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Juniper in landscape design gained immense popularity due to its unpretentiousness, as well as a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This article describes how it can be used to decorate a home area, as well as park areas.

Why juniper

In general, coniferous crops have been used for landscaping a site for a long time, because they delight with their beauty at any time of the year. In the past few years, designers have adapted juniper to decorate territories, since its unique appearance can significantly change the decorated area. Its dimensions, combining both dwarf species and specimens reaching the size of full-fledged trees, are able to combine a large number of decoration styles available to lovers of evergreen perennials.

Juniper

What varieties can be used for planting outdoors

For decorating rocky areas, Cossack juniper, which is a dwarf, is perfect. This species is the most common and fastest growing, therefore it has gained great popularity among gardeners and professionals. Juniper Cossack Variegata in landscape design differs from other varieties in that it extends along the ground, but at the same time its spreading crown has a stunning blue-green color and has a sharp coniferous smell.

Another good variety of creeping shrubs is the horizontal juniper, the needles of which have a deep gray-green color with a light bluish haze. The plant reaches a height of 0.5 m and is perfect for decorating the edge of borders. Also for these purposes, the cup-shaped Siberian juniper, which has bluish prickly needles, can also be suitable.

Note! One of the tall varieties that goes well with any culture is Chinese juniper, reaching up to 10 m in height. The range of shades ranges from different shades of green to golden yellow.

The juniper virginian is also suitable, which, as a rule, is represented by tall columnar species.

An interesting option for planting can be the common Hortsmann juniper, the crown of which, as it grows, looks as if drooping, forming a unique plant shape.

Another type of common juniper, which is distinguished by a chaotic pyramidal shape, is Suezika. This species reaches a size of up to 10 m in height.

Growing and planting methods

Juniper variegated is one of the most unpretentious and frost-resistant plant species. It can be planted in rocky, rocky, acidic as well as oily soil. This juniper is just right for shady places.

To plant a shoot, you need to dig a hole several times larger than its roots, then pour drainage into the bottom in the form of an old loose brick or small pebbles. If the type of soil is acidic, then it is worth adding lime or dolomite flour. The earth should definitely be loosened, then a shrub should be placed. Before this, it is desirable to treat parts of the plant with a solution of potassium permanganate. It would not be bad if the seedling has a closed root system. It must be placed in a planting hole along with an earthen clod from a pot. After that, the roots are covered with sand. Well, in the end, fill the remaining space with sawdust or tree bark, because this can protect against weeds.

For juniper horizontal, loamy or sandy loamy soils are best suited. Otherwise, all landing rules for junipers are the same.

Important! The main thing is to ensure good soil drainage, as shrubs do not like stagnant water. Also, do not plant them in clay soil.

This species should be planted in the spring in a place well lit by the sun.

Varieties of Chinese juniper are absolutely not shade-resistant and will surely die if they are planted in the wrong place. perfect time for landing will be April or May, as well as the beginning of September.

In general, all types of shrubs require the same care and planting algorithm, but with a slight difference that only specific soil types are suitable for some varieties. And, despite the fact that most varieties of juniper can grow in the shade, you still need to ensure constant sunlight.

Note! In order for the seedlings to take root better, it is recommended to replace the soil around the roots with a sand-peat mixture.

The plant must be watered with great care. If it grows in a place where ground water approach close to the surface of the earth, watering should be carried out so as not to flood the plant with water. In one season, it is worth providing the juniper with about 5 waterings. In the hot season, their number needs to be increased. In addition, the branches should be sprayed regularly with water to maintain beautiful view needles.

Juniper in garden design

The summer cottage can be easily decorated using both creeping and upright varieties.

Flower bed with juniper

Note! Coniferous plants are used in almost any style of landscape design. The main thing is to take into account their compatibility with other plants, and also that junipers should grow at a distance of 1 to 4 m from each other, depending on the specific species.

When making a flower bed, many are wondering what to plant next to the juniper? There are many options. The hydrangea and juniper growing next to each other will perfectly complement each other. But juniper and pear are a very dangerous neighborhood, since fruit tree can easily wither. Ephedra is good place for the propagation of the rust fungus that affects many crops. Together with him, it is best to plant other plants, for example, tulips, roses, daffodils, other conifers, dogwood, honeysuckle, etc.

