Plants for a flower garden and a garden with gray leaves - photo, name and description
Decorative "grayish" plants for decorating the garden and flower garden
Their leaves may have a pubescence or a bluish coating, have a fringe, spots or even color, be thin and tender or fleshy and strong, open in all their glory in the hot sun or better feel in the shade, fired by a careless noon ray. Let's talk about plants, whose foliage, thanks to gray shades, brings peace and quiet, grace and harmony, freshness and lightness to the flower garden
Sulfurous plants are completely “gray mice” - they attract the eye and are the decoration of the composition, but they do it nobly and unobtrusively.
To gray-leaved plants silvery (the waxwood wax, the wormwood wool, the wormwood of Pursh), the gray (the Stachis of Byzantium 'Silky Fleece', 'Silver Carpet', the anaphalis of the three-pointed), the greyish-green (Buddleus David, Spirea Douglas and Village Willard) bluish (keleria sizaya, fossil of Magellan), bluish (Arabian alpine subspecies of the Caucasus 'Flore Pleno', clove cinnamon) foliage.
We will not be engaged in counting the number of shades of gray, especially since the perception of color depends on the lighting, but we note that in a flower garden, especially executed in a natural style, it is desirable to place plants with silver of different shades in order to exclude sharp transitions and to give the composition a naturalness and ease.
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Where will be appropriate and desirable "gray" plants?
There are many options.
Judge for yourself:
- silver color is an excellent background for exotic plants, whether it be purple-leafed railings and pennysetum, the magnificent canna or luxurious eremurus;
- ampelnye silvery plants can not only be used in hanging baskets as a background and the environment of colorful summers (petunias, sanvitalia, bakopy, diasia, lobelia, brachycoma), but also simulate a creek, waterfall, used for so-called flooded beds;
- silvery color is light and light, so trees and shrubs with silvery foliage (rowanberry aria, buckthorn buckthorn, pear-tree, silver-fir) seem less heavy and bulky than green plants with similar crown sizes;
- shade-tolerant "gray-leaved" are the magic ray of light in the dark kingdom. It should be noted that there are not so many among the "gray" plants. These are varieties of hosts ('Baby Bunting', 'BigMama'), the windbreaker ('Silva') and me. (var. argentatum), brunners ('Jack Frost', 'LookingGlass'), midships ('Spilled Milk', 'Majeste'), the Niphonian ('Silver Falls', 'Metallica Crispa'). It should be noted that the last two species are not completely decorative in the middle of spring, they need early partners. Most of the "gray" plants have pubescence on leaves (felted felt, Euryops Acrean, yarrow felt) or bluish bloom (seashore blossom, Telifium cleanser, Valissian fescue) and prefer sunny habitats, unpretentious and perfectly coexist on poor dry soils;
- gray-leaved plants "reconcile" excessively bright colors of neighbors, while not drowning them (they are effective with raspberry echinacea, suns of hatsania and rudbeckia, fiery candles of salvia);
- light blue and white flowers are somewhat lost on a gray background, but in a monochrome composition such subtle transitions avoid monotony;
- bright blue flowers (baptisia) with silver look fresh and cheerful;
- silver foliage plus vertical inflorescences: Veronica spica subspecies incana, long-leafed mullein, K. olympic and K. bombuciferum - irreplaceable accents for a mixborder;
- some of the gray have nondescript flowers; however, there are those whose flowers shine particularly brightly against the background of leaves (cute chintz cloves of herb, cheerful spurge with lemon inflorescences, purple sparks of lichen crown). Among them there are spring-springing (Viola 'Silver Samurai'), and decorating
- the inflorescence garden in the first half of the summer (sunflower 'Henfield Brilliant'), and blossoming at the end of summer (Dubrovnik vulgaris), and the participants of the autumn flower garden (millet rotunda 'Dallas Blues', 'Heavy Metal');
- among the systolic plants a lot of cereals (blue praying, fescue fescue, blue sesleria).
they are able not only to supplement the mixborder and decorate the garden of cereals in the company with "smoky * pike, turf, sharply flowered, sparse spreading, pinkish miscanthus Chinese, barley mushy, but also to become excellent solitaires.
It should be remembered that seroliferous plants will be lost against the background of gray tile or gray gravel (in this case, it is better to place them in the middle plan, and in the foreground - choose green leaf partners).
When placing gray in the container, the color of the latter is better to choose in the beige-brown range.
Individual heat-loving "gray" plants can and should be invited to your garden as an annual crop. These are, first of all, ampelous plants - silver dichondra, woolly gnafalium, as well as decoration of a garden of spicy herbs - medicinal sage. The named plants can also be used as an auxiliary culture.
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Plants with blue and blue foliage - on the photo:
1. FLOWERING IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE SUMMER Anaphalis pearl, lover of sun and heat, has rhizomes located close to the surface of the soil, requires caution when weeding and restricting the root system.
