Decorative shrubs for Siberia: photos and names

When choosing decorative shrubs for Siberia, it is necessary to take into account the climatic conditions of this region. Of great importance are the resistance of the plant to low temperatures, its shape, flowering periods and other factors.

Selection and location of landings

Decorative shrubs in Siberia (photos and names will be shown below), suitable for the climatic conditions of this region, can be grown both in the garden area and in urban plantings. They can be planted:

• Individually, preferably so that there is a good overview from different sides: near the window of the house, near the pond, along the path;
• Groups - to create an impression of coziness or as a hedge;
• For the zoning of a yard or plot.

In the beginning, it is better to draw up an approximate sketch plan for planting with indication of the functional areas of the yard. The main criteria for selecting shrubs - unpretentiousness in care and long flowering in the summer. To long-flowering decorative shrubs for Siberia are: budleja, veygela, hydrangea, spiraea, etc. Many plants are decorative not only in the flowering period - they also have a very beautiful color of leaves or fruits.

The most common varieties of ornamental shrubs for a garden in Siberia:

• Amur grape;
• bloodroot;
• Vaigela blossoming;
• Hydrangea paniculate;
• Schisandra Chinese;
• Cistus, holly,
• Boxwood, juniper;
• Karyoptery, budleia and others.

Consider these plants in more detail.

Japonica

This plant, which is native to Japan, belongs to the family of Rosaceae and grows up to 1 m in height. It flowers beautifully, and also bears very delicious fruits. When planting it in the spring it is necessary to take into account the requirements of the culture to the ground: it does not like peat and alkaline soil, prefers sunny, sheltered from drafts and wind places. Shrubs plant at a distance of 1-1.5 m from each other.

After the landing, they make fertilizing: the first - in the spring (nitrogen fertilizers), the next - in the autumn (complex compounds). Care consists of regular weeding from weeds and mulching of the circumferential circle with peat or grass. For the winter, shoots are recommended to bend to the ground and cover with snow, then they will bloom better and bear fruit. The quince propagates with the help of seeds, which are harvested in autumn and immediately sown, or by cuttings.

Aronia blackberry

This is a shrub up to 3 m tall, belonging to a family of Rosaceae, who came from North America. She has very beautiful leaves: in the summer - an ellipsoid form of dark green color, and in the fall they become scarlet or dark red. Blooms in May-June with white-pink flowers. Fruits ripen by August-September, they can be used for medicinal purposes.

The plant is drought-and frost-resistant, propagates it in spring with seeds previously stratified (3 months), and can also be cuttings or inoculations. Often, aronia is planted on black chokeberry. Aronia blackfruit can be planted as one by one, and in groups, it is good to use in hedges.

Barbaris Tunberga

This is a prickly bush, growing to 2.5 m in height, with a spherical crown. His homeland is China and Japan. Barberry has beautiful small round leaves, which in autumn are painted in fiery red colors. Blossoms with single yellow flowers, fruits - red berries, which do not fall off for a long time and are an additional decoration of the bush.

The plant is not demanding to the ground, loves light, refers to frost-resistant ornamental shrubs. For Siberia - an excellent solution. It can be cut, giving the necessary shape, so Thunberg's barberry is often used to create hedges.

When propagating the seeds, it must be stratified within 3 months. When planting seedlings, it is recommended to add 200 g of wood ash to each bush. Plant shrubs at a distance of 1.5-2 m.

Berezkin

A fairly high (up to 3-5 m) shrub, which has bright green large leaves, which in autumn are painted in beautiful shades of pink and red. Blossoms in the second half of May with small white-green flowers. The maximum decorativeness reaches at ripening of fruits - bright pink boxes which burst and form a very elegant bouquet of hanging seeds. The spindle tree almost all the autumn and winter looks colorful and is often used as a decorative shrub in Siberia (see photo below).

He likes loose and fertile soils, it can be planted both in the lighted and in the shady areas. It is frost-resistant and drought-resistant. Most often, bushes are used in groups, planted to create a curb. Propagation of the spindle with seeds (with a preliminary 4-month stratification), which are sown in wet sandy soil at 3-4 degrees of heat. Culture well tolerates pruning.

