Shrub up to 1.5 m high. The crown is dense, spherical or ovoid. The shoots are erect, reddish-gray. The leaves are narrow, lanceolate, up to 8 cm long, dark green, light green below. Bright pink flowers, sitting on the shoots, appear simultaneously with the blossoming of the leaves in May. Abundant flowering...

Honeysuckle seaside Serotina

Liana up to 4 m high. Grows quickly. The leaves are ovate, up to 7 cm long, dense, leathery, dark green above, bluish below. The flowers are very showy, tubular, dark red on the outside, creamy white on the inside, collected in capitate inflorescences, very fragrant. It blooms in June - July, sometimes again in August...

Maple Ginnala (riverine)

A small tree or shrub up to 6 m high, with a spreading crown and thin shoots. The leaves are graceful, three-lobed, with an elongated middle lobe, 3-6 cm long, dark green, shiny, carmine-red in autumn, very elegant. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, creamy-white, fragrant, collected in panicles. Blooms...

Viburnum common Buldenezh

A large shrub up to 4 m high. The leaves are 3-5-lobed, up to 10 cm long, green, turning red in autumn. The flowers are flat, sterile, initially greenish, then snow-white, collected in large spherical inflorescences, up to 20 cm in diameter. It blooms very profusely in May - June for about 20 days. Fruit...

Purple willow Nana

A small shrub up to 1.5 m high and up to 2 m in diameter. The crown is wide-rounded, dense, with numerous thin brown-red shoots. The leaves are graceful, narrow, up to 3 cm long, bluish-green above, bluish below. The flowers are undecorative.

White dogwood Sibirika Variegata

A shrub up to 1.8 m high with a spreading crown up to 2 m wide. The shoots are thin, bright red, making the plants decorative throughout the season. The leaves are also very decorative, they are quite large, up to 12 cm long, ovate, dark green with a wide creamy-white border and with the same spots...

European euonymus

A shrub in central Russia reaches a height of up to 3 m and a width of up to 2 m. The crown is of medium density. The shoots are erect, green, with corky growths. The oblong-elliptic leaves are quite large, up to 12 cm long, dark green, and in the fall they acquire various shades from yellow to purple. ...

Willow wholeleaf Hakuro-Nishiki

It is a form of the original species with an unusual variegated leaf color. It grows in the form of a spreading bush of a hemispherical shape with flexible, gracefully thin shoots of olive or purple color. The young leaves of this plant have numerous small white and pink spots. Old leaves...

Common privet

Shrub up to 2.5 m high (in central Russia). The crown is dense and branched. The leaves are lanceolate, up to 7 cm long, leathery, dark green. The flowers are small, fragrant, creamy-white, collected in dense inflorescences and panicles up to 15 cm long. It blooms in mid-June for 20-25 days. The fruits are berry-shaped, spherical,...

Amur grapes

A powerful liana up to 30 m high. The leaves are large, up to 25 cm in diameter, heart-shaped, whole or 3-5 lobed, dark green, bloom quite late (in the second half of May), in the fall they turn carmine-red and purple tones. The flowers are small, yellowish, inconspicuous, with a pleasant aroma, collected...

Diabolo

Shrub up to 2.5 m high and wide. The crown is spreading, dense, hemispherical with upright and drooping branches. The leaves are diamond-shaped, 3-5-lobed, up to 10 cm long, violet-red, retain color throughout the summer. The flowers are small, pale pink, look impressive against the background of dark foliage, ...

Japonica

Low spreading thorny shrub up to 1 m tall. It is distinguished by its rather early flowering, sometimes even before the leaves bloom on the plant; the shoots are literally strewn with large red-brown flowers. The leaves are emerald green. Fragrant fruits appear already in the third year of life and fully ripen in the middle...

Euonymus Fortune (varieties)

Fortune's euonymus is a creeping shrub with long shoots, one of the few evergreen deciduous plants. Its dark green leathery shiny elliptical leaves are only 2-4 cm long, their edges are uneven, slightly curved. Fortune's euonymus has many decorative...

