Solitaire And Group Landings

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

One of the elements of garden design are single plantings or tapeworms. In such cases, only one plant is planted on the green lawn. Any plant can be used as a tapeworm. It can be a perennial flowering plant, an ornamental shrub, or even an annual ornamental plant. Such landings are very effective. But in order to achieve an extraordinary effect, an excellent taste of the author of the composition is required. It is much easier to arrange group landings

Everything should be beautiful in a solitaire

When the monotony of the green lawn is disturbed by a lonely plant, it involuntarily attracts the special attention of the audience. Therefore, the choice of a plant must be taken very responsibly. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov said about a person that everything should be beautiful in him, the same can be said about a tapeworm plant. In a tapeworm, everything should be pleasing to the eye - the shape of the bush, stems, leaves and flowers. In addition, the plant should not lose its decorative effect throughout the summer season.

Solitaire background

For a tapeworm to fully fulfill its function, its beauty alone is not enough. The lawn on which a single plant is going to be planted should also be well-groomed and beautiful. The background on which the specimen will grow should also be beautiful. A group of shrubs can act as a background; a group of fruit, deciduous or coniferous trees; building wall or solid high fence.

Plants for single plantings

The following plants are suitable for single plantings:

• Perennial herbaceous plants - irises, peonies, perennial lupine, foxglove, astilbe, perennial bush aster, aconite (fighter), undersized goldenrod, daylily (hemerocalis), diclitra (dicenter).

• Shrubs and semi-shrubs - heather, cochia, barberry, spirea, mahonia, hydrangea, Canadian elder, roses, juniper.

• Annual plants - castor oil plant, cleoma, amaranth (shiritsa).

Group landing

The most common and easiest way to plant flower crops is group planting. The group can include a variety of plants: annuals, perennials or biennials. Plantings from one culture, or even from one variety, look decorative.

Number of plants and planting density

The size of the lawn or lawn determines the number of plants planted. The distance between plants depends on the period for which they are planted and on the type of crop.

When creating a color spot from annuals, such as: petunias, salvia, calendula, marigolds; or such perennials as: tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, irises, lilies, phlox, - the plants are placed closer to each other.

If the plant intended for planting in a group has a beautiful bush shape, stems and leaves original in appearance or color, then they are planted less often, leaving more space between them. For example, plants such as: castor oil plant, perennial lupine, roses, peonies, astilbe.

Mixed groups

Color spots are not necessarily created by plants of the same species. A group can be composed, for example, of three species blooming at different periods.

So, among the bushes of peonies that bloom in the summer, crocuses, hyacinths, daffodils or tulips can be planted, delighting with flowering in spring, and for autumn flowering, an autumn crocus is added to the company.

Among the various shrubs that are just beginning to release their leaves in the spring, early blooming tulips, daffodils, crocuses, redwoods, forget-me-nots, primroses will be an excellent decoration.

Perennial groups

Groups of single-sorted peonies, multi-colored lupins, astilba, diclitra, large-flowered aquilegia (catchment), lilies, irises look nice.

Of the shrubs, plantings of hydrangeas, Japanese quince, heather, and Mahonia are effective.