It is impossible to imagine a personal plot without fruit bushes. They not only decorate the territory, but also bring a good harvest of tasty and healthy berries. The article discusses popular and rare perennial fruit bushes for the garden and vegetable garden detailed description, as well as the features of their care, compatibility and recommendations for placement.

Fruit bushes for the garden

When landscaping the local area, you can kill two birds with one stone: decorate the site and get a harvest of healthy berries. The main thing is to choose suitable for this purpose garden shrubs, the diversity of which is quite large today.

Raspberries in the garden

One of the traditional perennial shrubs, which can be found on almost any personal plot, is raspberry. Thanks to its amazing taste and healing properties, it began to be cultivated several centuries ago. Raspberry bushes grow up to 2 m in height, branch well, some varieties require support or tying. The plant is frost-resistant, loves sunny calm places, demanding on moisture and soil composition. Gardeners prefer large-fruited and remontant varieties that can produce a crop twice a season. The weight of the berries can reach 12 g, the color in addition to the classic red is yellow, white or black.

garden blackberry

So similar to black raspberries, blackberries year by year are of increasing interest to gardeners. The shrub is easy to grow, rich in yield and large fruits. Many varieties have inherited the creeping structure of the shoots from the wild blackberry, so this crop is grown on trellises. The bush can reach 2.5 m in height and requires pruning. Varieties without thorns of foreign origin are easily distinguished by the name - it contains the word Thornless. The garden blackberry has a long growing season, it blooms later than raspberries (in mid-June), and the peak of fruiting occurs in August. Repair varieties yield twice. The blackberry bush is less frost-resistant than the raspberry bush, the maximum temperature for it is up to -15 ° C. When buying, specify information about the need for shelter for the winter.

Types of currant

Currant is a familiar shrub for any garden. Depending on the species, the bush can reach a height of 1–5 m. The berries become black, red or white translucent as they ripen. Currant fruits are a storehouse of useful trace elements and vitamins, but this crop is planted not only for the harvest. There are species with crimson, red and carmine foliage, they are used in the garden as decorative. The following types are considered the most common:

• red,
• golden,
• ohta,
• alpine.

gooseberry varieties

Gooseberry is a perennial undersized berry shrub, about 1 m in height and up to 1.8 m in diameter. It has good drought resistance, loves sunny places, reacts negatively to waterlogging of the soil and the proximity of groundwater.

Northern grapes, as this crop is also called, are best mulched with potato tops, because, like currants, the shrub needs a lot of potassium.

On the territory of Russia, 3 out of 50 species of wild gooseberries grow:

1. Gooseberry rejected (European, common). homeland of the plant North Caucasus. It blooms in May-June with greenish or reddish flowers, berries up to 1.5 cm in diameter, as they ripen, they become light green, yellow or purple. Exactly this species is the ancestor of all varietal varieties of gooseberries.
2. Gooseberry Altai (needle). It grows in Siberia and Kazakhstan. Berries are edible, up to 1.5 cm.
3. Gooseberry Bureinsky. grows on Far East, used for landscaping, rarely cultivated as a fruit shrub.

Yoshta is new to our gardens

Yoshta is a hybrid obtained by breeders by crossing gooseberries and black currant. The height of the bush can reach 2 m. Unlike the progenitor, yoshta does not have sharp thorns and is less susceptible to diseases and pests. In spring, numerous shoots are covered with small golden flowers, the berries have a sweet and sour taste, are commensurate with cherries, the color is black-violet. The plant gives a good harvest on fertile light loams, loves regular frequent watering, and responds gratefully to top dressing.

Lemongrass and its beneficial properties

Lemongrass Chinese (Manchurian) - perennial climbing plant in need of strong support. Liana can reach a length of 15 m. It blooms from early May to mid-June with white or pinkish flowers with a pleasant delicate aroma. On spikelet-shaped brushes, small red berries with a rather specific bitter taste are formed over time, in which you can catch salty and coniferous notes. The fruits, leaves and stems of lemongrass contain a large number of chemical compounds that are beneficial to humans.

