Conifer flower beds: planting scheme with names, design in front of the house

Symmetrical, boring flower beds, like in my grandmother’s front garden in my distant childhood, are now practically not used in landscape design. Gardeners are guided by Western innovations that can enliven the garden and become its highlight.

One of them is the mixborder, which has captivated everyone with its originality and constant beauty at any time of the year. This continuously blooming-green and densely planted flower bed (most often elongated, oval in shape) is a bright island that attracts attention at first sight. So that it does not lose its attractiveness even in winter, many include evergreen trees and shrubs in it. There is a mixed mixborder of conifers and other ornamental plants, and there is one consisting entirely of them. Both look amazing on the site.

Benefits of pine needles

This:

• Plants are quite undemanding: they do not need careful complex care. It is important to properly prepare the soil before planting and select a good site in advance. To maintain the beauty of a flower garden, you don’t need to make any special efforts. It is necessary to trim the branches periodically, but not very often, as they grow rather slowly.
• Conifers are evergreens that look great in both summer and winter. Therefore, they are able to decorate and refresh the area at any time of the year.
• Needles can fit into almost any style and landscape design. For example, it looks great in gardens decorated in both English and minimalist styles. The same applies to a place for a flower garden: it can be easily placed at the front entrance of the house, decorate the path leading to the gazebo, or simply make a separate composition.
• Variations of flower beds can be different, as the shades of needles, ranging from deep green to emerald bluish, are combined with both bright flowers and monochromatic shrubs.

Tips and tricks for decorating a garden with conifers

To create a stylish landscape in the garden, you should follow some recommendations:

• carefully consider the selection of trees and other plants so as not to disturb the compositional style;
• lawn grass or gravel is used as a background for conifers;
• Conifers should not be watered frequently. The older the tree, the less it needs watering;
• Roses should not be planted next to conifers. Conifers acidify the soil and roses die.

Conifers in the country not only look attractive, but also make the air cleaner. With their help, you can make a hedge, divide the area into zones, and create original islands and flower beds. Conifers combine with a variety of plants, so the options for using them are endless.

Unfading conifers radically change the appearance of the garden, making it brighter and unforgettable.

Selection of conifers

Most often, the following types of conifers are chosen for mixborders.

Thuja

Advantages:

• dense crown;
• the possibility of forming designer landscape figures;
• soft needles of various shades;
• strong aroma;
• ability to purify air.

The best pyramidal varieties (for the top tier of the mixborder):

• Smaragd;
• Brabant;
• Columna;
• Golden Elwangeriana (Ellwangeriana Aurea);
• Reingold;
• Ericoides.

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The best spherical varieties (for the middle and lower tiers):

• Danica;
• Teddy;
• Globosa;
• Golden Globe.

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Curly haircut

Without a doubt, intricately trimmed thujas are impressive. Craftsman gardeners form them into balls, cones, spirals, pyramids and other wonders of topiary art.

However, regular pruning is necessary for many decorative forms of thuja, so it is useful for every owner of such plants to master at least the basics of this procedure.

Well, someone, perhaps, will not want to stop at simple solutions and will create outlandish compositions in their garden, where figuratively trimmed thujas will act as garden sculptures.

The main thing here is to correctly calculate your own strength. Because limiting yourself to a one-time haircut will not work: the created shape must be constantly maintained so that it remains neat and harmonious. I’m definitely not up to the task, but that doesn’t stop me from admiring other people’s works and admiring the skill of experienced gardeners.

How to choose and plant

Actually, this is where you need to start, because the basis of any garden composition is correctly selected and well-planted plants. First of all, it’s worth understanding what types of thujas there are, how they differ from each other, what conditions they require (and therefore whether they are suitable for your venture).

What thuja likes and what it doesn’t like; where and how best to plant it, how to propagate it; what problems can happen, what are their causes and how to fix everything - these are the most common questions of amateur gardeners, to which our experts also have answers:

• How to plant thuja
• How I grow thuja from cuttings. Olin's experience
• 6 reasons for yellowing of thuja needles

Pine

For the top tier, the ideal option would be black pine Pyramidalis or Fastigiata. For the lower one - a small variety of dwarf mountain pine:

• Pug (Mops);
• Gnome;
• Golden Glow;
• Benjamin.

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Mountain dwarf pine should definitely be used to create a bright green mixborder, as it looks incredibly beautiful and is not sensitive to sunlight or fungal diseases. That is, you don’t have to be afraid of the needles turning yellow and falling off, which can ruin the appearance of the flower garden.

Juniper

As an exclamation mark (to create a vertical composition, a wall in the upper tier), the following varieties of decorative juniper are used:

• Blue Arrow;
• Skyrocket;
• Moonglow;
• Hibernica;
• Arnold;
• Compressa;
• Sintenel (Sentinel).

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For the middle tier, shrub varieties with a height of no more than 1.5 m and a dense crown that can cover a flower garden with a diameter of up to 2 m are suitable. These include:

• Cossack (one of the suitable species is Juniperus sabina);
• Virginian (Juniperus virginiana);
• Chinese (one of the species is Juniperus chinensis);
• medium (Juniperus media);
• scaly (Juniperus squamata).

Ground cover varieties of juniper fit perfectly into any mixborder. For example, horizontal, or prostrate (Juniperus horizontalis). These conifers are good because they are easy to trim, i.e. they can be given the desired shape. They also ripen fruits of a red, blue or purple hue, which create a special charm within the flower garden and look beautiful against the backdrop of bright greenery even from afar.

Spruce

Many people do not understand how they can fit a spruce tree with its thick and spreading crown into a coniferous mixborder. However, this tree is also represented in gardening by various decorative varieties that look gentle, noble and very aesthetically pleasing.

For example, prickly spruce Iseli Fastigiata. It is called a living sculpture for its slender, elongated silhouette, which looks great in the upper tier of the flower garden. Common spruce Cupressina has the same properties.

But for the middle stage of the mixborder, it is worth planting one of the decorative varieties of blue spruce. An unusual color, a spherical crown and moderate height will make the flower garden brighter.

Fir

Fir is good because its vertically growing cones of various shades (from soft pink to deep purple) look beautiful and presentable, reminiscent of candles. The top stage of a coniferous mixborder can be:

• white Pyramidalis with a regular cone-shaped crown;
• single-color Compacta with an irregular wide-cone-shaped crown.

