In acquiring new conifers, we strive to create through them a cozy garden or at least a harmonious composition. However, conifers do not grow by themselves, as the exhibition, they need a chaperone, next to which they display their remarkable decorative properties and create a nice looking natural landscape.

Modern gardeners, “greedily” to the dizzying list of available for sale curios, trying to pack the whole range in the area of a small garden plot. They can not be in this blame – the pleasure of ownership “new curiosities” is often overshadowed the essence of the garden – the place to comprehend the harmony with oneself and with nature.

Of course, gardening – a creative process, and each track has a right to exist. But still, you see, there are self-sufficient coniferous songs, “reason” for many years, preserving the natural, these gardens can live without constant adjustment, only small strokes suggest that this beauty is not without human intervention. The reason is that many combinations of plants for thousands of years were observed by our ancestors and stored in our genetic memory, as models of natural harmony and beauty. Subconsciously, we compare these fragments with those that are created by man, and note the dissonance, or, conversely, successful solutions. That’s why I recommend that gardeners who want to create and evolve, often traveling. It gives food for the landscape of fantasy, taste, and develops confidence in the fact that it wants to create in their own area.

As our gardens are very different, then everyone can try to recreate the pine cabin, reminiscent seen in the nature of the landscape and complement it with his findings.

For example, a completely open area can be transformed into a piece of mountain scenery. As is known, can be found in the highlands of fantastic and exquisite landscapes: coniferous because of winds, avalanches and cold weather at high altitude can not develop into full-fledged trees, on the contrary, they are transformed into elegant low plants in the style of bonsai. The overall atmosphere of such landscapes is sure to rock – it should be quite a lot, and it should not be seen as “a handful” in the corner of the plot – it is the most common mistake when building rock gardens. In the mountains of stones “scattered” over a large area, even fragmentary. So if you decide to approach the mountain landscape, a good rock garden with several nodes or more distant rocky hills interspersed with some large stones between them for the visual chords.

In nature, on such rocks (scree) common plants pillow shape, low hummock grasses, small rosette flowering bluebells and primroses, prostrate shrubs. Here is the answer to the question: is it possible to plant the lily in the rock garden? You can, but in nature it does not happen. Proper use of plants that are close by physiognomic appearance to the plants mountain: saxifrage, Androsace, and young, trailing ivy, thyme, low grass – Festuca, sedges, ozhiki, azorellu, and many others. Will also be useful haircut under “bump” of all shrubs and perennial garden plants, which adds to the natural landscape created. For a makeshift mountain scenery you can use any dwarf conifers – miniature pine, fir and spruce, as well as creeping juniper.

Scenes to the mountainous terrain can be a hedge of tui, spruces and junipers, or a sheared deciduous shrubs. In addition, a good background will be a monotone plastered wall of a house or outbuildings white associative it is perceived as snow in the mountains. White emphasizes the beauty in front of her rocky landscape.

Another kind of open landscape are northern species – coastal rocky valleys and islands with a few pines and junipers, called “Alvaro”. Those who were in the White Sea, in Norway, the harsh islands in the Arctic Circle, is forever captive exquisite beauty and grandeur of northern nature. Repeat these landscapes is possible, with a large number of stone (ideally – an angular dark-gray granite), the moss will replace the soil-covering plants that are ideal prostrate shrubs, small-leaved rhododendrons and other low-growing ericaceous plants – andromeda, gaulteriya, lingonberries, heather, Erica.

Complete the picture abundantly flowering ground cover spots – thyme, campion, as well as bright patches of low perennials – poppies, buttercups. In contrast to the alpine scenery, a “northern” gardens can be used and columnar conifers – junipers, arborvitae, cypress – that such landscapes, with single candles juniper on the background of stone found in the north.

Owners of sites with already-growing large conifers should pay attention to forest landscapes, especially those where trees are relatively rare, and under them is formed sufficiently illuminated mat, suitable for the growth of shrubs. The most picturesque corners of these appear in the mountains on the border of the forest belt. In such areas fits well with the schedule of tree trunks and large boulders, not thick vegetation – evergreen rhododendrons, small delicate shrubs.

Creating a garden landscape, wants it felt kind of mystery that hovered in the air kind of mystery. Walking through the woods, notice the corners that are particularly attracted by its singularity, which resonate in your soul. Consider, for example, at voiceless spruce forest with litter from the continuous layer of fallen needles. If the site grows large spruce, then nothing prevents the use of a similar technique: using modern materials to recreate a similar mulching is not difficult. And if you add plants, like those that once saw in the woods – get a wonderful natural playground. Ferns, Daphne, Fistulina hepatica, orchids – these are ideal companions spruce corner. To make the composition of natural forest denseness, pristroyte under fir moss-covered stump or leg stump. A small slough or swamp will be the last point to finish the composition.

Another thing – big trees and soil moisture – as happens on the banks of forest streams. Here the gardener the opportunity to use the whole vast range of plants for the shady garden – hosts astilby, geyhery, ferns, wild ginger, marigold …

In such a forest garden in the shade of tall pine trees or around quietly murmuring brook, a man finds missing him calm and solitude, a refuge from everyday hassles.