Garden plants

Planting and caring for a weigela in the Moscow region
You don't have to seek help from exotic ornamental plants to keep your garden looking attractive. Weigela, one of the brightest representatives of the honeysuckle family, can help you with this. You will have the opportunity to enjoy the beauty of this deciduous shrub twice a year: in spring and late summer you can admire its various bell flowers in pink, red, cream, yellow and white shades.How to care for a weigela
Statice: varieties and features of growing from seeds at home
Statitsa (kermek) belongs to the herbaceous perennials of the Svichatkov family. However, the genus contains both dwarf shrubs and annuals. An attractive plant suitable for garden decoration as a resident of a flower bed. The cut plant is widely used for flower arrangements. Statice is popular in many European countries, where it is grown as a perennial plant. In the northern regions, kermek has to be sown every year, growing in seedlings at home.How to grow statice
Shade-loving perennial and annual flowers in the garden, blooming all summer
In the gardens of any summer cottage or house, there is no definite hit of sunlight. It so happens that the whole garden or vegetable garden is in the shade, or vice versa - in the sun. Large fruit trees such as apple trees, pears, plums, vineyards, etc. can create shade in the garden. They mainly create shade in the lower tier. And any gardener wants beautiful greens to grow in these places too - and there practically nothing grows.Choosing shade-loving flowers
Japanese spirea: types, planting, care and photos
Spirea or meadowsweet is a type of deciduous ornamental shrubs of the Pink family. Translated from Greek, "speira" means "bend", and the validity of this name is confirmed by the special flexibility of the spirea branches. The main advantage of spirea is its simplicity. Spirea has more than 100 varieties of shrubs growing in semi-deserts, forest-steppe and steppe.Japanese spirea
DIY mixborder: selection of plants, diagram and photo
Mixborder is one of the most difficult concepts in modern landscape design. As a rule, this concept means a mixed border or flower bed with free borders. One way or another, this concept is associated with the forms and boundaries that create the appearance of the garden area, and can be an important, one of the main elements of a properly designed landscape.DIY mixborder