Aesthetic coniferous decorations for a country site

Hedge

Trees and shrubs with lush needle-like branches have long been leading the list of the best crops for forming hedges. Such a fence does not lose either decorative or protective qualities and only requires trimming to your taste. The density and height of the green guards can also be chosen at your discretion or combine tall coniferous crops with low-growing ones.

You always want the hedge to stretch out, fluff up, get stronger and begin its duties as soon as possible. For this, choose fast-growing varieties: western thuja, Lawson cypress.

Alley

Two rows of evergreen trees planted along the edges of a garden path will form a beautiful alley, which you can walk along with pleasure and benefit your health all year round. The varieties should be selected taking into account the width and length of the path and the availability of free space around it.

A short winding path is best framed with groups of medium- and low-growing conifers, while giants such as thuja plicata (up to 60 m), Korean fir, Siberian cedar or Hoopsie spruce can proudly soar into the sky along a wide alley.

When planting even alleys of tall and lush conifers, it is important to correctly calculate the distance between the seedlings – it is twice the diameter of an adult plant (10 years and older).

Front garden

Forming coniferous compositions in the adjacent territory is a win-win solution, because a well-groomed green front garden decorates the dacha and allows you to form a first positive impression of her. Plant a group of compact coniferous plants near the house, and in order not to worry about the lawn, fill the soil with tree bark, pebbles or crushed stone.

In such front gardens, it is good to install spot lighting and plant one medium-sized beauty with a lush crown – Serbian spruce or Weymouth pine, for example. Decorating it for the New Year, you will turn your yard into a winter fairy tale every time.

Green island

This is the name for rounded landscape compositions that can be walked around and examined from all sides. To ensure that the result is excellent, you need to correctly place accents on the island. The tallest tree should grow approximately in the middle, and the rest, medium- and low-growing plants, should frame it beautifully and not block it. Such an ensemble usually does not have borders or clear boundaries, but there are original exceptions.

There is always a temptation to plant shrubs and trees with different shades of needles, for example, the golden-green dwarf pine Golden Glow or the blue-green juniper Hornibrook. But instead of variety, you may end up with an obvious overkill or even bad taste.

A coniferous composition of 3-4 components should have no more than two primary colors, of 5-6 – no more than three, and a large island – no more than four.

Alpine slide

Turn on Evergreen needle accents in an alpine garden at a dacha are acceptable and even necessary. Conifers are found on the slopes of the Swiss Alps and are part of mountain landscapes in many parts of the world, while the tradition of decorating the landscape with rock gardens has long been international.

The structure of such a composition is dominated by plants that should look as natural as possible. Ground cover junipers, cereals, mosses, and touching spring primroses (lilies of the valley, crocuses) are suitable.

A large alpine slide will reveal all its charm when contemplated from a distance at least twice its width and height, so this solution is suitable only for a spacious dacha.

Rock garden

If an alpine garden is a fragment of a mountain slope containing boulders or whole rock fragments, then a rock garden is a more modest-sized uneven island raised above the ground, strewn with boulders. The composition can have any shape, including elongated, and its main decoration is still stones, not plants.

In addition to creeping plants, low-growing compact coniferous varieties are well suited for rockeries: Aurora cypress, Brilliant fir, as well as discreet flowers: heather, catnip, lavender, barberry, astilbe.

Terraced slope

A coniferous composition of this kind will look advantageous on a summer cottage with a heavily indented landscape and large differences in elevation. The nuances of the relief can be played up, turning them into a semblance of a mountain slope or overgrown ancient ruins. It will take a lot of natural stone, mortar, skill and diligence, but it is worth it.

A terraced slope can be cut by a walkway or stairs, as if left over from a ruined castle – this looks especially beautiful.

Coastal flower garden

Most conifers love water and readily grow along the banks of reservoirs. If you have an artificial pond or a real stream at your dacha, plant it with medium- and low-growing evergreens, ferns, reeds, hostas, and the peaceful picture will be complete.

Add sound and visual effects to this composition – equip the pond with a fountain or a small waterfall.

Coniferous-deciduous mix

Combining grasses, lichens and meadow flowers with conifers is not a very difficult task, but fitting large deciduous trees and bushes into the ensemble can be difficult. The human eye is accustomed to singling out prickly forest beauties in a separate group, because in nature they settle in groups and do not welcome strangers on their territory. But harmony can be achieved.

Make conifers the background, and a spectacular deciduous tree or bush the accent. Red or yellow maple, sakura, hydrangea, rhododendron will look great.

Composition with flowers

Bright lush garden flowers, such as peonies, asters, chrysanthemums and roses, are successfully combined with medium-sized representatives of evergreen flora, which can be carefully trimmed: boxwoods, yews, dwarf thujas and cypresses. They act as a rich dark green canvas on which numerous buds bloom – scarlet, snow-white, orange, purple.

If you are enchanted and inspired by the riot of colors, design a flowerbed, border, mixborder or front garden at your dacha with conifers, perennials and bulbous flowers.