It is useful to use it for hypertension, disorders of the nervous system, chronic fatigue and diabetes.

garden honeysuckle

Listing perennial fruit shrubs for the garden and garden, one cannot fail to mention the edible honeysuckle. Two types are suitable for a garden plot: Altai and Kamchatka. Both cultures are perennial fruit shrubs, characterized by high winter hardiness and early ripening. Honeysuckle bush - upright or sprawling, with dense branches. The berries are oblong, dark blue with a bluish bloom. It's early flowering shade tolerant plants suitable for growing both under conditions middle lane Russia, and in a more severe climate, withstand frosts down to -50 ° C.

blueberry beauty

Garden blueberry is a fairly unpretentious fruit shrub that grows up to 2.5 m in height and width. Bushes - densely branched, eventually forming continuous thickets. Blueberries bloom from late May to early June with pinkish-white flowers collected in clusters. Berries - blue with a bluish bloom. Among the bushes and trees for the garden, blueberries are long-lived, in one place a bush can grow from 60 to 100 years.

Barberry: cultivation goals

When choosing perennial fruit shrubs for summer cottages, you should pay attention to the barberry. This spectacular ornamental plant will decorate the site all summer, it is advisable to plant it as a hedge. Small oblong leaves of barberry can be green, red, yellow, burgundy and purple. In spring, the bush is strewn with yellowish flowers, in the place of which red pear-shaped berries with a sour taste soon form. Barberry fruits are used for medicinal purposes and in cooking. Fragrant compotes, jelly, jam are cooked from them.

The turn, its differences from the plum

The closest relative of the house plum, so familiar to our gardens, is the turn. This is a thorny shrub or low-growing tree (1.5–4 m tall), with dense blue-violet fruits with a bluish bloom. Blackthorn berries taste tart and specific, do not exceed 1.5 cm in size, the pulp is difficult to separate from the stone. Blackthorn blossoms in April-May, at which time the branches are completely covered with pinkish flowers. The fruits ripen with the advent of autumn.

The turn is more frost-resistant than the plum, and unpretentious. Blackthorn thickets do not like shade, this must be taken into account if the shrub is planted, including for the sake of berries.

Cherry plum: similarities and differences from plums

The list of southern fruit and berry bushes would be incomplete without cherry plum. It is also called the splayed plum due to the shape of the crown, the leaves vaguely resemble birch. In the southern regions of Russia, cherry plum grows up to 12 m in height. It bears fruit in round or tear-shaped drupes of yellow, pink, red, purple and almost black color with a waxy coating characteristic of plums. Cherry plum differs from plums in chemical composition and nutritional value (it has more calcium, but less sugars). It begins to bloom and bear fruit earlier, the yield of cherry plum is higher. It is also less susceptible to various kinds of diseases, undemanding to the composition of the soil.

Rowan

Red, or ordinary, mountain ash is a fruit tree that grows up to 12 m tall. Due to the beautiful complex leaves, which acquire a bright orange-red color by autumn, mountain ash is often used as an ornamental plant for landscaping streets and summer cottages. Juicy coral fruits of mountain ash have long been used for cooking medicines and in cooking. The clusters do not crumble until winter, which attracts many species of birds to the garden. Rowan care is minimal, the tree is unpretentious, drought-resistant, and frost-resistant. In addition to the usual in landscape design, small-leaved and intermediary mountain ash is often used.

Rowan chokeberry

aronia, or chokeberry, previously planted in gardens only for decorative purposes, however, many medicinal properties of its fruits have been proven, it is not for nothing that its name sounds like “help, benefit” in translation. The plant is a powerful shrub no more than 3 m high and up to 2.5 m in diameter. It blooms in May-June for 8-10 days with white inflorescences-shields. The berries are bluish-black, with a tart astringent sour taste. The plant is not afraid of frost, drought, close occurrence of groundwater.

Rosehip - garden doctor

Description of fruit trees and shrubs will complement the dog rose. Bushes grow on average up to 1–2 m; they do not require props. The flowering period falls on June - early July, at which time the garden is filled with a wonderful aroma. The fruits ripen in late August - early September, as evidenced by the orange-red color of the berries. Best Views wild rose for planting in the garden:

• doggy,
• spiny,
• daurian,
• cinnamon,
• wrinkled,
• gray-gray.

Rose hips contain a large amount useful substances, for example, they contain 50 times more vitamin C than lemons.

Dogwood and cotoneaster, differences

Similar in sound, these two shrubs are fundamentally different from each other. Dogwood berries are edible, cotoneaster is not. Most varieties of cotoneaster are non-thorny perennials that can be planted in the country for decoration. Dogwood - fruit shrubs and low trees, up to 6 m tall. The fruit is an oblong red drupe with a sweet and sour astringent taste.

