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Rose Garden Ideas - How to Design with Roses

Create a beautiful rose garden for your front or back yard, small or large garden, and learn what to plant with roses By Janet Loughrey, Garden Writer & Photographer

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As one of the world’s most beloved garden plants, roses deserve a prominent spot in the landscape. While these long-lived shrubs have a reputation of being somewhat fussy, newer cultivars bred for disease-resistance and vigor have made growing roses easy for even novice gardeners.

A rose garden can be as simple as a single rose specimen interspersed with a few other plants. It can be as elaborate as a formal landscape embellished with hardscaping, arbors, seating, and statuary. Even smaller spaces can accommodate roses in containers, raised beds, or narrow side yards. Here are the basics of rose garden design, along with some ideas to get you started.

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PLANNING A ROSE GARDEN

Choose your site:

Make sure the site gets at least 6-8 hours of sun a day and has good air circulation to help prevent disease.

Make a plan:

Choose a style:

Decide what kind of rose garden you want. Do you want a clean formal look with structured hardscape, or a more natural appearance with other plants mixed in? Pick a style that will harmonize with your home’s exterior.

Pick a color scheme:

Select colors that you enjoy and that will also help unify the home with the landscape.

Prepare the soil:

Roses like rich, well-draining soil with a slightly acidic pH between 6.0-7.0. Amend the soil with compost or other organic matter. For containers, use a high quality all-purpose potting soil and make sure pots have adequate drainage holes.

Plant selection:

Choose roses that are easy-care and hardy in your region. Select varieties for traits including size, shape, flower color, and form, fragrance and repeat or continual bloom. Many newer varieties such as Oso Easy Roses are bred for disease-resistance, vigor, and long bloom time. Some older types, particularly hybrid teas, can be higher maintenance and more disease-prone.

CREATE A ROSE GARDEN IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPACES

Plant fragrant rose varieties near a deck or patio to enjoy their fragrance up close. Gardener: Diana Gough. Designer: Phil Thornburg. Photo by: Janet Loughrey.

Large rose garden:

Small rose garden:

Front yard rose garden:

Backyard rose garden:

ROSE GARDEN LANDSCAPING TIPS

Create a grand entrance to your home with a rose-covered arbor. Gardener: Mary DeNoyer. Photo by: Janet Loughrey.

Grow vertically:

Include climbing roses to maximize your space. Train other vining plants such as clematis to grow up through shrub or climbing roses to create exciting flower combinations.

Grow horizontally:

Train climbers along a fence to define garden rooms or to soften an unsightly chain link fence.

Plant in containers:

Many roses can be successfully grown in containers, a good solution for small spaces, apartment balconies, patios, and decks. Containers should be at least 15 to 20 inches in diameter and 18 to 24 inches deep. Half whiskey barrels work well. Miniature roses can be grown in smaller pots or hanging baskets. (See more on growing roses in pots.)

Cover a slope:

Mass groundcover varieties such as Flower Carpet® or Drift® roses along a slope for low-maintenance erosion control.

Plant in drifts:

For greater impact, plant in groups of 3-5 specimens of the same variety.

Plant a hedge:

Plant a row of taller shrub roses to create privacy from the street. A row of shorter groundcover roses can be planted along a foundation, in a curbside strip, or used to define garden areas.

Make an entrance:

Create a grand entrance to your home with an inviting entryway complete with a rose arbor and adjacent plantings to soften the landscape.

Create a transition:

Use a rose-covered arbor in a side yard to define the transition between front and back yards.

Use as a background planting:

Place climbers along a tall wooden fence to soften the backdrop and break up the expanse of wood.

Foundation planting:

Combine landscape roses with other shrubs that bloom at different times along the front of your home for a season-long display of color.

Mixed border:

Use low-growing ground cover roses near the front of a mixed border or taller semi-climbers in back to establish height and layers.

