Vertical gardening

With the help of vertical landscaping, you can hide from sight All objects that can spoil the general viewsite. For example, a nondescript barn or other outbuildings, give a picturesque to a dead fence, and with the help of climbing plants you can protect the walls of the house from slanting rain.



Vertical landscaping creates more favorable microclimate on the site. So, the air temperature on the landscapedterraces and verandas lower by 2-3 C than on similar but poor vegetation. Climbing plants reduce the penetration of dust and dirty air into the room, and their foliage increases humidity and creates a cool, not allowing the walls to overheat.



When decorating arbors, altars, trellises,retaining walls curly plants are indispensable - with the help of a variety of shapes, different colors of leaves, flowers and fruits, they create a colorful tent and hide from the summer heat. Vertical landscaping is not expensive, but its decorative effect is worth a lot.



For vertical landscaping are used asannual and perennial plants. But before you plant plants, you need to pay attention to the requirements of plants for the conditions, and even more importantly - to the side of the world.

If you want to green a wall that is facing north, then you can plant such plants: gerry, girlish grapes, small-leaved jasmine, camellia, capuchin, cotoneaster, ivy in all its varieties, forcing, chanomeles, Japanese quince, large-flowered escalonia.

On southern it is recommended to grow rhododendrons, wisteria, actinidia, callistemon, kampsis, clematis, magnolia, a climbing rose, and cyanotus.

Eastern the wall can be decorated with hydrangea, garrie elliptical, wood duck, Japanese kerriya, pyracanthus, ivy, henomeles, quince and capuchin.

Wisteria, camellia, grape vine, magnolia, nightshade curly, broomstick, passionflower, hionathus - all these plants will feel better with western side.

On all sides, as a rule, vines are well established. They are the most plastic and unpretentious, they have long flexible stems that can take the most bizarre shapes in accordance with the structure of the support or the relief of the surface.



Annual it is recommended to plant the plants first in a house or in a greenhouse, and in late spring or early summer they should be planted in an open ground.

Because the perennial climbing plants do not tolerate the transplant, for them it is necessary to choose the right place from the very beginning - a soil in which they would grow for several years.



All plants, designed for vertical gardening, develop rapidly, but this requires a loose, well-fertilized soil.



To plant a seedling, at a depth of 40-50 cm, a groove with a width of 40cm for planting in one row and 50-60 cm for planting in two rows (for grapes the width of the pit should be increased to 1 m). The prepared groove is filled with humus, and also fertilized with organic substances (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorus). When planting, you need to ensure that the root system of plants is not under the roof - there the plant will experience a lack of moisture. It is also necessary to leave a space between plants and a wall of at least 10 cm to avoid dampening of wooden or plastered walls.



To attach and the growth of climbing plants, the formation of branches of lianas, it is possible to use anchors hammered into a wall, on which wire, kapron cords, fishing line are stretched.



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