Dogwood is practically not affected by pests, it is undemanding to the composition of the soil, it withstands frosts down to -35 ° C, in case of freezing, it quickly recovers from root shoots. In one place, a dogwood bush can grow up to 250 years.

Viburnum ordinary

If there is a desire to plant not only beautifully flowering, but also useful fruit and berry bushes on the site, you need to pay attention to the red viburnum. In spring, this relatively low shrub (1.5–4 m) is strewn with snow-white or pinkish umbrella inflorescences. Later, in place of flowers, coral-red berries-drupes up to 1 cm in diameter ripen, their taste is quite specific, bitter, astringent. Viburnum fruits have long been used in medicine, in particular for acute respiratory diseases, diabetes, neurosis, and hypertension.

Sea buckthorn: tree or shrub

The shrub got its name for abundant fruiting, during which the branches of sea buckthorn are completely covered with small, slightly elongated berries of a rich amber hue. The plant is a tall shrub or small tree with gnarled curved branches covered with sharp thorns. Foliage - small, silver-olive, dense. Sea buckthorn is considered a frost-resistant crop, but can suffer from a sharp temperature drop. It grows well on fertile loose soils, especially on peat bogs, loves the proximity of groundwater.

For fruiting, it is necessary to plant several bushes nearby, since sea buckthorn is a heterosexual plant.

Irga - June berry

Irga is a deciduous shrub or tree up to 8 m high. It blooms with white racemose inflorescences, which are replaced by small apples up to 1 cm in diameter. By the end of June, the berries ripen and become edible. Irga is called the “queen of the backyards”, it is so unpretentious: it can withstand both heat and frost well, it can grow in deep shade and in the sun. The most common varieties of irgi are:

• alder-leaved;
• blood red;
• Canadian.

Hawthorn: plant, heal and decorate the site

Hawthorn is an ornamental shrub up to 3 m high, with a spherical crown shape and prickly shoots. Blooms in late spring with white or pinkish corymbs. Breeders have bred terry forms of rich pink and even red. The fruits are small edible apples of warm red color. Hawthorn is good both in singles and in group landings and also as a hedge. The bushes look especially impressive in the autumn, when the foliage acquires yellow, red and burgundy tones. Hawthorn fruits are used to make compotes, preserves, jams. O medicinal properties berries have been known since ancient times. Hawthorn is used for cardiovascular diseases, shortness of breath, insomnia, dizziness.

Rules for placing shrubs on the site

The laying of the garden must be approached with all responsibility, because the location of shrubs and trees on long years will determine it appearance. It is better to create a preliminary plan on paper, taking into account the size of future plantings, shade tolerance and compatibility with each other. It is better to place tall trees, for example, mountain ash, along the edges of the site so that in the future the crown does not obscure other species, but away from outbuildings, electrical wiring lines and the residential building itself.

1. The best fruit bushes used as a living fence are honeysuckle, barberry, hawthorn, wild rose.
2. Shade-loving crops, such as gooseberries, raspberries, blackberries, viburnum, can be placed between taller trees.
3. Irga, currant, elderberry, blueberry, honeysuckle, raspberry, viburnum, barberry are well suited for deep shade,

Useful and harmful neighborhood with each other and fruit trees

Shrubs that are prone to active growth of basal processes, such as raspberries, blackberries, sea buckthorn, are best located away from other crops, otherwise they will displace them in just a couple of years. Good neighbors for cherries are cherries, hawthorn, apple trees. Barberry will be comfortable near plum trees, but next to walnut it is better not to plant anything.

In each case, before planting next different types shrubs, it is necessary to study their preferences so that each culture feels at ease and pleases the gardener with dense foliage and an abundance of fruits. Berry perennials for any garden and vegetable garden are beautiful decoration plot and storehouse of vitamins and minerals.

August is the time when garden berries have departed, apples, pears and plums ripen in the Middle lane. And gardeners have time to look around their fruit trees and shrubs and think: are they all needed on the site, isn’t it time to get rid of something - and what seedlings to buy in return? Here is how Galina Kizima, the author of books on gardening, proposes to audit the garden - her summer cottage is located in the Leningrad Region.

Gardeners have one much-loved rake. We do not want to come to terms with the fact that pineapple does not grow with us, and we plant everything that we like. How to learn to make your landings deliberately?

