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Here is a catalog of deciduous shrubs that can be used for landscaping the garden area and creating a beautiful landscape design.
All deciduous shrubs for the garden in the catalog are accompanied by colorful photos and classified by their names.
You can choose the one that suits you decorative culture and read its brief description.
Deciduous shrubs are presented in cultivation in a wide variety of shapes and colors. Look at all the decorative deciduous shrubs on this page; among them there will certainly be an option for your garden. The names of deciduous shrubs are suggested, followed by short description plants. There is also a wide variety of photographs of deciduous shrubs in various stages of their development.
JAPANESE MAPLE — ACER
Most maples are trees. Japanese maples are slow-growing shrubs 1-2 m high with attractive leaves that turn color in autumn. Requires protection from the morning sun and cold winds. Among the varieties of the Fan Maple (A. palmatum) ‘Dissectum’ (green leaves turning orange).
ARALIA — ARALIA
- Flowering time: August - September
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
A large shrub that produces a lot of growth. Each leaf, 1 m long, is divided into separate leaflets. Choose a protected location. The gardens grow high aralia (A. elata), which grows up to 3 m and has large inflorescences of tiny flowers. Aralia 'Aureovariegata' has cream-colored leaves in spring.
BUDDLEYA— BUDDLEJA
- Location: best sunny
All species have leaves that are tapered at the end, usually pubescent below, and inflorescences of tiny flowers. David's buddleia (B. davidii) blooms in August to mid-September; Annual pruning is important. Buddleia globosa (B.globosa) with orange spherical inflorescences, and Buddleia alternate-leaved (B. alternifolia) with arched stems.
KARYOPTERIS — CARYOPTERIS
- Flowering time: September - October
- , woody cuttings in autumn
A rounded border shrub that grows in all types of soils, including chalk. The main species is C. clandonensis, 1 m high. It has gray-green leaves and lavender flowers in terminal inflorescences 10 cm long. The ‘Kew Blue’ variety has a dark blue flowers.
CERATOSTIGMA, PIGGY — CERATOSTIGMA
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: dividing the bush in autumn
Stems may be damaged by frost, but heavy pruning in the spring will provide new stems that will bear clusters of phlox-like blue flowers in both summer and fall. The hardiest species is Ceratostigma Wilmott (C. willmottianum) - height 1 m. Other species are Ceratostigma Griffith (C. griffithii) and dwarf Ceratostigma plumbaginoides (C. plumbaginoides).
CHENOMELES, JAPANESE QUINCE — CHAENOMELES
- Flowering time: March - May
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
It grows well in sun or shade in all types of soil and produces large golden fruits after the bright spring flowers. Chaenomeles beautiful (Ch. speciosa) - height 2-3 m. It is grown as a wall plant. Chaenomeles superba (Ch. superba), 1 m high and having a dense, rounded bush, is grown in borders.
CHIMONANTHUS — CHIMONANTHUS
- Flowering time: December - March
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
The flowers on bare stems are not particularly attractive, but they do appear very early and have a spicy aroma. Chimonanthus early (C. praecox), having a height of 2 m, is a species for the garden with hanging yellow flowers with a purple center and waxy petals. The 'Luteus' variety is more showy than the species.
CORYLOPSIS – CORYLOPSIS
- Flowering time: March - April
- Location: Lightly shady is best
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
Blooms before the leaves appear. It is not as popular as hazel - it is not very hardy and frost can damage the flowers. K. spicata (C. spicata) 2 m has yellow flowers with purple anthers. Corylopsis bare (C. glabrescens), 3.5 m high, is a wide-spreading, profusely flowering shrub.
BROOM — CYTISUS
- Flowering time: April - June
- Location: must be sunny
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
The flexible stems have tiny leaves and are covered with butterfly flowers - it will grow in poor soil. Broom broom (C.scoparius) is 1.5 m high and its varieties and hybrids are widespread. Creeping C. decumbens is a groundcover variety. A giant 5 m high - Moroccan broom (C.battandieri).
ACTION — DEUTZIA
- Flowering time: depends on the species
- Reproduction: woody cuttings in autumn
Flowers cover the entire bush. Late frosts may damage the flower buds, but it is easy to grow. Pink deytsia (D. rosea) 1 m high blooms in May pink flowers on arched branches. Deutzia rough (D. scabra) and its double form ‘Plena’, 2 m high, bloom in May-June.
