Evergreen shrubs on your site

What are the benefits of evergreen plantings? Evergreen shrubs provide a lively setting for the garden all year round and structure it. Some of them have a spectacular appearance, a pleasant aroma and bloom beautifully, while others create a background in a monochromatic range.

Evergreen shrubs produce hedges or borders that separate one area of ​​the site from another.

• Daphne (daphne, wolfberry).

These evergreen shrubs are loved for their small, beautiful, fragrant flowers that appear in late winter and early spring when little is blooming in the garden. Small flowers of white, greenish-yellow, purple or pink hue are collected in dense tangles at the top of the stems.

It grows from 1 to 3 m. Daphne loves sunny or partially shaded places, protected from drafts, moist, well-drained soil, rich in humus, unpretentious and takes root well in forest gardens and rock gardens.

Daphne variety "Odora aureomarginata" is distinguished by glossy leaves with golden edges, it is also the most fragrant daphne variety. The wolfberry is poisonous!

• Boxwood evergreen (stone tree).

A compact evergreen shrub from which you can create exciting compositions, single figures and whole mazes!

Just give the shrub the desired shape and maintain it from time to time - boxwood grows very slowly, and its leathery small leaves hold their shape for a long time. Loves shade, moderate moisture, drained soil, unpretentious.

And it can live for several centuries with good care. This plant has dwarf varieties, they can also be grown at home in the style of bonsai or topiary. Boxwood - a poisonous plant!

• Japanese fatsia (Japanese chestnut, homemade chestnut).

Architectural evergreen shrub with large, glossy, heart-shaped, palmate-divided leaves and a sturdy stem.

Fatsia flowers resemble dandelions - delicate, creamy white fluffy air balls that give small inedible fruits, similar to chokeberry.

It has many varieties with a variety of foliage colors. Fatsia Japanese is unpretentious, easily adapts to almost any location, grows up to 2 m, the crown is massive, can be grown at home.

• Aucuba Japanese (golden tree, golden dust).

One of the most resilient and hardy evergreen shrubs! Will tolerate both full shade and dry soil, however lighting is necessary to maintain bright colors.

The most popular varieties are Spotted Laurel or Japanese Laurel - large, fleshy glossy leaves with bright yellow blotches and bizarre patterns. Grows from 1 to 4 m. The female plant produces bright red berries in the fall next to the male plant. All parts of the aucuba are poisonous.

• Camellia.

A classic evergreen shrub that blooms in early spring. Camellias are large (grow up to 15 m), glossy dark green foliage and an abundance of spectacular flowers - large loose layered buds.

Their flowers can be single, double, shades from pink to red, yellow or white. Dwarf varieties are also available. Camellia is capricious, growing and caring for it requires experience in gardening.

This shrub needs partial shade, in acidic soil, therefore, with neutral or alkaline soil, it is necessary to provide the plant with compost John Innes 3. Camellia grown from seeds grows faster and has a more stable immunity to environmental influences.

• Euonymus.

This evergreen creeping shrub can turn your fall garden into a fantastic sight! Its leaves explode with fireworks in shades of scarlet, purple, yellow and bronze, and the fruits are so bright that they are mistaken for flowers.

Euonymus grows as a hedge, free-standing bushes, in a rock garden, as a lawn, in pots, and is also able to climb walls. The most unpretentious plant. The sort of euonymus "Fortune" gives the plot a well-groomed and aristocratic look. The euonymus is poisonous, especially the fruit!

• Mahonia holly (American barberry, Oregon grape).

This evergreen shrub is prized for the sunny splash in late winter and early spring of bright yellow and highly fragrant flowers when much of the garden is still asleep. Has glossy, thorny leaves similar to holly. This unpretentious shrub copes well with frost, clay soil and shade. Grows up to 1 m.

• Photinia phrase-monger.

A dense shrub up to 2 m. Photinia of the "Red Robin" variety is popular because of its two-colored oval long leaves, the old ones are shiny bronze-green, the young ones are bright red.

Small white flowers bloom in spring. Loves the sun, moderate humidity, any type of garden soil except clay.

• Holly (holly, swabian thorn, pandora).

In a number of countries, it is associated with the holiday of Christmas, since during this period red berries ripen on it. Such evergreen shrubs have dark green leaves of an interesting ovoid shape with wavy edges and small thorns.

Frost-resistant and otherwise unpretentious, holly grows slowly, but is capable of reaching up to 25 m with a dense crown of 5 m. The fruits of this evergreen shrub are great for birds, but poisonous to humans.