Blood red hawthorn (Siberian)

The Moscow region nursery of ornamental plants is pleased to offer to interested gardeners and landscape designers seedlings of Siberian hawthorn, which you can buy at a reasonable price and with delivery directly to the site. Hawthorn is an amazing shrub that reaches a height...

Hawthorn unicornus

A shrub or tree 3-6 meters high, with a rounded-shape-shaped or wide-pyramidal, rather symmetrical crown. The shoots are bare, the old branches are brownish-gray. Spines are few in number, up to 1 cm long. The leaves are ovate or rhombic, inflorescences of 10-18 flowers. The fruits are spherical-ellipsoidal...

Budleya Davida (cultivar)

The Budley plant was first introduced by naturalist and part-time botanist Adam Budley. In the garden it can grow in any way you like, in the form of a shrub, a climbing vine, a bush, or a tall tree. David's buddle grows quickly: over the summer it grows up to 2-2.5 m, very abundantly...

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Decorative beautiful plants in the countryside lift the mood and decorate the area. When planting flowers, you need to take time to care for them. When choosing wild evergreen shrubs, the situation is much simpler: you just need to select options that can withstand the climate in which they will grow, and then nature will do everything itself.

What types of shrubs are there?

Any plant can have several varieties, based on information from which gardeners can understand how to care for them. There are several criteria that determine the types of wild shrubs:

• Height. These can be low-growing (even dwarf) or tall wild shrubs, similar to trees.
• Leaves. There are both deciduous shrubs with traditional-looking leaves, and coniferous shrubs with modified ones.
• Bloom. Individual groups may produce fragrant flowers, berries, or even bear fruit.
• Flowering time. Among the wild shrubs you can find those that grow only in summer, while others delight the eye all year round. Some bloom in one season, while others can be called long-flowering.

Deciduous

In cities and beyond, it is more common to see plants with leaves. They can come in different shapes or sizes depending on the type of particular representative. Wild deciduous shrubs are amazing in their diversity: there are both flowering and fruit-bearing ones. Some of them are known to every person, while the names of others mean nothing. Among the deciduous ones we can distinguish:

• Barberry. The shrub has leaves with a pointed tip, small yellow flowers, and oblong berries.
• Kalina. The leaves look like maple.
• Cotoneaster. It resembles a small tree with oval glossy leaves.
• Lilac. Beautifully flowering, belongs to the evergreen shrubs.
• Magnolia. It is a large shrub. There are white, pink or even orange fragrant flowers.
• Daphne. A beautiful but poisonous plant.
• Euonymus. It consists of rounded leaves, but the flowers do not attract attention.
• Honeysuckle. The elliptical leaves are complemented by small fruits, which are edible in some varieties.
• Raspberries. A shrub with tasty berries has odd-pinnate leaves.
• Rose hip. Fragrant flowers in combination with berries and small leaves present a very beautiful shrub to the eye.

Conifers

If the plant does not have leaves, then most likely they are covered with needles. In fact, this is what modified leaves are called, but shrubs of this type are grouped under the class of conifers. Most of these representatives of the flora prefer to grow in the sun, but there are some that will like partial shade. Coniferous plants: shrubs and trees are unpretentious, therefore they are often used when decorating garden plots. Juniper, yew, and cryptomeria are more common among gardeners.

Shrubs for the garden

Landscaping your own personal plots has become fashionable a long time ago. The greenery in front of the house pleases the eye and adds color. Wild shrubs in the garden are an opportunity to decorate the area without spending much time on further care for them. You need to know their features, so when viewing photos on the pages of gardening catalogs, pay attention to the description. Beautiful shrubs for the garden can be, for example, flowering or fruit-bearing, and some require special conditions.

Blooming

Most gardeners prefer that the greenery on their site be diluted with other shades, so they choose options that will bloom. Before growing wild flowering shrubs, provide them with suitable conditions, or you can choose species that are unpretentious to weather changes. The list of shrubs that can bloom is wide: honeysuckle, lilac, and rose hips stand out.

