There are plants that should certainly not be missing in your garden because they are beautiful, do not get sick, do not fear frost and are easy to maintain. Do you have a little green fingers and want to make something beautiful of your garden with beautiful greenery, these are them.
Shrubs
Dogwood
Cornus Kousa with white orchid flowers, red fruits in summer and red-purple autumn leaves. They flower between the months of April and May and are best placed where there is a lot of sun with a very light shade. Also give them enough space and do not prune them.
Boxwood
You can transform boxwood into a hedge, sphere, block or cone. It is also used to make all kinds of artistic forms. Boxwood also remains a topper in the pot: choose boxwood sempervirens ‘Suffruticosa’, which remains the most compact. Buxus flowers all year round and is best planted with plenty of sun or partial shade, in moist fertilized soil. This plant can be infested a lot by fungi, so keep an eye out and control it before it can spread.
Hydrangea
There are many types of hydrangeas: from the bright white panicle hydrangea ‘limelight’ to the classic blue and pink bulbous flowers. Hydrangeas bloom between the months of July and November and are best placed in places with partial shade and not too bright sunlight. Place them in a moist soil. Prune them every year and provide organic fertilizers such as Mulching.
Foliage plant
Hosta
The hosta leaf can be small or large (Krossa Regal), almost blue (Blue Angel) or with a white or yellow stripe along the edge of the leaves. The flowers turn white or light purple and sometimes have a scent. This plant grows between the months of July and August and is best placed where there is shade or partial shade in humus-rich, moist soil. Some types of hostas can withstand full sun.
Flowers
Geranium
Garden geraniums are extremely versatile, strong, hardy and floriferous. The most beautiful are the blue ‘Rozannes’, which blooms until November. The fuschia pink ‘Patricia’ and the white ‘Kashmir White’ are a very strong ground cover and also beautiful in pots, they flower from May to November. Place the geraniums where there is a lot of sun or in partial shade in a normal to fertile soil and place them in front in large groups against shrubs and hedges. This requires virtually no care other than some removal of withered leaves in the month of April. If necessary, give some organic fertilizer.
Aster
With their white, purple and pink clouds, asters are the fall flowers par excellence. They bloom between the months of August and October. The lavender blue ‘Mönch’ and ‘Wunder van Stafa’ (about 90 cm) fit in a large garden, in a smaller spot are ‘Blue Star’, with a large cloud of soft pink daisy flowers, and the low ‘Veilchenkoningin’ with large purple flowers. . Place the Asters in a well-drained soil where there is a lot of sun. Quite a few Asters are susceptible to mildew or the white disease, only the ‘Kylie’ and the ‘Photograph’ (more than 1 meter high) do not suffer from this, they do not fall over.
Daylily
Hemerocaillis or daylily is very strong and becomes more beautiful with the years. Each flower only blooms for one day, but all flowers together provide color for at least a month. You have yellow (‘Corky’, ‘Green Flutter’), pink (‘Helle Berlinerin’), wine red (‘Pardon me’) and white. Tear your daylily every 5 years. Sometimes the gel mosquito lays its eggs in the flower buds. Place the affected buds in the organic waste bin. not on a compost heap.
Knotweed
Persicaria amplexicaulis or knotweed turns a beautiful red in summer and autumn, with its slender spikes that stand out above all other plants. Try ‘Firetail’, ‘Fat Domino’, with dark red remarkably thick flowers of up to one and a half meters high and the beautiful wine red ‘Blackfield’. The knotweed flowers between June and November and should be planted where there is a lot of sun in normal to rich soil, even clay is no problem. Try to split the knotweed every 3 years so that it can bloom more intensely.
Heavenly key
This is such a typical succulent that can survive even in the hottest spot. Not only its pink-red umbels, but its thick fat leaves are also particularly decorative, all summer and autumn long. Then you get a beautiful winter silhouette on top. The most beautiful are the ‘Abbey Dore’, the higher ‘Matrona’, ‘Herbstfreude’, ‘Bertram Anderson’ (with purple leaves) and the ‘Red Cauli’, Butterfly plant. Plant the celestial key in normal or dry soil, this plant will survive everywhere so does not need to be specifically in the sun or shade. You also have very little work on this plant, do not give this plant fertilizers because it grows too fast and falls open.
Ornamental sage
Salvia nermorosa or ornamental sage with slender purple spikes. Butterflies also love these fragrant flowers. ‘Amethyst’ (lilac pink) and ‘Dear Anja’ (purple) grow to almost 1 meter high, ‘Ostfriesland’ (dark purple), ‘Caradonna’ (purple with black stems) and ‘Mainacht’, with masses of dark blue to black purple spikes from May to October fit with their half measure in a smaller garden. Place the ornamental sage in the sun with normal to well-drained soil, can also be planted in a pot. Cut away the faded spikes systematically, new ones keep coming in their place.
Lady’s mantle
Alchemilla mollis or Lady’s Mantle charms with its gray-green felt-like leaves, dew and raindrops stick to it like pearls and the clusters of fine yellow-green flowers stick out just above it. The lady’s mantle grows between May and September and is planted in dry to normal soil. Cut off the dead flowers and leaves completely at the end of June and you will be rewarded with fresh green leaves and new flowers in August.
Sun hat
The Echinacea purpurea or Coneflower is an indestructible prairie plant with purple-pink daisy flowers all summer and fall. ‘Magnus’, ‘Rubinstern’ and ‘Ruby Giant’ flower profusely and easily reach a height of one meter. The pink star flowers of ‘Picca Bella’ fit in a small garden, the green-pink ‘Green Envy’ is a real seducer. The coneflower grows between the months of July and October. Butterflies love these flowers, but snails also dare to feast on the young tops, check this regularly. Clean up dead stems in early March and provide organic fertilizer.
Trees
Currant bush
Amelanchier lamarchkii is a shrub tree with white blossoms and bronze-colored young leaves. ‘Ballerina’ has larger flowers. It flowers as early as April and is best planted in soil that is not wet, preferably slightly acidic. Can serve as a solitary, in a pot, as a small bush or as a wide hedge. Also for small garden. There is no need to prune this tree.
Ornamental apple
Malus is planted for the spring blossoms, the colorful mini apples and the beautiful autumn leaves. ‘Royal Beauty’ has a striking weeping shape with red-purple spring leaves, red blossoms, red twigs and bright red fruits. It flowers between April and May and is best placed in full sun with nutritious soil. You can keep as a solitary or in a pot. Good for small gardens too. This tree also produces small apples that are also edible.
Ground covers
Little Periwinkle
Vinca Minor is one of those rare plants that keeps the soil colorfully covered in winter and summer, does not proliferate and also flowers beautifully. These flower between April and June and should be planted in partial shade with not too bright sun. After winter, mow with a lawn mower (in the highest position).
Rose
Of the ground cover roses (Pink), ‘Fil des Saisons’ (dark pink), ‘Robe Fleurie’ (soft pink) and ‘Snow Star’ (white-yellow flat roses) are the most beautiful. They flower between June and November in full sun with fertile soil. Put 1 to 2 plants per square meter. Prune with hedge trimmer in March and give plenty of fertilizer.
Hedge
Hedge
Hornbeam
Carpinus betulus fits in any garden, is very strong and can easily be cut into all kinds of shapes. It sprouts early in the spring. It is indestructible as a hedge. The hedge starts to grow from the beginning of April and you prune it twice a year.