In addition, juniper will look good on alpine slides. For the garden in English style you can choose pyramidal and columnar varieties. With proper dexterity, the edges of the paths can be decorated with junipers on a stem or such a beautiful shrub can be placed in the center of any compositions. Also a good option would be a flower bed with hostas and juniper.

Important! Dwarf species should be planted next to tall plants and, conversely, so that they do not block each other's sun.

juniper hedge

Compositions with juniper bushes are not limited to flower beds. With your own hands, you can create hedges, which will be an amazing variation of the fence. Such a creation looks good in combination with trees, such as birch, and also beautifully encloses the territory of the flower beds. Such a fence can be created against the background of red brick.

For its formation, it is worth paying attention to the high-growing varieties of ordinary, virgin and Chinese junipers. But it is worth remembering that the last variety will have to be covered for the winter.

Important! To give the necessary shape to the bush, you need to get garden shears and brush cutters. The sides are cut in May and September, but the top can be cut only after reaching the age of 10.

Ideas for decoration

There are many examples of how you can arrange a landscape using juniper.

An example of the design of a flower bed in the English style

The cone-shaped juniper combines wonderfully with a small hydrangea shrub.

Creeping conifer along with a lilac-like hydrangea.

By the way, the lilac itself goes well with the shade-tolerant juniper.

Compositions using hosta

This combination is distinguished by its conciseness and simplicity. Barberry berries will also help to shade the dark shades of foliage.

Juniper hedges

Any fence can be issued in various options, as a single wall, and in the form of a thinned row of trees, the crowns of which grow upwards. Do not forget that in this way you can enclose the site from prying eyes.

The fence will look very advantageous if you enclose it with a decorative fence.

Thus, it is not surprising that simple gardeners and designers are giving more and more preference to this culture, because it really amazes with a large variety of unpretentious species, as well as opportunities for decoration.

Juniper is widely used in landscape design. This plant is from the cypress family. There are about 80 types of juniper in the world. They are distributed throughout the world. At different peoples these plants have their own names. Juniper varieties are divided using three classifications:

  • by color and texture of needles;
  • height;
  • subspecies.

Consider the most popular varieties used in landscape design ().

Juniper scaly Blue Carpet

Juniper Blue Carpet refers to scaly junipers, but according to some classifications it is classified as horizontal or Chinese.

Blue Carpet translated from English Blue Carpet. The name speaks for itself: the plant during the period of active growth becomes heavenly blue color.

The maximum height of an adult shrub is about 50 cm. Juniper is a creeping evergreen. In diameter, it can reach 2.5 m or more, its growth is practically unlimited.

When you include Blue Carpet in your landscape composition, you will get a large blue carpet that will accentuate the green plants of the second tier. The variety has a fairly large growth dynamics. Branches per season give an increase of up to 40 cm. In diameter, the bush increases to 80 cm.

Juniper medium Old Gold

Juniper Old Gold from a range of medium junipers. The title translates as Old Gold. This is the compact form of Pfitzeriana Aurea.

A bush about 0.5 m high, its diameter can reach 1.5 m. The juniper acquires the most decorative color from late May to mid-June, when a young growth of bright yellow color.

Juniper Cossack Mas

Juniper Cossack Mas appeared in Russia as one of the very first varieties of this crop. It is used for landscaping household plots, because the shrub is unpretentious to growing conditions, but at the same time very decorative.

In winter, the color of juniper becomes bronze. In the spring, when nature wakes up, the bush acquires a bluish-green color.

Be careful! Cones of juniper Cossack are poisonous.

The maximum size of this plant is 1 m in height, 3–3.5 m in diameter. In nature, a shrub can reach 20 m in width due to the fact that its lower branches, lying on the ground, easily take root.

Juniper Horizontal Blue Chip

Blue Chip is unpretentious in care, prefers sunny places. The height of the shrub is 30 cm, the diameter is up to 3 m, if it is not cut and the juniper is allowed to grow freely. In the cold season, the plant has a purple color, which gives additional charm to the winter garden.