Varieties for the lower tier:

• balsamic Nana;
• balsamic Piccolo;
• Korean Tundra;
• Korean Silver Star;
• Korean Blue Emperor;
• Korean Oberon.

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Cypress

A bright representative of conifers, occupying its own niche in landscape design. Always fits perfectly into any garden composition. Options for the upper tier:

• Lawson Alumigold (lawsoniana Alumii Gold) with a pyramidal crown;
• Lawson Sunkist (lawsoniana Sunkist) oval-cone-shaped;
• blunt Fernspray Gold (obtusa Fernspray Gold) with an irregular, asymmetrical, wide-conical or pyramidal crown.

Mini cypress trees (dwarf varieties) go to the lower tiers of mixborders:

• Lawsonia Tharandtensis Caesia;
• stupid Chirimen (obtusa Chirimen);
• stupid Nana Gracilis (obtusa Nana Gracilis);
• pea Plumosa Aurea Compacta (pisifera Plumosa Aurea Compacta).

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The creation of decorative varieties of cypress trees today is one of the priorities in breeding. Scientists are trying to diversify their size, geometry, and colors.

Yew

No other conifer can compare with yew in terms of decorative properties. Firstly, in the fall it is covered with bright red berries, which decorate the flower garden until frost. Its second advantage is versatility. It goes well with other coniferous shrubs and trees, herbs and flowers. Thirdly, it is easy to trim, so it can be given any shape that fits into the garden composition.

For the top tier, the Hicks yew with a wide columnar crown, shiny needles and bright red berries is suitable. For the average - Tauntonii with a wide crown, which spreads out in diameter more than it grows in length, is distinguished by light green needles. For the bottom - ground cover variety Densiformis.

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Roses between the thujas along the hedge: yes or no

Another pressing question that worries many home-grown landscape designers: is it possible to plant rose bushes between conifers, which, in turn, are located along a fence or other artificial hedge? We answer: yes, it is possible. But only if, when planting evergreen trees, you followed the rule stated above: planted conifers at a distance of one and a half meters from the fence.

The minimum distance between thujas (70 cm), which is important for hedges, is not enough for planting rose bushes. Unfortunately. Therefore, you will have to choose one thing: either a beautiful, powerful and dense hedge, or an amazing pink composition against the backdrop of evergreen pine needles. If the thujas are planted at a distance of one and a half meters from each other, you can safely plant roses between the conifers. But know: you will have to spend a lot of time and effort on caring for such a composition. In this case, pruning is everything to us, and we will have to do it regularly.

When planting thujas, be sure to keep a distance from the fence, but at the same time, thujas are planted closer to the fence, and rose bushes further from the fence. There should be one and a half meters from the thuja to the rose. Only in this case, the flower queens and conifers will not interfere with each other. It is advisable that only healthy, proven seedlings purchased from a reputable manufacturer are used for planting

It is equally important to water the trench before and after planting rose bushes and conifers. If there is not enough moisture, the root system of the plants will quickly dry out - and this will destroy your beauties

Basic Rule

The basic principle of creating a mixborder is gradation. It is never even and symmetrical - this is why it looks so advantageous. There is an upper tier (of the tallest trees), a middle tier (of shrubs) and a low tier (of low-growing and ground cover plants). However, these levels can be located differently, depending on where exactly the flower garden is laid out.

Option one - Island

This is a flower garden located in an open area, usually in the middle of the garden, most often elongated, oval in shape. You can walk around it. Therefore, the upper tier will be located in the center - pyramidal and cone-shaped spruces, cypresses, yews and other conifers. They should be surrounded by lower bushes. Either thuja with juniper, or barberry with forsythia. Finally, at the very edge, near the border, you can plant decorative mountain pine, dwarf fir or small annuals.

Option two - Stairs

This is a flower garden located along a fence or wall. It is also elongated, but it is visible only from one side; it is impossible to walk around it. Therefore, the mixborder will descend towards the viewer along the stairs - from the top tier to the very last step. The principle of arrangement and selection of plants is the same as when decorating an island.

When planting conifers near a wall, take into account their powerful root system, which can damage the foundation of the building.

Hydrangeas

The name of the plant is translated from Greek as “longing for water.” During flowering, hydrangeas look elegant and aristocratic. They love nutritious soil, sunny areas and moist soil. These beauties feel great next to conifers. Small-sized conifers help retain moisture for them and provide a natural green background against which the caps of inflorescences look especially expressive.

Low types of ground cover coniferous plants do not allow weeds to grow, protecting the hydrangea from unnecessary competitors for the moisture it so loves. In a mixborder, these companions get along well and create an effective composition.

Chrysanthemums

A heat-loving plant that needs protection from the wind. Flowering begins in early autumn and continues until the first snow. There are varieties that begin flowering in the summer; the colors of the inflorescences and their sizes are varied. In mixborders, tall varieties of chrysanthemums are usually combined with the same large coniferous plants, and low-growing ones with ground cover conifers.

In a flower garden, chrysanthemums are planted in several colors, but white, red and yellow varieties look more beautiful against the background of green needles. When using bush types of chrysanthemums, you can create blooming spherical spots that attract attention.

Rules for creating a flower garden with coniferous plants

A flower garden with conifers is a thoughtful ensemble in which evergreen trees and shrubs occupy at least thirty percent of the total number of planted crops.

When creating a coniferous corner in your dacha with your own hands, you should follow simple rules:

1. Choose a place for planting in shade or partial shade: a gentle slope near a pond, the western or eastern side of the site.
2. The soil should be loose, fertilized before planting, well dug, crushed stone or sand should be added to dense soil.
3. Take into account the matching requirements of plants for light, soil and watering.
4. Do not overload a small area with an abundance of flora.
5. When creating a flower bed with stones and conifers, pay attention to the speed of plant growth.
6. When choosing, analyze the type of root system and methods of plant propagation (reject flora with strongly growing roots and aggressive species, such as lily of the valley and periwinkle).

Important! When choosing conifers for decorating flower beds, you need to take into account the size of an adult plant and leave enough space for its growth so as not to disturb the decorative appearance of the garden composition in the future.