Evergreens

Late autumn is a period of gradual fading of nature. For some people, a decrease in sunlight combined with a decrease in the number of shades outdoors causes depression. If you live in a private house or occasionally come to your dacha in winter, then evergreen shrubs will be a good way to decorate the area and admire plants all year round. You can plant them anywhere on the site or even make a hedge. This category includes raspberries, barberry, euonymus, cotoneaster, wolfberry, and magnolia.

Fruit

Fruit trees are often planted on a summer cottage not so much for beauty as for the opportunity to harvest their own harvest. Wild fruit bushes cope with both functions. Most of them, in addition to fruits or berries, have beautiful flowers. However, not every beautifully flowering fruit bush can produce an edible harvest. For example, it is better to simply admire the wolfberry, since all its parts are poisonous, but the berries of rosehip and barberry are not only possible, but must be eaten.

Shrubs of Russia - photos and names

Each plant is adapted to certain living conditions. On the territory of such a large country as Russia, there are many climatic zones. This explains the diversity of flora in a given region. Conditions are completely different in Crimea, Kuban, Altai Territory, Volgograd Region, so it is not advisable to transport plants for planting in a garden plot. Some shrubs are unpretentious: with slight fluctuations in temperature and humidity they grow as well as in their native climate, while others do not tolerate even the slightest fluctuations in weather.

Krasnodar region

If we characterize the climate of southern Russia, then in general it can be described as moderate. The humidity here is sufficient and there is plenty of sun, which determines the predisposition of wild shrubs to sunny weather. For the most part, there are deciduous plants - both flowering and non-flowering. Wild shrubs of the Krasnodar Territory do not require specific care, which does not prevent them from being planted in a summer cottage.

• It has large leaves and round red berries. Tolerates drought and cloudy weather.
• You can find bush hawthorn along the edges of forest belts.
• Hawthorn berries and flowers are used in the manufacture of medicines to treat heart diseases.

Brittle buckthorn:

• The leaves of the bush are long and elliptical in shape. The greenish-white flowers are often lost among the leaves. Buckthorn berries are poisonous.
• Shrubs grow along the edges of forests or on river banks.
• Buckthorn bark is useful. It helps get rid of such a delicate ailment as constipation.

Rostov region

Climate has an undeniable influence on flora. In the Rostov region it is temperate continental. It is hot here in the summer months, but winter is easy to endure as the temperatures are not too low. The shrub plants of this region are adapted to droughts, which often occur in summer. Representatives of the flora of the Krasnodar Territory and the Rostov Region often coincide.

Steppe almond:

• A shrub with linear-lanceolate leaves and crimson flowers. There are fruits.
• Grows in sunny areas.
• Almond oil is used in cosmetics to regenerate skin and hair.

Caragana shrubby:

• The shrub can look very lush due to the tufted growth of leaves and flowers. Frost-resistant, not sensitive to drought.
• Grows mainly in forests.
• Parts of caragana are often used in alternative medicine to treat various ailments.

Central Russia

The Central European part of Russia is characterized by not dry, but warm summers and frosty winters. There are predominantly broad-leaved and mixed forest zones here. Shrubs of the middle zone, as a rule, are resistant to low temperatures and easily tolerate the winter season. You can often find not only deciduous, but also coniferous plants.

Euonymus:

• It is an evergreen plant with rounded leaves and inconspicuous flowers.
• Found near deciduous or mixed forests.
• Often used to build hedges.

Common honeysuckle:

• Characterized by large beautiful flowers, round red berries, arranged in pairs.
• Grows in forests, ravines, near rivers.
• Looks beautiful on the garden plot. Gives pollen and nectar to bees.

Astrakhan region

The climate of different regions of Russia can vary greatly: for example, in the Astrakhan region it is continental dry. In winter there is not much snow falling here; thaws often occur at this time of year. April to July sees the heaviest amount of precipitation, consisting of heavy rain and occasional hail. Interesting shrubs of the Astrakhan region grow in the delta and floodplain of the Volga.

Shrub amorpha:

• It can reach a height of 6 m, has odd-pinnate elliptical leaves and small but very beautiful flowers.
• Forest edges are the amorpha’s favorite habitat.
• Useful for autonomic disorders and neuroses.