A plant such as juniper is very often used by designers in landscape design. It all year round does not lose its charm appearance. It is as easy to care for as possible: it tolerates long intervals between waterings perfectly, they are not frost-free. The number of varieties of juniper will satisfy even the most sophisticated tastes. Designers use the plant in various compositions: hedges, heather gardens.

Common varieties

There are many types of this beautiful shrub, but there are some that designers give more preference to. It is also worth noting that the juniper can be both a shrub and a tall tree.

Common juniper

The variety of such juniper is very common, but it has its own subspecies. There is a feature that unites them - it is resistance to harsh environmental conditions.

Chinese juniper

These varieties of juniper grow best on rocky slopes and soils. Most often found as a shrub. The most popular varieties of Chinese juniper in landscape design are:

Cossack juniper

Such varieties are usually low and have a dark crown color. Ornamental plants of this variety can be planted both with other flower crops, and separately create compositions from it.

horizontal juniper

This variety of this plant forms carpets no more than 0.4 m high.

  • Andorra Compacta Variegata- the needles of such a shrub are variegated, green all year round. Like almost all junipers, it is unpretentious to the soil and tolerates cold remarkably. Combines well with other plants.
  • ice blue- from the center of the bush, the branches spread in different directions in this variety. Such a juniper grows rather slowly, remarkably tolerates drought and non-daily watering. The height of such a shrub does not exceed 20 cm. And the branches can spread to an area of ​​up to 2 meters.

juniper scaly

Quite an interesting variety of shrubs that have a crown color of blue. Unlike all junipers, varieties such as scaly are very capricious, they feel equally painful in heat and frost.

  • Blue Carpet- the preferred landing site in the sun, the shadow does not tolerate well. Does not like oversaturation of the soil with moisture. Perfect for creating designer landscape designs within the city. The height of the bush reaches no more than 50 cm, and the branches spread to 2.5 meters.
  • Meyeri- a shrub that proper care from undersized bush can easily grow into a tall tree. Loves sunlight, tolerates the cold season well. The growth of such a juniper is slow.

Fast growing juniper and mountain view

Almost all gardeners know what juniper looks like. And not many people know which variety is considered to be a fast-growing juniper. They gain their shape quite quickly and grow over the site. These varieties include Pfitzeriana Aurea and blue carpet. There are fast-growing junipers in every subspecies of the plant.

Very popular among gardeners and flower growers are also varieties of mountain juniper, or as it is also commonly called, a rocky plant species. This is a tree that can reach a height of up to 12 meters. The crown of such a plant has a rounded shape. The trunk is upright, but may branch. The tree blossoms, and after release from inflorescences berries are formed.

Such a juniper cannot be called decorative, it is a real tree. Most often it can be found in the area of ​​formation of rocky terrain and mountains. Such varieties of plants are rare and designers appreciate them very much and love to use them in the development of landscape design.

Options for using juniper in landscape design

Such widespread use in landscape design, juniper owes its diversity and unpretentiousness. The color of the crown varies from all shades of green to blue and yellow.. When the flowering of this plant begins, the color of the needles is able to change color.

Slow growth is also taken into account by designers in creating a garden. Low breeds of juniper, as a rule, are used for planting green hedges. Plants that have a cone-shaped crown look beautiful even in a single planting. Designers in creating a landscape use such cone-shaped junipers when planting an alley, and dividing the garden with a kind of hedge.

Spreading and weeping species of juniper are most often planted one at a time, without grouping, with any other conifers. Most often, designers use them to decorate alpine slides and rocky slopes.

Another wonderful type of juniper can be called dwarf varieties. Despite them small size, they look beautiful and expressive in the created landscape compositions. Designers prefer to plant dwarf junipers near water bodies and on alpine slides.

