Modern range of decorative shrubs so large and diverse, allowing for beautiful, dramatic and at the same malouhodny garden. Shrubs in perfect harmony with each other and with the trees and the majority of garden plants, and therefore their ability to design a garden are almost unlimited. Decorative shrubs during the season very long time, and many year-round. Even if the basic color of green foliage, grow young leaves often have all sorts of variations of tint (pink, red, purple, bronze).

In autumn, they are dazzling riot of red, orange and golden tones. Moreover, this effect every fall significantly varies due to changes in temperature and humidity. Usually, after a dry and hot summer the leaves are painted before, after wet and cool longer remain green. And if you were short-term moderate frosts, the palette of autumn color of leaves is particularly good and varied. And here is already possible to meet not only the yellow and red colors, but also pink, purple and even purple.

Many shrubs bloom so magnificently and effectively, that can compete in this with the best flowers. Previously, all bloom mahonia (Mahoniaaquifolium) and Forsythia (Forsythiaxintermedia, F. giraldii, F. ovata), later so-called japonica (Chaenomelesjaponica, C. speciosa, C. xsuperba), some of the park rose (Rosa) and rhododendron (Rhododendron) .

At the same time, violently vesennetsvetuschie spiraea (Spiraea): Grey (S. cinerea), Van Groot (S. xvanhouttei), acute, or crenated (S. arguta), nipponskaya (S. nipponica), Tunberg (S. thunbergii) and still some belotsvetkovye species. In the first half of May blossom barberries (Berberis): ordinary (B. vulgaris), Amur (B. amurensis), Korean (B. koreana), hybrid Ottawa (B. xottawensis) and Tunberg (B. thunbergii) – the most coveted numerous and unusually diverse varieties.

This is an incredibly attractive sight, especially impressive in bloom when the adults are well overgrown bushes. At this time, yet, as a rule, not unfolded, and there is nothing stopping to admire its golden tassels, completely covering the falling branch.

Here and there the young leaves are beginning to unfold, flashing golden-yellow flowers of his bronze or reddish color. Evergreen barberries bloom individual, more large yellow flowers on a background of tight, with a metallic luster of leaves, which have not yet lost the winter of purple and blue-gray hues. Better than others among evergreen barberry has shown himself melkoborodavchaty (B. verruculosa) ‘Amstelven’.

In late May bloom variety viburnum (Viburnum), Aronia chokeberry (Aroniamelanocarpa), shrub honeysuckle (Lonicera) and, of course, lilac (Syringa), praised the nightingales. This long-awaited moment for all gardeners – at the height of spring, we are on the threshold of summer, but still ahead. Long, happy days, bright, warm evenings – I’m sure, for many gardeners is the most favorite time of year. Relay blooming lilacs pass chubushnikam (Philadelphus), and all gardens bottled enchanting aroma of our northern jasmine.

Simultaneously with them bloom deytsii (Deutzia) and Weigel (Weigela). This charming shrub is still small, we circulated, and many fear their plants. But there are quite stable and in our climate, we just try to plant them in a calm and windless place, a well-prepared, moderately fertile soil.

Spring flowering shrubs replaced by some other summer flowering. Bloom wonderful rozovotsvetkovye spiraea (Spiraea): Japan (S. japonica), Bumalda (S. xbumalda), later Billard (S. xbilliardii) and Douglas (S. douglasii). The latter are interesting for their candle-like inflorescences of differing variety and intensity of coloration, and powerful bushes, from which we can form dense living curbs up to two meters. But surely none of the garden today is not without spiraea varieties of Japanese and its varieties Bumalda.