When creating a cozy atmosphere on your site, you should plant not only beautiful flowering plants, but also do not forget about shrubs. You can choose beautiful representatives even for the harsh climates of the Urals, Siberia or the Moscow region. Today, the list of crops with good characteristics of frost resistance, endurance and unpretentiousness is very large.

Features of perennial shrubs

Blooming bush garden flowers are a great option for those owners who cannot spend a lot of time decorating their beds. Most of these plants bloom beautifully and can be a very effective element of landscape design.

Flowering shrubs

Important! To achieve maximum effect when decorating a garden, you should carefully plan the location of plants on the site.

The best representatives

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It is very interesting to use shrubs for the garden and garden perennials that bloom. With the help of them, you can create unique beautiful compositions.

The following plants will be suitable unpretentious perennial shrubs for a garden in areas with a cold climate:

  • Park rose. This plant is most often found under the name shrub rose, outwardly very similar to the cultivated rose hip. Prefers fertile soils with a high humus content. Grows best in sunny areas.
  • Jasmine. A very beautiful fragrant plant that grows well in harsh climates, tolerates cold winters perfectly even without shelter. Prefers plenty of sun, but should not be planted in direct sunlight.
  • Lilac. A detailed description of this plant is not required, since in Russia there are few gardens and parks where lilacs do not grow. Everybody knows the name of a garden shrub with white or lilac flowers, even children. He delights others with his delicate aroma. Lilac can be attributed to the group of shade-loving crops, as it feels great near the walls of buildings, fences or under other trees.
  • Forsythia. One of the brightest perennials that blooms almost first. The inflorescences are decorated in the form of bright yellow bells. Moreover, flowers appear earlier than foliage. This is the uniqueness of this plant. The height reaches up to 2 meters.

Forsythia

  • Weigela. Another very original perennial shrub that is suitable for growing in areas with cold climates. Flowering is observed twice per season: in May and August. The colors can be from pale pink to bright fuchsia.
  • Hydrangea. Very beautiful perennial shrub flowers for the garden, which are very demanding on the composition of the soil and the level of moisture - they are afraid of drought, therefore mulching and regular watering are required.
  • Brugmansia. An original plant that belongs to the Solanaceae family. The height of the shrub reaches 5 meters. It has very beautiful inflorescences that resemble pointed bells in shape. A peculiarity of the plant is considered to be a love of moisture - you will need to water it every day.
  • Budleya. Outwardly, it is very similar to lilac in the shape and color of inflorescences. The height of these perennial bush flowers reaches up to 3 m. They attract not only with their beauty, but also with the duration of flowering, as they bloom from early summer and bloom until late frosts.

Budleya

  • Bloodroot.An inconspicuous undersized plant, which is distinguished by an abundance of bright medium-sized flowers. The foliage itself is not very attractive. Long bloom - from May to the very frost. Unpretentious in care and not demanding on the composition of the soil. Most often, red cinquefoil is found, but sometimes it can also have a pink color.
  • Barberry. A uniquely beautiful shrub, which is notable not so much for flowering as for beautiful foliage. Its peculiarity is that the color changes during the season.

Interesting! Depending on the varieties, varieties can be found with pink, red, orange, golden green, or light green foliage.

This is a list of beautiful perennial flowering shrubs that can be grown even in areas with a cold climate (in the Urals, in the Moscow region, Siberia).

Making flower beds with shrubs

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One of the most common landscape design options when decorating shrub beds is a mixborder. The name can be divided into two parts: "mix" - mixing and "border" - border. When decorating such a flower garden, various frost-resistant crops are used: perennial shrubs and flowers, annuals, ground-covering herbaceous crops. With this option, groups of crops are planted, which smoothly flow into one another.

Making flower beds with shrubs

The skeleton of such a composition is chosen by winter-hardy conifers and flowering shrubs (perennials), which remain visible even in winter.

Registration is carried out in several tiers:

  1. Tall shrubs.
  2. Flowers are tall.
  3. Shrubs of medium height that cover the stems of the previous row of flowers.
  4. Low-growing crops and ground-covering plants.

No less popular is the creation of hedges, which use unpretentious shrubs. You can combine it in different ways, as well as plant it in several rows. If you choose the right varieties, then such a border or fence will delight with flowering all summer.

Hedge

Care rules

Fruit bushes

Just the correct placement of perennial flowers growing in bushes on the territory of the garden is not enough, it is important to observe the most elementary rules of agricultural technology when growing.

Important! Flowering shrubs are planted in early spring, before the buds awaken, or in autumn (before the onset of frost).

If planting is carried out in spring, then the holes for planting should be prepared in advance. The roots should be soaked in water, preferably in a growth promoter.

When growing shrubs, sufficient space should be left for the development of the root system and the plant itself:

  • About 2 m are left between the tall ones;
  • Medium-sized - 1.2-1.5 m;
  • Stunted - 0.8-0.9 m.

For proper growth, regular maintenance procedures are required:

  • Pruning;
  • Mulching;
  • Watering as needed;
  • Fertilization.

Shrub pruning

The peculiarities of these procedures completely depend on the variety and type of plants.

Choice for areas with cold climates

Not all perennial bushes and flowers will be able to take root in the Urals, Siberia or the Moscow region.

Therefore, when choosing a plant variety for these territories, many factors should be taken into account:

  1. Winter hardiness, so as not to meet with an unpleasant surprise in the spring when last year's flowering branches remain empty.
  2. The need for shelter. Before purchasing a frost-resistant culture, it is important to know whether shelter is required for the winter or not.
  3. A way of caring for bushes, as with improper care you will not be able to achieve the desired result.

Important! When choosing a plant for decorating a summer cottage, you need to take into account the width and height of the crown so that the culture fits perfectly into the overall design of the garden.

When choosing shrubs for your garden and flower beds, you should understand that they need a certain place and a sufficient level of humidity. It will be necessary to free up a sufficient amount of space on the flower bed, so it is necessary to reconsider the neighbors that will be located nearby.