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Mock orange is used quite often in landscape design due to its elegant flowering with voluminous snow-white, white-yellow or soft cream flowers collected in brushes. Depending on the variety, the structure of the flower can be simple, double or semi-double. Most often, crown mock orange is used in landscape design, but thanks to the wide variety of varieties, you can always choose the variety that is most suitable for solving a particular design problem.
What does mock orange go with in the garden?
Mock orange is often mistakenly called jasmine due to the similar aromas of the two shrub species. In fact, these are different cultures. Real jasmine is almost never found in Russian gardens, but mock orange is known to everyone. However, the name has stuck so well that many gardeners know this plant as garden jasmine.
In the garden, mock orange looks great with decorative deciduous and flowering shrubs. These plants make excellent shrub mixborders.It has become popular among landscape designers to create themed plantings. Photos of white gardens with mock orange are fascinating, the design of which combines white-flowered shrubs with hydrangeas, viburnum, and derain, which also have white flowers.
Among climbing plants with garden jasmine, clematis, actinidia, and climbing roses look good.
Large trees with bright leaves are a suitable background for all varieties of mock orange. Its autumn yellow foliage in combination with the purple leaves of maple or hazel looks especially picturesque in landscape design. The dark green crown of conifers also favorably sets off its shoots covered with white flowers.
Garden jasmine looks great, especially its tall varieties, near ponds; it is often planted near gazebos, benches and other small architectural forms. Snow-white bushes of flowering mock orange invariably attract attention against the background of red brick walls or buildings of contrasting colors.
Creating compositions depending on the type and variety of mock orange
When planning a landscape design using mock orange, you should keep in mind that some plants tolerate its proximity well, while it can suppress the growth and development of others. Thus, pear and apple trees planted in close proximity to garden jasmine grow weak, bloom and bear fruit poorly, but lilac, rose, kolkvitsia, weigela, peony, and barberry get along well with it. Many gardeners argue that the compatibility of mock orange with other plants in landscape design is difficult to predict in advance, since much depends on external factors - soil composition, lighting and other environmental features.
For example, the Dwarf and Dwarf varieties with a compact spherical crown are good for forming borders and edging flower beds.
Low (up to 120 cm) bushes of the Pompom and Chamomile varieties will look good in the foreground in plantings of multi-level crops; to form the second level of such compositions, Elbrus, Komsomolets, Moonlight with a bush height of up to 160 cm are suitable.
For the background of multi-level ensembles, you can plant tall varieties, from 200 to 400 cm, such as Zhemchug, Snezhnaya Burya, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. They will also look very impressive in single plantings.
Features of using mock orange in the garden landscape
In landscape design, mock orange is often combined with other flowering shrubs or crops with decorative foliage. You can use it in continuously flowering compositions, selecting types and varieties according to flowering dates. Most often, garden jasmine is planted with weigela, thuja, juniper, various types of heathers, and spirea. Ensembles with hydrangea, lilac, barberry, deutzia, and cinquefoil have become classics of landscape design. The great advantage of such compositions is their ease of care - all these shrubs have similar requirements for the place of growth and require the same care.
Mock orange hedge
Mock orange is one of the most popular shrubs for creating hedges. Fences made from it turn out to be very elegant and picturesque. Using this plant for hedges has the following advantages:
- outstanding decorative qualities;
- unpretentiousness, ease of care;
- Possibility to adjust the height by trimming.
In the photo of mock orange hedges in garden landscape design you can see options for every taste. The main thing is to choose the right type of shrub.
To create low borders in the garden or other areas, such as those in the photo, low-growing varieties of mock orange are perfect. Varieties such as Moonlight, Academician Komarov, White Bouquet and others do not require cutting and are excellent for low hedges.
The most beautiful hedges are made from mock orange, large-flowered, crown, Schrenk and Caucasian. Shrubs of these varieties can grow up to 3 m, but if necessary, the desired height can be maintained by pruning.
In order for the hedge to turn out beautiful and picturesque, and for garden jasmine to feel good, it must be planted according to certain rules:
- It is better to plant in the fall. If this is not possible, you can plant mock orange in early spring, before the buds appear;
- You can immediately root the cuttings, but it is better to plant adult seedlings that have reached the age of 2 - 3 years;
- mock orange is planted in trenches or planting holes 0.5 m deep. The same distance is maintained between plants;
- a drainage layer is poured onto the bottom;
- seedlings are buried to the level of the root collar;
- plantings are well shed.
After planting, the bushes are watered abundantly another 2–3 times with a difference of 7 days. In the future, such frequent watering will not be required; additional moisture will be needed only during particularly dry periods. Caring for a mock orange hedge is quite simple.
A year after planting the mock orange, the first fertilizing is done. For 1 part potassium sulphide take 1 part urea and 2 parts superphosphate. 2 tbsp. l mixture of these components is diluted in 10 l. water.This amount of fertilizer is used for 2 young plants. The plantings are fed with mineral complexes at the beginning of summer. The best organic fertilizer is slurry, which is diluted in water at a rate of 1:10. It is enough to apply this fertilizing once a year in the spring.
Also, mock orange hedges benefit from periodic weeding, shallow loosening and mulching with peat. Pruning is of particular importance for the decorative appearance and health of the shrub.
Mock orange in compositions
In the garden landscape, mock orange can be present both as a tapeworm and in compositions. In single plantings, medium-sized and tall varieties with a spreading crown or drooping shoots, as well as compact mock orange trees on a trunk, look exquisite.
Mock orange is a beautiful shrub, medium- and low-growing varieties of which look advantageous in flower beds, flower beds, rockeries, alpine slides and other elements of landscape design. During the flowering period, its neutral, elegant white color goes well with the entire color palette of other plants.
Continuous flowering beds are especially popular in landscape design. You can find many photos and diagrams of such ensembles with garden jasmine for growing in the garden or in other areas. One of the ready-made options is a combination of mock orange as a central element with hybrid bergenia, tree hydrangea, Bumald spirea, and hybrid daylily. The completeness of the composition will be given by scaly and rock junipers, which do not lose their decorative properties.
Rules for care and pruning for best results
Pruning is one of the mandatory procedures for caring for mock orange. Sanitary pruning involves the annual removal of weak, diseased, broken shoots, as well as faded inflorescences. For lush flowering and aesthetic appearance, a shaping and rejuvenating haircut is carried out every year or two. Its main goal is to stimulate the growth of young shoots. With the onset of spring, old branches and the tops of strong young branches are cut off. Weak side shoots are greatly shortened. If the bushes have lost their decorative appearance, you can do radical pruning. It is carried out in 2 stages: in the first year, during spring pruning, all branches except 3-4 shoots up to 40 cm long are completely cut off and the plant is fertilized. In the second spring, 2–3 branches are left on these shoots. After this procedure, the hedge is completely restored and begins to bloom profusely after 3 years.
Conclusion
Mock orange rightfully occupies one of the first places in landscape design. The variety of varieties, amazing aroma, abundant long-lasting flowering, and unpretentiousness make this shrub popular with both professional landscape designers and amateur gardeners. Rarely does a classic garden do without this elegant shrub.
