If you have a small garden, then every centimeter of it is worth its weight in gold. Therefore, the rational use of space, even under trees, is an important issue.
In the shade of trees, not every plant or flower can feel comfortable. But there are quite a few beautiful plants that grow well in such conditions.
These include spring flowers: daffodils, crocuses, snowdrops, hellebore, imperial hazel grouse, winter spring and some more. They bloom well as long as it is light under the deciduous trees.
From summer flowering plants, shade-tolerant plants should be chosen, for example: onion lily, aquilegia, gray geranium.
For the autumn time, it is good to choose decorative and late-flowering herbaceous plants: ginseng gentian, Japanese anemone, magnificent chitus.
Some flowers will not only decorate the tree trunk circle, but will help trees in the fight against various pests. For example, nasturtium will scare away apple lungwort, marigolds and snowdrops, fruit aphids, calendula nematodes.
Let's take a closer look at 10 unusual beautiful plants from which you can make an original flower garden under a tree for the whole season.
Spring
- Ifeion one-flowered - bulbous, 10-15 cm, with light green leaves, blooms with white or purple stars from April to May.
- Lesser periwinkle is a perennial creeping evergreen, shade-loving, 10-15 cm, covered with small dark green ovals of leaves, also blooms from April to May lilac-blue.
- Narcissus - bulbous, flowering time is the same (April-May), there are high and small: pseudonarcissus - about 40 cm, at the beginning of flowering creamy yellow, gradually turns white; Cyclomene - 10-15 cm, yellow drooping flowers.
- Anemone crown (anemone) - grows from the root up to 40 cm, flowers in the form of a saucer of different shades: white, red, pink, blue. Blooms in the spring months.
Summer
- Bulbous lily - bulbous, various varieties grow in height from 40 to 120 cm.The flowers are orange, red, speckled.
- Astilba - 20-120 cm, flowers are white, pink, red. Unpretentious, shady-loving.
- Aquilegia - 40-70 cm, different shades, there are two colors.
Autumn
- Morrow sedge - 20-60 cm, leaves are light green, herbaceous.
- Japanese anemone - rhizome anemone, 60-140 cm, white or pink flowers.
- Gypsum gentian - 20-60 cm, stem with opposite pointed, saturated green leaves, at the end of which from one to three blue bell-shaped flowers are formed.
Advice
The main planting time is autumn. In a circle around the tree, approximately 2 m in radius, remove grass and weeds, dig up, but no more than 10 cm deep, add humus.
Plant the ifeion and daffodils around the edge to a depth of about 20 cm with the same distance between the bulbs. Put the roots of anemone in water for 8-10 hours to get wet. Plant it around the entire perimeter, planting depth and distance between flowers about 10 cm.
When planting periwinkle, keep a distance between other plants of at least 30 cm and no more than 60 cm.
Plant summer and autumn flowering seedlings in the spring. Trim the bulbous leaves when they wilt. Remove weeds constantly.
