spruce ordinary, barbed, Canadian, Serbian. All of them are moisture and capable of growing on a marshy soil, but each type of illumination requires their own. Penumbra easily tolerate ordinary and Serbian spruce, but the Canadian (or bluish), it is even necessary, especially in the first years after planting, so that the needles do not suffer from burns. Nurseries offer not only the future of tall beauties, but their compact counterparts, for example prickly spruce glaucoma Globoza, Whitewood Little Gem and others.
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Without coniferous hard to imagine rokaria, alpine slides, retaining walls, shores of a decorative stream. As soliters, these plants look perfectly on the lawn, among the colors of flowers or against the background of pebbles.
Pines - ordinary, mountain and Weimutov - prefer sunny plots (although the latter is able to put up with the half). The soil should be lightweight, preferably sulace. Thanks to the abundance of varieties, these species can be used in any compositions. Sosna Weimutova, with a bluish-green jeey and a spreaded crown, reaches 30 m in height, so in the country area it is preferable to plant its dwarf and slowly growing varieties (for example, radiati) or those whose maximum height is about 15 m (Fastigiat). Mountain pine reaches 7-8 m, while there are such varieties such as Gnome, Berellla, Pug, the maximum size of which is 1.5-2 m, and the annual increase is 10 cm.
Extremely diverse juniper. Some of them are coastal, horizontal, Cossack, juniper ordinary grades Green Carpet and Anna Maria - form a carpet of male branches. Others (for example, Juniper Virginsky) are striking the bay of unusual color (blue, ash, golden-pedestrian). All types, with the exception of an ordinary juniper, prefer sunny sections. Since most of these trees and shrubs "descended" to us from the mountains, they do not like wetlands.
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Purchase sazhenians
Today, they are mainly selling seedlings with a closed root system, which is much improving the likelihood of a plant survival after landing. But if you acquire a conifer in a network supermarket, carefully inspect it: the land in the container should be wet, and the needles and branches are not brittle. With the slightest doubt it is better to refrain from the purchase, because even dead plants may have "commodity species". The label indicates information about the grade, manufacturer and class of frost resistance. If the plant arrived from Poland, most likely, it will not be able to fully grow in a more severe climate. In no case can not be acquired by planting material on spontaneous roadside points. Sellers do not carry any responsibility for the quality, the tree is worthwhile in the drying ground, and the likelihood that it takes place is close to zero.When choosing coniferous plants, most country real estate owners take care that the composition keeps the attractiveness and in the cold season. Therefore, not so often in our sites there is a larch, which in the winter is no different from his deciduous fellows. However, it is not worth neglected by this tree, because early in the spring it will delight you with a fluffy cloud of bright green needles, and in the fall, burning gold-fading needles. In addition to well-known and frequently found in the parks, high and state larch of Siberian, there are compact, including brave, varieties of larch European and thin-blooded.
Among the resettled prickly plants suitable for cultivation in conditions of temperate latitudes - the TIS is a pointed, with a practically ideal conical form and decorated in autumn bright red "berries"; Canadian Tsuga, with numerous dwarf, weak and fluttering forms; Fir balsamic and lieszug Menzis, who have dwarf shapes; A low cedar stabel with silver-green thick cheese and microbiota with flutter branches. True, all exotes require more attention than aboriginal species.
Landing large-scale
If you strive to become the owner of the composition of adult conifers as soon as possible, you can resort to landing of large-meters. Such services are offered by many nurseries that have special techniques for transplanting trees from forestry or climbing conifers in large containers.
The transplant is usually carried out in winter when the growled earth forms a solid com. You can subjected to such resettlement with trees with a height of up to 12 m, it is important only to be large enough (in diameter it should approximately equal to Krone). Container plants permissible to plant from spring to autumn. The height of such seedlings rarely exceeds 4 m, but the survival rate is at least 80%.
The cost of large-level seedlings is quite large. Let's say, the pine, an ordinary height of 4-5 m, will cost about 14 thousand rubles., Spruce Blue - 24 thousand rubles. After planting, trees require increased attention - abundant irrigation, fertilizer and treatment and drug processing.
Creating a coniferous composition composition
When creating a composition of conifers adhere to the same rules as when working with flowers. If planned to land a group of plants for a circular review (for example, between tracks), then in the center there are the highest of them, around - several average (at least ⅓ and no more than ½ height of central culture), and around the perimeter - miniature (their height should decrease in the same proportion). Along the walls of the house or arbors, the fence or well in the background are located large-scale, and on the front - low and dwarf coniferous.Coniferous plants fit easily into any landscape composition. For example, for the European Park, symmetric and linear landings of the Tui will fit, and for the Japanese garden - landscape groups with weak juniper.
