Fruit Trees And Shrubs For The Garden

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

During the acquisition of trees and shrubs for his plot, the owner of the summer cottage wants to receive from future plants not only a practical function in the form of delicious fruits, but also enjoy their appearance, which emphasizes the main interior of the backyard territory

Since such cultures have been growing for many years, their appearance should not be boring and annoying, but attractive and unusual. Of course, it should be understood that in this case you will have to try to provide timely and regular care of the plants. In addition, taking care of them will help you enjoy a rich harvest in the autumn season.

The most common

In each region of our country, you can find different popular types of beautiful trees and shrubs that bear fruit, since all areas differ from each other in climatic conditions. However, there are some types of plants that are especially curious to most gardeners, due to which they try to find the most suitable place for such crops on the site. The names of many of these trees and bushes are familiar even to ordinary people who are never interested in gardening.

The most famous and actively cultivated in any territory in summer cottages, of course, are apple trees. They differ from each other not only in the variety, but also in the period of fruit ripening. The second place in this rating will be taken by pear trees, and along with them cherries and plums. In the bushes, summer residents pay great attention to raspberries, gooseberries, currants. Not so long ago, felt cherry, healing sea buckthorn and honeysuckle, which ripens early, began to gain popularity. Also, in the garden of experienced summer residents and gardeners, you can now find blackberries or chokeberries. But this does not mean that other crops are almost never used. On the contrary, earlier they were planted only to give the garden a green look for a natural interior, and now they find practical use for many such plants.

In fact, the list of trees and shrubs that the owners of country houses plant in their gardens is endless. But it is worth remembering the fact that the first harvest from the orchard should be expected no earlier than five years later, although berry bushes can give their fruits the next year after planting, or another year that has passed since its implementation.

The positive features of the shrub include small size and unpretentiousness in terms of care and provision of certain conditions for their development. But a garden is not a garden if there are no trees in it. Of course, there is an opinion that in the northern part of the country the choice of possible plantings is limited by climatic conditions, while in the southern side, on the contrary, the list of cultures is huge and diverse. And there is truth in this, because in such warm countries you can plant cherry plum, apricot, nuts, cherries and much more that will not grow in the North or in a temperate climate. With regard to shrubs, this list can be supplemented with grapes, dogwood and other crops.

However, varieties of trees and shrubs have now been developed, which previously grew only in warm climates and southern regions, and are now available in the central zone. Even in the North, it has become possible to grow many southern characteristic plants. Undoubtedly, all gardeners are attracted by the opportunity to organize a real "paradise" on their territory. But many summer residents forget that such crops will require specialized care and competent aspects of cultivation, because a lot of factors need to be taken into account in this matter.

How to place them in the garden?

Young saplings of bushes and trees stretch out in length every year, and their crowns grow over a distance of one to two meters after a couple of years. Thus, mature plants begin to take up a lot of space and crowd out their neighbors. As a result, it becomes clear that the choice of the most cold-resistant and fruitful varieties is still half the battle, and another huge part of the process is occupied by the planning of the future garden.

First you need to take a blank white sheet and measure the distances from the areas where the plants will be planted to other objects - roads, neighboring territories, and so on. It is not only the aesthetic wishes of the owner of the garden that are important for its attractive appearance. It is necessary to remember which plants get along and are combined with each other, and which do not. Based on this, it is possible to measure the optimal distance of the planting zone from all objects and the plants themselves from each other.