  1. Juniper near the pond. Designers plant dwarf varieties around garden paths, thereby highlighting it in space. If you combine dwarf species with others, you can very beautifully beat the edges of an artificial pond.
  2. Create a border. For such borders, designers choose varieties of horizontal juniper. This delimitation of the territory looks impressive and very stylish. You need to plant a plant near the wall on the sunny side of the house.
  3. Juniper mixborder. This type of plant gets along well with the same coniferous plant species. And it's wonderful that you can surround yourself with coniferous crops and enjoy clean air in his backyard. Spruces and pines in the area next to the juniper will look great side by side on the same plan.
  4. eclectic flower garden. In such a flower garden, any colors of flower crops and shrubs can prevail. The main thing is that the shades of plants should not be bright; in this style, designers place plants in a muted colors. In such landscape compositions, designers group trees, flowers, shrubs of different colors. And of course, juniper is always planted in a place of honor in such compositions.
  5. Duet with stonecrops. One of the features of this plant, designers call the uniqueness of the texture and the enviable constancy of greenery in the shades of the plant. One of the most successful combinations in landscape design, it is customary to consider a combination of juniper with plants such as stonecrops. Such a composition can take pride of place in flowerpots or hanging planters.
  6. Juniper with lilies. The most advantageous background for all flowers of the lily family is juniper. Against the evergreen background of a coniferous plant, lilies will bloom with bright colors, emphasizing their harmony and beauty of lines and curves.




Plant selection for planting

After all preferences have been determined and all new trends of designers have been taken into account, you can approach such a question as choosing seedlings for planting in open ground. Here are the selection criteria:

  1. Pay attention to the root system of the seedling in the container in which it grows. The root system should be spread throughout the container.
  2. Inspection of the roots should reveal the presence of healthy roots on the seedlings that have a white healthy appearance.
  3. The crown of the needles on the seedling of the plant should have a rich color, without yellow flashes.

Site selection and juniper planting

This type of plant needs to be planted in a permanent place. The soil should not be swampy and in the shade. The landing algorithm will be as follows:

juniper care

After the seedling is planted and rooted, it is worth starting to properly care for better growth. temperature regime, does not require any special plant, as it is frost-resistant. But there are varieties that are extremely capricious to soil temperature.

If the plant grows in the form of a bush or a tree, it is recommended to tie up the paws of the branches before the onset of winter, in order to avoid breaking off. Sometimes you can notice that some summer residents spray juniper, this is necessary to avoid dehydration during the dry season. If you take spraying as a permanent procedure, then you can use it to achieve greater fluffiness of the crown.

When a young plant is planted, watering should be done until it is well established. An adult plant does not require watering, with the exception of very hot summers. Lighting should be good, but excessive exposure to sunlight on its crown is not recommended. You can see burns from direct sunlight if you pay attention to the yellow spots on the paws of the shrub crown.

The plant is also cut very carefully, to create the shape of the crown of the plant. But such pruning is performed only in cases of emergency. If you perform a series of simple manipulations in caring for compositions involving this plant, then your garden will delight you with beautiful design ideas. Designers are very fond of junipers, their varieties delight with a variety of new species bred by breeders.

One of the most popular plants that are often planted for decoration country house is juniper, which is artisanal and tree-like.

The height of the first rarely exceeds more than half a meter. It is distinguished by dense needles and spreading, flexible branches.

Juniper tree type is able to reach a height of up to 20 meters and is distinguished by a cone-shaped or pyramidal shape of needles. Juniper blossoms in June, and in September, begins to bear fruit.

In general, juniper grows in northern forests and is resistant to frost and unpretentious. But now it is possible in any regions of our country. Creeping juniper looks especially impressive in landscape design.

Varieties

It is the creeping juniper that is the most popular. This is due to many factors. The most popular varieties of this type of juniper are:

Features of growing common juniper:

  • Cossack;
  • Horizontal;
  • Dahurian;
  • Recumbent Nana.

. This variety of creeping juniper has a height of about 1 meter. In many ways, it resembles the Cossack juniper.

The same creeping and pressed to the ground with long blue-green branches. Its needles may be different color but in winter it turns brown. The leaves of the horizontal juniper are prickly, needle-shaped and sharp.

Dahurian juniper.

This juniper with gray, exfoliating bark, raised branches, with needle-shaped, sharp needles.

Daurian juniper loves light areas, can grow in any soil and is drought tolerant.

Propagated by cuttings and seeds.

Creeping juniper Nana. One of the most popular varieties of creeping juniper is the recumbent species of Nana.

It is a low shrub with creeping, slightly raised ends. On average, it grows by 15 centimeters per year.

It is distinguished by short and stiff needles of bluish or green color. The cones are small, almost round. It grows well in semi-shady, sunny, moist soil. It is well adapted to the conditions of the city, tolerates severe frosts well.