When planting, its toxicity should be taken into account, therefore it is not recommended to use shrubs in areas where there are children.

Hawthorn Altai

A plant up to 5 m high is planted as a decorative shrub. For Western Siberia and Altai is ideal. Fruits are edible, orange-yellow, early ripening. Can be propagated by seeds or cuttings. It is used for planting hedges. Winter resistant.

Budlei David

One of the most beautiful flowering decorative shrubs for Siberia, grows without trimming to 2.5 m. It blooms in June - September with beautiful swept inflorescences, consisting of small white and purple flowers, smelling of honey. Loves well drained calcareous fertile soils, sunlit places.

Shrub must be cut well: in March, cut all the last year's increase to hemp 5 cm tall. The culture reproduces quite simply - with the help of seeds in the spring months or with green cuttings in the fall.

Amur grapes

This is a lianate plant, whose leaves in autumn acquire a very beautiful yellow and orange color. The grapes are used in vertical gardening, it does not require special care, the pruning tolerates easily, is frost-resistant, withstands up to -40 ° C. Requirements for soil: like loose soils with a mixture of peat, but does not tolerate the content of lime.

Amur grapes love heat and light, but can grow with a slight shading. In order to get it a harvest, it must be planted in a sunny place. Blooms in May. Young plants like frequent watering, and adults are already able to tolerate a short drought.

Weigel

Blooming veygel - one of the most beautiful ornamental shrubs for Siberia, belonging to the deciduous type. Frost resistant. In landscape design it is often used in the formation of Japanese-style gardens or alpine hills.

The plant loves sunlight, however it does not tolerate much soil moisture and windy places. It is recommended to constantly loosen the top layer of the soil for good air permeability. The shrub requires a lot of space, then it can grow up to 2 m in height.

Flowering of the wiggles begins in May-June, with tubular flowers can be of different shades - from white to dark pink, and the leaves are colored depending on the variety in different colors, ranging from green to brownish-red. Reproduction by means of green cuttings can be carried out in autumn on the ground.

Hydrangea paniculate

Do not know which to choose beautiful ornamental shrubs? For Siberia, a hydrangea panicle is a good option. The plant reaches a height of 2 m, blooms very abundantly in July-August. Flowers are collected in dense inflorescences of white, and later pink colors. Culture well tolerates shading and frost in winter, loves moist, fertile neutral soil, propagates by cuttings (in spring).

Every year in the spring, it is required to cut off weak and shallow shoots, strong leaves are left with 4-8 buds. In summer, after buds appear, you should remove the weak branches again, so that the flowers are larger. In addition, it is recommended to weed well around the bush and apply fertilizer. Large branches with buds are better tied up. Shrub can be used both in single and in group planting.

Bloodroot

Shrubby low plant up to 1.5 m, can grow on poor and medium-fertile soils, well tolerates shading and drought, grows rapidly. It is used in ornamental plantings, has a spherical shape. At the time of flowering, it is literally strewn with small golden yellow flowers (1.5-3 cm). You can propagate the spindle with seeds, layers, cuttings during the summer and autumn. To decorate the garden is used on alpine hills, single and group plantings, for hedges. The culture is often planted in urban parks and on the banks of water bodies.

Schizandra Chinese

A lianate plant with dark leaves, used for vertical gardening, does not tolerate drought. At watering it is required on each bush to 60 l of water. Planted Schizandra in a sunny place, protected from the winds. The plant blooms in the spring, and the fruits adorn it until the end of the season.

Juniper

This coniferous ornamental plant, which is successfully used to decorate the garden and create a hedge. The most unpretentious and resistant to frost is Cossack juniper, which is widely used as a decorative shrub. For Siberia it's just perfect, it can grow both in the sun and in the shade. The plant has gray-green needles, the soil tolerates any, including stony and sandy, but does not like high humidity. Needles in junipers are considered poisonous. It can be propagated by cuttings and seeds, often the plant has rooted shoots that spread along the ground and take root independently.