Features of the composition

In landscape design, as a rule, specially grown dwarf plant species are used, which are not cheap, so it is better to start by drawing up a sketch of the future composition on paper. One of the primary factors is, undoubtedly, the size of the area allocated for planting, as well as the features of the terrain. Despite their well-known unpretentiousness, it is best to plant conifers on the western or eastern side of the site.

A flat, level area is suitable for a rock garden or flower bed, and a gentle slope or artificial pond will be an ideal basis for an alpine slide.

When creating a layout, you should pay attention to the geometry of the planned composition. The elements must be harmoniously combined in shape and size. As a rule, the largest ones are the semantic center and are located in the middle or at the very beginning of the composition. It is better to place the difference in heights and shapes in a descending direction: from the larger and more massive to the outskirts, avoiding sudden jumps.

You should pay attention to the choice of colors. Conifers can differ quite greatly from each other, providing a fairly wide palette both within the original green color (from pale light green to dark blue-green tones), and having a variety of mixed shades - yellowish, blue or purple. To prevent the canvas from turning out tacky, designers advise:

• choose no more than two colors for a composition of three elements;
• take three colors for a five-element composition.
• if there are more components, it is recommended to arrange them in groups according to color.

However, the main principle when constructing a composition, both in form and color, is the desire for reasonable minimalism, avoiding excessive variegation and excessive diversity.

An important point is the functional purpose of the future planting. If the goals are purely aesthetic - decorating a corner of a summer cottage or a desire to try your hand at landscape design, then the optimal choice would be to create a rock garden, flower bed or alpine slide. More practical options are mixborders or hedges, which help not only to protect your territory from strangers, noise and dust, but also to zone the space in an original way.

A rock garden is a gently sloping garden without pronounced differences in tiers, the decoration of which uses dwarf trees, stones, bushes, flowers and small pebbles (most often gravel). There are three types of rockeries:

• European;
• English;
• Japanese.

In English, preference is given to grasses, bushes and creeping conifers. Japanese ones emphasize the design of stones and gravel, occasionally diluted with greenery. European rockeries are most common in the middle zone. Its semantic center, as a rule, is a vertical conifer of a conical or oval shape, around which other elements are placed - stones, creeping shrubs, lower spherical trees.

The principle of creating an alpine slide is the same as that of a rock garden - a combination of conifers with stones and other types of vegetation to create a miniature imitation of wild nature. However, the alpine slide requires more light, and the cascading structure gives it its charm. In such a composition, a clearly expressed layering and arrangement of elements in a descending order are visible.

Particular attention should be paid to ensure that larger elements do not block smaller ones when viewing.

A flowerbed with conifers will be an excellent option for decorating a small garden plot or country house. This type of composition is especially loved by gardeners because it can be placed at minimal cost on a standard few hundred square meters.

The main types of flower beds are:

• A large flower bed, usually located on the outskirts of the site. In the foreground, the composition is supported by medium-sized shrubs and creeping species.
• A compact flowerbed, of which the mobile model is a subspecies, is located in a small area and resembles a miniature rock garden. The composition also includes flowers and stones.
• The landscape flowerbed is stylized as an unprocessed wild coniferous forest in miniature. For decoration, raw stones, driftwood, and mosses are usually used.
• A symmetrical flower bed is planted from the center, where the tallest plant is located, descending through 1-2 plants of medium height to the shortest - creeping species of thuja and juniper.

Hedges and mixborders made from coniferous thuja and juniper are becoming increasingly popular. Such a fence not only reliably protects the area from unwanted visitors, traps dust and exhaust gases, but also looks invariably stylish and elegant. And from dwarf species you can plant small barriers, with the help of which it is convenient to zone an area or fence off flower beds.

What are the benefits of landscape compositions with conifers?

Various conifers have a number of impressive advantages over other plants.

• They tolerate harsh winters and hot summers well.
• They remain green throughout the year, preventing the garden from becoming empty and looking lifeless.
• Suitable for difficult soil: poorly moistened, rocky, sandy, as they have a highly developed root system.
• They tolerate shade easily.
• They can take any shape thanks to the haircut.
• They require simple care only in the first couple of years of growth, then they grow on their own.
• They allow you to design the boundaries of a site, create interesting flower beds, and highlight paths.
• They fit well into a northern-style garden and make the landscape look natural.

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But before planting them, it is important to choose the right varieties. Some of them take a very long time to grow, while others require regular trimming.

Types of coniferous mixborders

Stylish and neat conifers decorate any summer cottage if planted alone or combined with each other. But of particular interest in dacha design are flowers and conifers planted together in the form of evergreen flower beds - conifers, deciduous shrubs and perennial flowers grow well side by side.

Mixborders from shrubs and conifers

The combination of conifers and deciduous shrubs is a classic version of an evergreen garden mixborder. A flowerbed of conifers in front of the house looks good; such compositions are often planted near the walls of outbuildings, next to high blank fences, or as a hedge, covering the area from prying eyes.

Most often, conifers in this composition serve as the “skeleton” of the flower bed and are responsible for its contours and height. They are planted in the back of the mixborder if the flowerbed is pressed against a wall or fence, or in the center if the mixborder is located in the middle of the free space. The role of the lower tier is performed by shrubs, for example, elderberry and magnolia, hibiscus or lilac

When creating a composition, it is important to select plants so that as they grow, deciduous shrubs do not begin to rise above their coniferous “neighbors.”

There is another design option for a coniferous mixborder, in which shrubs act as the “skeleton” for the flowerbed, and conifers are located on the lower tier. In such mixborders, creeping varieties of junipers are usually used, which, even in adulthood, rarely rise above 1 m above the ground.

They need to be planted at short intervals so that as the trees and bushes grow, they do not block each other’s sunlight. In addition, a decent distance between plants is necessary to maintain good soil aeration - conifers and neighboring plants do not tolerate stagnant moisture.

Mixborders with conifers and perennials

Another interesting option for using coniferous plants as part of a flower bed is planting juniper, fir, pine or other trees together with flowering perennial plants and herbs. Composition has important advantages.

Evergreen conifers perfectly shade flowering perennials. Almost any flowers with delicate pastel or bright cheerful shades look advantageous against their background.

The gardener does not have to think about how to draw attention to the flower bed; against the background of conifers, perennials immediately catch the eye. A flowerbed of perennials and conifers remains attractive throughout the year. Even when the flowering period of perennial plants ends, the mixborder does not lose its expressiveness - during the cold period, the composition still remains the center of attention and acts as a bright spot in the garden.

