Many owners of homestead lands take care not only for the garden, but also for the garden. It is there that fruit trees and berries are grown, which sometimes yield good harvests of useful fruits and berries. But true connoisseurs of flora have in their garden and ornamental plants, which are intended only for its decoration.
Decorative plants for the garden can be single and perennial. The first pleases the eye with their bright flowering or decorative foliage during one season only, but the latter grow in the garden for many years, they are resistant to frosts and usually retain decorativeness all season. Most of them do not require complex care, but at the same time each has its own conditions of content and characteristics.
Popular perennial ornamental plants
The most common in the gardens include such decorative perennials:
- peonies - among the stably ornamental plants of a perennial culture, they occupy far from last place. And all thanks to large flowers, the color of which can vary from white and greenish to red and even blue;
- bruner - a herb ornamental plant, which also refers to perennial. It blooms like flowers with bells, but the whole beauty of the bruner is in its leaves, which have a frosty-silvery hue;
- bearded irises of different shades and varieties do not leave anyone indifferent. They usually bloom in the second half of June;
- thyme - one of their unpretentious perennials, which grows very quickly.
This plant is often planted between the slabs of garden paths or between rocks of rockaria. Blossoms thyme with small purple flowers. And it is used in medicine and cooking; - hosta - one of perennial ornamental-deciduous plants, famous for their variety of forms. Foliage hosts can be shiny or matte, textured or smooth. The plant is universal and suitable for almost any garden area. It is cold and drought-resistant, it can grow in the sun or in the shade;
- ornamental-flowering plants buy for their beautiful inflorescences. To such include a plant called foxglove with a unique coloration and the shape of flowers. Its inflorescences have the shape of candles and look good in mixborders.