EXOCHORDS — EXOCHORDA
- Flowering time: May
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: by rooted offspring in autumn
A shrub attractive in late spring when white flowers appear in small clusters. Flowering lasts only 7-10 days. Exochord Giralda (E.giraldii) with a height of 3 m has the most large flowers; Exochorda racemosa is taller, but the flowers are smaller, and a favorite variety is Exochorda grandiflora (E. macrantha) ‘The Bride’.
Euonymus — EUONYMUS
- Flowering time: October - December
- Location: sunny or partial shade
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
Deciduous euonymus species are tall shrubs with colorful fall foliage and fruit.
The most common is the European Euonymus (E. europaeus), 4 m high, with red fruits and orange seeds. The winged euonymus (E alatus), 1.5 m tall, features winged branches and red autumn foliage.
FORSICTION — FORSYTHIA
- Flowering time: March - April
- Location: sunny or partial shade
- Reproduction: woody cuttings in autumn
The flowers are wide-open small bells. There are varieties for covering walls and bare ground and for growing as a tapeworm. Intermediate forsythia (F. intermedia), 3 m high, is a common upright bush. The 'Lynwood' variety has wider petals. Suspension forsythia (F. suspensa) is used to create screens.
FUCHSIA — FUCHSIA
- Flowering time: July - October
- Location: sunny or slightly shady
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
Colorful flowers hang like bells from the branches. The stems may freeze, but the varieties grow new shoots in the spring. The hardiest of them are the Magellanic varieties (F magellanica) - ‘Gracilis’ especially graceful flowers. There are also many hybrids such as 'Mrs. Popple' and 'Tom Thumb'.without foliage.
FOTHERGILLA — FOTHERGILLA
- Flowering time: April - May
- Location: Lightly shady is best
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
Fluffy brush inflorescences appear in the spring before the leaves bloom, but they are most decorative in the fall, when the foliage turns bright yellow, orange or red. Fothergilla gardenii (F. gardenii) is 1 m high and has small flowers. The taller Fothergilla major (F. major) variety ‘Monticola’ turns red in autumn.
GORSE — GENISTA
- Flowering time: depends on the species
- Location: must be sunny
- Reproduction: sowing seeds in spring
Gorse has flexible, strong stems with small leaves and clover-shaped flowers. They all bloom profusely if planted on sunny place and are not fertilized. Lydian gorse (G. lydia), 60 cm high, blooms in May-June on arched stems; On the thorny branches of the Spanish Gorse (G. hispanica), 30 cm high, flowers appear in June-July.
witch hazel – HAMAMELIS
- Flowering time: December - February
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
Spider-like flowers appear on bare stems, followed by hazel-like leaves. Fall foliage is turning into attractive hues. Normal view Soft witch hazel (H. mollis) 3 m high blooms large fragrant flowers. Variety ‘Pallida’ is yellow, ‘Brevipetala’ is bronze-yellow.
Deciduous shrubs
Deciduous shrubs are distinguished by the fact that they shed all their foliage.
HIBISCUS — HIBISCUS
- Location: must be sunny
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
At the end of summer, the branches are covered with saucer-shaped flowers. This plant will not grow anywhere - it requires sun, good drainage and protection from cold winds. Syrian hibiscus (H. syriacus) with a height of 2.5 m has many varieties. The ‘Bluebird’ variety has purple flowers with a dark eye; ‘Woodbridge’ has pink ones.
HYDRANGEA — HYDRANGEA
- Flowering time: July - September
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
Large-leaved Hydrangea variety (H. microphylla) ‘Hamburg’, 1.5 m high, is a typical variety with rounded inflorescences; ‘Blue Wave’ is a popular variety with flat buds. Petiole hydrangea (H. petiolaris) is a vigorous, self-clinging vine with white flowers.
KERIA — KERRIA
- Flowering time: April - May
- Location: sunny or shady
- Reproduction: woody cuttings in autumn
This shrub will grow almost anywhere, but requires annual pruning. appear in spring, and sometimes in summer and autumn. Japanese Keria (K. japonica), 2 m tall, grown in gardens, has yellow flowers on arched stems. For the sake of double flowers, the variety ‘Pleniflora’ is grown.
TREE PEONY —PAEONIA
- Flowering time: May - June
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
Tree peonies are less popular than herbaceous peonies. They have large round or spherical flowers with thin petals. Stems terry varieties need a garter. Peony Delavay (P. delavayi) with red not double flowers; double flowers in varieties of Tree Peony (P.suffruticosa).
PEROVSKIYA — PEROVSKIA
- Flowering time: August - October
- Location: must be sunny
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
Tiny blue flowers appear in long clusters above erect stems and gray leaves. The leaves are deeply lobed and have a sage scent. Perovskia swan leaf (P. atriplicifolia), 1 m high, has inflorescences 25 cm long. Heavy pruning is necessary, so little can be seen in spring.
