Decorative coniferous trees are widely used in landscape design. They are planted in different mountaineering, on flower beds and just in the gardens.

They differ in the following features:

• persistent frosts;
• non-condicable care and conditions;
• available in price;
• dwarf form.

The most common types of dwarf and slowly growing coniferous plants

1. Juniper medium.
   Beautiful light-headed grade, which reaches up to 80 cm in diameter, with light green, slightly yellowish cheese.
2. Eastern fir.
   This tree shame on the ground and has the shape of a yellowish pillow. Does not like shadow and grows slowly. Only one centimeter per year is not a very obvious change in the size of this fir.
3. Mountain pine.
   This lady in the year adds about 6 cm in height, loves the sun, is not afraid of nor frost, nor diseases.
4. Spruce spruce.
   The plant is often found in mountaineering, parisades and flower beds. It is characterized by a shape in the form of a ball with a height that does not even reach the meter. It grows slowly, but it is beautiful.
5. Luzetsug Menzis.
   If you don't really look after, it looks like barbed fir. But this tree has a more thick crown, soft needles and characteristic cones.
6. Cedar stabel.
   Beautiful silver needles, as well as large lightness and capriciousness in the cultivation distinguish this tree from other dwarf conifers.
7. Korean fir.
   The species features beautifully curved needles.

Using dwarf coniferous plants in landscape design

Dwarf coniferous forms are popular because:

1. They are a complete copy of their big relatives.
2. Very compact, thanks to which they are suitable for decorating even the smallest site.
3. Well suited to create landscape compositionsthat decorate territory all year round.
4. Harmoniously look in rockers.
5. Can be grown as a New Year tree or use for live decoration to winter holidays
6. Do not fear cold and snow.

Christmas tree in a pot

It is such a New Year's element of the decor that can be grown from ate of ordinary Picea Abies Maxwellii. For such purposes, you can grow either Wils Tsverg, however, it will be an order of magnitude higher. For 10 years, you can grow already a full-fledged Christmas tree in 1.2 m high.

And can bonsai grow?

Another method of growing dwarf coniferous plants in containers is the formation of a bonsai. For this, such breeds of coniferous trees can be used.in:

1. European larch.
2. Metaequisy.
3. Juniper Chinese.
4. Juniper solid.
5. Pine thick-color.
6. Japanese pine.
7. Tis berry.

The most favorite plants for Masters Bonsai are pines. The Japanese pine is especially highlighted, which has a reddish bark and green chew with a blue tide. Because of this coloring the Japanese, this tree dubbed the female pine.
Pine Tunberg is distinguished by expressive black bark. But Pine White because of his silver cupings received a romantic name - the rays of the rising sun Yamato.
In Japan's culture, many bonsai attributed to the national heritage. There are copies, which are already half a thousand years.

A special role in the design of the garden is given by miniature coniferous plants, reaching a height of 3-4 m, not throwing long shadows to the site and fit well into its common landscape. Among them are especially popular mountain pines, dwarf ate, thui and juniper. In compositions with them, an excellent addition can serve a neat green lawn, as well as large natural boulders.

The decorativeness of coniferous plants does not depend on the season. They bring sophistication, stylish, special chic in the landscape design. They are unpretentious and diverse in shape and color of needles. And finally coniferous plants They have numerous dwarf species and varieties that will occupy a little space even in solid age.

Spruce Canadian conic
One of the most popular plants has the right conical form, slowly grows, by 10 years reaching a height of 1.5 m, is used for growing in containers, in single and group landings.

Spruce barbed glauca Globoz
Dwarf form up to 1 m high and up to 1.5 m diameter. Young shoots yellowish-brownish, thin. Crown rounded. The needles are thick, slightly sickle, pale blue.

Spruce spiny pendula
Slowly growing form, by 10 years, the height is 1.2 m, the diameter is 2.4 m, the crown is thick, the branches of weeping, hard, the bottom is almost lying on the ground, the needles are bright green, the place is sunny, the soil is wet, well drained, winter hardiness is high recommended for single landings and stony gardens.

Fir ordinary little jam
Very slowly growing dwarf form, by 10 years, height and diameter - 0.5 m, the crown is dense pillow, the shoots are very thin, the needles are dark green, very thin. Used for landscaping roofs, terraces, mountaineering.

Spruce Ordinary Nidformis
One of the most common dwarf shapes, a wide dense shrub height of 1 m and a diameter of 2.5 m. Crown pillow-shaped, shiny, with a characteristic deepening in the middle in the form of a nest, a light-green needles. Very effectful for low curbs, in small groups and rocky gardens.

Cypressian Gororhoploda Bullyar
An exceptionally beautiful pyramidal variety, by 10 years, it reaches a height of 1.5 m, in a width of 0.5 m. The needles of silvery-blue summer and gray-blue winter. It tolerates haircut well, used in single and group landings, rocky gardens.

