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Chubushnik in landscape design is used quite often because of the elegant flowering of voluminous snow-white, white-yellow or pale cream flowers collected in a brush. Depending on the variety, the structure of the flower can be simple, double or semi-double. Most often, a crown mock-up is used in landscape design, however, due to the large varietal variety, you can always choose the variety that is most suitable for solving a particular design problem.
What is the combination of a mock-orange in the garden
Chubushnik is often mistakenly called jasmine due to the similarity of the aromas of these two types of shrubs. In fact, these are different cultures. Real jasmine is almost never found in Russian gardens, but the mock-orange is known to everyone. However, the name has stuck so well that many gardeners know this plant as the garden jasmine.
In the garden, the mock-orange looks great with decorative deciduous and flowering shrubs. These plants make great shrub mixborders. It has become popular among landscape designers to create thematic plantings. Fascinating photos of white gardens with chubushnik, in the design of which white-flowered shrubs are combined with hydrangeas, viburnum, derain, which also have white flowers.
From climbing plants with garden jasmine, clematis, actinidia, climbing roses look good.
Large trees with bright leaves are a suitable background for all varieties of chubushnik. Its autumn yellow foliage in combination with purple maple or hazel leaves looks especially picturesque in landscape design. The dark green crown of conifers also favorably sets off its shoots covered with white flowers.
Garden jasmine looks great, especially its tall varieties, near water bodies; it is often planted near gazebos, benches and other small architectural forms. The snow-white bushes of blooming mock-orange invariably attract attention against the background of red brick walls or buildings of contrasting colors.
Creation of compositions depending on the type and variety of chubushnik
When planning landscape design using a mock orange, it should be borne in mind that some plants tolerate being close to it well, and the growth and development of others can be suppressed. So, pears and apple trees, planted in the immediate vicinity of garden jasmine, grow weak, bloom and bear fruit poorly, but lilac, rose, colquicia, weigela, peony, barberry get along well with it. Many gardeners argue that the compatibility of the mock-orange with other plants in landscape design is difficult to predict in advance, since much depends on external factors - soil composition, illumination and other environmental features.
For example, the Dwarf and Dwarf varieties with a compact globular crown are good at shaping borders and edging flower beds.
Low (up to 120 cm) bushes of the Pompon and Chamomile varieties will look good in the foreground in the plantings of multilevel crops; for the formation of the second level of such compositions, Elbrus, Komsomolets, Moonlight with a bush height of up to 160 cm are suitable.
For the long-range plan of multi-level ensembles, you can plant tall, from 200 to 400 cm, varieties such as Pearl, Snow storm, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. They will also look very impressive in single landings.
Features of the use of chubushnik in the garden landscape
In landscape design, chubushnik is often combined with other flowering shrubs or crops with decorative foliage. You can use it in continuously flowering compositions, selecting species and varieties by flowering time. Most often, garden jasmine is planted with weigela, thuja, juniper, various types of heathers, spirea. Ensembles with hydrangea, lilac, barberry, action, cinquefoil have become classics of landscape design. The great advantage of such compositions is ease of care - all these shrubs have similar requirements for the place of growth and require the same care.
Chubushnik hedge
Chubushnik is one of the most popular shrubs for creating hedges. The fences from it are very graceful and picturesque. Using this plant for hedges has the following benefits:
- outstanding decorative qualities;
- unpretentiousness, ease of care;
- the ability to adjust the height by cropping.
In the photo of hedges made of chubushnik in the landscape design of the garden, you can see options for every taste. The main thing is to choose the right type of shrub.
To create low curbs in the garden or in other areas, for example, such as in the photo, undersized varieties of mock-orange are perfect. Varieties such as Moonlight, Akademik Komarov, White Bouquet and others do not need a haircut and are great for low hedges.
The most beautiful hedges are obtained from common chubushnik, large-flowered, crown, Shrenk and Caucasian. Shrubs of these varieties can grow up to 3 m, but if necessary, the desired height can be maintained by pruning.
To make the hedge beautiful and picturesque, and the garden jasmine to feel good, you need to plant it according to certain rules:
- planting is best done in the fall. If this is not possible, you can plant a mock orange in early spring, before the buds appear;
- you can immediately root the cuttings, but it is better to plant adult seedlings that have reached the age of 2 - 3 years;
- plant a mock-orange in trenches or planting pits 0.5 m deep. The same distance is maintained between plants;
- a drainage layer is poured to the bottom;
- the seedlings are buried to the level of the root collar;
- plantings shed well.
After planting, the bushes are watered abundantly another 2 - 3 times with a difference of 7 days. In the future, such frequent watering will not be required, additional moisture will be needed only in especially dry periods. It is quite simple to care for a mock-orange hedge.
A year after planting the chubushnik, the first top dressing is performed. For 1 part of potassium sulfide, take 1 part of urea and 2 parts of superphosphate. 2 tbsp. l of a mixture of these components is diluted in 10 l. water. This amount of fertilizer is consumed for 2 young plants. The plantings are fed with mineral complexes in early summer. Of organic fertilizers, slurry is best suited, which is diluted in water at a rate of 1:10. It is enough to make such a top dressing once a year in the spring.
Periodic weeding, shallow loosening and mulching with peat are also useful. Pruning is of particular importance for the decorativeness and health of the shrub.
Chubushnik in compositions
In the garden landscape, the mock-orange can be present both as a tapeworm and in compositions. In single plantings, medium-sized and tall varieties with a spreading crown or drooping shoots look exquisite, as well as compact chubushnik trees on a trunk.
Chubushnik is a wonderful shrub, medium- and low-growing varieties of which look advantageous in flower beds, flower beds, rockeries, alpine hills and other elements of landscape design. During the flowering period, its neutral elegant white color goes well with the entire color palette of other plants.
Especially popular in landscape design are continuous flowering flower beds. You can find many photos and schemes of such ensembles with garden jasmine for growing in the garden or in other areas. One of the ready-made options is a combination of chubushnik as a central element with hybrid berry, treelike hydrangea, Bumald's spirea, and hybrid daylily. Completeness of the composition will be given by scaly and rocky juniper, which does not lose its decorativeness.
Maintenance and pruning rules for the best result
Pruning is one of the mandatory procedures for caring for a chubushnik. Sanitary pruning involves the annual removal of weak, diseased, broken shoots, as well as faded inflorescences. For lush flowering and an aesthetic appearance, a shaping and rejuvenating haircut is carried out every year or two. Its main purpose is to stimulate the growth of young shoots. With the onset of spring, old branches and tops of strong young branches are cut off. Weak lateral shoots are greatly shortened. If the bushes have lost their decorative effect, radical pruning can be done. It is carried out in 2 stages: in the first year, during spring pruning, all branches are completely cut off except for 3-4 shoots up to 40 cm long and the plant is fertilized. In the second spring, 2-3 branches are left on these shoots. After this procedure, the hedge is completely restored and begins to bloom profusely after 3 years.
Conclusion
Chubushnik in landscape design rightfully takes one of the first places. The variety of varieties, amazing aroma, abundant long flowering, unpretentiousness make this shrub popular with both professional landscape designers and amateur gardeners. A rare classic garden is complete without this ornate shrub.