Discard those inhabitants of your garden who are of no interest as fruit or berry crops. For decorative reasons, leave in your garden only those that do not require much care and attention. Of fruit trees and shrubs, plant only those that give a good yield with minimal labor, and most importantly, drastically reduce the number of such plants.

1. To get started, make a list of all the trees, shrubs, and other large plants you have, and put a number next to each.
2. Now cut that number in half.
3. Then eliminate those plants that you can do without.
4. Then see which of those left on the list satisfy you with the quantity and quality of the crop. Put a plus sign against them.
5. And also remove from the list problematic ones that constantly require attention or a lot of work from you.

Fruit trees: how much to plant apple trees, pears, plums?

First question: how many apple trees growing in the area? And you only need three: summer term, early autumn and autumn (advice for the northern regions, since late autumn, and even more so winter varieties there ripen once in 5-7 years).

If the family is small, then two varieties of apple trees are enough: early autumn and autumn. In the harvest year, it will be enough to overeat and it will remain for harvesting for the winter. In the lean - eat with pleasure.

pear in any case, you need two, they are eaten, of course, better than apples, but they are not particularly suitable for anything else, they are poorly stored, and they bear fruit annually and abundantly.

Cherries it is better to have bush ones, real ones grow almost nowhere except in hot continental places. They get sick a lot, in the northern regions this is a completely problematic culture. So why do you need her on the site? Well, except for the beauty of the spring garden.

plums and even worse, in the northern territories they generally bear fruit every 3-7 years, the trees are unsightly, they do not decorate the garden. Plums are not too expensive, buy a meal. They, like cherries, are cross-pollinated, and therefore it is necessary to plant 2-3 and, moreover, a suitable variety. And how will you know about it? When will it turn out in 4-5 years that a dozen berries are hanging on them? Well, then the pollinator is not the right one. And all over again.

In the North-West, and therefore everywhere, cherry plum and thorns grow. That's how you grow them. Cherry plum is a large plant, about the size of an apple tree, and you need two of them, preferably self-fertile. And the thorn plum is a small plant and will manage to live alone.

Does apricot grow in the northern regions? No, it does not grow if it is a real apricot. He, judging by the books of Kurdyumov, does not grow in Krasnodar either. Although this plant is quite winter-hardy and tolerates great frosts without snow cover, but only in continental climates. The fact is that he has a "weak sleep." During winter thaws, the plant easily "wakes up", it starts sap flow, and then a sharp cold snap causes the death of the cambium. Another reason is in late spring frosts, which destroy young leaves and buds that have entered the period of growth and development, and even more so flowers.

What shrubs to plant in the garden

Irga- the plant is tall, although a bush, unproductive, the berries are fresh, of little interest, children, however, love to eat them from a bush. But so are the birds. Almost half of the crop is destroyed. You can cut it without letting it grow. Will thicken with root growth and form a nice green fence. So plant as. Care does not require. If you run it, it will reach 4-5 m. Then cut it down to the root. Will grow again.

Sea ​​buckthorn. You don’t need a lot, you need one, if there is a male specimen within a radius of 100 m, the harvest is guaranteed. If there is no harvest, you will have to start your own peasant. Most do not harvest, but leave it to feed the birds. The question is: why are they imprisoned? Obviously, for the sake of completeness.

The plant is pretty, you can cut it, maintaining the desired height, so you can use it as a green hedge, but only outside the site, otherwise in 10-15 years you will only fight with its ubiquitous growth, and it is difficult to tear out.

Actinidia we are not so much living and growing as barely surviving. It hurts to look like spring frosts completely freeze all the leaves and young shoots. So the poor fellow toils every spring. For all the time that I pulled actinidia from a semi-conscious state, it only yielded a crop once in a rare year without spring frosts, and even with a warm summer. Only 1.2 kg from a fifteen-year-old creeper! So she grew old, poor thing, practically barren. Had to be removed. Too bad she didn't do it sooner.

It is believed that actinidia Kolomikta (in the northern regions it grows only) - beautiful plant for arbors, pergolas, walls because of the ability to change the color of the leaves. I will tell you honestly that it is much easier and without any problems to plant girlish grapes for this purpose. He will grow up and be handsome no less.

Red currants, like black, are northwestern plants. Nothing takes them, they grow and bear fruit perfectly. It is only necessary to acquire good zoned varieties, genetically resistant. One bush is enough for red, because a good bush produces up to 12 kg of berries annually. Where more? You won’t eat much of it, the wine from it is mediocre, you don’t need much jelly either (although it’s much tastier with raspberries in a 4: 1 ratio).