WHAT TO PLANT WITH ROSES

A curbside planting of roses underplanted with perennial geraniums offers screening and privacy. Garden and photo by: Janet Loughrey.

A rose garden can be greatly enhanced by incorporating other plants as part of the overall design. Roses go well with a wide variety of trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals. Choose plants that have the same cultural requirements of full sun, ample water and rich soil.

Also, consider how much maintenance your roses will need:

Flowering companions:

Intersperse plants that flower at different times to extend the bloom season. These can include perennials or annuals such as petunia, verbena, or calibrachoa.

Complement and contrast:

Pair roses with other plants in complementary hues to create drama and contrast. A gold-colored rose such as Oso Easy Lemon Zest® would pair well with Rapido Blue Carpathian bellflower or ‘Violet Profusion’ salvia.

Trees:

Add different heights to a mixed border or formal rose garden with trees. These can include snowbell (Styrax japonicus), fringe tree (Chionanthus virginicus), dogwood (Cornus) and crabapple (Malus).

Shrubs:

Enhance the landscape by providing contrasting color, texture, and structure with shrubs. These can include boxwood, spirea, bluebeard, and daphne.

Groundcovers:

Use groundcovers as a living mulch and weed-suppressing carpet. Good rose companions include perennial geraniums, dead nettle, bugleweed, and lady’s mantle.

Perennials:

Provide contrast with perennials of different size, structure, and color. Good rose companions include alliums, lavender, catmint, salvia, phlox, and speedwell.

Vines:

Climbers can be trained up or alongside rose plants for an extra layer of color. These may include clematis, climbing bleeding heart (Dicentra scandens), morning glory and jasmine.

ROSE GARDEN IDEAS

Plant fragrant rose varieties near a deck or patio to enjoy their fragrance up close. Gardener: Diana Gough. Designer: Phil Thornburg. Photo by: Janet Loughrey.

Combine roses with other plants of different heights for a layered tapestry. Gardener: Jeff Clark. Photo: Janet Loughrey.

A formal rose garden is characterized by distinct lines, clipped hedging and structures such as pergolas and arbors. Gardener and designer: Nancy Cutler. Photo: Janet Loughrey.

A rose-covered gate marks the transition between the front and back yards. Gardener: Mary DeNoyer. Photo: Janet Loughrey.

Train roses vertically to add varying layers to the landscape. Gardeners: Darin Simmons and Matthew Greydanus, Laurel Hedge. Photo: Janet Loughrey.

Train climbing roses along a fence to create an attractive screen for privacy. Gardeners: Danny Hills and Wayne Hughes, Lonesomeville Gardens. Photo: Janet Loughrey.

Roses combine well with many perennials, shrubs, trees, and annuals. Photo: Matthewshutter / Shutterstock.

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Rose gardens have long been symbols of romance and elegance. Loved for large blooms and divine fragrance, the rose is a stalwart of the English garden and there are few plants that can rival its versatility. Available as climbers, ramblers, bushes, shrubs and ground cover roses, in a variety of colors, fragrances and repeat flowering or single blooms, there are a variety of rose garden ideas for almost every position.  

Picture a rose garden and it may well conjure images of formal rose gardens designed to pay homage to the classic elegance of roses. Often these gardens consist of symmetrical, geometric borders edged with trimmed box-hedges and infilled with neatly trimmed rose bushes, often arranged by color. However, you don’t need to plant roses in a formal rose garden to appreciate the beauty of roses, there are numerous ways to enjoy them in your garden from climbing over a pergola to in pots on the patio. 

We’ve rounded up an array of rose garden ideas to introduce them into your outdoor space.

Rose garden ideas

Roses are such beautiful flowers that many designers like to create a dedicated area for them. ‘Roses should be the star of the garden,’ says Florida-based garden designer Matthew Giampietro . ‘I like to incorporate roses into a garden by designing a formal rose garden or outdoor ‘room’ for roses, or even just a border of roses.’ 

