Which creepers are best for the garden

Creepers for the garden

It is nice when a lot of healthy, beautiful and edible grows on the garden plot. Lianas for the garden combine all these qualities. Moreover, these amazing plants are just a godsend for connoisseurs of original garden landscape solutions. In addition, some types of garden vines can be safely attributed to a cohort of garden centenarians – they can be planted once, and then, for many years, admire the work of their hands. Want to know more about this? Read this guide.

Content

• On the benefits of perennial lianas for the garden and infield
• Types of garden vines
•  What to plant and whether to plant

• Fruiting creepers with edible fruits
• Fruiting decorative creepers
•  Pure Beauty

Supports for garden vines

Nine and a half secrets of applied lianology

On the benefits of perennial lianas for the garden and infield

By and large, perennial creepers for the garden is a real lifesaver that comes to the rescue, for example, if necessary:

• Hide an unsightly building – any dilapidated booth will change as soon as it is covered by a carpet of living greenery. By the way, a romantic mood will be created automatically, and the corner of the house, for example, will be decorated perfectly;
• Get a shady corner – amid the scorching sun and the lack of trees, you can quietly bask in the cool. To do this, you can do it very simply – enclose the selected patch of earth, literally, with improvised materials (slats, for example) and twist it

• To hide from the prying eyes of neighbors – an ornament from carved decorative leaves will be an excellent alternative to three-meter-long solid fences and a long-growing hedge..

Little secret: if you plant creepers for the garden with edible fruits, it will please not only the eyes, but also the stomach.

Of course, not all perennials immediately after planting will appear in all its glory. Sometimes, this takes a year or two, and some vines will enter the full power of flowering almost a decade later. But, on the other hand, for many, many years, your garden or summer house will delight you with its beauty, the care of which is practically not required. Perennial creepers are unpretentious creatures, and they do not require a particularly reverent attitude. Nevertheless, and they have their own characteristics..

Note: when choosing a creeper, you need to pay attention to regional features – it should be noted that southern beauties will not please their magnificent flowering of northerners.

Types of garden vines

Curly perennials are divided into two types:

• Woody – from the name it’s clear that they grow like trees (and shrubs). That is, with the advent of spring, growth begins exactly from the place from which it stopped last year

• Grassy – respectively, like grass, they die off in the fall, and next year they shoot from the roots (hops, broad-leaved rank)

In turn, wood vines are:

• Frost-resistant – wintering directly on supports and not requiring shelter (for example, honeysuckle honeysuckle, actinidia, girl’s grapes);
• Unstable – in need of annual removal from the support and winter shelter (for example, some clematis, climbing roses). The roots are covered with sawdust, and the branches are wrapped with non-woven covering material.

And grassy vines can be simply cut off at the root for the winter – in the spring they will grow completely quietly anew.

What to plant and whether to plant

It is already clear that knowing your climate, it is much easier to choose a vine that meets your goals. And, since it is not very interesting to wait for a long time by the sea of ​​weather and look at bare stalks for half a summer, the list of fast-growing perennial vines that will please the eye with their lush vegetation very soon will be absolutely irreplaceable. These are such plants:

• clematis;
• girl’s grapes;
• hop;
• petiole hydrangea;
• bryony;
• climbing honeysuckle;
• kirkazon;
• passionflower;
• Highlander of Hubert;
• ivy

Of course, there are others – but these will not be long in coming, and pretty soon after planting, you can admire their lovely carved foliage and luxurious flowering. What are the types of perennial vines most common in Russian gardens? The most popular and unpretentious ones stand out from a rather large number – they will be discussed further. Gastronomic retreat: this article already mentioned that creepers come with edible fruits. And it is logical, in this case, to start our review with them – after all, the motto: “The more in one thing, the better!” pretty good isn’t it? After all, it is always nice when a delicious and healthy treat hangs from beautiful branches!

Fruiting creepers with edible fruits

1. Herbaceous tladianta or “red cucumber”: it is edible, it sticks a little in the mouth when unripe. After frosts, astringency passes, it becomes very sweet with a slight smack of cucumber.
2. Actinidia: hung with delicious berries, the closest relatives of kiwi. To taste, they are similar at the same time to gooseberries, strawberries and pineapple. These berries will bring a good dose of glycosides and ascorbic acid to the body..
3. Schisandra chinensis: decorated with bunches of tart sweet and sour berries. Red berries hanging before the onset of frost are healing: they bring pressure to normal.
4. Curly honeysuckle: pleases the eye with a variety of deep blue berries. They have healing properties and help with the following diseases:

• heart
• blood vessels;
• intestines;
• the stomach;
• vitamin deficiency.

1. Decorative pumpkin: it turns out that it also has edible fruits. Only eating them can be extremely immature, because, upon reaching maturity, they are very bitter.
2. Grapes: there’s nothing to say about the benefits of its berries! Grapes are rich in glucose, vitamins, minerals and organic acids.