• It has thin branches, narrow pointed leaves, earrings, and fruits in the form of small boxes.
• Grows in the floodplains of rivers.
• A decoction is made from the bark of the shrub to dye fabrics.

Moscow

It’s hard to imagine green spaces doing well in a large, densely populated city. However, the shrubs of the Moscow region and Moscow feel great in such conditions. The climate is similar to the middle zone, so the representatives of the flora are repeated. Often, gardeners near Moscow plant beautiful wild shrubs in their dachas, where they delight the eye for many years.

• You can recognize rose hips by their beautiful flowers with a stunning aroma of roses. Sweet fruits ripen after the bush reaches three years of age.
• It can grow everywhere depending on the species.
• Parts of rose hips are used for medicinal purposes. The fruits contain a large amount of vitamins.

• An evergreen shrub with serrated leaves and umbellate inflorescences.
• It is unpretentious to the lack of light, but is located where there is more moisture.
• Viburnum berries and bark are used in folk medicine.

Perennial shrubs for Siberia

A huge region located in the northeast of the country is commonly called Siberia. If you dig deeper, the geography and climatic characteristics of these areas differ from each other. Wild Siberian shrubs and other flora may be adapted to slightly different conditions depending on the specific location.

Barberry:

• Frost-resistant plants with oval leaves united in bunches. It has oblong red berries.
• Grows with sufficient light penetration and low humidity.
• The berries are used to make delicious jam, confitures, marshmallows and other sweets.

Holly crenate:

• Shiny dark green leaves are complemented by white flowers and drupe fruits.
• Grows best in acidic soil.
• The leaves are used to make diuretics.

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Wild shrubs: names with photos

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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 decorative crop that suits you 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 a brief description of the plant. 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 towards 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 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), with a height of 2 m, is a garden species with pendulous 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. Deutzia rosea (D. rosea), 1 m high, blooms in May with 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. Exochorda Giralda (E.giraldii), 3 m high, has the largest 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’ has 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 in a sunny place and 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. The common species of Hamamelis soft (H. mollis), 3 m high, blooms with 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 just anywhere - it requires full 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. The stems of terry varieties need garter. Peony Delavay (P. delavayi) with red single 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’ is medium in height and has yellow foliage, while ‘Sybille’ is a dwarf plant with a height of 1m.

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 of various colors are grown in the gardens. 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’.

Decorative shrubs for a summer residence, photos and names of which will be presented in this article, are often precisely those elements that harmonize the overall picture and emphasize the necessary nuances of the site so that it looks attractive, bright and harmonious. They are like strokes on a canvas that will help to correctly “dilute” the flowerbeds with the necessary details and place accents on certain places. I am sure that every summer resident, gardener, owner of a personal plot wants to do everything correctly and carefully so that vegetables, fruit trees, beds with herbs are all in their places.

Depending on the size of your plot, imagination and general preferences, ornamental shrubs can be a background for other plantings, an element of garden compositions, appear in the form of hedges, or act as the main nuance to which everyone’s attention will be focused.

In this article I would like to talk about the most popular shrubs, most often planted in our region, and, of course, the most beautiful. It is unrealistic to cover the entire spectrum of these representatives of this plant kingdom, but it is worth paying our attention to the main flowering ones, as well as decorative foliage ones.

How to beautifully plant ornamental shrubs: basic placement criteria

The very first thing is to choose a plant that will feel comfortable in the climatic conditions of your region. You need to choose a specific variety based on this factor. The second nuance is its location.

If you purchase a sun-loving representative, then you need to plant it in a sunny place, where there will be a lot of light and not even a hint of shadow. But shade-loving ones, on the contrary, should be placed in shaded areas, or even in the shade of buildings or large trees. This is important, since the wrong choice of location can affect not only the brightness of the colors of the foliage or the splendor of flowers on the shrub, but also its viability.

The overall picture of the garden should also be taken into account when choosing a particular plant. In a small area, tall and lush specimens will look out of place. But, for example, flowering frost-resistant, low, beautiful bushes are ideal, and they will delight you with their appearance until the cold weather.