Cypress Gorokhoploda Filifer Nana
Dwarf semi-shaped shrub, reaching in a ten-age 0.5 m height. Bright green shoots thin, rope, drooping.

Kiparisovik stupid Nana Grazilis
Dwarf, very slowly growing with a wide-conical crown. At the age of 10 years reaches 0.5 m high. The dense branch gives it the shape of a twisted shell, the needles of dark green.

Larch ordinary Pendula
A beautiful tree with a crook weech is usually grown in a strambo form, and the height depends on the place of vaccination, the helm is tender, light green. Especially decorative in the fall, when the needles turn yellow.

Juniper Horizontal Green Carpet
Very low flat flutter shrub, can form a beautiful carpet around other coniferous trees growing vertically, by 10 years height it reaches only 10 cm, but in diameter can have 1.2 m. There is a yellow-behaft form.

Juniper horizontal prince Wales
An excellent grinding shrub, by 10 years, reaches a height of 0.15 m, in diameter 1.5 m, the shoots when contacting the ground can be rooted. Recommended for mountaineering and as soil plants To strengthen the slopes.

Juniper Cossack
A dense thick shrub, at a young age vertically growing, in a mature - acquires the shape of the vase, by 10 years height is 1.2 m, and the diameter is more than 2 m. The needles are green, used for single and group landings.

Juniper Cossack Variagrata
Slow growing dwarf variety, By 10 years, it reaches a height of 0.6 m with a diameter of 1 m, a characteristic feature - the sections of the shoots of cream color are chaotically located around the plant, like light glare.

Juniper Blue Swid
Open thick shrub, by 10 years height is 0.5 m, diameter 1 m, shoots raised with hanging ends, chalk needles, silver-blue. Recommended for small gardens, rock and stony compositions.

Fir balsamic Nana
A dwarf compact dense shrub, by 10 years height is 0.6 m, the diameter is 0.75 m, the needles are dark green, in the lower part pale green. Used B. stony gardens.

Pine Mountain Pug
Dwarf, almost a spherical shape, slowly growing, by 10 years height is 0.8 m, diameter - 1 m, the needles are dark green. Ideal for rocky gardens, strengthening slopes and growing in containers.

Pine Mountain Mugus
A slow-growing prostrate winter-hardy shrub height and a diameter of 2 m, the needles dark green. Recommended for mountaineering, landscaping slopes, ravines, effectively in group and single landings.

Pine Mountain Hampi.
A delightful dense shrub of a rounded shape, grows very slowly, by 10 years reaches a height of 0.3 m, shoots to the ground, short, thick, dark green. Used for landscape compositions in alpinera and heather gardens.

Pine ordinary
It has dwarf molds: aurea (a squatty bush shape with a height of about 1 m with a gold joy); Wirelli (height and diameter of the BOOKON CROT - a maximum of 3 m); Compress (krone colonum-like tall up to 2 m); Nana (a bush form height is only 0.5 m).

Tsuga Canadian Nana
A semi-shaped slowly growing form, by 10 years, the height and diameter are 0.5 m, the needle is tender, light green. Ideal for stony and heather gardens.

Thuja Western Danika
The dwarf shape with a spherical crown, grows slowly, by 10 years height 0.6 m, diameter - 1 m, thick shiny, soft, winter - brown-green. It is used in single landings, groups, on stony rols.

Tuya West Golden Globo
Dwarf shape height 0.8-1 m. Numerous shoots are evenly growing on the parties. Chesewood needles, golden green. Grows slowly. Decorative thanks to the spherical natural form of crown and golden green needles.

Thuja Western Smaragd.
It takes great popularity, one of the best conical varieties, by 10 years height 2 m, glossy twigs, gentle, bright green in summer and winter. It is used to create a living hedge and single landings, well tolerate haircut.

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The smallest coniferous trees who have enough space even on a small plot

Many daches love coniferous plants and wanted to put them on their site. But they are not solved, believing that they are too large and will take a lot of precious space on a small dacha. However, there are many very compact species and varieties. coniferous rockswhich comfort will be comfortable on a small area, please gaze and refreshing the air around.

Immediately we decide that we invest in the concept of "the smallest coniferous trees"? These are dwarf plants, abnormally shorter and compact for this species. Despite the accuracy of this definition, it is not an axiom. So, if conifer tree It will reach a height of 10 m instead of the 20 m labeled 20 m, you can't call it a dwarf. Therefore, the dendrologists offer to measure dwarfish relative to human growth: real dwarf coniferous wood remains in adulthood, that is, and at 30-50 years, not higher than human growth and not wider than the sort of hands (this refers to the open forms).