In times gone by, walled rose gardens were known as rosaries and often contained nothing but roses. Modern gardening practice tends to favor designing a rose garden so that roses sit amongst perennials, biennials, and annuals, however – both because it looks more contemporary and because it helps to prevent rose sickness. For example, salvias (such as the fabulous hot-pink ‘Cerro Potosí’) are thought to act as natural fungicide because their leaves contain sulphur.

1. Plant roses as hedging or en masse

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‘We like to bring the luxe look of roses into the gardens of modern homes,’ says Pennsylvania-based landscape designer Nathan Tuno , who works at Roots Landscape Inc . 

‘Roses done as a hedge or a large mass grouping work beautifully in contemporary landscapes. Stick with neutral tones such as white or blush, or perhaps yellow to give a pop of color while staying cool and understated. We lean on the Knock Out rose varieties, such as Sunny Knock Out or White Knock Out. They produce an abundance of delicate flowers while being unfussy. ’

2. Plant roses for a wildlife garden

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Many garden designers like to use wild species roses (or single and semi-double roses that have the look of wild roses) to create a wonderfully informal, natural look, while providing food for wildlife.

‘I especially love the pasture rose (Rosa carolina),’ says Maryland-based landscape architect and designer Kirsten Coffen . ‘This rose is native to North America and grows especially well in coastal areas and sloping terrain. The bright-pink flowers are born in spring and throughout the summer and are a much loved food source for bees and other pollinators.’ 

Such wild roses are superb grown as a rose hedge or as part of a mixed native hedge – wonderful wildlife garden ideas.

3. Grow roses through a tree

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Growing a rose through a tree makes for a romantic, beautiful feature in the garden during summer. Make sure you select the right tree and the right rose for a knock-out combination.  

‘Choose a rambler that is not so vigorous that it will smother trees,’ advises Michael Marriott , one of the world's leading rose experts. ‘One of my favorite free-flowering ramblers is ‘Francis E. Lester’ , which has single soft-pink flowers like a wild rose, with a delicious musky fragrance. These are followed by similar quantities of small orange hips. It would be suitable for a medium-sized mature tree like an old apple. The advantage of growing into a tree is that once up there it needs no maintenance so all you have to do is admire it!’ 

4. Grow roses as ground cover

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Procumbent roses sprawl over the ground, quickly suppressing weeds and concealing bare soil, and many of them have single or semi-double flowers that provide nectar for pollinators. 

‘The Flower Carpet roses come in a variety of colors from dark red and bright pink to yellow and white,’ says Kirsten Coffen . ‘As ground cover, they combine beautifully with pale-blue catmints (Nepeta), which offset the hot flower colors. I like to use such roses to create a punch of color near a walkway or entrance space.’

5. Grow a rose garden over a seating area

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Repeat flowering and with beautiful fragrances, roses are a brilliant choice of flower for growing near a seating area. Try training a rambling rose, such as this Phyllis Bide variety by David Austin Roses , across an arch over a bench for a pretty garden retreat. A repeat flowerer with a medium, sweet scent and sprays of small, pale apricot-pink flowers, Phyllis Bide brings a romantic feel to the garden summer long. 

(Image credit: RHS Rosemoor)

Take a more informal approach to growing roses and include them as part of a mixed border of shrubs and herbaceous perennials to bring color and height. Planting them alongside plants such as Achillea Mollis and Sea Holly will create a romantic cottage garden feel as these borders at The Cottage Garden at RHS Rosemoor prove. 

7. Plant roses in color blocks for impact

(Image credit: RHS Rosemoor / Jason Ingram)

Planting multiple roses of the same variety is often seen in formal rose gardens and can look truly show-stopping. If doing this be sure to plant in odd numbers. If you're looking for inspiration, The Queen Mother’s Rose Garden at RHS Rosemoor has a fantastic array of modern rose types including Hybrid tea (large-flowered), floribunda (cluster-flowered) and shrub roses.