When combining conifers and perennials, it is also important to take into account the height of the plants and arrange them so that the conifers rise above the flower bed. But this is most often quite easy to do; even young coniferous plants that have not yet reached their maximum dimensions usually rise noticeably above the flowers

Mixborders of conifers, shrubs and flowers

The most complex, but most artistic option is a combination of conifers, deciduous shrubs and perennials in landscape design. Most often, large unoccupied areas of space are decorated with such compositions, since mixborders require quite a lot of space.

The complex flowerbed consists of 3 tiers. The role of the base, or skeleton, can be performed by both conifers and shrubs - this depends on the height of the specific plants.

• The tallest plants are placed in the center if the flowerbed is double-sided, and in the background if the mixborder is pressed against a fence or wall.
• The second level consists of plants of medium height, which create a beautiful and smooth transition from the upper tier to the lower one.
• On the first level there are perennial flowers; they add bright colors and completeness to the composition.

With the help of three-tiered flower beds, uneven areas of the garden are often decorated, for example, so-called alpine slides are built, the distinctive feature of which is the presence of pronounced tiers. Compositions with a difference in height look organically on the banks of artificial reservoirs; they help to decorate the coastline.

When creating a mixborder, its elements must be positioned in such a way that the plants do not overlap each other, but also do not leave noticeable unoccupied spaces or sudden changes in height.

For example, tall spreading bushes of elderberry or lilac can become the “skeleton” of the composition; tall perennial phlox or delphiniums can be the middle tier, while creeping ground cover conifers will occupy the lower tier.

Combination with annual plants

Every year, annual plantings will help to update the appearance of a mixborder with coniferous plantings. Thanks to them, they create unique compositions from several varieties of flowering plants or use variants of the same type that will become the main background for conifers.

Balsam

A flowering annual with a powerful stem and bright flowers. The plant can bloom throughout the summer until the onset of autumn frosts. The colors of the flowers are varied: white, pink, red, purple, orange, yellow.

Impatiens love warmth and sunlight, good watering and fertilizing. Flowers planted next to the tree trunks of coniferous plants feel great; they have enough nutrition and moisture.

Marigold

Unpretentious plants with lacy foliage and bright caps of inflorescences. Breeders have bred more than 200 species of marigolds with different shades of yellow and orange colors, as well as a variety of flower structure shapes. Marigolds are universal - they are resistant to diseases and pests, are undemanding to the composition of the soil, and do not require special care.

Marigolds look especially expressive next to evergreens. These flowers are traditionally used to decorate mixborders, as they can be combined with any plantings.

Verbena hybrid

An annual plant that grows up to 45–50 cm. At the ends of the erect stem there is a hemispherical inflorescence consisting of multiple small flowers. Their colors are varied: purple, blue, white, red, pink. The varieties that look most impressive against the background of green conifers are those that have a white center inside each flower that makes up the inflorescences.

The plant loves sunny places and tolerates dry periods well. Flowering begins in May or June and lasts for at least a month. In addition to the inflorescences, the leaves of verbena also have an unusual beauty - their structure is elongated and serrated.

Good neighborhood

When creating a mixborder from conifers, you need to know what plants they are combined with. This affects not only the decorative properties of the flower garden, but also the health of flowers and shrubs, since they can negatively affect each other in close proximity.

Coniferous-deciduous mixborder

The combination of coniferous and deciduous shrubs and trees is especially beautiful in summer and autumn. Landscape designers recommend choosing plants with bright flowers and fruits.

Barberry Thunberg

Not only does it look good and gets along with conifers. They protect him from the wind. The most successful varieties:

• diamond-shaped Aurea - golden in spring and orange in summer (no more than 80 cm);
• columnar Erecta - bright green and bright red (1 m);
• spherical Green Carpet - juicy light green and reddish (60 cm);
• funnel-shaped, spreading Golden Ring - leaves are purple-violet with a crimson tint, golden-yellow border, flowers are yellow-red, fruits are scarlet.

Spiraea japonica

Often afraid of the sun and quickly withers in the heat. Conifers retain moisture in the soil for it and provide shade. Which varieties to choose:

• gray - spring-blooming, with snow-white inflorescences on long branches and grayish-green leaves;
• Nippon - spring-flowering, spherical, with white inflorescences (sometimes with red splashes) and green oval leaves;
• Golden Princess - spherical, squat, with lilac or pinkish flowers, collected in round inflorescences, and light green jagged leaves;
• Little Princess is spherical, with bluish-green oval-elongated foliage and light pink flowers.

Forsythia

It looks like a bright yellow spot in the coniferous mixborber, drawing the eye to the flower garden. Recommended varieties:

• European - with single bell-shaped yellow flowers;
• drooping - spreading, with small golden flowers collected in inflorescences, dark olive branches;
• dark green - with rich green jagged leaves and green-yellow flowers, collected in small bunches;
• snowy - with oval leaves that have a purple underside; in autumn the foliage becomes purple, the flowers are large, white with a yellowish throat and a light pink center.

To create a bright, beautiful mixborder of shrubs and conifers, the former must be distinguished by either bright green foliage against the background of lush green spruce and cypress trees, or beautiful flowers, or expressive fruits.

Mixborders with conifers and perennials

Such flower beds are suitable primarily for those who do not have time to care for them every day, if you manage to visit the site once every 2-3 weeks and then only on weekends.

Roses

The most luxurious is considered to be a mixborder made of conifers and roses. The juicy needles and incredibly beautiful buds look great. Which varieties are suitable:

• compact bush;
• hybrid tea;
• climbing;
• polyanthaceae;
• ground cover;
• remontant.

However, remember that of all perennials, roses require the most care. In particular, they need to be trimmed and supported in a timely manner. And another difficulty in creating such a mix is ​​that these flowers love the sun, while conifers love the shade. Therefore, you need to carefully look for a place to locate a flower garden, and the plants themselves should not be planted close to each other.

Hydrangeas

They create a noble mixborder in which, in principle, no other plants will be needed. Recommended:

• spreading and compact Anabel with spherical white flowers;
• spherical Grandiflora with flowers that change their color several times: light green - white - cream;
• round Sterilis with dense inflorescences, which during the summer change shade from greenish to white;
• paniculate fan-shaped Kuishu with ovate beautiful leaves and white flowers.