Juniper Nana can be planted both singly and in groups. It is excellent as a soil cover plant and can be grown in containers.

Care

For good growth, all varieties of creeping juniper need proper care.

It is as follows:

    1. Juniper in the year of planting should be watered as often as possible. This is due to the fact that its root system cannot yet consume moisture on its own. Further, it will need to be watered once a week. Especially during the dry season.
    2. Mulching should be carried out with pine chips or bark, pouring a layer of 5-7 centimeters. After that, it will be possible to water much less often.
    3. In the spring, it is recommended to feed the juniper with complex fertilizers, and in the fall - with potash.
    4. Fungicide treatment is required if the juniper is affected by fungal diseases.

Overview of three varieties of western undersized and dwarf thuja Golden:

Specialist's note: to prevent the occurrence of fungus, in the spring, juniper should be treated with Bordeaux liquid.

  1. When the juniper is damaged by various pests, it should be treated with Mospilan twice, every 10 days.
  2. Cut off improperly growing and dry juniper branches in the spring.

If behind the creeping juniper is provided necessary care, it will be a great addition to any personal plot or city square.

Watch the video in which the specialist talks about the features of growing the beautiful creeping juniper Ice Blue:

Juniper is very beautiful plant belonging to ancient family cypress, appearing on earth fifty million years ago. Starting from the mountain tropics and ending with the polar zone, about 70 varieties of this plant grow. Most of the juniper with small areas is located on the mountain plains. The inhabitants of the mountain slopes and rocks are undersized and creeping species of this plant. Juniper can sometimes reach a height of 15 meters, mainly in the arid territory of Central Asia, as well as America and Europe - this is a tree-like juniper. Let's take a closer look at the views.







juniper varieties,
used for landscape design

Common juniper, which is a tall sprawling shrub with needles that have a slightly bluish tint. Its needles are very prickly and needle-shaped. If we consider this species for landscaping a suburban area, then usually grown garden molds, such as dwarf and columnar shrubs. By the way, dwarf ones are the most suitable for creating alpine slides.


but to create hedges - columnar junipers. However, for group or single landings, they are also suitable. The most common forms of this species are Compressa, Green Carpet, Sentinel and Repanda.



Juniper Cossack has scaly needles and is one of the most undemanding species. Usually mature plant reaches a height of one and a half meters, while its lower branches may have a needle-like shape. Most often used for planting in rockeries or on lawns. It is also used on rocky slopes to cover the soil. And its most common forms are Variegata, Tamariscifolia and Glauca.

Chinese juniper is a tree-like plant, which can reach a height of 8 - 10 meters with needle-shaped or scaly needles, having a golden yellow color or a different shade of green.



Most often used for group plantings or for rock garden. The most common varieties include Stricta, Olympia and Blue Alps.

Juniper horizontalis a creeping low shrub with branches pressed to the ground and short needle-shaped or scaly needles, the color of which may be different - it depends on the variety. The needles can have green, gray-green, blue or silver-blue shades.


The best option the use of this plant is for decoration of decorative borders, slopes or for the design of rocky terrain.

Juniper candy is a very miniature shrub no more than half a meter high with very beautiful silver-blue needles, it belongs to a creeping plant species, occupying an area of ​​\u200b\u200bno more than 3 square meters. An ideal plant for creating alpine slides.

Let's talk about the features of planting juniper

The fact is that any kind of juniper (especially Cossack) needs special conditions in the process of planting. First of all, you should always remember that this plant is planted exclusively in sunny areas, otherwise it will simply lose its decorative properties. The only exception to the rule is the common juniper. In landscape design, it is important to consider that between these plants there should be a distance of at least half a meter (this is if the juniper is a small species) and one and a half to two meters for large species plants. Otherwise, subsequently, there will be no distance between them, and besides, they will obscure each other. Another important point- do not plant them next to undersized plants, which will lack neither light nor nutrition. The best option is to plant juniper around the perimeter of the house, as well as in front of the house.