A good bush is capable of producing about 6 kg of berries annually, so 3-4 bushes are more than enough for a family.

Gooseberry- the plant is useful, even very, but caring for it is difficult because of the thorns. Most good varieties either freeze slightly according to the level of snow cover, or constantly suffer from powdery mildew. So there will be concern. It is better to grow varieties with black-colored berries, they are resistant to powdery mildew and practically do not freeze slightly. If you take good care of 2-3 bushes, there will be enough berries for everything.

Berry bushes will have to regularly cut out aging, and therefore poorly fruiting branches, feed, water (blackcurrant), rejuvenate the bushes in time, or even completely replace them. But if you have a reasonable amount of them, then it won't take much time, especially if you do the following:

• once every three years, embed into the soil under a bush a tablespoon of AVA fertilizer (along the perimeter of the crown);
• water the bush and the soil under it with Fitosporin in spring and autumn;
• do not remove fallen leaves from under the bushes, but, on the contrary, throw under them shaved (under and around them) weeds.

For protection against pests and sphere library (American powdery mildew) there is a simple grandfather method- in early June, throw a shovel into the middle of the bush fresh manure. Again, the stepchildren of tomatoes are laid out under the bushes to disorient pests with the smell of withering tops.

black rowan one is enough, but it is very decorative, so it can be used for decorative decoration of the garden, including for creating a fence.

Japanese quince (Chenomeles) it does not have much food value, it freezes above the level of the snow cover, but it blooms one of the first, and it is very beautiful.

- a very useful berry crop, in general, it does not require much care, but for good harvest 2-3 bushes are needed, since the plant is purely cross-pollinated. In addition, honeysuckle will decently bear fruit only in a sunny place.

Author Galina Kizima Enthusiast gardener with 50 years of experience, author of original methods

Discussion

The article is essentially not bad, it would be nice to know which region the story is about. Our plum grows marvelously, and there are no problems with gooseberries.

What a smart article! Where were you before? We planted so much extra. Each word from this story came from our own experience, and the extra currant apple trees and the irga filled the half-hour, then they got rid of it for a long time.

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Fruit bushes in the garden will bring many benefits to its owners. Firstly, they will give a lot of different tasty and healthy berries. Secondly, they will perfectly decorate the personal plot. Also, fruit bushes are unpretentious in care, their cultivation does not entail a lot of problems.

These fruit shrubs or trees are best planted in the garden in the fall, about a month after the leaves have fallen. In the pit before this, you need to make drainage. If the shrub is thermophilic, then a hole is prepared for it in the fall, and seedlings are planted in the spring.

All fruit bushes need to cut:

• blackcurrant - in July;
• gooseberries - in July and October, when the leaves fall;
• blackberries and raspberries - in October, when the last berries are harvested;
• honeysuckle - in November and mid-March.

Consider some types of fruit shrubs (some of them are also presented in the form of a tree), in particular, their names, a little more

• black;
• red;
• white berries.

All of them are frost-resistant, perfectly tolerate heat and drought. Life expectancy is up to 15 years.

Blackcurrant is characterized by black flower buds that form on annual shoots and grow into a ring after harvest. Every 5 years it is recommended to cut off old branches. It is best to plant a bush in a well-protected from drafts, not waterlogged sunny area. The lifespan and fruitfulness of this bush is about 10 years.

White and red currants are more resistant to frost and drought. These shrubs live and bear fruit up to 18 years. They take root well in an open, elevated area without drafts.

This type of shrub is also called "northern grapes". It contains a very large amount of trace elements and vitamins.

Gooseberries do not need special care. There is only one minus of this bush: it is very sensitive to cold and does not tolerate high humidity. As a result, in winter, the shrub in the garden needs sprinkle with snow or wrap, and in the summer - do not fill with water. The duration of fruitfulness and life is approximately 25 years.

Raspberry

This type of shrub is very frost-resistant, grows well in a sunny area, which is protected from drafts, demanding on moisture and soil. Berries appear already in the second year.

Raspberry bushes self-pollinate, and therefore it is not recommended to plant different varieties next to each other. You also need to consider that the bushes grow quickly. As a result, after a few years you will have a gorgeous raspberry.

