Almost all home garden owners are fond of creating. With a little effort, they transform their homes, ennoble them and create an almost fairytale atmosphere.

At the same time, it is not so important whether you are the owner of a luxurious mansion or a modest country house. After all, you can create a masterpiece on any site, even if it does not differ in a large area.

In addition, do not forget that nowadays lawns, flower beds and various color compositions are more common, and not standard gardens and vegetable gardens. Gradually, they fade into the background, and you can not see them so often.

Just a few years ago, landscape designers used flower beds and ornamental shrubs as a decoration for the garden area. At the same time, coniferous compositions were practically not used.

However, every year their popularity is increasing more and more, therefore, landscape design with coniferous compositions can be contemplated on almost every site.

Rules for planting conifers

Due to the high cost of services professional designers landscape, many home owners have to independently deal with the arrangement backyard territory... Having studied enough material on the correct design of the site design, you can be sure of success.

But at the same time, it is worth considering the nuance that you have to work with conifers.

There are some rules for planting coniferous plants that are not recommended to be broken if you want to get a really beautifully landscaped garden as a result. Let's consider these rules in more detail.

The distance from the point from which the tree and shrub species will be surveyed to the composition should be 2 of its height. This way your composition will look more holistic.

If you are going to use conifers for design, then it would be wiser to give preference to the lawn. It will be a great background to complement the composition.

In the event that there is a reservoir on your site, you should plant coniferous shrubs nearby. In combination with weeping deciduous plants, they will look quite original, beautiful and graceful.

According to experts, compositions of conifers should be placed with an orientation to the east, west. Such a composition will look more natural and harmonious.

Do not plant flowers such as roses in close proximity to conifers. And although the designers confirm that such a combination looks very impressive, it is worth remembering that any conifers oxidize the soil. And roses, as you know, do not take root well on oxidized soils.

As you can see, these simple rules it is quite simple to comply. Therefore, do not neglect them.

Do not forget that only plants and trees planted in accordance with all the rules will be able to delight you for many years and decorate your garden.

Color combinations of conifers

Did you naively believe that all coniferous plants and trees look the same? You were wrong. In fact, there are many plants that belong to this breed, and differ in color.

That is why various compositions are often used, in which there are more than two specimens of plants that differ in color.

The combination of different colors gives a stunning effect that cannot leave anyone indifferent.

However, do not rush to use the first multicolored plants that come across. After all, you need to achieve the creation of a kind of scale, and this can be done only if you adhere to a few design tips:

• in the event that you are going to include 3 components in the composition, you should not use more than two colors;
• if the composition includes 5 elements, it is necessary to increase the number of colors to three;
• more bulky compositions, which consist of 25 or more components, should be divided into small groups (approximately 3 copies each). Each group must correspond to a single color characteristic.

The composition collected in this way will look like a single ensemble. Each of the selected colors will contribute to the creation of a coherent and harmonious picture.

Photo of coniferous compositions

Mass enthusiasm for landscape design, contributed to a noticeable transformation country houses, cottages and summer cottages. Gardens with vegetables and fruits, popular in the recent past, have replaced flower beds and other decorative plant compositions.

A special place in landscape design occupy coniferous trees, some breeds of which appeared in the vastness of our country relatively recently.

Representatives of the coniferous group of plants gained their popularity thanks to unique properties, allowing them to look great both in single (solitary plantings) and in group all 365 days a year. Coniferous plantations are not pretentious to the types of soil, rarely get sick and tolerate any weather changes well.

The value of conifers for the garden

In addition to the aesthetic effect, evergreen conifers are able to benefit humans and nature:

• qualitatively absorb dust and noise;
• delay gusts of wind;
• mitigate the microclimate around the house or summer cottage;
• stop the reproduction of some viruses, bacteria and insects;
• provide the air with a colossal amount of oxygen and phytoncides (the undisputed champion among healing trees is the juniper).

Therefore, if you dream of a beautiful, well-groomed garden with a favorable microclimate, pay your attention to the composition of conifers. Their charming appearance, exquisite shape and medium-sized crowns open up unique opportunities for creating the most daring compositions in landscape design, both in large areas and in small ones.

How to make coniferous compositions in landscape design?

• Spruces, pines, junipers, cypresses, fir, thuja and many other evergreens are usually placed in the very center of the personal plot, for the formation of coniferous sculptures, or on the borders of the territory.


