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Climbing plants in the garden. Video Tips
A well-groomed and unusually beautiful garden cannot be imagined without climbing plants. They bring decorative color spots to any garden, help save space, allow you to plant plants of different colors and appearance in a small area, decorate walls, mask defects and create cozy gazebos and hedges.
Climbing vines are great for decorating a garden or a summer cottage. With the help of them, you can hide from prying eyes, shade sunny places from the heat with them, divide the site into zones and arrange original gazebos or pergolas for leisure.
Climbing plants are both perennial and annual. Here is a list of beautiful and unpretentious perennial vines to care for.
– Girlish grapes. It grows very quickly, forming a carpet from its leaves, it is completely unpretentious, undemanding to special lighting, frost-resistant. Requires support for climbing plants. In autumn, decorative leaves take on all sorts of shades.
– Clematis. During long flowering, it looks very beautiful, has a palette of flowers from white to blue-purple. Loves sunny areas and fertilizers.
– Wisteria. An unusually beautiful southern plant with inflorescences collected in a brush, which can reach 50 centimeters, and the plant itself rises several meters along the support.
Now there are several varieties of winter-hardy wisteria that can withstand frosts from 20 to 40 degrees Celsius.
– Ivy. Evergreen, completely unpretentious liana. Grows everywhere. Climbed to different heights along a wall or support.
– Actinidia. Ornamental foliage of actinidia changes color during the season. The plant tolerates winter well. Its fruit, which tastes like a gooseberry, is quite edible.
– Climbing rose. It has a huge number of varieties and colors, many of which are frost-resistant and do not require additional shelter for the winter. Needs support. Inflorescences that have already bloomed must be cut off, as they do not look very beautiful.
Basic rules for planting climbing plants
When planting all climbing vines, it is necessary to dig a hole into which all the roots of the plant will enter, at a distance of 20 centimeters from the support, wall or hedge. Mix the soil with compost in a 1: 1 ratio, place the seedling so that the shoots look away from the support, water well.
You need to carefully choose wooden supports, because they are strongly exposed to adverse weather effects and perennial vines can simply collapse at the most inopportune moment. The wood for such supports must be specially impregnated or fired. Currently, there is a huge variety of metal wrought iron supports for climbing plants of various heights and shapes, which will not only be durable, but also a beautiful garden decor in itself.
Colorful annual climbing plants
For those who are not confident in their abilities or do not want to wait a long time for the violent flowering of vines, you can try to grow annual climbing plants in your garden. For these purposes, sweet peas and morning glory are quite suitable. Ipomoea grows rapidly, twists on any supports to any height, has gramophone flowers of various colors. The main care for her will be abundant watering and sunlight. It blooms from mid-summer to the very frost. Self-seeding sprouts may well sprout next year, which will give even earlier flowering.
Sweet peas are not so tall, but they have not only colors of all colors of the rainbow, but also an unusually pleasant smell, which intensifies in the evening or before the rain. By the way, sweet peas grow well on the balcony. He also loves watering and sunlight.
One of the most beautiful and popular lianas is purple dolichos. It has beautiful leaves with burgundy veins and white, purple or lilac fragrant inflorescences. Such a beautiful plant also loves good care: light, warmth, watering in dry weather and loose soil rich in fertilizers. It is planted with seedlings or seeds at the end of May, dolichos blooms from early July until frost.
The combination of perennial vines, beautiful climbing annual flowers, undersized plants and ornamental shrubs can create fabulous beauty on a plot of any size, turn a simple piece of land into a dream garden of paradise for the entire warm season.
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