2. WORTHY DECORATION a sunny flower garden and especially a garden of fragrant grasses, the wormwood of Louis 'Valerie Finnis' forms dense stably decorative curtains when placed on poor well drained soils.
3. CHARMING CLOTHING INJURY It has its own secrets - to preserve the decorativeness of the bush, waterlogging and prolonged drought should be avoided, as well as renew (by dividing, grafting) every 3-4 years.
4. MILK MIRTOLISTIC It is not very attractive in the early spring, but after pruning the stretched shoots it forms a charming cloud of lemon inflorescences.
at the end of spring and a reddish-gray carpet up to the snow.
5. BLUE BLUE FLOWERS Fassen’s catnip 'Six Hills Giant' are small, but numerous, gathered in false whorls, and those in a thick brush; decorate the plant from June to September.
6. ANTENNARY OF THE DOUBLE in a sunny and dry corner of the garden forms a slightly messy, but cute and attractive bump, preserves the silver of its shoots and leaves even under snow. Ruby inflorescences of the 'Rubra' variety adorn the plant in the first half of summer.
7. PROS-BAR-shaped 'Cloud Nine' fascinates with bluish foliage, turning yellow with the onset of cold weather, and drooping beige panicles in the first half of autumn.
8. MIDDLE JOSA EL NINO with a greyish-blue slightly wavy foliage bordered by a white stripe, expanding over the years, is gorgeous in an openwork shadow under the Irga, Manchu maple or Hinnal, Willow, Chubushnik, Cherry.
9. BARLEY GRAVASTY - one of the silvery-pink grasses, perfectly complementing the grayish plants. The plant is grown as an annual plant, sometimes it gives itself a self-seeding.
10. ONE OF THE MOST attractive varieties brunners large-leaved 'Jack Frost' has silver foliage with a green border and veins. Veins of lighter steel leaves of the 'Looking Glass' variety are almost invisible. Both varieties are beautiful in a shady flower garden, decorative all season.
11. SHALPHEA MEDICINE 'Berggarten' It has a grayish foliage, against which the purple flowers decorate the plant in the first half of the summer. In the middle zone of Russia, they grow up as a summer or an adherent culture.
© Author: Anastasia Korpach, photo by Sergey Kalyakin
GRAY GARDEN SHADOWS
We are all used to the riot of colors in the garden. But sometimes our eyes get tired and want a little rest from all this diversity. Today I would like to talk about plants with silvery foliage, which basically act as background, but at the same time can give the garden refinement and nobility, restraining the screaming beauty of brighter shades. After all, silver, as happened historically, speaks of the good taste of its owner.
In general, silvery plants are associated with us in the south. The sea, the sun, olive groves, mountains, dust and scanty gray vegetation. But in the central part of Russia, there are enough such plants.
And now I would like to talk about the short-lived representatives of this group.
Carnation is pinnate and the carnation is greyish-blue. They prefer sunny places and drained soil. They are undemanding to care. Very fragrant low plants. Inferior in size to garden forms. Bloom for a long time.
Wormwood, silvery varieties. I really like these ornamental-deciduous plants. And in particular, the wormwood is Caucasian. It was brought from the mountains of Crimea. The height reaches no more than 15 cm. The leaves are pinnately dissected, almost like filaments.
Fescue is sisaya. I believe that this plant should be present in every garden. It is very effective this blue "hedgehog", which will be an excellent companion to many plants.
The Bieberstein flicker. It, like many ground cover plants, is capable of rapid expansion. This must be taken into account when planting. Absolutely unpretentious. Blossoms with white flowers resembling asterisks. Serves a good background for tulips and other bulbous.
Blue speckled blue Zinger.
The bush is about 25 cm high, not very aggressive. Well tolerates the winter. Decorative at any time of the year. Likes well-lit areas or partial shade. Perfect for creating a garden of stones. At me it looks good in the backfill of white marble chips.
Cleansing (sedum) bent, Lydian, Spanish - These are excellent soil protectors for alpine slides and a rock garden.
But the wizard is a good transition from greyish plants to green, since her foliage combines these two colors.
It would be desirable to notice, that various shades of gray also have the plants covered by a fluff on leaves.
According to the laws of color, gray color combines violet, blue, lilac, blue. And colors such as yellow, pink, red, look great like accents, and not bright flashy spots.
Well-chosen plants with gray, silvery leaves look expensive and exquisite.
Look, admire, choose the best for your garden!
© Author: Olesya Glebova, Kursk
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I heard about unusual shrubs: the sucker is silvery and narrow-leaved. What is their difference?