• The ensemble of pine needles looks very picturesque surrounded by heather, roses, eric, rhododendrons and deciduous plants. They bring a certain brightness, contrast to the design and allow seasonally modifying the design of the garden. (The exception is bird cherry and birch - they have a bad effect on plants with needles).


• Conifers of a pyramidal shape look great. Landscape designers use them to create complex geometric figures, spiral columns, tiers and intricate ceremonial alleys. Figuredly trimmed conifers divide the space of the site into so-called "rooms", decorate stone slides, small reservoirs, colorfully complement rock gardens and relief drops.


• In order for landscape design with conifers to please the eye with its volumetric structures and coloristic pictures not only in summer, but also in winter, it is necessary at the time of creating compositions to pay special attention to combinations in the coniferous group of different shapes, textures and colors.


• As accent trees and shrubs, experts recommend choosing winter hardy species that are stable all year round. Plants with a spreading crown are usually placed in the background. And the coniferous composition of landscape design is completed by correctly creeping, low plants.


• The decorative possibilities of conifers (they are easy to cut) are great for creating hedges and masking unsightly areas in the fence.

Important!
When choosing conifers for home garden compositions, one should not forget that many plants change the color of the needles in winter.

Conifers in landscape design: planting rules

1. Planting conifers is best done in early autumn.


2. In depth, each hole for seedlings should not exceed 85 cm, and the junction of the stem with the root (necessarily with an earthen clod) exactly correspond to the earthen level.


3. The distance between adjacent plants ideally ranges from 90 to 160 cm.


4. For better growth of young plantings, it is necessary to add sand and clay to the ground.


5. Within six months after planting conifers, the soil needs to be fed with mineral fertilizers.


6. In dry summers, watering is important for plants. During the season, it is enough to make 5-6 waterings of 20 liters for each plant.


7. To make the crown thicker, annual shoots need to be cut by a third each spring.


8. Young trees that have not reached a meter in height by winter are recommended to be covered with spruce branches or sack kraft paper to avoid winter burns.


9. Regular loosening of the soil around the trunk promotes the rapid growth of conifers.

Conifers in landscape design - planting video

Conifers and plants for landscaping - how to choose the right one?

Plants for the garden must be purchased in specialized, proven nurseries, and not in mass supermarkets, long before the start of the planting season. Before going for seedlings, you need to have on hand a clear plan for the future garden and a list with the necessary plants.

Keep in mind that what mature plant, the more difficult it will be for him to settle down in a new place.

In the case of buying large-sized conifers, trees and shrubs 5-6 years old will be the best option.

When choosing conifers and plants, one should take into account what shape and shape they will take in the near future. For owners of spacious plots, you can safely plant large trees with a spreading, oval crown. But the giants in a small garden will look rather ridiculous, drowning out the other "tenants" with their size.

Flower beds, green lawns, hedges and large single shrubs are the basis of landscape design. But everyone wants to winter period When most plants have faded and lost their foliage, it is important that the green area remains vibrant and attractive. This function is performed by coniferous compositions in landscape design and single evergreens. But some conifers do not get along side by side with each other and deciduous trees. To avoid annoying mistakes, professionals share their secrets with gardening enthusiasts.

Flower beds and decorative perennials have long been used by gardeners in landscaping city yards and suburban areas. Abroad, they have long abandoned gardens and vegetable gardens in favor of neat beds of decorative spicy greenery and compact vegetable crops... In the East, for many centuries, the Japanese have been practicing a "rock garden" with sakura, red maple, wild grapes and dwarf conifers. The culture of gardening courtyards and thoughtful landscape design is actively taking root in our country.

The middle zone of Russia is the natural environment of many species of pines, larch, cedars and junipers. Slightly to the south, Mediterranean cypresses, thuja and other thermophilic evergreen tree conifers are perfectly cultivated. Surprisingly, apart from blue firs and some other pyramidal forms of this coniferous tree other related plants were not used. The exception was the resorts of the Crimea and the North Caucasus, where in Soviet times, parks and alleys were decorated rare species evergreen forms.

Today, decorative forms of conifers are increasingly used in landscape design and gardening of personal plots. Asian and Mediterranean forms, through the efforts of domestic and Dutch breeders, are adapted to our climatic conditions... Although evergreen thermophilic plants are increasingly decorating our sites, many conifers native to Italy, Korea and Japan need dusting the roots with sawdust and wrapping the crown for the winter, as in the photo.