Thus, you get some kind of original hedge. Sometimes the plant is staggered throughout the site or, for example, near a rock garden. After that, pots with young plants are placed in the order in which they are planned to be planted. Container plants must be well saturated with moisture, for which they are kept in a container of water for two hours. Next, a hole is prepared, which should be slightly larger than the pot itself.

Before planting plants, it is recommended to dig the site to the depth of a shovel, clean it of any debris and fertilize. At the bottom of the pit, a drainage layer is made, for example, from sand or broken bricks. The layer should have a thickness of 15 to 20 cm. Then the roots of the plants are covered with a soil mixture of turf, sand and peat, while peat should make up two parts of the entire mixture, and the remaining components one at a time. If the plants are large, the root neck at the time of planting should be slightly higher than the edges of the soil surface.

The use of juniper in landscape design

Since this plant is unusually beautiful, it is widely used for landscaping garden plots. Tree-like varieties, for example, are used in group or single versions of park plantings. With the help of these plants you can create a wonderful hedge. Undersized species, as well as dwarf ones, are most used in rock gardens and rockeries, i.e. in rock gardens.


There are cases when juniper is planted in order to prevent erosion, because. it holds the soil well. In the background, as a rule, high columnar varieties are planted with green or blue needles, imitating blue distances,

It should be remembered that the plant categorically does not withstand gas pollution, because. "loves" only environmentally friendly areas. Therefore, for the landscape design of the metropolis, the use of this plant is excluded.

In what styles of landscape design is juniper appropriate?

Despite all the beauty of an evergreen plant, its harmonious presence is appropriate only for certain styles of landscape design. For example, juniper will go well with the Scandinavian style, which is characterized by clear geometric shapes, as well as spaciousness and naturalness. Juniper, which has bright colored needles and is located against the background of moss, lichen and heather, will look extremely beneficial and impressive, acting as an expressive accent of the composition.

If the site is decorated in the English style, then it is simply unthinkable without juniper. However, if for scandinavian style dwarf varieties are the most suitable, in this case larger species of it, which have calmer shades (green or blue), are appropriate. Those. the plant should not be an accent in this restrained style, but should serve as the final element to give the composition a finished look.


Juniper is also appropriate in styles such as Japanese and Oriental. Against the backdrop of a riot of colors, the natural simplicity of this plant will have a shading function. To do this, designers recommend planting juniper next to heathers of bright colors.

The neighborhood of juniper with other plants

To begin with, the juniper is a magnificent plant, but in itself it is not of such interest as in combination with other representatives of the plant world. However, not all plants withstand such a neighborhood.



For example, pampered roses, as well as peonies and clematis, should be planted at a distance of at least two meters from conifers. Moreover, the gaps between the conifers, it is desirable to mulch and pull up, or use the backfill with decorative crumbs.


Ground covers are good for sodding, for example, from evergreens, such as thyme, bryozoan, tenacious, saxifrage, etc. Thus, they will create a background and at the same time protect against the appearance of weeds. Mulch and backfill perform the same functions. For mulching, peat, walnut husks, coniferous litter, chopped bark, etc. are suitable.



If the juniper is planted in a permanent place, it should not be placed at close range - the landscape will be monotonous. If the site is rocky, then the simplicity of the plants can be very advantageously shaded using barberries or dwarf heathers. On a sunny lawn, especially if there is a stream or a flower garden nearby, yellow and orange spireas are perfect companions for juniper. When decorating the entrance, as well as the front lawn, juniper is best combined with other conifers. If a stone is used in the composition (granite chips or natural boulders), it looks more original and charismatic.




AT winter time juniper, like any other coniferous plant, is the real king of the whole landscape, playing the most important role (of course, if he does not need shelter). Most importantly, remember that juniper will categorically not be combined with lush crops and flowers with large inflorescences - this must be taken into account when creating landscape design. Of course, if you approach this issue skillfully, then you can achieve unity in this case, for example, using a stone with which to create transitions between these different plants. Or you can use clearings planted with creeping plants. This is a well-known technique when creating alpine slides.

From all of the above...

Summarizing the above, it can be noted that planting a juniper in a garden can solve several problems:

  • creation color accents(stains);
  • creating a favorable background for flowering plants;
  • strengthening of slopes;
  • building a hedge
  • cultivation medicinal plant(juniper berries are widely used in folk medicine)