Shady areas in the garden are formed as it develops and grows trees, bushes, hedges, the appearance of garden buildings. The nature of the shadow can be varied - it can be thick and scattered, and also vary depending on the time of day and season. But in any case, the shaded garden is a problem for the gardener. One of the options for filling dark areas is the construction of embankments, slides or paving, but it is quite expensive and can not always fit into the overall concept of landscape design. A universal solution for most sites can be planting shade-loving plants for the garden.
This may also seem a problem, since it is traditionally believed that plants grow best in well-lit areas. This opinion is erroneous, because there are a number of flowers, shrubs and grasses that perfectly feel in the shade and have their own peculiarities associated with the conditions of growth. For example, the leaves on such plants have a mosaic arrangement mechanism - in such a way as not to obscure neighboring and growing below. Shade-loving flowers do not differ in particular beauty and brightness of the flowers themselves, but are notable for the lush, rich foliage of various forms.
Shade-perennial perennial flowers for the garden
Shade perennials are the best choice for a garden with many corners, constantly immersed in the shade. The peculiarity of such sites is often also the dryness of the soil - as well as the sun's rays, rain drops do not fall here. The best are the unpretentious perennial flowers. Here are the most common of them:
- bruner - grows slowly, pleasing the eye with blue and cream flowers, and especially - with spectacular leaves of bluish-silvery color;
- vyjachka - does not lose the decorative properties from early spring till the late autumn;
- rodzersiya - tall and large plant does not tolerate drought, requires additional irrigation;
- The forest hyacinth is an elegant plant with a sweet aroma, growing under natural conditions under the cover of trees;
- lily of the valley - also feels good in a dense shadow, but has a fairly short flowering period;
- Astilba - widespread in orchards, but few know that it is suitable for growing in the shade;
- host - is distinguished by a variety of varieties and a variety of colors.
Shade-loving flowers for an annual garden
Annual flowers are good because every season of them you can create more and more new songs. They also have a number of disadvantages - they often grow through seedlings, the flowering period usually does not occur until the middle of summer, and in nursing they are more demanding of their long-term brothers. However, despite the difficulties, the list of pilots who normally reconcile with the shadow is quite diverse. These include: nasturtium, adonis summer, forget-me-not, mallow, pansy , cornflower, marigolds upright and many others.
Shade-loving shrubs for the garden
When selecting shrubs, you should pay attention not only to their decorative properties, but also to the features of their root system,
Of the shade-friendly decorative shrubs for the garden, the optimal options are: spindle grass, exochord, yellow acacia, silver ferruginous. To optimize the use of shaded areas, you can plant on them shade-loving fruit bushes for the garden hazel, hawthorn, currant, viburnum, barberry .
Effectively look and shade-loving coniferous plants for the garden, which are unpretentious in the care and quite undemanding to the conditions. The best choice for planting in the garden is the Cossack and horizontal juniper, thuja, pine.