These representatives include the dwarf varieties of Cossack juniper Tamariscifolia and Green Carpet - low-growing, creeping on the ground, very frost-resistant. These are ideal options for creating compact alpine slides, rockeries, lawn edgings, and borders.

Shrubs for hedges should also be selected from among low or medium-sized representatives with a dense crown, so that later instead of an attractive fence you do not end up with columns of tall thickets. Thorny bushes, decorative flowering, columnar representatives, for example, junipers are optimally suited for such a design. Weigela, buddleia, spirela, and oleander are well suited for joint plantings; they will look harmonious with other green fellows growing nearby. And if you want to form an arch or, for example, decorate a gazebo or fence, then in this case you should choose climbing types.

The choice is wide! For each site of any size and shape, you can find your own option. In addition to flowering plants, there are many varieties of shrubs with amazing foliage colors, unusual crowns, and leaf shapes. Diversity is an important aspect in this matter. In most cases, the dacha landscape is divided into three zones (or tiers): the lower one - vegetable beds and flower beds, the upper one - fruit trees. But bushes can occupy the so-called middle zone. The correct selection and combination of plants with each other is the main goal for a summer resident who strives for beauty, comfort and harmony in his plot.

Decorative deciduous or flowering shrubs are not only a pleasure to contemplate, but also functional plants. Thus, by planting them near the fence, you can create a barrier from prying eyes or unwanted penetration (spiky varieties).

With their help, it is very convenient to zone a site, for example, to separate recreation areas and an area for growing garden crops.

Borders, paths, hedges, which have already been mentioned, creating protection (shade) for more delicate shade-loving plants, decorating some unsightly fragments on the site - all this can be decorated, decorated or hidden with the help of a variety of bushes and shrubs. And if you decide to plant fruit representatives, you will be additionally rewarded for your efforts with healthy berries.

Flowering shrubs for the garden

Some of these representatives are also fruit-bearing; this nuance will be indicated in the description.

Weigela

I’ll start, perhaps, with flowering weigela. This shrub looks great both during and after flowering. The Nana Variegata variety can also be classified as a decorative deciduous variety; its foliage has a beautiful golden border, and Nana Purpurea has dark, red-brown leaves.

Weigela Nana Purpurea

The blooming weigela species delights the eye with pink bell-shaped flowers that bloom in waves throughout the season (usually the entire month of May). The first wave is the most abundant. Some varieties can produce color twice a year, such as Weigela Middendorf.

Weigel Middendorf

Spirea

Spiraea is very unpretentious and very beautiful. Its varieties can bloom in both spring and summer. If you calculate the time correctly, then you can plant these two species in such a way that one fades and the second just enters the flowering phase. Some varieties of spirea have beautiful foliage - Vagnutta, Pink Ice. For this reason, they can be classified as decorative deciduous shrubs.

Spiraea Wangutta

Spiraea blooms profusely and luxuriantly, bending its branches literally covered with white flowers to the very ground.

The low, slow-growing Japanese spirea blooms with lush lilac-pink inflorescences. It is also attractive and a honey plant, like its white-flowering variety.

Spiraea japonica

Spiraea are not particularly picky about the choice of soil, but you should pay attention to the light/shade requirements of different varieties.

Spiraea in winter:

Jasmine or mock orange

Garden jasmine or mock orange - what would you do without it?! Because of its enchanting aroma, almost everyone knows and loves it. Today there are multiple varieties and hybrids of it - all of them are very attractive. Flowers vary in size, shape, color and aroma.

But in our case we are talking about a white-flowered representative - frost-resistant, disease-resistant, very unpretentious (can be placed in the shade or in a place illuminated by sunlight). It looks equally great in group plantings and in single plantings, the main thing is to water it on time, but do not allow water to stagnate in the area around the tree trunk. The flowering time of mock orange depends on its variety, but it usually begins in May and lasts about a month. There are those that bloom both in summer and early autumn.