Hydrangea uses the proximity of conifers to its benefit, as they provide it with the moist soil that it loves so much.

Chrysanthemums

Here you need to know a couple of nuances:

• It is better to plant low-growing varieties of chrysanthemums next to creeping and ground-cover coniferous plants;
• and vice versa: tall, bush-like chrysanthemums - with pyramidal and cone-shaped coniferous trees;
• Usually spherical varieties of hydrangea are chosen;
• White, yellow and red varieties of chrysanthemums should be planted against the background of green conifers.

Indian, Korean, autumn, prominent, seeding and odorless chrysanthemums look good.

With annuals

Such mixborders can be created only by those who have time to care for annual flowers, which require regular watering, fertilizing, loosening the soil and other useful procedures. Which ones are suitable:

• balsam that blooms brightly until frost: New Guinea garden, Hokera, large-flowered, creeping, Camellia, Impatiens Waller;
• marigolds with their variety of shades from bright sunny to deep burgundy;
• hybrid verbena - with small but bright flowers of a wide variety of shades - blue, purple, red, white, pink, blue, peach.

For the first tier of a mixborder with tall conifers, annuals such as asters, violets, pushkinia, galanthus, bells and irises are also suitable.

Mixborder of conifers and cereals

This is a classic of the genre, allowing you to eliminate bright spots in the garden, which sometimes irritate the eye with too lush flowering and a variety of shades. Only greens - and nothing more. The following cereals are suitable:

• gray fescue;
• Pogonaterum millet;
• Italian setaria;
• maned barley;
• cortaderia;
• pinnately bristly, American, shaggy;
• miscanthus;
• haretail.

A particularly interesting ensemble is obtained from any of the cereals with various varieties of decorative juniper.

Composition in a sunny place: planting schemes

Such a flower garden requires placing tall forms in the center, and low-growing plants at the edges that can occupy the foreground.

Scheme No. 1. In the background here are:

• spirea gray;
• black elderberry;
• steppe almonds;
• bush cinquefoil;
• mountain pine.

In the second row grow:

• Japanese spirea;
• subulate phlox;
• oriental poppy;
• hybrid daylily.

On the front (third) row there are:

• crocus;
• Chionodox;
• Pushkinia

Scheme No. 2. Another composition may include: steppe almond, mountain pine, crocus, pushkinia and chionodox. It is advisable to plant these plants in groups between other perennials that grow later.

Juniper with hostas

Hostas with shrubs form a so-called contrasting flower garden. They usually occupy the extreme part of the diagram. Shape: circle, cascade, oval. Virginia juniper is suitable for combination with hostas, as well as Japanese astilbe, cappuccino astilbe, barberry, heucherella, and iris. Planting along the perimeter of the site with spruce and cypress trees is allowed. Recommended flowering plants: daffodils, tulips, all bulbous plants.

They usually occupy the extreme part of the diagram.

Hedge

Tall varieties look great planted in a row:

• Smaragd does not change color depending on the season, the crown is neat without trimmings;
• metamorphoses occur with thuja Brabant in winter - the needles become reddish, but withstand frost of 30 ° C;
• Pyramidalis loves sunny areas;
• The column grows quickly, the branches are directed to the trunk at right angles.

Sometimes Spiralis is found in the list of varieties. This is actually a topiary form of Thuja occidentalis created by pruning.

Trees can be planted as a solid wall against the background of the lawn. This allows for zoning of the site, but requires large funds for the purchase of planting material.

More often, plants are placed freely. Planting junipers of medium height with a spreading crown next to thujas along the fence is considered a classic technique - it is always beautiful and stylish. On the sunny side, the support is decorated with clematis or princelings, climbing annuals:

• morning glory;
• kobei;
• sweet peas.

Medium or dwarf thujas can be used to create a low border or a low hedge. There should be no empty space here, but it is not necessary to plant plants close to each other. A regular (with repeating fragments) row looks beautiful. A spherical thuja can be accompanied by at least one plant with a contrasting texture or color, preferably two. For example:

• Danica;
• Spiraea japonica Little Princess;
• a thick curtain of irises or cereals of the same volume as the previous ones.

Features of cultivation

Conifers are planted using seeds and seedlings. For those who have never designed a landscape, purchase seedlings that are at least three to four years old, because growing plants from seed is considered a troublesome and time-consuming task.

Before planting, the soil should be fertilized and make sure that the groundwater is deep. Planting in open ground is carried out in the fall; for this purpose, a suitable location is selected so that subsequent growth is not limited in any way.

The following features are noted in care:

• annual feeding;
• regular watering (on hot days - 2 - 3 times a week, and at least twice every seven days in the off-season period).

To make the plants look attractive, the crowns are trimmed.

Follow simple but important rules:

1. Under no circumstances should the root collar be allowed to go deep. It is necessary to check whether it is buried during the packaging of the plant in the nursery. You need to find the main, skeletal thick roots. The top of the roots extending from the trunk, like the spokes of a wheel, should be located at the level of the top of the soil.
2. Mulch the plantings with crushed bark, wood chips or pine needles 4–5 cm thick, without covering the root collar.
3. When you combine tall and short plants, achieving harmony can be difficult. To avoid a feeling of clutter, do not choose plants of many types and colors. It is better to use one or two species, or varieties, but in large quantities, than to plant the entire range of the garden center on the site.
4. Try playing with geometry by combining different shapes - for example, spherical and pyramidal plants.

The ideal time for planting is spring after the soil has thawed or from late summer to early autumn. In mid-summer you can plant conifers on the site, but it is better to avoid hot periods. It is better to mark planting sites in advance using pebbles or pegs. In this case, it is important to prepare the planting holes and soil - mix the soil with peat and sand. The recipe for the soil mixture depends on the available soil; you can dilute it with sand and peat.

Most conifers prefer well-drained soils, so in areas with heavy, clayey soils you will have to make large planting holes with lighter soil and lay drainage for the bases of the planting holes and pit, leading it into a drainage system or ditch.

Look at the trees growing naturally on and near your property. If these are pine trees, then the soils are most often sandy and light; Spruce trees tolerate dry soil less well.

Newly planted dwarf cedar (Pine pine) and Scots pine (in the background).

