2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Today, many summer residents decorate their plots with shrubs that require much less time to care for. We offer one of the possible options how to turn a shady corner of the garden into a blooming Paradise from spring to autumn with the help of ornamental shrubs that easily tolerate shade or partial shade
Matching shadow lovers
For our corner, we have selected shrubs that love to grow in the shade or partial shade. The future blooming Paradise will occupy an area of 2 by 2, 5 meters, with acidic or slightly acidic soil. We free the selected area from weeds, fertilize generously with compost, because our future pets prefer fertile, loose, moist (but without stagnant water) soil.
To achieve the desired result, we selected shrubs of different heights so that they do not interfere with each other to demonstrate their beauty. Instead of mulching the near-stem circles, you can plant ground cover or creeping shade-loving plants under the bushes.
Selected shrubs and herbaceous plants
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Japanese camellia (Camellia japonica) is a fairly frost-resistant tall shrub that grows up to three meters. Therefore, we place Camellia in the background of the site. It blooms in spring, with red flowers emphasizing the glossy green of the leaves. For the winter, for insurance, cover the base of the plant with mulch and spruce branches.
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Bodinier's beautiful fruit (Callicarpa bodinieri) - tall shrub (height 120-180 cm) blooms in summer with small purple flowers, collected in inflorescences, turning in autumn into clusters of purple shiny fruits. We locate the Krasivoparnik to the right of the Camellia. The shrub loves to grow quickly, and therefore requires the removal of young growth. Pruning is carried out in the spring, cutting up to 20 percent of the branches, including ridding the bush of damaged branches.
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Japanese azalea (Rbododendron) - a kind of square bush, occupying a square meter of territory at its meter height, delights with leathery leaves and bell-shaped flowers of a varied, white-pink-red palette that bloom in early summer. For our corner, six Azalea bushes will be required, from which we will form the middle plan of the flower garden, planting them in a square-nesting way from the median line, taking into account the scope of its branches and alternating the color of the flowers. We deepen the bushes deep enough.
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Boxwood (Buxus) is an evergreen, slow-growing bun, easily amenable to decorative haircuts, with inconspicuous spring flowers. We will place it in front of the Bodinier Krasivoparodnik, leaving a distance of half a meter between them and not forgetting to immerse its roots entirely in the soil.
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Trillium grandiflorum (Trillium grandiflorum) - a perennial frost-resistant herb with a height of 15 to 40 centimeters with a thick short rhizome will decorate the foreground of our corner of Paradise. Trillium grandiflorum loves fertile moist soils and shade. It blooms in late spring-early summer with white three-petalled flowers against a background of dark green leaves, which are also three on one petiole. It is for the love of the number "3" that the plant got its name. Unlike its counterparts, vegetating in the spring, Trillium does not shed its leaves after fruiting, but decorates the bush with them until autumn. Due to the difficulty in reproduction, Trillium large-flowered is rarely found in our gardens, although it has been used in culture since the 16th century.
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Cyclamen (Cyclamen cilicium) - we are more familiar with cyclamens growing in indoor conditions. But "Cyclamen cilicium" is frost-hardy enough and can decorate our shady flower garden with dignity. He loves fertile soil with good drainage and coniferous mulch. Pale pink flowers with a purple spout appear above oval green leaves with silvery markings in the fall months. Cyclamen bulbs are placed 10 centimeters deep.
Blooming corner care
Our shrub bed requires regular watering. To maintain its appearance, it needs to remove withered flowers, broken and diseased shoots, excess young growth, fallen leaves.
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