Tips To Maintain Evergreen Garden

Gardening

oi-Amrisha Sharma

By Amrisha Sharma

Tuesday, June 28, 2011, 16:53

Evergreen plants make the garden look green throughout the year irrespective of the season. Evergreen gardens make the garden look lively and fresh the whole year. Evergreen shrubs comes in all sizes for your garden type and size. Few evergreen shrubs are also known as hardy shrubs which grow easily and without much effort.

Evergreen gardens can have flowering shrubs or plants which can make the garden look colorful whole year. Spindle tree, cherry laurel, rhododendron are commonly grown evergreen plants.

Maintaining the evergreen garden by pruning or trimming is easy and is good to ensure the growth and good health of the bushes. It also keeps the evergreen plants in shape. But there are few tips to maintain the evergreen gardens:

• Water the evergreen garden often and keep the soil moist during the first year. After the completion first year, water the plants once in week especially during the dry weather. Even water the plants during the winter to avoid the roots from freezing.

• Sprinkle 3-4 inches of organic mulch like bark chips or shredded bark and pine needles, around the plant base to maintain soil temperature and retain moisture whilst preventing the pests attack.

• Pruning of the evergreen plants in the garden should be done before the growth of new leaves. In short, early spring time is the best for pruning evergreen plants like pine. Pruning also clears the dead branches or leaves from the plant and allows the growth of new, healthy buds. Use sharp pair of pruning shears to trim the garden plants.

• Pruning should be done to maintain the shape of the plants and avoid it from spreading in different directions.

• Maintaining the small plants is easy so cut the plant branches to prevent it from growing tall and making it unmanageable to maintain.

• Use wire template over the bushes to shape the evergreen shrubs and escape it from expanding. Trim the parts of plant which comes out of the wire. It is the easiest way of maintaining evergreen gardens. Plants like spruce, juniper and arbovitae needs frequent trimming to keep it in shape.

• While pruning the garden, do it in a way to thin out the plants as cutting just the outside foliage will stop the inner foliage from receiving light therefore leading to the drying of branches.

Pruning should be done to maintain the garden properly and allow the bushes to grow more.