When planting a plant with a clod of soil in burlap and netting, after placing the seedling in place in the hole, cut the top of the netting and untie the burlap, find the main roots and make sure that the root collar is not buried. After this, remove the mesh from the top of the ball, fill it with soil around the ball, and spill it with water. Add soil again and compact it with your foot.

When planting a plant from a container, also make sure that the root collar is not buried and that the roots are not curled. If necessary, remove the soil to the level of the root collar, and all small roots that may have grown around the trunk above the main roots. Roots tightly twisted along the walls of the container are a defect; it is better not to take such plants; but cut the top layer with a sharp knife in four to five places, vertically.

After planting, it is better to mulch the tree trunk or the entire clump (chopped bark, wood chips, cones or pine needles are used as mulch, depending on what is available and what is convenient to use). Mulch helps retain moisture, maintain soil life, and discourage weed growth. The thickness of the mulch should be sufficient, at least four centimeters. After planting, water the plants regularly, especially in hot weather. However, you should not overwater them, especially in heavy soil. Roots, first of all, require oxygen, and they should not be allowed to soak for long periods of time. The plant may die.

There is an excellent signal that will help you understand that thujas, ornamental spruces and junipers feel great in a new area - this is the appearance of new growths. Coniferous plants grow actively in central Russia and the North-West in late spring - early summer, then the growth of shoots stops. The second wave of growth, much weaker, occurs in August. Plants need to be planted so that they do not interfere with each other.

Flower beds with stones and conifers

Coniferous plants look very beautiful against the background of boulders, pebbles, granite, and slate. Especially in stone gardens or on alpine hills, where low bushes of coniferous plants are planted - cushion-shaped species of spruce and pine, juniper, thuja, microbiota. They are located on slopes next to boulders.

Columnar species of juniper and Konika spruce are planted along the bottom line of the hill. In general, you need to adhere to this rule: the higher up the hill, the lower the plant.

You should select a variety in advance, otherwise the grown tree may subsequently disturb the composition and turn the hill into a thicket. The color is thought out in advance: along with classic green, silver, yellow and golden needles look beautiful.

Among the perennial flowers and plants suitable for proximity to conifers are saxifrage, juvenilia, cotoneaster, euonymus, hosta, and stachys.

To create a Japanese garden you don’t need too many stones: just a few boulders scattered randomly are enough. The main thing is that they must match in texture, but be different sizes. Take an odd number of stones.

Select creeping varieties of pine trees (mountain, varieties Nana, Globoza Viridis), spherical. In addition, juniper and microbiota are suitable. It would be appropriate to place a bonsai made of coniferous plants in the center.

In the Japanese garden, low species of rhododendron and cotoneaster are planted; sedum, irises, lobelia, and ornamental grasses are selected for them.

To design a forest composition in a flower bed with conifers, choose Benjamin pine, Canadian spruce, Wiltoni ground cover juniper, golden Golden Carpet, Prince of Wales. They are suitable for stones of any shape and size.

Large boulders are scattered around the site, with conifers placed between them: Nana heather, Samergold yew, Yellow Ribbon thuja. Next to them you need to plant dwarf birch, azalea, barberry, and thyme.

Conifers look great in a flower bed with decorative fillings of gravel, wood chips, and bark. They are placed far from each other so that the filling is clearly visible, since it is intended to serve as a beautiful background and emphasize the beauty of the plants.

Juniper and barberry

This combination may also contain other shrubs and plants, for example, thujas or pine trees. When choosing varieties, people most often pay attention to Thunberg barberry, rocky (Skyrocket) and medium juniper (Mint Julep). The number of elements in a flower bed is usually 5, 6 or 7. Larger plant compositions are used when designing large areas. Recommended flowering plants are rhododendrons, hydrangeas, primroses.

Designers recommend giving preference to dwarf barberries, for example, Arthropurpurea Nana, Harlequin, Kobold, Minor, Aurea. They have a denser crown and are characterized by slow growth.

Caring for coniferous flower beds

Conifer flower beds are popular not only because of their beauty, but also because they are very easy to care for. The gardener requires minimal effort to maintain the health and attractiveness of beautiful garden arrangements of shrubs, conifers and perennials.

• Since conifers and plants suitable for planting together with them do not like waterlogging, almost no additional watering is required for the flower beds. It is necessary to supply the mixborder with additional moisture only during periods of severe summer drought.
• It is enough to fertilize the flowerbed once a season - you need to use mineral fertilizers, for example, nitrogen or potassium. You should be careful with organic fertilizing; most often it harms the root system of coniferous plants.
• A flower bed of conifers and other plants requires regular weeding. Decorating a flower bed with large and small stones slows down the growth of weeds, but does not stop them completely. Therefore, once a year it is recommended to carefully loosen the soil and remove all excess vegetation that takes away moisture and nutrients.
• Conifer flower beds require regular pruning. Decorative pruning is necessary only when coniferous and deciduous shrubs begin to grow significantly, and the geometric contours of the flower bed are at risk. But sanitary pruning for mixborders must be carried out every season, during which all dried and weakened parts of the composition are removed.

It is also recommended to carry out preventive treatment of the flower bed with insecticides and fungicidal solutions once a season. Conifers and neighboring plants are susceptible to infection by fungi and pests, and preventing diseases is much easier than treating them.

As for preparing the flower bed for winter, coniferous mixborders are covered minimally for the winter. Plants need protection from bright winter sun and frost. Deciduous shrubs, suitable for joint planting with conifers in the middle zone, tolerate winter well without additional shelter. For tall coniferous plants, if necessary, use spruce branches, which are tied to tree branches. For flowers of the middle and lower level, protective frames are used, on which a natural blanket of snow rests.

Which plants to choose?

Choosing conifers for the garden is not such a simple matter, having a number of secrets and subtleties. Despite their easy availability, you should not take branches or seedlings of wild pines and spruces, as they will inevitably tend to restore their original height and size, destroying the harmony of the composition.

For decorative purposes, it is necessary to buy specially grown varieties of conifers that have a compact size and a predictable direction of growth.

Also, we should not forget about the other elements of the planned composition - deciduous trees, flowers, hostas, which will affect the choice of color and size of the coniferous one.

Species of coniferous plants are conventionally divided into three large groups:

• tall;
• plants of medium height;
• short.

