Fast growing shrubs for the garden

 Flowers are often most fragrant in the late afternoon. That's why it's best to plant fragrant shrubs near windows, on patios and paths, so that you can often enjoy the scent. Choose shrubs with different flowering times to keep your garden fragrant all year round, such as star magnolia (spring), butterfly bush (summer), bearded beard (fall) and witch hazel (Winter).

Flaming Autumn

Some shrubs show a beautiful fall color of the leaves with bright yellow, orange or red tones. After warm, rather dry summers, the leaf color is particularly intense.

Shrubs with attractive autumn colors are for example: chokeberry (Aronia), service pear (amelanchier), Spindle (Euonymus alatus), smoke bush (Cotinus coggygria), euonymus, glorious bell (Enkianthus campanulatus) and snowball (Viburnum opulus).

Add some pizzazz to fast-growing shrubs

Some shrubs appear magnificent when flowering or bearing fruit, but look rather dull the rest of the year. Use their green specifically as a backdrop for colorful ones summer flowers- and perennial beds or, for example, for climbing plants, climbing up Oberlisks. Rhododendrons, whose flowering period ends in early summer, can be planted in a border of summer-flowering plants Busy Lizzie almost revive. You can also liven up a garden with lots of shrubs by choosing some with distinctive leaf colors.

Decorative are, for example, the yellow golden barberry (Berberis thunbergii Aurea), the white-edged dogwood (Cornus alba Argenteomarginata) or the dark red purple hazel (Corylus maxima Purpurea).

Fast-growing shrubs are a table setting for birds

Birds are usually welcome in the garden because they keep pests like caterpillars and snails short. With shrubs you invite the feathered helpers. They find protective places in the woods, free breeders build their nests there. Trees that provide them with fruit as food in autumn and winter are particularly valuable for them.

Good forage for birds are, for example, mountain ash (rowan berry), yew, service pear, firethorn, elder, liguster, sea buckthorn, holly, juniper and hawthorn.

Colorful fruit decoration

In addition to late blooms and beautiful autumn foliage, red, yellow, white, blue or black fruits are among the special attractions in late year.

• Decorative, but partly highly toxic Bear fruit: ivy, yew, honeysuckle and honeysuckle (Lonicera), privet, laurel cherry (Prunus laurocerasus), euonymus (Euonymus europaeus), snowball (viburnum), snowberry (Symphoricarpos), Daphne (daphne), holly (Ilex aquifolium) and peat myrtle (Gaultheria mucronata).
• Inedible to slightly poisonous are the pretty fruits of barberry, firethorn (Pyracantha), dogwood (Cornus), mahonia, skimmia (Skimmia japonica) as well as cotoneaster and rock medlar (cotoneaster).
• ornamental and edible fruits have chokeberry (Aronia), service pear (amelanchier), cornel (Cornus mas), roses, sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhanoides) and sloe. In some, for example rowan, elder and hawthorn (Crataegus), the fruits only become edible after processing.

Colorful branches in the winter garden

In winter, the garden is largely bare, save for the evergreens, and appears a little hazy and appears a bit dull and dull. Shrubs with colored bark can provide an attractive remedy. Especially dogwoods are recommended here, especially the Tartar dogwood (Cornus alba Sibirica) with red bark. Cornus stolonifera Flaviramea and the yellow willow (Salix alba Vitellina) have showy yellow branches, the Tangut raspberry (Rubus cockburnianus) impresses with whitish striped bark.

Shrubs are an important part of any home garden

With the variety of shrubs, every garden can be designed into an individual outdoor room. This not only has an invigorating effect on the overall atmosphere, but can also highlight very special areas in your garden and make them appear almost perfect. And your garden will also have some of the following areas:

• rest area
• BBQ area
• bed border
• terrace or one
• final fence area

As a conclusion for a row of plants, wind protection for a separate area of ​​the stay or in the form of A wide variety of shrubs know their uses as a fragrant setting in a relaxing spot in your garden reveal.

Spoiled for choice

Depending on the area of ​​use, there should be a few points for the shrub buyer to consider. Such decisive factors are given with the flowering time or the size to be achieved or required. Another parameter when buying a shrub is the choice of wood, for which three basic categorizations are made:

• evergreen shrubs
• winter-bare undergrowth as well
• shrubby trees

If the terrace or barbecue area should shine green all year round, and the bed does not necessarily need a colored dress during the rest period, the selection is focused. If a certain natural privacy screen is required, then the last group with its representatives of the conifers, which can grow very dense and large, is particularly recommended. In order to create the final paradise in your own garden, there are already some theoretical considerations to be made in advance.

The small shrubs should thrive properly

The successful development of your shrubs starts with the planting. This should therefore take place during the dormant periods of the trees, which extends in the monthly spectrum from October to April. There are of course some exceptions, so that species with soil balls can be planted well into May and container plants even well into summer. When digging the hole in the ground, the aim should be to double the size of the ball of earth, which is then covered with a layer of potting soil. In this breath, the hobby gardener should always look at the type of shrub, since, for example, rhododendrons and Azaleas take up a larger area due to their root system and, above all, do very well with a layer of peat thrive.

Plastic sleeves should be removed when planting the shrubs, while natural protective covers of paper or jute can be left on the plant. Now it's time for the manual work, since all air spaces between the roots have to be sealed with soil as efficiently as possible: Bei This compaction program is helped by a first careful watering, so that the earth is pressed into the last areas can. A mulching top layer of grass, leaves or wood shavings is recommended after the remainder of the earth has been filled and the surface compacted. And then it has to be watered regularly!

Evergreen or just temporary privacy screen

Before choosing new garden plants, the background of the planting should be considered: if you want a colorful one and blooming privacy screen for the terrace in the summer months or if you want permanent greenery as a Hedge? Of course, the combination of both types of hedges is also possible, since a wide variety of plants also provide a home for various beneficial insects in the garden.

fast growing hedge magic

If a flowering hedge is to serve as a privacy screen throughout the year, the service pear and forsythe are ideal. The forsythia blooms in spring and can be replaced in late spring by the Kolkwitzia, better known as the mother-of-pearl shrub. Dogwood or ranunculus are just as fast-growing as summer lilac, common viburnum and chanterelle tree. Buddleia is also very popular with butterflies and will certainly attract one or two moths to the garden. Very pretty in the infructescence, but not suitable as a poisonous plant for the family garden, is the euonymus with bright pink infructescence.

The ornamental currant, which is also called blood currant because of its pretty, red umbels of flowers, is very popular. Alternating with evergreen hedge plants, there is an enchanting hedge all year round, which also provides space for birds and beneficial insects.

Evergreen representatives among the fast-growing shrubs

The classic cherry laurel is suitable as a hedge plant for fast-growing permanent greenery. False cypresses, linguster, yew and thuja ensure dense privacy as well as providing shade. Interesting splashes of color all year round can also be created with a photinia, which is also commercially available as Photinia.

Firethorn, on the other hand, impresses with its colorful fruits, as does barberry, which due to their thorns, they are also suitable for fencing off plots of land where domestic animals live half up (e.g. B. Dogs). The barberry can also be combined well with mahonia.

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