MOUNTAIN JASMINE, GARDEN JASMINE — PHILADELPHUS
- Flowering time: June - July
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
Popular shrub. Typically 2 m tall, but there are taller and dwarf varieties. The flowers have a scent similar to orange blossoms. Among the tall varieties is terry white ‘Virginal’. Mock orange (Ph.coronarius) ‘Aureus’ has average height and yellow foliage, and ‘Sybille’ is a dwarf plant with a height of 1 m.
Potentilla, KURIL TEA — POTENTILLA
- Flowering time: May - September
- Location: sunny or slightly shady
- Reproduction: cuttings under glass in summer
This shrub is in bloom from late spring to early autumn. Cinquefoil (P fruticosa) and its varieties are grown in the gardens various colors. Popular varieties - ‘Elizabeth’ 1 m high with yellow flowers; ‘Abbotswood’ 75 cm high - with white and ‘Red Ace’ 60 cm high with red.
PLUM, CHERRY PEARL — PRUNUS
- Flowering time: depends on the species
- Location: best sunny
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
Hedging varieties include the 1m tall cystena plum (P cistena) with pink flowers, and the 2m tall cherry plum (P cerasifera) 'Nigra', also pink. Shrub for single planting - three-lobed plum (P triloba) 2 m high with double pink flowers in spring.
RHODODENDRON — RHODODENDRON
- Flowering time: May - June
- Location: partial shade is best
- Reproduction: acquiring new plants
The average height is 1.5-2.5 m and higher and blooms later than Japanese azaleas. There are many types, including Ghent, Knap Hill, Exbury and Mollis hybrids. Before the leaves fall, they take on rich fall colors. Popular varieties are ‘Cecile’ and ‘Persil’.
Landscaping a summer cottage is a creative and exciting process, initial stage When planning a garden, summer residents determine what bushes and trees they will plant. If the site is completely empty, then fast-growing trees and shrubs for the garden will create a beautiful landscape in a short time. If time is of the essence, then you can choose crops growing for a long time, and enjoy their transformation from year to year.
Types of shrubs
When thinking about which shrubs to plant in your dacha, pay attention to their classification, this will greatly facilitate your choice. Whether you only need ornamental bushes or want to get a variety of fruits from them, it depends on which type you should give your preference.
Appearance and agrotechnical characteristics allow seedlings to be divided into three main types, which we will discuss in the following sections.
Note!
Price of seedlings for self-cultivation significantly lower than the cost of an already grown shrub.
Beautiful flowering shrubs
Unconditional favorites in decoration garden plots- plants that are distinguished by their unique flowering. The most beautiful bushes amaze the imagination with inflorescences of bizarre shapes and a wide range of shades.
Planting them with different periods flowering, which will replace each other, you can achieve the effect of an “ever-blooming” garden. Flowering shrubs are perfectly complemented by compositions coniferous plants, as well as any ornamental bushes.
The most spectacular flowering species:
- Dogwood. Begins to please with its color in early spring. It is unpretentious to the soil, like many shade-tolerant plants, and does well in unlit areas.
- Rhododendron. It blooms in April and has soft lilac flowers. To achieve the most lush flowering, plant the plant in partial shade and fertilize with humus.
- Forsythia. It blooms even before the foliage appears. After the bush fades, it continues to delight the eye with its decorative effect.
- Japanese quince. Pleasing to the eye orange flowers. It grows well in illuminated areas and is most often used to create hedges with your own hands.
- Buddleya. The branches of the plant are densely covered with pinkish flowers. One of individual characteristics This shrub is considered to have an incredible aroma that can attract many butterflies. This bush is capable of reaching a height of three meters in literally 2-3 years and has a long period flowering.
- Chubushnik. The most beautiful of all shrubs. It has large snow-white flowers with a stunning aroma; it can be used to easily create green hedges.
Fruit bushes
This species can also play the role of ornamental plants, but their undeniable advantage is that they are able to bring us fresh berries. Therefore, it can be rightly noted that these are the most useful shrubs in the country. However, it should be noted that they require more care.
Below are a few plants of this species:
- Currant . There are white, red and black currant fruits. Some of its varieties can bear fruit for up to 18 years in a row. Do not forget that it is necessary to protect the bushes from drafts and excess moisture.
- Gooseberry. It bears fruit for up to 25 years, but is not very frost-resistant, so it needs insulation for the winter.
