2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Not only perennial and annual flowers can be planted in the shade under the trees. Ferns feel great in any, even the thickest, shade, growing over rather large areas. In addition to ferns in the shade, you can plant vines, for example, on the north side of the house, or shrubs
Ferns
Perhaps these are the most shade-tolerant plants among all existing ones. They grow well even in the thickest of the forest and at the same time feel great. More than 50 species of ferns grow on the territory of Russia, their height ranges from 20 centimeters to 2 meters, so among all these plants you can easily choose what will look best on your site.
Ferns are not very demanding on soil fertility, but still they grow better on good light nutritious soil than on poor soil. And the appearance of ferns growing on fertile soil is better. If the soil is poor and heavy, then apply a mixture of sand, peat and humus or compost, taken in equal proportions, before planting the ferns. If you decide to bring a fern from the forest and plant it on your site, then dig it up with a lump of earth and immediately collect soil to bring it to the garden. Just before mixing it with your hellish land, the forest soil must be decontaminated!
Ferns are planted in a permanent place in early spring, when the plant is just beginning to open its leaves. If you missed this moment and decided to transplant the opened plant, then transplant it with a lump of earth around the roots so as not to damage the plant's root system.
After planting for the first year, ferns need to be watered especially carefully so that they take root on the site. In subsequent years, water as needed, keeping the soil moist. To reduce the evaporation of moisture, the soil in the area with ferns can be mulched.
Ferns reproduce by pieces of rhizomes or branching rosettes. The optimal breeding time for ferns is early spring.
Shade-tolerant shrubs
These plants are of different sizes, different splendor, flowering and non-flowering, with decorative foliage. You can give a beautiful shape to any shrub using decorative pruning, all shrubs can easily withstand this procedure, and you can decorate shaded areas with beautiful figures, for example, balls under trees. Or you can hire specialists and make a complex shape for the shrubs.
In any case, when choosing an ornamental shade-tolerant shrub, be guided by your preferences: flowering or non-flowering, tall or low plants you need.
All shade shrubs love good soil, so take care of this before planting your plants. After planting, you need to especially carefully protect the shrubs from drying out the soil, water as needed, take care of them regularly, namely, prune and remove faded peduncles.
The list of shade-tolerant plants includes such as privet, weigela, juniper, ornamental elderberry, alpine currant, small-leaved cotoneaster
male derain
And also - evergreen boxwood, Fortchun's euonymus, white turf. We will talk in more detail about shrubs in the next article.
Shade-tolerant vines
For landscaping shady areas of the site, not only ferns, shade-tolerant flowers and shrubs, but also shade-tolerant vines are suitable. They can decorate the walls of the house, divide the site into zones, hide tree trunks. Many of them will delight you with their flowering. Shade-loving vines include petiole hydrangea, common ivy, Chinese magnolia vine
Regel's triple wing
also Canadian lunar seed. I will talk in more detail about each type of vines a little later.
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