It is very convenient to purchase cultivated compact forms for landscape design with coniferous compositions through catalogs and a specialized trade network. Although this is expensive in complex landscaping, it has its advantages:

• a seedling in a pot or tub has a protected root system;
• each plant has a "passport" or short instruction for care;
• subject to the recommendations for watering and cultivation, 100% rooting of the young ephedra is guaranteed.

Attention! If in point of sale from a number of identical plants they offer slightly yellowed ones, do not buy - this is the first sign of the seedling dying off! Even when planted in fertile soil and intensive watering, it will not be possible to reanimate it, with rare exceptions. Such material can only be taken free of charge - in addition to a batch of other plants to plant somewhere near the edge.

Coniferous composition at their summer cottage

If you are not sure that the acquired garden forms will take root, in the first year you can hire a professional gardener who will take care of the "young". When the rooted thuja, juniper and ornamental spruce overwinter and in the spring they release young, weakly colored twigs - a signal that the conifers feel great in a new place and do not need careful care.

Advice. Do not forget that any tree-like plant during the period of active growth needs additional watering (especially in a dry summer), top dressing and wrapping the crown during frosts.

Competent care and thoughtful planting of young evergreen seedlings in landscape design using conifers is a guarantee that the site will be beautiful at any time of the year. The main thing is that they do not shade each other and do not oppress less viable forms with their phytoncides. For example, near a single larch, other conifers do not get along or gradually degrade.

Decorating a summer cottage with conifers

Landscaping with conifers

It is desirable that the basis of the composition is a single tall or medium-sized plant surrounded by 2-3 coniferous forms of contrasting forms. A green lawn or shallow gravel is a great backdrop for such a planting. It can be supplemented with compact flowering perennials or ornamental fruiting shrubs, which can be adjusted annually by pruning.

Attention! Do not plant large conifers, fast-growing and spreading forms in the center of the site and under the windows of the building. Otherwise, after 5-6 years, they will turn into forest jungle, creating excessive shadow near the flower bed or front garden.

Several identical conifers should not be planted randomly, it is better to place them along the alley or as a hedge. Compact spruce or similar plants are perfectly combined with weeping deciduous trees near an artificial reservoir at the edge of the garden, as in the photo.

Landscape design in a coniferous composition

Cottage design with conifers

Cottage design with conifers

Variations of coniferous forms

For most people, conifers are Christmas trees and pines, which are customary to decorate on New Year's holidays. They also include Siberian and Lebanese cedars, and how they differ is not known to the inhabitants. What the branches of larch, thuja, cypress or juniper look like are lost in conjecture.

It is interesting. Each conifer species has its own subspecies, with large variations in the color of the cones or berries, the shape of the crown and the length of the needles. Italian weeping pines are the same pines, but the needles can reach 20-30 cm in length. And there are coniferous forms with large purple cones and small, red, rose-like cones. For landscaping arboretums, a juniper with blue edible berries is used, and the variety with bright red fruits is poisonous. Young twigs decorative fir trees can have a light green, golden and blue tint, examples are in the photo.

Coniferous composition at their summer cottage

Decorating a summer cottage with conifers

When choosing coniferous compositions in landscape design, it is advisable to get acquainted in more detail with species diversity these relict plants. Botanists claim that conifers or gymnosperms reigned in the time of the dinosaurs, replacing the era of treelike horsetails and ferns. But they also find it difficult to answer how many natural varieties and subspecies these representatives of the kingdom of flora and fauna have.

Scientists annually discover new endemics in the impenetrable virgin forests, which are used by breeders to breed decorative subspecies.

Landscaping with conifers

Landscape design in a coniferous composition

The main classification of conifers in nurseries is according to the shape of the crown:

• spherical;
• ovoid,
• spiral;
• spreading flat-topped;
• weeping;
• pyramidal;
• columnar;
• oval;
• creeping (flat);
• squat;
• rare crown.

There are also the following forms:

• tall;
• medium-sized;
• undersized;
• creeping.

Attention! Over time, undersized plants will look like medium-sized, dwarf and compact conifers will occupy more space... You should not plant them densely, so as not to spoil the original concept in landscape design.

Cottage design with conifers

Coniferous composition at their summer cottage

How to compose compositions?

Conifers are quite unique plants in many ways. They rarely get sick and are attacked by pests, they endure the vagaries of the weather. Most do not require much fertile soil, although each species has its own preferences. Some shed their needles like larch, others bloom pink in landscape design, like the Crimean thuja. All these forms are classified as evergreens, and most purify the air by filling it with phytoncides that are harmful to pathogenic microflora. Compact trees, densely covered with needles, are quite effective both in single plantings, and in a general composition with other "neighbors", as in the photo.

