According to Part One, we started work on the new plot by planting the most unpretentious and no less wonderful perennials. And now, perhaps, we need to think about how to turn a simple 6 acres into a garden with a special atmosphere: cozy corners and shaded areas.
Vines are climbing or twining plants that do not have a solid stem, but at the same time they stretch with all their might towards the sun, finding suitable support.
Taking advantage of this, you can disguise some unaesthetic but necessary object, create a secluded corner hidden from prying eyes, provide shade in the gazebo. And we will not start with wisteria, although it is beautiful, but again with the most irreplaceable and very fast-growing plants in the conditions of the middle zone and the Urals.
Let’s start with hops and maiden grapes.
Hop grows quickly and literally in 1-2 years from a couple of shoots grows a huge bush with dozens of shoots up to 4-5 meters long. This climbing plant is easiest to grow on a support pole or an old tree. You can get an amazing composition if you direct the shoots in time. The entire huge green mass of leaves dies off completely in winter, only the rhizomes remain underground.
In the spring, after a couple of weeks, their shoots appear quite amicably and grow at an amazing speed – several tens of centimeters per day. More and more greenery grows every year. It should be noted that hops have healing properties: dry flowers, quite inexpressive, are stuffed into pillows for insomnia. Bracts are used to give a special flavor to beer.
Hops grow in any soil, are winter-hardy, require virtually no care, but their growing shoots must be directed where you intend. Otherwise, the bush will spread in all directions.
Maiden Grapes grows in any soil, both in the sun and in the shade. Easy to care for, propagated by seeds and cuttings. This is a winter-hardy liana that loses its leaves in winter, can reach a length of up to 10 – 12 meters. Maiden grapes easily cover the walls of a building, fences, clinging to the surface with suckers. Its leaves are five-leafed, bright green in summer, crimson in autumn, very beautiful. Branches and leaves intertwine with each other, decorating any building.
The Siberian loach is very unpretentious – calistegia. Grows in any place, flowers, unlike the first two named vines, are bright, pink and white. But the length of the shoot is no more than 4 meters, but this is quite enough to decorate a gazebo or balcony. The only problem is that its rhizome immediately spreads in all directions. and the bindweed suddenly appears where it was not expected and begins to strangle all the plants in a row. It can only be grown under your own strict control.
He behaves much more modestly. nasturtium, but it also requires much more care. To please the eye and soul, you can recommend planting a foreign nasturtium, which grows up to 4 meters. The seeds are planted in the soil at the beginning of June in a sunny and frost-protected place, after a couple of weeks it is a good idea to feed them with complex fertilizers. It blooms abundantly with yellow flowers until frost. Suitable for decorating pergolas and gazebos. The plant is cultivated as an annual in our climate.