Other Popular Shrubs

Blackberry. This bush is very similar to raspberries in terms of growth properties. However, it is not so cold hardy. As a result, it often freezes out, but quickly recovers.

edible honeysuckle. This shrub is not afraid even of severe frost and is well suited for the formation of a living corner on your territory. The name of this bush literally translates as "youth" and "life".

Honeysuckle grows up to 2.5 meters (therefore, you can safely form a tree from a bush). It grows very slowly and therefore it is cut off for the first time 5-7 years after planting. The life expectancy of a shrub is very long - about 100 years. This plant has many useful properties: diuretic and choleretic effects, anti-inflammatory properties, activates the protective functions of the body, especially during intoxication. With this fruit shrub, a plot that is in the shade will turn into a chic berry conveyor, you just need to have time to harvest on time.

Barberry. With this bush (maybe a fruit tree) you will need to tinker a little. But the result will please you. You will get fragrant tasty berries and a beautiful hedge on the site.

Kalina. Highly beautiful bush arnica or tree at any time of the year: both in summer and in winter. AT summer period time the bush has magnificent umbrella or spherical inflorescences with snow-white and pale pink flowers. AT autumn time pleasing to the eye is the carved foliage in the garden, which plays with various shades of berries: from rich crimson red to juicy orange. Viburnum berries can hang on a tree until the snow falls, at which time they are very popular with birds. Kalina is characterized by a large number useful properties, it is widely used in folk medicine.

This is a very beautiful shrub or tree with gorgeous flowering and delicious berries. In care, he is not picky.

Irga is a tall woody shrub or tree, the height of which is up to 3 meters. This shrub is self-fertile, high-yielding, and the fruits appear quite early. At the age of 4 years, it brings about 4 kg of berries, and at 10 years old - 15 kg of crop from a bush or tree. Berries need to be collected from mid-July to early August. They have an anti-inflammatory effect during the treatment of the gastrointestinal system and gums.

At your site, cottage, in the garden you can plant and grow exotic southern fruit bushes. But it is impossible to get a crop in the middle lane.

gentrification suburban area- the process is creative and exciting, on initial stage planning a garden, summer residents determine which bushes and trees they will plant. If the site is completely empty, then fast-growing trees and shrubs for giving in short time create a beautiful landscape. If time suffers, then you can choose crops that grow for a long time and enjoy their transformation from year to year.

Types of shrubs

When thinking about which shrubs to plant in the country, pay attention to their classification, this will greatly facilitate your choice. Whether you need only ornamental bushes or you want to receive various fruits from them, it depends on which type you should give your preference.

Appearance and agrotechnical characteristics make it possible to divide seedlings into three main types, which we will discuss in the following sections.

Note!
The price of seedlings for self-cultivation significantly lower than the cost of an already grown shrub.

Beautiful flowering shrubs

Unconditional favorites in decorating garden plots are plants that are distinguished by their unique flowering. Most beautiful shrubs amaze the imagination with inflorescences of bizarre shapes and a wide range of shades.

By planting them with different flowering periods, which will replace each other, you can achieve the effect of an "ever-blooming" garden. flowering shrubs perfectly complemented by compositions coniferous plants, as well as any decorative bushes.

The most spectacular flowering species:

• Dogwood. Starts to please with its color in early spring. It is unpretentious to the soil, like many shade-tolerant plants, and feels good in unlit areas.
• Rhododendron. It blooms in April and has pale lilac flowers. To reach the most lush flowering, plant the plant in partial shade and fertilize with humus.
• Forsythia. It blooms even before the foliage appears. After the bush fades, it continues to delight the eye with its decorative effect.

• Japanese quince. Pleasing to the eye with orange flowers. It grows well in lighted areas, most often used to create do-it-yourself hedges.
• Buddley. The branches of the plant are densely covered with pinkish flowers. One of the individual features of this shrub is its incredible aroma, which can attract a lot of butterflies. This bush is able to reach a height of three meters in just 2-3 years and has a long flowering period.
• Chubushnik. The most beautiful of all shrubs. It has large snow-white flowers with an amazing aroma, with its help green hedges are easily created.

fruit bushes

This species is able to play the role of ornamental plants, but their undeniable advantage is that they are able to bring us fresh berries. Therefore, it can rightly be noted that these are the most useful shrubs in the country. However, it should be noted that more care is required for them.

