Small shrubs in the garden
The shrubs are best when you have a small sized garden. They come in various colors like green, purple and yellow. Son, I Deal to design walls, both within the garden to remove a house from another. Most of them have an easy adjustment and are easy to care.
The shrubs are characterized by:
- A woody stem.
- They branch from the ground (do not have as a single trunk tree).
- Its height does not exceed three meters.
- It may be evergreen (keep their leaves all year) or deciduous (leaves change every year).
Among the aesthetic qualities we can highlight:
- Leaves: In different colors, yellow, gray, spotted with white or yellow and all shades of green.
- Flores : All shrubs bear flowers, smaller or larger and all colors.
- Fruit: Some shrubs are small fruits, which are merely decorative (Madroño, Aucuba, Sinfocarpo) and other foods (berries)
- Aromatics: Many shrubs have leaves or flowers with fragrance.
With respect to how distribution can be placed in groups or in isolation. It all depends on the effect we want to give to the landscape.
Some can be pruned art forms, this is very BIE when used as bordure.
They can reproduce by seed, grafting or cuttings. But if you do not have much practice of gardening and conocimietos to perform these procedures, you can buy in the nursery the bush already formed.
To make a planting hole should be about 40 cm deep. Make a mixture of soil, humus, soil organic hangover. Once placed in the well is covered with this mixture imprisoning well to keep out air. Finally, we should water for about 3 days in abundance. It does not require much care, just do the pruning for and protect it from pests.
Evergreen shrubs are at their most beautiful in the fall and buy flashy and bright colors. It is advisable to place more of these kinds of shrubs that deciduous, so we have color in the garden all year round.
Some examples of shrubs that can fit in your garden:
- China-shrub Rosa 1 to 3 meters, with single or double flowers, blooms in summer and fall pruning.
- Black Hawthorn - crooked branches, few thorns, small fruits dark reddish color. Does not tolerate wind, like a lot of sun.
- Hortensia - lost deciduous foliage in autumn. Place to plant semi sunny.
- Camelia - evergreen, with single flowers or semi-simple
- Magnolia - has white flowers in a star.
- Lilas - with flowers that occur in clusters, are very fragrant.
- Azaleas - fine foliage and varied colors, the flowers are single and double.
Pruning is done both to give the shrub an attractive, and your fortalicimiento. It should cut the ends that are slightly above the leaves and prune the diseased or damaged shoots.
Finally, there are aromatic shrubs, which offer interesting variations among the best known are: Honeysuckle, Cytisus and laurel.
The bushes give beauty to the garden throughout the year. It's just choose those that best suit the space and conditions of your garden.
In the next post will continue with the design of your garden with plants.