8. Line a path with rose arches

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Training climbing roses over pergolas and arches along an avenue or pathway can make moving through a garden truly magical, as this image from the walled rose garden at National Trust Mottisfont proves, featuring arches covered in Rose Adelaide d'Orleans. Other climbing roses perfect for growing up an arch include The Generous Gardener, Malvern Hills and Constance Spry – unrivalled for scent. If you’re looking for rose garden inspiration be sure to visit National Trust Mottisfont, home to the National Collection of pre-1900 old-fashioned roses.

9. Pair roses with lavender for a cottage garden feel

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Planting shrub roses with lavender is a classic combination which will guarantee a relaxed cottage feel and will bring color and fragrance throughout the summer. According to the rose experts at David Austin Roses , simple combinations cannot be underestimated; try planting its Boscobel rose with English lavender for a show-stopping and easy-to-maintain display.

10. Use rambling roses to soften garden walls and  structures

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Climbing and rambling roses are a brilliant way to bring height and colour to a garden and are particularly useful if you’re looking to obscure unsightly structures. A classic rambler, David Austin’s Phyllis Bide, is a repeat flowerer that can grow up to 4.5 metres tall making it brilliant for this purpose.

11. Grow a rose garden around a doorway

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Growing a rose around a doorway can really make a feature of an entranceway. If growing a rose around a doorway, seating area, place where people pass or children play, then consider a variety with few thorns such as Mortimer Sackler or The Shepherdess.  

12. Brighten up patios with potted roses

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If space is at a premium then roses can easily be grown in containers to bring scent and color to a patio. Good roses for growing in pots include Harlow Carr, Princess Alexandra of Kent, Desdemona and Vanessa Bell, all available from David Austin Roses . 

Raised garden bed ideas are another great way to incorporate roses into a more structured scheme.

13. Grow a rose over an obelisk to give height to borders

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Growing a climbing rose up an obelisk is a brilliant way to bring height to mixed borders. Loved for its strong, Old Rose scent, Gertrude Jekyll is a brilliant choice for an obelisk which will bring beautiful fragrance and quintessential elegance to any garden. 

14. Create a focal point with a rose-covered pergola

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Growing a climbing or rambling rose over a perogla or gazebo can make a spectacular focal point in a garden. With their cascading, clusters of blooms and whimsical 'rambling' nature ramblers are a great choice for this, including varietes such as Rosa mulliganii, one of the biggest rose varieties, pictured here at Sissinghurst Castle Garden in the care of the National Trust.

How do you start a rose garden?

Prepare your path

The best soil for planting roses should be free-draining, slightly acid and medium in texture – neither sandy nor clayey. If your soil type differs from this, you can improve it by digging in lots of organic material – a few minutes of extra effort at this stage can lead to a healthy plant that gives you years of pleasure.  

Start them well 

It’s not advisable to plant new bushes where other roses have grown in the last three years, as this will greatly increase the risk of ‘rose sickness'. This occurs when fungi that grew around the roots  and soil of the old plant start to attack the new one. The addition of around 30g of mycorrhizal fungi per rose bush is particularly helpful in poorer soil conditions or when roses are planted in areas where roses have previously been grown.  

Choose the right rose

Bush roses look great in island beds mixed with perennials, while miniature varieties make excellent edging plants in front of the taller varieties. Shrub roses on the other hand, planted singly, can make excellent specimen plants, and you can also try clustering shrub varieties to make a flowering hedge. Smaller roses can be grown in pots.

Care for your roses

Deadheading roses is an important part of caring for a rose garden; doing so regularly during flowering season will keep yours neat.

Which roses are best for wildlife?

Roses with single or semi-double flowers because their nectar and pollen are accessible to bees and hoverflies. The golden rule is: if you can’t see the yellow stamens, a rose is not wildlife-friendly.