All these lianas combine a lot of useful properties: they are beautiful and have edible fruits, many of which are also healing. It’s clear that for a small area it will be just the perfect option!

Bearing decorative creepers

Now, from beautiful vines with edible fruits, we turn to beautiful vines with decorative fruits. Although unsuitable for eating, they are a true decoration of any garden. The unusual filigree craftsmanship of nature never ceases to amaze!

1. Momordica (or “Mad Cucumber”): very original and effective with its large leaves and prickly boxed fruits.
2. Echinocystis lobed: all hung with small green “hedgehogs”.
3. Cardiospermum: a plant from childhood dreams – it is completely hung with “balloons”, which its delicate fruits are very similar to.
4. Kirkazon: decorate the garden from autumn to spring with its unusual cucumber-like fruits.
5. Bryonia: so dashingly and fervently strewn with small bright berries that the mood will rise in any, even the most avid pessimist;
6. Hops: well, you don’t have to talk much about him. Graceful bumps among decorative foliage attract the eye and are used, by someone, in the fight against insomnia, and by someone – simply, in the fight (with boring reality, for example)

It makes sense to plant these plants if the area of ​​your site is already sufficient. Enough to be able to separately grow plants for the delight of the stomach and for the delight of the eyes.

Pure Beauty

And now, let’s list simply beautiful vines valued for the charm of their leaves and flowers:

1. Girl’s grape: a liana reaching the height of a 7-storey building! Peerless colorful leaves strike crimson
2. shades with the onset of autumn time;
3. Honeysuckle honeysuckle: blooms fragrantly in early summer, and later delights with decorative red berries;
4. Clematis: perennial creepers with luxurious flowering – the variety of their colors is simply amazing! The peculiarity of clematis is that some varieties are arboreal, and some are grassy. Accordingly, based on this, winter care is chosen

Wow! The head can be spinning from the many types, colors, fruits and aromas of these wonderful plants! Having a little rest and swallowing a seagull, we will restore breathing, captured by the beauty of vines, and talk about what, in fact, gave the name to the whole species.

Supports for garden vines

Liana is a climbing plant requiring a SUPPORT. It turns out that the supports can also be different, and a lot depends on the composition of the material from which they are made. For many grassy vines, a simple net (if you want to cover some surface with a luxurious green carpet) or a stretched cord (if you want to let out individual rays) are suitable as a support. Wood vines are more serious. Many of them “gain weight” in the process of growth so that the flimsy support will be broken in two. Therefore, here we will focus on the construction of wooden or metal. It would seem that metal supports are the most ideal option. They:

• lungs;
• durable;
• sustainable;
• beautiful.

I especially want to emphasize the last moment – after all, what a carved lace of metal is obtained in the hands of craftsmen smiths, we can’t say!

Important! Not all vines tolerate the neighborhood of their metal assistants! The metal freezes in the winter, and many vines simply cannot stand such a chilling neighborhood. To prevent such a nuisance, in the cold season shoots of climbing plants need to be removed from the supports.

Accordingly, wooden supports are devoid of such a drawback. The warmth of natural wood will brighten up the winter longing of creepers, but of course you will have to forget about the filigree carved lace, which forged metal supports can demonstrate. The support made of wood is usually called a pergola, and is a lattice of the desired area, along which gentle shoots will curl

Well, now, having chosen the type of creeper, its purpose and providing it with support, we turn, in fact, to the cultivation technology.

Nine and a half secrets of applied lianology

1. The main thing is to immediately decide whether the liana will constantly grow in the chosen place or is it a temporary option. Much will depend on this..
2. Illumination is important when choosing a landing site – there are photophilous creepers, and there are shade-tolerant.
3. The best material for planting is not seeds, but seedlings, and young ones, no older than four years. The main thing is that they should not be imported, but grown in local nurseries, zoned.
4. The time of planting seedlings is spring / autumn. It is recommended to plant heat-loving species in spring, so that over the summer the plant adapts to conditions and builds strength.
5. The soil for most vines requires fertile, acidity – slightly acidic, and the landing site – sheltered from the wind and sunny.
6. If the vines will be planted near the building, then the pits for planting need to be done not very close to the walls, because, otherwise, during irrigation water will flow under the foundation.
7. Supports must be placed before the creepers are planted. Moreover, the structures must be durable, because, in winds and snowfalls, plants need good support.
8. Perennial vines for lush and abundant flowering require timely and correct pruning.
9. Some vines (clematis, for example) need to be insulated before wintering. First you need to cut the shoots, leaving only the skeletal branches (that is, the central ones). Then you need to bend them, sprinkle with earth on top and cover either with spruce branches or with covering material

So, knowing these simple wisdom, from unprepossessing cuttings sticking out lonely in the bare ground, pretty soon you can get a luxurious and breathtaking jungle in your own garden. And if this article helped in this, then it was written not in vain!