Pine

Pine is one of the most common and famous trees. It is unpretentious to soil and climate, but requires a lot of space for its luxurious crown. There are many varieties of dwarf pines, including creeping mountain pine, which allows it to be used both in compositions and as a solitary tree. Popular ones include the dwarf fluffy pine called Nana, the spherical twisted Watereri and Panderosa with long yellowish needles.

Spruce

This tree is widespread in the middle zone and is also quite picky about living conditions. In landscape design, both ordinary spruce and its numerous varietal varieties are used. The most famous is blue spruce, which, due to the unusual color of its needles, always looks beautiful and solemn. A good choice for a large-scale composition would be a tall Hoopsie spruce, reaching a height of up to 15 m, or a fluffy Serbian spruce.

More compact options are the medium-sized Canadian spruce conika, frost-resistant tompa spruce, weeping inversa or dwarf species, for example, miniature cushion nidiformis, white-sided spruce with a characteristic white edging of branches or Lombers spruce.

Thuja occidentalis

To create a green hedge, you can use thuja occidentalis. It is a fast-growing evergreen species and tolerates winter well. In the 3rd or 4th year, a full-fledged living fence will be formed.

El Hupsi

This variety has an attractive blue hue and its growth is predictable. Thirty-year-old specimens form crowns up to four meters in diameter, growing to a height of ten meters.

Spruce perfectly withstands frosty winters, loves places abundantly illuminated by sunlight, takes root well in a new place, and does not make any special demands on the soil composition.

The needles are quite rigid, which is why the tree is known by its second name “prickly”.

On a bright lawn, such a spruce looks unusual.

Weymouth Pine

The conical Weymouth pine with a bluish-green color and soft needles is also a fast-growing species. It can be grown on any soil, except saline. The crop does not tolerate drought well, but is resistant to frost.

Serbian spruce

Larch grows quickly compared to other species, but in the cold season it sheds its needles. But Serbian spruce will please the eye all year round. This species feels good in Russian climatic conditions. Every year, plantings of Serbian spruce should be treated with compounds against spider mites, aphids and other harmful insects

Fir

This tree is distinguished by thick needles and characteristic cones on the branches, which makes it a real pearl of any flower bed. However, unlike the previous ones, fir is quite demanding on the soil, does not like polluted air and cold weather, and needs regular watering.

You should also pay attention to the young, fast-growing shoots that appear on the tree, which should be removed in a timely manner.

Mountain Pine Mini Pug

The plant is dwarf, not exceeding forty centimeters in height for ten years, with an annual growth of 20 mm. Compositions with such conifers are formed artificially; the branches are given a somewhat flattened crown that looks like a ball.

The tree needs a large amount of light to grow; winds and frosts are not dangerous to it.

Landscape design with stones and such conifers looks great.

Larch

Larch in winter

Larch

A unique coniferous tree that sheds its needles for the winter. It is the most widespread tree in the world (due to the huge areas it occupies in Siberia and North America). The growth rate of larches is quite high - from 50 cm to 1 m per year; Moreover, they persist for approximately 30 years of the plant’s life, then slowing down significantly.

Larch can grow on any type of soil; it tolerates drought and cold well, but one requirement for its cultivation is mandatory: the presence of a sunny area. In partial shade and shade, plant growth stops almost completely.

Despite the fact that the plant sheds its needles, it does so later than deciduous trees, and new needles appear much earlier than the leaves. That is, the plant will be bare for a relatively short time.

Larches live for several hundred years, already in the first 10 years of life reaching heights of about 7-8 m and having a fairly large crown. In areas, due to their growth, like cedars, they serve as central objects around which landscape compositions are built.

The varietal diversity of larch is represented mainly by tall trees. However, there are several varieties of small and even dwarf larches, for example, the Blue Dwarf variety, which is about 1 m in height.

Thuja and cypress

These trees adapt well to urban conditions, tolerate pollution and frost, and are easy to care for. Thuja has a scaly structure, while cypress can be either scaly or needle-shaped. A distinctive feature of these plants is the huge variety of crown shapes, which allows them to fit organically into any composition. The most common type of thuja is the western breed, which has both tall and dwarf forms.

Due to their dense crown, cypress and thuja trees are ideal for creating hedges and mixborders.

El Barry

A simple variety characterized by slow growth. Young fir trees are short, distinguished by their spherical shape. After a certain time, the branches begin to grow, and by three decades the tree reaches two meters in height. The needles are light green, young branches are colored brown with shades of orange.

The best place for adaptation is sandy loam and loam, provided with reliable drainage.

Thuja gigantea

The giant thuja can grow up to 60 m high. It is undemanding to the soil, but does not tolerate winter frosts well.

El Konika

This plant looks attractive thanks to its thick pale green needles; in its natural form, its shape resembles an even cone; the crown does not need to be trimmed. Every year, adding no more than ten centimeters in height, the spruce eventually reaches a two-meter mark.

It reacts poorly to excess moisture; it prefers slightly acidic and neutral soils with sufficient lighting, although young plants require shading.

Canadian hemlock

Another creeping shrub, growing slowly, at the age of ten reaching half a meter in height and ten centimeters in diameter. Lover of moisture, slightly acidic soil and partial shade, reacts negatively to drought.

Group and individual landscape design plantings are made with such conifers.

Juniper

Juniper is an unpretentious crop with bluish needles. Among its varieties, Hornibrook and Echiniformis are popular. Grows well on sandy, loose soils.

Tips for choosing a plant to buy

Thujas have been used in landscape design in Russia relatively recently, but over time they are gaining more and more popularity. On the market you can find a wide variety of varieties and types of thuja. Experienced gardeners will be able to buy a quality plant, but what about those who decided to plant thuja for the first time? As a rule, prices for thujas are quite high, so you should carefully choose a shoot so as not to waste money. You can determine the quality of a seedling by paying attention to the following:

• The roots must be completely covered. If some of the roots come out, bare or chopped off, such a plant will not be able to take root.
• Healthy looking branches and needles. It is important to see if the needles are falling off, since one of the biological features of thuja is the long preservation of its rich color after death. Nothing should fall out. If this happens, it means the seedling is already dying. You can't buy it.
• If the needles are yellow, with the exception of certain varieties for which the yellow color of the needles is natural, then it is not recommended to buy the plant, as this is a sign of a disease.
• It is difficult to immediately determine the presence of pests; for this reason, it is recommended to quarantine the plant after purchase and carry out treatment.