Great examples include the charming blush-white Jacqueline du Pré and the cheering, striped rosa mundi ( R. gallica ‘Versicolor’ ), which work well in borders. Garden designers increasingly use such single and semi-double varieties to create a contemporary, naturalistic look.

‘For wildlife, I suggest Comte de Champagne with almost single, soft-creamy-yellow flowers of medium size,’ says Michael Marriott . ‘They have many golden-yellow stamens in the center making them very attractive to wildlife. If not deadheaded, they will set a lovely crop of hips.’

Other great shrub roses that provide hips to feed birds during fall include ‘Scabrosa’ , which has fruit that resembles cherry tomatoes, and ’Geranium’ , which is hung with incredible flagon-shaped scarlet hips in the fall. Many ramblers (such as ‘Francis E. Lester’ ) are also excellent for hips. But not all roses produce hips, so check with your supplier.

Pippa is Content Editor on Homes & Gardens online contributing to Period Living and Country Homes & Interiors print issues. A graduate of Art History and formerly Style Editor at Period Living, she is passionate about architecture, creating decorating content, interior styling and writing about craft and historic homes. She enjoys searching out beautiful images and the latest trends to share with the Homes & Gardens audience. A keen gardener, when she’s not writing you’ll find her growing flowers on her village allotment for styling projects.

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A beautiful colorful garden from spring to late autumn is not a dream. But not everyone wants to spend all their time on the site, planting flower beds and caring for the lawn. How to make a garden beautiful and cozy with a minimum of effort - to enjoy the colors of the garden, lying on a deck chair with a book or rocking on a garden rocking chair? Firstly, competently plan the landscape and, secondly, select plants that require a minimum of care. We tell you how to make a beautiful garden with your own hands - photos and ideas are attached!

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Think about which garden is easier for you to keep tidy - a regular French garden that requires frequent cutting of garden forms, beds that exclude even a hint of weeds, or a slightly neglected English with its free layout? Logic suggests that the English version is more convenient.

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In the photo: a picturesque lawn with wildflowers will help you easily create a beautiful garden with your own hands

The fewer flower beds in the garden, the easier it is to care for. Choose vibrant shrubs that change their appearance throughout the season. But still it is difficult to imagine a luxurious garden without flowers at all. How to beautifully decorate a garden without making a lot of effort? Lay large areas under the lawn or a picturesque lawn with clover, daisies, tenacity. Weeds are not so noticeable on it - it is enough to mow them. By the way, daisies easily tolerate a haircut and bloom remarkably, very low above the rosettes of leaves.

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A beautifully flowering front garden that fills the space in front of the house will create the feeling of a painstakingly cultivated garden. But the rest of the area can be left under the lawn, surrounded by bushes. Instead of flower beds with geometric shapes, create mixborders with a free arrangement of different plants. They look more picturesque and look good even when overgrown with weeds.
Choose frost-tolerant plants that are resistant to our climate. Combine plants with different foliage in height, shape and color so that even when not in bloom, the garden remains decorative and beautiful. Arrange mixborders at the intersection of paths to complicate the look of the garden.

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If there is a landscape difference on the site, do not be afraid to create terraces and retaining walls - they will enrich the garden picture, make it more picturesque.

A paved patio will also do the job of creating a backdrop for the flowers, and it will also reduce the hassle of mowing the lawn, a tiring task even with a self-propelled petrol lawn mower.

By the way, quality equipment will greatly simplify the care of the garden. In addition to a lawnmower suitable for open flat spaces, stock up on a petrol trimmer to cut grass and weeds around bushes and trees.

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Once the grass has grown over ten centimeters, a weekly mowing (or at least once every two weeks) will accompany your gardening experience. Remember that the correct mowing of the lawn involves mowing with a “snake”, so that the grass crushed by the wheels falls under the blade of the mower going in the opposite direction.

The shape of the lawn and the organization of the plantings around it is very important. The more separately growing plantings in the middle of the lawn, the more time you will spend. The border between lawn and solid plantings is another important decision to make maintenance easier.