- Raspberries . It grows well in the sun, is resistant to cold, but requires fertilized soil and moisture.
- Blackberry. Similar in characteristics to raspberries, but more sensitive to frost.
Advice!
If you decide to plant fruit and berry bushes on your plot, it is better to do this in the fall, then in the summer you can get the first small harvest.
Decorative garden shrubs
Ornamental plants add elegance to the design of the site, and it doesn’t matter which ones need to be decorated country houses— they will be made from block containers, or built from brick or wood. The wide color palette and texture of these bushes can create bright accents and decorate individual elements your garden, divide the area into zones.
Unpretentious in care, they are quite easy to grow if you follow a few rules when planting them:
- Don't plant this type plants are too close to each other.
For your information!
There are simple instructions for calculating the distance between bushes - the distance is equal to twice the height of an adult bush.
- Plant at a sufficient distance from fences and buildings.
- Plants with burgundy leaves need sunlight; in the shade they become faded in color.
- When replanting, to avoid damaging the roots, dig a hole wider and deeper.
- Fertilize the soil.
- Hydrangea. Its inflorescences are large balls of pink, lilac, milky or blue. All varieties of hydrangea are shade-loving and prefer moist soil.
- Weigela. Can be planted on any soil; both shade and sunny areas are suitable. Mature plant reaches a height of 2 meters, blooms from the second year. It has flowers of bright pink color.
- Barberry. Excellent as a hedge, the color of the foliage depends on the abundance of sun and can vary from red to purple. Regular pruning gives the bush a neat and noble appearance.
- Boxwood. Ideal for those who like to create shapes from plants various forms. It has low-growing varieties bushes. Heat-loving, but feels good in the shade. It is characterized by rapid growth and an unusual smell.
- Deren. Very unpretentious shrub, easily takes root on any soil. Tolerates both shade and sun. It has purple foliage and blooms twice a year.
- Deytsia. In a sunny area it reaches two meters in height and has beautiful white or pink flowers. Not picky about soil.
- Spirea. Used as a hedge. Has inflorescences of red, white or pink flowers. Particularly attracts attention in autumn period when its leaves paint the bush in different colors.
- Forsythia. One of the earliest shrubs to bloom in spring. Requires regular fertilization and watering, like other moisture-loving trees and bushes.
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Conclusion
The choice of plants for your summer cottage can be limited only by your own fantasies and desires; you can always find some affordable analogue of an expensive shrub. And don't forget about a little trick unscrupulous sellers– when buying seedlings, you do not receive any guarantee that you are purchasing exactly the desired plant.
In the video presented in this article you will find Additional information on this topic.
Already in early spring, we direct all our brain energy to planning our summer cottage, selecting ornamental shrubs, which should bloom and delight us with their aroma throughout the summer. This is understandable, because the time of flowers is coming, and, finally, such a rare opportunity appears to create your own happiness in a separate corner of the earth. Next, you will be presented with a selection (names and photos) of the most decorative and beautiful perennial flowering shrubs for the garden.
Features of perennial ornamental flowering shrubs and their use in landscape design
Most gardeners plant ornamental shrubs for the purpose of zoning a site and creating a hedge. And if they also bloom beautifully all summer, then these perennials They will simply be a decoration for the garden.
When choosing such flowering perennials You should pay attention to the following factors:
- Frost resistance and, accordingly,need for shelter shrubs for the winter.
- Degree of care requirements. Certainly, best option- This unpretentious perennial, which is what a flowering shrub usually is. But most of these plants, at a minimum, require periodic pruning of the crown, removal of flower stalks, watering and fertilizing.
- The composition and type of soil required for planting (although you can always additionally fill the planting hole with the required soil mixture).
- The dimensions of the bush, its height and volume of leaf mass. The perennial should fit well into the space allocated to it on the site.
- Timing and duration of flowering. It is ideal to plant flowers and shrubs in the garden that will bloom throughout the summer season.
The most popular perennial flowering shrubs for the garden
Lilac
This is the most popular early-flowering perennial shrub, the peak of flowering, as a rule, occurs in May, and in early June it has completely faded. Pleasantly smelling flowers, depending on the variety, can be simple, double or super-double. Height - from 1.5 to 2 meters.
Forsythia
A spring shrub incomparable to any other, whose original star flowers are sure to win your heart. As a rule, the size is comparable to lilac (1.5-2 meters).
Important! Some varieties of forsythia are not particularly frost-resistant, so they should be covered for the winter.