Boxwood

Evergreen shrub plant up to 2.5 m tall, very unpretentious, not afraid of wind and drafts. Boxwood loves regular watering and feeding in the summer, propagates cuttings. The plant is used to create hedges. Very original look any shapes and shapes that can be formed when pruning.

Lilac

This is a magnificent flowering plant, very popular with gardeners and often used to decorate gardens for many years. Shrubs are usually well tolerated by various weather conditions, frost and drought-resistant. Blossom lush and fragrant, have many different varieties and varieties, varied in their requirements. Lilac is planted, as a rule, in autumn in pits measuring 0.8-1 m, filling the latter with a mixture of soil, sand and organic matter. When cutting, 12 branches are formed, located as far apart as possible.

For the regions of Siberia and the Far East, the Amur lilac is ideal, which grows to 10 m in height. Blooms in June-July, later other varieties, prefers well-lit places and drained soils, does not like swampy soil, but blossom begins only in 9-10. Propagated by seeds or cuttings in the summer.

Lilac Hungarian - shrub up to 5 m in height, has flowers of a variety of colors: violet, raspberry, etc. Flowering in May - July lasts 1-3 weeks. Culture is often used in urban planting and in gardens. All varieties of lilacs are used as flowering ornamental shrubs for Siberia (photo culture can be seen below).

Spirea

For the region of Siberia, a hybrid of spiraea of Japanese and white flowers - the spirea of Bumald. This shrub, growing to 0.75 m in height, refers to deciduous rosaceous, has upright branches that form the crown. Flowers are painted in different colors - from white to dark pink. You can multiply the culture by seeds, cuttings and by dividing the bush. Used for various plantings in open areas, singly or in groups.

Spirea Nippon - deciduous shrubbery, growing to 2.5 m tall, has white and yellow flowers, flowering time is 15-20 days in July, in autumn it is decorated with lemon yellow and red leaves. The plant is used for various planting, including the creation of alpine hills, planted on the slopes.

Spirea ashy - differs very early spring flowering, during which it looks very beautiful. Blossoms a few weeks. The height of the bush is up to 2 m, the flowers are collected in inflorescences of umbellate type, thickly cover the plant. The culture is well pruned, unpretentious.

Japanese spiraea - a very spectacular shrub up to 1.5 m tall, blooms throughout the summer with bright red and pink flowers that gather in fluffy paniculate inflorescences. All these varieties are successfully used as decorative shrubs. For Siberia - the very thing!

Forsythia

This shrub of the olive family is valued precisely for the early (before the appearance of the leaves) and colorful flowering. In late April and early May, the bush is covered with small yellow flowers. In the conditions of Siberia, a hybrid variety (middle or intermediate), an oval one, Linwood is planted. Bushes are better to cover for the winter. For a good wintering in August-September, shorten or pinch the tips of the shoots.

The plant prefers fertile soils, sunny and sheltered from the cold wind, does not like drought, unpretentious. Propagation of rooting by root offspring or layers, as well as green cuttings. It is used in landscape design as a spring-flowering spring plant.

Chubushnik

A good decorative shrub for Siberia. Varieties and species are diverse: coronary and terry, dwarfish and normal. Chubushnik has a second name - jasmine garden. The culture forms quite high shrubs - up to 2-4 m, blooms very beautiful fragrant white or cream flowers in June. Propagation by seeds, division of bushes or cuttings.

Chubushnik - a bush frost-hardy, loving open sunny places and fertile, well drained soil. The development of a bush can be badly affected by excessive humidity. When planting, the root neck can not be buried, the distance between the bushes is maintained within 0.5-1.5 m, when planting a hedge the seedlings are planted more often (50 cm). After flowering the plant is recommended to cut and give the bush the necessary form.

We examined the most common decorative shrubs for breeding in Siberia. Photos and names of some of them, especially spectacular, were shown here. The main thing when selecting such a culture is to choose zoned varieties that have good frost resistance and adaptability to this climate.