Recently, the dwarf shapes of coniferous woods are at the peak of their popularity. True lovers of such plants turn into real collectors, annually replenish their collections by miniature copies of FIKHT, fir trees, pines, larchs.

Despite pretty general definitionThe dwarf plants are very diverse. Dutch dendrologists, who succeeded in the cultivation of these forms, propose to conventionally divided them into the following groups.

Classification of coniferous dwarf cultivars

• rapid - give an annual increase of more than 30 cm; At the 10th age, they are up to 3 m high;
• average and semi-darling - 15-30 cm;
• dwarfs (DWARF) - 8-15 cm;
• mini-dwarf - 3-8 cm;
• microcarlys - no more than 3 cm.

Despite the fact that this classification is very conditional, it helps today to navigate in the purchase of the forms offered. Deciding with what coniferous plants we will search for sale for your small plotAs with the "bride to issuing", consider their advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of dwarf coniferous forms

• They accurately copy their original, only in miniature, which allows us to get acquainted with their lives, to blame for all the stages of their development.
• Thanks to compactness, take a little space.
• With their help, you can create static compositions, decorative throughout the year.
• Very harmonious in rockers.
• Calculated for the possibility of using in containers as a New Year tree or New Year's compositions.
• They are well overwhelmed, covered with snow "almost with heads".

Disadvantages of coniferous carlikov

• Sounded by fungal diseases, so it is necessary to clean compact forms from dry branches and needles before wintering, to handle fungicidal preparations in time (as a rule, in the fall, after exemption from snow and if necessary in summer).
• They are vulnerable to the shape of the crown, since the spring is likely the threat of branches.
• Some forms are short-lived.
• Bad silent.
• The stronger "burn" on the spring sun.

But the shortcomings and difficulties of growing coniferous dwarfs do not stop the owners of small summer cottages who want to have them in the garden. Taking once the rule to plant compact form of plants, such a master will be pleased with its floral wealth.

And the possibilities of using "dwarf wealth" are endless! These are solitary (single), and group landings in rocky gardens, containers, flower beds, at the entrance to the house.

In the family, where there are small children, dwarf plants are simply necessary. After all, child preschool age It cannot perceive high shrubs and trees, its perception is limited by plants that are the same growth as he. And dwarf forms - as if skillfully made toys, to which they want to touch the little hand.

The most common dwarf forms of firs. One of the most popular - the form of ate ordinary (Picea. abies. 'Little GEM'), which has a flat-circular shape, from above with a nesting-shaped deepening and reaching at the age of 10 height 0.5 m. Annual increase of 2-3 cm. The shoots are very thin, tightly compressed. The needles are thick, completely covers the escape.

But another sought-after dwarf, but already ate Canadian ( Picea Glauca. 'Laurin') with a narrow-monical shape; At the age of 10 years, it reaches just a height of 0.4 m (an annual increase of about 1.5-2 cm).

In addition to cones, there are among the dwarfs of the fir of Canadian and small balls - Picea Glauca. 'Echiniformis', reaching at the age of 10 height of 0.3 m and forming a dense ball.

Interesting spherical form Picea Glauca. 'Alberta Globe', reaching aged 10 years of height of just 0.3 m. Compact Krone itself holds the shape of the hemisphere.

But the nesting shape of the flock of barbed ( Picea abies 'Nidiformis') really accurately resembles a nest - with a shiny, even an indulged vertex, the increase of which is much less than the growth of side shoots. Despite the one-year increase of 3-4 cm, this form usually does not exceed 1 m in height.

But the smallest baby is Picea Abies 'Maxwellii'; It does not grow above 0.6 m, so it is convenient to grow in a container as a New Year's Christmas tree.

There are Christmas trees that look just like real, only small, for example, Picea Abies 'Will's Zwerg'. This is a magnificent dwarf form with a narrow-monical thick crown, reaching aged 10 years of 1.2 m. Beautiful Yoy young light green needles, sharply contrasting with the old.



Such babies on a sunny day will bring their resinous healing fragrance with phytoncides, and also delight all households in the country's unusual cones.

Features of cultivation of dwarf coniferous forms

Most of the dwarf forms of coniferous light-loving and require enough solar location; In the shadow, their lower branches are broken, and the plant loses its toy shape. But on open places they often suffer from lack of moisture and spring sun burns! Therefore, the dwarf forms of coniferous need in timely irrigation, and in the shading in the spring.

• When choosing a dwarf plant, make sure that it is really dwarf: on the label in latin name The form 'Nana'Ili Dwarf (Dwarf),' Prostrata '(Open), but most of the cultivars have individual names, and it is simply necessary to write them before buying!
• An experienced eye of the gardener can be accurately determined how much centimeters the plant will increase up or aside every year.

But on this, our story about dwarf conifers is not completed, because The main dwarfs that are more common on sale are the cultivars of juniper, the Tui, and the speech about them is still ahead.