Undersized species and varieties of shrubs easy to find a place in your small garden. Due to the small dimensions and slow growth, they require little maintenance and will serve as a decoration or a rock garden heather garden. They are suitable for growing in containers.
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barberry
This small, slow-growing cultivar barberry Chilean spherical crown is ideal for framing the individual parts of the garden and creating low hedges. Small dark green leaves on the bush kept all year round.
flowers
Orange-yellow, rare.
Care
Pruning is not required, but is possible. Winter should be protected from the bright sun.
remark
As an evergreen barberry bluish-white (Berberis candidula), this grade is suitable for growing in containers.
Chamaecyparis Pisifera
Grade Chamaecyparis Pisifera with spherical crown, slender threadlike drooping branches, and golden-yellow foliage. Shadow-but demanding of soil moisture and air.
Flowers / buds
Small spherical brown cones.
Care
Pruning is not required; in the open in the winter to protect from the cold wind and bright sun.
remark
Good makes the urban environment.
cotoneaster pressed
Squat bush -Great iochvopokrovnoe plant. Early in the summer on branches reddish flowers bloom; the fall of dull green leaves turn red.
Flowers / fruits
The flowers are pink, red, with mild odor; red globular fruits-apples.
Care
Pruning is not necessary.
remark
Suitable for growing in rock gardens and as ground cover.
euonymus Fortune
Garden can decorate many varieties of creeping evergreen shrub. Shiny green leaves of some varieties have white or yellow fringing. In other varieties of leaves for the winter are purple or pink-red.
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flowers
Greenish.
Care
Crop very carefully, otherwise the bush can stop the growth. The soil under the newly planted plants should be mulched.
remark
It prefers loose soil and partial shade. Suitable for use as a ground cover, such as under trees.
Juniperus squamata
Dwarf conifer plant with gray-green or silvery gray needle-shaped leaves. Many varieties of such «Blue Carpet» or «Blue Star», form flat pads irregular shape of not more than 1 m in height.
Care
Pruning is not required, but can be carried out in the autumn of formative pruning.
remark
It tolerates city conditions; It can grow in the gardens on the roofs.
Ligustrum vulgare
For this variety is characterized by small dimensions, white brush flowers and blue-black fruit. Dense leaves in autumn acquire a bronze tint and long remain on the bushes.
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Flowers / fruits
White flowers in loose panicles, fragrant; fruits spherical.
Care
It tolerates pruning.
remark
Suitable for creating low hedges -as freely growing and undergoing pruning. Insects feed on flowers, birds - the fruit. A plant for the mild climate.
Lonicera Pileata
Low shrubs suitable for planting small areas. Mild winters it can even save their leaves. Spring is covered with numerous fragrant flowers but almost imperceptible; autumn foliage stand out against the background of purple berries.
Flowers / fruits
The flowers are yellow, fragrant; fruits spherical, dark purple, poisonous.
Care
Pruning is not required, however, the plant makes regular pruning.
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remark
Dwarf shrub is suitable for growing freely and trim your hedges and lower frame sections.
Canadian spruce (Picea glauca)
Dwarf variety with golubovatozelenoy needles covered with a silvery sheen, and flat-rounded or cushion-shape, thanks to which the plant is slightly reminiscent of a cute hedgehog.
Care
The drought watering is needed.
remark
Slow-growing variety, requires very little care. It grows well in containers.
pine mountain
For small gardens suitable dwarf, slow-growing varieties of spherical or pillow-shaped. «Gnom» grows up to 2 m, «Mops» - only up to 1 m, and «Mini Mops» -not more than 30 cm.
Flowers / buds
Female reddish bumps appear in the late spring. In autumn ripening brownish-black cones are yellowish-brown.
Care
Pruning is not necessary.
remark
Subspecies P. mountain pine mugo ssp. pumilio grows to about 75 cm.
Cinquefoil shrub (Kuril tea)
Since the mid-summer to autumn this nice deep bush plurality of coated Flowers: sun-loving member of the family Rosaceae, Kuril tea blooms very plentifully. Plant height and color of flowers vary greatly depending on the variety. In copra 'Goldfinger' yellow flowers. «Kobold» and blooms in yellow, but is characterized by low growth. In «Manchu» flowers dazzling white, in «Blink» pink-red.
flowers
White, rozovokrasnogo, yellow, orange-red, cup-shaped.
Care
Pruning is almost required. For abundant blooms in the soil should be added to a lot of compost.
remark
Cinquefoil shrub can also be used to create low hedges. In addition, it grows well in light shade trees and is suitable for growing in containers.
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