Chubushnik:

Jasmine (mock orange)

Kalina

Viburnum refers to both fruiting specimens and decorative deciduous plants. A unique plant in every sense: it blooms beautifully with large white spherical inflorescences, the berries are useful, and are widely used as medicine. The foliage is also noteworthy: its shade varies from rich green to gold and red.

In general, viburnum has many species (about 200), among which you can even find evergreen specimens. In our area, the most common and popular are its two familiar species - common viburnum and viburnum bulldonezh. They are frost-resistant, not capricious, decorative at any time of the year, they love shade and moderate watering. Flowering time: mid-May/late June, approximately 20 days.

Viburnum viburnum in bloom and with fruits:

Viburnum common

Kalina buldenezh:

Kalina buldenezh

Rose hip

Some shrubs that can grow in the country do not even need introduction or recommendations, for example, rosehip. It is attractive in appearance, useful in many ways, not only will it decorate your site in the spring when it blooms with pink or red flowers, but it will also create a thorny barrier if you plant it along the fence. Some of its varieties have flowers that are as beautiful as roses (double type), and varieties with healing red berries will give you a natural “medicine”, the valuable qualities of which are known to everyone. Rosehip is unpretentious, branches quickly, has a very dense crown, prefers sun or partial shade. It blooms from May to August.

Shrubs have firmly conquered their niche in the plant world. Meeting them at every step (in forests, vegetable gardens, orchards, parks and just on the street), we sometimes do not attach any importance to them. And it’s completely in vain: knowing what types of shrubs there are, you can create stunning garden compositions that will delight the eye not only in spring and summer, but also in late autumn.

Shrubs: one of the life forms of plants

A life form, in other words, biological, is a phenotype, the external appearance of a plant, which reflects the degree of adaptability to the environment. The most complete classification of life forms is considered to be authored by I. G. Serebryakov, according to which they distinguish:

• (trees, shrubs, shrubs);
• semi-woody plants (subshrubs and subshrubs);
• terrestrial herbs;
• aquatic herbs.

This division of all existing plants is based on the degree of lignification of the above-ground part. The growth of branches in shrubs begins from the base, and with age it is difficult to distinguish the main trunk. In trees, the outlines of the crown are very clear, and the entire structure of the plant, a clearly defined main shoot, is visible. Thus, the structure of the above-ground part is how trees and shrubs fundamentally differ from each other. There are also shrubs and subshrubs. The basis for their separation into a separate group is their low height (up to 0.5 m) and the weak degree of lignification of the shoots, respectively.

Classification is a direct answer to the question of what types of shrubs there are. The division into groups can be carried out according to various principles; let’s consider the most common ones:

Classification of shrubs by height

This division can sometimes be relative. Growth is affected by fertilization, soil composition, climatic conditions and the use of biostimulants. Depending on the size of shrubs in nature, they are usually divided into three groups:

• low shrubs, the maximum height of which does not exceed one meter, these include, for example, Cossack juniper (pictured);
• medium shrubs, 1-2.5 meters high, for example, currants, common barberry;
• tall shrubs (more than 2.5 meters in height): red elderberry, lilac, Siberian hawthorn.

What types of shrubs are there depending on the intensity of growth?

Considering how quickly certain types of shrubs grow, they are usually divided into five large groups:

• very fast growing species (for example, yellow acacia, which grows up to 3 meters in 2-3 years, forming dense thickets, mock orange, tamarix);
• fast-growing shrubs, for example, viburnum, hazel, silver oleaster;
• shrubs of moderate growth (lilac, cherry, Japanese quince);
• slow-growing shrubs, these include Cossack juniper, privet, sea buckthorn;
• very slowly growing, as a rule, these are dwarf forms of deciduous and coniferous plants.

