Plants in landscape design are one of the main elements. This is all due to the decorativeness of green leaves and the brightness of their colors. Plants can attract attention with the color of the bark, the height of the stem or the shape of the crown. You can create many compositions based on the variety of plants. If you use plants to decorate the site, be sure to remember that they live, develop, and then die, and each individual plant has its own care requirements.
Shrubs and trees are the most important “building material” for creating a landscape design of the site. They create volume in the garden, protect from strong winds and heat, give the comfort of resting places, determine the color, shape and smell of the entire garden. Evergreen trees give the garden decorativeness in late autumn and winter, while all other plants have faded and fell, all flower beds are hidden under the snow.
Shrubs in landscaping landscape play the role of «walls». They are planted with straight or curved lines, then they can divide the garden into separate “rooms”; Distributed in free landing — then they emphasize the velvety of the lawn and set off mixborders and flower beds. Decorative shrubs are planted in a linear way in a row or several, then a hedge is obtained, which decorates the garden plot well and closes it from prying eyes.
Shrubs are of great importance, if they are planted close to the house. Thus, the foundation is closed or shrubs are used for green frame of the cottage. It is they who form the initial impression of the house and reflect the taste of the owner.
Thanks to the haircut, you can slow down or stop the growth of some plants and give them the desired shape. The most striking examples of such a haircut are bonsai and standard trees.
Bonsai’s homeland — China. But the art of Bonsai was developed and brought to impeccable beauty in Japan. There is a shrine of the nation. Bonsai is an ideal tree that created the hands of a person, a tree that has an established form of the trunk, a certain number of branches, the size of the leaves and so on. For the first time in Russia they learned about Bonsai in 1956, but called Bonsai a dwarf plant.