Vertical landscaping

Vertical landscaping

This type of landscaping by means of cut trees or climbing plants.

Liana

Are the most plastic plants. Perfectly suitable for vertical landscaping, both in the city and on private land plots. Vines are able to take any form, occupy tiers up to 25 m high or serve to cover the earth.

There are annual and perennial species of Lian. The characteristics of these plants include their small thickness and high flexibility of the stem. Without support to keep the form of vines are not capable of. In addition, they have high growth intensity (up to 15 cm in one day).

Liana is ideal for creating a hedge, and no matter what material your fence is made of. For these purposes, perennial woody vines are usually used. But to achieve a faster result, in the early years it is recommended to combine them with fast -growing annual species.

The hedge is suitable both to indicate the boundaries of the entire site, and to distinguish between functional zones. With the help of vines you can create green rooms. To do this, use garden screens. It is possible to use combinations from several flowering species of weaving plants here. In large areas, you can arrange a cable alley from the screens. To do this, sagging ropes are connected by roughly processed wooden pillars among themselves, and weaved, for example, weaved roses. Ceramic figures and other small architectural forms can complement the picture that will recreate the atmosphere of rustic and traditional landscape design styles.

Liana near the walls of buildings will be able to protect the walls from overheating and excessive moisture, prevent dust from penetrating inside and saturate air with oxygen. In addition to all this, they serve as a wonderful decoration for walls.

There are many garden structures intended for vertical landscaping. These can be columns, pyramids, garlands, obelisks, different in shape of a gazebo and arches. As supports for Lian, you can use retaining walls, figures made of wire, stone structures and even garden sculptures. Not bad vines will look in the crowns of old trees.

Crazy trees

In addition to Lian, molded trees and shrubs successfully cope with the function of vertical landscaping. With their help, you can create living walls. For this, you need to place the plants in one row and, by cutting, give the shape of a narrow wall. In addition, many plants of this type are suitable for creating various figures. This requires plants with a thick crown and small leaves, for example, boxwood or thuja western.