Design A Garden With Dwarf Shrubs

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Design a garden with dwarf shrubs. Shrubs are the foundation planting of your home s landscaping. They generally thrive in full sun or partial shade and well draining acidic soil which is kept moist. Shrubs also bear beautiful flowers like rose bushes making essential elements of landscaping.

Some wonderful dwarf varieties include franklin s gem finely textured with a mounded form dwarf english also a mounded form about 1 2 feet tall and wide that looks like a green cloud if left unclipped wee willie especially winter hardy and morris midget very compact growing to a maximum of 1 foot wide and tall. Carefully remove the plant from the pot and loosen the roots with your fingers. Those tight spaces narrow walkways against the side of the house petite little borders that need a little something that makes a style statement but doesn t become a maintenance nightmare by overgrowing the.

Suitable shrubs include dwarf firs pines hemlocks spruces heathers junipers arborvitaes and false cypresses. However a lot of home s facades are facing a street and are in full sun which may leave you looking for cultivars. Dwarf globe conifers are a beautiful addition to have in any landscape.

Shrubs are also known as bushes and they are woody plants with small to medium heights. Whichever variety you are able to grow these dwarf shrubs make an excellent addition to small gardens adding bright and glossy evergreen foliage and luscious colorful flowers. They are usually low maintenance and are very compact.

Dig a hole about twice the width and just as deep as the size of the container. Gold blue gray and green. Use evergreens with a variety of different shapes and leaf colors.

Most varieties do not grow taller than six feet which can provide you garden scale and proportion. Plant a coniferous shrub garden for winter fun. See more ideas about shrubs for landscaping dwarf shrubs shrubs.