Optimizing lawn mowing is no reason to completely abandon the tapeworm in the middle of it. If we are talking about a tree, form its crown at such a height that you can walk under it freely. Plants that should be spaced apart should not be planted closer than the width of the wheels of a lawn mower, otherwise you will have to cut the grass with a trimmer, and this is quite tedious.

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To avoid clogging the soil between out-of-lawn plantings, cover the soil with a decorative mulch (such as bark). Between young plantings, it is worth covering the ground with non-woven material and sprinkle with gravel - this will save you from weeding and ubiquitous grass. Or, if fresh plantings of shrubs and perennials require filling in the space between young plants, colorful annuals can be used. These simple tricks will help you not only save time on caring for the site, but also decorate your garden.

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do not require pre-germination, bloom for a long time and brightly, and also sown next year by self-sowing: escholzia (Eschscholzia), self-seeding poppy (Papaver rhoeas), annual flax (Linum grandiflorum), cornflower (Centaurea), flaxseed (Linaria vulgaris), calendula (Calendula officinalis).

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Bulb flowers: buried and forgotten
Tulips and hyacinths are magical spring flowers that delight the eye at the beginning of the season. But imagine what will be in their place in the summer, as soon as the flowers fade? Drying leaves that you still can’t cut off, so as not to deprive the bulb of the accumulated nutrients in this way. But after the leaves have completely dried, you need to have time to dig the bulbs to dry. And in late summer or early autumn, you will have to re-plant them.

If you really want tulips, plant wild species: they look rather unusual. Daffodils in one place can bloom well without digging for about 4-5 years. The only problem is yellowing leaves that cannot be cut until completely dry. Therefore, choose a place for them next to perennials, which will cover them with their leaves in summer.

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However, if you cannot imagine your English garden without large beautiful tulips in spring, place their bulbs in plastic nets in the ground - it will be easier and faster to dig them out to dry. Allow yourself to forget about this process for a year - one summer spent in the ground without drying out will not cause such terrible damage to the tulips blooming next year. The ideal "shelter" for faded bulbs will be hostas, peonies, daylilies.

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Do not be afraid of weeds and constantly fight with them. The garden, close to the country style, suits a slight neglect. The latest trends at the Chelsea Garden Show are further proof that weeds can brighten up any garden.

Keep the natural forms characteristic of your soil. They will give the garden a more natural look. For example, an ordinary garden chamomile creates beautiful compositions without any participation of a gardener, links plantings together. In addition, it blooms for a long time and is very resistant to heat and drought. Even burdock with its huge leaves can look impressive, and thistles can decorate a composition with lupins and rudbeckia with their flowers.

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peonies are required by regular fertilizers, watering before flowering and cutting feces in the winter, but this care will pay off a hundredfold when the garden is filled with huge fragrant flowers. Daylilies thrive in full sun and, like peonies, even after they have faded, will look decorative and neat.

Ornamental foliage and beautiful arrows with white or lilac bellflowers of the host - ideal for semi-shady and shady places (including under trees, but not near the trunks). True, the hosts will need to be cut off after the first frosts, which will “beat” their leaves, and in October they will be mulched with earth for the winter.

Irises - Siberian (Iris sibírica) and swamp (Iris pseudacoru), easy to care for - will decorate moist sunny places in the garden. Before the onset of winter, they will also need to be cut at a height of 10 cm above the ground. Bearded irises will require more care: weeding, digging rhizomes (bearded irises stop blooming profusely and start to hurt when their rhizomes deepen), shelters for the winter. But still, bearded irises are one of the best garden decorations in June. To make it easier to care for them, choose old proven varieties that grow quickly and are resistant to diseases.

Daisies, lupins, rudbeckia - all these are very resistant plants that look beautiful both in flower beds (elongated flower beds) and separately in a mixborder. They can be grown in the garden directly from seeds.

