How can I choose the best low -growing bushes?
The choice of low -growing shrubs depends on the combination of personal preferences and existing cultivation conditions. Various low growing shrubs can provide color, smell or both. They may be suitable for shady areas or require full sun, or could be able to survive in dry soils or require constant moisture. It is easier to select shrubs that are suitable for your existing conditions than to try to adjust the conditions to suit the plant. Check that the proposed site gets full sun, partial sun or full shadow. You will narrow your choices to the shrubs that will grow with the sun's sun. Juniper Blue Star is a low growing shrub that requires full sun and tolerates a full shade full of shade. If your soil tends to maintain moisture and does not drain your self to have to choose a shrub like a creeping willow that will grow under these conditions. Dry soils in arid climate need shrubs that will tolerate dry and do not need a stable water supply. Indian hawthorn is a perennial shrub, toTerý survives dry and wind conditions.
Selection of varieties of compact -resistant shrubs and diseases will help minimize maintenance. These are only secondary considerations because most shrubs tolerate pruning and the disease can be checked by proper care. If you want the shrub to grow and fill the area, choose shrubs that tend to spread. Otherwise, you should choose shrubs that do not spread if you want them to stay in a limited area.
Whether you choose flowering shrubs or evergreen shrubs is a personal choice. Many evergreen shrubs provide beauty and texture independently. There are a number of flowering low growing shitra if you like seasonal color. The sun pink bushes bloom abundantly with flowers that last only one day. Low growing varieties Azalea exploded in an annual explosion of colors.
Not all flowering shrubs are produced by aromatic flowers. Some flowers, although they are beautiful, maShe eats a very small smell. If you want fragrant flowers, select a low -growing shrub like Blackfoot Daisy or Elssholtzia Stauunttonii . Elssholtzia Stauunttonii produces very fragrant flowers and Blackfoot Daisy has flowers that smell like honey. Several compact Gardenia varieties produce the same flowers for which larger varieties are known.