Decorating a summer cottage with conifers

Landscaping with conifers

The design of the site is usually divided into several zones, where certain types of plants will be in the center of the composition. Depending on the purpose, according to the catalog or in the garden supermarket, you can choose or order different conifers. Most often they offer compact, dwarf and undersized forms.

Attention! You can choose any type of pine, spruce, fir, cedar, larch, thuja, cypress or juniper according to your taste. But there is one condition - they must be adapted and acclimatized to a certain region. Not all of them are organically perceived in the vicinity of ornamental and fruit-bearing trees and shrubs.

Most evergreens forest beauties in harmony with those trees and shrubs, which are usually adjacent to in the wild. These are oaks and birches, maples and mountain ash, hawthorn and wild rose.

Attention! Do not plant several conifers from different geographic areas, it often looks unnatural.

"Northerners" can oppress undersized and dwarf forms from the Mediterranean and the Far East region with their phytoncides. And selective and hybrid forms will be oppressed by their natural relatives. The Lebanese cedars and Siberian larches are considered the most "quarrelsome".

Cottage design with conifers

Coniferous composition at their summer cottage

Gardeners have noticed that most evergreens feel great in the shade, so they are planted behind the house on the north side. However, this does not apply to Mediterranean endemics and varieties of Christmas trees with light needles, which dim in the shade.

Cones are a natural dining room for many wild birds that willingly flock to the site in winter and late autumn filling the courtyard with joyful chirping. However, natural fertilization after a treat with seeds can spoil the look of a well-groomed coniferous composition in landscape design.

Most of the cultivated forms lend themselves well to "haircut", they can be given the most bizarre shape - from elephants to precise spirals. But some conifers get sick even if you break one branch.

Decorating a summer cottage with conifers

Landscaping with conifers

Landscape design in a coniferous composition

If there is a desire to ennoble private plot evergreen sculptures, you need to choose the right dense forms with small twigs and short needles. You will also have to start looking for specialists who create real masterpieces. You should not experiment with living plants if you are not sure that such "creations" are within your power.

Take a close look at the examples in our photo gallery. Perhaps these ideas will inspire and suggest a new design concept for your site.

Video: How to use conifers in landscape design

Conifers and shrubs are in great demand in landscape gardening, their photos can increasingly be found in magazines and sites dedicated to landscape design. They are frost-resistant, decorative, hardy, unpretentious to care for and differ in a variety of crown shapes.

Gardeners love conifers for their many other advantages:

• many varieties of conifers tolerate limited sunlight well, develop well in partial shade
• the well-developed root system of conifers allows them to tolerate well for a long time without watering, some plant species grow well on stony soils. In addition, due to the powerful and developed roots, they can be used to strengthen the slopes.

• most conifers tolerate shearing well, they (some varieties of tui look especially attractive in this regard) can be used to obtain a variety of shapes that are often found in photos of regular English gardens. And some varieties of conifers by nature have a geometrically regular shape, so they practically do not need care.

• a coniferous tree is a source of useful phytoncides, a walk in the garden with coniferous plantings has a beneficial effect on both the physical and psychological state of a person
• conifers tolerate a smoky urban environment well
• ripening cones will attract birds to the garden, filling it with life and movement

But the main thing is what attracts conifers and shrubs, for which they are "loved by design" - with their green color, they bring variety and liveliness even to a gloomy, gray and gloomy autumn-winter garden.

Conifers: how to place in the garden correctly

Conifers - universal plants, the abundance of forms and types allows you to use them in landscape compositions different styles(you will find confirmation of this in our photos). At the same time, the size of the plot will not become a problem - if in nature the conifers are high enough, then the decorative varieties and species used for landscaping the plots rarely exceed 4 m in height. Design alpine slides it is difficult to imagine without undersized conifers and shrubs (dwarf Hampi pine, Lobers spruce, Mini Pug pine, some types of thujas, coniferous shrubs).

The design of the site can endow the coniferous tree with the function of a color delimiter that will resist the fusion of natural shades. Thus, conifers will help complicate color combination garden, make it richer and deeper. Often undersized varieties tui with dark needles is used as a border for the club, enclosing the flowers inside in a kind of green frame that sets off bright colors flowers. In the photo of gravel gardens, conifers are always present, while cones or medium-sized cut bark can replace the stone in places.