Biennials - Turkish carnation (Dianthus barbatus), stem rose (Alcea rosea) - are also suitable for flower beds and mixborders and are very easy to grow. The only thing to consider is that they bloom only in the second year after planting, and then they must be removed and planted again, otherwise there will be no lush flowering.

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shrubs . Arrange shrubs of different types, heights and shapes around the perimeter of your garden, near the fence, next to the buildings. The more picturesque, the better - even if one of them freezes over during the winter, the neighbors will hide its untidy appearance.

The common lilac is a must have in a low maintenance garden. In May, the fragrance of her flowers will flood the entire garden, and everyone knows about the beauty of the luxuriantly flowering bushes. Choose varieties with large double flowers - "Hope", "Beauty of Moscow" and other varieties of L. A. Kolesnikov, striking in the size of flowers and wintering well in the Moscow region. The only concern is to trim the faded brushes after flowering.

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Grow quickly in a sunny place into a huge sprawling three-meter bush capable of vesicle. To create a contrasting composition with other shrubs and flowers, choose one of the brightest expressive varieties - Physocarpus Diablo with dark foliage. In June, it will be covered with white flowers, collected in slightly pinkish corymbs. In June, mock orange (garden jasmine) will decorate the garden with its white flowers with the scent of jasmine.

White Derain (Cornus alba) in its popular variegated form blooms beautifully in spring, expressively turns pink in autumn, and its red twigs are spectacular even in the winter garden. Plant sod on moist soils, where it develops rapidly, and always in the back of the composition, otherwise soon you will not see neighbors behind it - sod, like the silver sucker, behaves quite aggressively, taking up much more space than was allotted according to plan.

Don't forget about wild rose - after fragrant flowers, it leaves bright fruits to decorate the garden.

Decide for yourself, after evaluating the amount of necessary autumn work, whether you are ready to see forsythia in your garden. This yellow-flowered yet leafless shrub makes a big impression in early spring. By autumn, its graceful foliage is painted in different colors. But for good flowering of forsythia, it is necessary to hide it in a shelter during the winter near Moscow: in the fall, you will have to pay special attention to forsythia, bending its branches to the ground and wrapping it with lutrasil.

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For the foreground in a composition of shrubs and perennials, spireas in all their diversity are suitable - gray spirea (Spirae a cinerea), Japanese spirea (Spiraea japonica), Vanguta spirea (Spiraea vanhouttei) and others. All of them are very decorative: they bloom beautifully, moreover, at different times and without any care. The branches of a low gray spirea are completely doused with small white flowers in the spring. In summer and even again in autumn (when pruned after flowering), Japanese spirea blooms with corymbs of pink flowers.

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Hydrangea arborescens and Hydrangea paniculata are a decoration for semi-shady places in the garden. It looks great in compositions with coniferous plants.

Barberries (frequently found common barberry Berberis vulgaris and Thunberg's barberry Berberis thunbergi) do not bloom with yellow flowers, but their characteristic leaves and branches with small red berries look very decorative. Moreover, last year's berries remain on the bush. The same can be said about the European spindle tree, extremely decorative in autumn thanks to the flaming foliage and its special fruits in the form of opened bright pink boxes with orange berries inside.

Willow 'Hakuro Nishiki' (Salix integra Hakuro Nishiki) is another low-maintenance ornamental shrub whose leaves, not flowers, are worthy of becoming a garden decoration. The white leaves on the young shoots of this willow are painted in the sun in pale pink tones.

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usually wait for themselves to be planted by young trees throughout the entire plants. beauty, and not every gardener can master the planting of large-sized plants. So if your garden already has large trees, let them be the basis for creating compositions from shrubs and perennials, because without them it is difficult to achieve a sense of natural luxury and scope in the most beautiful garden.

