Many people like the blue spruce, because a tree can transform a garden or a personal plot. It has a pleasant smell, and the branches look up, and evenly. Designers love this conifer, because it is easy to care for it, as well as for changing colors throughout the year.
Blue spruce in landscape design
It is important for each person to arrange their own home and garden. Using a blue spruce, you can create landscape compositions. The conifer is suitable for landscape design, because it is unpretentious to conditions, and also refers to small and medium-sized trees.
- Advantages of conifers over other plants:
- remain attractive all year round;
- exude a pleasant aroma;
- substances released by conifers purify the air;
- coniferous amber can be used at home as needed;
- applicable in any style of landscape design;
- spruce branches and needles are used to make decorative crafts.
- Disadvantages of conifers:
- grow too much;
- drain the earth, making it barren;
- grow slowly.
Compositions with blue spruce
Blue spruce is an evergreen coniferous tree that has become common, therefore it is often used as a decoration. However, many believe that the name does not coincide with reality.
In fact, the color of this needles is not blue, but it seems that gray dust has settled on it. In addition, blue spruce is not bald, because the needles are fluffy and there are many of them.
Did you know? Decorative pine grows no higher than half a meter, and ordinary old spruce can reach a height of 100 m.
In the garden
In the summer cottage you can make any design. However, there are rules that you need to know before proceeding with the design of the garden:
- Take into account the distance from the woody-artisan composition to the place from where it will most often look. It should be at least two of its heights.
- The presence of a lawn for the background will have an advantage, because it will allow you to create a single original composition.
- The most effective in landscaping the garden are those conifers that indicate a direction to the west or east.
Compositions of blue spruce and other conifers are perfectly combined with each other, as well as with other shrubs and trees. The largest instances are best placed on the side of the finished circuit.
Next, seedlings need to be placed so that undersized plants are at the base of the flower garden. No need to try to create accurate geometric rigor, since the bends will only give a peculiar beauty.
Important! Coniferous trees are prone to pruning, so creating an individual project will be easy. Designers often make them a hedge in the form of a circle or square.
In front of the house
It is believed that spruce symbolize eternal life and protect from evil forces, so they are often grown in summer cottages. It is beautiful when conifers are planted along the road to the main entrance to the house.
In addition, with them you can create decor that will add to the site of extraordinary. To do this, coniferous trees are planted in several rows in a checkerboard pattern, which in a few years will create a powerful fence that protects against extraneous invasion.
Important! When choosing a seedling, give preference to specimens without defects. Damaged and twisted branches can cause disease and even death of the plant.
Flower beds
Before starting to grow conifers in the form of a flower bed, determine the place and make a diagram. The main thing is that the selected site is sunny. This condition contributes to obtaining a beautiful color scheme, because each coniferous culture has a special color. In this regard, you need to choose several key colors. On the flowerbed, it is better not to do them anymore so that the color palette is restrained.
Options for planting spruce on flower beds:
- Modest. More than 3 plants should not be used. The front is better placed juniper.
- Longline. This option is made of three levels.
- Forest landscape. It is made out by means of larch, and also fern.
How beautiful and original to plant spruce
It is better to plant conifers in the center of the garden or along its edges. When choosing fir trees for planting, pay attention to their height and size, so that in the future there will be no problems. If they are too high, they will close other plants, while violating the composition of the garden.
Do not plant spruce too close to the house, because the branches will interfere with the sunlight. Due to their ability to purify the air, these plants are best grown near gazebos or garden paths. In addition, conifers are perfectly combined with other types of trees, thereby only decorating the site.
To give the country space originality, tall and dwarf conifers are used. In addition, they are combined with many plants, and due to the winter hardiness of the needles, they will not die in the frosty period. However, for planting, it is better to choose a seedling of 2-3 years of age, since growing spruce from seeds is a rather difficult task.