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Hedge

For zoning a site, designers often use conifers and shrubs. It turns out not just beautiful barriers (in the photo they look monolithic wall), but at the same time - practically impenetrable, i.e. just the qualities required for perimeter fencing fence... For this, conifers are planted in a checkerboard pattern, placing them in 2-3 rows. Of course, it will take a lot of time to achieve the full effect, but the result will exceed the wildest expectations.

For zoning a site (garden), medium-sized (1-2 m high) varieties are most often used, which will not cover the overall perspective. Besides, evergreen hedge will act as an excellent backdrop for blooming colorful perennials, this technique is especially common in Art Nouveau or landscape-style gardens.

Advice! To create hedges, it is good to use various types of thuja - thanks to the dense crown, it will be enough to plant them in one row, saving space.

360 degree view composition

Conifers go well with cereals, flowers (especially lilies) and deciduous plants. Coniferous shrubs will look picturesque by the reservoirs, where they will be accompanied by deciduous weeping plants. The intense greenery of thuja with a bluish tint of needles with small speckled blotches will be an excellent photon for junipers.

In order for a composition of conifers to look effective and harmonious, its design should include the following factors:

• the best background for conifers is a regular, well-groomed lawn

• so that the composition of their conifers (both trees and shrubs) looks harmonious and holistic, a place for best view(location of the gazebo or observation deck) should be located at a distance of at least 2 lengths of the composition

• the most spectacular in landscape design is the arrangement of conifers oriented to the west or east
• geometric shapes - in landscape design, it is good to use the principle of contrast, for example, arrange pyramidal tall conifers next to one of the low-growing spherical species of thuja. Such an arrangement of trees of different heights will help to achieve some visual effects - against the background of low-growing mountain pines, several even medium-sized thujas will look very tall

Conifers and bushes perfect material for a curly haircut, with the help of which they acquire geometric and fantastic shapes

Many gardeners dream of growing conifers in their garden. different types and varieties. Conifers in the garden, together with decorative deciduous and beautifully flowering plants, create an indescribable beauty. And also, in addition to beauty, conifers protect our garden from noise, dust and saturate the air with essential oils useful for our health.

A composition of coniferous plants is a group of coniferous species and varieties, planted on certain rules landscape design. To create such a composition on your site, you need to adhere to the basic recommendations with which we will now share with you.

Conifers in the garden can be planted in different parts of the site, but from this the group will have different shape... If you want to create a composition all-round view, then the tallest conifers should be planted in the center of the group so that medium-sized and small conifers can be placed in the foreground. Then all the plants will get enough sunlight and please our eyes, as everyone will be in sight.

If you want to decorate the entrance to a building or plant a composition near a wall, then the most tall plants should be planted in the background, respectively, undersized and dwarf conifers - in the foreground.

If you want to do a ribbon planting, then always plant tall plants in the background as well, and plants medium height and undersized ones will fit well between tall conifers, but planted closer to the foreground. Be careful not to plant plants of the same height nearby. Plants of the same growth and preferably of the same species are planted only in a green hedge.

Conifers now delight us with a huge assortment of shapes and colors of needles. The creation of a composition with completely different colors of needles, on the contrary, "breaks" it, does not group it. If you want to make a composition of three conifers, then it is advisable to plant 2 plants with the same color of needles and 1 plant with a different color.
If a composition of 5 conifers is envisaged, then it is desirable to use 3 different colors of needles (for example, 1 yellow, 1 blue, 1 gray, and 2 green).

To create a composition of conifers in your garden, you need to either grow the plants yourself, which is very time consuming, or buy it. And you can contact our partners. In addition, all types of conifers are available from which we will now make a composition!

In our example, most conifers will be tall trees, so they need to be planted at a sufficient distance from each other so that when they grow up, they do not interfere with each other. To do this, we will use the characteristic, which indicates the size of adult plants. And since there will be no small distance between the conifers, you can fill it with shade-loving bushes and flowers. Bulbous and bulbous flowers look very beautiful near conifers.

A little about the formation of groups. In landscape design, it is customary to place plants in the following groups:
Picture 1.

Picture 2.

Picture 3.

A group of 5 plants. In the center (1) there are tall coniferous plants, on the sides (2 and 3) - a medium-sized and low-growing plant. Red lines indicate that all plants are visible from one side. Also from other sides.

Picture 4.