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- The species you named are the most common in the Sucker family. Shrubs have a similar appearance, but have different qualities. The silver goof has no thorns, it is used only in landscaping, and its fruits are inedible. But the narrow-leaved sucker - a tall thorny bush, has delicious sweet fruits, which are popularly called the wild or northern date. This is a light-loving and drought-resistant species, undemanding to soils, even tolerates their significant salinity.
It blooms in late May and early June. During flowering, the air is saturated with a pleasant sweetish aroma. The fruits ripen in August. It begins to bloom and bear fruit from the age of 5. Propagated by seeds, cuttings, layering. In culture, there are several forms with large edible fruits.
Both species are successfully used in single and group plantings; their silvery foliage looks spectacular against the green background of other plants. L. narrow-leaved tolerates a haircut, suitable for creating prickly hedges.
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There are plants that are nothing special. They are not included in the assortment of fashionable Dutch catalogs, they are not ordered in the winter, they pass by them on the marketplaces, and in the old Soviet times they might have been given a load to the scarce goods - peonies and roses.
These include anaphalis - it is just not one of the brightest representatives of the flora. As they say, dullness that literally corresponds to the appearance of the plant. But, strangely enough, anafalis is able to play the first violin in the design of the garden, you just need to find suitable partners for him.
Features
If you do not have time to care for flowers, and the soil in the garden is sandy, then
anaphalis is your plant. It is drought tolerant, likes open dry places, is frost-hardy in central Russia, and is not affected by pests and diseases.
Anafalis is growing rapidly - already at the end of August the tops of shoots of the next year are visible. Therefore, plant reproduction is not difficult, it is enough to separate these shoots in spring or autumn and transplant to a new place.
Advantageous combinations
In my garden, it grows with oats, katran, monard, basil and Dicentra. Moreover, Schmidt's wormwood was supposed to be planted, but Anafalis took its place.
According to the saturation of gray color, the young foliage of anaphalis is not inferior to both wormwood and pure woolly. That is why I put them together. Good anaphalis with orange heleniums, successfully closes their “legs”. Try to use it in gravel gardens along with ground cover phlox and the entire detachment of gray cereals - fescue and Kalerii, sheep, schizachirium and gorzovnik. Gray will never hurt gray.
Its blooming and brown inflorescences in autumn are of less interest. Still, the foliage is more important, so you can not bring to flowering and constantly cut the buds. You can also use it with bright sage and yarrow, lupins and cornflowers, adding asters and stonecrop as structural plants.
Dry flowers
These flowers make me happy in the winter. To create compositions, I cut the stems and dry them, hanging them down with inflorescences. After such an operation, they do not change color and are not showered in dry bouquets. But if in a few months you decide to change the location of such an “ikebana” or rearrange the plants in another vase, light feathers will fly from the flower.
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When and how are seedlings planted with a brachicum and a plaque? How to care for crops? What place in the garden does this flower prefer?
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- Brachycome iberidifolia (Brachycome iberidifolia) - an abundant and long-blooming annual of the Astro family. Low (up to 25-30 cm in height), strongly branched bushes are covered with small blue, lilac or pink "chamomile" flowers. The seeds grow well when sowing directly into the open ground in April, for an earlier flowering, the brachicum is grown through seedlings (see Table). But if you have the opportunity to light the seedlings on the windowsill, you can begin seeding in January.
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Vein-sharp, in my opinion, the most beautiful ornamental grass. The first time I
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I like it, but the neighbors consider this plant a weed. How to grow it?
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About the darkness (Lamium) can not be judged as a weed, it is a remarkable soil cover perennial with wintering leaves. The species are characterized by growth patterns. It grows well on loose, drained, moderately nutritious soil in scattered shade. Soaking and heavy soils do not fit. For the accuracy of the curtain and stimulate the growth of young shoots, the plant needs to be sheared. Faded shoots cut to the base, the rest periodically shorten. Veil is planted throughout the season - it is enough to separate and plant a well-rooted escape. If various plants of different varieties grow in the garden, you can get interesting seedlings with different colors of leaves and flowers. They develop quickly.
Where to plant a windmill
Varieties of plants with long shoots look good on the edge of the retaining wall. In this case, the net can "run away" to its base.
In the flower beds planted in the foreground, combining with perennials, which have leaves of dense texture, without a pattern: primroses, hosts (effectively a combination with "blue" varieties), ferns (wolves scopopendrovye and Japanese), hellebore. If you need to "lighten" the area, dilute the greens with silver, plant a mottled cherry (L. maculatum). The shoots are easily rooted in the knots. The rate of growth depends on the variety, but is generally small.
For large shady areas, powerful retaining walls, the Yellow Clearweed is suitable, or Zelenchuk (Lamiastrum galeobdolon). It survives on any soils. A stunning growth rate! Regular haircut can be kept within the specified limits. The nature of the growth of his brand Hermann's Pride is radically different. It is a neat, non-aggressive perennial, forming a bush 30-40 cm in height.