Classification depending on plant lifespan

The plant as a whole must be distinguished from that of the individual shoots. For example, raspberries can grow on a plot for up to 50 years. But its shoots live only two years. There are four groups of shrubs:

Classification based on frost resistance

This information is often of interest to gardeners, especially in those regions where, as a rule, winters are quite harsh, but they really want to please themselves with unusual plants. This is where the question arises about what kinds of shrubs and herbs are suitable for harsh climatic conditions. It is necessary to take into account the factor of resistance to cold, as this will save you from the wrong purchase, unnecessary expenses and disappointment. All shrubs are divided into 5 groups:

• very frost-resistant - these are plants that can withstand winter temperature drops of up to -40 degrees, and sometimes more, this does not harm them; Basically, the group consists of coniferous shrubs (dwarf cedar), but there are also representatives of deciduous trees, for example, hawthorn and Siberian turf;
• frost-resistant, they tolerate cold winters, but if the frosts are too severe, the shoots not covered with snow freeze (hawthorn, viburnum, honeysuckle);
• relatively heat-loving - these are plants that have a long growing season; young shoots often do not have time to become lignified and therefore are easily damaged during spring frosts and prolonged strong winter cold snaps, for example, shrubs of the genus Euonymus, spirea, privet;
• thermophilic, in such plants, during a prolonged cold spell, the above-ground part can die completely, so they require additional shelter;
• very heat-loving shrubs, they absolutely cannot tolerate cold temperatures below -10 degrees.

What types of shrubs are there depending on their lighting requirements?

Lighting is another factor in the successful development of a plant. An incorrectly chosen location can ruin it. Therefore, it is so important to take into account the light factor when landscaping your site. Although it must be remembered that in many cases, light-lovingness is a fickle characteristic. As a rule, young plants require shade due to the risk of burns, but when they grow up, they grow well even under the brightest rays.

Let's look at what types of shrubs there are depending on their requirements for sunlight:

• light-loving, they absolutely cannot tolerate long-term shading and prefer to grow in open spaces, for example, rose hips, spirea, rowan;
• relatively shade-tolerant shrubs: Tatarian honeysuckle, paniculata hydrangea (pictured), yellow acacia;
• Shade-tolerant shrubs tolerate shade well, but still grow better in a lighted place; these include warty euonymus, privet, and hazel.

Decorative deciduous shrubs

Landscape designers actively use not only flowers and trees, but also shrubs in their work. Because with their help you can create light compositions, voluminous hedges, green figures, or simply create color contrasts, since many species are distinguished by their beautiful colors. Many amateur gardeners know what types of shrubs (names, varieties) there are with decorative leaves, and they put this into practice very well. When choosing them for yourself, keep in mind that there are deciduous and evergreen species. The latter are mainly miniature, dwarf forms of coniferous trees. Deciduous species include a huge number of shrubs. It is important to remember that they are all quite heat-loving, light-loving and demanding on soil fertility, so in areas further than central Russia they require careful care and shelter for the winter. The most prominent representatives:

Beautiful flowering shrubs

When you mention such plants, the first thing that comes to mind is magnificent bush roses, an ornamental shrub, the species of which are very popular. Another frequent and well-known guest of Russian gardens is mock orange, which for some reason has firmly secured the name jasmine, which is completely incorrect, since these plants even belong to different genera (Hydrangeaceae and Oliveceae, respectively). There are about 60 species of Chubushnikov, the most popular representatives are Caucasian and Shrenka. Those who want to have a fragrant and unusual garden should also pay attention to forsythia, viburnum, spirea, lilac, cinquefoil, rhododendron, buddleia, deutia, and tree peonies (pictured).

Berry bushes

Berry bushes are of great economic importance. Rarely does a garden in our country exist without currants or raspberries and their closest relatives, blackberries. Selection has moved far ahead in this regard; many varieties and varieties have been bred, differing in the size of the bush, the color of the berries, and the speed of ripening. Fragrant currants produce not only berries, but also leaves, which are brewed as tea or used in cooking. It is also worth trying to plant Japanese quince, chokeberry, hawthorn, serviceberry, viburnum, (pictured), honeysuckle and sea buckthorn.

Of course, the nature of care depends on the purpose. Thus, berry bushes require more attention; they are often exposed to various pests and diseases. But the time spent is worth it, because in the end you get the most valuable vitamins and microelements in natural “packaging”, grown with your own hands.

When choosing plants for your garden, it is important to know what types of shrubs there are (names, varieties, types). This will definitely help you make the right choice, correctly determine the planting location and achieve a positive result when growing.