These are the most simple examples that may be useful to you.
And now we offer you ready-made scheme compositions of eight conifers. Let's create it following the example of the pictures. For this we use picture number 1 (with three plants) and picture number 3 (with five plants). On the left side, you see plants planted in 3 pieces. - this is Crimean pine (4), Siberian cedar (5), Norway spruce (2). On the left side, the conifers are planted according to the scheme of 5 pieces. - Thuja Smaragd (6), Thuja Columna (7), balsam fir (8), blue spruce (1), Scotch pine (3).

Brief characteristics of conifers in the composition:

1. Spruce prickly or blue (Picea pungens) - height 20-30 m., Width - 6-8 m. Annual growth 30 cm. The color of the needles is bluish, gray-gray, silvery shades. The shape of the crown is pyramidal. Root system deep, on less fertile soil - shallow. Loves in moderation nutrient soil and sufficient watering. Increases decorative effect on podzolic, moist soils, on dry, poor, stony or clayey soils, loses decorative effect. Wind-resistant, photophilous.
2. Norway spruce or European ( Picea abies) - height 20-40 m, width - 6-8 m .. It grows up to 10 - 15 years slowly, then faster, 50 cm in height. The color of the needles is dark green. The shape of the crown is pyramidal. The root system is deep, if it grows on loam and sandy loam. If the soil is often wet, then the roots are shallow, which can be affected by the wind. Loves moist air, moderately moist, acidic and well-drained soils. Grows well in the shade. In the spring you need to shade young plant from the sun and protect from return frost. But it is frost-resistant in winter.

3. Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) - height 20-25 m, width 7-10 m. Growing rapidly, annual growth 30-40 cm. The color of the needles is bluish-green, the shape of the needles is slightly curved. The root system is powerful, pivotal, feels good on stony soils, is not afraid strong wind... Not demanding for soils, only does not like compaction and strong soil salinity. Very light-requiring. Actively highlights essential oils and phytoncides, which purifies and ionizes the air.

4. Pallas or Crimean pine (Pinus Palasina) - height up to 30 m. The needles are long (18-20 cm), slightly curved, dark green. This pine is less hardy than Scots pine. Annual growth is 30 cm. Loves calcareous soils, but grows normally on sandy, crushed stone. Photophilous, in the shade it loses its decorative effect and is damaged by pests. The root system is powerful, deep, so it is not afraid of the wind. Drought-resistant, does not like stagnant water. Gas and dust resistant.
5. Siberian cedar or cedar pine (Pinus sibirica) - height 30-35 m, width 5-8 m. The first 20 years it grows very slowly, then the annual growth is 30-40 cm. The needles are dense, protruding, dark green with a bluish bloom. The root system is powerful with a short main taproot and numerous lateral roots, not afraid of strong winds. It grows on any soil, except clay and pure sandy. But he prefers light loamy and loamy, slightly podzolized soils. Photophilous, shade-tolerant. The older the plant, the more it requires light. Loves moderately moist soil and moist air. Very hardy. Cedar wood repels midges, mosquitoes, moths.

6. Thuja western Smaragd (Thuja occidenalis Smaragd) - height 3-5 m., Width - 2 m. Annual growth 10 cm. Crown shape - narrow, pyramidal, dense. The needles are dark green, retain their color well in winter. It is not demanding on soils, but it grows better on fresh loams and on limed soils. Sun-loving, can grow in partial shade. Frost resistant. Looks good in containers and green hedges. Cleans and ionizes the air.

7. Thuja western Columna ( Thuja occidenalis Columna)- visota -10 m., Width-up to 1.5 m. It grows very quickly. The needles are scaly, shiny, dark green, retain their color in winter, the color darkens in the shade. It takes root well if the root system is not disturbed too much. It is not demanding on the soil, it grows on acidic and alkaline soils, the main thing is that they are nutritious and moist. Does not like drying out of the soil. Photophilous, the crown is dense in the sun, rare in the shade. The most frost-resistant among western thujas. Well suited for hedges due to rapid growth and heights.
8. Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) - height 20 m, width -6 m. The shape of the crown is narrow pyramidal. The needles are dark green, shiny on top, with two whitish stripes on the bottom. Growing fast. The root system is shallow, so you need to protect it from strong winds. It is undemanding to soils, but prefers acidic ones. If the lower branches are covered with humus, they will take root. Does not like trampling the soil and breaking off branches. Sun-loving, but also grows well in partial shade. Frost resistant.