Even if the gardener has a small garden, he will find a place for beautiful creations - flowers. In nature, there are such perennials for which a huge space simply does not need.
Panicle hydrangea
This shrub is very unpretentious in care, therefore, suitable even for beginners. However, without proper care, the plant will not give the desired result. Hydrangeas need watering, its soil must always be moist, often it needs pruning before preparing for winter, and top dressing is also necessary.
Hydrangea does not even reach one and a half meters in height, but its flowers will be located on all branches, which will cause admiration from the owner. The flowers themselves in an inflorescence form a ball, which in diameter is 25-30 cm.
They have a different color: from white to pink and lemon, sometimes you can find multi-colored flowers on one inflorescence. Hydrangea looks great in the corner of the garden next to conifers, ferns and some other plants.
Dwarf spruce
For a small garden, dwarf spruce is a great option. It reaches 1-2.5 meters in height, when like ordinary spruce trees grow at least 4-5 meters. Depending on the variety and the designer's idea, these plants have a different shape: from the usual look to the pillow-like.
Dwarf spruce, like any tree, needs care. She loves the sun, but can also grow in partial shade, she needs moisture both in the soil and in the air, at first she needs to be protected from frost.
Also, the gardener must pinch new shoots if he does not want the spruce to grow. In landscape design, compositions from stones and dwarf fir trees look stylish and beautiful.
Day-lily
This perennial can grow in the same place for 10 years. The duration of flowering reaches 5 weeks. Every day, 2-3 flowers are formed on one peduncle, which fall at night. However, the next day new buds form in their place. Color can be different: from white to yellow, orange, red and purple.
Plant height varies from 45 cm to 1.25 meters. It is best to plant daylilies in a sunny or slightly shaded area.
This plant requires abundant watering and slightly acidic or neutral soil. Daylilies are often planted along paths, next to a contrasting wall, near a pond. Sometimes you can see that this plant is decorated with alpine slides.
Mocker
Experts advise to grow low-growing varieties of this plant in small areas. Chubushnik can grow both in splendid isolation, and together with bushes of lilac, hydrangea, spirea and some others. In both cases, the composition of the garden will look advantageous.
Chubushnik is a rather unpretentious plant - it can grow both in the sun and in partial shade, it is frost-resistant. However, if he does not get enough moisture or there is too much of it, then he will begin to quickly fade and die. Thinning is also required - if they are not done, then over time the bush will grow and lose its beauty.
Dwarf lilac
This small perennial can be placed on any, even small area - the lilac reaches a height of 1.5-2 meters. It is remembered for all its beauty and fragrant flowers.
In the first few years, the plant must provide proper care - abundant watering, top dressing, cultivation. The flowering process begins at 3-7 year of development of lilac. The gardener will only need to cut it at this time, otherwise it will grow greatly.
They love to use this bush in landscape design - it looks attractive both in solitude, thereby forming a hedge, and surrounded by stunted conifers.
Wild grapes
Partenocissus is another name for this plant. Often it is used for design purposes - it is ideal for masking continuous vertical surfaces or for decorating arches, arbors, bridges.
Its leaves of various shapes and colors allow you to create an unforgettable beauty on the site. In the first year of the grape's life, it must be carefully monitored - to provide abundant watering, add fertilizer to the pit (before planting).
If the first year goes well, then the wild grapes will grow on their own - it can be even in the shade, even in the sun, can tolerate cold winters, it is also unpretentious to the composition of the soil. The gardener will only need to cut it himself, where necessary, and form the desired appearance.
Periwinkle
Periwinkle is a shade-tolerant culture. It blooms in spring and covers all soil, takes root, barely touching the ground. It needs moisture, especially in spring, when the active flowering process begins.
The gardener must cut the plant in time, otherwise it will grow so that it crowds out all neighbors. In the garden, he will create a lively green carpet with flowers of different colors: from white to blue, pink and purple.
Often ferns, viols or forget-me-nots are planted next to him, they are decorated with alpine hills, paths, flower beds, borders.
Goryanka
This flower has healing properties and is able to decorate the garden. However, bitterness in Russia is extremely rare in Russia. This plant covers the soil and, like a periwinkle, creates a beautiful decorative carpet, reaching a height of 15-75 cm.
In May goryanka begins to bloom. On the green carpet with red veins, small buds of different colors appear: pink and yellow. Goryanka is undemanding in care - it needs to be watered and fed, and otherwise it can grow both in the shade and in the sun, summer heat does not harm it, the plant also suffers frosts. Most often goryanka decorates ponds, slopes and large shrubs.
For these perennials there is a place even in the smallest garden. And if you take care of them and choose the right place, then perennials will delight you for a very long time.