Mock orange (garden jasmine)
In almost every garden you can find wonderful jasmine (mock orange), which is not only beautiful, but also has a unique aroma. Sizes can vary greatly, anywhere from 1 meter to 4.
Chaenomeles (Japanese quince)
Besides beautiful bloom, this bizarre perennial shrub also bears fruit closer to the beginning of autumn. The height of the bush is from 50 to 80 centimeters.
Rhododendron
It has flowers of extraordinary beauty that appear in late April-early May. The bush itself reaches quite large sizes from 0.5 to 1.5 meters.
Skumpia (Wig Tree)
Anyone who passes by this shrub during its flowering period will definitely stop and be simply amazed by the incredibly exotic beauty of its flowers and leaves. Height - from 1.5 to 3 m.
Important! For the winter, skumpia must be strictly mandatory cover.
Wisteria (Wisteria)
It blooms already at the end of spring, and can retain rare blooming lilac clusters throughout the entire summer period.
It's worth making a disclaimer, that this very fragrant plant is more related to
Important! The plant is heat-loving, southern regions It blooms noticeably more abundantly than in northern latitudes and definitely requires shelter for the winter.
tree peony
It still has the same exquisite beauty of its herbaceous variety only in bush form, and its spring May flowering, as a rule, begins a couple of weeks earlier. The bush sizes are the most standard - from 1.5 to 2 m.
Camellia
Delicate camellia flowers are very reminiscent of roses in the shape of their buds. As a rule, the length of the magnificent shrub reaches about 2 meters.
For winter in cold regions it requires sufficient warm shelter.
Kolkvitsia is pleasant (lovely)
A wonderful decorative flowering and deciduous perennial shrub. Its luxurious flowering occurs in late spring and early summer, blooming with touching pink bells. The height can reach 1.5-2 meters.
Louiseania (bean, garden almond, double plum)
A very elegant spring flowering ornamental shrub. Depending on the variety, it can be a 1.5 meter bush or a 4 meter tree.
Cercis canadensis
Initially, this is a tree, but most often, if Cercis is not grown in its homeland, it has the form of a bush. Gorgeous flowering begins in mid-spring and continues until the beginning of summer, so to speak, until the leaves appear.
There is also a European variety, but it is Cercis Canadian the most unpretentious and cold-resistant.
Video: the most beautiful flowering shrubs
By the way! Many of these ornamental perennial shrubs can bloom all summer, we’ll talk about them later.
Perennial ornamental shrubs blooming all summer
Weigela
Plainly we can say that this is bright plant picks up spring bloom among previous shrubs and rightfully occupies one of the most honorable places in the gardens of many summer residents. It is represented by a huge number of varieties, which not only have different flowers, but also leaf colors. The height of the bush can be from 1-2 m. It is believed that weigela is more spring Flower, but it can bloom and continue to bloom throughout the summer (it blooms again in August).
Spiraea (Meadowsweet)
There are quite a lot of varieties and varieties of this catchy perennial shrub: there are spring-blooming spireas, and there are also summer-blooming ones. The colors and shapes of flowers can also be completely different. The sizes of the bush are different: miniature 50-60 centimeters and up to 2 meters in height. Perfect for creating a hedge.
Cinquefoil (Kuril tea)
This impressive perennial shrub, beloved by many gardeners, blooms throughout the summer (May to September). The height of the bush is from 50 to 100 centimeters. This plant is not only beautifully flowering, but also healthy (you can make tea from its leaves). Also suitable for creating hedges.
Hydrangea
What could be more beautiful than summer hydrangea blossoms? Flowering starts at the beginning of summer, and ends in late autumn, and dry hydrangea also looks incredibly beautiful. The size of perennials can vary greatly and depend on the species: from tiny 50-70 centimeter bushes to 1.5 meter trees.
Buddleia (summer lilac)
Buddleia is very similar to lilac, not only in its tassels, but also in the magical aroma it exudes. Can grow up to 1.5 meters. As a rule, it is used in the background in flower beds.
Common oleander
The bush has not only an irresistibly beautiful appearance, but is also considered very useful: it pulls out literally all harmful toxins from the air. This perennial can reach 2 meters in height, but you can hardly afford to keep such a huge plant at home.
Carefully! This shrub is poisonous.
Note! Unfortunately, in winter this heat-loving (exclusively southern) shrub freezes mercilessly. At the same time, shelter does not even help it, so for the winter it should be brought indoors, so to speak, used as a tub culture.
Rose
Rose, as everyone has long known, is the queen of the garden.
Rose bushes can be used to make a first-class and virtually impenetrable hedge.