Below are a few plants of this species:

• Currant . There are white, red and black currant fruits. Some of its varieties can bear fruit up to 18 years in a row. Do not forget that it is necessary to protect the bushes from drafts and excessive moisture.
• Gooseberry. It bears fruit up to 25 years, but is not too frost-resistant, so it needs to be warmed for the winter.

• Raspberry . It grows well in the sun, is resistant to cold, but requires fertilized soil and moisture.
• Blackberry. Similar in characteristics to raspberries, but more sensitive to frost.

Advice!
If you decide to plant fruit and berry bushes on your site, it is better to do this in the fall, then in the summer you can get the first small harvest.

Ornamental garden shrubs

Ornamental plants give elegance to the design of the site, and it doesn’t matter which ones need to be decorated. country houses- from block containers they will either be built of brick or wood. Wide color palette and the texture of these bushes is able to create bright accents, decorate individual elements of your garden, divide the site into zones.

Unpretentious in care, they are quite easy to grow if you follow a few rules when planting them:

• Do not plant this type of plant too close to each other.

Note!
There is a simple instruction for calculating the distance between shrubs - the distance is equal to twice the height of an adult bush.

• Plant at a sufficient distance from the fence and buildings.
• Plants with burgundy leaves need sunshine, in the shade they become faded.
• When transplanting, in order not to damage the roots, dig a hole wider and deeper.
• Fertilize the soil.

• Hydrangea. Its inflorescences are large balls of pink, lilac, milky or blue flowers. All varieties of hydrangeas are shade-loving and prefer moist soil.

• Weigela. Can be planted in any soil, both shade and sunny area will do. mature plant reaches a height of 2 meters, blooms from the second year. It has bright pink flowers.
• Barberry. Excellent as a hedge, the color of the foliage depends on the abundance of the sun and can vary from red to purple. Regular pruning gives the shrub neatness and a noble appearance.
• Boxwood. Ideal for those who like to create figures from plants various forms. It has undersized varieties of shrubs. Heat-loving, but feels good in the shade. Differs in speed of growth and an unusual smell.

• Deren. Highly unpretentious shrub, easily takes root on any soil. Tolerates both shade and sun. It has purple-colored foliage and blooms twice a year.
• Action. In a sunny area, it reaches a height of two meters, has beautiful white or pink flowers. To the soil is picky.
• Spirea. Used as a hedge. Has inflorescences of red, white or pink flowers. Particularly attracts attention in autumn period when its leaves paint the bush in different colors.
• Forsythia. One of the early shrubs that bloom in spring. Requires regular fertilization and watering, like other moisture-loving trees and bushes.

Recommended!
When the site may need special garden equipment, such as an electric lawn mower.
The lack of electricity on the site makes it impossible to use it, but there is perfect solution- short-term rental of a diesel generator for a summer residence.

Conclusion

The choice of plants for your summer cottage can be limited only by your own fantasies and desires, you can always find some democratic analogue of an expensive shrub. And do not forget about the little trick of unscrupulous sellers - when buying seedlings, you do not receive any guarantee that you are purchasing exactly the desired plant.

In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic.

By purchasing fruit trees and shrubs for a garden plot, its owner lays the foundation for truly strategic plantings. For many years to come, they determine the appearance of the territory adjacent to the house, and with proper care, they become the main source of fruit crops.

What fruit and berry crops are most often of interest to gardeners? How to arrange the plants you like on the site and find the right neighborhood for them?

Fruit trees and shrubs: photos and names of popular crops

Due to the length of the country, spread over several natural areas, it is almost impossible to designate a single list of trees and shrubs. And yet there are species for which gardeners are sure to try to find a suitable place. Photos and names of these fruit trees and shrubs are well known even to those who are far from gardening.

Among fruit trees, apple trees are the undisputed leaders. different varieties and maturity dates. Next come pears and the most common stone fruits: cherries and plums.

Fruit and berry bushes, found almost everywhere, include raspberries, different kinds currants, gooseberries. Today is actively gaining popularity:

• healing sea buckthorn;
• felt cherry;
• early honeysuckle.

Blackberries are moving into the orchard, more and more often on the plots you can find chokeberry, shadberry and other crops, which some time ago were perceived as secondary or planted only for landscaping.

The list of shrubs for the garden is much wider than the above list of trees. This is not surprising. A fruit garden exclusively from trees will give the first harvest no earlier than in 5–7 years, and shrubs are ready to please the gardener already in the second or third year after planting.

