Undemanding shrubs in your garden: tips to gardeners

  • Dec 24, 2019

Shrubs - green inhabitants of the garden, which mainly determine its structure.

Some of them bring edible fruit, while others adorn your garden flowers and ornamental foliage.

undemanding shrubs
undemanding shrubs

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Caragana arborescens (yellow acacia)

Yellow acacia, perhaps, not the most beautiful garden shrub, but it has many advantages - primarily unpretentious, drought and frost. Late spring leaves appear among the flowers loose brush.

Caragana arborescens (yellow acacia)
Caragana arborescens (yellow acacia)

Flowers / fruits

Flowers are yellow; fruits - narrow beans.

Care

Severe pruning is necessary only to young bushes; feeding is not required.

remark

Caragana is easily propagated by seeds. There are many ornamental varieties.

goat willow

Adult goat willow - a large shrub with dull green leaves. Early spring on bare branches still appear furry catkins.

They are particularly pleased with the bees diligently collecting their pollen.

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Flowers / fruits

Yellow-green male and smaller green female inflorescences are on different bushes.

Care

Pruning is not necessary.

remark

Dwarf varieties exist for small gardens and weeping shape hanging down from the branches (e.g., «Pendula»).

goat willow
goat willow

colutea treelike

Along with beautiful light yellow flowers brushes the southern European shrub and it has decorative fruits -Bob parchment swollen with flaps with a length finger. Colutea grows even on poor rocky soil and can tolerate heat and dryness.

Flowers / fruits

Flowers are yellow; August - the big silver-pink beans.

Care

Fertilizing is not necessary.

colutea treelike
colutea treelike

Derain white

Many varieties captivate not only for its flowers, but also decorative foliage. Crimson-red stems and branches of large shrubs decorate the garden in winter. In autumn the foliage takes on a crimson-purple color.

 Flowers / fruits

The flowers are white or yellow, corymbose, inflorescences slightly convex; off - white with a bluish tint spherical drupe size of a pea.

Care

As appreciated by the reddish color of the shoots in the spring bush should regularly thin out -with age, their color fades.

remark

The most impressive looking group planting.

Derain white
Derain white

Common hazel (hazel)

Tall shrub, prized for attractive spring earrings, beautiful foliage and delicious nuts.

Common hazel (hazel)
Common hazel (hazel)

Flowers / fruits

Female catkins are yellow-green, inconspicuous; Men's earrings are long, drooping; in August - September, edible nuts.

Care

From time to time the bushes a little thin; if necessary, to carry out a radical pruning.

remark

Grade «Contorta» with intricately curved branches is better to plant separately to the bush it could be seen from all sides.

sumac common

Inconspicuous flowers are collected in a lush miniature brooms. Sumac looks most beautifully in the autumn when its leaves brighten all estimates of red color - from pink to purple but the. At this time of year, even in cloudy weather, the smoke tree bushes resemble fire.

sumac common
sumac common

Flowers / fruits

Flowers yellowish green, to erect paniculate inflorescences; openwork stem consists of a strongly overgrown hairy peduncles.

Care

Pruning is not necessary, because it deprives the natural shape of the plant; old plants tolerate it badly, and after the bush blossoms worse.

remark

In shrubs growing on fertile soil, autumn foliage has a faded color.

Crataegus monogyna

This beloved by bees and birds shrub with thorny branches abundant blooms in the spring. Usually it is used to create hedges. Relatively small leaves in autumn are painted in the color oranzhevokorichnevy.

Crataegus monogyna
Crataegus monogyna

Flowers / fruits

Flowers are white, with a strong flavor, in corymbose panicles; August - dark red, round fruits.

Care

It delivers a strong crop, but without a more natural growth.

remark

There are varieties with double red flowers.

Seabuckthorn rhamnaceae

Obepiha feels great on the sand, gravel and crushed stone; in the garden grows well in dry parts of the problem. Close spiny shrub with silvery foliage, through which the fall lurking orange edible fruit.

Flowers / fruits

The flowers are inconspicuous; orange fruits from September.

Care

Pruning is not required, but is acceptable.

remark

The fruit is high in vitamin C and edible used for the manufacture of juices, jellies and jellies. For best fruiting need to grow close to the plant several male female.

Seabuckthorn rhamnaceae
Seabuckthorn rhamnaceae

honeysuckle ordinary

In the autumn of this unpretentious shrub decorated with dark red berries. By late summer, it tusklozelenaya foliage turns yellow.

[Box type = »warning»] The berries of this species are poisonous, and so it can not be planted in the gardens, where there are children. [/ Box]

Flowers / fruits

The flowers are yellowish-white, fragrant; August - red fruit.

Care

Annual pruning is possible, but not necessary. Bush after severe pruning is quickly restored. Older plants need time to time to thin out.

remark

There is a very interesting, almost reaching to the knee dwarf varieties.

honeysuckle ordinary
honeysuckle ordinary

golden currant

A small bush, suitable for filling the gaps between plants; often used to create hedges.

golden currant
golden currant

His collected in the brush of golden flowers stand out against a pale green, blushing to the fall foliage. Edible fruits, tart and acidic.

Flowers / fruits

The flowers are yellow, hanging racemes, fragrant; fruit of purplish-brown to black.

Care

Immediately after flowering shrubs should be cut: the flowers had appeared on previous year's shoots.

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