Recently, the ever-growing use of evergreen conifers for the creation of a garden landscape has become more and more popular. Now around the cottages and country houses you can meet different kinds of pine, fir, spruce, tsugu, cypress, metasequoia, juniper, thuju.
Depending on the type of coniferous plants, they can be used as a decorative element to decorate the garden or to create a hedge around it.
Just like all plants, conifers are: frost-resistant and thermophilic, short and tall, shade-tolerant and sun-loving.
Therefore, before buying for planting in your garden coniferous plants you need to find out under what conditions which varieties can be grown.
For the creation of landscapes, frost-resistant and shadow-tolerant plants are most often chosen, characterized by unpretentiousness in care and resistance to unfavorable weather conditions. We will discuss them in detail in our article.
Frost-resistant coniferous plants for the garden
- fir - balsamic, monochrome, whole-leaf, Korean, subalpine, white, Sakhalin, Siberian, Vicha;
- cypress barley;
- juniper - hard, Chinese, virgin, ordinary, Cossack, Siberian, scaly, horizontal;
- larch - European, Gmelin, Japanese, American, Siberian;
- spruce - common, Engelmann, blue, Canadian, Korean, black, Siberian, Serbian, prickly, red;
- pine - Banks, twisted, mountain, black, Rumelian, yellow, resinous, common, weymouth, cedar European, Siberian pine and cedar stlanik;
- microbiota cross-section;
- Touvik drooping;
- Mensis' pseudotop;
- yew - berry, Far Eastern, Canadian;
- thu West.
Shade-tolerant coniferous plants for the garden
- spruce is Canadian;
- spruce fir;
- spruce fir;
- spruce is Serbian;
- Spruce Entelmany;
- ehinoformis;
- microbiota cross-section;
- balsam fir;
- fir Korean;
- fir single-color;
- Siberian fir;
- thiss Canadian Pyramidylus;
- yew berry Repandence;
- Touvik drooping, or Japanese;
- thue western Brabant.
Low-grown (dwarf) varieties of coniferous plants for the garden
The peculiarity of plants of these varieties is that they are spherical, conical and pillow-shaped, which need not be created artificially.
- spruce, "Typner", "Little Gem" and "Nidiformis";
- spruce gray "Echiniformis", "Conica", "Laurin";
- Spruce Oriental Thom Thumb Gold
- pine mountain "Mini Mops" and "Gnom" 'Picobello'
- Spruce Serbian "Nana";
- spruce «Mseno»
- Alberta's spruce fir
- Echiniformis;
- Menzies 'pseudotang' Fletcheri
- the western "Malonyana Holub" "Danica" and "Globosa Nana";
- juniper «Blue Star» («Blue Star»), «King of Spring» and Chinese.
Tall coniferous plants for the garden
- weeping weymouth pine;
- fir Korean;
- pine is awned;
- Weymouth pine with swirling needles;
- Japanese umbrella pine;
- golden spruce;
- Japanese white pine;
- eastern white pine;
- Canadian tsuuga;
- cypress-tree;
- metasequoia;
- pine mountain;
- spruce "Hoopsii" and "Aureospicata";
- blue spruce;
- balsam fir;
- Fraser fir;
- pine cedar European;
- fir single-color.
Compositions with coniferous plants of low form are used for small gardens, as well as for the design of flower beds, paths and flower beds. And high coniferous trees can be used as a background for other plants, in solitary and group compositions.
Due to the variety of shades of green in the coniferous trees, your garden will look beautiful all year round.