Spruce and pines on your site

Ate on the plotWish to see the garden "in winter and summerone color ", namely - green, it is understandable. And the decision to plant in it more coniferous * naturally. Now for this there are all possibilities: the choice of spruce, fir, pines, junipers, thu all shades, shapes, sizes and breeds is huge. But what do you prefer? The main advice - never buy spruce spontaneously, at first impression. Try to learn about the chosen plant as much as possible: what conditions it prefers, whether care is not too difficult, how it tolerates the cold. This question, oddly enough (is it not snow-covered fir-trees - a symbol of Russian winter?), It is necessary to put on the first place. Many species and varieties of conifers in winter require the warming of the root system (cypress) and protection from sunburn (thuja, spruce sisaya f. Conic, cypress). If you do not take care of this, the garden will be decorated in winter with the green shaggy paws of slender trees, and the swaddled "mummies". It is equally important to find out what dimensions the adult plant will reach. What if this cedar is forty meters high? Initially, the seedlings grow slowly, but then, rushing upwards and spreading out in breadth, they will begin to shade and oppress neighboring plants and suffer at the same time. By the way, if you stopped at dwarf conifers, specify if you are offered as such a slowly growing, but not low-growing plant. So, cypress dull 'Nana Gracilis' for fifteen years grows to only half a meter, but on this his growth does not stop. Placing on the sitePines on the siteexperts advise to start a garden layout: to create from them a certain skeleton, and then to plant other plants. Do not rush to planting, try to imagine what the garden will look like in ten, twenty years. Placing seedlings, note that most conifers are photophilous, but you can find shade-tolerant ones (balsamic fir, single-color fir). If necessary, select plants that are resistant to dust and smoke (spruce, larch), drought-resistant (cypress Lavson). Soils, top dressing For soils coniferous are undemanding and can tolerate any, except for excessively wet and excessively dry, swampy and highly saline. The most suitable are light sandy loam or loamy, well drained, slightly acidic. Top-dressing, moderate, is required only for young or weakened plants. It is better to use for this purpose mineral fertilizers, especially for conifers. Do not use fresh manure. And especially carefully nourish nitrogen fertilizer plants in containers, so as not to stimulate their growth. Use On a large territory, you can lay a larch alley, plant rows of blue fir (spruce fir tree blue), choose a tall silver spruce (fir spruce silver) or fir as a tapeworm. A single standing tree should be open to the views from all sides, "subjugate" to itself the surrounding space, stand out against the background of other cultures. From the plants of many coniferous species, magnificent hedges are obtained. They can only indicate the boundaries of the garden - or become an insuperable barrier, more reliable than any fence. Of conifers, which do not tolerate pruning, they make naturally growing hedges. But, growing, such a fence will take quite a lot of space and can depress other plants planted too close. For shorn hedges use fir, thuja, cypress. They are more compact, since the growth of the crown of conifers is limited to pruning. "Living" wall saves from wind and dust, extinguishes noise from the street, creates a feeling of security, privacy. In winter, it is as dense and impassable as it is in summer. But to grow it, for example, from Tui, it will take 6-10 years. For planting on steep slopes, embankments, bush-shaped and creeping forms of juniper, dwarf pines, natural and picturesque, as in nature, are suitable. On stony hills, dwarf forms of fir, cypress, spruce, thuja, low spherical pine mountain plants look great. If you choose slowly growing conifers, you can create a landscape that "holds" a permanent view for a long time. Preserving the main permanent core from conifers, the picture is supplemented by other plants. Often they help to hide the defects that have arisen, for example, when branches of pygmy pines are bare, they can be "covered" with heather. By the wayIf there are currants on your site,refrain from buying the Weymouth pine (Pinus strobus). Moreover, the neighbors should also be asked not to jail her. This pine is a source of columnar rust spores, which strongly affects currants. * Conifers include plants with needle-like (spruce, pine), scaly (cypress, thuja) or narrow-lanceolate (fir, yew). * All conifers, except larch, are evergreen. Their leaves (needles) do not fall off at one definite time, but gradually, and it seems that this does not happen at all. In reality, pine needles live 2-3 years, fir - up to 5 years, yew - up to 10, spruce - up to 12 years or more.