Of the things worth adding to the garden, apart from beautifully flowering apple trees, cherries, plums, is bird cherry in its red-leaved form. Horse chestnut with candles of flowers and decorative foliage is good even in the form of a young tree. Manchurian walnut (Juglans mandshurica) due to large openwork leaves, growth rate, excellent winter hardiness is another candidate for your garden. The red-leaved forms of oak and maple will support the purple barberry bushes, the red-brown foliage of the Diabolo vesicle with the color of the foliage.

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Be sure to add coniferous shrubs and trees to the garden. Junipers of different forms perfectly connect different plants in a mix-border - you can already create a decorative garden from junipers and thujas alone, playing with the color of the needles (yellow-colored Aurea forms, white-tipped Albospikata) and the shape of the plants. All these plants can be easily found in nurseries: more budgetary - in the form of very small seedlings and more expensive - at the age of three to five years. What to choose depends only on the budget.

Of course, proper planting of all these plants and the correct set of fertilizers in planting holes of the required width and depth will require a lot of effort, but only once. And with the most minimal care, such a garden will sparkle with all the richness of colors in a few years. You just need to give him a little freedom.
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Top 15 Annual Flowers

Although annuals will only last one season, their beauty and variety make them a must have for any garden.

Valeria Skripko

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What are the advantages of annual plants?

Of course, due to the variety of plants, choosing the most suitable flowers seems to be not the easiest task. So how do you make the right choice? First you need to study the pros and cons of annuals and perennials. While the best perennial flowers and plants live for more than two years, they tend to be more expensive than annuals, which will only bloom one season.

But do not cross out annuals just for this reason! They make a great addition to a container garden where they can be mixed with perennials. With their help, you can also decorate the porch or front yard. No matter where annuals will be located, they are sure to add bright colors to your yard.

Of course, they will need to be replaced every year, but maybe there is nothing wrong with that? See this as an opportunity to experiment with a new batch of annuals each season. And since these flowers usually don't cost much, you can constantly choose new varieties that will bloom all spring, summer, or fall.

Angelonia

These heat and drought tolerant flowers are ideal for southern locations. They can survive even the hottest and sunny days. In warmer regions, the angelonia will continue to bloom throughout the fall.

Begonia

These delicate flowers in shades of white, pink and red require minimal care. When autumn comes, you can move them indoors or dig up the tubers and replant the begonia next year.

Celosia

These colorful plants come in a variety of shapes (comb-like, pinnate and spikelet) and colors such as pink, red, orange and yellow. In addition, they grow quickly and are quite easy to care for.

Chrysanthemum

If you want to add rich colors to your autumn landscape, chrysanthemums are just what you need. You can purchase them from a plant nursery and then plant them in pots or grow them from seeds.

Cosmos

The more often you cut Cosmos, the taller and faster it will grow, which means that your garden will be decorated with beautiful pink, white or purple flowers all summer long.

Dahlias

These flowers are sure to make your garden beds look great. There are many varieties of dahlias, from honeycomb-like shapes to lush peony varieties. They are easy to grow and with proper care, you can dig up and reuse tubers year after year.

Geranium

Decorate your driveway, porch or front yard with these pretty miniature flowers. An unpretentious potted geranium will bloom for several months.

Balsam

These small flowers with delicate petals are ideal for darker areas of your yard where sun-loving plants cannot be planted. Plant balsam in a suitable shady spot and your garden will be adorned with these amazing flowers all summer long.

Larkspur

With blue and purple petals, this plant is easy to care for and ideal for colder climates. Plant it in the fall (the seeds can survive frost) and you'll enjoy its beautiful appearance all spring.

Marigold

This fast growing plant blooms profusely every summer. On one bush, at least 15 flowers of yellow and orange shades can grow.

Pansies

Hardy pansies can be found in almost all colors of the rainbow (there are also several multi-colored varieties). And because the flowers tolerate frost well, they are the perfect addition to your garden in early spring.

Petunia

These hardy annuals can be grown in pots, hanging baskets and garden beds.

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