Disembarking the mixture in the landscape style, make sure that the tops of the plants do not create a straight line; The row should be a smooth bending, a looping and emphasising "natural" character of the composition.
Make a forest corner more picturesque is not difficult if combining conifers with other plants. For example, a juniper ordinary is harmonized with coral roses, and a blue spruce - with purple crocuses. On a dark green background, heather looks perfectly with gentle pink or white flowers. You can pick up plants so that with evergreen columns or pillows most of the year adjacent bright paints: in the spring - the flowers of Rhododendron, in the summer - Japanese spirires, and in the fall - foliage of Klyona. But do not forget that plants may have different requirements for soil, illumination, etc. Let's say, stamping, Lavender, Rosemary, Kizylnik, Forzyia and Phackle will be difficult to get along with conifers, the vast majority of which prefers acidic soils.
How to protect boys from mushroom diseases
One of the most common mushroom diseases of the conifers - spider (present, snow, brown), leading to premature dejunation of the needles. To combat it, spraying with copper and sulfuric drugs (for example, a Bordeaux mixture or a home) early in spring and autumn.
It is dangerous for almost all types of coniferous rust diseases that cause curvature of shoots. To save landings, it follows each spring to use immunostimulants and cut infected shoots, and most importantly - not to plant plants in the neighborhood, subject to one disease, such as Waemutov and currant pine.
Mushroom diseases are difficult to treat, and often efforts disappear in vain. After all, even if the tree does not perish, it will lose decorativeness. Therefore, with a defeat of more than 30% of the shoots of the young plant, it is easier to eliminate it and plant a new one. It is no less difficult to repel the attacks of the Koroeda who are mainly susceptible. Long-term treatment and use of a large number of pesticides are required.
Spruce spiny (blue) well feels in the sun, and in the shadow of her needles fad
Tui Western perfectly carries out, easily tolerates harsh winters and is almost not subject to disease
Relief from Elovo-Fir Hermes will help multiple (from weekly interval) Spraying by the preparation of "Decis" or its analogues
Coniferous
Landing
The landing pit with the prepared soil should be roughly twice the koma with the root system. If the soil is heavy, clay, then the volume of landing pit should be increased, and on the bottom to make drainage from gravel. With close grounding of groundwater, it is better to plant plants on bulk ridges.Planting conifers with groups, and also near the tracks and buildings, it is necessary to focus on the size of a bush or a tree in adulthood; The remaining free space can be filled with flowers, hosts or ferns.
Watering and subordinate
The plants of the first year planting need regular abundant irrigation (15-25 liters of water once a week). In addition, in sunny and hot weather, it is desirable every other day in the morning or evening spend sprinkle.
When conifers are rooted, it is enough to water them once a month from the calculation of 50-200 liters per plant (depending on the size). Fingering with specialized fertilizers is carried out 3 times over the growing season: the first - in April-May, the second - in June, the third - in August. For the latest feeding, a fertilizer does not contain nitrogen, so that the plant does not give new shoots, and the old managed to be worn. Almost all conifers prefer weakness soils, so the ash and the dolomite flour can not be added under them.
Preparation for winter
Regional species and varieties, as a rule, do not need special shelters. However, Tui and Juniper can die in winter from lack of moisture if August and September were hot and dry. Do not forget to carry out a powerful moisture profitable watering from the calculation of 40-50 l per 1 m² distributed along the periphery of the crown.Young plants often suffer from branches faults due to snow load and forehead. Therefore, the cone-shaped trees are tied up with soft twine, and recently planted specimens are permissible to protect with peculiar houses from bars covered with underfloor material. In any case, cleaning the paths and platforms in winter should not be pumped by the drifts either on the young or adult trees, as the needles of many species may suffer from spontaneous.
Near the conifers on the Alpine slide from the leeward side, it is worth building snow-setpoints (for example, from a vine).
Landing Tuii
I dug up with a depth and diameter of about 60 cm, it was filled with the prepared soil, holly was poured with a high-rise 20-40 cm (the site is located in the lowland) and made about 50 g of fertilizer for coniferous
The seedling was placed in the hole
Then carefully so as not to damage the roots, deleted the container
The priority circle was abundantly shed with water from the watering can, the soil complied and tied the trunk so that the plant would not be down the wind