Thuja trees are very loved by many gardeners and landscape designers. Indeed, this evergreen coniferous plant is simply irreplaceable! It looks great both on a flower bed of a small summer cottage, and in huge park areas. The photo of the use of thuja in landscape design inspires you to create new beautiful compositions in your garden!
Thuyu has been used in landscape design for several centuries. Pyramidal tall trees look great as tapeworms, and densely crowned globular shrubs are attractive in both single and group plantings.
Ephedra perfectly enlivens winter parks and summer cottages with its greenery. By the way, there are many frost-resistant varieties of thuja that perfectly tolerate low temperatures and strong winds. This is very important for our cold climate.
Thuja needles are thick and dense, which gardeners use when creating topiary. Decorative cutting of trees and shrubs in the form of geometric shapes has appeared for a very long time.
Read more about planting and caring for a plant in the article.
In our time, topiary in the form of figures of people, cartoon characters, animals and various objects are especially popular. The art of decorating and decorating the landscape has become one of the fashionable trends in modern design.
The color of the crown in different types of thuja is different: from yellow to dark green tones. This can be used to colorize the composition.
Due to the fact that the crown can be given any shape, these evergreens began to be used in almost all directions and styles of landscape design. Especially noteworthy is the decoration of squares, large parks and flower gardens.
As you can see from the photographs, thuja is used both as single plantings and as accents on flower beds. You can often see these plants in the form of hedges or artificial mazes.
Tui in the Nong Nooch tropical garden in Pattaya, Thailand.
It is possible to conditionally divide the plantings of thuja into several types:
- dwarf (for diverse landings);
- shrubby (good for hedges and curbs);
- solitary (single plantations of tall trees);
- colored (thuja with a different shade of needles);
- topiary (compositions with curly thuja).
A few more plantings with thuja.
In landscape design, one cannot do without thuja, because its application possibilities are endless. Due to the variety of species, varieties and forms, it rightfully occupies a leading position among ornamental garden plants.