How to compose compositions?

Conifers are quite unique plants in many respects. They rarely get sick and are subject to attacks by pests, and withstand the vagaries of the weather. Most do not require particularly fertile soil, although each species has its own preferences. Some shed their needles, like larch, others bloom pink in landscape design, like Crimean thuja. All these forms are classified as evergreens, and most purify the air, filling it with phytoncides that are destructive to pathogenic microflora. Compact trees, densely covered with needles, are quite impressive both in single plantings and in a general composition with other “neighbors”, as in the photo.

Decorating a cottage with coniferous plants

Landscape design with coniferous plants

The design of the site is usually divided into several zones, where certain types of plants will be in the center of the composition. Depending on the purpose, from a catalog or in a garden supermarket, you can choose or order different conifers. Most often they offer compact, dwarf and low-growing forms.

Attention! To suit your taste, you can choose any variety of pine, spruce, fir, cedar, larch, thuja, cypress or juniper. But there is one condition - they must be adapted and acclimatized to a specific region. Not all of them are organically perceived in the vicinity of decorative and fruit-bearing trees and shrubs.

Most evergreen forest beauties are in harmony with those trees and shrubs with which they usually coexist in the wild. These are oaks and birches, maples and rowan trees, hawthorn and rose hips.

Attention! You should not plant several conifers from different geographical zones nearby at once; this often looks unnatural.

“Northerners” can suppress stunted and dwarf forms native to the Mediterranean and Far Eastern regions with their phytoncides. And selective and hybrid forms will be oppressed by their natural relatives. Lebanese cedars and Siberian larches are considered the most “quarrelsome”.

Cottage design with coniferous plants

Coniferous composition on a summer cottage

Gardeners have noticed that most evergreens thrive in the shade, so they are planted behind the house on the north side. However, this does not apply to Mediterranean endemics and varieties of Christmas trees with light needles, which fade in the shade.

Cones are a natural dining area for many wild birds, which willingly flock to the site in winter and late autumn, filling the yard with joyful chirping. However, natural fertilizer after treating with seeds can spoil the appearance of a well-groomed coniferous composition in landscape design.

Most cultivated forms lend themselves well to “haircutting”; they can be given the most bizarre shapes - from elephants to precise spirals. But some coniferous plants get sick even if one branch is broken.

Decorating a cottage with coniferous plants

Landscape design with coniferous plants

Landscape design in coniferous composition

If you want to improve your garden plot with evergreen sculptures, you need to choose the right dense forms with small branches and short needles. You will also have to look for specialists who create real masterpieces. You should not experiment with living plants if you are not sure that such “creations” are within your power.

Take a close look at the examples in our photo gallery. Perhaps these ideas will inspire and suggest a new concept for the design of your site.

Advice from experienced flower growers

Creating a mixborder is always a creative process, but when implementing it, experienced gardeners advise adhering to some rules:

• When selecting plants to be planted next to evergreen species, try to select specimens that have similar cultivation techniques to conifers. This will ensure a comfortable existence for the plants and make it easier for you to care for them.
• If you are planning to plant flowers, then take into account the timing of their flowering and the compatibility of the colors of the inflorescences with the shades of pine needles. Avoid excessive diversity and abundance of different textures and sizes of plants.
• After planting young conifers, the spaces in the flowerbed left for their growth can be filled with annual plants, which, as evergreen specimens grow, can be easily removed and replaced every year with new species.
• The soil near coniferous plantings can be mulched not only with sawdust or peat, but also with colored fine gravel, which will allow you to create additional color accents if you do not want to do them with flowering plants.
• Decorative elements are sometimes used to decorate a mixborder - lanterns, sculptures, fountains. They need to be used in reasonable quantities and be guided by the general style of the composition.

Every gardener can create a mixborder. But it is worth noting that it will look presentable only if the base for it is a smooth and well-groomed lawn, without the dominance of weeds and foreign objects.

The use of evergreen plant species is an effective and profitable option for decorating an area. A coniferous corner not only decorates the space, but also improves the health of the air. With proper care, these green spaces will delight you with their beauty not just for one year, but for many decades.

Mixborder project with annuals

Mixborder scheme in which plants bloom continuously from early spring to late autumn:

Mixborder project with annuals

No. 1 "Delphinium"

. Perhaps the most popular flower in mixborders. (perennial)

No. 2 “Space is twice-pinnate”

. The tall, openwork plant blooms profusely, but, according to some gardeners, it does not look very sophisticated. (annual)

No. 3 “Upright marigolds”

. Powerful plants, reaching 50-100 cm in height, have amazingly beautiful semi-double inflorescences of orange, light yellow or bright yellow. (annual)

No. 4 “Ageratum Houston”

. The purple-pink, white and bright blue baskets of this plant's inflorescences deserve to grow in the most prominent place in the mixborder. (annual)

No. 5 “Begonia ever-blooming”

. In the flower mixborder, this subshrub is good for its large, smooth, wide leaves and loose inflorescences of the most tempting flowers. (annual)

No. 6 "Verbena"

. For all its unpretentiousness, verbena is able to delight with elegant inflorescences from summer to September. (annual)

No. 7 "Petunia"

. In photos of mixborders you can often see flowers of all shades of the rainbow - petunias. Fragrant cascades of delicate flowers decorate the plant from June until the first frost. (an annual that can always become an annual if desired)

No. 8 "Sander's Tobacco"

. Large, odorless flowers remain open only during the day. (yearlings)

No. 9 "Dahlia"

. A majestic flower with double petals looks great both from afar and up close. Blooms profusely in a sunny place with sufficient moisture.

A gardener who designs a mixborder is akin to an artist painting a picture. Using varieties of different plants and flowers, he creates a solemnly bright or, on the contrary, a peaceful and calm flower garden, which, with the end of summer, does not lose its colors, but simply acquires new ones.

Photos of flower beds of conifers, shrubs, and perennials

In addition to diagrams of coniferous compositions, photos of flower beds made of conifers and perennials will help you appreciate the beauty of complex mixborders. When creating your own flowerbed, you can use ready-made composition options or design your own flowerbed with conifers, starting from existing options.

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