An additional advantage of shrubs is their relatively small size and less laborious maintenance. However, no one will be able to replace a currant pear. Therefore, without trees, the garden will never be complete.

It is believed that in the northern regions, gardeners are limited in their choice by the harsh climate, but the farther south, the more diverse the population of garden plots.

Indeed, starting from the Central Black Earth region, it is not uncommon in the ranks of fruit and berry crops:

• apricot;
• cherry plum;
• mulberry;
• various types of nuts;
• sweet cherry and its hybrid with cherry.

The list of shrubs is replenished with grapes, yoshta, dogwood and perennial fruit-bearing vines.

But if until recently, gardeners in the middle lane and more northern regions were forced to be content with a very modest list of fruit and berry crops, today things are changing radically.

Nurseries have long and successfully offered fruit trees and shrubs for the Moscow region that were not previously available in the Non-Black Earth Region. The boundaries of the distribution of southern cultures have seriously shifted to the north, not only because of climate change, but also thanks to the directed work of breeders.

It is on this bait that inexperienced gardeners come across, who want, by all means, to get a "Garden of Eden" in a limited area. You can understand them! But it is not enough to purchase seedlings, it is important to plant and grow them correctly, taking into account all the needs of plants and the characteristics of the territory.

Rules for the placement of fruit trees and shrubs in the garden

Young seedlings planted in the garden grow year after year. A few years later, when the time comes for fruiting, the crowns grow by 1.5–2 meters. And mature trees take up even more space.

It is not enough to choose the most winter-hardy, productive varieties, it is necessary to accurately plan the future orchard.

It is better to do this on a piece of paper, based on measurements of the distances from the landing zone to the nearest buildings, roads, fences of neighboring properties. When planting fruit trees and shrubs on garden plot it is necessary to take into account not only the aesthetic preferences of the owner, but also the mandatory norms. They regulate the distances from large plants to residential and outbuildings, transport routes, communications and the boundary line passing between the sites.

So, for example, from an apple or pear tree to a residential building or garage there should be at least 3.5–4 meters. This distance is explained by the safety of the operation of the building and the need for constant care for a large horticultural crop. For shrubs, the distance is less and is one and a half meters, which makes it possible:

• unhindered maintenance of walls, windows and other structures and communications;
• do not be afraid of excessive moisture in close contact with vegetation;
• take care of fruit and berry crops, harvest, cut and replant them.

In addition to the mandatory, common sense and safety restrictions, there are other rules that should be considered when planning an orchard.

It is extremely important to adhere to the distances between seedlings in the rows, as well as to take into account the deadline for growing a particular crop in one place.

Useful and harmful neighborhood of fruit trees and shrubs in the garden

Of considerable importance for the future of planting is knowledge of the needs certain types plants and their characteristics:

1. Some cultures prefer to grow in the sun, others easily adapt to the shade.
2. For some fruit trees and shrubs in the garden plot, an open, windswept place is suitable, and the other will have to find shelter.
3. The demands of plants for fertility and watering vary.

It is unlikely that on a limited area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe site it will be possible to satisfy all the needs of green pets. In a small country garden, inevitably, some shrubs end up under the crowns of growing trees. So that such a neighborhood does not affect the yield, the meta for planting shade-loving fruit trees and shrubs in the garden is determined in advance.

Such crops include blackcurrant, honeysuckle, undersized, berry bushes, such as cranberries, blueberries and lingonberries. If the shady corner of the garden is well ventilated, the viburnum will settle in well here. Blackberries and raspberries are grown in partial shade.

Gardeners have long noticed that even in comfortable conditions garden plants sometimes refuse to bear fruit in full force, look oppressed and grow poorly. It turns out that the reason for this behavior is an incorrectly chosen neighborhood. As in nature, in orchard trees, shrubs and herbaceous crops form tight communities. The given options for a successful and dangerous neighborhood of fruit trees and shrubs in the table will help create best conditions for each species and get the most out of it.

You can arrange plantings so that closely related plants are nearby. Such a solution will be extremely useful, for example, for cherries and petioles, many varieties of which are self-fertile, and they need a pollinator to produce a crop. A similar picture is observed in the cultivation of sea buckthorn. True, here for several female plants there must be one male bush.

In addition, for sea buckthorn, which readily reproduces by root layers, blackberries and raspberries, it is better to find a place away from the rest of the garden plantings, otherwise the powerful shoots of these crops will master half of the garden in a year.